Luca Nelli
@lucanelli.bsky.social
Research & Teaching in spatiotemporal modelling in Ecology and Epidemiology | GIS nerd | Professional campfire guitarist | Antifascist | University of Glasgow
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A hate-driven agenda stoked by politicians & pundits has fuelled violence, intimidation & division.
But we know the truth:
❌ Free speech is NOT a cover for hate speech
❌ Inciting hatred is NOT defending freedom
❌ Migration is NOT to blame for political and economic turmoil. It’s a scapegoat.
But we know the truth:
❌ Free speech is NOT a cover for hate speech
❌ Inciting hatred is NOT defending freedom
❌ Migration is NOT to blame for political and economic turmoil. It’s a scapegoat.
September 13, 2025 at 3:22 PM
A hate-driven agenda stoked by politicians & pundits has fuelled violence, intimidation & division.
But we know the truth:
❌ Free speech is NOT a cover for hate speech
❌ Inciting hatred is NOT defending freedom
❌ Migration is NOT to blame for political and economic turmoil. It’s a scapegoat.
But we know the truth:
❌ Free speech is NOT a cover for hate speech
❌ Inciting hatred is NOT defending freedom
❌ Migration is NOT to blame for political and economic turmoil. It’s a scapegoat.
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Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
Breaking News: Read three top CDC officials' resignation emails.
The end of an era.
insidemedicine.substack.com
August 28, 2025 at 3:38 AM
Enough is enough. The health of the country is in danger. Read our resignation letters: insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-n...
How strong are malaria surveillance systems at detecting the last cases of malaria?
Our new study in The Lancet Global Health applies the Freedom From Infection model across 5 countries, helping programmes measure confidence in elimination.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Our new study in The Lancet Global Health applies the Freedom From Infection model across 5 countries, helping programmes measure confidence in elimination.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Evidence-based decision making for malaria elimination applying the Freedom From Infection statistical framework in five malaria eliminating countries: an observational study
Applying the FFI model framework to malaria surveillance data can provide programmes
with information to support decision making, specific to malaria species. When routine
malaria surveillance systems...
www.thelancet.com
August 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
How strong are malaria surveillance systems at detecting the last cases of malaria?
Our new study in The Lancet Global Health applies the Freedom From Infection model across 5 countries, helping programmes measure confidence in elimination.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Our new study in The Lancet Global Health applies the Freedom From Infection model across 5 countries, helping programmes measure confidence in elimination.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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This summer, 10 of our Zoology & Marine and Freshwater Biology BSc Honours students packed their bags, grabbed their field kits, and headed out on unforgettable research adventures.
Learn more about what they've been up to 👉
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohv...
#WorldChangingGlasgow
Learn more about what they've been up to 👉
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohv...
#WorldChangingGlasgow
August 22, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This summer, 10 of our Zoology & Marine and Freshwater Biology BSc Honours students packed their bags, grabbed their field kits, and headed out on unforgettable research adventures.
Learn more about what they've been up to 👉
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohv...
#WorldChangingGlasgow
Learn more about what they've been up to 👉
www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohv...
#WorldChangingGlasgow
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📣Come work with us!
Looking for a Research Assistant/Associate in Data Analysis, for a Pfizer-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland.
More: bit.ly/3Va7yCd
Enq to: @louisapollock.bsky.social
Closing: 17 Sept 25
@cvrinfo.bsky.social
Looking for a Research Assistant/Associate in Data Analysis, for a Pfizer-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland.
More: bit.ly/3Va7yCd
Enq to: @louisapollock.bsky.social
Closing: 17 Sept 25
@cvrinfo.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 1:28 PM
📣Come work with us!
Looking for a Research Assistant/Associate in Data Analysis, for a Pfizer-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland.
More: bit.ly/3Va7yCd
Enq to: @louisapollock.bsky.social
Closing: 17 Sept 25
@cvrinfo.bsky.social
Looking for a Research Assistant/Associate in Data Analysis, for a Pfizer-funded research project focused on effectiveness of maternal #RSV vaccination in infants in Scotland.
