Michael Walsh
@epidoctor.bsky.social
Landscape epidemiology; disease ecology; wetlands; forests; wildlife; biodiversity; One Health; ಒಂದು ಆರೋಗ್ಯ 🦘🐘🦢🦜🦟 in the Sydney School of Public Health @sydney.edu.au & @Sydney_ID & @MAHE_Manipal & @thePHFI
+ Canyoneer 🧗♂️ & Jiujiteiro
He/him Epibiolab.org
+ Canyoneer 🧗♂️ & Jiujiteiro
He/him Epibiolab.org
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Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Out today, a companion article for my autoOcc R package: Estimating species occupancy across multiple sampling seasons with autologistic occupancy models via the autoOcc R package. #rstats 🧪
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Wild Birds Affected by Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Worldwide: Epidemiological Insights Into the Recent Panzootic
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November 11, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Wild Birds Affected by Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza A (H5N1) Worldwide: Epidemiological Insights Into the Recent Panzootic
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For those interested in greater gliders, and their ecology, conservation and management, please feel free to read our comprehensive review (please note, it's a pre-print) 👉 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... - Led by Dr Luke Emerson
Taxonomic revisions, strategic decisions research and management priorities for the threatened greater glider complex
ecoevorxiv.org
November 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
For those interested in greater gliders, and their ecology, conservation and management, please feel free to read our comprehensive review (please note, it's a pre-print) 👉 ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... - Led by Dr Luke Emerson
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Join us! Open PhD scholarship at the Disease Ecology Laboratory @sydney.edu.au Apply by the 16th November.
Join our lab!
The Disease Ecology Lab at the USYD is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to explore drivers of infectious diseases at the wildlife-livestock interface
🌐 www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
#PhD #Scholarship #DiseaseEcology #Epidemiology #WildlifeHealth #OneHealth #USYD
The Disease Ecology Lab at the USYD is seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate to explore drivers of infectious diseases at the wildlife-livestock interface
🌐 www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
#PhD #Scholarship #DiseaseEcology #Epidemiology #WildlifeHealth #OneHealth #USYD
Postgraduate Research Scholarship in Disease Ecology and Epidemiology
www.sydney.edu.au
November 9, 2025 at 11:01 PM
Join us! Open PhD scholarship at the Disease Ecology Laboratory @sydney.edu.au Apply by the 16th November.
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Do they think people have forgotten about Omicron and how South Africa was treated when they told the world about that variant?
I don't like the sound of this: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...
US to demand countries share data on ‘pathogens with epidemic potential’ in return for health aid
Draft template seen by the Guardian has no reference to countries receiving benefits for sharing information, such as guaranteed access to medicines developed as a result
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 AM
Do they think people have forgotten about Omicron and how South Africa was treated when they told the world about that variant?
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The #GlobalWetlandOutlook2025 by Convention on Wetlands is available!
Wetlands are vanishing, along with the life they sustain. 🌱
Explore the data & solutions to protect these crucial ecosystems.
Full report 👉 http://global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org/
#GWO2025 #WetlandsMatter 🌍🧪
Wetlands are vanishing, along with the life they sustain. 🌱
Explore the data & solutions to protect these crucial ecosystems.
Full report 👉 http://global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org/
#GWO2025 #WetlandsMatter 🌍🧪
November 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
The #GlobalWetlandOutlook2025 by Convention on Wetlands is available!
Wetlands are vanishing, along with the life they sustain. 🌱
Explore the data & solutions to protect these crucial ecosystems.
Full report 👉 http://global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org/
#GWO2025 #WetlandsMatter 🌍🧪
Wetlands are vanishing, along with the life they sustain. 🌱
Explore the data & solutions to protect these crucial ecosystems.
Full report 👉 http://global-wetland-outlook.ramsar.org/
#GWO2025 #WetlandsMatter 🌍🧪
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Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
James Watson in his own words
“Some anti-Semitism is justified” “Whenever you interview fat people, you feel bad, because you know you’re not going to hire them” “Japan should be bombed for d…
liorpachter.wordpress.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Scientific breakthroughs are rarely unique; someone else would’ve made them soon enough. But when prominent scientists cause harm, that harm isn’t inevitable; the world might simply have been better had the harm not been inflicted.
