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Carla Mavian
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Evolutionary Virologist, Assistant Professor, Associate Director of International Relations and Surveillance Emerging Pathogens Institute at University of Florida
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NEW! 🦠🦧 We revisited a perplexing paradox: do wildlife really pose less of a risk to human health as they become more endangered? Turns out, it's sampling bias all the way down: conservation risks correlate with disease surveillance blindspots. 🔓 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Viral diversity and zoonotic risk in endangered species
A growing body of evidence links zoonotic disease risk, including pandemic threats, to biodiversity loss and other upstream anthropogenic impacts on ecosystem health. However, there is little current...
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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We’ve just released Epistorm-Mix, a new open dataset on how people in the U.S. mix across ages and settings in the post-COVID era.

📊 Contact-level data + contact matrices
Built for epidemic modeling & forecasting
Fully open data & code

🔗 www.epistorm.org/data/epistor...
Epistorm-Mix: Mapping Social Contact Patterns in the Post-Pandemic United States
Epistorm-Mix provides individual-level contact data and contacts patterns characterization relevant for the spread of respiratory infectious diseases within the US population.
www.epistorm.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 PM
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🧪 ✏️Apply for the 2026 Diverse Voices in Science Journalism Internship with
@science.org! 🧪 ✏️

This could be for you if you're a student from a community historically underrepresented in #journalism who's interested in in covering science for general audiences: recruiting.ultipro.com/AME1123ASEM/...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:00 AM
Very proud for receiving the Hipergator Early Career Award. Thank you Christina Boucher for nominating me, and to HiperGator for adding the plaque on the wall of the UF Data Center, pretty impressive! Now I know where my data goes ;)
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Day 1 of the metagenomic virus discovery workshop is underway with lectures on project planning. Fantastic to have teachers and participants from 20 countries here together in Stellenbosch
November 17, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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Today, we start one of the most advanced virus discovery & metagenomics workshop in the world in Stellenbosch. Experts from Australia, America, Brazil, Cambodia, China, Italy, Nederlands, Japan, U.K and Sweden come together to teach participants from 20 countries.
November 17, 2025 at 6:02 AM
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The advanced metagenomics for virus discovery workshop is underway in South Africa. Participants from 20 countries, global South such as Argentina, Brazil, Cambodia, Kenya, Uganda, Senegal, and Ghana, collaborating with expert teams from CERI, Karolinska Institutet, Germany, Australia, Japan
November 18, 2025 at 4:59 AM
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This morning we’re starting bright and early with a hands on tutorial in handling large sequencing output and designing a virus discovery pipeline
November 18, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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We're hiring -- join the Habitat Restoration & Protection Team!
November 15, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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The Metagenomic Virus Discovery workshop kicks off bright and early on Monday morning in gorgeous Stellenbosch, South Africa. We hope our participants are ready for a week packed full of insightful lecture and practical sessions with our panel of experts from around the world
November 12, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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Join us in the Neeslie Cinema, Stellenbosch University, on Wednesday 19th November at 14:00GMT (16:00 SAST) for the MVD workshop keynote. We have two fantastic talks from Dr Maja Vukovikj from Uppsala university, Sweden and Dr Erik Karlsson from Insitut Pasteur, Cambodia
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November 12, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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November 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Check out our symposium:The Changing #Epidemiology of #Oropouche Virus in the Americas at #ASTMH this Wednesday at 3-4:45pm in the Convention Center Hall F/G! talks by @johnnyuelmen.bsky.social @anaisabelbento.bsky.social Jorge Osorio, Alex Ciota, JP Carrera, Sandra Lopez Verges, Jennica Poongavanan
November 9, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Ahead of the COP30 in the Amazon, Brazil, The Climate Change and Epidemics Report is released, access the full report, video of the launch and summary presentation at: climade.health/climade-cop3...
November 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Tomorrow, please join the launch of the CLIMADE global report on Climate Change and Epidemics 2025, for the COP30 in Brazil - Join this exciting event online and get early access of the global report - Register: lnkd.in/dKyrJiP2 or Watch Live: lnkd.in/de-BsGMr
November 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Join us online on November 6 at 3 PM SAST (1 PM GMT/IST & 8 AM ECT USA time) for the release of the COP30 Climate Change and Epidemics Report 2025 by CLIMADE. Please register here: lnkd.in/dKyrJiP2 You can watch the event live: lnkd.in/de-BsGMr
#Climate #Change #Public #Health #Emergency
November 4, 2025 at 6:22 AM
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Norway has proposed almost doubling the catch limit for krill in the Southern Ocean, a proposal that exacerbated tensions at the annual meeting of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in Australia, since the continent’s wildlife depend on krill for sustenance.
Norway’s proposal to double krill harvests raises tension at Antarctic conservation summit
Norway proposed almost doubling the catch limit for krill in the Southern Ocean during the annual conference of the intergovernmental body that manages Antarctic fisheries taking place Oct. 20-31,…
news.mongabay.com
November 2, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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Out now: the 2025/2026 10 New Insights in Climate Science.

A global science synthesis with new findings on extreme warming, ocean heat, disease risks, and the state of carbon markets.

Read the full report: 10insightsclimate.science

#10ClimateInsights
October 30, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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African STARS strikes again! A one year fellowship and mentorship program for 20 individuals from 10 emergent AI, Health and Climate companies in Africa! Do not loose this opportunity in partnership Mastercard Foundation, Open Startup and MIT - Apply here: www.f6s.com/brain-accele...
October 30, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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I'd love to say lots of nice things about this invaluable preventable disease tracker from @monscience.bsky.social and team at Think Global Health. It's an incredible resource.

But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed.
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...
Vaccine-Preventable Disease: A Global Tracker | Think Global Health
This map is updated weekly and visualizes outbreaks of nine childhood diseases in collaboration with the International Society for Infectious Diseases
www.thinkglobalhealth.org
October 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Silent book club at @thelynxbooks.bsky.social reading one of my favorite books
October 8, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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Just under 6 weeks until the metagenomic virus discovery workshop kicks off in Stellenbosch, South Africa. We're excited to be bringing together a fantastic group of speakers and teachers with expertise in all aspects of virus discovery from around the world.
October 7, 2025 at 7:04 AM
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Thrilled to share our new paper where we sequenced 20 new #dengue virus genomes from #SaudiArabia, revealing the country as a major hub for DENV introductions from Asia & Africa and subsequent spread. 🦟🔬
Read it here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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September 4, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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ASTER: A Package for Large-scale Phylogenomic Reconstructions. #Phylogenomics #SpeciesTreeInference @molbioevol.bsky.social 🧬 🖥️
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July 27, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Hello 👋🏽 ! Just sharing an exciting opportunity from #CERI: applications are now open for the Training in Metagenomic Virus Discovery, 17–21 Nov 2025 in Stellenbosch 🇿🇦. Full funding available for participants from LMICs! 🌍
🗓️ Application deadline: 31 July 2025
🔗 Info: ceri.org.za/news/?token=...
July 3, 2025 at 7:55 AM