🌿🎬 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)

Cell motility enhances metabolic coupling in spatially structured microbial communities (Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1-based experiments + modelling) bioRxiv by @miaoxiaor.bsky.social (Roy), Olga Schubert, and Martin Ackermann (@micsysecolab.bsky.social) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Evolution for enhanced extracellular electron transfer in Geobacter sulfurreducens over seventeen years of continuous current generation www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic... #jcampubs

My book "The Evolution of Biological Information" is 50% off at Princeton University Press with the code "Spring50" press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...

Thrilled to have my first PhD paper with @mmdesai.bsky.social out! @science.org Link: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Thread below: #mevosky #evosky #evobio #popgen #evolsky #ecoevo #molevol

Join us! @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc position using experimental evolution to understand real-world resistance dynamics. See preprint for the 🤯 strain collection we will be working with www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Closing 15 May. Apply: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai... #mevosky

Hiring 3 postdocs in ecological resilience @biology.ox.ac.uk for my @erc.europa.eu CoG ResIntegrate project. Deadline May 29th. Details below. Pls share @salgoteam.bsky.social @evoldir.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social @ecolsocaus.bsky.social

Our B. subtilis autolysis paper by former group members Kenneth Seistrup and @alansckoh.bsky.social is finally out. This one has been lingering in my drawer for far too long. (1/3). #microsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Proposals are due soon for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! This year the R. C. Lewontin Early Award and Rosemary Grant Advanced Award are both due on May 18. Be sure to review the application instructions and apply soon! www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...

Managing microbial interactions in environmental biotechnology: can we scale interaction principles? @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Review by @wenyugu.bsky.social (EPFL), Xiang-Yi Li Richter, and Dave Johnson at @eawag.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

🦠 Can microbes think? 🍄 Can they learn, remember, and react? 🤔 "Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms" by @kostchristian.bsky.social lab raises some legit #Points2Ponder. #MicrobeMatters #MicrobialMemory

Interested in working on the evolution of photosynthetic endosymbioses? Come join us! I have 2 open positions in my new group @cemess.bsky.social in Vienna 3yr postdoc info: tinyurl.com/4emkjpn4 4yr PhD info: tinyurl.com/mtxmsjpy Apply by 1st June! Please share/repost #Protists #Symbiosis #PhD

Check our new preprint by Knopp M. et al.! Human gut microbiomes can impose strong +/- selection for resistant versions of resident opportunistic pathogens. In the case we follow up, selection is driven by altered carbohydrate utilisation that the resistant mutant evolves. doi.org/10.64898/202...

Iron limitation promotes metabolic cross-feeding between cheese ripening bacteria in #ISMEJournal academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

You are an ambitious young scientist, on the verge to independence, in a research field related to our Cluster of Excellence @cmfi.bsky.social “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections”? Join our vibrant, interactive scientific community in Tubingen. Repost and apply! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Transposable elements are driving rapid adaptation of Enterococcus faecium -in @nature.com from Ami Bhatt www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Spread the word! We are recruiting for 6 new research professors at UC Davis' California National Primate Research Center. Open rank, open area, but must leverage 🐒 resources. recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07561

#Praktikum! BSc oder MSc in Umweltnaturwissenschaften oder noch im Studium? Hohe Flexibilität, trittsicher und Interesse an #Feldarbeit und #Datenanalyse? Unsere Forschungseinheit Wald- und Bodenökologie hat ein Praktikum zu vergeben: apply.refline.ch/273855/1867/... #ScienceJobs

Check our new paper which I had the privilege to write with @kostchristian.bsky.social published in PNAS!

New paper out! How do species coexist through invasion cycles (like the classic✂️🪨📄) in nature? We introduce a general framework linking the structure of species interactions to the emergence of complex ecological cycles esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1...

Finally! Here is our perspective on why cooperation maximizes diversity and how it promotes additional coexistence mechanisms that do not occur under competition journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1... This is a hard topic with strong opinions... Thanks @asn-amnat.bsky.social for publishing it! 🧵👇

And a 7th post @warwicklifesci.bsky.social! This one assistant/associate prof in quantitative, systems & engineering biology: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Come work with me at the Department of Soil Biology in Hohenheim, Postdoc position for three years. I am looking for someone who will support my current line of research and help establish novel methods of molecular soil ecology in the lab. Thanks for sharing. www.uni-hohenheim.de/stellenangeb...

Our research is in #GEO #magazine! As a boy, I read every issue of GEO from front to back. Now the work of my lab is in it. Feels kind of surreal ... and very grateful for the journey! 🙏 Big THANK YOU to Solvin Zankl 📸 and Katharina Jakob ✍️ ! #moon #tide #science #scicom #nature @maxplanck.de

Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms A wonderful prospective by @kostchristian.bsky.social & colleagues www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Review by Andreas Messer, Leonardo Oña, and @kostchristian.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Predicting competition & substrate preferences for targeted #microbiome alteration. Microbial interaction & niche determination (MIND) infers microbial niches from mRNA translation to predict competition & guide interventions. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #microbiota #MicroSky

Preprint: What good is modeling? Introducing biology students to theory - arxiv.org/abs/2604.13344 - how to teach and think about what modeling contributes to science. How does it fit into the scientific method? This is often misunderstood.

New paper of the group with Andreas Messer as the leading author - a very talented master student that is now on the market for a PhD: Cognition without brains? Learning and memory in microorganisms @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social @ileonardo Check it out 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Weil Jens Spahn die "Atomdebatte" wieder eröffnet hat. Einmal diese Grafik zu den indirekten Kosten.

Die Bundesregierung will geheimhalten, wo sie neue fossile Infrastruktur in Deutschland plant. Wir schaffen Transparenz und zeigen, wo neue Kraftwerke, Bohrungen, Pipelines und Flüssiggas-Terminals entstehen sollen – und wie ihr dagegen aktiv werden könnt: fragdenstaat.de/aktionen/cli...

Fossiler Lobbyismus am Limit: Reiches Ministerium bittet einseitig Gas-Konzern um Argumente für Gas-Kraftwerke und der Konzern vergisst das ins Lobbyregister einzutragen. Es muss endlich umfassende Aufklärung und Konsequenzen geben - Reiche ist untragbar.

Grab a coffee and enjoy reading up on CO metabolism in methanotrophs! Freshwater ANME (own work): www.nature.com/articles/s41... Marine ANME (@Orphan lab): www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big thanks to our collaborators at QUT! @sjmcilroy.bsky.social (Heyu/Andy/Gene!) @cuwelte.bsky.social

📣 Check out this excellent #Postdoc opportunity @leibniz-hki.de which is part of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions #MSCA #COFUND. Consider applying to join my lab if you’re interested in opportunistic infections caused by #Fusarium (research area 5). Call ends 26 May 2026 www.fellows4fungi.eu

🐦 New PhD position! @prfju.bsky.social @ckecz.bsky.social Nest defence in passerine birds Interested in animal behaviour, fieldwork and evolutionary ecology? 📅 Start July 2026 | ⏳ 4 years | 💰 Fully funded Apply by May 10 → [email protected] / [email protected] #PhDjobs #PhDchat #PhD #ornithology

How do we connect fossil records with modern science? The HFSP Frontier Workshop explores how AI, computation, and biology can work together to better understand evolution. 📣 Abstracts now open 🔗zurl.co/hfadL 📅17 Mai 2026 #HFSP #Evolution #Paleontology #AI 🧪 #sts