Daniel M. Parker

Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…

Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky

retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...

Assessment of malnutrition in preschool-aged children by mid-upper arm circumference in the Gaza Strip (January, 2024–August, 2025): a longitudinal, cross-sectional, surveillance study After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from preventable acute malnutrition and facing an ...

New study in @thelancet.com

“After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from preventable acute malnutrition and facing an increased risk of mortality”

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine - ICMU ICMU supports top-level research in mathematics, with special emphasis on training younger generations of scientists and the development of mathematics in Ukraine.

In another display of incredible resilience, Ukrainian mathematicians in 2022(❗) opened a new International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine (ICMU): icmu.ua/en

It was pleasure to give an online mini-course on Bayesian Statistics to Ukrainian students and scientists: icmu.ua/en/events/in...

Oh my. Might have been fun for a short while. What a bad place we are in though

A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.

Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...

Absolutely off the charts public health capacity on display here.

Writing Groups Write in community! Join a writing group Meet with a small cohort of faculty members and post-PhD researchers for mutual support, accountability, and dedicated writing time. Fall writing groups beg…

PSA for academic writers (post-PhD):

I’m a fan of this writing group and plan to participate again this fall. Jess is a great facilitator.

I know that the Tuesday option, at least, still has some spots open

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Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

We are hiring! The Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State seeks an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Dynamics 🦠

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This is quite the all-star lineup of demographers with expertise in fertility.

Period fertility (or mortality) rates are not destiny.

If we are really that concerned about future population growth, perhaps we should just make it easier for people to have families? It's in our power

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🚨 Job Alert! 🚨

Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1.

#AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs

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(I love being here. Come join!)

@stonybrooku.bsky.social

Head of Data Engineering and Informatics Position Available -
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Economic Research Rescue Fund (for people whose NSF grants have been pulled). From UK ESRC. #academicsky
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The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...

This is an amazing article about the train wreck that is the University of Chicago. Very clear implications for R1 universities more generally.

www.compactmag.com/article/the-...

Panel description feminist and gendered geographies of resistance

Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social

Former CDC Director William Foege: How public health can fight back in a time of dangerous nonsense “Kennedy would be less hazardous if he decided to do cardiac surgery. Then he would kill people only one at a time,” writes former CDC Director William Foege.

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Environmental correlates of Aedes aegypti abundance in the West Valley region of San Bernardino County, California, USA, from 2017 to 2023: an ecological modeling study - Parasites & Vectors Background Aedes mosquitoes, particularly Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus, are major vectors of globally significant diseases such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya. Since 2013, Ae. aegypti population...

🦟💧 Satellite data show that #Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes spike not when it rains, but when surface water is around—like irrigation puddles. We used remote-sensing in SoCal to map risk and guide smarter mosquito control. 🔬🌐 doi.org/10.1186/s130...

High seroprevalence of antibodies to Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika viruses in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional survey in 2024 Author summary Mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika pose growing public health challenges in many parts of Africa, but limited surveillance makes it difficult to assess their t...

preliminary work from us on seroepidemiology of #Aedes borne disease in East #Ethiopia. Long story short - LOTS of exposure to #dengue and #chikungunya. There have been outbreaks, but looks endemic to me. More work needed on that. There might be Zika transmission too: : dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...

Bergen looking for more presenters at this conference. Interdisciplinary group seeking to 'change the narratives' around pandemic preparedness. #healthpolicy

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Cuts to malaria funding by the US are also evident now in Ethiopia’s Gambella region, where @doctorswithoutborders.org is receiving more patients and concerned about further increases: www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/aid-c...

Incredibly cool work from Isaac H Goldstein: "The signal is not flushed away"
doi.org/10.48550/arX...

A five shop counter with a well loved copy of Diving Monterey on top

It's nice to know I'm still loved in Monterey. This is my book of diving maps for sale at Bamboo Reef. Jealous of the gorgeous pictures coming out of the area lately.

Bat flies into woman's mouth in Arizona, costing her nearly $21,000 in medical bills Erica Kahn, who lives in Massachusetts, wasn't insured when she had a close encounter with the flying mammal at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area.

There is a whole lot to unpack from this. Insane #medical expenses; illogical #healthcare system; #infectious_disease concerns; folks chewing on bats (but not the late Ozzy)... www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

UMich cancels doctoral epidemiology program admissions for 2026 The University of Michigan School of Public Health will not admit a 2025-2026 admissions cycle cohort to its PhD in Epidemiologic Sciences program.

People thought I was overreacting when I said Trump’s list of “banned” words meant epidemiology was itself defacto being banned.

But this week U Michigan announced they aren’t even accepting applications for the 2026 epi PhD admissions cycle.

www.michigandaily.com/news/news-br...

From left to right, Dr. Albert Mulenga, William Tae Heung Kim, Dr. Thu Thuy Nguyen, Dr. Alex Kiarie Gaithuma, Dr Hassan Hakimi and Emily Bencosme Cuevas. Kim is a Texas A&M researcher who was detained in San Francisco last Monday despite being a permanent resident of the United States and a green card holder. COURTESY OF TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY

I NEED to tell you the story of Tae Heung “William” Kim.

He's a graduate student at Texas A&M where he's working on a vaccine for Lyme disease.

He's a *legal permanent resident* of the United States.

And he's been in ICE detention for 12 days & counting, transferred Tuesday to South Texas.

High Noon recalls vodka seltzers mislabeled as Celsius energy drinks The Food and Drug Administration issued a recall notice warning that the sparkling blue razz flavor of the Astro Vibe energy drink may contain vodka.

Popular alcohol brand High Noon issued a voluntary recall of a batch of its variety 12-packs after discovering that some of them contained vodka seltzer mislabeled as Celsius energy drinks.

Soliciting paper submissions for a special issue in Spatial Demography (Springer Nature) on #climate and #health! More info here: link.springer.com/collections/....
🛟📈📉🧪 #geosky #AcademicSky #gis #spatial #population #popsky #demography #healthequity #climatechange #sustainability #weather #medsky

Seroprevalence of Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya Viruses in Humans and Colocated Macaques in Thailand and Cambodia Cross-sectional serosurveys in Thailand and Cambodia show higher arboviral seropositivity in humans than colocated macaques, suggesting limited sylvatic re

Seroprevalence of Dengue, Zika, and Chikungunya Viruses in Humans and Colocated Macaques in Thailand and Cambodia url: academic.oup.com/jid/article/...

Meet the lecturers at MiReKoc-UNIC International Summer School! This year’s theme: "Beyond Borders: Health, Migration, and Diversity in an Interconnected World."
14–25 July 2025 | Koç University, Istanbul

Details: miss.ku.edu.tr

#Migration #Health #Diversity #wellbeing