NEW: "Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with globally reported tick-borne viruses", led by @samsambado.bsky.social, in which she applied BRT modelling to a global database of TBVs to pick apart the complicated pathway from transmission to reported cases! www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with globally reported tick-borne viruses - Communications Medicine

Sambado et al. examine how environmental and social conditions shape where tick-borne viruses are reported worldwide. Using machine learning, they find that both ecological and economic are important, and that wealthier nations are more likely to report these overlooked diseases.

nature.com

We are launching the new URBAN-VECTOR Training Program! Building an India–Africa network to strengthen urban malaria control in Africa through research, training, and collaboration! 🌍🦟 Come check us out and apply to be part of the team: www.urbanmalarianetwork.com #UrbanMalaria #GlobalHealth

Pleased to have contributed to this one, presented at UNFCC COP meeting in Belem - now published in Global Sustainability. Don't even start with me on the horrific irony of the timing. We must keep producing evidence and communicating science.

Richard Allan@rpallanuk.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Ten New Insights in #Climate Science 2025 published @universitypress.cambridge.org Global Sustainability: doi.org/10.1017/sus.... Report @futureearth.bsky.social 10insightsclimate.science

Celebrating a new publication with lead author @infectiouschill.bsky.social! This paper explores the use and validation of different species distribution modeling approaches for understanding and predicting Asian tiger mosquito invasion along its northern distribution edge. lnkd.in/dqSw8czu

Thank you for an excellent symposium this morning at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) on building a global initiative to address urban malaria transmission in Africa. Thank you to our speakers and the audience members that joined us early this morning.

Excited to kickoff the @ASTMH 2025 meeting in Toronto. One day late due to teaching this term, but happy to be in the Presidential Plenary this morning with fellow colleagues discussing the unprecedented threats of global funding cuts on malaria elimination.

Come see our Urban Malaria Team at the American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) 2025 meeting! We have an exciting line-up of talks and posters on the effects of climate, control, urban heterogeneity, and climate change on malaria transmission in cities!

We are hosting an exciting symposium at this year's American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene (ASTMH) meeting next week in Toronto titled "Malaria in the Metropolis"! This symposium focuses on leveraging international collaboration to control mosquito-borne diseases in cities!

Happy Halloween! Sending love, empathy, hope, resilience, harmony, self-care, and general good vibes to triumph over darkness from the EcoDyn VP Lab Care Bears Stare this Halloween 2025!

We received an NOA for a new NIH Training grant: "Building an India-Africa Network to Support Research and Control of Urban Malaria"! This network brings together experts from African, Indian, and Western institutions to build rapid capacity to address this emerging threat in Africa. More soon!

My PhD student Anna Shattuck just passed her comprehensive exam with flying colors to become a PhD candidate! Go Anna! Well done 😊.

“I wish they had computed a bit less and thought a bit more”

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last yr.

This is just going to be the first of many, many stories you are going to read about big tech companies faking "AI for climate" claims. The sheer volume of AI-climate-washing going on right now is huge, and it's very likely most of the claims are fabricated or exaggerated archive.is/8sYNv

As heartbreaking news continues to emerge from central Texas, @chastenbuttigieg.bsky.social and I are thinking of everyone affected and grateful for the extraordinary work of first responders. Here are some ways all of us can help:

Hill Country flooding: Here’s how to give and receive help

Catastrophic flooding in the Texas Hill Country has killed 79 people. Rescue crews are searching for missing girls from Camp Mystic. Here is a guide on how to help those affected.

texastribune.org

The manuscript offers new insights into spatial and temporal patterns of urban microclimate, emphasizing contrasts between dry- and wet-bulb temperatures and indoor and outdoor microenvironment. We would be interested to hear your feedback!

Dr. Courtney Murdock@ecodynvplab.bsky.social · last yr.

New preprint from our group on how indoor and outdoor microclimates vary across Indian cities and seasonally: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.... @mcwimberly.bsky.social and Yusuf Jamal provide data identifying the location and seasonal timing of extreme wet bulb temperature in urban settings.

New preprint from our group on how indoor and outdoor microclimates vary across Indian cities and seasonally: essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.... @mcwimberly.bsky.social and Yusuf Jamal provide data identifying the location and seasonal timing of extreme wet bulb temperature in urban settings.

When I am not professoring, I am momming. Spent the weekend in Niagra, New York at the TCS Niagra Falls Summer Showndown AAU youth hockey tournament. My son's AA 12U team took home the championship. Great way to end the spring hockey season.

