Sadie J. Ryan (she/her)

A woman happily wearing white edged sunglasses, a black padded jacket and blue backpack, on a sunny day on a road with trees, some brown grasses, and blue sky.

All universities in the US seem to have a University Ave. This one happens to be in Fort Collins.

Another post to boast about - Neha, undergrad researcher in QDEC, presented her interactive shiny app poster (ask us how) at the 2026 Florida Undergraduate Research Conference at UNF. An enormous conference, and I'm so pleased she had another super presentation!

Woman in a mask and a pink fleece looking wide eyed startled on a plane with 2 visible empty seats in frame.

No jungle, no scarf, but there may be empty seats on this flight!! Woah!

The Pokémon Company Is Actively Recruiting PhD Holders With Backgrounds in Ecology to Work in Tokyo - IGN The Pokémon Company is actively recruiting PhD holders with backgrounds in ecology to work in Tokyo. This is perhaps the closest chance Pokémon fans have to channel their inner Professor Oak in real l...

Okay this is the only situation where I'd gleefully leave academia for industry (if only I had Japanese language skills)

www.ign.com/articles/the...

Ava Johnson won our department's undergrad prize, the Dunkle Award. Ava is conducting her honors thesis work with me, co-mentored by Di Yang, modeling actual air temperature, including LST, for mosquito model work.

The world is getting hotter faster — its pace nearly doubled in the past decade Earth is now warming at a rate of around 0.35 ºC per decade, fresh analysis finds.

Climate change is accelerating. A new paper from @rahmstorf.bsky.social and Grant Foster argues they've nailed it statistically for the first time. 🧪

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I honestly don't know who you are outside this site, but I can say that one rancid opinion happens to be wrong.

measles causes immune amnesia. meaning, your body can forget everything it’s previously built up an immunity to.

(it can also make you go blind or d/Deaf.)

concentration camps are mass disabling sites.

Your regular reminder that the UK is in fact a high trust society and anyone who implies it isn’t is either selling you a pup or has bought one.

We are exhibiting at AMCA 26!

Will you be at AMCA 26? Come find @vectorbyte.bsky.social and chat to us about our databases, workshops, data management, and let @samrund.bsky.social give you stickers, perhaps?
#AMCA26

NEW PAPER in GigaScience - MIReVTD, a Minimum Information Standard for Reporting Vector Trait Data, by @sjryan3.bsky.social, Catherine Lippi and colleagues academic.oup.com/gigascience/...

We spent a few years as a team thinking about walking the line between a standard and flexible minimum information, as we developed VecTraits database, and people used it. We are grateful to @gigascience.bsky.social for helping us realise this vision and share it with you! (3/3)

⚖️Avoiding both data overload and data gaps — two common barriers to meaningful data sharing
A practical resource for anyone working on data standards, interoperability, or FAIR data practices. (2/3)

MIReVTD ensures shared data is actually usable by (1/3):
✅Defining the essential elements that must be reported to enable reuse, synthesis, and reproducibility

📚Standardizing terminology and metadata so datasets can be understood and reused across studies

MIReVTD, a Minimum Information Standard for Reporting Vector Trait Data Abstract. Vector-borne diseases pose a persistent and increasing challenge to human, animal, and agricultural systems globally. Mathematical modeling frame

📣 Useful publication alert!
If you're collecting or sharing vector trait data 🦟🦠, this new paper from @vectorbyte.bsky.social introducing the MIReVTD (Minimum Information for Reporting Vector Trait Data) standard is for you:

doi.org/10.1093/giga...

#FAIRData #DataStandards #DataSharing #Traits

Managing Director, Programs (Latin American & Caribbean) Managing Director, Programs (Latin American & Caribbean). Bogota. Posting Date: 02/24/2026. Deadline: 03/05/2026 Role Title: Managing Director, Programs (Latin American & Caribbean) Contract T...

OSF seeks Managing Director, Programs (Latin America & Caribbean) in Bogotá! 🚨

Lead strategy, grants & partnerships for open societies. 5-yr role; English/Spanish fluency req'd. Apply by Mar 5

#BlackSkyJobs #BlackJobsSky

This is lovely.

Winter getting shorter in 80% of major US cities, new data shows Researchers find that across 195 US cities, winters are on average nine days shorter than they were in 1970-1997

ClimateChangePost: The same in Europe: Scandinavian winters are getting shorter at a rapid pace www.climatechangepost.com/news/scandin...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Map showing states where a college sports coach is the highest paid government employee.

I'm not saying that the US is a racist country. But I am saying that the highest paid government employee in most states is a college sports coach🤡, and that college sports is a racist system that exploits poor Black kids in a way that would be wildly illegal in most countries.

🤔OK I am saying that

Gorillaz "The Mountain" 8-minute short film is now online.
Directed by Jamie Hewlett, Max Taylor & Tim McCourt at The Line studio.
An homage to the golden era of 2D animation, produced with a hybrid analogue-digital workflow.
>> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-02...

WHO updates all 3 viral strains to be included in fall flu shots

The recommendation for vaccines for the next flu season includes a new influenza variant—subclade K—that started to increase last fall.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...

Men studying a dragon

ENDOWED PROFESSORSHIP IN HISTORY OF SCIENCE
My home department at Uppsala University is advertising an endowed professorship in the history of science. This is the best position in the field in Sweden, and probably in all of Scandinavia. Apply before 30 April 2026. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

For anyone who doubts these processes -- or humanity's power to alter our planet -- consider this dispatch from the poles: Human-caused warming has already melted so much ice in Greenland and Antarctica that Earth's rotation has slowed and its axis has shifted, slightly altering the length of the day and disrupting the precision of satellite tracking, global positioning systems and timekeeping.

oh my god

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/o...

Bird flu devastates 7.4 million Pennsylvania chickens in a month Bird flu has wiped out 7.4 million chickens in Pennsylvania in the past month, a swift and devastating loss that veterinarians and industry members suspect may be linked to an unusually cold winter.

Bird flu devastates 7.4 million Pennsylvania chickens in a month reut.rs/3OIfTgA

They were having such a great time that the action shots were few, but keep eyes on these folks, they're doing cutting edge stuff.
I am so lucky to mentor (and co-mentor with Di Yang) folks taking our research in new directions and thinking in new frameworks.
Well Done!!

Brimming with pride that QDEC Lab @ufgeog.bsky.social & @epi.ufl.edu undergraduate researchers Ava Johnson and Neha Senthilkumar presented at the Florida Society of Geographers (FSG) meeting this weekend. Ava won first place undergraduate talk, and Neha got an honorable mention for her poster!

Portrait Of A Man Holding A Skull (c. 1660) Michael Sweerts oil painiting of an old timey guy in a big had holding a skull and sticking his index finger in its nose cavity captioned when the sign in the museum says 'do not touch'

i will never apologize for a post

Chimpanzees have culture. Do they also have cultural heritage worthy of protection? @simonfitzpatrick.bsky.social and I argue they do in our new paper, because their cultural practices create value.
link.springer.com/epdf/10.3758...

A section from the FAQ of the Einstein AI website. How can Einstein do all this? く How does Einstein access my Canvas? へ You link your Canvas account once during setup. Einstein uses your credentials to log in, view assignments, and submit work on your behalf. Will my professor know? く

I hope that every student who is lazy/unethical enough to use the Einstein AI or other similar products immediately has their identity stolen by this blatant password-harvesting scheme.

We love a buried lede. Congrats!!