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
liorpachter.wordpress.com/2018/05/18/j...
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
November 7, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Amy Angert and I are recruiting a #postdoc to participate in a collaborative NSF-funded study of demographic responses to climate across the geographic range of the scarlet monkeyflower. Please repost! jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/224...
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More raccoons? Turns out it would be bad news.
We're predicting where key reservoirs of the raccoon rabies virus (🦝 and 🦨) may be in Québec by 2100, and if we don't act on climate change, the answer may be: everywhere. 🧪
We're predicting where key reservoirs of the raccoon rabies virus (🦝 and 🦨) may be in Québec by 2100, and if we don't act on climate change, the answer may be: everywhere. 🧪
Climate change may dramatically increase the range of raccoons and skunks in Québec. Good news? Nope. They are two reservoirs of the raccoon rabies virus. In a recent preprint, we discuss how this might play out over the next 80 years. 🧪🧵
Reservoirs on the move: where might raccoon rabies end up under climate change? | ÉPICBiodiversity
epic-biodiversity.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
More raccoons? Turns out it would be bad news.
We're predicting where key reservoirs of the raccoon rabies virus (🦝 and 🦨) may be in Québec by 2100, and if we don't act on climate change, the answer may be: everywhere. 🧪
We're predicting where key reservoirs of the raccoon rabies virus (🦝 and 🦨) may be in Québec by 2100, and if we don't act on climate change, the answer may be: everywhere. 🧪
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A student wrote to me after the midterm, and they said they should have gotten a lower grade. I think this is important, because I fundamentally disagree with this student, and it took me a while to articulate why. This is my rough draft. 🧵
November 7, 2025 at 10:01 PM
A student wrote to me after the midterm, and they said they should have gotten a lower grade. I think this is important, because I fundamentally disagree with this student, and it took me a while to articulate why. This is my rough draft. 🧵
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Dingoes ARE NOT domestic dogs, multiple lines of evidence demonstrate this.
Dingoes ARE NOT ideal pets, they require extensive and special care.
Dingoes ARE very important to First Nations peoples, and Australia's ecosystems.
This proposed change is a very bad idea www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Dingoes ARE NOT ideal pets, they require extensive and special care.
Dingoes ARE very important to First Nations peoples, and Australia's ecosystems.
This proposed change is a very bad idea www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Queensland considers changes that could see dingoes in dog parks
People could be allowed to keep dingoes as pets in Queensland under proposed changes to biosecurity regulations, but experts say the native animal is fundamentally different to domestic dogs.
www.abc.net.au
November 7, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Dingoes ARE NOT domestic dogs, multiple lines of evidence demonstrate this.
Dingoes ARE NOT ideal pets, they require extensive and special care.
Dingoes ARE very important to First Nations peoples, and Australia's ecosystems.
This proposed change is a very bad idea www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Dingoes ARE NOT ideal pets, they require extensive and special care.
Dingoes ARE very important to First Nations peoples, and Australia's ecosystems.
This proposed change is a very bad idea www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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What was the hardest part of grad school for you? Was it having a kid, the thesis defense? I told them nope, it was being the only & the first. The only Inupiaq at UW Madison for most of my years there, one of 250 Natives on a campus of over 40K, the first Native to earn a PhD in my program🧵
November 6, 2025 at 12:00 PM
What was the hardest part of grad school for you? Was it having a kid, the thesis defense? I told them nope, it was being the only & the first. The only Inupiaq at UW Madison for most of my years there, one of 250 Natives on a campus of over 40K, the first Native to earn a PhD in my program🧵
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Check out our newest paper on mosquito sugar feeding! 🦟🌸
This study was led M. VanderGiessen, F. Upshur & M. Cartadena-Guzman. A great collaboration with L. Escobar & @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social!
@globalchangebio.bsky.social @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jme/article-...
This study was led M. VanderGiessen, F. Upshur & M. Cartadena-Guzman. A great collaboration with L. Escobar & @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social!
@globalchangebio.bsky.social @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jme/article-...
