The 2026 Fall Eastern Sectional Meeting starts tomorrow! George Washington University, Washington, DC October 3–4 Check out the program and learn more about the meeting. Visit the AMS Bookstore during the meeting for a special discount on AMS titles. Links in comments.

BMB Article Highlight Stochastic Analysis of a Plant-Vector-Virus Model with Saturated Incidence Rate By Sunil Maity. Published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. Read the paper: buff.ly/9LE98UI

We are hiring! 🧪 Tenure-track position in Evolutionary Biology at the University of Nevada, Reno. Great colleagues, nearby mountains, and of course a certain lake... Application info: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external... www.unr.edu/biology #evolution #EEB #ecoevo #evolsky #academicjobs

We’d like to thank MACSYS Partner Investigator & Univ of Oxford Professor Ruth Baker for an inspiring week of research discussions! Ruth visited researchers at three MACSYS node universities, sharing insights from her work in mathematical biology and exploring opportunities for future collaboration.

I'm hiring a postdoc in population and evolutionary genetics at Indiana University Bloomington! We're a computational lab working on spatial demographic inference using genomic data and machine learning. You can apply here: indiana.peopleadmin.com/postings/34508

BMB Article Highlight Eco-Evolutionary Dynamics of Proliferation Heterogeneity: A Phenotype-Structured Model for Tumor Growth and Treatment Response By Lara Schmalenstroer et al. Published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. Read the paper: buff.ly/exoj5iW

My group is recruiting a Ph.D student for Fall 2027! We're a friendly group of mathematically-minded and computationally-inspired biologists studying topics including social evolution, host-pathogen interactions, genetics, and demography. See vancleve.theoretical.bio for more info!

I am hiring a postdoc! Are you interested to work on population genetics/ drug resistance/ data? Want to work in Montpellier, France? Fastq files don't scare you? PhD required, start date hopefully Nov 1! (end date Sep 30 2028) Please share! abetterscientist.wordpress.com/2026/09/29/p...

Postdoc position on drug resistance evolution in Montpellier, France

I have some exciting news (again!). I got money from the region (Occitanie) to hire a postdoc (and later an engineer / technician) to work on drug resistance evolution in malaria (P. faciparum) and…

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In a few minutes, Dr. Olivia Clifton (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) will be giving a talk on Pattern Formation Through Nonlocal Competition and Facilitation. Please see below for information to join the seminar.

Daniel Cooney@danielcooney1.bsky.social · last mo.

I am happy to share that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar is returning for the Fall 2026 semester. All talks are scheduled for 11am Eastern Time / 10am Central time on Tuesdays. sites.google.com/view/midwest...

Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by Azmy S. Ackleh, Jenita Jahangir, and Amy Veprauskas on Backward bifurcations in discrete-time epidemic models with vaccination. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Backward bifurcations in discrete-time epidemic models with vaccination - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

We develop a discrete-time Susceptible-Infectious-Susceptible model with Vaccination (SISV) in which vaccination reduces but does not necessarily eliminate the risk of infection. After establishing th...

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Here's a new paper by Joseph Baafi and Amy Hurford on the Effect of Climate Warming on Culex Mosquito Population Dynamics in Newfoundland. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Effect of Climate Warming on Culex Mosquito Population Dynamics in Newfoundland - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Mosquitoes are important vectors of infectious diseases affecting humans and animals. In North America, Culex mosquitoes transmit West Nile virus and other arboviruses, while their persistence in temp...

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Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by Inmaculada López, Manuel Gámez, Ana Belén Castaño-Fernández, József Garay, and Zoltán Varga on New Game-Theoretical Approach to Marketing Cooperatives in Fisheries. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

New Game-Theoretical Approach to Marketing Cooperatives in Fisheries - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

While most game-theoretical models in fisheries deal with the conflict of exploitation of the same resource, unlike these models, the present paper is dedicated to marketing conflicts, always accounti...

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Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by Laura Victoria Forero-Vega, Ignacio Barradas, and Juan Pablo Gutiérrez-Jara titled "Multiple Disease-Free Equilibria: Toward a Vector Structure of the Basic Reproduction Number". 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Multiple Disease-Free Equilibria: Toward a Vector Structure of $$\mathcal {R}_0$$ R 0 - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Traditional epidemiological models rely on the basic reproductive number, $$\mathcal {R}_0$$ R 0 , as a single threshold quantity to determine whether a disease will persist or die out. However, incre...

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Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by Suman Kumari and Partha Sarathi Mandal on Bayesian Parameter Estimation and Stochastic Extinction Analysis in a Seasonal Bubonic Plague Transmission Model. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Bayesian Parameter Estimation and Stochastic Extinction Analysis in a Seasonal Bubonic Plague Transmission Model - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Mathematical models of plague dynamics provide insight into zoonotic transmission processes and epidemic persistence but often neglect stochastic effects and seasonal variability. In this study, we ex...

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Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by Alberto Tenore, Fabiana Russo, Luigi Frunzo, and Maria Rosaria Mattei on Modeling Phototaxis and Planktonic Cell Behavior in Phototrophic Biofilms. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Modeling Phototaxis and Planktonic Cell Behavior in Phototrophic Biofilms - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

We propose a continuous multidimensional multispecies model of planktonic cell invasion in phototrophic biofilms that incorporates phototaxis as a key mechanism driving directed movement along light g...

