Join Dr. Marc Klowden, Filiz Gunay, and me for a chat about being a reviewer for journals, like JOVE! 🤗📝

✅ Not sure how to get started? We gotchu!
✅ Want to get more involved as a reviewer? We gotchu!

⏰ Fri, May 3, 1 PM ET/10 AM PT
💻 Register: rb.gy/2df0es

The U.S. National Science Foundation announced it'll provide $1.6 billion of federal funds to one of the US Extremely Large Telescope projects, either the Giant Magellan Telescope or Thirty Meter Telescope. After decades of protecting Mauna Kea from TMT, this is a critical moment that will shape its future.

One of my favorite singers of all time.

The WDA's Graduate Student Research Recognition Award (SRRA) and the Graduate Student Scholarship Awards (SSA) are now open, and close at 5pm, Samoa Standard Time (UTC-11:00) on May 1, 2024.
To find out more and to enter, visit the WDA website bit.ly/3R67PVJ

Congratulations, Briana Betke Briana Betke on a great PhD defense today Meyers Lab at UT Austin ! 'Anthropogenic Impacts on Pathogenic Outcomes of our Wild Neighbors 🦇 and Closest Companions 🐕'

The Israeli military has relentlessly bombed farmland in Gaza and killed Palestinian farmers and agricultural workers. This is intentional. This is ecocide. This is creating conditions of long-term famine. 🧵

Our #phylogenomics study on the evolutionary relationships of birds 🦉🦃🦆🦜based on whole genome analysis of 363 species is now available as a preview article in nature nature.com/articles/s4158…

Grad school health insurance sucks and the cost of health care in USA does too- please consider donating to help LSU entomology Graduate Students injured in Random Shooting in GA gofund.me/b91fc00f

Congratulations to CVM joint faculty member Richard Hall for receiving the Russell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, the university’s highest early career teaching honor. To read the full story, visit bit.ly/3ToO63m
Odum School of Ecology Department of Infectious Diseases, UGA

Eight scholars of the Irish Famine issue St Patrick's Day call to Irish Americans to avert deliberate starvation in Gaza, carefully narrating how deprivation turns first to subsisting on animal fodder, then waves of death.
irishcentral.com/opinion/others…

Susan Abulhawa is the author of the critically acclaimed novel 'Mornings in Jenin' and has just returned from two weeks in Gaza, where 'What’s happening to people isn’t just this death and dismemberment and hunger. It is a total denigration of their personhood.'

If you think what is happening to Jairo I Fúnez-Flores is absurd and wrong, and also want to help advocate for him by writing individual letters of support, please DM me and I’ll let you know where to digitally send it so we can submit them as a large packet of support.

I just signed a petition: Say No to HB 1105. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/say-…

Our friend Jairo I Fúnez-Flores is the latest target of doxing and intimidation due to his pro-Palestine views by a right wing media outlet which has FOIA'd his private correspondence & called for his firing.

Please sign on to show our support!

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Apply now for @VectorByte training workshop on vector abundance / time-dependent data in the Washington D.C. area in July.

APD recently acquired GrayKey cellphone extraction tools and software (obtained via GORA)

Congratulations to Diana Erazo and colleagues for their recent Nature Communications article on climate change and WNV spread in Europe! Ingeniería Biomédica Uniandes
nature.com/articles/s4146…

This is an epic paper - so happy it’s finally in preprint! Impacts of climate change of zoonotic and vector borne diseases across the world 🌎 🦠 🐀 🐪 🦟 with the legendary David Redding Rory Gibb

1/3 The term “radical” in the U.S. is used to evoke associations with extremism, instability and an absolutist approach to politics. But this isn’t what radical means. The word radical derives from the Latin adjective radicalis, which simply means “of or relating to a root.”

📢 FIVE #interdisciplinary #PhDposition for UK and International students at University of Glasgow on #datascience and #ecology . Applications due March 22 - more information here: ecological-data-science.github.io/index.html