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

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.

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

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

Currently in Sweden mapping multispectrum images of 20 sites prior to Wetland restoration. This will give us multiple indices of habitat complexity, health and moisture etc. at 5 cm scale. #ReWetFor #disease ecology

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

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

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

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.

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