🐸 Imagine returning to the forest and finding all the frogs gone. The Waiting follows researcher @karenrlips.bsky.social as she tries to understand what happened - and uncovers a much bigger story about amphibian declines... Sad, but beautifully made. Well worth watching! 🌿

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Today I gave a talk at the NIH on "Virus Emergence & The Origin of Pandemics". I had a fun time presenting on five+ years of collaborative research and got a lot of great questions! The NIH Director even found time to tweet about it.. 💫 Slides for those interested: andersen-lab.com/files/2026.1...

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If you were transfixed by THE HOT ZONE when you were young, or then read SPILLOVER and trusted it, then as a career scary diseases reporter, I urge you to read this thread. Science moves on. People discover fresh stuff. The work careers were built on becomes outdated. Be open to the new. Please.

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David Quammen's essay in The New York Times today closes with this paragraph. It's both a scientific falsehood, and an incredibly dangerous narrative. If you're willing to give me five minutes of your time, I'd like to explain why.

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New paper out from our team, documenting successful breeding by reintroduced reticulated flatwoods salamander in three ponds! We worked for a decade on habitat restoration, then translocated a few hundred larvae for 2-3 years. 🌏🧪 Open access doi.org/10.1111/csp2...

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