My latest, with Viggo Andreasen: pathogen competition in seasonal environments depends not just on new infections per old infection (R0), but on the speed at which new infections occur: https://t.co/yR0O712xMq
Looking to hire multiple postdocs: 1) Modeling a transmissible vaccine currently being used to control a chicken virus, 2) Experiments in a new model system (a nematode virus) to understand drivers of host jumps. I'll be at EEID the next few days, but also available by DM/email
I was sort of feeling desperate before receiving this grant. I've had some small wins in the last few years, but my lab was running out of funds. I had to let go of a staff member who was with me from the beginning; it was rough. And I had over a dozen grants rejected last year.
Proud to be a part of a Focused Issue in The American Naturalist, overseen by Bret Elderd, Nicole Mideo and Meg Duffy. Our part: Can Eco-Evo Theory Explain Population Cycles in the Field? (plot spoiler: yes, w/ statistical computing).
@duffy_ma@nmideo@JRM_theory @ASNAmNat
Vaxxer, masked, and ready to be tasked: Senior Lecturer Alison Hunter enters the inferno on the first day of classes. @uchicagocollege@uchicago @ The University of Chicago https://t.co/jDmW7GXDwY
Folks in rural Michigan are so fired up for Biden Harris that they paint their own signs. #biden2020#democrats @ Barry County, Michigan https://t.co/T98Hk1hcoc
@ASNAmNat @bolkerb @UChicagoPress I prefer Jane Austen, who knew her way around a comma: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
@ASNAmNat Yeah, but...some of us think that maybe @ASNAmNat goes a little overboard in avoiding commas. With some loss of clarity. Just sayin'. Or maybe it's @UChicagoPress in general?
So the words of mathematical ecologist @GregVirus2 really hit me hard: “There’s only so many ways gypsy moths can differ. But the number of ways that humans can differ is really, really huge. And especially in their behavior."
My students @kdixon_ and @SophiaHorigan on how the pandemic upended fieldwork: Pause in fieldwork hurts scientists' plans for research, futures https://t.co/g43eHGNBeP via @upi