New study out in Nature Communications! In this paper, we disentangle the impact of climate variation and serotype changes on dengue dynamics in Singapore and present a forecasting framework able to predict outbreaks up to two months ahead 🦟 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The NSF Bio Anthro Program DDRIG, Cultural Anthrpology DDRIG, and Archaeology DDRIG have all been archived (as of yesterday afternoon). Please speak with your grad students and plan accordingly. To say I am angry and depressed about this is an understatement.

During the pandemic, non-resident travellers entering the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador were required to complete Travel Declaration Forms. We used these and 3 other travel volume data sources to estimate an 82% decr. in travel royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... [1/n]

Two postdoctoral opportunities in evolutionary anthropology at Duke University! The Pontzer Lab is hiring for projects on human ecology, energetics, and aging & health. More info: www.hbes.com/two-postdoct...

Today on Club EvMed we enjoyed a super discussion with the authors of this important paper. Join us next time or enjoy the recording! "Waning immunity drives respiratory virus evolution and reinfection" by Antia, Koelle & Bull Club EvMed: sites.duke.edu/clubevmed/ academic.oup.com/emph/article...

Excited to finally have this article out with @robingnelson.blacksky.app. Although we have nominally centered populations as our unit of evolutionary analysis in biological anthropology, we have no coherent understanding of what a population is. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

"The Kasai outbreak emphasises the case that genomic stasis might be a recurring feature of Ebola virus ecology. A lineage that is virtually unchanged since 1976 challenges assumptions about Ebola's evolution and exposes the blind spots of surveillance." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

JOB! Santa Clara Uni is hiring a Bio Anth! I visited their dept in Sept and they are an amazing group of scholars!! wd1.myworkdaysite.com/en-US/recrui...

New research by MacLeod et al. underscores the vulnerability of sanitation infrastructure in Malawi to tropical cyclones 🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

hi all! I've released my Boulder Colorado Voter Guide update for the 2025 election. the guide covers state and local ballot measures, as well as candidates for city council and BVSD school board. enjoy!

🚨🚨 New Paper alert! 🚨🚨 : Evolutionary history, longevity and terrestriality predict Toxoplasma gondii seroprevalence in primates 🌳🐈‍⬛️🦠🐒. #zoonosis #conservation #primates #wildlife #Madagascar #lemur #parasites www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

In this paper, we describe the southernmost dengue outbreak ever reported. The outbreak occurred on the city of Bahia Blanca, Argentina (~600km south of Buenos Aires). www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“individuals tend to report more accurately about the partners with whom they shared knowledge than about those from whom they received knowledge….findings provide important empirical evidence on how community-wide cultural transmission is structured by demography and perception”

15 year AJHB retrospective on intergenerational effects of racism on CVD: Kuzawa & Sweet propose a new “push-pull” model decoupling health effects of racism from birth weight. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

In this new paper led by Amanda McGrosky, we demonstrate that #water needs are substantially higher among pastoralists living in a hot, semi-arid environment than worldwide water recommendations. academic.oup.com/emph/article...

In this article, Boucherie et al. apply physics-based models to the arrangement of locations to study how geography shapes human movement. They find an underlying pattern in how people choose to move, independent of geographical layout.

Our new paper is out: Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory #stableisotopes journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

🎙️ JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: @ciddpsu.bsky.social Ctr for Infectious Disease Dynamics at PSU is searching for a Full or Associate Professor in Infectious Disease Modeling. This is a unique, cross-university search for someone to become a leader in our community! psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Very interesting study on social contagion applied in a historical context by @szapperi.bsky.social and collaborators. Powerful example of where good historical data can lead us in the future. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A new epidemiological analysis parses #dengue transmission in the Americas on a continental scale, defining synchronized seasonal and multiannual patterns in outbreaks and the influence of climatic factors such as El Niño. Read more in #ScienceTranslationalMedicine: https://scim.ag/3V9QQD3

My department at Tulane has a TT position for a bioanth ("specializing in the analysis of human skeletal remains"). Apps due by Oct 15. apply.interfolio.com/171196

Want to get deeper intuition for a mathematical or statistical concept? I find that one of the best ways is to dig into its history. New post: kucharski.substack.com/p/to-underst...

Come be my colleague at the University of Cincinnati! We're suddenly in need of a fulltime Visiting Assistant Professor! Applications accepted now and review begins next week because the position begins August 15! 1/n Apply here: jobs.uc.edu/job-invite/9...

