oops, I failed to link to the preprint, and nobody apparently noticed! Including me. Sure that doesn't mean anything worrisome about me, bluesky, or anyone, though. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A simple method of estimating rabies outbreak sizes from phylogenies

The ability to estimate the size of a disease outbreak is beneficial both for coordinating an outbreak response and for retrospectively evaluating the effectiveness of response measures and surveillan...

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Led by @rowandurrant.bsky.social, we're trying to develop rules of thumb to estimate under-reporting from sequence data. Today rabies, tomorrow the world! With @khampson.bsky.social, @kirstynbrunker.bsky.social and others.

Clinic on Dynamical Approaches to Infectious Disease Data (DAIDD): 29 Nov–5 Dec. Nairobi, Kenya Run by us, the International Clinics on Infectious Disease Dynamics and Data (ICI3D) A great opportunity to meet people fighting infectious disease and to learn about dynamical modeling.

Great new talk online from @giuliaghedini.bsky.social as part of @pop-bio.bsky.social and #ResponseDiversityNetwork seminar series. Giulia is recruiting a PhD student for our @redileep.bsky.social Doctoral Network. Give it a watch and apply/send your best students to her! youtu.be/k3x4fJYb3fw?...

Giulia Ghedini - Linking species traits to community assembly and stability

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“Cool” new NSF postdoc position available in my lab at UConn, studying our unique Arctic phytoplankton collection and the interactive effects of temperature, light, and photoperiod. 3 years of funding, detailed job ad here: s.uconn.edu/q1o0itl62l.

📣We will soon be back for a new run of open online theoretical ecology seminars! We have six exciting speakers covering topics from all corners of the field to add to your calendars: In the meantime, there are 80+ previous talks on our YouTube 📺: www.youtube.com/@theoretical... See you there!

Ghosts. Cancer. Linguistics. Evolutionary Dynamics. Continental Philosophy. Intrigued? Check out my recent paper on "Hauntings in the field: The evolutionary dynamics of semiotic corruption and tissue normativity in carcinogenesis" www.aimspress.com/article/doi/...

Now out in PNAS: our latest exploration of the interplay between interspecific interactions and adaptation to a changing abiotic environment! This time it’s about predator-prey interactions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Coadapting but not static predators facilitate prey adaptation to a fluctuating environment | PNAS

Understanding how between-species interactions influence adaptation and population persistence in the face of environmental change is one of the gr...

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My department (Biology at Emory) is hiring for a teaching track position! These are stable, well-respected, long-term positions with a path to promotion and ppl often staying for decades. The dept is wonderfully supportive and filled with amazing humans (faculty + staff) apply.interfolio.com/191814

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

Don't forget - applications for our next Reviews Editor are due on Tuesday!

Evolution@journal-evo.bsky.social · 4w ago

Now seeking our next Reviews Editor! We are looking for someone with broad interests and enthusiasm who can help promote the success of a society-owned journal by commissioning Review and Perspective articles. Indicate your interest by Sept. 15: www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display...

Very grateful to the editorial board for the opportunity to write about a topic I care deeply about. This review is deliberately opinionated, a personal view of where theory in community ecology stands and where it might go next. Pushback and disagreement are very welcome! doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Toward a Conceptual Commons for Theory in Community Ecology

Community ecology has developed a rich and increasingly diverse body of theory, but its rapid expansion has outpaced efforts to compare and synthesize competing frameworks. As a result, semantic ambig...

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A wonderful review by Stefano on 100 years of Lotka–Volterra models. Don’t miss the incredibly detailed Supplement, truly the “War and Peace” of LV models. I really wish it had existed when I was a grad student! doi.org/10.1146/annu...

One Hundred Years of Lotka–Volterra Models

Over the past century, the generalized Lotka–Volterra (GLV) model has grown from a mathematical curiosity to a cornerstone of theoretical ecology. Here we celebrate the enduring legacy of Lotka and Vo...

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My lab is hiring two(!) postdocs interested in (1) building trait prediction models capable of resolving complex microbial traits from genomes and metagenomes, and/or (2) building mathematical models of microbial community dynamics www.microbialgamut.com/mGAMUT_postd...

Today is the final day of the Durham Symposium on Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology. This has been a great meeting with support from @icms-edinburgh.bsky.social, @durham.ac.uk, L'Oréal-UNESCO, and @esmtbio.bsky.social.

SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology@smbmathbiology.bsky.social · 6d ago

This week, @durham.ac.uk is hosting the Durham Symposium on Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology, organized by Giulia Celora, Valeria Giunta, @blindmath.bsky.social, and Denis Patterson. sites.google.com/view/durham-...

Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by Aleksandr Koshkarov and Nadia Tahiri on Polynomial-Time Completion of Phylogenetic Tree Sets. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Polynomial-Time Completion of Phylogenetic Tree Sets - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Comparative analyses of phylogenetic trees typically require identical taxon sets, however, in practice, trees often include distinct but overlapping taxa. Pruning non-shared leaves discards phylogene...

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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

Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by Yaroslav Ispolatov, Burton Simon, and Michael Doebeli on the Evolution of Cooperation in Spatially Structured Group-Selection Models of the Continuous Prisoner’s Dilemma. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Evolution of Cooperation in Spatially Structured Group-Selection Models of the Continuous Prisoner’s Dilemma - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

We consider continuous Prisoner’s Dilemma games played in a spatial setting by group-structured populations. The evolutionary dynamics is driven by within-group individual-level birth and death events...

