It was great to attend the BEPREP midterm meeting, hearing from partners in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. #disease #restoration #global #interdisciplinary #collaboration #BEPREP #horizon
I should start a new business... making beer for mosquitoes. Homemade C02 bait from beer yeast. This allows us to understand the ecology of this infamous vector... including species assemblage, relative abundance, and act as sentinels for disease detection. #ReWetFor #Homemade #mosquitoes
Look at this beautiful specimen, we caught her waiting to jump on a juicy deer... Black-legged ticks (Ixodes ricinus) are recognised as a main vector of Lyme disease and Tick-Borne Encephalitis (TBE). #ReWetFor
Perks of doing in Swedish forests. Blueberry tarts.
Let's see what we can hear.
Bats and bad recorders deployed ✅
Complexity in soundscapes can act as an indicator of biodiversity complexity. We can also pinpoint behavioral events e.g., feeding in bats. All of this can be put into a disease context... Watch this space.
#wetland #restoration
You catch more flies with honey than vinegar... WRONG. The trick is a mixture of beef and pork mince left too long in the sun. We are using these little sentinels to monitor biodiversity #iDNA
Currently in Sweden mapping multispectrum images of 20 sites prior to Wetland restoration. This will give us multiple indices of habitat complexity, health and moisture etc. at 5 cm scale. #ReWetFor #disease ecology
Who knew textiles lessons in high school would come in handy.
Four fly pyramids ready to catch carrion flies for iDNA studies before and after Wetland restoration. Wish me luck hunting. #ReWetFor #onehealth
And we will see if wetland restoration will protect these functions or open up new functional pathways in Sweden. #ReWetFor
A split-screen image. The left side shows a rhinoceros mother and calf in a savanna landscape with scattered trees. The right side depicts a forest fire scene with orange flames and silhouetted trees against a dark sky. Text reads: "Biodiversity is in crisis" followed by: "1 million plant and animal species risk extinction Ecosystems are collapsing Misinformation slows progress." "Trust the science. Conserve, restore and sustainably use biodiversity."
‘Biodiversity is not declining’ is a claim you may have heard. But science says otherwise. 📉
The @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment reveals 1 million plant & animal species are at risk of extinction. Misinformation clouds the crisis.
Rely on trusted research to understand our shared challenges. 🌍🧪
Introduction to the Ecke lab's version of The Powerpuff girls.
Riana Ramanantsalama(🇲🇬) superpower - pathogen dynamics, @pontifes-pa.bsky.social (🇲🇽) - host-parasite interactions and me (🏴) - remote sensing and applied statistical ecology. #DiseaseEcology #teamwork #global #international
What a great trip to Puumala, the namesake of PUUV (Orthohantavirus) in Lakeland, Finland? The ideal surroundings for myself and the other two new postdocs of the Ecke lab to settle in.
#OneHealth #DiseaseEcology
New home for 1 year (at least)...so excited for this new adventure. @helsinki.fi
The first week of the postdoc completed ✅
besides meeting my amazing new colleagues and exploring Helsinki (especially the art galleries)... Mämmi, a traditional dessert often eating around Easter is a strong highlight.
New paper! 🦠🐭🦟 Perspectives on the route towards a 'people and nature' paradigm for biodiversity-disease research and action, with fantastic co-authors @profkatej.bsky.social, @dwredding.bsky.social and Sagan Friant. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Great Skua in Shetland https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bonxie_aka_Great_Skua_(Stercorarius_skua),_Hermaness_-_geograph.org.uk_-_6509392.jpg
New in #BirdStudy
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
More conferences should consider doing a waiver buying scheme... Sounds like a great idea to me.
Check out Alex's @alexbrighten1.bsky.social first PhD paper! Looking at age and migratory patterns in alpine swifts, using stable isotope analysis:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
📣 #PhD Opportunity 📣
New PhD project with Mark Moseley at SRUC @srucnews.bsky.social and Tom Bodey at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and other cosupervisors in Auckland looking at #InvasiveSpecies and #disease in the #Maldives 🐀🐁🦠
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Find out more here: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
End of an era... I defended my PhD yesterday. Thanks to my examiners, especially @aivelo.bsky.social for coming all this way and putting up with the British system haha. Obviously, thanks to my amazing supervisor Sandra Telfer who is a star and now the benchmark of my career ambitions. #PhD
As always our "resident artist" has produced a beautiful summary of @aivelo.bsky.social talk today.
