An excellent PhD opportunity - at a great place - with a great system .....and with a great group! Should be fun....as well as very scientifically rewarding😀

Come & work with us - fully funded 4 year PhD on Social Ageing: Social environment effects on senescence, using an epigenetic clock www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @keesvanoers.bsky.social @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social photo: @charlisdavies.bsky.social

A salient experiment that elegantly examines how context dependent is hologenome evolution in response to selection on diet quality? The short answer. It is resilient, even when faced with abiotic and biotic disruptors such as post-selection socialization and diet. Brilliant evaluation; a must read

Our new paper is out in Dev Biol! 🎉 🐸🧬 We show #miR-196a directs #neural crest fate in #Xenopus by repressing immature neural #ectoderm — evidence #miRNAs can potentially drive, not just fine-tune, early patterning 👉 Read more here: doi.org/10.1016/j.yd... @devbiol.bsky.social @biouea.bsky.social

Pleased to share new work tinkering with and testing the concept of the holobiont @isme-microbes.bsky.social "Experimental evolution of a mammalian holobiont: bank voles selected for herbivorous capability evolved distinct and robust gut bacterial communities" 🌾🐭🦠 academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Out now in @molbioevol.bsky.social with Michelle Liu (co-first), Ryan Frost, Matthew Lindsay, Malak Bayoumi, Martin Brengdahl, @ruxmolnar.bsky.social and @aneil-agrawal.bsky.social, we evolved ~40% of the D. melanogaster genome under male-limited inheritance, ... academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

Check out our new paper led by Gaoyang Yu! Territorial aggression in blue tits is repeatable in both sexes, but females were the fiercer defenders. How does this challenge long-held assumptions about sex roles in territorial behaviour? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪

New paper out now! 🥳📄 Massive shoutout to Sarah Worsley, who did the heavy lifting 💪 – absolute star! 🌟

Congrats 🎉 Sarah Worsley "Gut microbiome communities demonstrate fine-scale spatial variation in a closed, island bird population" ISME Communications doi.org/10.1093/isme... @chuenlee.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social @david-s-richardson.bsky.social

The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology doi.org/10.32942/X24...

Evolution never looked so inspiring 🌍 #ESEB2025

✨ Day 5 of #ESEB2025 wrapped! Thanks for an inspiring week: safe travels home, and see some of you tonight 🎉

What a fantastic week at #ESEB2025! I'm still buzzing from all the incredible science and amazing connections. A huge thank you to the organizers for putting together such a seamless and inspiring event.

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

I'll be presenting at #ESEB25 tomorrow! Pop along to room 114 @3:30 if you want to hear about inbreeding depression, hierarchical models and barn owls of course 🦉 S42.02 - looks like it's going to be a great session! 😊

Come by mine and my groups posters on wild animal #microbiomes this afternoon!

TODAY!!!!!

Come meet all the WAME organizers at the #Microbiome symposium S07 at ESEB today! We're in meeting room 116. 🦠 #eseb2025 @eseb2025.bsky.social

If you're interested in bears, metagenomics, or struggling to understand a kiwi accent, come sit in on my @eseb2025.bsky.social ESEB Barcelona talk Monday morning at 11:30 in room 116 :D

We had amazing discussions today at WAME. Lots of great people doing great microbiome science!

Interested in host-associated microbiomes? Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social? Then come check out Symposium S07 on Monday August 18th and hear all about how microbiomes contribute to adaptation. Gut microbiomes, climate change, thermal physiology, behaviour, invasion biology, blood-feeding, and more!

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

3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info! nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others Please share & get in touch if interested! tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3

Can I add you to the "wild animal microbiome" starter pack here on Bluesky? Your topic of research is a perfect fit go.bsky.app/LXjWaJq

#NatMicroPicks Engineering Peace in the Gut Microbiome ☮️🔧🦠 BACTRINS, a microbiome engineering platform that precisely edits gut pathogens by inserting therapeutic payloads and neutralizing virulence genes, transforming them into allies. @natbiomedeng.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧵 New paper alert! Our first dive into non-human hosts: the gut microbiome of the critically endangered lemur Indri indri 🐒🌱 Led by talented MSc student Francisca Labisa-Morais! 📄 @isme-microbes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Can certain drugs have anti-aging effects? 💊🍔 New co-led research from Dr Zahida Sultanova and @uofglasgow.bsky.social suggests that Rapamycin offers life-extending benefits similar to intermittent fasting. To find out more: www.uea.ac.uk/about/news/a... #ThisIsUEA #DietaryResearch #UniResearch

We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies... Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc

Short experimental heatwaves have sublethal impacts on male reproduction in a model insect url: journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/...

