Daniele (Dani) Wiley
@dlfwiley.bsky.social
NSF Graduate Research Fellow |
PhD student in Amphibian & Reptile Biodiversity Lab (🐸ARBL🐢) @ the University of New Mexico |
Disease ecology, host-parasite/species interactions, & popgen+ 🔬🦠(broad interests)
PhD student in Amphibian & Reptile Biodiversity Lab (🐸ARBL🐢) @ the University of New Mexico |
Disease ecology, host-parasite/species interactions, & popgen+ 🔬🦠(broad interests)
Pinned
In all the gloom, a ray of happiness.
My 1st, first-authored paper was published today in @peerj.bsky.social. 🎉
Started during my post-bacc (2022), this project involved >1,000 #frogs from #NaturalHistoryCollections, 3 #pathogens, & spanned 32 states!
🐸🦠
#womeninSTEM
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
My 1st, first-authored paper was published today in @peerj.bsky.social. 🎉
Started during my post-bacc (2022), this project involved >1,000 #frogs from #NaturalHistoryCollections, 3 #pathogens, & spanned 32 states!
🐸🦠
#womeninSTEM
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
Elev replacement is common, but to what extent parasites mirror this pattern is less understood. To fill this gap, we studied avian parasite diversity in hyper-susceptible host species that have distinct elev ranges. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
So grateful - this ms represents my intro into academia.🥲
So grateful - this ms represents my intro into academia.🥲
October 16, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Elev replacement is common, but to what extent parasites mirror this pattern is less understood. To fill this gap, we studied avian parasite diversity in hyper-susceptible host species that have distinct elev ranges. doi.org/10.1101/2025...
So grateful - this ms represents my intro into academia.🥲
So grateful - this ms represents my intro into academia.🥲
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Warrior and legend.
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Warrior and legend.
April 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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🧬🌍 Happy to see our latest paper out at @royalsocietypublishing.org
We show how genetic risks in endangered species can stay hidden due to a time-lag between demographic collapse and genetic loss. Work led by amazing MSc students Xufen Liu and Ester Milesi #ConservationGenomics
Pic by David Stowe
We show how genetic risks in endangered species can stay hidden due to a time-lag between demographic collapse and genetic loss. Work led by amazing MSc students Xufen Liu and Ester Milesi #ConservationGenomics
Pic by David Stowe
March 27, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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If you are aware of grad program reduction due to cuts in science funding in the USA -- please help catalog it! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪🌿🐸
Grad Admissions Impact Survey
It is grad admissions season and many postbacs are feeling the chilling impacts of the Trump administration's recent executive orders freezing and slashing research funding. Dozens of graduate program...
docs.google.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:48 AM
If you are aware of grad program reduction due to cuts in science funding in the USA -- please help catalog it! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... 🧪🌿🐸
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Cool meta-analysis on parasite-mediated sexual selection, showing associations between parasite load and ornament condition. Stronger negative correlations for ornaments that can change in quality, such as behavioral displays and skin pigmentation! 🪱🧪🌍🦚 #evolution #evobio
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
Ornaments indicate parasite load only if they are dynamic or parasites are contagious
Choosing a mate with few or (ideally) no parasites has many potential benefits. Indeed, good health seems like such an important attribute in a potential m
doi.org
February 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Cool meta-analysis on parasite-mediated sexual selection, showing associations between parasite load and ornament condition. Stronger negative correlations for ornaments that can change in quality, such as behavioral displays and skin pigmentation! 🪱🧪🌍🦚 #evolution #evobio
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
doi.org/10.1093/evle...
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Also relevant for 🦤🌍
Although the volume of #ConsGen peer-reviewed science is increasing, Linda Neaves, Stephen Sarre, et al. show the gap still may be growing between research & application (conservation-genetics gap). They suggest that data co-production may improve the incorporation of the research into application.
