Daniel M. Parker
@dmparker.bsky.social
Assoc. Professor in public health at UC Irvine. I do global health, epidemiology, GIS, earth observation, anthropology, demography.
https://parker-group.github.io/
https://parker-group.github.io/
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Mapping Water In the Desert - Cartographic Considerations
Rick Harris
Mapping water use, infrastructure, and conservations efforts in southern Nevada.
#NACIS2025
Rick Harris
Mapping water use, infrastructure, and conservations efforts in southern Nevada.
#NACIS2025
October 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Mapping Water In the Desert - Cartographic Considerations
Rick Harris
Mapping water use, infrastructure, and conservations efforts in southern Nevada.
#NACIS2025
Rick Harris
Mapping water use, infrastructure, and conservations efforts in southern Nevada.
#NACIS2025
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We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
October 15, 2025 at 3:53 PM
We're excited to be recruiting an NIH funded postdoc to work in the Coop lab at UC Davis. We're specifically interested in candidates who are want to work at the intersection of human genetics, GWAS, and population genetics modeling. Please RT
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Postdoctoral researcher in Aotearoa New Zealand - remote sensing and fuel moisture modelling.
careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails?a...
careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails?a...
Postdoctoral – Remote Sensing & Fuel Moisture Modelling - Scion - Careers at Science New Zealand
careers.sciencenewzealand.org
October 16, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Postdoctoral researcher in Aotearoa New Zealand - remote sensing and fuel moisture modelling.
careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails?a...
careers.sciencenewzealand.org/jobdetails?a...
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How to Use Millions(!) of Historic Maps
Ian Spangler: itspangler.com
200,000 maps digitized and available to use at the Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center:
www.leventhalmap.org
Allmpas, an open source library for creating editing and curating maps: allmaps.org
#NACIS2025
Ian Spangler: itspangler.com
200,000 maps digitized and available to use at the Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center:
www.leventhalmap.org
Allmpas, an open source library for creating editing and curating maps: allmaps.org
#NACIS2025
October 15, 2025 at 6:36 PM
How to Use Millions(!) of Historic Maps
Ian Spangler: itspangler.com
200,000 maps digitized and available to use at the Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center:
www.leventhalmap.org
Allmpas, an open source library for creating editing and curating maps: allmaps.org
#NACIS2025
Ian Spangler: itspangler.com
200,000 maps digitized and available to use at the Boston Public Library Leventhal Map Center:
www.leventhalmap.org
Allmpas, an open source library for creating editing and curating maps: allmaps.org
#NACIS2025
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“In January 2020 Vallance convened a Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies…The absence of any independent public health scientist, primary care expert, social scientist with expertise in inequalities or community mobilisation is striking. A culture of biomedicine not public health was dominant”
7. The UK culture and strategy in January 2020
Plans for the wrong virus
open.substack.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:14 AM
“In January 2020 Vallance convened a Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies…The absence of any independent public health scientist, primary care expert, social scientist with expertise in inequalities or community mobilisation is striking. A culture of biomedicine not public health was dominant”
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Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...
Wiley retracts study stolen by reviewer, following Retraction Watch coverage
A Wiley journal has retracted a paper more than a year after a researcher reported the work was hers and had been stolen by a reviewer for another journal. As we reported in July, Shafaq Aftab, now…
retractionwatch.com
October 12, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Well done Shafaq Aftab. When a reviewer stole her work and published it under his own name, she fought for a YEAR to get the journal to retract the paper. Just wondering why it took Wiley a YEAR to do this. 🧪 #academicsky
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...
retractionwatch.com/2025/10/03/w...
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New study in @thelancet.com
“After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from preventable acute malnutrition and facing an increased risk of mortality”
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
“After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from preventable acute malnutrition and facing an increased risk of mortality”
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Assessment of malnutrition in preschool-aged children by mid-upper arm circumference in the Gaza Strip (January, 2024–August, 2025): a longitudinal, cross-sectional, surveillance study
After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands
of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from preventable acute
malnutrition and facing an ...
www.thelancet.com
October 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
New study in @thelancet.com
“After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from preventable acute malnutrition and facing an increased risk of mortality”
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
“After nearly 2 years of war and severe restrictions in humanitarian aid, tens of thousands of preschool-aged children in the Gaza Strip are suffering from preventable acute malnutrition and facing an increased risk of mortality”
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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In another display of incredible resilience, Ukrainian mathematicians in 2022(❗) opened a new International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine (ICMU): icmu.ua/en
It was pleasure to give an online mini-course on Bayesian Statistics to Ukrainian students and scientists: icmu.ua/en/events/in...
