Experience in viral phylodynamics? Check out this awesome opportunity to use those tools to understand brain structure 🧠🦠. We'll be next door neighbors and you can join the amazing infectious disease dynamics and neuroscience communities at Johns Hopkins

👋 Exciting to see so many new accounts with familiar names popping up here the last few days! Looking forward to a new (and hopefully more sane) space to discuss science and public health. If you're also just starting out, check out these great starter packs for infectious disease modeling:

Groundbreaking Alaska <-> Boston heart transplant ❤️‍🩹 performed at @MGHSurgery by @S_Alireza_Rabi, David D’Alessandro + team https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/05/23/heart-transplant-breaks-distance-record/70246473007/

Excited to share our new comprehensive review of #COVID19 vaccine efficacy and real-world effectiveness, a collab with many @JohnsHopkins and @IVACtweets scientists incl. Melissa Higdon, @brianwahl @carlijonessci @shaun_truelove @AnjalikaNande...

We are hiring! Faculty position open in infectious disease dynamics at @johnshopkinsepi. Join the amazing @JHIDDynamics super-group. Assistant or Associate Prof level. https://www.jhsph.edu/departments/epidemiology/faculty-and-staff-positions/faculty-positions.html

Is a new prion disease spreading in New Brunswick, Canada? So many possibilities to consider. Fascinating story for disease detectives https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/05/12/canada-new-brunswick-brain-disease/

Come to the @MIDAS_Network meeting next week all about infectious disease modeling! https://event.midas2021.exordo.com/

Hey senior grad students + postdocs: If I can’t easily find your contact info online, you’re missing out on career-advancement opportunities! As a conference organizer/journal editor, I often want to invite the 1st author of those amazing papers, but can't find them! Some ideas:

Our study estimating the impact of eviction bans on COVID-19 spread is out in @NatureComms! Huge collaborative effort including @AnjalikaNande @justinksheen @michaelzlevy @urbprof @emmalwalters @jkbren @mattk7 @svscarpino @alexvespi https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-22521-5

Really nice study from @AdeetiU and team @Apple using #AppleWatch to monitor Parkinson's Disease symptoms in real time and improve clinical care! https://stm.sciencemag.org/content/13/579/eabd7865

Making it Twitter official: I started a new faculty job at @HopkinsMedicine (part of @JHUBME @ICM_JHU @JHIDDynamics) and am recruiting students + postdocs to contribute to our work modeling infectious disease dynamics + evolution. Join us! Postdoc job ad:...

The looming eviction crisis 🏠🔑 is bad news for transmission of #COVID19, according to our models: sharing some work-in-progress, since eviction protections are expiring soon in many districts. Draft results here: https://github.com/alsnhll/COVID19EvictionSimulations#COVID19(1/10)

Epi modelers: What journals do you think have been especially good or mostly bad at handling COVID-19 math modeling papers? Good = interested in topic, fast turnaround, appropriate reviewers, etc. (1/2)

Can I just remind us all that 7 months into the pandemic and people STILL have to wear bandanas over their faces because we’re STILL out of 10 cent surgical masks

New preprint out with @AnjalikaNande +@michaelzlevy + B. Adlam + J. Sheen: We dig into understanding how both the clinical course and transmission network structure of COVID-19 influence the epidemic trajectory under social distancing measures...

What are your favorite lesser-known data sources for COVID-19? We all know and love the @JHUSystems dashboard https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/map.html but there's so much more out there. Here are a few great ones I’ve discovered recently (a thread):

I’m sharing a simulation tool I put together for studying COVID19 dynamics and generating visualizations without having to do a bunch of coding yourself. Hoping it can help with your coronavirus-related research and teaching. https://alhill.shinyapps.io/COVID19seir/ (1/7)

New preprint server for medical research just opened, @medrxivpreprint , from the creators of @biorxiv! Anyone clear on where the split is? Where would you send biomed modeling/comp.bio, infectious disease dynamics, eco/evo of drug resistance, systems pharmacology, etc?

One of my new all time favorite data visualizations. Watch child mortality and fertility rates fall around the world as the “demographic transition” occurs. Thanks @samuelmehr for sharing ! https://https://t.co/s7ml51L7jR

Program for Evolutionary Dynamics postdoc Ski Krieger takes a break from working on drug resistance to analyze the composition of Beowulf https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/04/did-beowulf-have-one-author-researchers-find-clues-in-stylometry/

Our paper on bed bugs is now out! Modeling suggests "disclosure" policies are cost-effective ways to stem bed bug spread and incentivize treatment @PNASNews @michaelzlevy https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2019/02/26/1814647116

The "Berlin patient" now has company: 2nd case of likely HIV cure (1.5 yrs off therapy with no virus detected) by @GuptaR_lab after bone marrow transplant from CCR5-mutant donor! https://nyti.ms/2EMBHRC

New paper on the #biorxiv w/Ski Krieger: "Long-term coexistence and regional heterogeneity of antibiotic-resistant infections reproduced by a simple spatial model". http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/469171v1

We're looking for another John Harvard Fellow - skip the traditional postdoc, get support for your independent research agenda, and join a community of other young PIs! Open now for Physical Sciences aka physics/astro/chem/geo/enviro/stats/math...

