David Simons

Even more upsetting was when they said they'd love to share the data but they'd lost it because it wasn't archived or retained.

23.06.2025 08:15 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The title of the paper: "A minimum data standard for wildlife disease research and surveillance" - and an example data table

NEW! 🎉 We need wildlife disease surveillance to predict epidemics, but data sharing is rare - we found that only 2-3% of studies share raw data. So, we spent three years developing a data standard and R package to help get wildlife disease data into FAIR repositories. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

21.06.2025 15:17 — 👍 129    🔁 49    💬 3    📌 4

📣 We’re hiring! 2-yr postdoc at Smithsonian’s NZCBI on an NSF-funded project with partners incl. Glasgow, RVC, Uganda MOH, Cary Institute. Focus: land use change, rodent movement, human-rodent contact, modeling disease risk, w/ plenty of fieldwork in Uganda. Details: tinyurl.com/SINSFR

26.04.2025 10:05 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1

Machine translation from original russian text.

Are any #Russian speakers are able to assist with this. Translation is from Google Translate does the original Russian state the species name or are they describing them similarly?

30.01.2025 14:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Top panels: graphs showing increases in spillover events, extinction rates, and temperature anomalies over the last few centuries. Bottom panel: a map of 10 pandemics since the year 1900. Four were linked to agriculture, two to wildlife use, and one to climate change.

🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl

15.01.2025 14:16 — 👍 544    🔁 229    💬 17    📌 19