TheOnion: Doctors Find Live Parasitic Worm In Woman’s Brain https://www.theonion.com/doctors-find-live-parasitic-worm-in-woman-s-brain-1850789214?utm_source=regular #healthmedicalpharma #tropicaldiseases #diseaseecology #parasiticworm #chelseamarkis #helminthiases #parasitology #adamrinaldo #jonmeagher #parasitism #ascaridida #worm

I don't think I wrote a new #introduction when I migrated from .social.
I'm a #computational #InfectiousDisease #epidemiologist and #biostatistician. I work on #CausalInference and #NetworkScience methods in ID Epi and #DiseaseEcology #DisEcol

Join a new EcoHealth Alliance project studying mammal viruses in the #Philippines!

$50-$65K, based in NYC (flexible hybrid office, ~1-3 days/wk in-person) or in Philippines. Frequent multi-week international travel for fieldwork.

B.A. or M.S., fieldwork experience required, esp. work with small mammals.

https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/career/philippines-research-assistant-2023

@jobsecoevo #EpiVerse #ScienceJobs #Ecology #DiseaseEcology #Job #OneHealth #FieldWork

Come work with us!

We are looking for a #postdoc to develop a case study of our #biodiversity monitoring tools applied specifically to disease #spillover.

This is a one - year, renewable position, specifically for people who just finished a Ph.D. (in #DiseaseEcology or related field), with a flexible start date.

The annual salary is 59k CAD.

See this page for more detail:

https://poisotlab.io/opportunities/

Just read "Capturing complex interactions in disease ecology with simplicial sets" for lab meeting (link below). Using simplicial sets in the context of home range overlap and environmentally transmitted parasites seems the most intuitive to me, but I'm finding it more difficult to track applications in other contexts.

Have you used simplicial sets to study disease transmission? Know of any good examples of empirical studies? Please share!

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.14079?casa_token=ZAIqqdG_6g8AAAAA%3Ab0hfEAEyqn6reLrWTZD6Ht0OfWzfjGXehzCeUKI-9fsurqZea2WjIFzVuQwFCPdqiNlv81l2xyZ8Gug

#Networks #DiseaseEcology

RT @drake_lab
I'm teaching a brand new undergraduate class on "global change and emerging infectious diseases". Do you have a favorite paper, case study, or interesting connection that should be covered? #globalhealth #epidemiology #diseaseecology

👋 I'm a pre-doctoral researcher exploring the fascinating intersection of human mobility 🏃 and disease ecology 🌐🦠 , esp. spread of mosquitoes 🦟 #SpatialDataScience #DiseaseEcology #HumanMobility #ComputationalSocialScience Read and interview with me: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/en/news_events_6123/news_press_releases_4630/news/egor_kotov_is_a_new_phd_student_at_the_laboratory_of_digital_and_computational_demography_11476

Super excited about the latest piece of art I commissioned from the amazing Rosemary Hartman (https://www.etsy.com/shop/RosiesColoredGlasses):

"Host Pathogen Data Model", a quadriptych in stained glass.

#SciArt #DisEcol #DiseaseEcology #GlassArt

Excited that this manuscript is now out at @PLOSNTDs. This work sets up a lot of what I wanted to investigate for my PhD.

#Zoonoses #Rodents #DiseaseEcology #EmergingInfectiousDiseases

https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0010772

Out from the EHA team + longstanding USAID PREDICT + ICRC collaborators: Prevalence of bat viruses associated with land-use change in Brazil

"We found that deforested sites had a less diverse bat community than forested sites, but higher viral prevalence and richness...In particular, viruses from the Coronaviridae family were detected more frequently in generalist species compared to specialist species."

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2022.921950/full

#OneHealth #EpiVerse #DiseaseEcology #DisEcol #Bats #JournalCLub

Two positions on in my computational research group at EcoHealth Alliance: an entry-level research/admin assistant and a data scientist position. Join a great organization on a team working on disease ecology and emergence forecasting!

https://ecoevo.social/@noamross/109478803985142282

https://ecoevo.social/@noamross/109478840554235551

#DataScience, #RStats, #Epidemiology #DiseaseEcology #DisEcol @jobsecoevo @rstats #EpiVerse #DataDon #Job

Interesting analysis of social structure and polio mortality in 20th century New Zealand by @anthroetc

"Applying the polio model to New Zealand: The contingent role of socioeconomic status in infectious disease mortality"

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ajpa.24669?campaign=wolearlyview

#InfectiousDisease #DiseaseEcology #Anthropology

Cool study of 232 (!!) networks across taxa with implications for parasite evolution.

"Analysis of 232 contact networks across mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, arthropods, fish and molluscs [...] demonstrates that contact network structure may drive the evolution of compensatory pathogen traits according to transmission strategy, providing essential context for understanding pathogen evolution and ecology."

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2022.1389

#InfectiousDisease #DiseaseEcology #Networks

Super cool to see climate sensitivity of mosquito-borne diseases considered in public health strategy. Plus (despite my handle), I'm extremely stoked about the promise of vaccines against malaria. I'm also curious how #climatechange may shift the effectiveness & feasibility of seasonal malaria vaccination.

You can see the full list of our favorite papers here: https://web.stanford.edu/~fukamit/papers2022.htm

#diseaseecology

Check out these Simuliidae larvae hanging out on a stream rock. Turns out they are previously unknown hosts of Onchocerca volvulus, which causes river blindness, and maintain it in the Ituri Highlands of DR Congo.

Story, photos and (wriggly) video at the post below, tremendous science in the paper above! 👆

https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/2022/12/plos-oncho-drc #OneHealth #EpiVerse #DiseaseEcology #DisEcol #Epidemiology

We're also hiring a Research Assistant to support our computational research group! 50% admin/50% research. Help us manage #data, harvest data from literature, support project + grant management. Lots of opportunity to train in #DataScience, #RStats, #Epidemiology + #DiseaseEcology

BS/MS or equiv, $55-65K, moving/visa support to NYC, or remote (US EST hours)

https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/career/data-science-research-assistant-2023

@jobsecoevo @rstats #EpiVerse #DataDon #Job

We're hiring a Research #Data Scientist in my group at EcoHealth Alliance! Join a team working on disease movement through travel + trade and disease outbreak forecasting. Build Bayesian and interpretable ML models using reproducible #rstats

MS/PhD or equiv, $70-80K, Moving/visa support to NYC, or remote (US EST hours)

https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/career/research-data-scientist-2023

@jobsecoevo @rstats #Epidemiology #EpiVerse #DiseaseEcology #DataDon #Job #PostDoc

https://www.ecohealthalliance.org/careers

An opportunity to work with a great team on an interesting sounding project. May be of particular interest to those interested in plant pathogens and trade networks. #DiseaseEcology #DataScience #Rstats

The spread of #AfricanSwineFever through mainland Europe over the last 15 years really has an inevitable feel to it. Now to see if I can turn this model into something useful.

#Rstats #ASF #DiseaseEcology

Very cool to see this paper out, describing the broad stakeholder process of developing the "Living Safely with #Bats" book, a #OneHealth educational resource now in 12 languges and 20 countries!

Much of the work was adapting this not just to local languages bot social and environmental contexts. Excellent work by the PREDICT team led by EHA's Stephanie Martinez, Ava Sullivan, and Emily Hagan.

https://www.ghspjournal.org/content/early/2022/12/05/GHSP-D-22-00106 #DiseaseEcology #Epidemiology #Spillover