Daniel Dornan
@danieldornan.bsky.social
Scottish PhD 🏴 living in Finland 🇫🇮 | Disease Ecology | Postdoc with ReWetFor & BEPREP projects at Uni of Helsinki | Amateur art historian.
It was great to attend the BEPREP midterm meeting, hearing from partners in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. #disease #restoration #global #interdisciplinary #collaboration #BEPREP #horizon
September 9, 2025 at 4:10 PM
It was great to attend the BEPREP midterm meeting, hearing from partners in Europe, Africa, South America and Asia. #disease #restoration #global #interdisciplinary #collaboration #BEPREP #horizon
I should start a new business... making beer for mosquitoes. Homemade C02 bait from beer yeast. This allows us to understand the ecology of this infamous vector... including species assemblage, relative abundance, and act as sentinels for disease detection. #ReWetFor #Homemade #mosquitoes
August 31, 2025 at 1:40 PM
I should start a new business... making beer for mosquitoes. Homemade C02 bait from beer yeast. This allows us to understand the ecology of this infamous vector... including species assemblage, relative abundance, and act as sentinels for disease detection. #ReWetFor #Homemade #mosquitoes
Look at this beautiful specimen, we caught her waiting to jump on a juicy deer... Black-legged ticks (Ixodes ricinus) are recognised as a main vector of Lyme disease and Tick-Borne Encephalitis (TBE). #ReWetFor
August 31, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Look at this beautiful specimen, we caught her waiting to jump on a juicy deer... Black-legged ticks (Ixodes ricinus) are recognised as a main vector of Lyme disease and Tick-Borne Encephalitis (TBE). #ReWetFor
Perks of doing in Swedish forests. Blueberry tarts.
August 29, 2025 at 6:52 AM
Perks of doing in Swedish forests. Blueberry tarts.
Let's see what we can hear.
Bats and bad recorders deployed ✅
Complexity in soundscapes can act as an indicator of biodiversity complexity. We can also pinpoint behavioral events e.g., feeding in bats. All of this can be put into a disease context... Watch this space.
#wetland #restoration
Bats and bad recorders deployed ✅
Complexity in soundscapes can act as an indicator of biodiversity complexity. We can also pinpoint behavioral events e.g., feeding in bats. All of this can be put into a disease context... Watch this space.
#wetland #restoration
August 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Let's see what we can hear.
Bats and bad recorders deployed ✅
Complexity in soundscapes can act as an indicator of biodiversity complexity. We can also pinpoint behavioral events e.g., feeding in bats. All of this can be put into a disease context... Watch this space.
#wetland #restoration
Bats and bad recorders deployed ✅
Complexity in soundscapes can act as an indicator of biodiversity complexity. We can also pinpoint behavioral events e.g., feeding in bats. All of this can be put into a disease context... Watch this space.
#wetland #restoration
You catch more flies with honey than vinegar... WRONG. The trick is a mixture of beef and pork mince left too long in the sun. We are using these little sentinels to monitor biodiversity #iDNA
August 29, 2025 at 6:36 AM
You catch more flies with honey than vinegar... WRONG. The trick is a mixture of beef and pork mince left too long in the sun. We are using these little sentinels to monitor biodiversity #iDNA
Who knew textiles lessons in high school would come in handy.
Four fly pyramids ready to catch carrion flies for iDNA studies before and after Wetland restoration. Wish me luck hunting. #ReWetFor #onehealth
Four fly pyramids ready to catch carrion flies for iDNA studies before and after Wetland restoration. Wish me luck hunting. #ReWetFor #onehealth
August 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Who knew textiles lessons in high school would come in handy.
Four fly pyramids ready to catch carrion flies for iDNA studies before and after Wetland restoration. Wish me luck hunting. #ReWetFor #onehealth
Four fly pyramids ready to catch carrion flies for iDNA studies before and after Wetland restoration. Wish me luck hunting. #ReWetFor #onehealth
And we will see if wetland restoration will protect these functions or open up new functional pathways in Sweden. #ReWetFor
🚨 Hot off the press! We show that species loss from key habitats (like wetlands) accelerates secondary extinction in regional multi-habitat food webs. Also, we show the importance of common species to regional food web robustness. doi.org/10.1038/s420...
