📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY We are hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on rigorous research in genetics, entomology, and host-microbe interactions. Please consider and share with others in need. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Staff/jo...

Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland? Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social Reach out to chat more! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Led by Anthony Duncan, and after much hard work, we have now published an Enterosignature follow-up paper: cvaNMF academic.oup.com/nar/article/... This work represents a generalization of the Enterosignature (ES) framework e.g. discovering ES disease associations, and describe "Terrasignatures" 👇👇👇

Join us! A great opportunity to join the @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social team working on the Isle of May. Great team, great place, great birds... what more could you want?! #seabird #fieldwork #job #ornithology #superseabirdsunday

Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧 We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology. Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.

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

I'm usually skeptical about AI research tools. But Google's new tool for literature search is fantastic - because it does less, not more. New post: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Peaceful New Year from everyone in the School of Biological Sciences. Have a wonderful break. 🎄🥳

We’re hiring 2 Postdocs (f/m/d) in Drug–Microbiome–Host Interactions 🦠💊 Focus: how non-antibiotic drugs shape the gut microbiome, drug efficacy & side effects. #PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs Full job ad: lisamaierlab.com/wp-content/u...

New 2-year Postdoc: Ancient #Metagenomics & #Microbiome Sciences! 🧬🦷 Join Prof. @christinawarinner.bsky.social ’s group at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social to study the evolution and ecology of ancient oral microbiota. 📅 Apply by Jan 20, 2026: www.microverse-cluster.de/en/career/jo...

🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming. Apply here: recruit.visma.com/spa/public/a... #PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics

Please share 📢 We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/19...

Controlled settings may offer limited insight into the complexities of ageing in natural and variable ecosystems, and why (and how) ageing patterns vary so widely across individuals, populations, and species. We call for more research on ecology of ageing! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Join us for the next instalment in our virtual seminar series this week! Wild Animal Mycobiomes (not microbiome!) 4th December 2025: 11am GMT/ 12pm CET Join via zoom here: aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/68695403303

a wonderful, fully funded PhD opportunity Deadline approaching (ok not that quickly but you may forget over Christmas!) 7th January www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Next up in our WAME Seminar series this Thursday 4th December we have 2 exciting talks on Wild Animal Mycobiomes 11am GMT / 12pm CET. Zoom link below

⚠️Please share: Deadline 2 Dec⚠️ Funded PhD in my group: 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation? 🐾Find out by studying meerkats! This PhD combines: 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Ecological data 🌍African fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions ⏬APPLY⏬ www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

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...

Another PhD!! Are you, or someone you know, looking for a PhD, starting in Oct 2026? Do you like phages, genomes & public health impact?🦠🧬🧩 Wanna work in a cutting edge of science, with some awesome people @quadraminstitute.bsky.social? Please apply or share by 6 Jan🗓️ #PhDposition #academicsky

Want to build a solid stats foundation using R? Join our online Introduction to Statistics in R course with @philipleftwich.bsky.social, 19–23 Jan 2026! Perfect for beginners wanting hands-on practice and confidence in data analysis. More info & registration: www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

A PhD project on historical genomics in the declining red squirrel in Britain is available in my group, through the @aries-dtp.bsky.social. Use historical genomes to track the effects of decline and genetic rescue in this charismatic species. aries-dtp.ac.uk/studentships...

New research by our scientists suggests that matching environmental adaptations during genetic rescue of endangered species offers the best outcomes, but it is not always required for successful conservation. Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/47GgSoB #ResearchMatters #EndangeredSpecies #News

Lead author and postgraduate researcher George West said: “The highly controlled and repeated nature of experiments we have undertaken offers a unique opportunity to test something that couldn’t be done in the wild." @biouea.bsky.social

Amazing work by @gwest16.bsky.social and colleagues 🥳

Several opportunities to join the Wild Microbiome Lab in 2026 to do a PhD! Details below #phd #ecology @uniexecec.bsky.social

Know metagenomics and could spare 2 mins? I'm applying for funding to build a visual repository for metagenomic classification data (not sequence data). To support the application, I have a short 2 minute survey and it would be a big help if you could fill it in: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

1/13 New paper out! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Historical records across thousands of women showed that mothers with more children had shorter lifespans during a famine, fitting an evolutionary explanation for why we age @hannahdugdale.bsky.social @lummaalab.bsky.social @erikpostma.bsky.social

Excited to see this huge experiment finally published!! 🪰

Hannah Dugdale on Evolutionary Medicine and Aging at the first ENLIGHT-REACT workshop 'Modern Perspectives on the Biology of Ageing' @react-enlight.bsky.social @rug.nl

still time to apply for this

Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.

"Asynchrony of ageing among traits in a wild bird population" doi.org/10.32942/X27...

I finally launched Simple Science with Zahida! I make short animated videos about topics ranging from ageing to astrophysics. First reel is about anti-ageing pills vs diet: www.tiktok.com/@simple.scie...

🚨 Come join the fantastic long-tailed tit team 🚨 🐦We are recruiting a field technician to collect behavioural data on a long-term studied population of wild long-tailed tits (passerine birds). 🪶20 months contract in Sheffield, UK. 🌲Deadline: 23/11/2025. jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Technici...

1/ Evolutionary trade-offs between intergenerational and transgenerational fitness effects Transgenerational / intergeneration fitness effects can be adaptive, but they can also trade-off with each other: New work led by Isaac Harris, preprint: tinyurl.com/yp2b6tjm

Sam Speak closes the session at the #biodiversity25 with a presentation about #tilapia and the gene positive #selection for saline environments. There are 70 tilapia species with variation in saline tolerance. They sequenced several genomes within this group finding twelve positive selected genes.

📢 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)

We selected the laziest mouse at each round to inoculate the next batch of germfree mice: over rounds of selection and passaging, behavior shifted without changes to the mouse genome: rdcu.be/eM3rO 🦠🧫

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

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...

Animals know things — important things! — and we must conserve their ability to pass these lessons down through generations, or their ways of living will fade away.

I still contend that >90% of the benefit of writing a review isn't the audience. It's for the author going through the literature, finding gaps in knowledge, learning how experiments are done, etc. It really isn't about writing a review. It's about doing the review yourself. AI can't do that for you

Genetic load, fitness and conservation in the Seychelles warbler. A wonderful PhD opportunity - spanning important evolutionary and conservation-relevant concepts. Come work with us lnkd.in/dtGaEJV2

🚨 New paper alert! We find a small fraction of all CpG sites to show age-related changes in DNA methylation with the majority of them being located on the haploid, female-specific W chromosome in two passerines. 🐦🧬⌛ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Fully-funded PhD opportunity in my group🚨 🧬How does parental ageing shape the next generation?🐾 Find out by studying meerkats! 🧪Epigenetic clocks ✨Bioinformatics 📊Long-term data 🌍Kalahari fieldwork 💡Big evolutionary questions Get in touch or APPLY NOW Please share! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Please RT! 🚨 4-year PhD position in my lab (Oct 2026 start) 🚨 Molecular and genomic insights to sexually antagonistic genes Application deadline: Dec 2, 2025 biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/mol...

PhD opportunity in my lab!
We’re looking for a proactive student to join our project on how CO dehydrogenase is regulated in response to atmospheric mercury. Investigating genetic markers and mechanisms of CO dehydrogenase regulation in response to atmospheric mercury FindAPhD.com

🚨🔊 Fully funded PhD!! 🚨🔊 Are you interested in wildlife gut microbiomes? Love birds, fieldwork and bioinformatics? Want to join a collaborative and supportive team? Looking for training to become an independent scientist? Please apply! Informal enquiries welcome! www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...