Check out our newly published opinion paper on emergent functions in microbial communities. Grateful to have been part of this.

Read some behind the scenes perspectives from our recent #Micro paper about fungal - bacterial biofilms

Proud to be part of this paper! Behind this article are countless conversations, debates, and whiteboard sketches and it's amazing to see the final version out.

🚨The program for MEEHubs2026 is now online, as is more detailed information about the hubs! Check it out at meehubs.org and register‼️ Less than a month before the conference kicks off! 🦠

Cyanobacterial flocculation as a defence against bacterial predation academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

Very cool work from Gürol Süel's lab: Self-generated hydrogel ejects bacterial cells for localized biofilm dispersion www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy to announce that a new opinion paper of our group just came out: A conceptual framework to dissect emergent functions in microbial communities with @swagatika.bsky.social @sharvari27.bsky.social @anjanaprasad.bsky.social @palshubharthi.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life by Reed Bender, Karina Kofman, Blaise Agüera y Arcas & Michael Levin (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @drmichaellevin.bsky.social) Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Four new Associate/Full Professor positions at Aarhus University @au.dk Faculty of Natural Sciences with focus on innovation, i.e. if you have especially strong links to the world outside academia (maybe you've been in industry for some years and are looking to come back?): www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

How do animals cooperate when they aren't even the same species? Our recent review paper dug deep into the literature... 1/ Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Check out this really interesting preprint by @shikharabhat.bsky.social and @kokkonut.bsky.social on models of senescence and their connection to models of multilevel selection. It seems like these fun jump processes, PDEs, and SPDEs arise in a variety of biological contexts.

Two positions (see the text, W2 and W3!!!) in Experimental Medical Biophysics have just been announced here, @hhu.de Come and let's make some great science together! 🤓🔬🧬🧪 jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w2-prof...

A bit more than a week to apply! W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. Great university, great faculty, awesome colleagues. Apply, if you want to be my successor. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

Have ideas for your own, independent research program in Theoretical Biology? Then come and join us as a Group Leader at the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social in Plön, Germany!

New preprint from our lab Statistical learning of bacterial growth in combinatorially constructed environments, led by brilliant PhD student Andrea Arrabal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We systematically study nutrient-nutrient interactions in bacterial growth under carbon-limiting conditions.

Proposed terminology for referring to the homes of #symbionts within their ( #insect ) hosts " #Symbiotic organs in #insects: diversity, functional implications, and terminology " w/ @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social and co., not in bsky doi.org/10.1098/rstb... #SymbioSky

Excited to share that our paper is now published in Environmental Microbiology! It's open access. Read on to find out how functionally and taxonomically diverse microbial communities assemble on cellulose and glucose. enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

2026. Resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists. A collection of websites and literature for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and allies. www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/reso... by @britishecologicalsociety.org

Nine (not so simple) steps: a practical guide to using machine learning in microbial ecology Step 1: Determine whether machine learning is necessary or even worth doing journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Aspiring Eco-Evo PhD students - check out the Simons Graduate Fellowships! it's a full ride!! 🧪https://www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons-graduate-fellowships-in-ecology-and-evolution/

Made it onto bluesky at long last! And with a new review to boot with Solomon Garland, @vickiorr.bsky.social and @jpjhall.bsky.social. Invasive plasmids as ecosystem engineers—from mechanism to application portlandpress.com/essaysbioche... #plasmids

Reminder — UW #Microbiology has an open search for an Assistant Professor, focusing on fundamental problems in #bacteriology! If you or someone you know would be suitable, here's the ad: apply.interfolio.com/185622

#JobAlert The @biologyunifreiburg.bsky.social of @uni-freiburg.de invites applications for a Professorship (W3) for Plant Biotechnology. ❗Application Deadline: 10 July 2026 🔗https://kurzlinks.de/1iyt #SignalsOfLife #PlantScience #CIBSS

Dear anybody who works at an institition with a good science library: can you please please invite me to have some kind of research visitor electronic library access. A good friend once did this for me through Caltech but it was only allowed for two years and that was a while ago

Brilliant synthesis about the role of the higher-order interactions in ecology and the hypergraphs as natural tools for their description and modeling 👇 t.co/MeubK8WLkK 🧪 #Ecology #Macroecology

Fridolin Gross and @pradeu.bsky.social are advertising a two-year postdoc in conceptual, theoretical, or philosophical approaches to cancer at ImmunoConcept (CNRS & University of Bordeaux, France). Closing 30th July. Sounds amazing! philinbiomed.cnrs.fr/jobs/postdoc...