Technological advances have enhanced and expanded conservation genomics research but are yet to be integrated fully into biodiversity management
Conservation genetics and genomics examines the role of evolutionary and genetic processes in the persistence of organisms, and its research is intend…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Also relevant for 🦤🌍
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EMBO Population Genomics course: Are you a postgrad student or a postdoc starting a population genomics project? This course aims to give you the tools to answer questions for your project. Registration deadline: 24 February 2025 meetings.embo.org/event/25-pop... #EMBOpopgen
February 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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Climate change threatens amphibians & species representation within Protected Areas in tropical wetlands🐸
Suggests that expanding PAs is urgent. But, addressing drivers of environmental degradation, such as unsustainable practices in agriculture, is equally critical🌏🧪
🔗 https://buff.ly/3E7rlwO
Suggests that expanding PAs is urgent. But, addressing drivers of environmental degradation, such as unsustainable practices in agriculture, is equally critical🌏🧪
🔗 https://buff.ly/3E7rlwO
January 31, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Climate change threatens amphibians & species representation within Protected Areas in tropical wetlands🐸
Suggests that expanding PAs is urgent. But, addressing drivers of environmental degradation, such as unsustainable practices in agriculture, is equally critical🌏🧪
🔗 https://buff.ly/3E7rlwO
Suggests that expanding PAs is urgent. But, addressing drivers of environmental degradation, such as unsustainable practices in agriculture, is equally critical🌏🧪
🔗 https://buff.ly/3E7rlwO
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also relevant for #popgen
And a note to all authors in #consgen and #evolution: REPORT your standard errors, variance or confidence intervals in the papers for every summary stat that you provide!
In the meta-analyses we had to skip thousands of papers for this reason.
In the meta-analyses we had to skip thousands of papers for this reason.
a man is sitting in a theater holding a cup of soda and crying while watching a movie .
ALT: a man is sitting in a theater holding a cup of soda and crying while watching a movie .
media.tenor.com
January 31, 2025 at 8:08 AM
also relevant for #popgen
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Forum in this collection: Phylogenetic framework to explore #trait #evolution in #Trypanosomatidae, authored by A.Y. Kostygov, A.T.S. Albanaz, A. Butenko, E.S. Gerasimov, J. Lukeš & V. Yurchenko. #Genome #Phylogenomics #Trypanosomatid #Catalase @czechacademy.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/paras...
www.cell.com/trends/paras...
January 31, 2025 at 12:09 PM
Forum in this collection: Phylogenetic framework to explore #trait #evolution in #Trypanosomatidae, authored by A.Y. Kostygov, A.T.S. Albanaz, A. Butenko, E.S. Gerasimov, J. Lukeš & V. Yurchenko. #Genome #Phylogenomics #Trypanosomatid #Catalase @czechacademy.bsky.social
www.cell.com/trends/paras...
www.cell.com/trends/paras...
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Museum biology FTW! Cool!
Declining body size is a widely anticipated response to #anthropogenic #ClimateChange, but how general is it? @lbuckley.bsky.social &co use a >50-year study of montane #grasshoppers to show that size shifts depend on both elevation & species’ seasonal timing 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3CEBrF6
January 31, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Museum biology FTW! Cool!
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What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
January 24, 2025 at 5:43 PM
What is a #biome? 🌳🌲🌱
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
How can we delineate past, present and future biomes, despite the patchy and incomplete data we have on the distribution of nature on Earth? 🌍🌐
Our review 👉 doi.org/10.1002/ecm....
🧪 #ecology #biogeography #paleoecology #climate #vegetation #FunctionalTraits
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Bats carry many viruses but don’t get sick. Scientists found special immune genes that help bats fight viruses without harmful inflammation. One gene, ISG15, helps bats fight COVID-19 better than humans. 🦇🌎🧪🦊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Bat genomes illuminate adaptations to viral tolerance and disease resistance - Nature
A systematic analysis of 115 mammalian genomes, including 10 new bat genomes, reveals prevalent positive selection in immune genes in bats and shows key adaptations in the antiviral gene ISG15 that ai...
