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at #ESA2024? come hear about new work from the lab on mathematical and statistical modeling of host–virus interactions by Molly Simonis, PhD , @brianaabook, and Caroline Cummings (and me indirectly via Greg Albery )

Excited to share my PhD research is out in Current Biology 🎉 doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.… We use network analyses to examine sex differences in social aging in the Serengeti lion population over ~30 years! We also show the impacts of lifetime sociality on individual longevity 🦁

Very happy to share our new paper in PNASNews on how #GriffonVultures change their movement and social behaviour with age: pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… It seems that old griffons are much like old humans: they like to stay at home, are set in their routines and are a bit antisocial.

Up to four postdoc opportunities with The Verena Institute and the Yale University Public Health Modeling Unit ‼️

Our primer on approaches for text mining in ecology & evolution is out Royal Society Publishing 📚🖥️🧠🕸️ royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.10…

Friday news: our Royal Society Publishing Phil Trans B Special Issue is out!! Have a read if you're interested in any element of spatial and social behaviour and their interactions; thanks so much to all our wonderful contributing authors, and to my fellow editors royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2024/…

New paper alert! Collaboration with Jason Bried, Dan Bolnick, and @AdamSiepielski. Despite expecting within-host Interactions between parasites to affect coinfection across environmental gradients we found that the local environment was the key driver besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Over the moon to announce I'll be starting as a lecturer University of Glasgow UofG MVLS next month! I'm excited to continue my research at the interface of biodiversity, infectious diseases, and artificial intelligence with fantastic colleagues at UofG SBOHVM UofG Sii MRC-Uni of Glasgow Centre for Virus Research

Postdoc position available! Come to CRAB to work with Sam Ellis , me, Kenny Chiou & Noah Snyder-Mackler on comparative life-history evolution, as part of a new NIH grant on the social modifiers of lifespan. Apply by Oct 29 here: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecrui…

Some fun Friday news! This is my first official week back at the University of Edinburgh Biological Sciences | University of Edinburgh as a The Royal Society University Research Fellow. My group will be working on wild animal microbiomes in the context of global change and I am beyond excited for this new chapter.

New preprint alert!!! 🥳🥳I finished writing the paper for the first chapter of my dissertation: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… This work was completed with the The Verena Institute with a lot of support and guidance from Daniel Becker, Amanda Vicente, and Colin Carlson ☺️🦇⚕️🦠👩‍🔬

Our Special Issue on Understanding Age & Society using animal populations is now published 🎉 Intro: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs… Full ToC: royalsocietypublishing.org/toc/rstb/2024/… A big thank you to all the brilliant scientists who have contributed such cool research to this! 🙏Please share

New article in the @Guardian today about our Special Issue on Ageing & Society in animal populations: amp.theguardian.com/science/2024/o… Thanks to Nicola K S Davis for a great write-up!

Excited to announce that my first paper looking at the impact of cold spells on host-parasite interactions is now available in BMC Biology! Check it out at: rdcu.be/dYyeo

Animals become less social as they age — just like people, scientists say trib.al/KFCW69s

🚨 I have two PhD projects included in the BBSRCNorthWestBio DTP 🚨 gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/d… Both use Large Language Models to extract data from scientific literature. One is completely computational and the other has a mix of field, lab, and dry work Project details below! 1/3

Interested in fitness consequences of the gut microbiome in the wild? Keen on being involved with an iconic long-term study system? Check out an E4 Doctoral Training Partnership PhD opportunity working on Soay sheep microbiomes! Info below and feel free to contact with q's. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/supervi…

Early career academic? Looking for an exciting challenge? We have a whopping FIVE Assistant Professor positions open for application now: tcd.ie/naturalscience… The deadline for all applications is March 24th. Please circulate within your networks! Thanks.