Amy B Pedersen
@amypedersen.bsky.social
Professor of Disease Ecology, interested in wild immunology and parasitology, supporting women in science, academic mum. University of Edinburgh.
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We have a 5am start today as we have both our 96-trap grids open and it is going to be a long day @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @bethsallis.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @amypedersen.bsky.social
September 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
We have a 5am start today as we have both our 96-trap grids open and it is going to be a long day @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @bethsallis.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @amypedersen.bsky.social
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Today two of our team left the island for a short break and Indra, Shaun and Tom arrived. We also celebrated Beth and Indra’s successful first year PhD vivas! @amypedersen.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
September 3, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Today two of our team left the island for a short break and Indra, Shaun and Tom arrived. We also celebrated Beth and Indra’s successful first year PhD vivas! @amypedersen.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
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An amazing Week 1 on the Isle of May — busy days, lots of mice, and much more to come!
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September 1, 2025 at 10:08 AM
An amazing Week 1 on the Isle of May — busy days, lots of mice, and much more to come!
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The “squeak-stake” is a bit of fun we have on the island - aim is to guess the number of mice we trap each day. We have 3 Manchester UG with us this season and Rachel who has never been here before guessed EXACTLY the right number on day 1 @amypedersen.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
August 31, 2025 at 8:07 AM
The “squeak-stake” is a bit of fun we have on the island - aim is to guess the number of mice we trap each day. We have 3 Manchester UG with us this season and Rachel who has never been here before guessed EXACTLY the right number on day 1 @amypedersen.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social
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First trapping day of the summer season 2025 has gone very well. Loggers are out too now so we can monitor how our mice are moving round the grid @amypedersen.bsky.social @grahammunology.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @macaulayturner.bsky.social
August 29, 2025 at 6:28 PM
First trapping day of the summer season 2025 has gone very well. Loggers are out too now so we can monitor how our mice are moving round the grid @amypedersen.bsky.social @grahammunology.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @macaulayturner.bsky.social
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Lab is set up, food is stashed and first traps are out. @amypedersen.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social
August 28, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Lab is set up, food is stashed and first traps are out. @amypedersen.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social
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We have headed out today for our 4th field season on the Isle of May - good to be back and looking forward to what the next 6 weeks brings @amypedersen.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @sheencr.bsky.social
August 26, 2025 at 8:49 PM
We have headed out today for our 4th field season on the Isle of May - good to be back and looking forward to what the next 6 weeks brings @amypedersen.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @sheencr.bsky.social
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Day one has involved setting up the lab and re establishing our grids which have lain unused since December 2024 @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @amypedersen.bsky.social
August 27, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Day one has involved setting up the lab and re establishing our grids which have lain unused since December 2024 @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @amypedersen.bsky.social
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Interesting looking set of talks on 'What turns spillovers into epidemics?' w @jessmetcalf.bsky.social @danielstreicker.bsky.social @aineotoole.bsky.social @peacockflu.bsky.social @HouriyahTegally - 19th May www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-...
Panel Discussion: 'What turns spillovers into epidemics?'
This talk brings together experts in pathogen genomics, virology, ecology, climate science, and data science to explore how AI, genomic surveillance, and…
www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk
May 1, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Interesting looking set of talks on 'What turns spillovers into epidemics?' w @jessmetcalf.bsky.social @danielstreicker.bsky.social @aineotoole.bsky.social @peacockflu.bsky.social @HouriyahTegally - 19th May www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/events/what-...
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We compared gut microbiota across >800 lab and wild house mice. Wild mice have more diverse, aerotolerant, and dynamic microbiotas than their lab counterparts. See our latest paper here: bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #gutmicrobiome #musmusculus #wildmice
Wild house mice have a more dynamic and aerotolerant gut microbiota than laboratory mice - BMC Microbiology
The mammalian gut microbiota is a complex microbial community with diverse impacts on host biology. House mice (Mus musculus) are the major model organism for research on mammals, but laboratory domes...
bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com
April 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
We compared gut microbiota across >800 lab and wild house mice. Wild mice have more diverse, aerotolerant, and dynamic microbiotas than their lab counterparts. See our latest paper here: bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #gutmicrobiome #musmusculus #wildmice
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Hi #Drosophila folk: I'm advertising a 2-year #Postdoc, funded by a BBSRC grant on the genetic and immune determinants and evolutionary constraints underlying extreme pathogen transmission phenotypes. Deadline 29 April, details in the link below, or feel free to email:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ231/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ231/p...
