Caroline Cummings
@carolinecummings.bsky.social
PhD Candidate • University of Oklahoma • Becker lab
wildlife ecology • computational biology
https://carolinecummingsbiology.weebly.com/
wildlife ecology • computational biology
https://carolinecummingsbiology.weebly.com/
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I'm excited to announce that the first chapter of dissertation is published in @commsbio.nature.com !!! and i feel super fortunate that it could be published during bat week 💗🦇 www.nature.com/articles/s42... @danjbecker.bsky.social @colincarlson.bsky.social @/amandavicentesantos
My journal article with @danjbecker.bsky.social , @colincarlson.bsky.social and @viralemergence.org is featured on the @commsbio.nature.com homepage this week!! www.nature.com/commsbio/ check it out to see a cool bat picture by Brock Fenton!! 🦇💗🦇💗
Communications Biology
Communications Biology is an open access journal from Nature Portfolio publishing high-quality research, reviews and commentary in all areas of the biological ...
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November 6, 2025 at 5:41 PM
My journal article with @danjbecker.bsky.social , @colincarlson.bsky.social and @viralemergence.org is featured on the @commsbio.nature.com homepage this week!! www.nature.com/commsbio/ check it out to see a cool bat picture by Brock Fenton!! 🦇💗🦇💗
Reposted by Caroline Cummings
a nice summary of new work led by @carolinecummings.bsky.social and in collaboration with @colincarlson.bsky.social and @viralemergence.org on the distribution of zoonotic risk across bat species.
Only specific groups of bat species are likely to carry viruses with high epidemic potential, highlighting the importance of targeted surveillance and habitat conservation. doi.org/g985xg
Not all bats carry equal viral risk, new study reveals
A study published in Communications Biology sheds new light on the relationship between bats and dangerous viruses. Led by researchers at the University of Oklahoma, the study shows that, contrary to widespread assumptions, not all bats carry viruses with high epidemic potential, only specific groups of species.
phys.org
November 4, 2025 at 2:16 PM
a nice summary of new work led by @carolinecummings.bsky.social and in collaboration with @colincarlson.bsky.social and @viralemergence.org on the distribution of zoonotic risk across bat species.
Reposted by Caroline Cummings
Only specific groups of bat species are likely to carry viruses with high epidemic potential, highlighting the importance of targeted surveillance and habitat conservation. doi.org/g985xg
Not all bats carry equal viral risk, new study reveals
A study published in Communications Biology sheds new light on the relationship between bats and dangerous viruses. Led by researchers at the University of Oklahoma, the study shows that, contrary to widespread assumptions, not all bats carry viruses with high epidemic potential, only specific groups of species.
phys.org
November 4, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Only specific groups of bat species are likely to carry viruses with high epidemic potential, highlighting the importance of targeted surveillance and habitat conservation. doi.org/g985xg
Reposted by Caroline Cummings
🚨 Exciting new work out today led by @carolinecummings.bsky.social! Do bats host deadly viruses? Yes - but only specific bats (that just happen to be found in a lot of places!). Challenging some big ideas in the zoonosis world with data. Well done Caroline and team!!
just in time for #batweek --Phylogenetic and ML analyses show that viral epidemic potential is not uniform among bats: virulence, transmissibility, and death burden cluster within distinct clades.🦇@carolinecummings.bsky.social @colincarlson.bsky.social @viralemergence.org go.sn.pub/acnbg1
October 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🚨 Exciting new work out today led by @carolinecummings.bsky.social! Do bats host deadly viruses? Yes - but only specific bats (that just happen to be found in a lot of places!). Challenging some big ideas in the zoonosis world with data. Well done Caroline and team!!
I'm excited to announce that the first chapter of dissertation is published in @commsbio.nature.com !!! and i feel super fortunate that it could be published during bat week 💗🦇 www.nature.com/articles/s42... @danjbecker.bsky.social @colincarlson.bsky.social @/amandavicentesantos
October 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I'm excited to announce that the first chapter of dissertation is published in @commsbio.nature.com !!! and i feel super fortunate that it could be published during bat week 💗🦇 www.nature.com/articles/s42... @danjbecker.bsky.social @colincarlson.bsky.social @/amandavicentesantos
Reposted by Caroline Cummings
just in time for #batweek --Phylogenetic and ML analyses show that viral epidemic potential is not uniform among bats: virulence, transmissibility, and death burden cluster within distinct clades.🦇@carolinecummings.bsky.social @colincarlson.bsky.social @viralemergence.org go.sn.pub/acnbg1
October 30, 2025 at 2:54 PM
just in time for #batweek --Phylogenetic and ML analyses show that viral epidemic potential is not uniform among bats: virulence, transmissibility, and death burden cluster within distinct clades.🦇@carolinecummings.bsky.social @colincarlson.bsky.social @viralemergence.org go.sn.pub/acnbg1
Reposted by Caroline Cummings
We are hiring a technician in the Simonis Lab at Auburn U! This is a two-year position with responsibilities for scouting and performing bat capture surveys at field sites (e.g. private and public lands, highway culverts).
