
Nick Fountain-Jones
@nfountainjones
Evolutionary disease ecologist
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https://nickfountainjones.wordpress.com/ 06-01-2017 16:33:45
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New blog post: analyse and interrogate State-Space Vector Autoregressive models (VARs) in {mvgam}: ecogambler.netlify.app/blog/vector-au…. {mvgam} handles multivariate non-Gaussian series with missing data, nonlinear effects and complex dependence, all thanks to the magic of Stan #rstats



📢JOB ALERT: We are recruiting a 3-year postdoc in infectious disease dynamics at Royal Veterinary College (RVC) to join our highly collaborative US-UK EEID project on virus dynamics in wildlife populations. See advert for further info: bit.ly/3N2TbM8 Deadline Nov 3rd🦠🐭🧬

we are looking for a new colleague to join us in studying infectious disease dynamics here at University of Oklahoma , based in the School of Biological Sciences at the assistant professor level. please spread the word, and contact me with any questions! apply.interfolio.com/156424

Are you interested in full length 16S rRNA sequencing on Oxford Nanopore? We developed a new workflow using UMIs and R10.4+ chemistry to enable highly accurate and multiplexed microbiome profiling. This was a long road, and I’m glad to see this out! 1/4 doi.org/10.1093/pnasne…

Federico Gueli 🏳️ Ted Brautigan Marc Johnson shay fleishon 🧬 Tom Peacock Theo Sanderson was the first to notice molnupiravir use was likely involved in the creation of XAW. Using the 25 nuc muts listed as "unique" (not homoplasic) on the BA.2 Nextstrain tree, here is the MOV nucleotide-context score. I think it's pretty certain XAW was a MOV creation.


🚨 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

Join our #ASPSeminar this Friday 15 Nov 4pm AEDT, with speakers Elise Ringwaldt University of Tasmania #wildlifepathogens and Long Huynh University of Melbourne #antimalarialresistance Elise Ringwaldt Long Huynh Emma McHugh Science at Melbourne Stuart Ralph parasite.org.au/blog/asp-onlin… for the link and more information.


If you're interested in bacterial and fungal skin #microbiomes of amphibians, we have a new paper out in Molecular Ecology looking at how these assemblages change and interact during field release in captive reared frogs: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… 🐸




CLOSING SOON: Postdoc (Hatfield / London, United Kingdom) Link viral metagenomic data with epidemiological models, helping to uncover key drivers of virus transmission with Jayna Raghwani @HassellJm Christina Faust @bahanbug Daniel Streicker... More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/postdocto…

Excitingly, I've just started a new permanent (tenured!) role in the Tasmanian School of Medicine TSoM Public Health as a lecturer in public health! Also, I'm finally getting off this platform and you can find me at Nick Fountain-Jones.bsky.social