I don't think I wrote a new #introduction when I migrated from .social.
I'm a #computational #InfectiousDisease #epidemiologist and #biostatistician. I work on #CausalInference and #NetworkScience methods in ID Epi and #DiseaseEcology #DisEcol

Super excited about the latest piece of art I commissioned from the amazing Rosemary Hartman (https://www.etsy.com/shop/RosiesColoredGlasses):

"Host Pathogen Data Model", a quadriptych in stained glass.

#SciArt #DisEcol #DiseaseEcology #GlassArt

Jan 13 at 10am pst
Raina Plowright: Preventing the next Pandemic by Preventing Spillover

@epiverse
@idjclub #IDMastodon #onehealth #pandemics #spillover #DiseaseDynamics #epiverse #DisEcol #Bats #GlobalHealth

Spread the word @noamross
@DNAdataPhile
@ProfKen
@EdMHill
@olireiv
@ddestoum
@maciekboni
@andreashandel

https://calendar.ucsf.edu/event/eppicenter_seminar_raina_plowright_5699

Out from the EHA team + longstanding USAID PREDICT + ICRC collaborators: Prevalence of bat viruses associated with land-use change in Brazil

"We found that deforested sites had a less diverse bat community than forested sites, but higher viral prevalence and richness...In particular, viruses from the Coronaviridae family were detected more frequently in generalist species compared to specialist species."

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2022.921950/full

#OneHealth #EpiVerse #DiseaseEcology #DisEcol #Bats #JournalCLub

Two positions on in my computational research group at EcoHealth Alliance: an entry-level research/admin assistant and a data scientist position. Join a great organization on a team working on disease ecology and emergence forecasting!

https://ecoevo.social/@noamross/109478803985142282

https://ecoevo.social/@noamross/109478840554235551

#DataScience, #RStats, #Epidemiology #DiseaseEcology #DisEcol @jobsecoevo @rstats #EpiVerse #DataDon #Job

Check out these Simuliidae larvae hanging out on a stream rock. Turns out they are previously unknown hosts of Onchocerca volvulus, which causes river blindness, and maintain it in the Ituri Highlands of DR Congo.

Story, photos and (wriggly) video at the post below, tremendous science in the paper above! 👆

https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/2022/12/plos-oncho-drc #OneHealth #EpiVerse #DiseaseEcology #DisEcol #Epidemiology

Tremendous work by this North-South team, including my colleague Anne Laudisoit and #EcoHealthNet-supported students, finding that river blindness in the Ituri Highlands of DR Congo is locally maintained by a previously unknown vector (S. dentulosum). Implies that cryptic vectors could carry the disease in other regions!

https://journals.plos.org/plosntds/article?id=10.1371/journal.pntd.0010684

@epsteinjon #InfectiousDisease #OneHealth #DisEcol #Epidemiology

Looking for the servers or hashtags that #EpiTwitter folks have been landing in the #twittermigration. I see just a trickle across the #InfectiousDisease #OneHealth #EpiMastadon #EpiStats #DisEcol hashtags.

Hi all! My #introduction:

I'm a computational ecologist interested in disease dynamics (#DisEcol!), zoonotic spillover, spatiotemporal processes and the intersection of mechanistic models, Bayes + ML. I work at EcoHealth Alliance, an NGO focused on the links between conservation + health.

I do a fair bit of #rstats and lead a project at @ropensci facilitating peer-review of scientific software.

I'm Brooklyn-based, and will sometimes toot about local #NYC politics, #cycling and #bikepacking.