Matt Hack
@matthewhack.bsky.social
PhD candidate @ University of Michigan EEB | macroecology, seasonal migration, ornithology, biogeography | He/him
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Super excited to finally share this! #CollectionsAreEssential
🦇🦠 New preprint - in a long-term effort led by the amazing @mayajuman.bsky.social, we've shown that the ML tools developed by @viralemergence.org let us efficiently screen museum collections for pathogens with pandemic potential
🎉🔓 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
🎉🔓 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Museum collections and machine learning guide discovery of novel coronaviruses and paramyxoviruses
Natural history museum collections are valuable but underutilized resources for viral discovery, offering opportunities to test hypotheses about viral occurrence across space, time, and taxonomic grou...
www.biorxiv.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Super excited to finally share this! #CollectionsAreEssential
Reposted by Matt Hack
My feather cell type paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1111/ede.... We’ve packed a ton of stuff into this paper but I’ll go through some highlights in this thread!
Genetic Characterization of the Cell Types in Developing Feathers, and the Evolution of Feather Complexity
We used single cell sequencing to investigate the cell types of developing chicken feathers. From these data, we are able to describe the transcriptional profile of feather cell types, look at their ....
doi.org
August 26, 2025 at 5:24 PM
My feather cell type paper is finally out! doi.org/10.1111/ede.... We’ve packed a ton of stuff into this paper but I’ll go through some highlights in this thread!
Reposted by Matt Hack
our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!
w/ @brentpease.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
w/ @brentpease.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
August 21, 2025 at 11:01 PM
our paper on how light pollution affects bird vocal behavior is out today in Science!!
w/ @brentpease.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
w/ @brentpease.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...