#Ecology #FoodWebs #Biodiversity #Metaweb
#Ecology #FoodWebs #Biodiversity #Metaweb
Species loss in key habitats accelerates regional food web disruption - Communications Biology
Simulating extinctions across regional food webs reveals that losing species from one habitat— especially wetlands—can cascade to others, accelerating multi-habitat food web collapse, highlighting the...
doi.org
July 4, 2025 at 7:58 AM
And we will see if wetland restoration will protect these functions or open up new functional pathways in Sweden. #ReWetFor
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‘Biodiversity is not declining’ is a claim you may have heard. But science says otherwise. 📉
The @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment reveals 1 million plant & animal species are at risk of extinction. Misinformation clouds the crisis.
Rely on trusted research to understand our shared challenges. 🌍🧪
The @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment reveals 1 million plant & animal species are at risk of extinction. Misinformation clouds the crisis.
Rely on trusted research to understand our shared challenges. 🌍🧪
July 4, 2025 at 7:02 AM
‘Biodiversity is not declining’ is a claim you may have heard. But science says otherwise. 📉
The @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment reveals 1 million plant & animal species are at risk of extinction. Misinformation clouds the crisis.
Rely on trusted research to understand our shared challenges. 🌍🧪
The @ipbes.net #GlobalAssessment reveals 1 million plant & animal species are at risk of extinction. Misinformation clouds the crisis.
Rely on trusted research to understand our shared challenges. 🌍🧪
Introduction to the Ecke lab's version of The Powerpuff girls.
Riana Ramanantsalama(🇲🇬) superpower - pathogen dynamics, @pontifes-pa.bsky.social (🇲🇽) - host-parasite interactions and me (🏴) - remote sensing and applied statistical ecology. #DiseaseEcology #teamwork #global #international
Riana Ramanantsalama(🇲🇬) superpower - pathogen dynamics, @pontifes-pa.bsky.social (🇲🇽) - host-parasite interactions and me (🏴) - remote sensing and applied statistical ecology. #DiseaseEcology #teamwork #global #international
June 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Introduction to the Ecke lab's version of The Powerpuff girls.
Riana Ramanantsalama(🇲🇬) superpower - pathogen dynamics, @pontifes-pa.bsky.social (🇲🇽) - host-parasite interactions and me (🏴) - remote sensing and applied statistical ecology. #DiseaseEcology #teamwork #global #international
Riana Ramanantsalama(🇲🇬) superpower - pathogen dynamics, @pontifes-pa.bsky.social (🇲🇽) - host-parasite interactions and me (🏴) - remote sensing and applied statistical ecology. #DiseaseEcology #teamwork #global #international
What a great trip to Puumala, the namesake of PUUV (Orthohantavirus) in Lakeland, Finland? The ideal surroundings for myself and the other two new postdocs of the Ecke lab to settle in.
#OneHealth #DiseaseEcology
#OneHealth #DiseaseEcology
June 20, 2025 at 8:45 AM
What a great trip to Puumala, the namesake of PUUV (Orthohantavirus) in Lakeland, Finland? The ideal surroundings for myself and the other two new postdocs of the Ecke lab to settle in.
#OneHealth #DiseaseEcology
#OneHealth #DiseaseEcology
New home for 1 year (at least)...so excited for this new adventure. @helsinki.fi
April 7, 2025 at 7:41 AM
New home for 1 year (at least)...so excited for this new adventure. @helsinki.fi
The first week of the postdoc completed ✅
besides meeting my amazing new colleagues and exploring Helsinki (especially the art galleries)... Mämmi, a traditional dessert often eating around Easter is a strong highlight.
besides meeting my amazing new colleagues and exploring Helsinki (especially the art galleries)... Mämmi, a traditional dessert often eating around Easter is a strong highlight.
April 6, 2025 at 11:49 AM
The first week of the postdoc completed ✅
besides meeting my amazing new colleagues and exploring Helsinki (especially the art galleries)... Mämmi, a traditional dessert often eating around Easter is a strong highlight.
besides meeting my amazing new colleagues and exploring Helsinki (especially the art galleries)... Mämmi, a traditional dessert often eating around Easter is a strong highlight.
