David Coil
@davidacoil.bsky.social
Program Manager at the NSF-Center for Pandemic Insights. Formally in Jonathan Eisen's lab doing microbiome work; Gut Check: The Microbiome Game. Spent the pandemic in public health logistics.
https://www.pandemicinsights.org/
https://www.pandemicinsights.org/
I need more information before honking.
June 6, 2025 at 5:47 PM
I need more information before honking.
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That was such a trip down memory lane. Coincidentally, my Google photos recently reminded me of play testing...
May 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
That was such a trip down memory lane. Coincidentally, my Google photos recently reminded me of play testing...
Filling out a form where the 5th question (not the first one!) is "Can you read? Y/N". Hrm.
March 19, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Filling out a form where the 5th question (not the first one!) is "Can you read? Y/N". Hrm.
Reading a paper that uses the phrase "quasi-quantitatively estimate". I feel like if you have to qualify it twice... it might be quantitative. :)
March 11, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Reading a paper that uses the phrase "quasi-quantitatively estimate". I feel like if you have to qualify it twice... it might be quantitative. :)
Honored and excited to have been a guest on the "Gaming with Science" podcast to talk about Gut Check: The Microbiome Game. Thanks Jason and Brian for having me on and talking about microbes! @gamingwithscience.bsky.social #themicrobiomegame www.podbean.com/ew/pb-webin-...
S2E02 - Gut Check (Microbiome)
#Microbiome #GutCheck #SciComm #Dysbiosis #Antibiotics #Probiotics #GameDesign #BoardGames #Science
Overview
In this episode we talk with Dr. David Coil, microbiome scientist and the creator of Gut C...
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February 27, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Honored and excited to have been a guest on the "Gaming with Science" podcast to talk about Gut Check: The Microbiome Game. Thanks Jason and Brian for having me on and talking about microbes! @gamingwithscience.bsky.social #themicrobiomegame www.podbean.com/ew/pb-webin-...
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The first two papers have come out of our new Center for Pandemic Insights (the work was done during the "pilot" phase of the grant). Here's one: "Decoding the blueprint of receptor binding by filoviruses through large-scale binding assays and machine learning" www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Decoding the blueprint of receptor binding by filoviruses through large-scale binding assays and machine learning
Lasso et al. combine large-scale binding assays and machine learning to uncover molecular
rules of filovirus-receptor binding, predict receptor-binding strength, and identify
bats with the potential t...
www.cell.com
January 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
The first two papers have come out of our new Center for Pandemic Insights (the work was done during the "pilot" phase of the grant). Here's one: "Decoding the blueprint of receptor binding by filoviruses through large-scale binding assays and machine learning" www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
Currently reading the very interesting "Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change"... a nice mix of phylogenetic analysis combined with broader ecological factors. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change
Anthropogenic land use change facilitates disease emergence by altering the interface between humans and pathogen reservoirs and is hypothesized to drive pathogen evolution. Here, we show a positive ...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 8, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Currently reading the very interesting "Ebolavirus evolution and emergence are associated with land use change"... a nice mix of phylogenetic analysis combined with broader ecological factors. esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
We are still looking for postdoc applications interesting in epidemiological modeling and related areas at the forefront of pandemic detection. Come join the new NSF-Center for Pandemic Insights at University of California, Davis!
ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/careers
ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/careers
Careers
Postdoctoral ResearcherSalary Range: $67,000-$79,000 USD per yearLocation: Onsite, UC DavisApplication Deadline: January 31, 2025
ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu
January 6, 2025 at 10:26 PM
We are still looking for postdoc applications interesting in epidemiological modeling and related areas at the forefront of pandemic detection. Come join the new NSF-Center for Pandemic Insights at University of California, Davis!
ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/careers
ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/careers
Looking for any examples of research using IR to look for febrile illness in marine mammals? Having trouble choosing the right Google Scholar terms. :)
December 10, 2024 at 11:58 PM
Looking for any examples of research using IR to look for febrile illness in marine mammals? Having trouble choosing the right Google Scholar terms. :)
I got to visit a robotics lab on campus this week to discuss novel air samplers for virus detection. And drones, of course drones.
December 10, 2024 at 9:15 PM
I got to visit a robotics lab on campus this week to discuss novel air samplers for virus detection. And drones, of course drones.
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We have an academic cultural issue of overstating the novelty of our work without the appropriate support of said claims.
December 6, 2024 at 6:14 PM
We have an academic cultural issue of overstating the novelty of our work without the appropriate support of said claims.
Reading a paper where the abstract states "Using an unbiased metagenomics method...". I'm going to stop you right there and argue that there is no such thing, and can never be any such thing.
December 6, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Reading a paper where the abstract states "Using an unbiased metagenomics method...". I'm going to stop you right there and argue that there is no such thing, and can never be any such thing.
