Back at work today after 3 months on parental leave. Eugh, what do I even do again?
04.08.2025 08:35 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
GI-NemaTracker – A farm system-level mathematical model to predict the consequences of gastrointestinal parasite control strategies in sheep
Gastro-intestinal nematode infections are considered one of the major endemic diseases of sheep on the grounds of animal health and economic burden, b…
New @bioss.bsky.social paper! A farm systems-level math model to predict the efficacy & consequences of sustainable worm control in sheep. Thanks to coauthors from @livuni-ives.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @moredunfoundation.bsky.social @srucnews.bsky.social.
shorturl.at/II3zA
08.05.2025 09:41 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Our Dr David Ewing (@daveewing.bsky.social) was featured on BBC News Scotland yesterday, with an interview on TV and radio about mosquitoes & vector-borne disease risk in Scotland. 🦟
Read more: www.bioss.ac.uk/news-events/...
Listen to David's radio interview [52:30]: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
02.05.2025 11:19 — 👍 6 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
My pleasure! It's great to see the project making such a big impact!
02.05.2025 08:15 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mosquitoes in Scotland as far north as Shetland
The extent of Scotland's mosquito population is being understood thanks to a successful citizen science project.
Delighted to have BBC feature our citizen science mosquito reporting project. Huge thx to members of the public who have got in touch since last year with sightings from all across Scotland. Great if we can keep it going this summer: report at www.mosquito-scotland.com
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
01.05.2025 08:50 — 👍 19 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 3
Thanks Steven, I'll share the BBC sounds link when I have it. If you can convince your tv you are in Scotland then the pre-recorded section will be on the 7 oclock news tonight.
01.05.2025 12:43 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I'm going to be on BBC Scotland lunchtime live and the 7 oclock news talking about vector-borne disease risk in Scotland. Fingers crossed all goes well. Going to require a serious caffeine hit after a few relatively sleepless nights since baby #2 arrived on Sunday!
01.05.2025 10:35 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
Yeah, I'm perfectly happy to use loops 90% of the time but I fully intend to batter this bit of code into the ground so the loops just aren't cutting it.
21.03.2025 16:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I wish my brain worked in vectors rather than loops #Rstats
21.03.2025 11:00 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
BioSS at the EPIC 2025 Conference
BioSS colleagues had a prominent role in the 2025 meeting of EPIC, the Scottish Government-funded Centre of Expertise in Animal Disease Outbreaks.
We've been busy contributing to the @epicscotland.bsky.social Conference 2025, which this year had the theme of "Building a Resilient Future for Animal Health and Welfare: Data-Driven Innovation in Policy and Practice". 🐑📊
Read our news to find out more: www.bioss.ac.uk/news-events/...
11.03.2025 08:29 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
🚨PhD opportunities!🚨
Don't miss your chance to apply to a collaborative #PhD with BioSS and partners. We have several advertised across a range of applied quantitative research.
See more here: www.bioss.ac.uk/phd-students...
#PhdChat #PhDSky #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #Statistics #Maths
10.01.2025 15:45 — 👍 6 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Application deadline 6th January! Please share #vbd
03.01.2025 08:11 — 👍 5 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Photo of two sheep on a hillside with a model schematic
🚨#PhD opportunity!🚨
We're looking for a PhD student to work on modelling anthelmintic resistance in sheep flocks, working with our @daveewing.bsky.social, and supervisors at @moredunfoundation.bsky.social & @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social
📆Deadline: 17th Jan
More info: shorturl.at/xbHEy
18.12.2024 17:49 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Understanding Pathogens, from Molecules to Phenotypes - High-Resolution, Data-Vali...
I'm recruiting two computational ecology PhD students via BBSRC's NorthWestBio program to start autumn 2025.
One is based at Lancaster Uni working with me, David Ewing, and @drstevenmwhite.bsky.social to develop and validate models for West Nile virus in the UK.
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
13.12.2024 14:27 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
a seagull is flying over a body of water with a duck in the background
ALT: a seagull is flying over a body of water with a duck in the background
🚨 New research alert! 🚨
Our paper on the devastating effects of the 2022 highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 outbreak on Newfoundland seabirds has just been published in @cdnsciencepub.bsky.social 🪶
Dive into McPhail et al., 2024 here: doi.org/10.1139/cjz-...
12.12.2024 13:09 — 👍 51 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 3
Two sheep in a field overlaid with a schematic of a mathematical model
🚩PhD opportunity furthering sustainable control of gastrointestinal nematodes and anthelmintic resistance in sheep flocks through mathematical modelling with me at @bioss.bsky.social alongside Fi Kenyon, @adhayward.bsky.social (Moredun) and Rob Kelly (Edinburgh Uni). Please share! #parasitology
10.12.2024 11:21 — 👍 8 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Really enjoyed discussing data needs and availability for tackling #vectorbornedisease at the UK VBD Hub meeting today. Learn more about the project at vbdhub.org #vbd
02.12.2024 21:28 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Phenotypic plasticity was required in mathematical models to predict high risk areas for dengue.
25.11.2024 16:40 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see Christina Cobbold talking about the role of individuals and their traits in determining the impacts of environmental change.
25.11.2024 16:06 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I'd like to be added please.
23.11.2024 13:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I like this. Reckon I'm guilty of too many what comments rather than why comments.
22.11.2024 17:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
In the latest episode: 🌍🦤
Rewilding isn't just about reintroducing extinct species - it's about allowing natural processes to take control. Many misunderstand it as bringing back wolves and bears, when it's really about humans stepping back and letting nature determine outcomes. 1/9
20.11.2024 07:39 — 👍 42 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 1
I'd like to be added if possible please.
19.11.2024 19:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Without the accompanying code? Or are you just taking a bold, anti-open science position?
19.11.2024 15:03 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
This looks like a super interesting project!
18.11.2024 09:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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mammals | wildlife | ecology | movement | disease | biodiversity | demography | behaviour | distribution | modelling
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Freelance science journalist contributing to NYT, SciAm, Nature etc. Author of "Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking" (2018) and "I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World" (2023).
#UKRI Project 'Assessing the risk of mosquito vector-borne diseases in Scotland & their response to environmental change'
https://mosquito-scotland.com
Mosquitoes, Wolbachia, gut microbes, microbiomes, arboviruses, Plasmodium. Liverpool way. 🦟🦠
The VectorByte initiative is establishing a global open access data platform to study disease vectors. This project serves as a hub for biological trait (VecTraits) and abundance data (VecDyn) for human and non-human disease vectors, plus training!
Scottish Parasitology Partnership in Research, Innovation, and Training (SPPIRIT) - a network to support parasitology ECRs in Scotland.
http://sppirit.net/
Loves running, cycling, hiking, science and maths. Hates fascism!
Working in epidemiology and stats at the University of Oxford. Mainly focused on the NHS COVID-19 app since early 2020.
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We are a London-based network for scientific & social exchange among Early Career Researchers interested in Infection Biology. Run by ECRs for ECRs. 👩🔬🧫🧬 (Formerly LIPN)
Evolutionary & conservation genomics, eDNA, parasites, disease ecology, marine mammal conservation. Seal nerd, co-chair IUCN Pinniped specialist group. University of Leeds, UK. 🦭🐳🧬🧪🌍 https://www.goodmanlab.org
Statistician | data for social good | humanitarian | #rstats and #julialang enthusiast ⚡
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