Congratulations to Neha Senthilkumar on winning the 2nd place ($$$) undergraduate poster prize at @epi.ufl.edu Research Day!! Super proud of your passionate energy for this project and looking forward to next steps of greatness with you!!

Yes, nosebleeds and itchy eyes and AQ is awful. This will have onward health impacts for a huge swath of people.

Map from Duty Watch app showing active fires in FL

Florida is burning - it's surreal, and we have a couple of fires within city limits, with evacuations yesterday. I am fine, to be clear. It smells like a bonfire, and I keep remarking how 21st century it is that I know what different wildfires smell like. Not SB or CO, but like South Africa

Something amazing happened today! All of current QDEC lab in the same place together at EPI Research Day with Emerging Pathogens Institute! I am so proud of everyone's accomplishments this term, and wish all the best to our graduating folks.

In Mike's words: okay bloomer.

Window moth. Total goth move. Nice.

NASA's Artemis II Live Mission Coverage (Official Broadcast) YouTube video by NASA

Make Artemis II trend again #Artemis #ArtemisII www.youtube.com/live/m3kR2KK...

This work, supported by Verena @viralemergence.org and VectorByte @vectorbyte.bsky.social initiatives, presents a novel aproach to modeling the multifaceted steps between transmission and case reporting for often underrecognized tick-borne viral diseases.

Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with globally reported tick-borne viruses - Communications Medicine Sambado et al. examine how environmental and social conditions shape where tick-borne viruses are reported worldwide. Using machine learning, they find that both ecological and economic are important, and that wealthier nations are more likely to report these overlooked diseases.

NEW: "Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with globally reported tick-borne viruses", led by @samsambado.bsky.social, in which she applied BRT modelling to a global database of TBVs to pick apart the complicated pathway from transmission to reported cases!
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Bangladesh launches emergency vaccination campaign as measles outbreak spreads Bangladesh on Sunday launched an emergency vaccination campaign targeting more than a million children as a fast‑spreading measles ​outbreak sweeps across the country.

Bangladesh launches emergency vaccination campaign as measles outbreak spreads reut.rs/4c8Sg8W

Ready for a Close Up art002e009283 (April 6, 2026) – Captured by the Artemis II crew, the heavily cratered terrain of the eastern edge of the South Pole-Aitken basin is seen with the shadowed terminator – the boundary bet...

There is more #ArtemisII imagery coming out on the NASA Artemis II Flickr channel as well.

Like this closeup of the lunar surface 🤯

www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2...

Earthset from Artemis II. I am overcome.

They are going behind the moon, and I am grinning thinking about this. These are moments of wonder.

Happy Easter if you do!
(Celebrate fertility responsibly please)

Phenomenal speakers, cool posters, and great conversations today at Reshaping Nature!

Despite the drought, these beautiful flowers showed up anyway

Happy 50th anniversary to DC's Metro. So glad to have this public transit system.

Wikipedia Bans AI-Generated Content “In recent months, more and more administrative reports centered on LLM-related issues, and editors were being overwhelmed.”

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content.

Bar graph showing zonal mean surface air temperature anomalies for the December 2025 to February 2026 period. All latitude bands are above average relative to a 1951-1980 climatological baseline. Data is from GISTEMPv4.

Temperatures were much warmer than average during the last three months across most latitude bands outside of the Antarctic.

[Plot shows zonal-mean surface air temperature anomalies, where latitude = y-axis (not scaled by distance). Data: GISTEMPv4 (1951-1980)]

Hairy stripey fuzzy caterpillar in black and orange, warning red head, cape of grey fuzz, horn spikes of longer hairs on head and bum.

They're baaaack

Middle aged woman looking like a bedraggled teenager, at a podium with a microphone, wearing a suit jacket, jeans, long hair down and unbrushed, hand in pocket, with a slide projected on a large-ish screen to present a talk on mapping mosquito borne diseases as tools, not scare tactics.

Let's all rally together to tell me to brush my hair and get my hands out of my pockets to give award talks, yes?

It was a March week unlike any other in the Bay Area as many cities reached the 90s weeks earlier than ever measured before.

This is one of the places that just feels like home... Every time.

Pleased to catch up with @ufgeog.bsky.social QDEC alum Dr Shreejana Bhattarai, also giving a talk in the EEID sessions here at AAG2026!!

The US is on the verge of an all-time heat record for March. Yes, it’s climate change. | CNN The impending US heat record is an alarming signal of how hot the planet is getting and how fast it’s happening.

New study finds the current heat wave in the West would be "virtually impossible" without human-caused climate pollution. We're on the verge of breaking an all-time March heat record for the US today/tmrw. www.cnn.com/2026/03/20/w...

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Postdoc (Nottingham, UK)
Develop the next generation of tools for fitting stochastic epidemic models to outbreak data.
with Theodore Kypraios, Philip O’Neill
at University of Nottingham
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2495

I love coming home to SF, but it's too hot?! I'm confused. Excited to see folks at AAG!

I'm glad to see this being covered - because, frankly, this is a death-blow to collaborative science - however, the assumption of good faith in any of these decisions by reporters is mind-boggling.

This is happening for one reason - to assure top-down control of what gets funded and what does not.