Dr. July Pilowsky

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

3 domestic cats in US consumed raw milk contaminated with HPAI = fever and neurologic signs; 2 cats died. Raw dairy a risk.
👉 wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

TTRPGS like most media often use gender, race and sexuality as fads rather than committing to uplift marginalized players and designers.

The next release will be a major one that makes the package more Julian, as per some helpful comments by @ctrlalttim.com. I may have learned the basics of coding in Julia, but I'm still teaching myself to think beyond my R approach to scientific programs and organize my code differently.

Release v0.3.0 · japilo/CoinfectionSimulator.jl Version 0.3.0 has improved implementation of interaction strengths in prep_interaction_matrix. Previously, interaction_strength determined the standard deviation of draws from a normal distribution...

v 0.3.0 of CoinfectionSimulator.jl is out, now with a more logical implementation of species pair interaction strength in `prep_interaction_matrix`. github.com/japilo/Coinf...

People who are not familiar with my research history don’t know that I adore wasps and will defend them to my last breath.

Assessing the risk of diseases with epidemic and pandemic potential in a changing world Human activities increase zoonotic disease risk.

🦠 Where future pandemics might start

A new study maps global hotspots for disease outbreaks, showing how climate change, deforestation, and crowded cities are creating the conditions for the next epidemic.

🔗 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#SciComm #GlobalHealth #Pandemics 🧪

Preexisting immunity to the 2009 pandemic H1N1 virus reduces susceptibility to H5N1 infection and disease in ferrets Prior infection with the 2009 pandemic H1N1 influenza virus confers protection against H5N1 infection and disease in ferrets.

Exciting new work from my @ciddpsu.bsky.social colleagues showing that pandemic H1N1 immunity reduces susceptibility to H5N1 infection and disease in ferrets.

The nutritional content of anthropogenic resources affects wildlife disease dynamics Synopsis. Wildlife have become increasingly reliant on human-supplemented food, affecting interactions between individuals and subsequently pathogen transm

New paper out modelling how the nutritional content of wild bird foods could affect disease transmission - a nice follow-up application of our Molecular Ecology study showing that food quality can affect immune function and disease tolerance.
doi.org/10.1093/icb/... @durantlab.bsky.social

New blogpost. The shitshow that results when a publisher fails to check up on their peer reviewers, with authors caught up in a nightmare process. deevybee.blogspot.com/2025/07/trou...

YouTube video by Dave Goulson No More Beewashing! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees.

No more Beewashing please! Why beekeeping doesn't help conserve bees. Pls RT if you agree.
youtu.be/fiBYBmlKSYU

Vampire bats’ mutual grooming helps spread innovative rabies vaccine A gel that bats lick off one another’s fur could help prevent rabies outbreaks in cattle, a growing problem in Latin America

🦇 Grooming rabies away

A new study finds vampire bats can lick rabies vaccines off each other, spreading immunity through grooming. 88% of a colony was vaccinated in days.

🔗 www.science.org/content/arti...

#SciComm #Zoonoses 🧪

The H5N1 influenza outbreaks in the US dairy cattle likely triggered by the "milk-stealing" behavior of lactating cows H5N1 influenza outbreaks have been reported on more than 1.070 dairy farms in the United States since 2024. The virus severely affects the mammary glands and contaminates the milk, posing a threat to ...

The H5N1 influenza outbreaks in the US dairy cattle likely triggered by the "milk-stealing" behavior of lactating cows | EurekAlert! www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

{ralger} #rstats package looks like an absolute game changer in the task of web scraping for people with very occasional need in this rather nerdy task 🤩
Instead of drilling manually through cached HTML, one can use intuitively named functions that just do it ✨
🔗 feddelegrand7.github.io/ralger/

When using computer vision to identify organisms in a image, it helps to know what the model was trained on. To a shark ID AI, everything is a shark.

If you have a BBQ visitor this wknd, don’t flap and shout.
Instead, give a wasp-offering: sausage..pie.. whatever she wants. She’s looking for protein not sugar atm as the colony is growing fast with many brood to feed.
Wasps are pest controllers, pollinators- Live with not against them. #WaspLove

Hiring/Seeking a *permanent* programmer in ecological modelling at my lab @unibonn.bsky.social. We mechanistically model plant communities, island biogeography, species range dynamics, eco-evolutionary feedbacks, diversity gradients, tropical forests, vascular epiphytes. Pls rt! shorturl.at/Bzzdt

Systematic pairwise co-cultures uncover predominant negative interactions among human gut bacteria - Microbiome Background Understanding pairwise bacterial interactions in the human gut is crucial for deciphering the complex networks of bacterial interactions and their contributions to host health. However, the...

Systematic pairwise co-cultures uncover predominant negative interactions among human gut bacteria

-in BMC Microbiome

microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

New R package alert: 📦 mbg for model-based geostatistics

Run spatial ML & geostatistical models to estimate continuous surfaces from point data + raster covariates.

Built on sf, terra, data.table, caret, and R-INLA.

cran.r-project.org/package=mbg

#rspatial #rstats #geostatistics

Use of antibiotic to reduce STIs appears to be fueling some antibiotic resistance, research shows The use of the antibiotic doxycycline to reduce STIs appears to be fueling some antibiotic resistance, according to new research.

Using doxycycline after unprotected sex — doxy PEP — is effective at reducing some sexually transmitted infections in some people. But new research suggests is probably also driving development of resistance to tetracycline antibiotics in some bacteria. www.statnews.com/2025/07/09/d...

Animal diseases leapt to humans when we started keeping livestock When hunter-gatherers began living close to animals, the pathogens that cause the plague and leprosy got closer too.

Viruses and bacteria jumping from animals to people became a real problem when humans started keeping livestock, according to a massive genomic analysis of ancient pathogens 🧪

H5N1 HPAIV infectious in milk at 4C for 4 weeks, w slow decreases at 21C, and complete inactivation at 37C after four weeks. At pH 6-10 virus stable, partially inactivated at pH 5.0, completely inactivated at pH 4.0
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This is cool. I was poking around at the Rhinovirus (common cold) data and realized that my perception about these viruses was completely wrong.
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Spatiotemporal reconstruction of the North American A(H5N1) outbreak reveals successive lineage replacements by descendant reassortants Phylodynamics show the reassortant progeny of Eurasian H5 clade 2.3.4.4b and American LPAI viruses outcompeted their ancestors.

Spatiotemporal reconstruction of the North American A(H5N1) outbreak reveals successive lineage replacements by descendant reassortants
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The "reproducibility crisis" in science constantly makes headlines. Repro efforts are often limited. What if you could assess reproducibility of an entire field?

That's what @brunolemaitre.bsky.social et al. have done. Fly immunity is highly replicable & offers lessons for #metascience

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PhD candidate in species abundances modelling - Project Description Understanding species abundance patterns is essential to addressing fundamental questions in macroecology and biogeography, specifically about […]

We’re hiring! Join us at maraujo lab as a #PhD candidate to model species abundances using cutting-edge ecological and statistical tools. Based at @mncn-csic.bsky.social @mncn-bgcg.bsky.social and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social.
🔗 www.maraujolab.eu/2025/07/04/p...
#SpeciesDistributionModels

Relationship between Canada goose abundance + H5N1 in Iowa: high goose abundance were significantly less likely to report HPAI cases
👉 www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/15...

Release of HPAI H7 genome from New Zealands first EVER HPAI outbreak, November 2024.
👉 journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...?

Sí claro! 😃

@ctrlalttim.com you use Julia, right? Do you mind having a look? It's disease ecology!