Come join us at the EFI mixer for some great forecasting convo!

🗞️Hot off the press Nature Communications📢: Americans think a minority in the US are worried about climate change & support climate policy—it's really a super majority. This “False Social Reality” is near-universal in the US & fully inverts the true norm: nature.com/articles/s4146… 1/3

Wondering whether there is any real evidence that networks are structured over large spatial extents? Check out our recent paper (led by Chris Brimacombe) that finds no strong evidence that seasonality shapes ecological communities (but standardizing our studies could help!)

Got a great question in ecology, evolution or enviro science? Organize a working group to solve it! Applications for CIEE-ICEE working groups due Oct 14 (in person, virtual, hybrid). One leader must be Canadian faculty, otherwise open to all (incl ECR). ciee-icee.ca/apply.html

An isolation period of 5 days after Covid is totally inadequate for most people. New report from >63,000 people. Negative rapid tests are an essential guide jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman… JAMA Network Open

Meet the Unity Health lab that's using math to tackle some of the world's most pressing health problems, including COVID-19, Ebola, HIV and human mpox (monkeypox): bit.ly/3HbEpAV Rashmi Shukla Korryn Bodner, PhD Jesse Knight

Another initiative I'm grateful to co-lead with Korryn Bodner, PhD and the support of many! Registration is now open for the Canadian EFI summer school on Forecasting for Decision-Making. More information here: fields.utoronto.ca/activities/23-….

The deadline to apply for the CEFI summer school - Forecasting for Decision-Making: An Epidemiological & Ecological Perspective - has been extended to March 12th ⭐ Register here: lnkd.in/gpdajE9Y.

What are the conditions that could create a perfect storm for observing “negative” vaccine effectiveness even when a vaccine is efficacious? New research led by Korryn Bodner, PhD finds out: academic.oup.com/aje/advance-ar… MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions (1/4)

Reusing published #SpeciesInteraction networks? Beware! Chris Brimacombe Korryn Bodner, PhD Timothée Poisot, Ph.D. Marie-Josee Fortin show that reused networks are topologically diverse and, without proper care, unlikely to yield valid conclusions re #ecological processes #PLOSBiology plos.io/3MxsAYH

The Gordon Conference on Predictive Ecology covers a range of subjects from complexity & stochasticity in predictive models to transferability across scales to prediction & causal inference. Will make for some fascinating discussions. Join if you can: grc.org/predictive-eco…

📢📢📢 The new 2023-2024 list is out! Please share widely! If you are looking for a faculty position or postdoc in ecology & evolutionary biology check out this great community run resource: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…

Thanks again to the WHO WHO R&D Blueprint team for the invitation to be part of their session on Improving Vaccine Effectiveness. If anyone missed it and wants to check out any of the many great presentations, please find them all posted here: who.int/news-room/even…

LETTER TO THE EDITOR 📬 Applying a method before its proof of concept: A cautionary tale using inferred food webs 📄 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…