Greg Dwyer

My latest, with Viggo Andreasen: pathogen competition in seasonal environments depends not just on new infections per old infection (R0), but on the speed at which new infections occur: journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

@pavitra451 😀😀😀

Dwyer lab moth-maticians represent at #EEID2022 ! @kdixon_ @wkoval3

Looking to hire multiple postdocs: 1) Modeling a transmissible vaccine currently being used to control a chicken virus, 2) Experiments in a new model system (a nematode virus) to understand drivers of host jumps. I'll be at EEID the next few days, but also available by DM/email

I was sort of feeling desperate before receiving this grant. I've had some small wins in the last few years, but my lab was running out of funds. I had to let go of a staff member who was with me from the beginning; it was rough. And I had over a dozen grants rejected last year.

Proud to be a part of a Focused Issue in The American Naturalist, overseen by Bret Elderd, Nicole Mideo and Meg Duffy. Our part: Can Eco-Evo Theory Explain Population Cycles in the Field? (plot spoiler: yes, w/ statistical computing). @duffy_ma @nmideo @JRM_theory @ASNAmNat

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but… it’s ok to write for loops.

Great new graduate student funding opportunities in ecology and evolution @UChicago_GRAD. Check us out and apply by 1 Dec @sacnas @ABRCMS @DiversifyEEB RT

Vaxxer, masked, and ready to be tasked: Senior Lecturer Alison Hunter enters the inferno on the first day of classes. @uchicagocollege @uchicago @ The University of Chicago instagram.com/p/CUU7thwrPla/…

Moonrise, sunrise and yesterday's caterpillar in a new suit. instagram.com/p/CTCahVIr4pZ/…

Monarch caterpillar and birch sawfly caterpillars instagram.com/p/CSoyh5LrnhB/…

Viceroy butterfly @ Little Cedar Lake instagram.com/p/CSmJvj9DdG3/…

Folks in rural Michigan are so fired up for Biden Harris that they paint their own signs. #biden2020 #democrats @ Barry County, Michigan instagram.com/p/CF5OEfmhQiy/…

PhD stipends should include dental

@ASNAmNat @bolkerb @UChicagoPress I prefer Jane Austen, who knew her way around a comma: "It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

@bolkerb @ASNAmNat @UChicagoPress I appreciate the support, Ben!

@ASNAmNat @UChicagoPress Clarity be damned, right? (Oh no, I'm using commas again!)

@ASNAmNat Yeah, but...some of us think that maybe @ASNAmNat goes a little overboard in avoiding commas. With some loss of clarity. Just sayin'. Or maybe it's @UChicagoPress in general?

So the words of mathematical ecologist @GregVirus2 really hit me hard: “There’s only so many ways gypsy moths can differ. But the number of ways that humans can differ is really, really huge. And especially in their behavior."

My students @kdixon_ and @SophiaHorigan on how the pandemic upended fieldwork: Pause in fieldwork hurts scientists' plans for research, futures upi.com/7013959t via @upi