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Sagan Friant

@saganfriant.bsky.social
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Asst. Prof PSU Anthro and Huck Institutes. Mixing Methods to study social and ecological origins of zoonotic spillovers. Mom. Aspiring Ntunkai.

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Sagan Friant @saganfriant.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Come work with us on our integrative anthropology program!
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Penn State Anthropology @psuanthro.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
🚨 Hey! We’re hiring a human reproductive ecologist! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology in Human Reproductive Ecology
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Sagan Friant @saganfriant.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Come work with us in our integrative anthropology program!!!
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Sagan Friant @saganfriant.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
Here we go.... the first Ebola outbreak amidst the dismantling of US international aid tests our capacity to respond
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Sagan Friant @saganfriant.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
New Coursera course with Emily Gurley has reached 2,000 students since launching this summer! Please share with anyone interested in outbreaks and One Health. My module, with the wonderful Nazmun Nahar, highlights the role of social science and anthropology. www.coursera.org/learn/one-he...
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One Health Investigations of Outbreaks and Spillover Events
Offered by Johns Hopkins University. One Health is the concept that human, animal and environmental health are interconnected. Outbreaks of ... Enroll for free.
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Sagan Friant @saganfriant.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
New review out in @thelancetplanet.bsky.social from our rodent-borne zoonoses workshop @ciddpsu.bsky.social 🐭🌍 Humans & rodents share a long history and many pathogens -from plague to mpox. Outbreak prevention needs socially + ecologically grounded solutions 🔗 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Reducing the threats of rodent-borne zoonoses requires an understanding and leveraging of three key pillars: disease ecology, synanthropy, and rodentation
Rodents have co-existed with humans for centuries, and frequently exchange pathogens. Historically, rodent-driven plague outbreaks scoured the Old Wor…
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Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State @ciddpsu.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
We are hiring! The Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State seeks an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Dynamics 🦠 psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...
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Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
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Martin Enserink @martinenserink.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
The CDC has an ultra-competitive 2-year program to train "the best of the best" to lead public health labs. Most of the current class were terminated over the weekend. www.science.org/content/arti... (by @meredithwadman.bsky.social)
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Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
This story can't be repeated enough. The GOP is lined up behind the guy who is so incompetent that his quasi-gov't agency did this. They're confirming his highly questionable nominees & hurting the American people. And "accidentally"? It was stupidity, not accident. www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...
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USDA accidentally fired officials working on bird flu and is now trying to rehire them
An Agriculture Department spokesperson told NBC News that officials are "working to swiftly rectify the situation."
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Jeremy Koster @jeremykoster.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)
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Sagan Friant @saganfriant.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
Anthropological Research in Science Education (ARISE) at Penn State is a summer institute in integrated anthropological sciences for historically underrepresented and underserved undergraduate students from the United States. APPLY NOW!
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Sagan Friant @saganfriant.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Thank @roryjgibb.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute toward building a 'people and nature' paradigm for biodiversity-disease research and action as part of this new special issue.
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Amy Boddy @amyboddy.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🎉IAS is recruiting🎉 UCSB Integrative Anth Sciences is hiring a tenure-track evo anthropologist (assist/assoc prof): Apply by 1/06/25 To apply: recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02866 Please retweet! Estimate: Assist:$95,000-$135,000 & Assoc:$120,000-$180,000. UCSB is an AA/EOE, including disability/vets.
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Assistant/Associate Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology/Anthropology of Health
University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!
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