The book "Biological Highways in the Sky" about the aerial dispersion of microbes and small insects is available free of charge in ebook form via the #ÉditionsQuae platform: www.quae-open.com/produit/346/...
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NAME dispersion-model predictions of the spread of fungal spores are a key part of this multi-agency early warning and advisory system for diseases of wheat www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/26/1...

How do you combine simple atmospheric dispersion modelling trajectories like this with environmental data and population biology knowledge to make short- and long-term predictions of desert locust swarm migration?

Back from 2 days at the UK vector-borne disease @ukvbd.bsky.social conference in Liverpool, where I discovered i) how little I understand about biology, but ii) how keen everyone else was to learn about atmospheric dispersion modelling. Thanks @baylism.bsky.social et al for bringing us all together!

"Miso-scale" convection

How do you forecast the arrival of devastating crop diseases spread by fungal spores, blown 1000s of km on the wind and from countries in which you don't have knowledge of crop disease surveys? Use automated media scraping to generate proxy observations! rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Today the first UK bluetongue virus serotype 3 (BTV-3) case of the summer was confirmed, in a single symptomatic sheep on a farm near Haddiscoe, South Norfolk. A 20-km Temporary Control Zone (TCZ) has been declared around the premises www.gov.uk/animal-disea...