New (on theme) paper led by @rebaker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What is the main reason for premature male mortality in Mexico? @ikashnitsky.phd and Aburto answered this question in 2019 for every Mexican state, every year since 1990 and all ages from 15 to 50. Their rich results are available on demoscapes. demoscapes.org/collections/...

Ourworldindata is hiring a writer ourworldindata.org/hiring-write...

EEB Scholars - run by our wonderful Princeton EEB graduate students, now open for applications: eeb.princeton.edu/graduate/eeb...

Now published: our work using phylodynamics from surveillance data to quantify and experimentally validate the fitness impact of antibiotic resistance determinants & how this changes with patterns of antibiotic use: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are extending the deadline to Feb 27, since we still have a few slots. 👉 A semi-informal event to interact with your peers, learn about cutting-edge research, and hear from two leaders in the field (Sophie Armitage & Dieter Ebert). And it's free! 🎉 PIs, please recommend to your grad students!

I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...

More on the impact of poultry vaccination in villages from the brilliant Justin Sheen royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Today is the #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience ✨ To celebrate, we’re opening registration for our workshop "Women in Evolutionary Biology II" — keynotes, research, networking, and discussions on equality & inclusion in science. 📍 Plön (Germany) | 🔗 workshops.evolbio.mpg.de/event/144/ov...

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!

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'? 🧵

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 16–18, 2026. For more information, please visit: evodemos11.weebly.com

🔊 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 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Two more fully funded PhDs in real-time infectious disease modelling & forecasting — 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...

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...

Benny and Estelle about talking about malaria and cyclones on Wednesday 8th at 12:00 EST: duke.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

New paper from Burcu - working towards describing 'immune education' journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

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/...

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...

Princeton EEB Scholars program now open eeb.princeton.edu/graduate/eeb...

One led by Gugulethu Moyo (www.phc.ox.ac.uk/team/gugulet...): www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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, @mtwhite.bsky.social, @hsalje.bsky.social.

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...

Great to see it almost in print! - I wrote a Ch. on Evolution of Lifespan and Ageing

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

Senior Postdoctoral Research position open in EEB Princeton puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Discussing new results on similarities in how viruses fight back, with @bkoskella.bsky.social: authors.elsevier.com/a/1k8Cq5Eb0R...

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.

Princeton's Centre for Health and Wellbeing seeking a visiting research scholar with expertise teaching epidemiology: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

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 I’m not sure if there’s a publication looking at this. Thanks!!!!

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...

Relative abundance data can misrepresent heritability of the microbiome ...new work by Marjolein Bruijning with @bkoskella.bsky.social microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Post-doctoral position on remote sensing and plant pathogens open: puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...

Chance to spend time in Berlin thinking - the Wissenschaftskolleg just wonderful - applications open for early career scientists: www.wiko-berlin.de/fellow-werde...

Tomorrow!

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.

Janzen-Connell to maintain host diversity - but what about pathogen diversity? New paper by Marjolein Bruijning onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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). No registration is required

Princeton EEB is hiring: Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor puwebp.princeton.edu/AcadHire/app...