Adam Hasik
@hasikadam.bsky.social
Postdoctoral research associate at the University of Edinburgh. Lover of all things parasites, ecology, and evolution! He/him
Insightful summary of an extraordinary person being extraordinarily fired: "you don't silence a woman of color who raised concerns about racism by silencing her...The fingerprints are distributed perfectly across the system." www.linkedin.com/pulse/uclas-...
UCLA's Most Decorated Ecologist Just Got Fired : Here's the sequence
In January of 2025, at the ICTP ICTS winter school at NCBS, Priyanga Amarasekare offered to take me and a few other students out for my birthday. She didn't have to do that.
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I've said it before and I'll say it until the heat death of the universe: KEEP YOUR CATS INSIDE. They kill EVERYTHING. If that's not enough, do it for your own cat's health. Parasites, birds of prey, dogs, coyotes, cars, and other cats are all threats. Save the local ecosystem, save your cat.
SK Winnicki, PhD 🏳️⚧️@skwinnicki.bsky.social · 4mo agoI was very excited to get these photos of a cat killing one of my neighbor chipmunks, knowing that I could use them for science communication/future presentations. I put them on iNat (like all my wildlife photos) and an author team writing a monograph on native mammals wants to include the photos!
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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Academics, what's the longest you've had to wait between a faculty application and getting an invitation to interview?
New preprint! We conducted a meta-analysis of experimental studies to show that warmer temperatures drove increased parasitism across myriad host-parasite systems, providing the most convincing evidence for the Warmer, Sicker World Hypothesis yet! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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New paper alert! Along with members of @bugecology.bsky.social 's lab and other collaborators we found that immune defenses vary with the local environment across large spatial scales, as well as evidence for local adapation to parasite pressure nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
The macroecology of immunity: predominant influence of climate on invertebrate immune response
The immune system is the primary defense against parasites. With the ever-increasing rate of disease, epidemiologic models considering geographic variation in immune responses could prove useful. Des...
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Check out this cool paper lead by @hasikadam.bsky.social and including important contributions from undergraduate students in our lab. Melanization response to parasitism in odonates could be the by-product of dessication resistance adaptation
Ecography@ecography.bsky.social · 5mo agoThe macroecology of immunity: predominant influence of climate on invertebrate immune response vist.ly/4u8bt #Macroecology #Odonates #Parasites
Maybe it's wishful thinking, but I'm feeling relatively confident about this round of job and faculty applications
New paper alert! In my second first-author paper from my work on the Isle of Rum Red Deer Project @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social we show, for only the second time in a wild population, that parasites mediate inbreeding depression. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer
Heredity - Parasite-mediated inbreeding depression in wild red deer
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Thrilled to share my first first-author paper from my work with the Isle of Rum Red Deer Project! @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social We found that host density acts to increase parasitism through two mechanisms: increased exposure and increased susceptibility. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer | Parasitology | Cambridge Core
Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer
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Interested in the role of journals in supporting open, credible and diverse research? Come see my talk at #ESEB2025 Tuesday 3-3:30pm, symposium S11, room 122/123. I will also be taking about our fantastic new data editor guidelines
Joel Pick@joelpick.bsky.social · 12mo ago🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵
📣 Hot off the press! 🔥🧪 'Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer @rumdeerresearch.bsky.social'. Proud to have played a small role on this one with an amazing team led by @hasikadam.bsky.social! 🦌🌱🪱 Read about it here 👇
Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer | Parasitology | Cambridge Core
Population density drives increased parasitism via greater exposure and reduced resource availability in wild red deer
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It is with SUPREME pleasure that I can finally share my most recently-published paper in @natrevbiodiv.nature.com ! www.nature.com/articles/s44... We outline a framework for linking the microevolutionary effects of parasites to the macroevolutionary dynamics of their hosts (1/2).
Parasitism as a driver of host diversification - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
Parasites and their hosts can have complex ecological interactions and evolutionary histories. This Perspective argues that parasites are a major driver of host speciation and outlines an empirical fr...
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Publishing agreement is signed, and soon a project I've been working on since 2018 will be published!!!!
How many faculty jobs did people apply for before they got their first interview? Asking for a friend....
Annnnnd a desk rejection. Perfect topper to the grant rejection.
Nothing like starting the day with a grant rejection letter
Thank you so much for the amazing artwork!!!
Tilly S Scott@tillysscott.bsky.social · 2y agoA great start to the 2025 seminar series with a talk from @hasikadam.bsky.social (thanks for organising @gretabocedi.bsky.social) We heard about the importance of considering eco-evolution whilst looking at parasitology - with examples from odenates, deer and soay sheep
Super excited to give my seminar tomorrow at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social. If you're around and want to hear about my work on parasites, ecology, and evolution, come on by at 1pm!
Anyone else have trouble settling in to the holidays and not thinking about work?
Disease ecologist starter pack -- reply with people/organizations to be added or with related lists/feeds #diseaseecology 🦠🐀🦠🦇🦠🦭🦠🦆🦠 go.bsky.app/RwAuiNT
It's too real after the saga I've been through this year....
David Green, PhD@ecologistgreen.bsky.social · 2y agoThe current system of peer review, am I right? 🧪