Check out more details and submit materials here: forms.gle/tEUNyRc1hG3f...
Check out more details and submit materials here: forms.gle/tEUNyRc1hG3f...
forms.gle
June 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
We are hiring a technician in the Simonis Lab at Auburn U! This is a two-year position with responsibilities for scouting and performing bat capture surveys at field sites (e.g. private and public lands, highway culverts).
Check out more details and submit materials here: forms.gle/tEUNyRc1hG3f...
Check out more details and submit materials here: forms.gle/tEUNyRc1hG3f...
Reposted by Caroline Cummings
@haileyrobertson.bsky.social and I are excited to officially launch our research exercise to identify the 100 most pressing questions about the ecology and evolution of emerging viruses! If you have some subject matter expertise in this area, we'd love to have you fill out our 10-minute survey below
June 6, 2025 at 7:30 PM
@haileyrobertson.bsky.social and I are excited to officially launch our research exercise to identify the 100 most pressing questions about the ecology and evolution of emerging viruses! If you have some subject matter expertise in this area, we'd love to have you fill out our 10-minute survey below
Reposted by Caroline Cummings
📢 New in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
A framework to predict zoonotic hosts under data uncertainty: a case study on betacoronaviruses
Tonelli&al: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
We predict unknown potential viral hosts to unveil unrecognised hotspots of betacoronaviruses: time to redefine surveillance?
A framework to predict zoonotic hosts under data uncertainty: a case study on betacoronaviruses
Tonelli&al: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
We predict unknown potential viral hosts to unveil unrecognised hotspots of betacoronaviruses: time to redefine surveillance?
January 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
📢 New in @methodsinecoevol.bsky.social
A framework to predict zoonotic hosts under data uncertainty: a case study on betacoronaviruses
Tonelli&al: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
We predict unknown potential viral hosts to unveil unrecognised hotspots of betacoronaviruses: time to redefine surveillance?
A framework to predict zoonotic hosts under data uncertainty: a case study on betacoronaviruses
Tonelli&al: doi.org/10.1111/2041...
We predict unknown potential viral hosts to unveil unrecognised hotspots of betacoronaviruses: time to redefine surveillance?
Reposted by Caroline Cummings
🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl
January 15, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🚨😷🧪 NEW: A growing body of evidence shows that pandemics, biodiversity loss, and climate change are part of a broader polycrisis - but there are no simple solutions. A sweeping overview of "Pathogens and planetary change" for the first issue of @natrevbiodiv.bsky.social, out now 🔓 rdcu.be/d6lHl
Reposted by Caroline Cummings
How are pathogens and parasites responding to planetary change, what does this mean for people and biodiversity, and what is to be done? New @viralemergence.org synthesis out today in Nature Rev Biodiversity (@natrevbiodiv.bsky.social) with a fantastic author team🧪😷
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Pathogens and planetary change - Nature Reviews Biodiversity
This Review explores the relationship between emerging infectious diseases and biodiversity loss, and how both are connected to global environmental changes in the Anthropocene.
www.nature.com
January 15, 2025 at 2:18 PM
How are pathogens and parasites responding to planetary change, what does this mean for people and biodiversity, and what is to be done? New @viralemergence.org synthesis out today in Nature Rev Biodiversity (@natrevbiodiv.bsky.social) with a fantastic author team🧪😷
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Hi! I'm new to blue sky, and I have a new preprint out! 🥳🥳 This work is the first chapter of my dissertation: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The study was completed with the @viralemergence.org with support from @danjbecker.bsky.social, @colincarlson.bsky.social, and Amanda Vicente-Santos ☺️🦇⚕️🦠👩🔬 (1/5)
January 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Hi! I'm new to blue sky, and I have a new preprint out! 🥳🥳 This work is the first chapter of my dissertation: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... The study was completed with the @viralemergence.org with support from @danjbecker.bsky.social, @colincarlson.bsky.social, and Amanda Vicente-Santos ☺️🦇⚕️🦠👩🔬 (1/5)