Jessica Metcalf

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...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Club EvMed - Extreme Weather and Malaria Control. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Club EvMed - Extreme Weather and Malaria Control. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.

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

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Teaching right from wrong: Developing a model of early immune education Early immune education mechanisms remain poorly understood. A new PLOS Biology study develops a mathematical modeling framework to provide mechanistic insights into how the infant immune system learns...

with a wonderful commentary: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

A model of early-life interactions between the gut microbiome and adaptive immunity provides insights into the ontogeny of immune tolerance The developing immune system must learn which microbes to tolerate and which to resist, but how this process unfolds is unclear. This study develops a mechanistic mathematical model of early-life gut ...

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

Vaccination to mitigate climate-driven disruptions to malaria control in Madagascar Extreme weather is common in high malaria burden areas and is likely to increase in severity owing to climate change–related severe weather events. Yet, data on infection rates after these events and ...

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...

Getting ahead of human-associated microbial decline in Africa: the urgency of sampling in light of epidemiological transition Evidence is growing that human-associated early-life microbial diversity modulates health over the long term, via effects in the infant termed ‘immune…

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.

Revealing trends in measles immunity during periods of varying measles circulation in Madagascar Abstract. Estimating the durability of immunity from vaccination is complicated by unreported re-vaccination, and unobserved natural infection or reexposur

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Newton International Fellowships | Royal Society This fellowship is for non-UK scientists who are at an early stage of their research career and wish to conduct research in the UK.

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!)

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

Postdoctoral Scholar Employee - Demography University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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...

The impact of sub-national heterogeneities in demography and epidemiology on the introduction of rubella vaccination programs in Nigeria medRxiv - The Preprint Server for Health Sciences

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...