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New paper! 🦠🐭🦟 Perspectives on the route towards a 'people and nature' paradigm for biodiversity-disease research and action, with fantastic co-authors @profkatej.bsky.social, @dwredding.bsky.social and Sagan Friant. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Towards a ‘people and nature’ paradigm for biodiversity and infectious disease | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Zoonotic and vector-borne infectious diseases are among the most direct human health consequences of biodiversity change. The COVID-19 pandemic increased health policymakers’ attention on the links between ecological degradation and disease, and sparked ...
royalsocietypublishing.org
January 9, 2025 at 10:25 AM
New paper! 🦠🐭🦟 Perspectives on the route towards a 'people and nature' paradigm for biodiversity-disease research and action, with fantastic co-authors @profkatej.bsky.social, @dwredding.bsky.social and Sagan Friant. royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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New in #BirdStudy
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
January 7, 2025 at 11:11 AM
New in #BirdStudy
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
#Seabirds Count shows 73% decline in Great Skuas after bird flu.
Declines in UK breeding populations of seabird species of conservation concern following the outbreak of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) in 2021–2022 (Tremlett et al.) doi.org/10.1080/0006...
#ornithology
More conferences should consider doing a waiver buying scheme... Sounds like a great idea to me.
📢Reminder that the early bird registration for the 2nd Women in Malaria Online conference is closing Feb 14, 2025 (50 USD)! Fee waiver applications are available for LMICs & you can also buy fee waivers for others. Register/apply here: womeninmalaria.es/wim-conferen... Please re-share 💛
January 8, 2025 at 9:18 PM
More conferences should consider doing a waiver buying scheme... Sounds like a great idea to me.
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Check out Alex's @alexbrighten1.bsky.social first PhD paper! Looking at age and migratory patterns in alpine swifts, using stable isotope analysis:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
January 7, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Check out Alex's @alexbrighten1.bsky.social first PhD paper! Looking at age and migratory patterns in alpine swifts, using stable isotope analysis:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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📣 #PhD Opportunity 📣
New PhD project with Mark Moseley at SRUC @srucnews.bsky.social and Tom Bodey at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and other cosupervisors in Auckland looking at #InvasiveSpecies and #disease in the #Maldives 🐀🐁🦠
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New PhD project with Mark Moseley at SRUC @srucnews.bsky.social and Tom Bodey at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and other cosupervisors in Auckland looking at #InvasiveSpecies and #disease in the #Maldives 🐀🐁🦠
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EastBio - Invasive mammals, island biogeography, and the ecological epidemiology of a One Health pathogen at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - EastBio - Invasive mammals, island biogeography, and the ecological epidemiology of a One Health pathogen at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College, listed on FindAPhD.com
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December 18, 2024 at 10:37 AM
📣 #PhD Opportunity 📣
New PhD project with Mark Moseley at SRUC @srucnews.bsky.social and Tom Bodey at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and other cosupervisors in Auckland looking at #InvasiveSpecies and #disease in the #Maldives 🐀🐁🦠
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New PhD project with Mark Moseley at SRUC @srucnews.bsky.social and Tom Bodey at @uniofaberdeen.bsky.social and other cosupervisors in Auckland looking at #InvasiveSpecies and #disease in the #Maldives 🐀🐁🦠
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End of an era... I defended my PhD yesterday. Thanks to my examiners, especially @aivelo.bsky.social for coming all this way and putting up with the British system haha. Obviously, thanks to my amazing supervisor Sandra Telfer who is a star and now the benchmark of my career ambitions. #PhD
December 4, 2024 at 9:25 AM
End of an era... I defended my PhD yesterday. Thanks to my examiners, especially @aivelo.bsky.social for coming all this way and putting up with the British system haha. Obviously, thanks to my amazing supervisor Sandra Telfer who is a star and now the benchmark of my career ambitions. #PhD
As always our "resident artist" has produced a beautiful summary of @aivelo.bsky.social talk today.
A lovely seminar from Tuomas @aivelo.bsky.social on the work of the Helsinki Urban Rat Project, featuring the work of a historian (History), visual artist (Niche), many school kids (Rat Tracks), and, of course, an ecologist. Covering loads of different aspects of rats in cities.
#SciArt #UrbanRats
#SciArt #UrbanRats
December 2, 2024 at 4:01 PM
As always our "resident artist" has produced a beautiful summary of @aivelo.bsky.social talk today.