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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Happy World Mosquito Day 2026. Rainbow maps are back, now in an accesssible palette. If you'd like CMIP6 dengue thermal suitability grids for Ae aegypti and Ae albopictus, for all the runs in our recent preprint, and more (everything we could get hold of), head to the dataverse: shorturl.at/OTntY

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

"ugh I'm that weirdo" I mutter, stumbling through the shrubs at @epi.ufl.edu to get close to this beauty. Look at that web! I am in awe.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Moon rising over the end of a very hot day here. Happy Friday folks, have some weekend.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

"Pandemic prediction in the space age: use of EOS data" - In a time of lots of Earth Observation System (EOS) data, the call to use it for predicting pandemics is out there. So how does it look? with @lippikiyay.bsky.social and Jakob Meredith bit.ly/4eUstUK - sjryan3.shinyapps.io/pand_eos_dash/

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Get you colleagues who know it's your birthday later in the month when you won't be in the same place!!

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

One day this will stop being funny. Today is not that day.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Back yard bug tent time folks - the best of pajama science. To maintain consistent protocols, since we started in lockdown, we use the same materials.

Sadie and the bug tent - looking fairly rough after flying back getting in at midnight. Bottle and pole center, white mesh tent behind, parched grass and palm trees as backdrop, a woman with brown unkempt hair, hazel eyes, under eye baggage and crinkles is smiling in the corner, cropped at the nose.

The bug tent - a malaise trap comprising a staked out tent-like structure with black mesh lower, white mesh upper, in a parched back yard, showing exposed grey sandy soil, some yellowed grass, with healthy (watered) viburnum hedge at the neighbor property line, some palm trees in the background, blue sky with sunshine and very light haze from wildfires, and a neighbor yellow house and a neighbor grey house can be seen.

Bar shelf in yellow wood on an old grey counter top, with several liquor bottles on a wicker tray behind, an empty plastic screw top soft opaque white lab bottle, and a half full plastic bottle of GULF CREST grain alcohol in front. The mis en prep for the malaise trap sampling, if you will.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Flying out of Gainesville and into Phoenix, it just hits different.

View from a plane window over Gainesville, FL - lots of trees under a blue sky with some clouds. A couple of roads through the forest are obvious.

View from a plane window of Phoenix, AZ, in which it is all build environment - houses and roads on a grid system as far as the eye can see. Some green space is visible, but very sparse.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Congratulations to Neha Senthilkumar on winning the 2nd place ($$$) undergraduate poster prize at @epi.ufl.edu Research Day!! Super proud of your passionate energy for this project and looking forward to next steps of greatness with you!!

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

Florida is burning - it's surreal, and we have a couple of fires within city limits, with evacuations yesterday. I am fine, to be clear. It smells like a bonfire, and I keep remarking how 21st century it is that I know what different wildfires smell like. Not SB or CO, but like South Africa

Map from Duty Watch app showing active fires in FL

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Something amazing happened today! All of current QDEC lab in the same place together at EPI Research Day with Emerging Pathogens Institute! I am so proud of everyone's accomplishments this term, and wish all the best to our graduating folks.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Phenomenal speakers, cool posters, and great conversations today at Reshaping Nature!

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

Despite the drought, these beautiful flowers showed up anyway

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Let's all rally together to tell me to brush my hair and get my hands out of my pockets to give award talks, yes?

Middle aged woman looking like a bedraggled teenager, at a podium with a microphone, wearing a suit jacket, jeans, long hair down and unbrushed, hand in pocket, with a slide projected on a large-ish screen to present a talk on mapping mosquito borne diseases as tools, not scare tactics.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

This is one of the places that just feels like home... Every time.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Pleased to catch up with @ufgeog.bsky.social QDEC alum Dr Shreejana Bhattarai, also giving a talk in the EEID sessions here at AAG2026!!

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

All universities in the US seem to have a University Ave. This one happens to be in Fort Collins.

A woman happily wearing white edged sunglasses, a black padded jacket and blue backpack, on a sunny day on a road with trees, some brown grasses, and blue sky.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Another post to boast about - Neha, undergrad researcher in QDEC, presented her interactive shiny app poster (ask us how) at the 2026 Florida Undergraduate Research Conference at UNF. An enormous conference, and I'm so pleased she had another super presentation!

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

No jungle, no scarf, but there may be empty seats on this flight!! Woah!

Woman in a mask and a pink fleece looking wide eyed startled on a plane with 2 visible empty seats in frame.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Ava Johnson won our department's undergrad prize, the Dunkle Award. Ava is conducting her honors thesis work with me, co-mentored by Di Yang, modeling actual air temperature, including LST, for mosquito model work.

Ava grinning holding a certificate of award

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Brimming with pride that QDEC Lab @ufgeog.bsky.social & @epi.ufl.edu undergraduate researchers Ava Johnson and Neha Senthilkumar presented at the Florida Society of Geographers (FSG) meeting this weekend. Ava won first place undergraduate talk, and Neha got an honorable mention for her poster!

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

Popping into Boston for a day - getting some in-person APPEX @nsfappexcenter.bsky.social collaborative research time is awesome!! Even if it's a winter storm, we do this.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

Good morning from a sunny cool place. Not cold.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

The only ice on campus I want to see.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

We are growing frozen veg. It's colder here than I've ever experienced - but I won't make claims about patterns or outliers since it's not my place to do it. Delightfully un-normal frost in the garden. The hawks are out and about and the day is progressing.

Kale plants with frosty leaves looking a little less robust than they might.

Back garden stretch of green that might pass for a lawn if one squints - shadowed area covered in frost, with the sunlight area clearly bright green melted.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Happy penultimate! The weather shift is making a nice sunset this evening.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Hi from the Ocklawaha river, aka the drawdown of the Rodman Reservoir, and the drowned forest.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from us to you - wandering downtown after midnight. Yes, I'm the shortest. By a lot.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

Me: oh look, there must be funding over there.

Faint evening rainbow over academic buildings

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Getting into the spirit of the season.

Christmas lights and poinsetta wreaths decorate a porch with white rails and pale blue walls

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

While the food plate and water tap are missing, this junkanoo styled One Health themed logo for vector control may be one of my fave things yet... In the Bahamas.

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Sadie J. Ryan (she/her) @sjryan3.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Had an incredible morning at the met office, thanks to our focal point and colleagues - I'd heard of so many of the methods used, but seeing them, and how they feed into models and outputs was great learning.