Michael Walsh

Wild Birds Affected by Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Worldwide: Epidemiological Insights Into the Recent Panzootic

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For those interested in greater gliders, and their ecology, conservation and management, please feel free to read our comprehensive review (please note, it's a pre-print) 👉 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... - Led by Dr Luke Emerson

Join us! Open PhD scholarship at the Disease Ecology Laboratory @sydney.edu.au Apply by the 16th November.

Do they think people have forgotten about Omicron and how South Africa was treated when they told the world about that variant?

Cover image for "Global Wetland Outlook 2025" report by Ramsar. The image shows a silhouette of a person in a conical hat carrying rice seedlings on a pole across their shoulders, walking through a misty wetland landscape. The person's reflection is visible in turquoise water below. The Ramsar logo appears at bottom left, with subtitle "Valuing, conserving, restoring and financing wetlands" beneath. The atmospheric image captures traditional agricultural practices in wetland environments, with a soft, ethereal quality created by morning mist and diffused light.

The #GlobalWetlandOutlook2025 by Convention on Wetlands is available!

Wetlands are vanishing, along with the life they sustain. 🌱

Explore the data & solutions to protect these crucial ecosystems.

Full report 👉 http://global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org/
#GWO2025 #WetlandsMatter 🌍🧪

James Watson in his own words “Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…

Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
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Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...

More raccoons? Turns out it would be bad news.

We're predicting where key reservoirs of the raccoon rabies virus (🦝 and 🦨) may be in Québec by 2100, and if we don't act on climate change, the answer may be: everywhere. 🧪

A student wrote to me after the midterm, and they said they should have gotten a lower grade. I think this is important, because I fundamentally disagree with this student, and it took me a while to articulate why. This is my rough draft. 🧵

Queensland considers changes that could see dingoes in dog parks People could be allowed to keep dingoes as pets in Queensland under proposed changes to biosecurity regulations, but experts say the native animal is fundamentally different to domestic dogs.

Dingoes ARE NOT domestic dogs, multiple lines of evidence demonstrate this.

Dingoes ARE NOT ideal pets, they require extensive and special care.

Dingoes ARE very important to First Nations peoples, and Australia's ecosystems.

This proposed change is a very bad idea www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

What was the hardest part of grad school for you? Was it having a kid, the thesis defense? I told them nope, it was being the only & the first. The only Inupiaq at UW Madison for most of my years there, one of 250 Natives on a campus of over 40K, the first Native to earn a PhD in my program🧵

Effect of landscape heterogeneity on mosquito abundance and sugar feeding behavior Abstract. Mosquito-borne diseases pose a dire threat to humanity, claiming over 700,000 lives annually. At the local scale, the interplay between several e

Check out our newest paper on mosquito sugar feeding! 🦟🌸

This study was led M. VanderGiessen, F. Upshur & M. Cartadena-Guzman. A great collaboration with L. Escobar & @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social!

@globalchangebio.bsky.social @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social

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– rainbowR conference

🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉

🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026

📣 Call for submissions is open

👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members

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Wildlife One Health Special Collection Vector-borne diseases are increasing in incidence, expanding geographically, and emerging at a faster pace than ever before. The prevailing hypothesis is that t

I'm so excited to introduce a new Special Collection from the Journal of Medical Entomology (and juuuust in time for #EntSoc25! 😎), the ✨Wildlife One Health Special Collection✨, put together by @machtingerlab.bsky.social, Risa Pesapane, Danielle Tufts, & me! 🎉

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To Finish the Pandemic Agreement, WHO Needs a Trustworthy Viral Database | Think Global Health Online platforms for sharing virus sequences are in disarray. The World Health Organization has a chance to build something new

When sequence databases can unilaterally cut off access to analytic platforms, we are left unprepared for the next pandemic.

In @thinkglobalhealth.org, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I highlight the severity of the situation, and what it means for @who.int negotiations on the Pandemic agreement. 🧪😷🧵

The CRAN Spatial Task View just got a proper table of contents (thanks to Krzysztof Dyba) -- easier to navigate all those R spatial packages now. 🌍

> cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial

#RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource #gischat

As one of the greatest writers of our age said, “venom with a new twang, same swagger, new thang” - the lab has changed a lot over ten years, and after thinking about who we became, we decided to re-do the website. And write about our theory of change.

Follow us - @epic-biodiversity.org !

To Finish the Pandemic Agreement, WHO Needs a Trustworthy Viral Database | Think Global Health Online platforms for sharing virus sequences are in disarray. The World Health Organization has a chance to build something new

🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...

Gestation length both shapes and is shaped by other life history traits in terrestrial eutherian mammals Abstract. The length of gestation in eutherian mammals, which is key to their reproductive success, is closely connected to other life history traits, body

Gestation length both shapes and is shaped by other life history traits in terrestrial eutherian mammals
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Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Thodoris Danis et al.

Public health community Thunderstruck after ACDC bills pass Senate. Photos of PHAA officials shaking hands. Our CEO wears a badge from rock band AC/DC.

Bills to create the most important #PublicHealth infrastructure in decades has today passed the Senate.

"Thanks to the many people who’ve put in hard work and long nights, showing it’s a long way to the top to get a Centre for Disease Control," our CEO, Adj Prof Terry Slevin.

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Big win for public health: Australia will soon have a Centre for Disease Control!! #ACDC #PublicHealth

Photo with a blue tit and information text of how to apply for the announced postdoc position.

‪📢 #Postdoc (75%) 3+2 years on identifying #West-Nile-Virus wildlife hosts and #modelling spatial risk factors.

Be part of a consortium on "Combating #WNV through an integrated #OneHealth approach" w #TUBerlin , #Charite, #FUBerlin, #UniBayreuth and health authorities

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I'm excited to announce that the first chapter of dissertation is published in @commsbio.nature.com !!! and i feel super fortunate that it could be published during bat week 💗🦇 www.nature.com/articles/s42... @danjbecker.bsky.social @colincarlson.bsky.social @/amandavicentesantos

Virome profiling of Culex tarsalis through small RNA-seq: A challenge of suboptimal samples Author summary Mosquitoes are capable of transmitting pathogenic viruses to humans and other vertebrate hosts during feeding. However, they can also carry viruses that infect only mosquitoes, which ar...

New work published today from the RasgonLab! The first thesis chapter from @zureishon.bsky.social!

Project highlights some of the difficulties we had with sample collection during the early days of COVID

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Oh, right...that set definitely has more of a Top of the Pops look.

Is that the same staircase that was in Snakedance? From the top of which Martin Clunes loved looking down on everyone?

We will be recruiting graduate researchers to start Fall 2026 in the Dallas lab at U South Carolina. We are a mix of population, community, and disease ecologists. Parasite macroecology!!!

Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).

On #OneHealth Day, Australia’s three biosecurity Chiefs unite to highlight our shared responsibility to protect human, animal, plant & environmental health.

Read message in full here 👇
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This is figure 5, which shows global hotspots and coldspots of non-native mosquito introduction and establishment, and their socio-economic and environmental drivers.

Globalization has accelerated the spread of mosquito species that transmit human diseases. An analysis in Nature Communications shows that 45 disease-vector mosquito species have been introduced to non-native regions worldwide. go.nature.com/4hn6ogW 🧪