Today I was reviewer 2 - I am sorry

I am designing my own webpage at the moment - What’s your favourite webpage by fellow scientist and why? Reply with link.

Former staffers of Climate.gov are launching a new site: www.climate.us 🧪

Amazing longterm data set in #dolphins linking #MHC heterozygosity to fitness @omanlik.bsky.social - www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...

What made our recent work on #meerkats stand out? - here is an expert summary from the @uniulm.bsky.social press office www.uni-ulm.de/en/nawi/facu... #climatechange #tuberculosis picture credit: Evelin Pandiamakkal - get in touch if you have ideas for other questions to test with this rich dataset

NEXT #MVIF EVENTS: October 2025: Peter Turnbaugh November 2025: Deepa Agashe @deepaagashe.bsky.social December 2025: Katherine Lemon @kathlemon.bsky.social January 2026: Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social y.social‬ February 2026: Simon Roux @simrouxvirus.bsky.social

Interesting new work on bird microbiomes challenging the notion of a lacking signal of phylosymbiosis - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Comment out now in Nature Reviews Biodiversity where we argue that blocking renewable energy, esp wind and solar, for biodi reasons is unnecessary - we can manage any tradeoffs. And unchecked climate change is far, far worse! Don't let biodi become political football www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Immune genetic and disease surveillance of a wild meerkat population over 20 years shows that tuberculosis imposes strong pathogen-mediated balancing selection on major histocompatibility complex and identifies underlying mechanisms www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New, fantastic work by Nadine Müller-Klein, whose dedication to understanding pathogen-mediated balancing selection drove this effort forward! Great team effort all around -Image credit: Evi Zehntner #meerkats #MHC www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What an intriguing idea, #ESEB! Another way to save CO2 emissions is to offer exclusively vegetarian and vegan food (like The British Ecological Society in their annual meetings) - system change is possible, @eseb.bsky.social I would be super keen to help organise the meeting in Munich.

Casi 2.000 científicos en Barcelona para debatir sobre el origen de la vida #eseb2025 www.elnacional.cat/es/sociedad/...

Dear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

You like #bats and #sugar! Grab your favourite sugary drink and say hi to Jasmin P2.021

An open W2 Professorship position in Molecular Crop Improvement at my Institute @uni-muenster.de! Excellent scientific environment and great conditions for Plant Research 🔬🍅🫛🥒🌽🍓🍎🥔- now open for applications !

Linyung Sun reporting on changes in the #microbiome of butterflies over the last 30 years with climate only explaining a small fraction of variation #ESEB25

Do you want to see some odd looking mammalian gut #microbiomes? Learn about phylosymbiosis in #bats at 3.15pm Monday the 18th in symposium S07! @eseb2025.bsky.social

Interested in host-associated microbiomes? Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social? Then come check out Symposium S07 on Monday August 18th and hear all about how microbiomes contribute to adaptation. Gut microbiomes, climate change, thermal physiology, behaviour, invasion biology, blood-feeding, and more!

Medellin, Colombia 2028! #ibrc2028 #bats #batresearch

A Review in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology discusses how diet shapes the gut #microbiome, the role of diet–microbiome interactions on the immune, nervous and cardiometabolic systems, and implications for dietary guidelines and precision nutrition. go.nature.com/41F8baD#microbiome#medsky 🧪

... and here's a second #ESEB2025 starter pack! go.bsky.app/DnUAnt5

Earlier in the year I was part of the bird and #bat census in Panama - what an incredible long-term effort to document the diversity of flying vertebrates - and big thanks to Rachel Page and Camilo Calderon-Acevedo for bringing us along #stri stri.si.edu/story/batbir...