More: bit.ly/3Va7yCd
Enq to: @louisapollock.bsky.social
Closing: 17 Sept 25
@cvrinfo.bsky.social
A year of hard work, passion, and dedication! Our MSc students in Conservation at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk shared the findings of their final projects last Friday. Inspiring talks and brilliant science from a fantastic cohort! 👏🌿📊
August 19, 2025 at 7:28 AM
A year of hard work, passion, and dedication! Our MSc students in Conservation at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk shared the findings of their final projects last Friday. Inspiring talks and brilliant science from a fantastic cohort! 👏🌿📊
🚨 PhD opportunity!
Join us at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk to explore how forest restoration & rewilding shape tick-borne disease risk across Scotland 🇬🇧 and the Italian Dolomites 🇮🇹.
Fieldwork, modelling, One Health focus.
Apply by 28 July 2025 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Join us at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk to explore how forest restoration & rewilding shape tick-borne disease risk across Scotland 🇬🇧 and the Italian Dolomites 🇮🇹.
Fieldwork, modelling, One Health focus.
Apply by 28 July 2025 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
REstoring forest ecosystems for BiodiveRsity and healTH (REBIRTH) at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - REstoring forest ecosystems for BiodiveRsity and healTH (REBIRTH) at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:37 AM
🚨 PhD opportunity!
Join us at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk to explore how forest restoration & rewilding shape tick-borne disease risk across Scotland 🇬🇧 and the Italian Dolomites 🇮🇹.
Fieldwork, modelling, One Health focus.
Apply by 28 July 2025 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Join us at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk to explore how forest restoration & rewilding shape tick-borne disease risk across Scotland 🇬🇧 and the Italian Dolomites 🇮🇹.
Fieldwork, modelling, One Health focus.
Apply by 28 July 2025 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
🚨 PhD opportunity!
Join us at to explore how forest restoration & rewilding shape tick-borne disease risk across Scotland and the Italian Dolomites.
Fieldwork, modelling, One Health focus.
Apply by 28 July 2025! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Join us at to explore how forest restoration & rewilding shape tick-borne disease risk across Scotland and the Italian Dolomites.
Fieldwork, modelling, One Health focus.
Apply by 28 July 2025! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
REstoring forest ecosystems for BiodiveRsity and healTH (REBIRTH) at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - REstoring forest ecosystems for BiodiveRsity and healTH (REBIRTH) at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
July 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
🚨 PhD opportunity!
Join us at to explore how forest restoration & rewilding shape tick-borne disease risk across Scotland and the Italian Dolomites.
Fieldwork, modelling, One Health focus.
Apply by 28 July 2025! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Join us at to explore how forest restoration & rewilding shape tick-borne disease risk across Scotland and the Italian Dolomites.
Fieldwork, modelling, One Health focus.
Apply by 28 July 2025! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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The invasive #malaria vector Anopheles stephensi has now been detected in another African country - Niger
Niger already has a high burden, ranking 3rd globally in malaria deaths. An stephensi was found at one site near Nigerian border. Wider surveillance warranted
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Niger already has a high burden, ranking 3rd globally in malaria deaths. An stephensi was found at one site near Nigerian border. Wider surveillance warranted
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
First detection and entomological characterisation of invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in sympatry with other vectors in Gayi Southern Niger Republic - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - First detection and entomological characterisation of invasive malaria vector Anopheles stephensi in sympatry with other vectors in Gayi Southern Niger Republic
www.nature.com
July 6, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The invasive #malaria vector Anopheles stephensi has now been detected in another African country - Niger
Niger already has a high burden, ranking 3rd globally in malaria deaths. An stephensi was found at one site near Nigerian border. Wider surveillance warranted
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Niger already has a high burden, ranking 3rd globally in malaria deaths. An stephensi was found at one site near Nigerian border. Wider surveillance warranted
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
🎓Another reason to come study at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk? You might end up on a PGT/PGR writing retreat at @sceneuog.bsky.social, right on the stunning shores of Loch Lomond ✍️🌊🌳
July 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🎓Another reason to come study at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk? You might end up on a PGT/PGR writing retreat at @sceneuog.bsky.social, right on the stunning shores of Loch Lomond ✍️🌊🌳
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Proud to be 1 of 130 scientists who signed letter to Prime Minister advocating to retain support for #GlobalFund & @gavi.org to prevent backslide on global health progress. Thx to @thomaschurcher.bsky.social & colleagues for initiating (see thread for article text)
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
Foreign aid cuts will cost lives, scientists warn Keir Starmer
More than 130 academics have signed a letter telling the prime minister that cuts in funding could hinder the global fight against disease
www.thetimes.com
May 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Proud to be 1 of 130 scientists who signed letter to Prime Minister advocating to retain support for #GlobalFund & @gavi.org to prevent backslide on global health progress. Thx to @thomaschurcher.bsky.social & colleagues for initiating (see thread for article text)
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
🎻 Just another day at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk — you might come for the science and end up in an impromptu cello duet with your professor in the zoology museum. World-class research, creative sparks, and a community like no other!