See the premiere in Boston Tues at 7pm! "Dance production at Harvard merges science with art to explain mechanisms of cooperation" https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/09/dance-production-at-harvard-merges-science-with-art-to-explain-mechanisms-of-cooperation/ via @Harvard....

White House signs off on implementing National Biodefense Strategy https://www.hhs.gov/blog/2018/09/18/protect-the-nation-against-all-biological-threats.html

Love all the new bike lanes in @CityOfBoston and @CambMA ! Too bad it's so hard to go even a block without them being blocked by (mainly) ride-shares. Any way @Uber and @lyft can prevent drivers/riders from choosing such unsafe pick-ups/drop-offs?

Whitney lab @BIDMChealth + @GileadSciences show that a new HIV drug class (TLR7 agonist) is the most effective so far at reactivating latent virus and a few animals are completely cured after stopping all drugs! http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/10/439/eaao4521.full

Another postdoc position available in our group to work on data-driven mathematical modeling of HIV! Work w Gates Foundation, vaccine developers, and more https://twitter.com/alison_l_hill/status/927399745819234304

Can viruses evolve drug resistance by syncing up with our patterns of taking pills? Check out our new paper for some clues! http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005947

Our new paper introducing a prototype for once-a-week HIV drugs was covered by the BBC! Congrats to #LangerLab for conceiving/leading this project and @GatesFoundation for $. Happy we could contribute some modeling along with...

How Not To Be A Jerk Scientist Pt 1: If you must introduce a speaker, memorize a short bio, learn to pronounce their name, and be enthusiastic. Mumbling thru sightreading their CV + butchering name = rude !

Come to the Gordon Research Conference on Drug Resistance in June - only happens every 2 years and is unique in bringing together ppl studying infections, cancer, and agriculture! GRC meetings are the best for making real connections with other...

Does HIV therapy stop viral replication? Our new paper on misleading evolutionary signatures in HIV now out. An example of how standard phylogenetic methods can fail for infections with unusual host population dynamics. https://www.nature.com/articles/nature24634

Fellow PIs/Profs: Time to stand up for students, or commit to covering these extra costs ourselves. Ridiculous legislation. Thanks @mit_hst student Erin Rousseau (@byrnethewitch) for summarizing https://nyti.ms/2hFfvjS

‘Gene Drives’ Are Too Risky for Field Trials, Scientists Say. Math by PED's @DrMANowak, Chuck Noble, and Ben Adlam! https://nyti.ms/2jvLMKN

We're looking for a postdoc to work on HIV infection dynamics! Evolution, latency, immunity, drug resistance https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/7798

Tenure-track faculty jobs @Harvard in Appl.Math/Comp. Neuroscience, Molecular & Cell. Biology, and Human Evol. Bio! https://academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=faculty&query_v0_posted_at_date=&commit=Search

Brilliant! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydqReeTV_vk

Harvard Biomath Seminar '17-'18 schedule up! Starts Thurs Sept 21 430pm, see schedule at https://biomath.fas.harvard.edu/. Organized w/ @kkavehma

Letter from Alphabet: The e-mail Larry Page should have written to James Damore https://www.economist.com/news/21726276-last-week-paper-said-alphabets-boss-should-write-detailed-ringing-rebuttal?fsrc=scn/pn/te/bl/ed/ via @TheEconomist

HIV modeling postdoc avail. with M Davenport in Sydney! Great history of collab. w clinicians/experimentalists ...

Postdocs and grad students wanted for Tami Lieberman's new microbial genetics lab @MIT @conTAMInatedsci http://lieberman.science/join/!

Weird disease of the day: tick bite triggers red meat allergy! http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/tick-bite-meat-allergy-spreading-spd

36 years ago today @CDCgov reports 1st AIDS-related illness. Today, 37M infected and still rising. Let’s nip the next pandemic in the bud!

Viruses to the rescue! Amazing success with phage therapy for a near-deadly drug resistant bacterial infection https://health.ucsd.edu/news/releases/Pages/2017-04-25-novel-phage-therapy-saves-patient-with-multidrug-resistant-bacterial-infection.aspx

Interested in synthetic bio + security issues raised by its ease of use? Get $ to attend meeting by @JHSPH_CHS https://biosecuritycenter.fluidreview.com/

Be a data scientist for the City of Boston (Citywide Analytics Team) ! https://city-boston.icims.com/jobs/11992/data-scientist--%28prin.-d.p.-systems-analyst%29/job?mobile=false&width=1200&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-300&jun1offset=-240

First @KeystoneSymp all about modeling! Join me @ "Modeling Viral Infections and Immunity" meeting this spring in CO https://www.keystonesymposia.org/17E1

Harvard evolution researchers incl @DrMANowak hosting reddit "ask me anything" for Darwin Day! Join to ask/answer. https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/5tlb8c/science_ama_series_we_are_evolution_researchers/