Within-host communities & disease // @royalsociety University Research Fellow at @SBSatEd // she/they 🏳️🌈 amysweeny.me
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4 Oct 2024
Some fun Friday news! This is my first official week back at the University of Edinburgh @SBSatEd as a @royalsociety University Research Fellow.
My group will be working on wild animal microbiomes in the context of global change and I am beyond excited for this new chapter.
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We are excited to announce a support scheme for ECRs wishing to attend ESEB 2025 and participate in the WAME-sponsored symposium “Contribution of the microbiome to host adaptation and plasticity”
See here for more details and please share!
wamestn.com/eseb-2025
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7 Feb 2025
Coinfection interactions systematically influence parasite diversity estimates in simulated host populations
doi.org/10.32942/X20D14
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19 Dec 2024
Re-upping before the holiday lull, please do reach out if interested and share!
findaphd.com/phds/project/e5…
28 Nov 2024
Interested in fitness consequences of the gut microbiome in the wild? Keen on being involved with an iconic long-term study system?
Check out an @e3dtp PhD opportunity working on Soay sheep microbiomes! Info below and feel free to contact with q's.
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super…
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Amy Sweeny retweeted
9 Dec 2024
FindAPhd ad now live for this PhD position on understanding social perturbations in natural populations:
findaphd.com/phds/project/un…
Please share widely 🙏
24 Nov 2024
New PhD opportunity: harnessing real-world network experiments to aid prediction of how natural social systems will respond to change & perturbations, using 🐦 @WythamTits yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/under… feel free to get in touch for more info.
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29 Nov 2024
🌊 Interested in shellfish health & food safety? 🦪
Join our EastBIO PhD project at the Roslin Institute!
Explore mussel immunity & Vibrio interactions using genomics, transcriptomics & more 🦪🦠🧫🧬🌊
With fieldwork & CASE placement at Cefas
📍Edinburgh
👉findaphd.com/phds/project/ea…
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28 Nov 2024
Interested in fitness consequences of the gut microbiome in the wild? Keen on being involved with an iconic long-term study system?
Check out an @e3dtp PhD opportunity working on Soay sheep microbiomes! Info below and feel free to contact with q's.
e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super…
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24 Nov 2024
New PhD opportunity: harnessing real-world network experiments to aid prediction of how natural social systems will respond to change & perturbations, using 🐦 @WythamTits yes-dtn.ac.uk/research/under… feel free to get in touch for more info.
Please share!
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6 Sep 2024
Friday news: our @RSocPublishing Phil Trans B Special Issue is out!! Have a read if you're interested in any element of spatial and social behaviour and their interactions; thanks so much to all our wonderful contributing authors, and to my fellow editors royalsocietypublishing.org/t…
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4 Sep 2024
Time to announce: I’ve just started a position as an Assistant Professor in Zoology (Animal Behaviour) at Trinity College Dublin @TCD_NatSci ! The lab’s gonna work on integrative studies of social and spatial behaviour and their effects on disease dynamics. Can’t wait.
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Amy Sweeny retweeted
28 Aug 2024
Up to four postdoc opportunities with @viralemergence and the @Yale Public Health Modeling Unit ‼️
28 Aug 2024
Excited about the epidemiology of emerging viruses? We're looking for one or more postdocs in - count em - FOUR areas. Join us right as we move into a beautiful office full of brilliant and kind colleagues from across Yale's campus. (1/2) apply.interfolio.com/153039
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21 Aug 2024
Interested in small mammals, eco-evo, the microbiome, hormones, maternal effects? My research group is recruiting again - come join us in beautiful Tucson, Arizona. Contact me for more info & see below👇. Apps due Dec 1. Please RT & share
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8 Jul 2024
🚨👨🏽🔬👩🏿🔬𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗼𝗰 𝗵𝗶𝗿𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘁!
Want to come work at @CVRinfo with me on biostatistical and ML models to understand how viruses infect and adapt to new hosts and new tissues?
Apply @ my.corehr.com/pls/uogrecruit…, deadline 22 July!
#bioinformatics @UofGSii
ALT A 3D graphic of an influenza virus showing the external proteins and a cutaway into the genome organisation. The background shows a densely connected network of nodes.
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6 Aug 2024
New PhD on bat virus epidemiology in Belize and Kenya with @MafaldaSViana, Laura Bergner and me @UofGSBOHVM. Part of a larger NIH project with @DiseaseEcol @danjbecker & @lunn_tamika. Bats models metagenomics field experiment! Apply now, closing 1 Sept '24 findaphd.com/phds/project/fu…
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2 Jun 2024
Heads up animal behavior researchers!
Amazing opportunity: 3 3-year independent postdoctoral fellowships based in Panama at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute. Deadline July 15.
Come collaborate with @livingingroups @MPI_animalbehav
stri.si.edu/academic-program……
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24 Jul 2024
Proud to see this out from my PhD! The culmination of years of work data collection by many people. Does gut microbiome variation matter in free-living wildlife?
doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-4…
Sure seems to for survival in @SI_Horses
Why?
We think it might be partly related to…
ALT A Sable Island feral horse on its back in the grass. This horse is not dead, merely doing its level best to pretend that it is.
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21 Jul 2024
NEW 🌡️🏥 We built a platform to track attribution science on the health impacts of climate change, building on our work last year with @WellcomeTrust. Hopefully useful for journalists, climate litigation, & other scientists. Check it out: healthattribution.org. Please RT!
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17 Jul 2024
Check out our preprint! This was an absolutely tremendous effort led by Greg and a delight to see develop. Lots of fun results to unpack surrounding density dependence and spatial / social processes across a vast representation of animal systems.
17 Jul 2024
We recently preprinted our meta-analysis of spatial and social behaviour in wild animal systems! Have a read if you're interested in density dependence, disease transmission, network scaling and structuring, or comparative behavioural work: doi.org/10.1101/2024.06.28.6… (1/4)
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