👉 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohv...
👉 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohv...
May 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
🎻 Just another day at @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk — you might come for the science and end up in an impromptu cello duet with your professor in the zoology museum. World-class research, creative sparks, and a community like no other!
👉 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohv...
👉 www.gla.ac.uk/schools/bohv...
Check out our new paper on cat population dynamics and #rshiny app!
🎉 Excited to share our new paper!
We modelled the free-roaming cat population on Linosa and built an interactive tool to help plan effective, cost-efficient TNR programs. 🐱📊
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
🧰 Tool: boydorr.gla.ac.uk/lucanelli/Ca...
with @lucanelli.bsky.social @jappliedecology.bsky.social
We modelled the free-roaming cat population on Linosa and built an interactive tool to help plan effective, cost-efficient TNR programs. 🐱📊
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
🧰 Tool: boydorr.gla.ac.uk/lucanelli/Ca...
with @lucanelli.bsky.social @jappliedecology.bsky.social
April 7, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Check out our new paper on cat population dynamics and #rshiny app!
Interested in biodiversity, conservation, or One Health?
Watch our @uofglasgow.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk MSc Q&A session — featuring staff & students from our exciting programmes in the School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine.
Watch now: youtu.be/L2aAxpvHi_o?...
Watch our @uofglasgow.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk MSc Q&A session — featuring staff & students from our exciting programmes in the School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine.
Watch now: youtu.be/L2aAxpvHi_o?...
School of Biodiversity, One Health & Veterinary Medicine (BOHVM) Masters Q&A - University of Glasgow
YouTube video by UofG MVLS
youtu.be
March 28, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Interested in biodiversity, conservation, or One Health?
Watch our @uofglasgow.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk MSc Q&A session — featuring staff & students from our exciting programmes in the School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine.
Watch now: youtu.be/L2aAxpvHi_o?...
Watch our @uofglasgow.bsky.social @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk MSc Q&A session — featuring staff & students from our exciting programmes in the School of Biodiversity, One Health and Veterinary Medicine.
Watch now: youtu.be/L2aAxpvHi_o?...
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Did you see what we did there? 👀
February 21, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Did you see what we did there? 👀
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Job alert!
Come and join us at the friendliest place I've ever worked. @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social are seeking to appoint a Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer of Applied Animal Nutrition/Metabolomics/Microbiome here at @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Come and join us at the friendliest place I've ever worked. @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social are seeking to appoint a Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer of Applied Animal Nutrition/Metabolomics/Microbiome here at @uofglasgow.bsky.social
February 6, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Job alert!
Come and join us at the friendliest place I've ever worked. @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social are seeking to appoint a Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer of Applied Animal Nutrition/Metabolomics/Microbiome here at @uofglasgow.bsky.social
Come and join us at the friendliest place I've ever worked. @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social are seeking to appoint a Professor/Reader/Senior Lecturer of Applied Animal Nutrition/Metabolomics/Microbiome here at @uofglasgow.bsky.social
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Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
February 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share
Don't let science be hidden
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New work by #JoelOdero & team!
Distinct Genetic Populations and Resistance Backgrounds of the Malaria Vector Anopheles funestus in Tanzania:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@uofgsbohvm.bsky.social #IfakaraHealthInstitute @malariagen.bsky.social
Distinct Genetic Populations and Resistance Backgrounds of the Malaria Vector Anopheles funestus in Tanzania:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@uofgsbohvm.bsky.social #IfakaraHealthInstitute @malariagen.bsky.social
January 23, 2025 at 2:55 PM
New work by #JoelOdero & team!
