David W. Redding
dwredding.bsky.social
David W. Redding
@dwredding.bsky.social
Quantitative ecologist, sometime epidemiologist and modeller. Leader in Biodiversity and Health at the Natural History Museum, London, UK.
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Are you a young scholar working on cities and climate change? Maybe you want to be an @ipcc.bsky.social chapter scientist for the Special Report on cities. Check it out: www.ipcc.ch/2025/01/27/c...
Call for Applications: Chapter Scientists to support the IPCC Special Report on Climate Change and Cities — IPCC
www.ipcc.ch
February 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Foundations and future directions for causal inference in ecological research, forthcoming w/ @katherinesiegel.bsky.social: tinyurl.com/4mm57zzd.
We wrote it based on our experience teaching causal inference to ecologists w/ some stuff we wish other papers had reviewed to share w/ the students
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December 13, 2024 at 2:54 PM
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Really stellar new paper by @katherinesiegel.bsky.social & @lauradee.bsky.social
This is your new causal reference—a must read!!!
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Foundations and Future Directions for Causal Inference in Ecological Research
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onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 29, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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### NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ###

Global Joint Synthesis Call

"𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗯𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗲𝗲𝗻 𝗕𝗶𝗼𝗱𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗖𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲"

Funding of:

➡️ Working groups
➡️ Postdocs
@several synthesis centres/initiatives🔥❤️😍

PLEASE SPREAD WIDELY! THX!

www.idiv.de/research/sdi...
Calls | iDiv
www.idiv.de
December 2, 2024 at 6:54 AM
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🚨Fully-Funded UK PhD Opportunity!🚨

I’m hiring a #PhD exploring the complexities of #biodiversity change across space and time 🌐. Join @cmbeale.bsky.social and me at #York and for this exciting opportunity!

Please share and/or message me if interested. More info and how to apply: shorturl.at/Zu7ED
November 28, 2024 at 8:11 PM
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Thanks everyone who came to our first event at NHM! We had fantastic talks from Kate Jones (@profkatej.bsky.social), Sarah Hill, Andres Valenzuela-Sanchez & Natalie Imirzian, from zoonoses and viral genomes, to frogs and drones. We're back in February at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social - watch this space 🦟
November 28, 2024 at 1:25 PM
A couple of related, recent preprints from my lab:

1) Climate change sensitivity is widespread across animal-borne (zoonotic diseases) but methods and reporting so mixed that is hard to draw quantitative conclusions:
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
@roryjgibb.bsky.social @ar-tre.bsky.social
Sensitivity to climate change is widespread across zoonotic diseases
Climate change is expected to exacerbate infectious diseases, yet the climate sensitivity of zoonotic diseases (driven by spillover from animal reservoirs) is markedly understudied compared to vector-...
www.medrxiv.org
November 27, 2024 at 5:01 PM
I work at the Natural History Museum in London, UK (with c. 300 other scientists) researching global change and animal-borne disease using a combination of fieldwork, big data and ML/AI. Hopefully will start posting on Biodiversity and Health related matters soon...
www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science....
November 15, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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Two new postdoc positions open in disease ecology at the Univ of Florida!

Apply to join our exciting interdisciplinary project evaluating how invasive plants may act as conduits for the spread of pathogens from natural to agroecosystems.

explore.jobs.ufl.edu/en-us/job/52...
December 18, 2023 at 8:32 PM
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Please Repost!

Tenure track Assistant Professor position in Disease Ecology in my Department at UCR!

This is a great time to join our growing department.

Deadline is Jan. 22, so please check it out.

aprecruit.ucr.edu/JPF01846
January 12, 2024 at 11:49 PM