A new paper and video about levels of drug resistance in different countries I am so happy to share a new paper and a new video (see below). The paper describes a simple mathematical model that describes levels of drug resistance. I called the model the Resistance-Acquisition-Purifying-Selection…

We're very happy to release our new database Metalog metalog.embl.de ! It offers manually curated and harmonised contextual data for 110k metagenomics samples across the globe, incl. precomputed taxonomic profiles, for interactive browsing and for download 🧵 1/7 #microsky

🧵 New preprint alert! From the Future Oak project, led by @cenococcum.bsky.social Landscape-scale impacts of environment and disease on the tree microbiome 🌳🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Jacqueline Peña @jjpena-ecoevo.bsky.social asks if humans 👥🍺🍷🍞 left an impact on wild yeast 🌳 They estimate that S. cerevisiae spread across the global after the last glacial maximum Looks like wild strains are NOT independent of human movement Lab of @dbensasson.bsky.social #Evol2025 #Evol25

Audrey Ward @audreykward.bsky.social from the Bensasson lab @dbensasson.bsky.social explores the pop genomics of the yeast 🧫🧽 L. thermotolerans 🍷 They find five major divergence groups and intercontinental migration ✈️ #Evol2025 #Evol25

❄️ Cool it! Are wild yeast locally adapting to higher 🔥 temperatures? Work from Douda Bensasson @dbensasson.bsky.social shows large standing variation within yeast species for growth at high temps #Evol2025 #Evol25

A 4-year postdoc in red fox population genomics is open at the University of East Anglia, starting Dec 2025. Role involves genomic data analysis. Salary from £38,249. More info: https://vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/1593/senior-research-associate-in-population-genomics-ra2327.html #postdoc

Hi Fungal friends! I’m looking for postdoc positions or job opportunities in NC, GA or remote! My skills are mostly in bioinformatics and phylogenetics. Any leads are appreciated! My references include @mcmomany.bsky.social and @dbensasson.bsky.social ! #fungi #postdoc

Congratulations Dr Jacque Peña!

I now have my PhD!!! My committee members @mcmomany.bsky.social @kdyerlab.bsky.social Jill Anderson and Marin Brewer and my advisor @dbensasson.bsky.social have been instrumental to my growth as a scientist and as a person!! I'm also thankful to have wonderful lab mates, friends, and family!!

Congratulations Dr Audrey Ward - nice work! We will miss your infectious enthusiasm for Lachancea thermotolerans populations and everything else.

Many US students don’t know how to seek opportunities outside the US. With some help from our colleagues in EU and Canada, we could put together a consolidated website of PhD opportunities and scholarships outside the US, organized by field. There might still be time for this year in some places.

Firings happening right now at the NSF.

Join a protest on #President’sDay. Musk not our President!! We object to actions taken to steal our country by #ElonMusk. #Indivisible 12:00 Monday, 2/17 AT ATHENS GA CITY HALL Wear Black Signs will be provided

This does away with awards based on underrepresentation, student support services based on race, scholarships, etc. Let me explain, pre coffee (wrote this morning, no time to update, you're getting a cut n paste), why this is a bad idea. 🧵 www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

Letter from the SSE/SSB/ASN councils on the scientific understanding of sex and gender, pls RT

The US government has been turned over to a group of extraordinarily ignorant people, and they are working to destroy science in this country. Cutting over half the NSF budget would save < 0.1% of the federal budget, but do incalculable harm. Simply heartbreaking. arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Paper out in Ecology Letters from @akrinos.bsky.social : onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... Exploring intraspecific diversity of thermal performance of G. huxelyi in lab experiments and ocean ecosystem models 🧪🌊🌡️#protistsonsky

Not only is today #Science #Trivia #Saturday, but it’s the start of #BlackHistoryMonth! Today I honor a #Black #Scientist whose name we should all know: George Washington Carver, #Botanist, #Inventor, & #Teacher. He discovered many uses for #Peanuts & developed methods to prevent #Soil #Depletion. 🧪

A Junta can be efficient, just not in the way that most people want... Analysis in the form of a foreign dispatch via @vermontgmg.bsky.social, journalist & Pulitzer Prize finalist for his book on Watergate. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

Our accidental finding that "Low level contamination confounds population genomic analysis” is on bioRxiv - a fun collaborative project with the @mcmomany.bsky.social lab www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

First paper of the HaploTeam to start 2025! www.embopress.org/doi/full/10....