We are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate at Murdoch to work on bat movement ecology 🦇 with a focus on predicting wind energy impacts 🌬️ www.nicholaswulab.com

Makes sense that diverse microbial communities can be maintained on a recalcitrant substrate like cellulose, but on glucose, surely not? Surprisingly there is no difference 🤔 The first part is live 👇 but more to come (including answers). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

New study showing that #coinfections in juvenile #bats coincides with peak shedding times in adults www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Dr Aaron Corcoran does some amazing work on bats and moths. He is looking for a bat person to work with him in Colorado Springs starting in September. Check the link for more information. This would be an amazing opportunity! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...

Updated a broken link in my substack post about the #ColossalBio #DeExtinction #DisInformation campaign – dire wolves are still extinct. open.substack.com/pub/devoevom...

If people think American scientists are somehow going to land in Europe, I've got news for you about the difference between millions and billions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

New online! Intestinal pH: a major driver of human gut microbiota composition and metabolism

More recently I also loved reading about the work by @klarawanelik.bsky.social on how superspreading field voles have distinct gut microbial compositions animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #gutmicrobiota happy World #microbiome Day!

It’s World #Microbiome Day today! For all those fans of #GutMicrobiota I am just going to leave one of my favourite papers from the last year here: www.nature.com/articles/s42... @laballaband.bsky.social

Hope this is useful - consensus statement "Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies" rdcu.be/er3Io

Calling on all #wildlife ecologists! I am looking for time-stamped longitudinal fecal collections from #mammals (n>250; spread throughout the day; frozen at min -20*C; ideally, repeated sampling) - please DM me #feces #poop #faeces #droppings #scat #microbiome #MEvSky #glucocorticoids #diet

New study showing links between innate and adaptive immune markers and the host-associated gut microbial community in wild #hyena - congrats @vhjarquind.bsky.social and colleagues #microbiome #immunity #MEvoSky #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Accessibility for all www.nature.com/articles/s41... Our June Editorial discusses the many barriers and challenges scientists with disabilities face during their careers, and highlights actions journals can take to improve accessibility

New-ish baboon Microbiome work showing how host age is or isn’t predicted by the Microbiome. elifesciences.org/articles/102...

My husband and I were totally enamoured by our brief adventure as #duck parents this past weekend #wildlife #puns - they are all doing well and are in good hands with a wildlife specialist now

15 Unis dürfen sich bewerben, 5 werden gefördert, 10 vernichten Steuergelder. Dazu mehr von @amreibahr.bsky.social und mir: substack.com/home/post/p-.... #ExitExzellent #ExStra #ArbeitInDerWiss

The moment you realise how incredibly well ducklings are camouflaged among grasses, when you captured 6 of 8 but spend 45 mins trying to locate the other two! Mother duck comes back and finds them in a minute!

Found a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!

Delighted to see this paper from danderson123.bsky.social 's PhD out. We have been building tools for AMR gene detection for over a decade now, but multicopy genes remain challenging. Dan shows that with a gene-space de Bruijn graph and long reads, you can do well www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

This week started off with a little visit to the Villa Eberhardt. The ProTrainU department had organised a terrific and informative get-together for those young researchers who sucessfully applied for funding support in order to carve out their own research agenda. Thanks @uniulm.bsky.social

The Russo bat lab has published a great paper on bats & farms! Absolutely all of this! Bat-friendly farming must also mitigate for any risks or hazards presented to bats. It's not simply "putting up bat boxes". Another banger from 2024! #BatFriendlyFarming 🦇🌎🧪🦊 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Microbiome dynamics: this study shows that general principles can be learned even for something as hopelessly complex as the human gut #microbiome when well-designed experiments are combined with mathematical models. www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....

International bat appreciation day. (6" x 6" watercolor on paper, 2023)

It’s international #bat appreciation day! Here are some of my favs from my trip to Panama! 🦇🦇🦇 correct guesses give you a 😍 response

Was passiert, wenn man in einer Großstadt konsequent an der Verbesserung der Luftqualität arbeitet - indem man etwa Autos verdrängt - sieht man an Paris. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...

The writing recommendations in this career feature are spot on - read, write, edit, repeat - „writing is thinking“ #academia