On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5

📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits.

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The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

Please consider signing this petition to save the UTS public health program and our colleagues. Public health is so important and our colleagues deserve better! chng.it/b7yV6tywPd

New paper alert 🎉
We explore the origins of deltaviruses and find they have infected and co-evolved with termites for 141 million years 🐜🕑🦴

This was a fascinating story to work on with @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social, Jose Gabriel and @anselmojiro.bsky.social

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Dengue disease severity in humans is augmented by waning Japanese encephalitis virus immunity
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Do you mentor scientific writing, or use written assignments in the science courses you teach? Do you find mentoring/teaching writing hard, or time consuming? (Because it is!) Our new book can help, and it's getting close to being in your hands.

We have a new paper out on the evolutionary arms race between tuberculosis and #MHC mediated immunity in meerkats, using over ~20 years worth of data from wild meerkats. Led by Nadine Müller-Klein, Dom Melville and Simone Sommer. Link below! #DiseaseEcology

v1.0.0 of CoinfectionSimulator.jl is out! I think I'm starting to get a feel for coding in #JuliaLang style. You can use this simulator to model multiple directly transmitted infections in a host population, including different disease types and interactions between them. github.com/japilo/Coinf...

I had a great time at the Australian One Health CDC's One Health Symposium. So nice to engage with a passionate group of people progressing One Health ideas in Aus and beyond.

New Perspective 👇

Precision ecology for targeted conservation action www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spake et al. argue that applied ecologists should draw on insight from medicine and marketing to provide decision-makers with specific, site-level intervention strategies

Wow.. its probably been over a year since this one was submitted, but its finally out! Herein we review HPAI across South America (and discuss the threat to Antarctic, prior to its arrival).
👉 conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Important work from Tavis Anderson and our Penn-CEIRR USDA colleagues:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

First global pandemic treaty agreed — without the US www.nature.com/articles/d41...

First death of a person with Japanese encephalitis in NSW since 2022. If you live, work or holiday in regions west of Great Dividing Range, prevent mosquito bites. Check NSW Health website https://www.health.nsw.gov.au/news/Pages/20250225_01.aspx

Check out our new method for summarising BEAST trees. The CCD0-MAP tree gives much more accurate results than MCC tree. It returns the tree that maximises the product of sampled clade probabilities regardless of whether that tree was sampled. Highly recommend :)

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This paper looks great - excited to try it out!

Super happy our paper on #eDNA #metabarcoding of North Sea fish using @nanoporetech.com sequencing is finally published in Molecular Ecology Resources: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

New paper led by Rohan Simkin exploring global patterns of zoonotic hosts in the wildland-urban interface. WUIs are a complex and expanding contact zone with many potential host species that are likely to be consequential for spillover transmission on a rapidly urbanizing planet. bit.ly/WUI-zdx