📢 Join our #EcologySeminar! How can grassland biodiversity be conserved in times of rapid global change? Thomas Fartmann will explore current challenges and perspectives 🌾 🦗 🌍 📅 Wed 10th June at 10:15 AM 📩 DM for webinar link @agrarunigoe.bsky.social @uni-goettingen.de

One of three rare opportunities to work on natural history collections with a great team at National Museums Northern Ireland. Curator for vertebrates, closing 21 June, £37,694 to £38,990 per annum #museumjobs #curator #vertebrates #zoology ce0568li.webitrent.com/ce0568li_web...

Two permanent positions in HPS, Sydney! #hps #philsci

Join us in shaping the future of ornithological collections and research! We're looking for a Curator of Ornithology in Hamburg to help advance collection-based biodiversity science, research infrastructure, and long-term knowledge on birds worldwide 🐦🌍

13C flux ratio analysis with FRAPPPE reveals differences in metabolic fluxes between gut Bacteroidota and Escherichia coli www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #jcampubs

Community state shifts driven by total carbon availability over resource complexity in a synthetic microbial community academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a... #jcampubs

Smashing seminar by @kostchristian.bsky.social today at Institute of Biology Leiden today about ecology and evolution of cross-feeding Nice too see what his group revealed in the last 15 years

Superb presentations by @kostchristian.bsky.social, Marjolein Bruijning, and Elise Laetz within the Focus session of #NWOLife2026 we could organise and chair together with Danny Rozen “Interconnected Lives: Symbiosis Across Biological Systems”

🌿🎬 Very excited to host a public screening of the queer wildlife documentary Second Nature next Wednesday at Kino 8 1/2 in Saarbrücken! The event is part of my course “Animal Kingdom” 🧵👇 & fits this topic perfectly. If you're nearby, don't miss the chance! 🔗 www.kinoachteinhalb.de/programm/497...

CEs Job Alert 🚨! 4-year teaching focused lecturership at Bristol in bio/evo anthropology with a quantitative focus. Bristol is a terrific city to live in, and many ECRS in the CES will hopefully fit the profile: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

A colleague of mine, Willem Frankenhuis is hiring a PhD on "Mathematical Modeling of Adaptive Cognition in Stressful Environments" in the Department of Evolutionary and Population Biology (EPB) at IBED @uva.nl He is a great PI 😀 - apply now. Link is below www.academictransfer.com/nl/jobs/3608...

Fancy working with a massive amount of cool genomics, life history and TB-infection status data from a couple of thousand badgers? Here's the project for you then. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/84... New project and very multi-disciplinary team.

Hi #microbiomesky and #mevosky and also #phagesky maybe? Some of us want a microbiome journal club to catch up on microbiology/evolution related microbiome research. Monthly@15:00 CET/09:00 EST/18:30 IST or so Please text my LMU email address if you're interested (not typing it here to avoid spam)

Less than 1 week to apply for this postdoc! If you want to find out more about the project have a look at our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #mevosky

New preprint! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... A theory to explain global epistasis in microbial communities

We've become numb to this stuff, but a president accusing a journalist of treason -- a capital crime -- for reporting on an ongoing war is not normal, and we should never accept it as normal.

Today is the last day to submit your abstract for the EMBO Bacterial Networks (BacNet) meeting #EMBOBacNet! 🧫 Selected participants will be informed by June 30th. meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac...

Very cool Will. Makes complete sense when you explain it in this way, but I need to read the paper and think about it a bit more ...

“The message, very clearly, they’re sending is, do not speak out on behalf of Chinese postdocs. If you do, you’re going to pay a penalty...It seems pretty obvious that this is an attempt by the current administration to silence people that question their activities." — Roger Innes, IU AAUP member

With Eugene Koonin, we wrote a rather comprehensive review on the origin, evolution and organization of the #virosphere. We describe all 10 viral realms and the logic behind them, and so much more. Check it out! comptes-rendus.academie-sciences.fr/biologies/ar...

We are hiring @umichmicroimmuno.bsky.social ! Tenure-track assistant professor position in our Microbiology and Immunology department. We are especially looking for someone working in bacterial pathogenesis

See a brief review summarizing the use of synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) for revealing the ecology of specialized metabolites [my holiday break writing exercise] portlandpress.com/essaysbioche... #MicrobiomeEcology at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL)