Barbara A. Han

Please reach out for more details or if you're interested in applying for this new program at Cary! We love visitors :)

From @jdrakephd.bsky.social & @bahanbug.bsky.social in @plos.org #Computational #Biology | How to write a scientific paper in fifteen steps | #Education #Science 🧪 🔓 #GoodReadingForAll CC/ @ppalagi.bsky.social ⬇️ journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

Breakthroughs happen when diverse expertise is woven together. Collaboration can be messy—different vocabularies, different tools—but it’s worth it. We made a video with @MinuteEarth about it. 🎥 @fviromics.bsky.social @payeldas.bsky.social & Drew Kramer #EEID

Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪

🚨 Our team just released a reproducible Docker pipeline for RNAseq assembly and annotation designed for nonmodel organisms! We're using it to explore how bats manage viral infections, but it's built for broad utility in wildlife transcriptomics. @viralemergence.org www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Happy to share our new paper introducing the Animal Culture Database in Scientific Data: We’re putting together a resource consolidating primary research on cultural behaviors in wild animal populations and how they’re affected by human activity (1/5) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BREAKING: In a serious blow to US pandemic flu preparedness, HHS has cancelled a contract with Moderna to test and license prototype vaccines for #H5N1 #birdflu and other potential pandemic viruses. In a pandemic, mRNA is the fastest way to vaccine doses. www.statnews.com/2025/05/28/m...

we're crowd-sourcing a searchable repository of tangible benefits stemming from federally-funded research. Come enjoy the great stories; or send in an idea; or volunteer to join the team. publicusaresearchbenefits.com please re-post so we get more great stories in there!

Time Sensitive: Public comment on Schedule F (removing civil service protections for many federal employees INCLUDING THOSE WITH AUTHORITY OVER GRANTS) ends tomorrow. Notice is here: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/... . Comment here (green button) www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... .

Slashing $23B from NIH & NSF isn't fiscal responsibility—it's a $32B economic loss. Science investments return 140–210%, compounding over time. No single administration can claim the credit, but any can cause the damage. Cuts like this aren’t just shortsighted—they’re bad business. bit.ly/dogefail

Happy to announce that @alexvespi.bsky.social joined the list of amazing invited speakers at the 2nd British NetSci Symposium! If you are a PhD student or Post-doc send us an abstract! The morning of the event will be entirely devoted to you! All info: www.netsci.uk/events.html

Calling all virologists: my lab is hiring a tech for high containment work! Come work with our amazing team at 🇨🇦's National Pandemic Research Centre, using experimental, systems biology, & AI-driven approaches to study infection & pathogenesis of emerging viruses.

I love this. Let’s illuminate the reverberating impacts of our scientific enterprise.

NSF is stating that DOGE has the authority to give thumbs up or down to grant applications that experts have systematically vetted. Closed-door deliberations are being observed by DOGE 'consultants', who have accessed the NSF awards system to block the dispersal of approved grants. bit.ly/3Szvv4D

🌱📊 Join the FAO One Health ICT CoP! 🌍 Launch: 21 May 2025 | 14:00–15:30 CET 💻 🔗 Register: fao.zoom.us/webinar/regi... Connect, share, and innovate with peers using ICT to boost One Health data flow & early warning. #OneHealth #ICT #GlobalHealth #Innovation

An interesting story about the psychology of changing people's minds, with a dash of data visualization. ♾️

“The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas — hardly a partisan institution — finds that nondefense government R&D yields long-run economic returns of 150% to 300% …“Our findings therefore point to a misallocation of public capital, and substantial underinvestment in nondefense R&D.”

Join us for the launch of this new Community of Practice that aims to support technical exchange and co-development of solutions to One Health data flow and interoperability across sectors - a multistakeholder collaborative platform to enhance One Health Intelligence. bit.ly/43bI9f7

Postdoc (Washington DC, USA) Rodent-borne virus risk in heterogeneous landscapes with @clfaust.bsky.social @jraghwani.bsky.social @bahanbug.bsky.social at @ox.ac.uk @uofglasgow.bsky.social @royalvetcollege.bsky.social @ilri.org... More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2307

France opens its doors to science researchers and scholars, including those fleeing the United States. anr.fr/en/latest-ne...

Excellent resource: christinapagel.substack.com/p/eight-thin...

The Virology Unit at IPC has 3 positions open in #OneHealth: *Postdoc – Reconstructing Past Outbreaks *Postdoc – Environmental Surveillance *Clinical Manager These aren’t just jobs. They’re front-row seats to global health in action. Ready? tinyurl.com/57rvxcau #ViroSky #IDSky 🦠🔬🧬🥼🧪

Today at the “Stand up for Science” demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial.

@asn-amnat.bsky.social is proud to be a signature on this letter and grateful to UCS for putting this together.

DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...

Happening this evening. Register to attend or to receive the recording.

Are there any: 1) legal funds / organizations giving aid/advice to scientists impacted by federal actions lately? 2) charities giving $ aid to recently laid off federal employees? (Curious, not that I currently require either myself)

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

A metascience and AI postdoctoral fellowship by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation @sloanfoundation.bsky.social sloan.org/programs/dig...

KU Center for Genomics is hiring a postdoctoral fellow! Choose a mentor among the Center's faculty and propose an original project. Two years funding and generous research budget included. Please share, retweet and apply! genomics.ku.edu/ku-center-geno…

📢 Call for papers: #TDR, GigaScience Press and @gbif.org announce third call for #data papers describing datasets on #vectors of human diseases 🦟🪰🕷️ Deadline 4 April 2025 www.gbif.org/news/70AuWTs...

Our next #IFEEAI webinar speaker is @lhmoncla.bsky.social , Assistant Professor @upenn.edu Title: Intensive transmission in wild, migratory birds drove rapid geographic dissemination and repeated spillovers of #H5N1 #birdflu into agriculture in North America.

By linking heterogeneous datasets, knowledge graphs can help track the spread of HPAI, identify knowledge gaps, and support hypothesis generation in ecological systems. This work included efforts from @bahanbug.bsky.social @guppy-stott.bsky.social  @jdrakephd.bsky.social

Have a bold idea to study pandemic expansion? We want to work with you! We are soliciting seed ideas, and have a cool way for you to populate anticipated team needs - have a think, follow the link, and thanks for stopping by! Learn more: appex.org/seed/

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/...

New paper simulating how coinfection interactions influence parasite diversity estimates, with wonderful coauthors and big thanks to @tarasite-ecology.bsky.social for the insightful friendly review!

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

Glasgow's calendar is full of hosting some fantastic virology meetings this year! Register below for.... 📅 UK Pandemic Sciences Network conference (23 Apr): ukpsn.org/ukpsn-confer... Bringing together experts in the field to discuss key challenges and research developments in pandemic threats!

Very excited to see this paper out in the world. Absolutely monumental effort by @gorkalasso.bsky.social et al. to predict which filoviruses are likely to infect which bat species. Check out the thread below for details!

❗3 year postdoc - deadline Feb 9th. Please get in touch with any questions

Please share this postdoc position based at the Royal Vet College working on a very cool US-UK EEID project with some wonderful people: @jraghwani.bsky.social + Christina Faust, James Hassell, Oli Pybus, Dan Streicker, Sarah Knowles. Reach out to Jayna directly for questions and details.

Our collaborative work with our Brazilian partners was dropped. www.cell.com/iscience/ful.... Great work by Dr Hendy and the team. @createneo.bsky.social @bahanbug.bsky.social @mauriciolnogueira.bsky.social

Just in time for the holidays, our lab has just submitted our first lab led paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! We use phylodynamics to reconstruct how H5N1 got to North America and spread so rapidly. Full thread coming post holidays, but for now, super proud of @lambod50.bsky.social

Really excited to share that my postdoctoral work on HPAI in North America is now preprinted! Please feel free to reach out with any feedback and thoughts! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

On Thu, Dec 12 @ 11am ET, join us for a virtual science seminar with @caryinstitute.bsky.social's Dr. Steward Pickett: Fifty Years in 50 Minutes and What's Next? Free + open to all. #urbanecology #cities #ecology For more info + to register: www.eventbrite.com/e/fifty-year...

Excited to share our latest paper with Kyle Dahlin and colleagues on temperature-dependent models of mosquito-borne transmission. We've updated the classic Ross-MacDonald model to address its limitations and uncovered significant findings: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...