Yesterday we published the highest-resolution snapshot of the vertebrate-virus network; today, we're announcing our next big data project. If you help us pull it off, it could change everything from climate change research to early warning systems for spillover.
https://twitter.com/viralemergence/status/1499016931453677575
We don't normally announce data projects so early in development, but over the last few months, we've started to feel like all roads lead to the same place: this is the step disease ecology needs to take if we want to answer the big questions. It's also utterly doable.
Take a look at how @GBIF has transformed biodiversity science. When I was an undergrad, ecologists were still hesitant to put their most valuable data online; now there's a billion points - and a completely different scientific field. We can immortalize just as much data.
@GBIF Over the course of 2022, we'll be setting up the front-end of PHAROS, and starting to solicit data for the initial build, which is well underway. In the meantime, if you have data you'd like to share, talk to anyone on our team, and they'll point you in the right direction.
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