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Lecturer @LancsUniLEC | ecology & evolution of infectious disease, climate (change), stats/models, insects, Daphnia | they/she | [email protected] 🐘

Lancaster, England
Joined July 2012
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@MartaShocket
Marta Shocket 🏳️‍🌈
8 years
Yeah sex is cool, but have you tried facultatively switching back and forth between sex and parthenogenesis to take advantage of genetic recombination in stressful situations while not wasting your reproductive output on dead-end males when conditions are good? #daphnia
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@bloodSparasites
Bloodsucking Parasites
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Combining blood meal analysis and parasite detection yields a more comprehensive understanding of insect host feeding patterns https://t.co/ONGwURZLuq Parasites&Vectors
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Parasites & Vectors - Traditionally, blood meal analysis has been the primary method used to assess feeding patterns of insects. In contrast, parasite detection is commonly applied to monitor...
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@johnjhorton
John Horton
5 months
@docmilanfar 'calculus for babies' introduced TLS first, which is not the typical sequence!
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@docmilanfar
Peyman Milanfar
5 months
Most tech people know about ordinary least-squares (OLS), but not so much about *total* least-squares (TLS) They measure fit differently: OLS minimizes sum of sq. distances along dependent variable; whereas TLS minimizes sum of orthogonal distances from data to fit line 1/2
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@manorlaboratory
Uri Manor
5 months
My lab’s 5-year NIH R01 grant, awarded to study gene therapy for hearing loss, was abruptly terminated. I want to share how this action has been incredibly harmful and disruptive, not just to my lab, but to the scientific process itself. 1/15
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@IDDjobs
IDDjobs: infectious disease dynamics jobs
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PhD position (Liverpool, UK) Developing models to help make decisions early in a major disease outbreak when availability of new tests is limited. with @emjnixon at University of Liverpool More details:
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@ethanblinck
Ethan Linck
6 months
maybe my favorite paper I've written, I have a synthesis paper out today early access in The American Naturalist today that attempts to answer a simple but slippery question: what is an elevational range?
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@aslo_org
ASLO
7 months
Looking for a job in aquatic science? Check out our job board! You don’t have to be an ASLO member to browse opportunities, from research positions to to post-docs and even industry roles. Explore now and take the next step in your career! https://t.co/i0tAMDV4iG
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@NewsHour
PBS News
7 months
House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah, prompting outrage from Democrats and environmental groups who called the plan a betrayal that could lead to increased
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House Republicans have added a provision to their sweeping tax cut package that would authorize the sale of thousands of acres of public lands in Nevada and Utah.
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@jrockstrom
Johan Rockström
7 months
Another letter of alarm against the destructive desmantling of science in the US by the Trump administration. Now signed by over 3000 scientists to save NOAA. NOAA provides invaluable data on Earth observations and science on the liveability on our planet.
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UCS today delivered an open letter—with more than 3,300 signatory scientists and experts—to congressional leaders and Secretary Lutnick urging them to halt the ongoing assault on NOAA and restore...
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@maxjfarrell
Max Farrell
7 months
One week left to apply! Please use the University of Glasgow portal to suit your applications! (Link on the right side of findaphd post)
@maxjfarrell
Max Farrell
9 months
Come do a PhD with me using LLMs and comparative methods to understand the emergence of companion animal viruses! 🧠☠️🕸️🐕🐈🖥️ Fully funded 3.5 year PhD based at @UofGSBOHVM @CVRinfo supervised by myself, Margaret Hosie, and Willie Weir https://t.co/npCHbBt8kG
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@DrJenGunter
Jennifer Gunter
8 months
The NIH plans to defund the WHI, the largest clinical trial ever for women that was meant to catch up on missed research. This study has been a fountain of knowledge. The hatred of women from this administration is really from cradle to grave.
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science.org
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
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@striepenlab
Boris Striepen
8 months
Global Parasitology Seminar: Sebastian Lourido on Toxoplasma biology Monday 4/21 12 pm EDT. ⁦@PennMicro⁩ ⁦@BSPparasitology⁩ ⁦@TrendsParasitol⁩ ⁦@SFParasitologie⁩ ⁦@AS_Para⁩ ⁦@AmSocParasit⁩ ⁦@parasitesrule⁩ ⁦@MBLBoP⁩ ⁦⁦⁦
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@crawley_mick
Mick Crawley
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Much the most off-putting thing about learning grasses is that you need to learn a completely new language. The best plan is to go out and collect a flowering Poa annua from the pavement, then try out these important new words on it.
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@pjhuxle
Paul Huxley
8 months
Our new preprint ( https://t.co/1VPdlDy8TO) describes✨AedesTraits✨ ( https://t.co/B7TrGwvlz8): A global database on temperature-trait responses in Aedes mosquitoes. #AedesTraits holds >31,000 rows of fully open data extracted from published literature (1930s to 2025)!
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AedesTraits is a fully open, machine-readable database that adheres to VecTraits standards, focusing on the temperature dependence of different types of traits (e.g., life--history, behavioural,...
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@VanMSavage
Van Savage
8 months
Great job leading @MartaShocket! Exciting for predictions of Malaria & general thinking abt handling fluctuating temperatures when matching theory & data. Great work @JoeyBernhardt, Courtney Murdock, Sadie Ryan, & other coauthors no longer on X
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nature.com
Nature Communications - Malaria transmission is sensitive to temperature and models of malaria typically account for daily fluctuations in temperature through a ‘rate summation’...
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@metromosquito
Metropolitan Mosquito Control District
8 months
MMCD is excited to launch our latest innovation in the fight against mosquitoes - LASER LOONS! Staff have trained Minnesota's state bird to harness their laser vision and use it to target and eliminate certain species of adult mosquitoes. Learn more: https://t.co/7kqU0lFtd4
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@striepenlab
Boris Striepen
8 months
If you have an extensive private collection of parasites going back all the way to your 1987 undergrad class are you really weird - or have you just chosen exactly the right profession? I got blood smears from cows with trypanosomes from my time in Burkina, and flukes from Bonn…
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@icmrnioh
ICMR-National Institute of Occupational Health
9 months
In plenary address, Dr Courtney Murdock, Cornell University, USA, discusses how climate change influences the spread of vector-borne diseases, referencing her study done in the metropolitan districts of Ahmedabad and Surat Municipal Corporations. (1/2) #CliCONOEH2025 @ICMRDELHI
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@MeTooFieldwork
Fieldwork Initiative
10 months
Rachel, you are us, we are you.
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rational_geographic
10 months
This is heartbreaking, infuriating and inspiring. Mostly the first two. #science #patriarchy #STEM
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