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Bats carry many viruses but don’t get sick. Scientists found special immune genes that help bats fight viruses without harmful inflammation. One gene, ISG15, helps bats fight COVID-19 better than humans. 🦇🌎🧪🦊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Amazing new global biodiversity paper!
Confirms:
> Wealthy areas well studied
> Most Biodiversity not in these areas
🌍🌎🌏
Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss @nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Confirms:
> Wealthy areas well studied
> Most Biodiversity not in these areas
🌍🌎🌏
Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss @nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
January 30, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Amazing new global biodiversity paper!
Confirms:
> Wealthy areas well studied
> Most Biodiversity not in these areas
🌍🌎🌏
Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss @nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Confirms:
> Wealthy areas well studied
> Most Biodiversity not in these areas
🌍🌎🌏
Global meta-analysis shows action is needed to halt genetic diversity loss @nature.com
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
My #EcoEvo, #Ecology, #Biogeo & #FieldBioligy inclined folks:
Do you have your #pics of your favorite #fieldsite?
Below is the "Beaver Pond" in Gothic, CO - nestled on #RockyMountain #BiologicalLaboratories ( #RMBL ) land. Living in that valley was so special to me... I'd love to go back one day.
Do you have your #pics of your favorite #fieldsite?
Below is the "Beaver Pond" in Gothic, CO - nestled on #RockyMountain #BiologicalLaboratories ( #RMBL ) land. Living in that valley was so special to me... I'd love to go back one day.
January 30, 2025 at 7:41 AM
My #EcoEvo, #Ecology, #Biogeo & #FieldBioligy inclined folks:
Do you have your #pics of your favorite #fieldsite?
Below is the "Beaver Pond" in Gothic, CO - nestled on #RockyMountain #BiologicalLaboratories ( #RMBL ) land. Living in that valley was so special to me... I'd love to go back one day.
Do you have your #pics of your favorite #fieldsite?
Below is the "Beaver Pond" in Gothic, CO - nestled on #RockyMountain #BiologicalLaboratories ( #RMBL ) land. Living in that valley was so special to me... I'd love to go back one day.
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Apropos of nothing, just catching up on some much overdue reading.
January 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Apropos of nothing, just catching up on some much overdue reading.
In all the gloom, a ray of happiness.
My 1st, first-authored paper was published today in @peerj.bsky.social. 🎉
Started during my post-bacc (2022), this project involved >1,000 #frogs from #NaturalHistoryCollections, 3 #pathogens, & spanned 32 states!
🐸🦠
#womeninSTEM
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
My 1st, first-authored paper was published today in @peerj.bsky.social. 🎉
Started during my post-bacc (2022), this project involved >1,000 #frogs from #NaturalHistoryCollections, 3 #pathogens, & spanned 32 states!
🐸🦠
#womeninSTEM
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
January 29, 2025 at 3:33 PM
In all the gloom, a ray of happiness.
My 1st, first-authored paper was published today in @peerj.bsky.social. 🎉
Started during my post-bacc (2022), this project involved >1,000 #frogs from #NaturalHistoryCollections, 3 #pathogens, & spanned 32 states!
🐸🦠
#womeninSTEM
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
My 1st, first-authored paper was published today in @peerj.bsky.social. 🎉
Started during my post-bacc (2022), this project involved >1,000 #frogs from #NaturalHistoryCollections, 3 #pathogens, & spanned 32 states!
🐸🦠
#womeninSTEM
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
As an #NSF Graduate Research Fellow, federal funding made it possible for me (a #firstgen) to publish my very first paper in @peerj.bsky.social this week on frogs 🐸, their pathogens🦠, and using machine learning 💻 as exploratory tools in large-scale, wildlife disease studies.