Effect of landscape heterogeneity on mosquito abundance and sugar feeding behavior
Abstract. Mosquito-borne diseases pose a dire threat to humanity, claiming over 700,000 lives annually. At the local scale, the interplay between several e
academic.oup.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Check out our newest paper on mosquito sugar feeding! 🦟🌸
This study was led M. VanderGiessen, F. Upshur & M. Cartadena-Guzman. A great collaboration with L. Escobar & @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social!
@globalchangebio.bsky.social @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jme/article-...
This study was led M. VanderGiessen, F. Upshur & M. Cartadena-Guzman. A great collaboration with L. Escobar & @thevinaugerlab.bsky.social!
@globalchangebio.bsky.social @vtbiochemistry.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/jme/article-...
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🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉
🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026
📣 Call for submissions is open
👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members
conference.rainbowr.org
🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026
📣 Call for submissions is open
👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members
conference.rainbowr.org
– rainbowR conference
conference.rainbowr.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:56 PM
🌈 The website for the inaugural rainbowR conference is now live! 🎉
🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026
📣 Call for submissions is open
👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members
conference.rainbowr.org
🗓️ Save the date: Feb 25th-26th, 2026
📣 Call for submissions is open
👯 We're bringing together LGBTQ+ R users to promote our work and foster connections among community members
conference.rainbowr.org
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I'm so excited to introduce a new Special Collection from the Journal of Medical Entomology (and juuuust in time for #EntSoc25! 😎), the ✨Wildlife One Health Special Collection✨, put together by @machtingerlab.bsky.social, Risa Pesapane, Danielle Tufts, & me! 🎉
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Wildlife One Health Special Collection
Vector-borne diseases are increasing in incidence, expanding geographically, and emerging at a faster pace than ever before. The prevailing hypothesis is that t
academic.oup.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
I'm so excited to introduce a new Special Collection from the Journal of Medical Entomology (and juuuust in time for #EntSoc25! 😎), the ✨Wildlife One Health Special Collection✨, put together by @machtingerlab.bsky.social, Risa Pesapane, Danielle Tufts, & me! 🎉
🔗 academic.oup.com/jme/pages/wi...
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When sequence databases can unilaterally cut off access to analytic platforms, we are left unprepared for the next pandemic.
In @thinkglobalhealth.org, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I highlight the severity of the situation, and what it means for @who.int negotiations on the Pandemic agreement. 🧪😷🧵
In @thinkglobalhealth.org, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I highlight the severity of the situation, and what it means for @who.int negotiations on the Pandemic agreement. 🧪😷🧵
To Finish the Pandemic Agreement, WHO Needs a Trustworthy Viral Database | Think Global Health
Online platforms for sharing virus sequences are in disarray. The World Health Organization has a chance to build something new
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
November 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
When sequence databases can unilaterally cut off access to analytic platforms, we are left unprepared for the next pandemic.
In @thinkglobalhealth.org, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I highlight the severity of the situation, and what it means for @who.int negotiations on the Pandemic agreement. 🧪😷🧵
In @thinkglobalhealth.org, @colincarlson.bsky.social and I highlight the severity of the situation, and what it means for @who.int negotiations on the Pandemic agreement. 🧪😷🧵
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The CRAN Spatial Task View just got a proper table of contents (thanks to Krzysztof Dyba) -- easier to navigate all those R spatial packages now. 🌍
> cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial
#RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource #gischat
> cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial
#RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource #gischat
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
The CRAN Spatial Task View just got a proper table of contents (thanks to Krzysztof Dyba) -- easier to navigate all those R spatial packages now. 🌍
> cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial
#RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource #gischat
> cran.r-project.org/view=Spatial
#RStats #RSpatial #OpenSource #gischat
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As one of the greatest writers of our age said, “venom with a new twang, same swagger, new thang” - the lab has changed a lot over ten years, and after thinking about who we became, we decided to re-do the website. And write about our theory of change.
Follow us - @epic-biodiversity.org !
Follow us - @epic-biodiversity.org !
👋 Bonjour hi!
We've built a whole new website, and @ctrlalttim.com has thoughts about the long-term dynamics of research groups to share.
epic-biodiversity.org/blog/2025/11...
