Note: The abstract submission deadline has been postponed to February 22! 🗓️

#Revolution2026 has officially started! 😃 Looking forward to two fun science-filled days. Invited speakers are Anna Runemark and Alexei Maklakov. @animecol-uu.bsky.social

Excited to announce that I am organizing a symposium on "Microbiomes in Conservation" at #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand together with Madeleine van Oppen. Consider submitting an abstract; it will be a fab conference! Deadline Feb 15! isme-microbes.org/isme20-sessi... @isme-microbes.bsky.social

We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n

Interested in applying for a postdoc on wildlife #microbiomes in my lab at Uppsala University, Sweden? The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out generous 2-year postdoc scholarships to early-career researchers who apply with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9. www.uu.se/en/departmen...

Looking for someone interested to apply for a postdoc grant with me on reindeer microbiomes. 🦌🦠🧬 Please email for details.

New lab group photo 😊 @cenkvist.bsky.social , @estermart.bsky.social , @elinvidevall.bsky.social , Qianrui, and Ramin.

Don't miss the next WAME seminar this Thursday! Online on zoom. #mycobiome #microbiome

3-year #PhD student #position open in my group @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social Finland on #gut #microbe- host communication in #birds. DL 20.12, start date in April2026. #microbiome #metabolomics #vesicles, please RT ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...

Two weeks left to apply for this position! Feel free to email if there are any questions.

STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results

Former Australian science agency ecology researcher loses two papers

More than three-fifths of the editorial board of a @gigascience.bsky.social resigned after the publication’s operations moved from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, China, and the editors and software team were fired with 30 days’ notice.

*PhD opportunity @uniexecec.bsky.social* How does antimicrobial resistance spread through ecosystems? Combine fieldwork (rodent trapping 🐭, habitat surveys 🌳, pheasant sampling 🦤), molecular techniques, GIS, and spatial modelling to understand AMR evolution and spread. 🔬🦠🧪 Please repost!

We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

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Happy to share the recent paper by Marta Garrigós et al. Effects of avian #Plasmodium exposure on the #microbiota of #Culex pipiens. 🦟🦠 www.nature.com/articles/s41... Marta spent a month in our group at UU last year; great to see this published! @jmartinezpuente.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social

Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort. Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇 shorturl.at/WA1Qa Would appreciate a re-post! @evoldir.bsky.social

arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month. Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.

📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...

New paper out!🎉 Gut #microbiome of the pied #flycatcher differs strikingly between an oak forest and a pine plantation — only 1 km apart! 🌳Vs🌲 Fine-scale habitat variation = major #microbial shifts 🧬🐦 doi.org/10.13157/arl... #Birds #Ficedula @elinvidevall.bsky.social @cordobaciencia.bsky.social

This is an amazing program and I was lucky enough to work with many MEME students during my time @animecol-uu.bsky.social. One of the best MSc training programs you can do if evolution is your jam!

Our lab group went out to celebrate the recent big grant with some cocktails and delicious food! 🥂🎉 Qianrui, @estermart.bsky.social, @cenkvist.bsky.social, @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social

📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch

Does your ecology journal even lift, bro?

Excited to share that I was awarded a 6M SEK grant from Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development ! 🎉 The project is about the early-life gut #microbiome of reindeer calves, and how it's associated with their health and growth. 🦌🦠🧬

At a recent journal club, we discussed this paper on urban coyote #microbiomes and diet by Sugden et al., and I really enjoyed reading it. 😊 An altered microbiome in urban coyotes mediates relationships between anthropogenic diet and poor health. 🐺 doi.org/10.1038/s415...

How do insects respond to changing climates? Our new review and analysis in @annualreviews.bsky.social suggests that phenological adaptation trumps thermal adaptation. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Keeping cats indoors not only makes them healthier and keeps them safe, we also protect native birds and other small animals. 🐈🐦🦎

Last week, we at @animecol-uu.bsky.social had the pleasure to host Chima Nwaogu från the University of Cape Town. Chima gave the #Hemborg lecture, titled 'Why do Afrotropical birds breed when they do?' 🐦🪺

New manuscript out today in @ecol-evol.bsky.social, led by my grad student Anais. We collated data from thousands of recent animal pop-gen studies to test 3 simple hypotheses: does genomic (1) diversity decrease (yes), (2) differentiation increase (yes), both with increased IUCN-endangerment?

Bioinformaticians / computational biologists take note - know where you should take your OS tool chain from and do not introduce backdoors.

Today in the AI hellscape we are building for ourselves, people are easily creating "official looking" websites of popular bioinformatics software that are not at all linked to the developers.

An Intergeneric Hybrid Between Historically Isolated Temperate and Tropical Jays Following Recent Range Expansion | doi.org/10.1002/ece3... | Ecology and Evolution | #ornithology 🪶

Interested in evolutionary ecology and genetics? Check out this PhD position in Pau Carazo's lab in Valencia - we look forward to your application!

Anyone with experience doing #metagenomics #microbiome of small insects, e.g. mosquitoes? 🦟🦠 Trying to figure out feasibility of doing individual metagenomes vs pools of individuals. I see both approaches are still used in the literature. My concern would be getting enough DNA from individuals.

Thanks #ESEB2025 for a great conference! Our group had a lot of fun meeting people, learning new things, and talking about our research! @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social @estermart.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social @matiasbeck.bsky.social

Many of us are using LLMs in coding and scientific writing. They are very helpful tools, but we need to be thoughtful as we integrate them into our work flows to preserve accountability, voice and trust. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan.... An editorial at @evolletters.bsky.social for discussion:

60+ people currently queuing for S24 Forecasting evolution in natural populations at #eseb2025. 👥👥👥😅 We need bigger rooms ! @eseb2025.bsky.social

Final day at #eseb2025 starts with a great plenary by @jmappes.bsky.social about aposematism. 🦋 @eseb2025.bsky.social

Great to see Tom Gilbert still holding the #microbiome flag high, focusing mostly on why we need to study wildlife microbiomes more, even in the #museomics session. 🦠 #hologenomics #eseb2025

Very interesting plenary about deep-time #paleogenomics 🦣 and #aDNA by @lovedalen.bsky.social at #ESEB2025

#eseb2025 #eseb #sciart

I'm not very good at live posting (I tend to overthink my posts and then lose track of the talks). For #ESEB2025 live posts, I recommend following @marcrr.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy and @mrtnj.bsky.social, who have been good at it at every conference I've attended with them

We're five people from our group presenting posters tonight at #ESEB2025 ! In the #microbiome adaptation symposium S07. Come chat with us about our research!

Great first plenary by Michael Lynch on drift, mutation, and the origin of cellular features. #eseb2025