🚨 Very, very big news. Today, a global coalition - including members of the IPCC, IPBES, and WHO expert advisors, as well as independent virologists, epidemiologists, and lawyers - started the process of creating an "IPCC for Pandemics." 🔓 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🧵 Five things to know 👉

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...

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/...

Very pleased our paper looking at the diffusion of complex contagions is out in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Nature research paper: The spatiotemporal distribution of human pathogens in ancient Eurasia go.nature.com/4lh97tr

Great work by Yuhan Li, @ngozzi.bsky.social and @netscience.bsky.social just published in PLOS Comp Bio: Estimating behavioural relaxation induced by COVID-19 vaccines in the first months of their rollout. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

New from #JRSocInterface: Introducing a framework for within-host dynamics and mutations modelling of H5N1 #influenza infection in humans. Read more: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... @edmhill.bsky.social

#newpaper now out in @nature.com! A huge expansion of the human niche in Africa ~70 kya likely equipped later #outofAfrica dispersals with a unique ecological flexibility. www.nature.com/articles/s41... led by Emily Hallett, @mikleonardi.bsky.social, Andrea Manica, @elliescerri.bsky.social 1/4

A comparison of 2 industrialised populations (Italy, Singapore) with 2 indigenous populations (Tsimane, Bolivia & Orang Asli, Malaysia) suggests inflammaging - age-associated increase in chronic inflammation, considered a hallmark of aging - is a byproduct of industrialisation, not a human universal

Super happy for this paper to come out in AJHB! It was a big team effort with a rich dataset developed over a decade of field and lab work led by Josh Snodgrass (@jjosh1313.bsky.social) and others. Check it out to see what we learned about using EBV antibodies as a biomarker of adversity.

It's a beautiful Friday morning in #Colorado at 13,400 feet! 🏔️ #cowx

There are way too many things to be upset about these days, but I believe the destruction of public lands should be near the top of the list: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Just few days left to apply to one of these postdoc positions in my infectious disease modelling Unit at @pasteur.fr in Paris!

Here's another paper by Shalizi showing how inferring *latent* homophily allows for disentangling from contagion. Bizarre how this gets overlooked, since it's obvious that homophily leaves huge traces in the network structure, while contagion changes nothing. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Catch up on our recent Community Lecture with Kyle Harper! The lecture, Climate Change and Contagion — Complex Crises Past and Present, is available on SFI’s YouTube channel.

Some new science 🚨👉 Wildfires drive people indoors, increasing RSV, influenza, and #Covid transmission. If even 10% of people #mask, it could offset that effect - protecting them from both viruses and air pollution. Another facet of the climate-pandemic connection journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

New study by @nachristakis.bsky.social @ericfeltham.bsky.social et al. reveals how people in Honduran villages cognitively map their social networks. #socialnetwork www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Glad to see the old Broad Street Pump myth finally getting some public criticism. Terrible causal inference - I think we should stop teaching it altogether, or maybe teach it as an anti-model of good reasoning.

How bad will it be? Catastrophic. Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come. But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget. Speak up now before it is too late. (inflation adjusted $-s below)

I will be looking for a PhD student for a project on sleep quality and reproductive hormones in women. szkoladoktorska.cm-uj.krakow.pl/pl/how-to-ap... Join our great team in Krakow. evoecogroup.wordpress.com/grazyna-jasi...

📢 Today I was supposed to be in DC, highlighting what the NSF Social, Behavioral, & Economic Sciences delivers to US taxpayers. NSF had one of the highest returns on investment (ROIs) of federal grantors 👏🏻 (1) and NSF SBE funded 63% of US social and psychological science research (2). 🧵

🧵1/N New study published in @jama.com on re-emergence of vaccine-eliminated infectious diseases under declining vaccination in the US. We model long-term risk and conditions for return to endemicity for measles, rubella, polio, & diphtheria. Collab w/ @Mathewkiang.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Hey PhD grads - join our group as a postdoc at Harvard! Focus will be analysis of genome wide methylation data from Cebu - measured at ages 21 and 40 years in the full birth cohort (n-1500). 40 yrs of data allow endless possibilities. Circulate widely! academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/14854

New paper exploring how cultural models of vaccines influence vaccine decision-making. Implications for the KAP framework, historical mistrust on healthcare decisions, & health promotion where formal education is rare. Share link: kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Wanna read a digest of a fun anthro thing I've been up to lately? Our recent work on knots present and past has just been covered in @pnas.org Journal Club www.pnas.org/post/journal...

Improving mobility data for infectious disease research. Nice piece by a great team of modelers including @giuliapullano.bsky.social @mugkraemer.bsky.social @bansallab.bsky.social and many others www.nature.com/articles/s41...