76/250 is Traps baited with dry ice outperform cloth drags for capturing ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) in 3 widely separated geographic regions
Way to repurpose a failed experiment! Also, nice possibilities for trapping-based surveillance
🧪 🦟 🎨Based on a recent post by @nmoiroux.bsky.social
I decided to post something I did a couple of years ago on the bird site. Enjoy! Keep reading for amazing mosquito paintings!
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What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired I don't mean I want to sleep. I mean I want to disappear for a while. To be rain on a stranger's roof. To be smoke rising from someone else's fire. I don't want to die. But I do want to rest in a way the world has never allowed me. I don't want comfort. I want quiet. I want the mercy of being unseen without being unloved.
What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired ~ K.E. Sermonté
"I want quiet.
I want the mercy of being unseen
without being unloved."
We're seeing the same thing in the vet students, which is terrifying. They can memorize and recite facts, but they can't synthesize
75/250 is Monitoring antimicrobial resistance trends from
global genomics data: amr.watch
Amazing resource! Although I do continue to worry about the bias inherent in WGS data - what gets sequenced, where, when, and from whom is not standardized at all
74/250 is Ten simple rules for maximizing summer research experiences for students, mentors, and research groups
Not a fan of the AI use, and focused on bench work, but a helpful set of suggestions
Whenever I see a talk from our wildlife epidemiology lab, I get jealous. I wish I could include cute turtle pictures and videos in MY science talks
Re-upping for the evening crowd - any advice at all is welcome!
73/250 is Exposure of feral swine to Coxiella burnetii overlaps with human Q fever incidence in California
Spatial overlap based on 7 positive swine/1297 samples - not exactly a strong link
Pencil sketch of a glass skyscraper with a large engorged tick climbing down the side, King Kong style. There are helicopters on either side, and a cityscape below
Okay #sciArt community, do you have reccs for a print on demand site? 13 is already preparing for an art career and thought it might be time to start a merch store for her best work.
My favorite shared in thanks. Also taking advice on scanning pencil sketches!
72/250 is Modelling tick abundance and environmental suitability in meso-Mediterranean landscapes for the prevention of tick-borne diseases
I was excited for prevention connections, but it's just an occurrence and abundance SDM. I like the use of MESS, though - more of that, please
71/250 is Phenotypic variation in populations of the mosquito vector, Aedes aegypti, and implications for predicting the effects of temperature and climate change on dengue transmission
I wonder if we'll see movement, hybridization, or adaptation over time and slow(er) change
Prairie smoke: small plant with green, complex leaves and pink buds in a cluster on a long stem, over dried leaves
Woodland stonecrop: long green stems with repeating small green leaves around white buds. In the center is a white flower in the shape of an 8 pointed star. Surrounded by green leaves, with a purple violet flower in the lower right
Just to share that the prairie smoke and woodland stonecrop I planted last fall are starting to bloom.
70/250 is Linking tick and wildlife host distributions to map risk of tick‑borne diseases
"multivariate stepwise logistic regression, a machine learning algorithm"😵 Cool risk models, though
I gotta say, droning construction equipment in the background plus a lunchtime immunology seminar (even a really good one I could mostly follow) is not good for my wakefulness
69/250 is Pathogen and host associations of Ixodes scapularis (Acari: Ixodidae) in eastern Ohio 10 years post establishment
Cool idea to go back to the originally identified established population, and horrifying how infected it is!
68/250 is Scoping review on farmer information sources for animal health
I wonder how much the findings are influenced by the research being done by veterinary researchers in veterinary schools?
67/250 is Views from chief veterinary officers about decision making during animal health emergencies: A qualitative analysis
Sounds like a difficult job - would be interesting to contrast with surgeon generals
66/250 is Analyzing multidrug resistance patterns across the food supply chain using association rule mining
Interesting approach to MDR pattern analysis, better than the typical 2-way co-occurrence networks
65/250 is Assessment of vector control strategies based on mass Aedes (Stegomyia) mosquito trapping (AGOs traps) pilot study in a US-Mexico border region of South Texas
There are better analysis approaches, but the study is cool!
I mean, this does match my experience 🤷♀️
Why am I seeing 4 or 5 reviewers on some papers?!?! Leave some for the rest of us editors!
64/250 is Machine learning-selected minimal features drive high accuracy rule-based antibiotic susceptibility predictions for Staphylococcus aureus via metagenomic sequencing
Could be an interesting approach - but it needs to be trialed in real samples (not isolates)
63/250 is Spatiotemporal distribution and detection of spatial clusters of tuberculosis in Hubei Province, China using FleXScan (2017–2023)
Well, it will give the journal club some things to discuss.
TIL I've been pronouncing Likert wrong all this time.
Apparently, it's "lick-ert", not "like-ert"
