🚨✨ JOB OFFERS ✨🚨
🧠 Interested in disgust and human disease avoidance? 🦠🤢
🎓 2 PhD positions (Montpellier 🇫🇷) + 1 postdoc (Stockholm 🇸🇪) now open!
📢 Exciting projects in VR, psychophysiology, psychoneuroimmunology, social behavior, and health
🧵 Details + deadlines in thread below!
Great tit perched on a branch, with beak slightly open. Photo credit: Alizée Vernouillet
📢Fully-funded #PhD opportunity with us:
🐦 Quantifying (social) learning and social behaviour in an urbanised world 🐦
Position at @ceec-research.bsky.social
📆29th May deadline
More info: tinyurl.com/yz28s96x
Apply: tinyurl.com/2wpkb64y
#cognition #socialbehaviour #fieldwork #birds
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Two PhD positions in ancient pathogen genomics are available through the ERC project EpidemioCene. Interested applicants can apply by May 7th. Details: www.eva.mpg.de/press/news/article/recon... #phd
🎉New paper out from the lab, led by @baptistepiqueret.bsky.social: ant larvae chemically suppress the reproduction of their caregivers. bit.ly/4t8uZLG
An example of how social interactions are regulated at the molecular level. The work was made possible by the unique environment @mpi-ce.bsky.social
A new phD position in my lab about amphibian, infection diseases in a global changing world. Check it out! And spread the word ;)
Read our perspective piece on a brilliant new piece of work out in @pnas.org studying public goods in an insect. Congratulations to the team! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @caritalindstedt.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social
Join me & @olliepadget.bsky.social at @livuninews.bsky.social! #postdoc #seabird movement & navigation in response to environmental cues @ukri.org. Developing new loggers w/ micro-engineers & computer scientists @yorkuniversity.bsky.social. Job tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5 Press release tinyurl.com/2zuzktv5
Differing effects of parasite-parasite interaction types on the spatial epidemiology of co-circulating parasites www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04...
🚨 Hiring a postdoc (2 years)!
We’re looking for someone with skills in data science, remote sensing, or computer science:
🛰️ Build next-gen nighttime light products
🦅 Link light spectra to migration & collision risk
Apply or reach out!
aeroecolab.com/opportunities
New #OpenAccess educational resource: "Teaching Animal Mobilities: (How to) Move Animals into Your Classroom" 🐛🪼 🐘
Modules include historical sources, discussion questions, assignment ideas, and readings to explore key themes in animal mobility.
🔗 animalmobilities.org
#HistSci #AnimalMobilities
Huge thank you to Vanessa Ezenwa, Sebastian Stockmaier, and @gerrycarter.bsky.social for helping shape these ideas and my own thinking on these topics!
There are many ideas we couldn't address in the piece just because of space - particularly the feedbacks between shifts in social behavior and within-host infection dynamics - stay tuned !! :)
I’m excited to explore these ideas through experiments and to build models that explicitly address the role of asymmetries and behavioral change in social and epidemic dynamics
Would love to hear what resonates (or doesn't!) with these ideas, and connect with others thinking about similar problems!
We explore these ideas through the lens of different types of relationships, propose some testable predictions, and discuss evidence that addresses these concepts
This raises a bigger question:
Could short-term infections have long-term social consequences?
If infection affects relationships differently depending on their value and who is infected, when infection occurs could shape the future trajectory of relationships — or if relationships form at all
Social relationships — and their benefits or costs — also change over time
Early in relationships, benefits or costs may be uncertain
Accumulated interactions reduce this uncertainty as relationships form, are maintained, or dissolve
So, tradeoffs should change as relationship value changes
Infections create asymmetric tradeoffs within dyads
Uninfected hosts balance infection risk vs. the benefits of sociality
Infected hosts already pay infection costs, and may be uniquely affected by social interactions that modify infection outcomes
Infections mean different things to partners
Infections change social behavior and social networks in complex ways — sometimes increasing interactions, sometimes decreasing them, and not all dyads respond in the same way
Here, we discuss why peering into social relationships might be key to help explain this variation
Excited to share a new paper doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...
We suggest that tradeoffs between infection costs and the benefits of sociality are dynamic, context-dependent, and likely asymmetric within dyads. We then propose hypotheses about how these tradeoffs might shape social responses to parasites...
Im excited to explore these ideas through experiments and to build models that explicitly address the role of asymmetries and behavioral change in social and epidemic dynamics
Would love to hear what resonates (or doesn’t!) with these ideas, and connect with others thinking about similar problems!
We explore these ideas through the lens of different types of relationships, propose some testable predictions, and discuss evidence that addresses these concepts
This raises a bigger question:
Could short-term infections have long-term social consequences?
If infection affects relationships differently depending on their value and who is infected, when infection occurs could shape the future trajectory of relationships — or if relationships form at all
Social relationships — and their benefits or costs — also change over time
Early in relationships, benefits or costs may be uncertain
Accumulated interactions reduce this uncertainty as relationships form, are maintained, or dissolve
So, tradeoffs should change as relationship value changes
Infections create asymmetric tradeoffs within dyads
Uninfected hosts balance infection risk vs. the benefits of sociality
Infected hosts already pay infection costs, and may be uniquely affected by social interactions that modify infection costs
Infections mean different things to partners
Infections change social behavior and social networks in complex ways — sometimes increasing interactions, sometimes decreasing them, and not all dyads respond in the same ways
Here, we discuss why peering into social relationships might be a key to help explain this variation
Now with pages @systbiol.bsky.social !
"Social Environment and the Evolution of Delayed Reproduction in Birds" with @pseudacris.bsky.social and Rick Prum
Some comparative support for the hypothesis that the evolution of complex social contexts restructure life histories
doi.org/10.1093/sysb...
New paper in TREE co-led w @jennakohles.bsky.social: We explore how resource variability shapes the value of social information for maximizing resource gain & minimizing variance. This eco-evolutionary lens helps us explain why collective sensing emerges in dynamic ecosystems!
🧪 tinyurl.com/2rurcry7
3-year Independent Post-doc in Animal Behavior based at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Panama!
Three positions, each including salary & a research budget.
Applications due April, 15th.
DM if you are interesting in developing a project with us!
stri.si.edu/academic-pro...
Figure demonstrating how the ordering of temperatures through time determines whether an ectothermic population experiencing those temperatures will go extinct
Thrilled to share that my first dissertation chapter is now published at Ecology! dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecy....
We embed TPCs into population dynamics to show how changing temperatures' ordering — not just its distribution — increases extinction risk (i.e. heatwaves matter!)
@esajournals.bsky.social
Published in @jappliedecology.bsky.social!😀
We show how (Hierarchical) Hidden Markov Models ((H)HMMs) can be tailored to different epidemiological scenarios to infer disease status directly from animal movement data.
🔗 ttps://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.70323