It was pleasure to give an online mini-course on Bayesian Statistics to Ukrainian students and scientists: icmu.ua/en/events/in...
International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine - ICMU
ICMU supports top-level research in mathematics, with special emphasis on training younger generations of scientists and the development of mathematics in Ukraine.
icmu.ua
October 5, 2025 at 9:44 PM
In another display of incredible resilience, Ukrainian mathematicians in 2022(❗) opened a new International Centre for Mathematics in Ukraine (ICMU): icmu.ua/en
It was pleasure to give an online mini-course on Bayesian Statistics to Ukrainian students and scientists: icmu.ua/en/events/in...
It was pleasure to give an online mini-course on Bayesian Statistics to Ukrainian students and scientists: icmu.ua/en/events/in...
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Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:02 AM
Student, to professor: "I'm not entirely sure this is legal to be teaching, because according to our president there's only two genders... and I don't want to promote something that is against our president's laws as well as against my religious beliefs" www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
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Absolutely off the charts public health capacity on display here.
In under 24h following the newly identified outbreak of #Ebola in the DRC, the virus has been isolated, sequenced and the virus sequence data made publicly available.
virological.org/t/the-16th-e...
virological.org/t/the-16th-e...
The 16th Ebola Virus Disease Outbreak in Bulape Health Zone, Kasai, Democratic Republic of the Congo: A new spillover event from an unknown reservoir host
Background The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is currently facing concurrent outbreaks including mpox, cholera and malaria (1-4). The Ministry of Public Health, DRC has declared the 16th Ebola...
virological.org
September 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Absolutely off the charts public health capacity on display here.
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PSA for academic writers (post-PhD):
I’m a fan of this writing group and plan to participate again this fall. Jess is a great facilitator.
I know that the Tuesday option, at least, still has some spots open
I’m a fan of this writing group and plan to participate again this fall. Jess is a great facilitator.
I know that the Tuesday option, at least, still has some spots open
Writing Groups
Write in community! Join a writing group Meet with a small cohort of faculty members and post-PhD researchers for mutual support, accountability, and dedicated writing time. Fall writing groups beg…
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September 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
PSA for academic writers (post-PhD):
I’m a fan of this writing group and plan to participate again this fall. Jess is a great facilitator.
I know that the Tuesday option, at least, still has some spots open
I’m a fan of this writing group and plan to participate again this fall. Jess is a great facilitator.
I know that the Tuesday option, at least, still has some spots open
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We are hiring! The Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State seeks an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Dynamics 🦠
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Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...
psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
August 26, 2025 at 2:39 PM
We are hiring! The Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State seeks an Associate or Full Professor in Infectious Disease Dynamics 🦠
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This is quite the all-star lineup of demographers with expertise in fertility.
Period fertility (or mortality) rates are not destiny.
If we are really that concerned about future population growth, perhaps we should just make it easier for people to have families? It's in our power
Period fertility (or mortality) rates are not destiny.
If we are really that concerned about future population growth, perhaps we should just make it easier for people to have families? It's in our power
Don’t Panic: Population Projection is Not a Crystal Ball
sites.utexas.edu
August 21, 2025 at 1:53 PM
This is quite the all-star lineup of demographers with expertise in fertility.
Period fertility (or mortality) rates are not destiny.
If we are really that concerned about future population growth, perhaps we should just make it easier for people to have families? It's in our power
Period fertility (or mortality) rates are not destiny.
If we are really that concerned about future population growth, perhaps we should just make it easier for people to have families? It's in our power
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🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1.
#AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs
apply.interfolio.com/171403
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@stonybrooku.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1.
#AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs
apply.interfolio.com/171403
(I love being here. Come join!)
@stonybrooku.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
🚨 Job Alert! 🚨
Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1.
#AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs
apply.interfolio.com/171403
(I love being here. Come join!)
@stonybrooku.bsky.social
Assistant Professor in Global Change and Disease Ecology at Stony Brook University, Department of Ecology & Evolution. Deadline: October 1.
#AcademicJobs #tenuretrack #facultyjobs
apply.interfolio.com/171403
(I love being here. Come join!)
