January Parasite Haiku

To reach my 2018 #260papers goal, I jumped on board with a useful accountability system: tweeting my progress.  Tara Stewart was doing the same thing, and she found a brilliant way to motivate me to read more – we’re summarizing the papers that we read with haiku!! I thought y’all might like to see some of the parasite-themed haiku. If you want to join us, feel free to tweet me yours, and I’ll share them next month!

3 of #260papers with a #scihaikuhttps://t.co/XxvJahIXqi …

Corpses drive contacts
Of Jackals, perhaps rabid
Will disease invade?

— Tara Stewart (@_tarasite_) January 10, 2018

Paper 9 of #260papers and first #scihaiku: short and sweet "Equal Rights for Parasites!" in Conservation Biology, 1995.

Hey, what do we want?
Equal rights for parasites!
We’re still waiting, though.

— Skylar Hopkins (@parasiteecology) January 11, 2018

Paper 4//260: https://t.co/RWznMFReZe

Hosts are not equal
Few get sick and spread disease
Screw you, mean Ro#260papers #scihaiku

— Tara Stewart (@_tarasite_) January 11, 2018

#5 of 260:https://t.co/U2Riq4Af1W

Health’s irrelevant
In coral co-infections
Buddies be random#260papers #scihaiku

— Tara Stewart (@_tarasite_) January 15, 2018

#7/260

Psites inside me
follow ecosystem rules –
I love this paper.#260papers #scihaikuhttps://t.co/pj6ogV4l7g

— Tara Stewart (@_tarasite_) January 17, 2018

#9/260:

Vicious circles rise
when infection makes a host
more susceptiblehttps://t.co/hD56aoTsIt#260papers #scihaiku

— Tara Stewart (@_tarasite_) January 18, 2018

Paper 11 of #260papers and #scihaiku: Verant et al. 2018. Journal of Applied Ecology. https://t.co/UCsohUEiGT

Bats harbor Pd
one year before the dirt does.
Cave decon is hard. 🦇

— Skylar Hopkins (@parasiteecology) January 18, 2018

Paper 14: Kuris and Lafferty. 1994. Community Structure: Larval Trematodes in Snail Hosts. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics.

Patchy space causes
more trem’tode interactions.
Later, exclusion.

Science words have too many syllables. 🙄#260papers #scihaiku

— Skylar Hopkins (@parasiteecology) January 29, 2018