Our article on the challenges and opportunities in studying host-microbe symbioses is now published in Cell Host & Microbe! @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The Colloquium’s first session has just finished, which means it’s time for a coffee break where you can chat to our sponsors and view the amazing research posters on display. Don’t forget to vote for your favourite poster while you’re rehydrating! ☕🍵 #UEABioResearch

We are setting up for our annual BIO Research Colloquium taking place tomorrow, 8 July. There will be talks by some of our amazing academics, researchers and PhD students, as well as a poster competition, and a chance to catch up with colleagues across the Norwich Research Park. #UEAScience

3-year #Postdoc opportunity at the University of York! I am #hiring a Postdoc to join my URF project on exploring how #biodiversity change is unfolding in the #Anthropocene. Deadline: 10th August 2025. All details and the link to apply: shorturl.at/qOQst @anthropocenebio.bsky.social #ecology

🪰🦠🧬 We loved hearing from @katiemillar.bsky.social on the stability of K. oxytoca across Medfly diets, regions & populations and the potential for microbiome-targeted biocontrol approaches 🥰 Some beautiful slides too #MNGPopUp #MicrobialGenomics #MicroSky #InsectMicrobiome #PestControl #Biocontrol

Telomere length declines with mean blood lead concentration in an urban passerine' doi.org/10.1016/j.en... 👏 Janet Chik!

New Postdoc position (2yrs) available in our #EvoMPMI lab @JohnInnesCentre. Come and work with on harnessing the diversity of immune mechanisms to protect plants. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?va…

Why does eating less extend lifespan? 🧬 Mutation accumulation underpins evolution of lifespan extension by dietary restriction We often think about saving energy or recycling waste - but we show how evolution acting on mutation load can generate longer life on low food 🧵 🔗 tinyurl.com/jn5ryhxv

📢New Publication Alert 📢 I’m proud to share a major milestone in my PhD journey. My first paper has officially been published: “Eukaryotic composition across seasons and social groups in the gut microbiota of wild baboons”. animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Last week to apply! nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

New preprint out on social interactions and the gut microbiome in a cooperative breeding species doi.org/10.32942/X2N...

Fantastic week back at ASB10! Huge thanks to @StAndrews for hosting, and for brilliant organization. My first talk on volcanic biogeochemistry was a privilege. Met great people, heard amazing research. Thanks @ukspaceagency.bsky.social for sponsoring. #Astrobiology #StAndrews #UKSpaceAgency #Science

Are you a #birdwatcher? Take part in a study on #BIRDWATCHING & #BIRDCONSERVATION Help understand birdwatchers & birdwatching better, use this opportunity for self-reflection about your own birdwatching experience Link/QR forms.office.com/e/wTCy8ghY9U pls share @rspb.bsky.social @bou.org.uk

Super excited to share our latest preprint, Host immunogenetic variation and metagenomically- derived gut microbiome functionality in a wild vertebrate population doi.org/10.21203/rs....

Note the (barely visible) thin, wavy larval fin fold: a transient membranous structure running along the dorsal, caudal, and ventral edges

From egg to hatchling! Swipe through the larval development of the three-spined stickleback (Gasterosteus aculeatus)

No evidence for a trade-off between reproduction and survival in a meta-analysis across birds | elifesciences.org/ar... | eLife | #ornithology 🪶

PhD opportunity at University of Groningen focusing on bird population projections and climate change, using Seychelles warbler data. Application open until June 29, 2025. More info: https://www.rug.nl/about-ug/work-with-us/job-opportunities/?reply=3D00347-02S000BDKP #phd

Apply for a PhD with us!: 'Multi-dimensional population projections and management of wild bird populations' @seychelleswarbler.bsky.social Deadline 29th June. www.rug.nl/about-ug/wor... @vvenhorst.bsky.social @rug.nl @david-s-richardson.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social

🐠💥2 year postdoc in fish sensory ecology!! 💥🐟 If you’re into animal colour, collective behaviour, predator-prey interactions, enjoy behavioural experiments and fieldwork, please apply! Based in Oxford with fieldwork in northwest Thailand (and elsewhere). Please repost! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNM294/p...