@stonybrooku.bsky.social
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Head of Data Engineering and Informatics Position Available -
www.iddo.org/about-us/jobs
www.iddo.org/about-us/jobs
Jobs | Infectious Diseases Data Observatory
www.iddo.org
August 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Head of Data Engineering and Informatics Position Available -
www.iddo.org/about-us/jobs
www.iddo.org/about-us/jobs
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Economic Research Rescue Fund (for people whose NSF grants have been pulled). From UK ESRC. #academicsky
mailchi.mp/ssrc.org/rem...
mailchi.mp/ssrc.org/rem...
Reminder: Economic Research Rescue Fund Accepting Applications
mailchi.mp
August 19, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Economic Research Rescue Fund (for people whose NSF grants have been pulled). From UK ESRC. #academicsky
mailchi.mp/ssrc.org/rem...
mailchi.mp/ssrc.org/rem...
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This is an amazing article about the train wreck that is the University of Chicago. Very clear implications for R1 universities more generally.
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
The Crisis of the University Started Long Before Trump
The University of Chicago is in crisis. Under extraordinary financial strain, it has diminished its faculty-student ratio and hired hundreds of “lecturers”: teachers whom it pays little and whom it do...
www.compactmag.com
August 19, 2025 at 2:10 AM
This is an amazing article about the train wreck that is the University of Chicago. Very clear implications for R1 universities more generally.
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
www.compactmag.com/article/the-...
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Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Please join us! I am co-convening 3 Royal Geographical Society panels on Feminist and Gendered Geographies of Resistance with @zalifung.bsky.social and Rebecca Elmhirst at the University of Birmingham next week. A great lineup of presentations. bit.ly/4lgkPnk @rgsibg.bsky.social
🦟💧 Satellite data show that #Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes spike not when it rains, but when surface water is around—like irrigation puddles. We used remote-sensing in SoCal to map risk and guide smarter mosquito control. 🔬🌐 doi.org/10.1186/s130...
Environmental correlates of Aedes aegypti abundance in the West Valley region of San Bernardino County, California, USA, from 2017 to 2023: an ecological modeling study - Parasites & Vectors
Background Aedes mosquitoes, particularly Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus, are major vectors of globally significant diseases such as dengue, Zika, and chikungunya. Since 2013, Ae. aegypti population...
doi.org
August 18, 2025 at 5:59 AM
🦟💧 Satellite data show that #Aedes aegypti #mosquitoes spike not when it rains, but when surface water is around—like irrigation puddles. We used remote-sensing in SoCal to map risk and guide smarter mosquito control. 🔬🌐 doi.org/10.1186/s130...
preliminary work from us on seroepidemiology of #Aedes borne disease in East #Ethiopia. Long story short - LOTS of exposure to #dengue and #chikungunya. There have been outbreaks, but looks endemic to me. More work needed on that. There might be Zika transmission too: : dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
High seroprevalence of antibodies to Dengue, Chikungunya, and Zika viruses in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia: A cross-sectional survey in 2024
Author summary Mosquito-borne viruses such as dengue, chikungunya, and Zika pose growing public health challenges in many parts of Africa, but limited surveillance makes it difficult to assess their t...
dx.plos.org
August 15, 2025 at 3:34 AM
preliminary work from us on seroepidemiology of #Aedes borne disease in East #Ethiopia. Long story short - LOTS of exposure to #dengue and #chikungunya. There have been outbreaks, but looks endemic to me. More work needed on that. There might be Zika transmission too: : dx.plos.org/10.1371/jour...
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Bergen looking for more presenters at this conference. Interdisciplinary group seeking to 'change the narratives' around pandemic preparedness. #healthpolicy
www4.uib.no/en/research/...
www4.uib.no/en/research/...
Conference Preparing for health crises in a changing world:
Pandemisenter UiB Pandemic Centre Bergen University of Bergen Annual conference new nattatives for health crises
www4.uib.no
August 11, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Bergen looking for more presenters at this conference. Interdisciplinary group seeking to 'change the narratives' around pandemic preparedness. #healthpolicy
www4.uib.no/en/research/...
www4.uib.no/en/research/...
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As the US hits a 33-year high in measles infections, there is now a "race" to find a treatment for the disease.
One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
One pharma company "is banking on a continuing decline in vaccination rates to fuel a need for measles treatments—and in turn, more investor interest"
🎁 link
www.wsj.com/health/healt...
The Race to Find a Measles Treatment as Infections Surge
The measles vaccine was so effective the disease was considered eliminated in the U.S., but a resurgence of outbreaks is spurring a need for drugs.
www.wsj.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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