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Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by Pierre-Alexandre Bliman, Manon de la Tousche, and Yves Dumont titled "Sterile Insect Technique in a n-patch System with Allee Effect and Mass Trapping: Modelling, Analysis and Simulations" 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Sterile Insect Technique in a n-patch System with Allee Effect and Mass Trapping: Modelling, Analysis and Simulations - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

The sterile insect technique (SIT) is a biological control method aimed at reducing or eliminating populations of pests and disease vectors. This technique involves releasing sterilised insects which,...

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Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by Isabella V. Gimón, Conner Sandefur, and Santiago Schnell titled "Reproducible Agent-Based Simulations of Protein Aggregation: A FAIR Implementation". 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Reproducible Agent-Based Simulations of Protein Aggregation: A FAIR Implementation - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Aberrant protein aggregation is implicated in many neurodegenerative diseases and is strongly modulated by intracellular spatial constraints such as macromolecular crowding and clearance. Computationa...

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Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by Evan Gorstein, Mengze Tang, Hailey Bruzzone, and Claudia Solís-Lemus on how Ancestral Sequences Cannot be Accurately Reconstructed via Interpolation in a Variational Autoencoder’s Latent Space. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ancestral Sequences Cannot be Accurately Reconstructed via Interpolation in a Variational Autoencoder’s Latent Space - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Standard methods for ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR) rely on substitution models for the residues in a biological sequence and assume independent evolution across these sites, ignoring the epi...

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New #BullMathBio paper titled "An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Investigate the Impact of Sex and Gender on Tuberculosis Transmission: A Case Study of Kampala, Uganda" by James W. G. Doran, Dennis Mujuni, Kit Gallagher, Christian A. Yates & Ruth Bowness. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Investigate the Impact of Sex and Gender on Tuberculosis Transmission: A Case Study of Kampala, Uganda - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Tuberculosis (TB) is an airborne disease caused by the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 2023, it returned to being the leading cause of death from an infectious agent globally, replacing COVID-...

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BMB Article Highlight Gene Genealogies in Haploid Populations Evolving According to Sweepstakes Reproduction By Bjarki Eldon. Published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. Read the paper: buff.ly/3JBLKp1

New paper alert! 🚨 How does social information quality impact collective intelligence in human groups? We used immersive 3D experiments to find out! Out now in Nature Comms 🧵👇 Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Payoff selectivity drives collective intelligence during dynamic resource tracking in humans - Nature Communications

Humans rely on complex social learning and collective adaptation to navigate dynamically changing environments. The authors show that human collective intelligence in a dynamic, naturalistic task depe...

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Awesome work by @chirkovv.bsky.social in collaboration with @ralfkurvers.bsky.social and @dominikdeffner.bsky.social . Check it out!

Valerii Chirkov@chirkovv.bsky.social · last wk.

New paper alert! 🚨 How does social information quality impact collective intelligence in human groups? We used immersive 3D experiments to find out! Out now in Nature Comms 🧵👇 Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Proud to present our latest work "Tracking human foragers and their prey reveals adaptive predator-prey dynamics", now hosted on BioRxiv! 🧵 doi.org/10.64898/202... @ralfkurvers.bsky.social @scioi.bsky.social @arc-mpib.bsky.social @alexschakowski.bsky.social @dominikdeffner.bsky.social

Today's @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #MathBioNexus seminar was a fun one, so comes highly recommended. Fortunately, for anyone who missed it, you have a week to join the discussion and get Fred to answer any questions you may have. cassyni.com/events/S1zv5... #MathBio #SciSky 🧪

We are hoping that word of this search goes far and that we draw a wide and diverse pool of applicants. Please take a look and share if you're inclined. 5 departments involved! • Organismic & Evol Bio • Mol & Cell Bio • Stem Cells & Regen Bio • Earth & Planetary Sci • Human Evolutionary Bio

Ben de Bivort@debivort.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hello friends, the Harvard Life Science departments have banded together to hire a new colleague working at the intersection of Life Sciences and AI. Could be primarily an experimentalist, or could be primarily a compute/theorist. academicpositions.harvard.edu/postings/16773

📢Come work with us in sunny☀️Brisbane! We are looking for an applied mathematician to join our Centre as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at QUT. 👉 qut.nga.net.au/cp/index.cfm... @smbmathbiology.bsky.social @mjsimpson.bsky.social

BMB Article Highlight Delay Differential Equation Approach to Oligomerization Reveals the Delay Dynamics Underlying Oscillations in Mitochondrial Fission By Kitrick Fynaardt et al. Published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. Read the paper: buff.ly/bjlBfup

In a few minutes, Professor Zhisheng Shuai from @ucf.bsky.social will be giving a talk titled "Quantifying Population Heterogeneity Using Generalized Inverses: Implications for Spatial Ecology and Epidemiology". Please see the post below for more information on joining the seminar.

Daniel Cooney@danielcooney1.bsky.social · last mo.

I am happy to share that the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar is returning for the Fall 2026 semester. All talks are scheduled for 11am Eastern Time / 10am Central time on Tuesdays. sites.google.com/view/midwest...

Join us for the next MathBioNexus webinar! Dr. Fred Adler will present “Cells, Bureaucracy and Corruption,” featuring research from the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. 📅 September 23 ⏰ 1:00 PM EDT 🔗 Register: buff.ly/yWXSHNa

Check out @cassyni.bsky.social talk: Cells, bureaucracy and corruption presented by Frederick R Adler 📅 Wednesday 23rd Sep 2026 ⏰ 13.00 PM (EDT) It's not to late to RSVP. Looking forward to seeing you then! @smbmathbiology.bsky.social #MathBio #MathOnco