Jessica Metcalf
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Demographer working on evolutionary ecology, infectious disease dynamics, vaccination
More on the impact of poultry vaccination in villages from the brilliant Justin Sheen
royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...
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Characterizing Newcastle disease virus transmission dynamics and the impact of vaccination in village settings
Abstract. Newcastle disease virus (NDV) is a virulent poultry pathogen with global circulation. Several vaccines reduce individual disease burden, includin
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article/293/2065/20252630/480365/Characterizing-Newcastle-disease-virus
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MPI for Evolutionary Biology
7 days ago
Today is the
#InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience
⨠To celebrate, weāre opening registration for our workshop "Women in Evolutionary Biology II" ā keynotes, research, networking, and discussions on equality & inclusion in science. š Plƶn (Germany) | š
workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/144/ov...
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Berkeley Population Sciences
22 days ago
We're now accepting applications for our Annual Workshop on Formal Demography, taking place in-person at UC Berkeley on June 1-5, 2026. Deadline to apply: March 1. See more information on the workshop and how to apply here:
populationsciences.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...
Please share widely!
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Will Lowe
9 days ago
Perhaps you received a mysterious noreply email asking you to evaluate some publications 'for novelty'. Looked kinda dubious? Yup, that's the one. So what's up with this 'metascience novelty indicators challenge'? š§µ
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Lise Aubry
2 months ago
We are pleased to welcome you to the 11th International Conference of the Evolutionary Demography Society, to be held at Colorado State University from June 16ā18, 2026. For more information, please visit:
evodemos11.weebly.com
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Rachel M. Wheatley
about 1 month ago
š Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome š¦ 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
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Job profile
https://hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID=583503UCmS&WVID=6273090Lgx&LANG=USA
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Sebastian Funk
2 months ago
Two more fully funded PhDs in real-time infectious disease modelling & forecasting ā developing methods for operational use by
@ukhsa.bsky.social
and others in outbreak response. UK home students, starting April or September 2026.
www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...
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PhD Studentships in Health Analytics and Modelling | LSHTM
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Imperial College London and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) are pleased to invite applications for two PhD studentships in real-time
https://www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-and-funding/funding-scholarships/phd-studentships-health-analytics-and-modelling
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Yonatan Grad
3 months ago
Now out in
@natcomms.nature.com
Kudos to
@tylim.bsky.social
and
@jameshay.bsky.social
for a huge effort and thanks to all the collaborators for their hard work. See the final version here:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Benny and Estelle about talking about malaria and cyclones on Wednesday 8th at 12:00 EST:
duke.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Club EvMed - Extreme Weather and Malaria Control. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Club EvMed - Extreme Weather and Malaria Control. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/ambgeFXlQWuiZoAtyHpHzw#/registration
5 months ago
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Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellows
We encourage early career scholars to pursue a career in academia by supporting their postdoctoral work at Princeton
https://dof.princeton.edu/faculty-development-and-inclusion/talent-pathway-programs/presidential-postdoctoral-research-fellows
5 months ago
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New paper from Burcu - working towards describing 'immune education'
journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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A model of early-life interactions between the gut microbiome and adaptive immunity provides insights into the ontogeny of immune tolerance
The developing immune system must learn which microbes to tolerate and which to resist, but how this process unfolds is unclear. This study develops a mechanistic mathematical model of early-life gut ...
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003263
6 months ago
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Benny Rice, PhD
7 months ago
Out today in Science: Our work on tropical cyclones and malaria in Madagascar. Work inspired by many and done in collaboration with many
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Vaccination to mitigate climate-driven disruptions to malaria control in Madagascar
Extreme weather is common in high malaria burden areas and is likely to increase in severity owing to climate changeārelated severe weather events. Yet, data on infection rates after these events and ...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adp5365
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Fidy Rasambainarivo
7 months ago
Excited, surprised and proud to share the news about my @MaxwellHanrahan Award in Field Biology! The award recognizes my work in infectious disease ecology and wildlife conservation in
#Madagascar
. To learn more about the award:
www.maxwell-hanrahan.org/programs/fie...
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Princeton EEB Scholars program now open
eeb.princeton.edu/graduate/eeb...
