NSF seems to have stopped making new awards last week. There have been no new awards from any directorate since Weds, June 3. Even with the slow pace of new awards this year, there's been a consistent trickle. Something stopped the flow. grant-witness.us/funding_curv... #NSF 🧪
After 7 days, #NSF grants started flowing again yesterday.
NSF generally stops during fiscal year turnover, government shutdowns, or funding lapses.
Other than that, it had not taken a week off since 1970.
Under this administration, it has done so three times.
grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... 🧪
Noam Ross
Noam Ross
New preprint that I helped with! Here we show that understanding ecological context is fundamental to understanding reassortment in orthohantaviruses.
“While many of the city’s raccoons are healthy, some are infected with rabies, a deadly virus that attacks the central nervous system… This year [NYC’s health department] has already logged two rabid raccoons in areas of Brooklyn where it has never seen them before: Midwood and Sheepshead Bay”
we're hiring for a new research assistant to join our group at OU to manage field studies on migratory and Neotropical bats! please see the linked application on our website: beckerlab.weebly.com/join.html. applications will be reviewed in early August and the position can start in January.
We're very happy that our study found a home in the EcoHealth journal and we hope the disease ecology community, in particular, find applications of our model!
🚨 Ever wonder why some viral reassortants establish and spread while others disappear? Us too!
Led by @ricardoriveroh.bsky.social, we studied drivers of viral reassortment across hantaviruses and found that it varies dramatically among lineages (1/3)
Preprint: doi.org/10.64898/202...
Host overlap was the strongest ecological correlate of reassortment, suggesting that opportunities for divergent viral lineages to meet matter more than prevalence alone. Of course, it's not all ecology! Molecular compatibility between genome segments acted as a second filter. (2/3)
This work was supported by @viralemergence.org, enriched by Project-ArHa to synthesize all hantavirus and arenavirus surveillance data, and many collaborators. (3/3)
@danjbecker.bsky.social @danlwarren.bsky.social @lambod50.bsky.social @sarahgurev.bsky.social @davidsimons.bsky.social among others 🤩
