@skyroptera

Bat lover and professional disease hater at @JohnsHopkinsSPH 🦇🦠💫

Joined November 2021
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The impact of exposure to natural vs synthetic environments on human moods and emotions. No surprises here, but I think EO Wilson and Stephen Kellert would be pleased. @ChrisBeyrer drives home the impact of environment and access to Nature on human health. @WOHCongress #biophilia
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Data from multi year studies of flying foxes in Australia indicate that food shortages (in particular loss of native flowering trees) can reliably predict spillover events. Spillover events in Australia occur when Blue gums fail to flower. @WOHCongress @rainamontana @cornellvet
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Do you collect empirical data on wildlife disease prevalence out in nature? Are you interested in being part of @viralemergence's next big experiment in open data sharing? Drop the host-pathogen system you study (and where!) in the replies, and we might reach out 👀 Please RT!
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This plump-looking marine animal? It’s the granulated sea star, also known as the “doughboy starfish” for its portly look. You might spot it around reef habitats in shallow Indo-Pacific waters. On its menu are coral and other small invertebrates.⭐️
Close up shot of a granulated sea star laying atop a coral reef. It is a pink color with spots of a darker pink pattern along its body. Its five appendages look not unlike enlarged human thumbs.

ALT Close up shot of a granulated sea star laying atop a coral reef. It is a pink color with spots of a darker pink pattern along its body. Its five appendages look not unlike enlarged human thumbs.

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Uroplatus geckos are the best-camouflaged living vertebrates, change my mind. Just look at how this Uroplatus sp. aff. henkeli is upstaging that moth on the other side of the tree!
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nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

Frog-eating bats remember an annoying ringtone — for years

Nature - Bats trained to respond to an artificial sound can recall it up to four years later.

nature.com
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Remembering Curtis Mayfield, born on this day in 1942 in Chicago. Here he is performing “Move On Up” in 1972.
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I missed this one - The Finding of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in a Wild Eurasian River Otter ( Lutra lutra) Highlights the Need for Viral Surveillance in Wild Mustelids doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2022.8…

Frontiers | The Finding of the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) in a Wild...

Animals have been involved in the three known outbreaks of severe respiratory syndromes due to coronaviruses (years 2005, 2012 and 2019). The pandemic nature...

frontiersin.org
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Several things I really love about this new @carlzimmer piece about our @Nature study out today. 1) It clearly describes our primary findings and why this matters in our warming world; ... nytimes.com/2022/04/28/scien…
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Great feature/bio piece by @sciencecohen and photos by @laurendecicca, following my dear colleague and friend, Dr. Supaporn Wacharapluesadee, in Thailand. "On the hunt for new viruses, this bat-trapping scientist hopes to prevent future pandemics" science.org/content/article/…
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funniest covid experience so far: waking up with half-dissolved cough drops in my mouth with no memory of how they got there. has happened multiple times now.
An aerial slow-motion ballet of grey-headed flying foxes for today as it’s #InternationalBatAppreciationDay ! What amazing critters, I can’t stop watching, filming and photographing them. Ever. #wildoz #bats @hammerheadbat #flyingfox
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A man goes to the doctor. Says, "Doc, I'm depressed." The doctor says, "The treatment is simple. Go to viralemergence.org, where you can read about Verena's work, download open datasets and nearly 30 publications about the ecology of emerging viruses."
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The masters of pollination: African long-tongued fruit bat 🥰. Their tongues are amazingly adapted for lapping nectar from flowers 🌺 We fed it some sugar water before it took off – at Western, Ghana
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This is the software equivalent of a message smeared on the walls in blood
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Check out our latest publication in @Virus_Evolution where we present PhyCovA (short for "Phylogeographic Covariate Analysis"), a new tool for exploring covariates of pathogen spread: academic.oup.com/ve/article/… - 1/5

Phycova — a tool for exploring covariates of pathogen spread

Abstract. Genetic analyses of fast-evolving pathogens are frequently undertaken to test the impact of covariates on their dispersal. In particular, a popul

academic.oup.com
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truly nothing says finals week like the taste of monster at 8am
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Replying to @timgill924
I don’t know if quantitative work should be called “research.” It’s just counting really.
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Why spend 4 minutes doing something in Excel when you can do it in R in 4 hours?
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Going down 90 meters below ground level in a vertical cave to count an amazing cluster of Mediterranean horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus euryale, France, Occitanie). That is sometimes what it take to do hibernacula counts! #bats #Chiroptera
Rhinolophus euryale, France, Occitanie

ALT Rhinolophus euryale, France, Occitanie

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