Sagan Friant: @saganfriant.bsky.social
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Asst Prof at @PSU_Anthro & @huckinstitutes. Mixing methods to study the social and ecological origins of zoonotic spillovers @RISK_PSU @CREHPNigeria
State College, PA and Nigeria
Joined October 2014
My new #OneHealth paper highlights opportunities for ecological and evolutionary anthropology in disease ecology. I hope this will encourage students, researchers, and practitioners to consider human drivers of disease as rational, adaptive, and dynamic.
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Calling all #virology and #microbiology friends who are on the faculty job market: @PennStateBio department & @BMB_PSU have multiple faculty openings with ads up now! Link #1 of 4 here -- this one's theme is Evolutionary Genomics (open topic): https://t.co/ePL93ptaKS
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Job Alert! Research Fellow in One Health @OfficialZSL @ZSLScience working with Prof Andrew Cunningham - collaborating with @NHM @David_W_Redding and @UCLCBER People & Nature Lab https://t.co/W57RPKEtjJ
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The Department of Biology at Penn State is searching for a new professor of Ecology. Apply here: https://t.co/x1YG9bK138
#blackinstem #latinxinstem #indigenousinstem #diversityinstem #LGBTinSTEM #womeninstem @PSUScience
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Tenure Track Position in Evolutionary Genomics in the Department of Biology at Penn State: https://t.co/t9idC5LjD7
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The @BWFUND/ ASTMH Postdoctoral Fellowship in Tropical Infectious Diseases seeks applicants for $65K US/year for 2 years to cover travel, stipend, fringe benefits, health insurance & capacity development at an overseas site. Deadline: July 24. https://t.co/vxxQ5BxZcB
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!!!JOB ALERT!!! Assistant/Associate Prof in One Health @ucl. We are looking for a fabulous new colleague @UCLCBER for our People & Nature Lab @UCLEast - deadline 10th July
nature.com
About usUCL Division of Biosciences has an outstanding international reputation, ranking joint 6th in the QS world university rankings 2024 for biolog
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Look ma, @nature featured my work! Totally loved working on this with @etinosa_yvonne and @lindanordling while doing field work in Nigeria for my postdoc @UWBiology @wrfseattle @SESantanaM @smaconbats
Iroro Tanshi works to better understand a number of threatened species
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Exciting opportunity: New post doc position in the @sunderland_lab @ubcforestry for research on African mangroves: https://t.co/V54JaeQPOe
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Kurt Vandergrift (@kurtvandegrift), associate professor, was recently featured was recently featured in a Science article on his research studying COVID-19 in wildlife! https://t.co/uHsKRWLVPr
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Scientists test bighorn sheep, bears, moose, rats, and dozens of other species to track how SARS-CoV-2 moves between humans and wildlife
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LAST DAY TO APPLY IS TOMORROW!
Want to practice giving a talk and visiting a department in a low-stress environment?? Have you recently (or will soon) finish your PhD? Come hang out with us! Self-nominations due by April 30th for our Early Career Scholar Seminar Program!
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Want to practice giving a talk and visiting a department in a low-stress environment?? Have you recently (or will soon) finish your PhD? Come hang out with us! Self-nominations due by April 30th for our Early Career Scholar Seminar Program!
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NEW JOB!! 3yr post-doctoral research assistant on a interdisciplinary OneHealth project examining zoonoses in the Gambia and Nigeria with some incredible collaborators incl. @earthfluenza @acegid
@NHM_Science @mrcunitgambia @rki_de
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A moment for Lassa. Recent surges in Lassa Fever cannot be explained by changes in the virus and are likely due to changing human-rodent ecologies.
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Lassa fever, a rodent-borne disease long neglected by research, is killing thousands every year
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Only ten years in the making!! Just preprinted a global analysis of climate change impacts on 100+ zoonotic and vector-borne diseases: https://t.co/Y9hR2HUU1f with the wonderful @ProfKateJones @roryjgibb
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Halfway through Prosanta’s @PREAUX_FISH insightful & entertaining page turner, Explaining Life through Evolution. We’re fish 🔥🔥🔥 Had I read this book 20 years ago, I would undoubtedly be an evolutionary biologist. I want to gift 10 books to African students. DM me.
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Abstract submission for EEID 2024 is open!!!! https://t.co/tuesbblIiv
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As if they didn't already have enough to deal with🥲 Avian influenza death of Alaska polar bear is a global first and a sign of the virus' persistence https://t.co/YDIeOuNHSL via @AlaskaBeacon
alaskabeacon.com
The highly pathogenic influenza that just claimed its first known polar bear victim continues to circulate in the world’s wild populations
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Excited to finally share VESPA (Vertebrate Eukaryotic endoSymbiont and Parasite Analysis) in @NatureComms w/ Leah Owens & @GoldbergTony. Hope this will advance parasitome research & save parasitologists like me from SO MANY hours at the microscope! 🐒💩🔬 https://t.co/Ml7Ud9vooI
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