🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

After 4 wonderful years at @biology.ox.ac.uk working with Sarah Knowles on house mouse gut microbiota-behaviour links, today I started a new postdoc position at @niooknaw.bsky.social with @melissahrowe.bsky.social, where we'll be looking at house sparrow reproductive tract microbiotas! Stay tuned :D

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

One week left on this! Good opportunity for someone interested in #behaviour, #genomics and #migration to come work will some fun seabirds and some fun people 🧬🐣🛰️ www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

What better than the massive social network that #eseb2025 is, to learn about social networks? Go check out @eloisenewman.bsky.social 's poster this afternoon!

What gif pops up when you type your name? Perfect.

Slightly diminish a band: Pearl Jelly

Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Looking for a PhD in insects, behaviour and/or microbiomes? This is the one for you 👇

🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8r

Spring slowly advancing this am in Oxford. Fantastic to ring our first willow warbler of the year among a flush of blackcaps and a lovely bullfinch. I also heard my first willow warbler yesterday just outside my door. Seemed to be singing somewhere in Elder Stubbs - great to hear them in the city!

A theoretical biology PhD position at the University of Leiden on the coevolution of aging and sociality with awesome @lottedevries.bsky.social please spread the word! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

check out our new paper in ISME! if you're a microbe, is it about who you are or how you get along with others? Find out! 👇

Highlights of the Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend: 31 simultaneous starling, 1 blackcap and 12 jackdaw, among which these two absolute beauts:

In southern Portugal, we have the absolute best electricians.

Hello Bluesky! Beyond excited to share my first post here about our new paper on wild house mouse 🐭problem-solving with Anja Guenther and Valeria Mazza, published open access in @oikosjournal.bsky.social ! doi.org/10.1111/oik....

🧵 How does being a #vegan, #vegetarian or omnivore impact your gut #microbiome? 🥦 Find out in our new paper on gut microbiome signatures of vegan, vegetarian & omnivore diets & associated health outcomes across 21,561 individuals in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social!🎉 1/10 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I already donated, and if I could afford to I would every time he mentioned Wikipedia again. Maybe the world wouldn't be half bad if we all sat down each day and thought, "Now what little thing can I do today that would annoy Elon Musk the most?" Like WWJD but instead WWAEMTM.

Portugal's population of Iberian Lynx has risen to an estimated 300 individuals, having been almost non-existent 15 years ago:

If you’re a PhD student (or you know one) working on questions of an evolutionary flavour, then check out EMPSEB, an amazing student-organised meeting taking place June 2025 in the Czech Republic! empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de

The Guarda Summer School was one of the most stimulating and rewarding weeks of my academic life! MSc and PhD students in EvoBio, apply! You won't regret it!

Is there a paper you shared on X in the last year you wish your new Bluesky network knew about? In our case it would be this one: Microbiome variation predicts survival in a population of feral horses 🦠 🐴 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

What were your #top5birds moments from the past week? Mine: 1. Little grebe at patch lake (1st record) 2. 9 goosander at patch lake (highest count) 3. Pheasant in the garden ( unexpected as its a terraced!) 4. Song thrush at our feeders 5. Hanging out for a few minutes with a very curious goldcrest

As my first post on here I would like to introduce my blog, which I've revived in the interstitial period between moving from Twitter to Bluesky. Recent posts have covered my trip to Hong Kong and local patch working in Oxford. I'll be aiming to post regularly both on here and the blog going forward

Re-introducing myself following the much anticipated influx of researchers from the other place! :) #microbiome #behaviour #musmusculus

We strongly suggest that academic publishers and other platforms that host research rapidly implement a Share to Bluesky button for their articles. Here's how: docs.bsky.app/docs/advance... #AcademicSky #HigherEd #Altmetrics

We work with zebrafish! Our first (method) paper on polymicrobial infections, real-time imaging and automated data analysis with this exciting model host. Now out on bioRxiv. Guided by @microbedesi.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Sarah Knowles (still not on bsky) kicks off MEEHubs at Oxford!

Our tiny Hinksey Lake keeps delivering colour-ringed black-headed gulls :) This one ringed in eastern Poland in 2021, seen once before in Dorset last year.

This is an amazing course, highly recommend for any EvoBio grad student. It was one of the most intense and rewarding (scientific) weeks of my life!

Beautiful pied jackdaw in our street (suspect it has been here longer than us, so its street really...) finally posed :)

🦠 New preprint 🦠 Really happy to see this up on bioRxiv - my 1st as senior author & Lina’s 1st as first author 🎉 a double whammy. 📄 Antibiotic resistance alters the ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to invade the respiratory microbiome (1/n) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Hello! I'm new on Bluesky. I will mainly post about microbe-related science (by others and us).

🚨 Pop up Oxford! 🚨 A (free!) microbial genomics conference, with a focus on ECRs - abstract submissions now open 🦠

It's so nice seeing more and more people join bluesky. It's definitely not perfect, but the vibes are so much better here than on the bad site. Welcome new people!

bioRxiv goes big on Bluesky: accounts for all subject categories now available (Please Reskeet) connect.biorxiv.org/news/2023/09...

📣 Comment with João Botelho on this paper, in The Lancet Regional Health Europe: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Super cool opening for a Post Doc/Junior Scientist at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research's overseas lab in the Republic of Georgia. The work is for phage hunting, characterisation, and genomics. If I didn't already have a nice position, this would be so tempting #MicroSky 🦠 shorturl.at/FQ128

How do you find people to follow on here?

Hi all! #introduction I'm Alex, and I study #microbiome - #behaviour links in wild mice as an SNSF postdoc @ U. Oxford. Did my PhD on the ecology and evolution of social interactions in bacteria, a topic I'm still very much interested in :) Looking forward to hearing about your awesome science!