Are you a young scholar working on cities and climate change? Maybe you want to be an @ipcc.bsky.social chapter scientist for the Special Report on cities. Check it out: www.ipcc.ch/2025/01/27/c...

Foundations and future directions for causal inference in ecological research, forthcoming w/ @katherinesiegel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4mm57zzd.
We wrote it based on our experience teaching causal inference to ecologists w/ some stuff we wish other papers had reviewed to share w/ the students
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Really stellar new paper by @katherinesiegel.bsky.social & @lauradee.bsky.social
This is your new causal reference—a must read!!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

### NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ###

Global Joint Synthesis Call

"𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲"

Funding of:

➡️ Working groups
➡️ Postdocs
@several synthesis centres/initiatives🔥❤️😍

PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY! THX!

www.idiv.de/research/sdi...

🚨Fully-Funded UK PhD Opportunity!🚨

I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity!

Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED

Natalie Imirzian talk - "Disease from the sky: using remote-sensing and machine learning to identify risky landscapes for pathogen spillover"

Sarah Hill talk - "Genomic tracking of virus spread in animal populations"

Kate Jones talk - "Ecosystem approaches to forecasting infectious disease"

Andres Valenzuela-Sanchez talk - "Impact of infectious diseases on wildlife population dynamics: a case study of Darwin's frogs and the chytrid fungus"

Thanks everyone who came to our first event at NHM! We had fantastic talks from Kate Jones (@profkatej.bsky.social), Sarah Hill, Andres Valenzuela-Sanchez & Natalie Imirzian, from zoonoses and viral genomes, to frogs and drones. We're back in February at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social - watch this space 🦟

Was a great event, thanks all for attending. Looking forward to the next one!

Thanks, great to know that is possible. If are going to detect anything but the most clear changes of climate change on zoonotic pathogens (and the animals that carry them) I think we need better protocols and adoptions of standards, but how?

Ecological impacts of climate change will transform public health priorities for zoonotic and vector-borne disease Climate change impacts on zoonotic/vector-borne diseases pose significant threats to humanity[1][1] but these links are, in general, poorly understood[2][2]. Here, we project present and future geogra...

2) If we apply consistent methods to over 140 pathogens and potential pathogens we see some predictable impacts of climate change on areas of risk of animal-borne disease:

www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

🧪 #diseaseecology #onehealth #zoonoses

Sensitivity to climate change is widespread across zoonotic diseases Climate change is expected to exacerbate infectious diseases, yet the climate sensitivity of zoonotic diseases (driven by spillover from animal reservoirs) is markedly understudied compared to vector-...

A couple of related, recent preprints from my lab:

1) Climate change sensitivity is widespread across animal-borne (zoonotic diseases) but methods and reporting so mixed that is hard to draw quantitative conclusions:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
@roryjgibb.bsky.social @ar-tre.bsky.social

David W Redding ‪Natural History Museum‬ - ‪‪Cited by 6,291‬‬ - ‪Conservation‬ - ‪Biodiversity‬ - ‪Macroecology‬ - ‪Evolution‬ - ‪Disease‬

Hi please add me to this group - thanks!
scholar.google.cl/citations?us...

I work at the Natural History Museum in London, UK (with c. 300 other scientists) researching global change and animal-borne disease using a combination of fieldwork, big data and ML/AI. Hopefully will start posting on Biodiversity and Health related matters soon...
www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science....

Microstegium vimineum leaves infected by a Bipolaris foliar fungal pathogen.

Two new postdoc positions open in disease ecology at the Univ of Florida!

Apply to join our exciting interdisciplinary project evaluating how invasive plants may act as conduits for the spread of pathogens from natural to agroecosystems.

explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/52...

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Tenure track Assistant Professor position in Disease Ecology in my Department at UCR!

This is a great time to join our growing department.

Deadline is Jan. 22, so please check it out.

aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01846