Postdoctoral Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh
Apply now for the Postdoctoral Research Associate role on jobs.ac.uk - the leading job board for higher education jobs. View details.
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April 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Hi #Drosophila folk: I'm advertising a 2-year #Postdoc, funded by a BBSRC grant on the genetic and immune determinants and evolutionary constraints underlying extreme pathogen transmission phenotypes. Deadline 29 April, details in the link below, or feel free to email:
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ231/p...
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ231/p...
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Huge congratulations to EID member Amy Buck who has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh!
Full news story ⤵️
edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Full news story ⤵️
edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Professor Amy Buck elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for her work pioneering RNA biology
March 2025: Professor Amy Buck, EID member in the School of Biological Sciences, has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh for her cross-disciplinary research to understand how pa...
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April 2, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Huge congratulations to EID member Amy Buck who has been elected as a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh!
Full news story ⤵️
edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
Full news story ⤵️
edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...
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Just a reminder that Cardiff University is proposing to cut 400 academic staff and drop nursing, ancient history, modern languages, music and religion altogether - all this while opening a new campus in Kazakhstan at the same time.
Yep. Me neither. 🤯
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Yep. Me neither. 🤯
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
RCN formally responds to Cardiff University’s proposed closure of its School of Nursing | Royal College of Nursing
The College is very disappointed and strongly opposes the proposals, which were announced without prior consultation, warning that it poses serious risks to nurse academics, student members, patients,...
www.rcn.org.uk
March 20, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Just a reminder that Cardiff University is proposing to cut 400 academic staff and drop nursing, ancient history, modern languages, music and religion altogether - all this while opening a new campus in Kazakhstan at the same time.
Yep. Me neither. 🤯
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Yep. Me neither. 🤯
www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Rewilding catalyzes maturation of the humoral immune system | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....
Rewilding catalyzes maturation of the humoral immune system
Releasing laboratory mice into the natural environment enhanced maturation and activation of the humoral immune system.
www.science.org
March 10, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Rewilding catalyzes maturation of the humoral immune system | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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I'm very pleased to have two lab positions open this week, to join our team looking at immune regulation in infection and co-infection. We're especially interested in tissue-based immunity, cytokine regulation and immune metabolism. Join us! Postdoc (3y) and research technician (12mo) posts open.
March 3, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I'm very pleased to have two lab positions open this week, to join our team looking at immune regulation in infection and co-infection. We're especially interested in tissue-based immunity, cytokine regulation and immune metabolism. Join us! Postdoc (3y) and research technician (12mo) posts open.
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A high lipid diet leads to worse infectious disease outcomes. Interesting implications for wildlife food supplementation. Always exciting to have a new manuscript out! Congrats @ashley-love.bsky.social @sauerscientist.bsky.social
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A high-lipid diet leads to greater pathology and lower tolerance during infection
Summary: Canaries fed a diet high in lipids show more severe disease outcomes than those fed a high-protein diet, with important implications for human and wildlife disease transmission.
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March 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM
A high lipid diet leads to worse infectious disease outcomes. Interesting implications for wildlife food supplementation. Always exciting to have a new manuscript out! Congrats @ashley-love.bsky.social @sauerscientist.bsky.social
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Lab mice (domesticated for >100y) have kept gut bacterial strains that codiversified w/ rodents for >25My. Here, authors show genetic drift occured in the lab, leading to loss of microb diversity+more deleterious mutations, impacting microbial fitness in lab vs wt mice
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Recent genetic drift in the co-diversified gut bacterial symbionts of laboratory mice - Nature Communications
Here the authors show that lab mice have retained ancient gut bacterial symbionts that diversified in parallel with rodent species, but the genomes of these gut bugs have accumulated mutational burden...
