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Clif McKee
@clifmckee.bsky.social
research associate @ Johns Hopkins | ecology of 🦇 and their 🦠, runner 👟, birder 🐦, he/him
As a long-time Zotero user, this feels illegal. How did I not know you could do this?!
Switching word processors with Zotero
Moving from Google Docs to Word will break your Zotero citations/bibliography linkages unless you do this first.
blog.stephenturner.us
October 23, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Say hello to my little friends.
July 25, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Reposted by Clif McKee
Mpox has inflicted Africa since 1970 but its origins remain a mystery

Thanks to long-term surveillance, scientists were able to pinpoint a squirrel species as the source of mpox outbreak

But is it the reservoir? Or is it part of a network of reservoirs?

My latest in @nature.com

shorturl.at/lY7Kf
An animal source of mpox emerges — and it’s a squirrel
Researchers solve the mystery of a disease outbreak through long-term surveillance of wildlife in Africa.
shorturl.at
April 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Reposted by Clif McKee
Disease ecologist starter pack -- reply with people/organizations to be added or with related lists/feeds

#diseaseecology

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December 27, 2024 at 10:26 PM
Reposted by Clif McKee
🚨Bat1K Paper Alert🚨There couldn’t be a better first post for us on this app - excited to share 10 new bat genomes and groundbreaking insights into bat immunity and viral resistance! 🌍🔬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance - Nature
A systematic analysis of 115 mammalian genomes, including 10 new bat genomes, reveals prevalent positive selection in immune genes in bats and shows key adaptations in the antiviral gene ISG15 that ai...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 4:54 PM