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New paper alert! We used inert UV powder on infected birds to isolate how disease symptoms contribute to pathogen spread The Royal Society High virulence is associated with pathogen spreadability in a songbird–bacterial system | Royal Society Open Science royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

Read our story here: propublica.org/article/pandem… w/ photography by the amazing @kFlynnNola

Sharing fluids shapes host #social networks and #pathogen traits #ProcB #Commentary ow.ly/U2wQ50OOYwv #OpenAccess Jess Stephenson ([email protected]) #Evolution #ASMicrobe

Sexual ornamentation is common in animals, but what exactly do ornaments tell choosers? Read more in a recent paper in Evolution Letters by @liamrdougherty, @FaithRovenolt, A. Luyet, @jukka_jokela, and Jess Stephenson ([email protected]): doi.org/10.1093/evlett…

@liamrdougherty @FaithRovenolt @jukka_jokela Jess Stephenson ([email protected]) Want to know more about the story behind the science? Read more in the latest Evolution Letters blog post by study coauthor @FaithRovenolt! evolutionletters.net/when-and-why-o… 📷: Faith Rovenolt

Congrats to Crystal Lara-Santos on this incredible honor!!!! #GilliamFellows #pittbiosci

What an amazing summer! We added a 2nd happy healthy girl to our family in May (😍), heard about U.S. National Science Foundation grant getting funded in June (🎉 more on this soon!), heard about the awesome Rachael Kramp's #Gilliam fellowship HHMI in July (🤩).. I feel like the luckiest person ❤️✨🌟

Calling late stage #PhD and #postdocs - are you interested in #disease #ecology and #parasite #evolution..? I would LOVE to sponsor your NSF fellowship application. I've had 2 PRFBs in my lab - it's a great programme! nsf.gov/pubs/2023/nsf2…

New preprint: Even a little kin association can select for infected hosts to reduce onward transmission, behaviorally or physiologically, instead of tolerating infection. "Associating with kin selects against disease tolerance" biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

ALSO there is still time to apply to this #postdoc in #ecology #evolution Get Your PhD @PittBioSci - develop a project with any combo of labs, work independently. For example - #disease and #microbiomes? #disease and #sexualselection? #parasite rapid evolution? LMK! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersection/…

Lots of #jobs open in my lab: wordpress.com/page/stephenso… #PhD students, #postdoc, #manager... I want it all :) If you're interested in using #guppies and their #worm #parasites to understand how #behaviour affects #disease #ecology and #evolution.. check it out!

Looking forward to giving this seminar tomorrow! 🕷🕸️

So proud of Marissa Langager for her persistence in getting this exciting work out- her 1st pub as 1st author! She shows that (given the choice) sick house finches prefer to associate w/ healthy flockmates, which has key consequences for tranmission: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ec…