Guest post: Is statistical software harmful? Note from Jeremy: This is a guest post from good friend and ace quantitative ecologist Ben Bolker. A while back I joked that the way to make any difficult statistical decision is to ask “What…

.@bolkerb: How hard should it be to use your software? Be a snob or a nanny?#rstats #EEID2014

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Trying to create a semi-comprehensive public #EEID list. I welcome suggestions (and subscriptions!). #EEID2014

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#EEID2014 Wrap-Up. http://monkeysuncle.stanford.edu/?p=1325

Comment from Richard Cobb: Schism between aquatic and terrestrial ecosystem ecologists, not as much within disease ecology. #EEID2014

Dan Preston: Trematodes in snails sequester P, so snails secrete less, P flows through trematode larvae instead. #EEID2014

Q to Pomeroy: Are foot+mouth epidemic models wrong? A: Danger in extending beyond context. Epidemic diff than endemic situation #EEID2014

Daniel Preston: Work in trematodes/snails shows parasites modify ecosystems via direct/indirect, density/trait mediated processes #EEID2014

Daniel Preston: There has been little overlap between disease/parasite and ecosystem ecology #EEID2014

Laura Pomeroy: in Cameroon, foot+mouth endemic and uncontrolled. 3 types have diff dynamics, dynamics diff than epidemic context #EEID2014

.@breebeechler: Tb decreases innate immune response, and increases inflammatory response to Rift Valley Fever #EEID2014

Great talk on stress and macroparasite infection in zebras in Etosha NP by @CarrieCizauskas. #EEID2014

.@breebeechler: African Buffalo with Bovine Tb (introduced) are more likely to acquire Rift Valley Fever (native), effects worse #EEID2014

.@AaronDBlackwell: Helminth infection causes reductions in growth, reproduction, but also appears to reduce blood pressure #EEID2014

.@AaronDBlackwell: Giardia and helminth infections are antagonistic; tend not to occur at the same time in the same person. #EEID2014

Aaron Blackwell: In human population mostly w/out medical care, 5% of lifetime energy spent on active immune defenses #EEID2014

Fellow anthropologist Aaron Blackwell talking about our 'old friends', helminths. #EEID2014 http://t.co/3IkCUSkUpb

Great talk by Anna Savage on the genetics of immune response in frogs. I'm impressed! #EEID2014 http://t.co/dVEWIOw5Ka

Sarah Hamer: Chagas’ disease, spread by kissing bugs, common in dogs in TX, some human cases. Raccoons may be important reservoir #EEID2014

Erin Welsh: Ticks in Panama more prevalent in dry habitat, which may expand w climate change #EEID2014

Carrie Manore: Minimum winter temp is strong predictor of West Nile Virus. For 2014, model predicts lots WNV in western US #EEID2014

Denis Valle shows a neat method for visualizing uncertainty in spatial prediction of malaria #EEID2014

Climbing to the top of Arthur’s Rock with #EEID2014

Sonia Altizer on #CitizenScience for disease work: volunteers often want cure; need to communicate goals + role of basic research #EEID2014

.@DavidQuammen: Write a great 1st sentence, e.g.: “Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born,” from African Genesis #EEID2014

. @DavidQuammen: It turns out Kermack and McKendrick had interesting stories. Use that to draw reader in. #scicomm #EEID2014

.@DavidQuammen: How do I explain SIR models to people who buy my book because of the screaming macaque on the cover? #EEID2014

Goldberg on his nostril tick: hiding in the nose is adaptation to avoid being groomed off chimpanzees, their native host #EEID2014

Tony Goldberg on how the press ate up the story of him discovering a new species of tick…in his nostril #EEID2014

On the challenge of controlling the scientific narrative in the press #scicomm #EEID2014

Thanks for tweeting at #EEID2014, @TAlexPerkins! Sad to be missing it but glad to be hearing bits in your tweets.