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
January 29, 2025 at 2:53 PM
As an #NSF Graduate Research Fellow, federal funding made it possible for me (a #firstgen) to publish my very first paper in @peerj.bsky.social this week on frogs 🐸, their pathogens🦠, and using machine learning 💻 as exploratory tools in large-scale, wildlife disease studies.
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
doi.org/10.7717/peer...
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NSF PRFB POSTDOCS:
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
January 28, 2025 at 5:36 PM
NSF PRFB POSTDOCS:
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
Pull the remainder of this funding cycle’s stipend, all remaining research funds, and all remaining travel funds (if you have them). Do it before 5PM today. Per instructions from multiple NSF POs.
If you’re not already on the PRFB slack, DM me and I’ll send you an invite
Don't forget to guard your #mentalhealth: ferociously when you can! I know it's a very scary time, but #doomscrolling will hamper your ability to live long enough to fix things. Take breaks, look outside, & say no to that thing that's more stressful than rewarding. #AcademicSky #WomeninSTEM #DEI
January 28, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Don't forget to guard your #mentalhealth: ferociously when you can! I know it's a very scary time, but #doomscrolling will hamper your ability to live long enough to fix things. Take breaks, look outside, & say no to that thing that's more stressful than rewarding. #AcademicSky #WomeninSTEM #DEI
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#WEBINAR!
Bat conservation as White Nose Syndrome approaches
Friday, Jan 31, 2025
12 p.m. PT / 1 p.m. MT
Bats in B.C. face unprecedented threats from white-nose syndrome which can wipe out entire colonies if introduced. With WCSC's Dr.Cori Lausen. Free. Registration required
fwcp.ca/events/ 🦇🌎🦊🧪
Bat conservation as White Nose Syndrome approaches
Friday, Jan 31, 2025
12 p.m. PT / 1 p.m. MT
Bats in B.C. face unprecedented threats from white-nose syndrome which can wipe out entire colonies if introduced. With WCSC's Dr.Cori Lausen. Free. Registration required
fwcp.ca/events/ 🦇🌎🦊🧪
FWCP Events - Fish and Wildlife Compensation Program
Upcoming online information sessions January 29 Restoring Wetlands with Beaver Dam Analogues January 31 Bat conservation as White Nose Syndrome approaches February 21 Restoring flood conditions for we...
fwcp.ca
January 28, 2025 at 5:24 PM
#WEBINAR!
Bat conservation as White Nose Syndrome approaches
Friday, Jan 31, 2025
12 p.m. PT / 1 p.m. MT
Bats in B.C. face unprecedented threats from white-nose syndrome which can wipe out entire colonies if introduced. With WCSC's Dr.Cori Lausen. Free. Registration required
fwcp.ca/events/ 🦇🌎🦊🧪
Bat conservation as White Nose Syndrome approaches
Friday, Jan 31, 2025
12 p.m. PT / 1 p.m. MT
Bats in B.C. face unprecedented threats from white-nose syndrome which can wipe out entire colonies if introduced. With WCSC's Dr.Cori Lausen. Free. Registration required
fwcp.ca/events/ 🦇🌎🦊🧪
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A great data of human evolution/past dispersal & occurrences.
I can see its usefulnees for paleo/extinction studies
@jcsvenning.bsky.social do you know?
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
I can see its usefulnees for paleo/extinction studies
@jcsvenning.bsky.social do you know?
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
The ROCEEH Out of Africa Database (ROAD): A large-scale research database serves as an indispensable tool for human evolutionary studies
Large scale databases are critical for helping scientists decipher long-term patterns in human evolution. This paper describes the conception and development of such a research database and illustrate...
journals.plos.org
January 28, 2025 at 12:04 PM
A great data of human evolution/past dispersal & occurrences.
I can see its usefulnees for paleo/extinction studies
@jcsvenning.bsky.social do you know?
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...
I can see its usefulnees for paleo/extinction studies
@jcsvenning.bsky.social do you know?
journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...