Posting this again since we are extending the posting through the end of January. An exciting postdoc opportunity at the new NSF-Center for Pandemic Insights @ucdavis.bsky.social ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/careers
Careers
Postdoctoral ResearcherSalary Range: $67,000-$79,000 USD per yearLocation: Onsite, UC DavisApplication Deadline: January 31, 2025
ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu
December 4, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Posting this again since we are extending the posting through the end of January. An exciting postdoc opportunity at the new NSF-Center for Pandemic Insights @ucdavis.bsky.social ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/careers
Anyone out there looking for an exciting postdoc in understanding the ecological and environmental drivers of zoonosis? Experience with mathematical modeling? Check out details here! ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/careers cc @phylogenomics.bsky.social
Careers
Postdoctoral ResearcherSalary Range: $67,000-$79,000 USD per yearLocation: Onsite, UC DavisApplication Deadline: November 29, 2024
ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu
November 13, 2024 at 10:15 PM
Anyone out there looking for an exciting postdoc in understanding the ecological and environmental drivers of zoonosis? Experience with mathematical modeling? Check out details here! ohi.vetmed.ucdavis.edu/careers cc @phylogenomics.bsky.social
Anyone in my extended social network know any researchers who work in/on bat caves in CA? Looking for potential field sites for new work and would love to chat with some experts!
November 13, 2024 at 9:55 PM
Anyone in my extended social network know any researchers who work in/on bat caves in CA? Looking for potential field sites for new work and would love to chat with some experts!
Very excited to be helping host the kickoff meeting for our new NSF Center for Pandemic Insights. Learning a ton of fascinating things... looking forward to 7 years of work in this space! www.pandemicinsights.org
NSF CPI
www.pandemicinsights.org
November 8, 2024 at 6:05 PM
Very excited to be helping host the kickoff meeting for our new NSF Center for Pandemic Insights. Learning a ton of fascinating things... looking forward to 7 years of work in this space! www.pandemicinsights.org
I can't overstate how excited I am to sit in regular meetings that talk about viruses, bats, otters, pandemics, etc. I was away from science for too long.
October 31, 2024 at 6:34 PM
I can't overstate how excited I am to sit in regular meetings that talk about viruses, bats, otters, pandemics, etc. I was away from science for too long.
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USDA announces first H5N1 avian flu detection in US pigs www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
USDA announces first H5N1 avian flu detection in US pigs
www.cidrap.umn.edu
October 30, 2024 at 7:57 PM
USDA announces first H5N1 avian flu detection in US pigs www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
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We are hiring!!! Assistant Professor in Emerging Zoonoses - based in the departments of Integrative Biology & Public Health
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04076
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04076
August 29, 2023 at 11:32 PM
We are hiring!!! Assistant Professor in Emerging Zoonoses - based in the departments of Integrative Biology & Public Health
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04076
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04076
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Hey new Bluesky users: this website has no centralized algorithm.
If you think it seems dead in here, it's absolutely not.
However, you are going to have to follow more people than you did on Twitter to see a lot of action in your Home feed.
If you think it seems dead in here, it's absolutely not.
However, you are going to have to follow more people than you did on Twitter to see a lot of action in your Home feed.
October 17, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Hey new Bluesky users: this website has no centralized algorithm.
If you think it seems dead in here, it's absolutely not.
However, you are going to have to follow more people than you did on Twitter to see a lot of action in your Home feed.
If you think it seems dead in here, it's absolutely not.
However, you are going to have to follow more people than you did on Twitter to see a lot of action in your Home feed.
Overheard at last job; "patients don't get lab results formatted properly because the HL7 messages aren't properly interpreted by the LIS on the receiving end". Overheard at my current job; "so we just published a paper about using drones to samples blowhole exhalations from orcas" #backinscience
October 18, 2024 at 6:53 PM
Overheard at last job; "patients don't get lab results formatted properly because the HL7 messages aren't properly interpreted by the LIS on the receiving end". Overheard at my current job; "so we just published a paper about using drones to samples blowhole exhalations from orcas" #backinscience
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A reminder about the UC Davis Center for Population Biology postdoc fellowship (deadline Nov 1st). Please do reach out if you have any questions. Please RT
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The UC Davis Center for Population Biology postdoctoral fellowship is now being advertised. This is a great opportunity to come join our wonderful community of Evolution & Ecology here at Davis. Please RT & post to your dept listservers
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CPB Postdoctoral Fellowship
POSTDOCTORAL FELLOW IN POPULATION BIOLOGY EFFECTIVE: September 27, 2024 DEADLINE: November 1, 2024
cpb.ucdavis.edu
October 18, 2024 at 4:03 PM
A reminder about the UC Davis Center for Population Biology postdoc fellowship (deadline Nov 1st). Please do reach out if you have any questions. Please RT
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Perfect timing that I've started a new job back in science at the same time that Bluesky seems to be taking off! Since I've shifted domains from microbiome stuff to zoonotic virus stuff I'm looking for accounts to follow in the One Health space. Any recommendations welcome!
October 18, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Perfect timing that I've started a new job back in science at the same time that Bluesky seems to be taking off! Since I've shifted domains from microbiome stuff to zoonotic virus stuff I'm looking for accounts to follow in the One Health space. Any recommendations welcome!