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March 6, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Lab mice (domesticated for >100y) have kept gut bacterial strains that codiversified w/ rodents for >25My. Here, authors show genetic drift occured in the lab, leading to loss of microb diversity+more deleterious mutations, impacting microbial fitness in lab vs wt mice
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Exciting to see this monarch butterfly on the cover of @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social this month. In this issue, Astrid Groot and I suggest that parasitism may contribute to the evolution of warning coloration by selecting for anti-parasitic toxins and pigments. Picture taken in St Marks Florida.🧪
March 4, 2025 at 5:58 PM
Exciting to see this monarch butterfly on the cover of @cp-trendsecolevo.bsky.social this month. In this issue, Astrid Groot and I suggest that parasitism may contribute to the evolution of warning coloration by selecting for anti-parasitic toxins and pigments. Picture taken in St Marks Florida.🧪
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Bill banning mRNA vaccines in Iowa passes subcommittee iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/03/03/b...
It’s really getting hard to keep up with the stupidity Olympics in this country
It’s really getting hard to keep up with the stupidity Olympics in this country
Bill banning mRNA vaccines in Iowa passes subcommittee • Iowa Capital Dispatch
Health care providers could face a misdemeanor charge and fines of $500 for administering mRNA vaccines under the bill.
iowacapitaldispatch.com
March 5, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Bill banning mRNA vaccines in Iowa passes subcommittee iowacapitaldispatch.com/2025/03/03/b...
It’s really getting hard to keep up with the stupidity Olympics in this country
It’s really getting hard to keep up with the stupidity Olympics in this country
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🪰 Vector Borne Diseases workshop 🦟
Last month we hosted a successful workshop to bring together those who work on VBDs as well as highlighting the facilities at Edinburgh that underpin much of the research activity into VBDs.
More info ➡️ edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/vector-borne...
Last month we hosted a successful workshop to bring together those who work on VBDs as well as highlighting the facilities at Edinburgh that underpin much of the research activity into VBDs.
More info ➡️ edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/vector-borne...
Workshop highlights vector borne diseases
February 2025: Researchers came together at the Edinburgh Futures Institute to discuss the impact of climate and environmental change on vector borne disease.
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March 5, 2025 at 10:05 AM
🪰 Vector Borne Diseases workshop 🦟
Last month we hosted a successful workshop to bring together those who work on VBDs as well as highlighting the facilities at Edinburgh that underpin much of the research activity into VBDs.
More info ➡️ edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/vector-borne...
Last month we hosted a successful workshop to bring together those who work on VBDs as well as highlighting the facilities at Edinburgh that underpin much of the research activity into VBDs.
More info ➡️ edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/vector-borne...
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DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...
DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases at critical forecasting centers
NOAA's nerve center of national weather forecasting is on a lease cancellation list.
www.axios.com
March 4, 2025 at 2:44 AM
DOGE moves to cancel NOAA leases on key weather buildings www.axios.com/2025/03/03/d...
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NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb!
NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
March 3, 2025 at 2:33 PM
NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb!
NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️
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In September in Geneva we applauded a major milestone in the effort to eradicate measles and rubella viruses from the face of the earth.
Today an unvaccinated child has died of measles in the country where the vaccine was developed.
This is not greatness.
Today an unvaccinated child has died of measles in the country where the vaccine was developed.
This is not greatness.
February 26, 2025 at 4:59 PM
In September in Geneva we applauded a major milestone in the effort to eradicate measles and rubella viruses from the face of the earth.
Today an unvaccinated child has died of measles in the country where the vaccine was developed.
This is not greatness.
Today an unvaccinated child has died of measles in the country where the vaccine was developed.
This is not greatness.
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Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend.
The ultracompetitive, 2-year program, which trains Ph.D. scientists in the intricacies of public health laboratory work. scim.ag/4gPy0te
The ultracompetitive, 2-year program, which trains Ph.D. scientists in the intricacies of public health laboratory work. scim.ag/4gPy0te
Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend
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February 19, 2025 at 10:36 PM
Most of the fellows in CDC’s highly competitive Laboratory Leadership Service were fired last weekend.
The ultracompetitive, 2-year program, which trains Ph.D. scientists in the intricacies of public health laboratory work. scim.ag/4gPy0te
The ultracompetitive, 2-year program, which trains Ph.D. scientists in the intricacies of public health laboratory work. scim.ag/4gPy0te