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S4 of #BiologyInNumbers begins with another set of minisodes recorded at the @smbmathbiology.bsky.social/ESMTB meeting. We got to visit the lovely city of Graz to talk about: women’s health, social determination of measles, and a precious baseball card collection... smb.org/news/13686145 #MathBio

Biology in Numbers – Episode 4.1 SMB 2026 ...where everyone got together to talk MathBio in Graz, Austria. Listen on Spotify: buff.ly/byXRXui Listen on Apple: buff.ly/rXSyZiL

As part of the @durham.ac.uk and @icms-edinburgh.bsky.social symposium, Philip Maini (@oxfordmathematics.bsky.social) will give a Pascal Lecture on "Using mathematics in biology, ecology, and medicine". This event is open to the public, and will be held at 6pm BST in Elvet Riverside ER201. 🧪

SMB - Society for Mathematical Biology@smbmathbiology.bsky.social · 6d ago

This week, @durham.ac.uk is hosting the Durham Symposium on Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology, organized by Giulia Celora, Valeria Giunta, @blindmath.bsky.social, and Denis Patterson. sites.google.com/view/durham-...

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Daniel Cooney@danielcooney1.bsky.social · 6d ago

The next talk for the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be today at 11am Eastern time / 10am Central time. Our speaker is Dr. Yuta Hozumi from Georgia Tech, who will speak about Topological Insight into Viral Evolution. Please see the quoted post for information on joining the seminar. 🧪

The next talk for the Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar will be today at 11am Eastern time / 10am Central time. Our speaker is Dr. Yuta Hozumi from Georgia Tech, who will speak about Topological Insight into Viral Evolution. Please see the quoted post for information on joining the seminar. 🧪

Daniel Cooney@danielcooney1.bsky.social · 2w ago

The first talk for the Fall 2026 Midwest Mathematical Biology Seminar is starting about a half hour. Our speaker is Professor Calina Copos from Northeastern University, who will be giving a talk on titled "Emergence of biased behavior in small cell clusters".

This week, @durham.ac.uk is hosting the Durham Symposium on Mathematical Approaches to Spatial Biology, organized by Giulia Celora, Valeria Giunta, @blindmath.bsky.social, and Denis Patterson. sites.google.com/view/durham-...

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Organisers: Giulia Celora (Oxford), Valeria Giunta (Swansea), Andrew Krause (Durham), and Denis Patterson (Durham). Join us for a four-day symposium on the theory and application of mathematical model...

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I had the pleasure of seeing Fred talk on this subject at #SMB2025 in Edmonton. As someone who has suffered from having to study these "biological bureaucrats" his talk was as insightful as it was entertaining. cassyni.com/events/S1zv5... @smbmathbiology.bsky.social

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Our next #MathBioNexus event is up on the Cassyni platform. Use the link to RSVP and hear from Dr. Fred Adler about "Cells, bureaucracy and corruption". cassyni.com/events/S1zv5.... Of particular interest to anyone in: #SystemsBiology #EvolutionaryBiology #CancerBiology @smbmathbiology.bsky.social

Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by Raphael Mostov, Greyson Lewis, Gabriel Sturm, and Wallace F. Marshall on Algebraic Representation of Mitochondrial Dynamics. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Algebraic Representation of Mitochondrial Dynamics - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

This paper addresses the increasing need for comprehensive mathematical descriptions of cell organization by examining the algebraic structure of mitochondrial network dynamics. Mitochondria are cellu...

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BMB Article Highlight A Modeling Approach to Stomatal Conductance under Different Vapor Pressure Conditions By Nicole Martínez-Jeraldo et al. Published in the Bulletin of Mathematical Biology. Read the paper: buff.ly/7sVUg0x

Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by Kobra Rabiei, Grzegorz A. Rempala, Reinhard Laubenbacher, and Wenrui Hao titled "How AI Can Advance Mathematical Biology: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions". 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

How AI Can Advance Mathematical Biology: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Mathematical biology has long relied on mechanistic models, including ordinary and partial differential equations, stochastic systems, and agent-based models, to study biological processes across scal...

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Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by Chimezie Izuazu and Cameron Browne on the Probability of Antibiotic Resistance During Treatment in Stochastic PK/PD-Based Bacterial Model with Distinct Drug and Mutation Modes. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Probability of Antibiotic Resistance During Treatment in Stochastic PK/PD-Based Bacterial Model with Distinct Drug and Mutation Modes - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

Mathematical models, e.g., differential equations and stochastic processes, have gained considerable attention for understanding evolution of antibiotic resistance. However, most existing models assum...

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Here's a new #BullMathBio paper by @yuxuanzhao.bsky.social, Kaisheng Zhu, Yefei Zhang, and @danielcooney1.bsky.social on Pattern Formation in a Spatial Public Goods Dilemma due to Diffusive or Directed Motion. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pattern Formation in a Spatial Public Goods Dilemma due to Diffusive or Directed Motion - Bulletin of Mathematical Biology

The costly provision of public goods serves as a model problem for the evolution of cooperative behavior, presenting a social dilemma between the collective benefits of shared resources and the indivi...

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