Amy Sweeny
@arsweeny
Within-host communities & disease // @royalsociety University Research Fellow at @SBSatEd // she/they 🏳️🌈 http://amysweeny.me
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.

Re-upping before the holiday lull, please do reach out if interested and share! findaphd.com/phds/project/e…
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/supervi…
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/f…
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
Coinfection interactions systematically influence parasite diversity estimates in simulated host populations doi.org/10.32942/X20D14
FindAPhd ad now live for this PhD position on understanding social perturbations in natural populations: findaphd.com/phds/project/u… Please share widely 🙏
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!
🌊 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/e…
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/supervi…

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!
Happening now!
A reminder that the next set of talks in the @stn_wame @eseb_org virtual seminar series is happening this Thursday! We’ll be hearing about all things virome! 7th Nov 2024, 14.30-16.30 GMT / 09.30-11.30 EST / 06.30-08.30 PST
A reminder that the next set of talks in the @stn_wame @eseb_org virtual seminar series is happening this Thursday! We’ll be hearing about all things virome! 7th Nov 2024, 14.30-16.30 GMT / 09.30-11.30 EST / 06.30-08.30 PST
New preprint alert!!! 🥳🥳I finished writing the paper for the first chapter of my dissertation: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… This work was completed with the @viralemergence with a lot of support and guidance from @danjbecker, @aamandavicente, and @ColinJCarlson ☺️🦇⚕️🦠👩🔬
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/toc/rstb/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.
Up to four postdoc opportunities with @viralemergence and the @Yale Public Health Modeling Unit ‼️
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
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
🚨👨🏽🔬👩🏿🔬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
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-progr……
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… Sure seems to for survival in @SI_Horses Why? We think it might be partly related to…
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!