#disecol — Public Fediverse posts
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Super excited about the latest piece of art I commissioned from the amazing Rosemary Hartman (https://www.etsy.com/shop/RosiesColoredGlasses):
"Host Pathogen Data Model", a quadriptych in stained glass.
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Out from the EHA team + longstanding USAID PREDICT + IDRC collaborators: Prevalence of bat viruses associated with land-use change in Brazil
"We found that deforested sites had a less diverse bat community than forested sites, but higher viral prevalence and richness...In particular, viruses from the Coronaviridae family were detected more frequently in generalist species compared to specialist species."
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2022.921950/full
#OneHealth #EpiVerse #DiseaseEcology #DisEcol #Bats #JournalCLub
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CW: CLOSING Jan 15: Disease Data Science Jobs
Two positions on in my computational research group at EcoHealth Alliance: an entry-level research/admin assistant and a data scientist position. Join a great organization on a team working on disease ecology and emergence forecasting!
https://ecoevo.social/@noamross/109478803985142282
https://ecoevo.social/@noamross/109478840554235551
#DataScience, #RStats, #Epidemiology #DiseaseEcology #DisEcol @jobsecoevo @rstats #EpiVerse #DataDon #Job
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CW: Very cool and gross blackfly laravae newly disovered to carry river blindness parasites
Check out these Simuliidae larvae hanging out on a stream rock. Turns out they are previously unknown hosts of Onchocerca volvulus, which causes river blindness, and maintain it in the Ituri Highlands of DR Congo.
Story, photos and (wriggly) video at the post below, tremendous science in the paper above! 👆
https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/2022/12/plos-oncho-drc #OneHealth #EpiVerse #DiseaseEcology #DisEcol #Epidemiology