This graphic helps me wrap my head around the magnitude of the problem. Notice the amount of current biomass for wild mammals (in green) versus that for livestock and humans. No wonder we have converging crises of biodiversity, fresh water, and climate. doi.org/10.1093/biosci…

Congratulations to my PhD advisor Erin Mordecai for being promoted and granted tenure!! I could not have asked for a better and more supportive mentor, teacher, and role model. #RisingStar

And one more piece of good news to share this busy week: our paper is now out in Royal Society Publishing : value and limitations of early models in an emerging epidemic 1/ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

My little brother (in-law) is going to be on The Circle season 3, which is coming out Sep 8th on Netflix!! He's gonna crush it!! #TheCircleUSA #Netflix

The Circle season 3 trailer JUST DROPPED!! I’m biased, but it looks SO GOOD!! 🔥🔥🔥 #TheCircleNetflix

We are excited to announce Jennifer Jenkins has joined the NCX team as our Chief Sustainability Officer. Read about Jen's experience in the environmental field and what excites her most about the future of forest #carbon: bit.ly/3BSAUtl

Today my new review paper on cross-species transmission of coronaviruses got published 🎉 in Frontiers in Public Health (section Planetary Health, and part of a special issue: Planetary Health Impacts of Pandemic Coronaviruses). doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.…

How can protecting biodiversity benefit human health? A new study finds that preserving diverse ecosystems can prevent the spread of disease from animals to humans. Read the paper: bit.ly/3vA2UA5

Our (incl. Tejas Athni, Marissa Childs, @LisaAMandle and Erin Mordecai) review paper "Global Change and Emerging Infectious Diseases" was recently posted online by Annual Reviews (before the publication of the issue, which will be released in October, 2022). 🎉 annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.114…

A bittersweet and heartfelt congratulations to Nicole Nova, PhD, the first ever PhD graduate from the Mordecai lab (and Dmitri Petrov lab). Her dissertation is a tour de force on dengue climate and susceptible host dynamics, pathogen sharing in mammals, & CDV dynamics in wildlife

Great talk by Mauricio Santos-Vega on incorporating behavior into SIS infection models w/ applications to dengue breeding habitat (Cascante et al 2022) #EEID2022 Was also pleasantly surprised to see 2 beautiful figures made by Nicole Nova, PhD in his introduction! pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35035985/

A huge life milestone: attending my PhD in Biology graduation at Stanford on June 12, 2022 👩‍🎓 and somehow managing to receive an award too 🏆. I could not have wished for a better PhD experience with the most amazing advisors Erin Mordecai Dmitri Petrov and peers. ❤️ #PhDone #Stanford

A highly informative 🧵 on our latest paper on 🌟win-win🌟solutions for conservation 🌿 and infectious disease 🦠 control, now out in The Lancet Planetary Health from our fearless leader @parasiteecology

NEW Review: Evidence gaps and diversity among potential win–win solutions for #conservation and human #infectious #disease control thelancet.com/journals/lanpl… Ümran Ali Batırhan @parasiteecology

NEW Research: Ecological and socioeconomic factors associated with the human burden of environmentally mediated pathogens Nicole Nova, PhD De Leo Lab thelancet.com/journals/lanpl…

New in The Lancet Planetary Health: Analysis from Stanford University, Princeton University, et al. explores direct vs environmental disease drivers. Finds 80% of pathogens are environmentally mediated, supporting the need for more research on #environmental solutions to human diseases: bit.ly/3fYjzKg

Pathogens can be difficult to control when they infect people through environmental vectors (animals, water, waste, etc). New research finds that nearly 80% of pathogens are acquired through contact w/ environmental sources, hitting rural poor the hardest: bit.ly/3fYjzKg