Day 1 in a new lab:
“You’ll be working on this organism now.”
Me: cool cool cool
(has never heard of it)
I wrote the checklist I use to survive that situation:
👉 self-onboarding a new pathogen
lskatz.github.io/posts/2026/0...
Howdy y'all! I'm planning to graduate in May. If you are in need of a postdoc with knowledge of phylogenetics, graph databases, and Nextflow pipelines (or know of someone who is), please send them my way!
Our lab's paper describing the North American H5N1 epizootic is out now in Nature! So thrilled to have this out, and congratulations to @lambod50.bsky.social for all the fantastic work on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Today (Tuesday), I'm presenting a poster on a flexible graph database pipeline for data integration, with a small teaser on a completed subsampling tool for phylogenetics, if you want to chat about that instead!
I am also actively searching for post-docs in ecology, epidemiology, and evolution of infectious diseases! Would love to chat :)
Poster #9
Come visit my poster (#84) about wastewater surveillance, cryptic transmission, and epidemic dynamics today from 5:15-7pm! @eeid2025.bsky.social #EEID2025
Any university that thinks this won't be their fate eventually is detached from reality. We work together or we fail apart.
Union of Athens Scientists meeting THIS THURSDAY! RT 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Hey, @fetterman.senate.gov, I'm a PA voter, and I desperately do not want to see this happen.
Union of athens scientists community meeting. April 17 6pm at little kings
Calling all scientists, researchers, and STEM advocates! Are you ready to step beyond the lab and engage with the political and social issues that affect our work and world? This National Day of Action, the Union of Athens Scientists is hosting a community gathering aimed at building bridges between scientific fields and empowering us to take collective political action. Let’s unite, strategize, and act!
Come Share Your Story Whether it’s climate change, public health, technology, or social justice. Bring your personal journey & experiences to the table Build community Meet fellow scientists and STEM advocates who are passionate about driving political change Engage in Collective action Together, we will explore how we can leverage our expertise to strengthen our collective impact to influence policy and foster change.
Have questions/comments? Contact us at unionofathensscientists@gmail.com Want to join our listserv? Dm us with your name, affiliation, and gmail. Whether you're a seasoned advocate or just beginning to consider the intersection of science and politics, this is the place to make your voice heard and contribute to meaningful change.
We’re back. 🔥🔥 Come join us on the @aaup.bsky.social’s National Day of Action at Little Kings from 6-8pm. Let’s get in good trouble.
If you're in Athens, please boost🗣️🗣️🗣️
I would have loved to see Penn State be a leader here. I will be happy enough if they are a follower.
In 2014 I was sent by an NGO to work on a vaccine program reconstruction plan in Northern Syria because an autocrat had decimated a highly effective program, putting millions of children at risk, both in Syria and neighboring countries through the refugee diaspora.
Check out some really cool work on canine influenza that was just published! Awesome collaborative team and looking forward to learning more about this very understudied pathogen!
I've been maintaining a job board at www.genomicepi.com/jobs for a couple of years. I started this with several goals in mind
Thanks Lambo!!
Just in time for the holidays, our lab has just submitted our first lab led paper www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...! We use phylodynamics to reconstruct how H5N1 got to North America and spread so rapidly. Full thread coming post holidays, but for now, super proud of @lambod50.bsky.social
This podcast makes me SO happy. It's everything I love about public health and helped motivate me to apply to infectious disease PhD programs back in 2019!