We've built a whole new website, and @ctrlalttim.com has thoughts about the long-term dynamics of research groups to share.
epic-biodiversity.org/blog/2025/11...
Bonjour hi! | ÉPICBiodiversity
epic-biodiversity.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 PM
As one of the greatest writers of our age said, “venom with a new twang, same swagger, new thang” - the lab has changed a lot over ten years, and after thinking about who we became, we decided to re-do the website. And write about our theory of change.
Follow us - @epic-biodiversity.org !
Follow us - @epic-biodiversity.org !
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🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...
To Finish the Pandemic Agreement, WHO Needs a Trustworthy Viral Database | Think Global Health
Online platforms for sharing virus sequences are in disarray. The World Health Organization has a chance to build something new
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 PM
🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...
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Gestation length both shapes and is shaped by other life history traits in terrestrial eutherian mammals
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Thodoris Danis et al.
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Thodoris Danis et al.
Gestation length both shapes and is shaped by other life history traits in terrestrial eutherian mammals
Abstract. The length of gestation in eutherian mammals, which is key to their reproductive success, is closely connected to other life history traits, body
doi.org
November 5, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Gestation length both shapes and is shaped by other life history traits in terrestrial eutherian mammals
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Thodoris Danis et al.
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Now in @evolletters.bsky.social by Thodoris Danis et al.
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Bills to create the most important #PublicHealth infrastructure in decades has today passed the Senate.
"Thanks to the many people who’ve put in hard work and long nights, showing it’s a long way to the top to get a Centre for Disease Control," our CEO, Adj Prof Terry Slevin.
shorturl.at/jNCZD
"Thanks to the many people who’ve put in hard work and long nights, showing it’s a long way to the top to get a Centre for Disease Control," our CEO, Adj Prof Terry Slevin.
shorturl.at/jNCZD
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 AM
Bills to create the most important #PublicHealth infrastructure in decades has today passed the Senate.
"Thanks to the many people who’ve put in hard work and long nights, showing it’s a long way to the top to get a Centre for Disease Control," our CEO, Adj Prof Terry Slevin.
shorturl.at/jNCZD
"Thanks to the many people who’ve put in hard work and long nights, showing it’s a long way to the top to get a Centre for Disease Control," our CEO, Adj Prof Terry Slevin.
shorturl.at/jNCZD
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Big win for public health: Australia will soon have a Centre for Disease Control!! #ACDC #PublicHealth
“This is a moment for the public health history books, and is testament to the tenacity of countless people who’ve toiled for decades to achieve this," Prof Slevin says.
“This centre will save lives, not just here but also o/s as it will increase our links with our neighbours."
shorturl.at/jNCZD
“This centre will save lives, not just here but also o/s as it will increase our links with our neighbours."
shorturl.at/jNCZD
Public health community thunderstruck as ACDC bills pass Senate
shorturl.at
November 5, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Big win for public health: Australia will soon have a Centre for Disease Control!! #ACDC #PublicHealth
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📢 #Postdoc (75%) 3+2 years on identifying #West-Nile-Virus wildlife hosts and #modelling spatial risk factors.
Be part of a consortium on "Combating #WNV through an integrated #OneHealth approach" w #TUBerlin , #Charite, #FUBerlin, #UniBayreuth and health authorities
▶️ tinyurl.com/yuhfwpdr
Be part of a consortium on "Combating #WNV through an integrated #OneHealth approach" w #TUBerlin , #Charite, #FUBerlin, #UniBayreuth and health authorities
▶️ tinyurl.com/yuhfwpdr
October 16, 2025 at 2:52 PM
📢 #Postdoc (75%) 3+2 years on identifying #West-Nile-Virus wildlife hosts and #modelling spatial risk factors.
Be part of a consortium on "Combating #WNV through an integrated #OneHealth approach" w #TUBerlin , #Charite, #FUBerlin, #UniBayreuth and health authorities
▶️ tinyurl.com/yuhfwpdr
Be part of a consortium on "Combating #WNV through an integrated #OneHealth approach" w #TUBerlin , #Charite, #FUBerlin, #UniBayreuth and health authorities
▶️ tinyurl.com/yuhfwpdr
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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
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