we're hiring for a new research assistant to join our group at OU to manage field studies on migratory and Neotropical bats! please see the linked application on our website: beckerlab.weebly.com/join.html. applications will be reviewed in early August and the position can start in January.

We are now recruiting for a 3 year NERC-funded postdoc to study the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in migratory birds. Based in the Wild Microbiome Lab @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall.

Reminder to register for the Unifying Ecology Gordon Conference by next Monday! Lest you miss out on this incredible line up! www.grc.org/unifying-eco... @jennsunday.bsky.social @ewaldoleitao.bsky.social #GRC #ecoevo

New from the brilliant, brilliant team @viralemergence.org - Do bats gets sick from the viruses they carry? 🧪 Writing for children remains the most demanding type of writing. kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Do Bats Get Sick From the Viruses They Carry?

When you think of bats, you might picture mysterious creatures flying around inside caves and drinking blood in the night, but bats are much more than that! Did you know that bats are the only mammals...

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Beyond excited to share that the preprint for the first chapter of my dissertation is up. So grateful to my co-authors and especially my PI, @stephseifertphd.bsky.social, for their support throughout this ambitious three-year project. Here’s to shaking up evolutionary paradigms 🥂

Steph N. Seifert, PhD@stephseifertphd.bsky.social · 2mo ago

🚨 Ever wonder why some viral reassortants establish and spread while others disappear? Us too! Led by @ricardoriveroh.bsky.social, we studied drivers of viral reassortment across hantaviruses and found that it varies dramatically among lineages (1/3) Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

🚨 Ever wonder why some viral reassortants establish and spread while others disappear? Us too! Led by @ricardoriveroh.bsky.social, we studied drivers of viral reassortment across hantaviruses and found that it varies dramatically among lineages (1/3) Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...

Ecologists love response ratios for meta-analysis❤️ But… they can’t be converted into other effect sizes—making it impossible to have a unified dataset of all published effect sizes in ecology I fix this with a conversion to Hedges’ d to help unify our data! (Link to Ecology Letters paper below):

The Ebola outbreak in the DRC has renewed scrutiny on bats, but Dr. Paul Webala caution that direct transmission links is unproven. Damaging bat colonies disrupts vital ecosystems & ignores the fact that culling fails to stop zoonotic disease pathways. Learn more in this interview by David Akana.

Evidence linking bats to Ebola inconclusive, scientist says. ‘Solution is not fear’

As the Democratic Republic of Congo grapples with another Ebola outbreak, bats have once again come under scrutiny as a possible reservoir for the virus. But according to bat ecologist Paul Webala,…

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we're hiring for a new research assistant to join our group at OU to manage field studies on migratory and Neotropical bats! please see the linked application on our website: beckerlab.weebly.com/join.html. applications will be reviewed in early August and the position can start in January.

Thursday position shares- Check out this opportunity with the @danjbecker.bsky.social lab docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... and Katherine Stewart's post www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRN272/p...

I barely understand immune systems, and it's my job... so how would you talk to an aspiring young scientist about them? Something we've had on the @viralemergence.org wish list from the start, now in Frontiers in Young Minds 🦇🧪 kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10....

Do Bats Get Sick From the Viruses They Carry?

When you think of bats, you might picture mysterious creatures flying around inside caves and drinking blood in the night, but bats are much more than that! Did you know that bats are the only mammals...

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Molecular detection of relapsing fever Borrelia puertoricensis in migratory Mexican free-tailed bats 📰 mSphere #Zoonoses #OneHealth #InfectiousDiseases #PublicHealth 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1128/msphere.00085-26

Stop scrolling and click this link! royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/issue/3... I'm so excited to share this open-access theme issue on Wild Plant Pathosystems in #PhilTransB Co-edited with Rachel Penczykowski @rachelpenczy.bsky.social Remco Stam @rstam.bsky.social & Emme Bruns @ebruns.bsky.social

Volume 381 Issue 1951 | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B | The Royal Society

Influential themed journal issues across the life sciences.

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New issue of #PhilTransB on 'Wild plant pathosystems' - looking at how plant pathogens spread and evolve and providing knowledge useful in developing more sustainable plant health management strategies. Read OA: buff.ly/oaluRTG

recruiting a couple new grad students to start in january, please share! www.gilbertecology.com/opportunities

The Ecology and Evolution of Infectious Disease Conference (EEID) has made its way to the Asia-Pacific! Come join us in Hobart to open this new chapter and build capacity and networks in the region: eeid-asiapacific.org

From Molecules to Ecosystems: Uniting pathogen ecology, evolution and One Health across the Asia–Pacific region and beyond.

Click here to submit an abstract Click here to register August 26-28 2026, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia Abstract submissions close June 19 2026 Register now as space is limited. Hosted by the...

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So happy to be at @eeid2026.bsky.social! It was a great opening night. The Walsman lab will be hiring a postdoc this fall. If you want to chat about eco-evolutionary disease models and working in China, find me here or at walsmanjason@gmail.com.

The last year completely broke my body and spirit, but we kept fighting, and I'm so glad we did. I can't wait to do some actual science now. Thank you to everyone who has had our back, especially @meganranney.bsky.social, and thanks to @dangaristo.bsky.social for the final nudge that saved us.

Happy pride 🦇🦠🦟🏳️‍🌈

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So here's what happened to my lab (and @viralemergence.org). www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Out now, a lovely tour de force led by Brooke Genovese @brookegenovese.bsky.social. The comp and statistical tools Brooke developed for non-model proteomics work are legit and worth a look. (her periodic calls to discuss methods were a bright spot on my cal) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Serum proteome of the Egyptian rousette bat (Rousettus aegyptiacus) reveals signatures of immunity, proteostasis, and metabolism - Scientific Reports

Bats are increasingly studied for their ability to coexist with diverse viruses of human health importance. While this focus has yielded insights into host–pathogen dynamics, baseline physiological da...

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Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Exclusive: NSF puts new research grants to top universities on hold

US science funder once again restricts awards to Harvard University and other research institutions.

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Are you worried about hantavirus? Well research on this virus and other emerging infections is disappearing in real time, right now. My Yale colleague just lost $5 million, which the National Science Foundation (NSF) has refused to release to his group. It is so twisted and sick.

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

My colleague @stephseifertphd.bsky.social just published new groundbreaking work on hantaviruses in the United States as part of our shut down @viralemergence.org project. Want to prevent hantavirus outbreaks here? Fund her work. wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Hi all! The Brook lab is hiring a new lab manager, ideally starting sometime in summer 2026. Please submit a CV and cover letter to the linked application on our website to apply: brooklab.org/join. Application review begins on June 9 and will be rolling thereafter!

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

Please share widely! Abstract submissions open for the 2026 Jacques Monod conference: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world! Held in beautiful Roscoff France from November 2- 6, 2026. Abstracts submission deadline : June 6 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Out Now! A global-scale assessment of zoonotic virus diversity and spillover potential in urban-adapted mammal species #MicroSky

A global-scale assessment of zoonotic virus diversity and spillover potential in urban-adapted mammal species

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 26 March 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02311-9Urban-adapted mammals host a wide spectrum of zoonotic viruses, some posing high risks of human infection. These species may act as unmonitored reservoirs for viruses of public health concern.

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Really excited to finally share this preprint on using museum specimens @alaskamuseum.bsky.social to study the origins of borealpox in small mammals! 🦠🐀 🔓⬇️ www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us

The data is in: the NIH goalposts have shifted. What were once almost certain fundable scores have become coin flips and what used to be likely grants have become aspirational, leading to fewer awards. Another manifestation of how HHS policies have led to fewer awards and less science.