Postdoc position available at Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine!

Grant Hughes@mosquitomicrobe.bsky.social · last yr.

Come and join the @mossi-lab.bsky.social group! We have a postdoc position available on Wolbachia and Anopheles interactions. app.vacancy-filler.co.uk/salescrm/Car...

@ecodynvplab.bsky.social

Another preprint from our group online! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... We find socioeconomic disparities and water management practices influence urban malaria incidence and prevention behaviors in Surat and Ahmedabad, two cities of India in the state of Gujurat.

New preprint out from our group! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We find that relative humidity systematically shifts the temperature dependence of a key malaria vector. These effects are also likely important for aquatic insects more generally, and for predicting their responses to climate change.

Beyond temperature: Relative humidity systematically shifts the temperature dependence of population growth in a malaria vector

Understanding ectotherm responses to environmental change is central to coping with many of humanity′s current and future challenges in public health, biodiversity conservation, and food security. Com...

biorxiv.org

Celebrating @mosquitohunting.bsky.social today in lab meeting and her recent publication! www.frontiersin.org/journals/mal...

Dr. Courtney Murdock@ecodynvplab.bsky.social · last yr.

New paper out by @mosquitohunting.bsky.social! www.frontiersin.org/journals/mal... This paper explores how variation in mosquito diversity, feeding behavior, vector competence, seasonality, and vector-pathogen interactions shape the transmission, persistence, and evolution of human malaria!

New paper out by @mosquitohunting.bsky.social! www.frontiersin.org/journals/mal... This paper explores how variation in mosquito diversity, feeding behavior, vector competence, seasonality, and vector-pathogen interactions shape the transmission, persistence, and evolution of human malaria!

Frontiers | Mosquito vector diversity and malaria transmission

Malaria is the most important parasitic disease in the world, killing over half a million people a year. Globally, we have made gains toward eliminating this...

frontiersin.org

Congratulations to Dr. Mike Newberry, a PhD student in my group who graduated officially from the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia on May 8th 😊! Well done, and congratulations, Mike!

I am very excited to participate in a keynote lecture by Ray Huey, one of the fathers of thermal and physiological ecology, today during Evo Day here at Cornell. His work is the foundation of our work, and it is awesome to see it presented live today 😊.

New preprint out from our group led by @infectiouschill.bsky.social! Anna compares how various species distribution models perform at predicting the relatively recent invasion of the Asian tiger mosquito, a significant pest species, in Suffolk County, New York. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Field-validation of multiple species distribution models shows variation in performance for predicting Aedes albopictus distributions at the invasion edge

Climate and land use changes have resulted in range expansion of many species. In this shifting disease landscape, it is important to leverage tools that can predict the potential distributions of inv...

biorxiv.org

Heading home to the U.S. today. Here is the almost complete team from the Surat Municipal Corporation...out for a team dinner. We are missing Mr. Suthar and Dr. Dhwani, who were busy for World Malaria Day. Thank you as always for your excellent work, your collaboration, and friendship.

Dr. Courtney Murdock@ecodynvplab.bsky.social · last yr.

We placed the final 144th logger today in Surat with @mcwimberly.bsky.social and colleagues from the Surat Municipal Corporation. Here are some pics from the field 😊.

Also, this tractor...why can't we have nice things in the United States 😊. This makes me happy.

Dr. Courtney Murdock@ecodynvplab.bsky.social · last yr.

We placed the final 144th logger today in Surat with @mcwimberly.bsky.social and colleagues from the Surat Municipal Corporation. Here are some pics from the field 😊.

We placed the final 144th logger today in Surat with @mcwimberly.bsky.social and colleagues from the Surat Municipal Corporation. Here are some pics from the field 😊.

Dr. Courtney Murdock@ecodynvplab.bsky.social · last yr.

We set another 36 loggers across construction sites today to monitor the microclimate mosquitoes experience during the pre-monsoon season. Here are some pics of construction trucks because they make me happy. Why can't we have colorful trucks in the U.S.? @mcwimberly.bsky.social

World Malaria Day. Progress has been made on malaria elimination but it remains a killer. Changing climate, invasive mosquitoes, and limited global funding are threatening efforts. Today, we are in India working to better understand the effects of climate on urban malaria. @mcwimberly.bsky.social

Spent World Malaria Day with @ecodynvplab.bsky.social and colleagues in Surat, India studying mosquito microhabitats in urban construction sites. Best wishes to all who work to control and eliminate this terrible disease- your efforts are greatly appreciated!