Distinct Genetic Populations and Resistance Backgrounds of the Malaria Vector Anopheles funestus in Tanzania:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@uofgsbohvm.bsky.social #IfakaraHealthInstitute @malariagen.bsky.social
Distinct Genetic Populations and Resistance Backgrounds of the Malaria Vector Anopheles funestus in Tanzania:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
@uofgsbohvm.bsky.social #IfakaraHealthInstitute @malariagen.bsky.social
💡 Can we achieve malaria elimination with smarter surveillance?
Our new study answers "yes" by showing the power of community health workers (CHWs) in supplementing routine data, achieving higher precision and sustained elimination efforts in the Dominican Republic.
doi.org/10.4269/ajtm...
Our new study answers "yes" by showing the power of community health workers (CHWs) in supplementing routine data, achieving higher precision and sustained elimination efforts in the Dominican Republic.
doi.org/10.4269/ajtm...
January 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
💡 Can we achieve malaria elimination with smarter surveillance?
Our new study answers "yes" by showing the power of community health workers (CHWs) in supplementing routine data, achieving higher precision and sustained elimination efforts in the Dominican Republic.
doi.org/10.4269/ajtm...
Our new study answers "yes" by showing the power of community health workers (CHWs) in supplementing routine data, achieving higher precision and sustained elimination efforts in the Dominican Republic.
doi.org/10.4269/ajtm...
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Applications are now open for the October 2025 intake of the Leverhulme DTP in Ecological Data Science. Five fully funded PhDs and a "Masters plus PhD" option for eligible students. Apply by 07 March. Read about this year's projects here: ecological-data-science.github.io
January 22, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Applications are now open for the October 2025 intake of the Leverhulme DTP in Ecological Data Science. Five fully funded PhDs and a "Masters plus PhD" option for eligible students. Apply by 07 March. Read about this year's projects here: ecological-data-science.github.io
We’ve moved to Bluesky! Follow us at @mosquitoscotland.bsky.social for updates on mosquito-borne disease risks, climate change impacts, and our latest research in Scotland. Stay informed and learn more at www.mosquito-scotland.com 🦟🌍
#Mosquitoes #Scotland #ClimateChange
#Mosquitoes #Scotland #ClimateChange
January 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM
We’ve moved to Bluesky! Follow us at @mosquitoscotland.bsky.social for updates on mosquito-borne disease risks, climate change impacts, and our latest research in Scotland. Stay informed and learn more at www.mosquito-scotland.com 🦟🌍
#Mosquitoes #Scotland #ClimateChange
#Mosquitoes #Scotland #ClimateChange
Malaria community on Bluesky
Here's the malaria starter pack! Lots of room to add more people, so please reply below or DM me if you want to be added go.bsky.app/HDEu2ux
December 12, 2024 at 12:32 PM
Malaria community on Bluesky
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Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Starter packs
BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...
docs.google.com
November 26, 2024 at 2:47 AM
Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Excited to see so many from @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social flocking to Bluesky 🦋! Find us all here: go.bsky.app/C689V2h
Members of SBOHVM
Join the conversation
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December 11, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Excited to see so many from @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social flocking to Bluesky 🦋! Find us all here: go.bsky.app/C689V2h
🚨 Excited to share our new paper in BMJ #GlobalHealth! 🎉 We introduce a novel statistical framework to improve the accuracy of declaring #MalariaElimination, integrating surveillance data with advanced modelling. 🌍🔬
🔗: gh.bmj.com/content/9/12...
With @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social and @lshtm.bsky.social
🔗: gh.bmj.com/content/9/12...
With @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social and @lshtm.bsky.social
Freedom from infection: enhancing decision-making for malaria elimination
Assessing elimination of malaria locally requires a surveillance system with high sensitivity and specificity to detect its presence without ambiguity. Currently, the WHO standard criteria of observin...
gh.bmj.com
December 10, 2024 at 9:47 AM
🚨 Excited to share our new paper in BMJ #GlobalHealth! 🎉 We introduce a novel statistical framework to improve the accuracy of declaring #MalariaElimination, integrating surveillance data with advanced modelling. 🌍🔬
🔗: gh.bmj.com/content/9/12...
With @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social and @lshtm.bsky.social
🔗: gh.bmj.com/content/9/12...
With @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social and @lshtm.bsky.social