I’ll be teaching our Intro to R course at the Summer Institute of Epidemiology & Biostatistics in June. The course focuses on the basics of data wrangling, analysis & visualization and is designed for students, clinicians & public health professionals who want hands-on, real-world training.

I'm so excited to have the last chapter of my PhD OUT!! Based on a longitudinal study of captive fruit bats in Ghana, we show that a decline in the population density of bat flies resulted in decreased Bartonella prevalence, which then rebounded when flies were restocked. doi.org/10.1017/s003...

Manipulating vector transmission reveals local processes in Bartonella communities of bats | Parasitology | Cambridge Core

Manipulating vector transmission reveals local processes in Bartonella communities of bats

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I’m excited to be teaching “Introduction to R for Public Health Researchers” at the 44th Summer Institute of Epidemiology & Biostatistics this June! 🗓️ June 8-19, 2026 📊 Short, intensive course with practical, applied skills 🌍 Online Hybrid

As a long-time Zotero user, this feels illegal. How did I not know you could do this?!

Switching word processors with Zotero

Moving from Google Docs to Word will break your Zotero citations/bibliography linkages unless you do this first.

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Say hello to my little friends.

Mpox has inflicted Africa since 1970 but its origins remain a mystery Thanks to long-term surveillance, scientists were able to pinpoint a squirrel species as the source of mpox outbreak But is it the reservoir? Or is it part of a network of reservoirs? My latest in @nature.com shorturl.at/lY7Kf

An animal source of mpox emerges — and it’s a squirrel

Researchers solve the mystery of a disease outbreak through long-term surveillance of wildlife in Africa.

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Disease ecologist starter pack -- reply with people/organizations to be added or with related lists/feeds #diseaseecology 🦠🐀🦠🦇🦠🦭🦠🦆🦠 go.bsky.app/RwAuiNT

🚨Bat1K Paper Alert🚨There couldn’t be a better first post for us on this app - excited to share 10 new bat genomes and groundbreaking insights into bat immunity and viral resistance! 🌍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance - Nature

A systematic analysis of 115 mammalian genomes, including 10 new bat genomes, reveals prevalent positive selection in immune genes in bats and shows key adaptations in the antiviral gene ISG15 that ai...

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