Daniel Dornan

Scottish PhD 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 living in Finland 🇫🇮 | Disease Ecology | Postdoc on ReWetFor & BEPREP projects at Uni of Helsinki | Amateur art historian.

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

What a great trip to Puumala, the namesake of PUUV (Orthohantavirus) in Lakeland, Finland? The ideal surroundings for myself and the other two new postdocs of the Ecke lab to settle in.
#OneHealth #DiseaseEcology

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Just had a cool weekend, exploring the national park bang in the middle of some of my research sites. So many lemurs, reptiles and amphibians.
@UoABioSci @EastbioDTP

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

Day 11: THE END... for now. Wrapping up two rewarding weeks at the institute, where I had the pleasure of collaborating on diverse disease control projects. A special thanks to Dr. Narina and the team. (I’d name everyone, but Madagascan names are too long for Twitter!)

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Day 10: We had the opportunity to present to the researchers and PhD students at IPM... @parasitepixie showing work from her PhD, postdoc and the last two weeks at the institute on special genetics of rats and fleas. @UoABioSci @sandra_telfer @QUADRATdtp @EastbioDTP

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

Day 9: The main job of today was helping a student to investigate how environmental conditions and individual characteristics of rodents may influence the development of their skeletal structure... Also here's a spider... Darwin's bark spider (Caerostris darwini).

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

Day 8: spent the morning working with one of the PhD students at IPM on rodent movement ecology and control interventions. Also had a lovely lunch with a fellow disease ecologist visiting and looking at malaria in Madagascar... The pizza was ok, 5 out of 10.

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

Day 7: working from the guest house... Trying to get some of this PhD chapter finished before I submit in 2 months... Using track tile data to test the effectiveness of intensive control in the 12 villages of Madagascar as well as 12 villages in Tanzania.

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Day six: we finished off our visit, collecting in data sheets, handing out flea traps, and discussing other trials of control... We also were treated to a waterfall... Which was amazing.

@UoABioSci @EastbioDTP @sandra_telfer

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

Day five: we had the pleasure of visiting 12 villages taking part, me and @parasitepixie definitely entertained the kids with our mere presence and "amazing" drawing skills. It was nice to interact and understand the system better. @UoABioSci @EastbioDTP @sandra_telfer

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

Day 4: getting ready to go to the field tomorrow... I'm excited because I get to wear shorts (IPM is a very formal French institution = no shorts).

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Day 3: finished predicting age from the weight of eyes lenses to help a student with a force of infection study and planning visits to field sites for Friday. PS. This a very big bamboo culm sheath

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

Day two: another day at the institute working with the incredible students, and my partner in crime @parasitepixie helping out in the lab. @UoABioSci @EastbioDTP @sandra_telfer

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

Just wrapped up today's work for students I met at Institut Pasteur de Madagascar. Enjoying the sunset in Antananarivo! and looking forward for tomorrow. @sandra_telfer @UoABioSci

[Jeff Doser @jeffdoser18]

Had such a great time talking about hierarchical spatial occupancy and abundance models at @Vogelwarte_scie last week in Switzerland with an amazing group of researchers! All workshop lectures and exercises are freely available on GitHub: https://t.co/e3iPUez3Ji.

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

Just finished a great week in Switzerland at the #spOccupancy #spAbundance workshop... @jeffdoser18 has such an infectious passion for statistics and is a great teacher... Really enjoyed my time thank you.

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

Currently making my way through Switzerland to attend the #spOccupancy workshop hosted by @jeffdoser18 and Co.... I'm super excited for tomorrow. #Switzerland #ecology #statistics

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

It was great to share some of my research with my fellow conservationists.

[GCC Group @GCCGtweet]

This week, @HelsinkiRats received a visit from @dornan_daniel, a PhD student from the UK. In today's #GCCmeeting, he presented his PhD research on spatial and seasonal population dynamics of invasive rodents in Madagascar 🐀🇲🇬

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

What a great few days hosted by @HelsinkiRats. Thank you for being so welcoming and letting me tag along with some of your fieldwork... The mosquitoes definitely loved me.

[Daniel Dornan @dornan_daniel]

Check out this handsome devil (@Jackbamberzool1 ) on @BBCSpringwatch sharing his efforts in the fight to save the Capercaillie.

[Philip Stephens @PS_Applied_Ecol]

📢 Jobs: 3 postdocs in modelling bird migration & disease (2) / aeroecology (1), based at @WSL_research (https://t.co/qlhqzl8cNK), Switzerland.
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Applicant evaluation commences in early June. Contact @silke_bauer