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EEB Scholars Program
The 2024 EEB Scholars ProgramĀ applicationĀ is nowĀ open and will close on June 15th, 2024.As part of efforts to increase the diversity and accessibility of graduate studies in ecology and evolutionary b...
https://eeb.princeton.edu/graduate/eeb-scholars-program
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One led by Gugulethu Moyo (
www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/gugulet...
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Getting ahead of human-associated microbial decline in Africa: the urgency of sampling in light of epidemiological transition
Evidence is growing that human-associated early-life microbial diversity modulates health over the long term, via effects in the infant termed āimmuneā¦
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0966842X25000058
12 months ago
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Simon Cauchemez
about 1 year ago
Simplicity is a key strength of the package: it only takes a few lines of code to run and compare different types of models! Dev by Nathanael Hoze, with contributions from Marga Pons,
@jessmetcalf.bsky.social
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@mtwhite.bsky.social
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Revealing trends in measles immunity during periods of varying measles circulation in Madagascar
Abstract. Estimating the durability of immunity from vaccination is complicated by unreported re-vaccination, and unobserved natural infection or reexposur
https://academic.oup.com/aje/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/aje/kwaf005/7964519
about 1 year ago
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Catherine Sheard
about 1 year ago
If you're a non-UK scientist who wants to come to the UK for a postdoc, this year's Newton Fellowships are now open. You'll need a lab to host you (which could be me, but truly, could be any PI, so get in touch with someone you'd like to work with!)
royalsociety.org/grants/newto...
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Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society
This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.
https://royalsociety.org/grants/newton-international/
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Alexei Maklakov
about 1 year ago
Great to see it almost in print! - I wrote a Ch. on Evolution of Lifespan and Ageing
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MIDAS Network
about 1 year ago
The Department of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley, invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar position in the research group of Prof. Ayesha Mahmud. For more info, visit:
aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04716
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Postdoctoral Scholar Employee - Demography
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04716
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Senior Postdoctoral Research position open in EEB Princeton
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
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https://puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/apply/application.xhtml?listingId=37241
about 1 year ago
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Discussing new results on similarities in how viruses fight back, with
@bkoskella.bsky.social
:
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https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1k8Cq5Eb0RxnhJ
about 1 year ago
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The Ferrari Lab
almost 2 years ago
I'm excited to be able to share this analysis of rubella transmission in Nigeria that was developed with NCDC and USCDC thanks to an enormous effort by both to do a HUGE national-scale sero-survey using archived sera from 2018.
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The impact of sub-national heterogeneities in demography and epidemiology on the introduction of rubella vaccination programs in Nigeria
medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.02.18.24302994v1
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Princeton's Centre for Health and Wellbeing seeking a visiting research scholar with expertise teaching epidemiology:
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
about 2 years ago
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Britt Koskella
over 2 years ago
Can anyone put me in the direction of a paper that synthesizes microbiome diversity across systems? Do we have any idea how variable the number of taxa in microbiomes is? I feel like I have seen this graph in a presentation but Iām not sure if thereās a publication looking at this. ļæ¼Thanks!!!!
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Princeton EEB and HMEI are hiring (Assistant, Associate, or Full Prof) - we are seeking a broad thinker in the area of biodiversity
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
over 2 years ago
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Relative abundance data can misrepresent heritability of the microbiome ...new work by Marjolein Bruijning with
@bkoskella.bsky.social
microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
over 2 years ago
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Post-doctoral position on remote sensing and plant pathogens open:
puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...
over 2 years ago
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Chance to spend time in Berlin thinking - the Wissenschaftskolleg just wonderful - applications open for early career scientists:
www.wiko-berlin.de/fellow-werde...
over 2 years ago
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Tomorrow!
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over 2 years ago
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Daniel Bolnick
over 2 years ago
Let's start a thread of faculty in evolutionary bio & ecology who are seeking grad students in the run-up to application season. Repost with: who you are, a potential student project, a photo, and a link.
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Janzen-Connell to maintain host diversity - but what about pathogen diversity? New paper by Marjolein Bruijning
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over 2 years ago
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Princeton-EEB search in ecology, evolution, and behavior: The search committee will be hosting a webinar Q&A about the position(s) on Wednesday, October 4, at 12 p.m. EDT (
princeton.zoom.us/s/95659402367
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over 2 years ago
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Princeton EEB is hiring: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor
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over 2 years ago
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