Very happy to see this piece out in @plosbiology.org, on the bacterial immune systems and microbial communities. It was a great team effort with Rafael Custodio, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social , @brownlab.bsky.social, and Edze Westra! 🦠🧫 #phagesky #mevosky journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Great work by @prczhaoyansong.bsky.social, once again elucidating how much flow of information there is in complex microbial ecosystems.

Getting old means going to your own Google Scholar and seeing "if you wrote a paper about something"

I must admit, PerplexityAI is really blowing my mind when it comes to literature searching. I've been avoiding it but I got stuck and decided to take a swing at it. It gave great papers, got my out of my bubble, and really gave me a fresh perspective. :)

Does anyone know a gene in E. coli that duplicated "fairly recently", as to compare and contrast it's sequence divergence with that found in mobile elements? #sciencesky #microsky

This picture is too low-res to include in a presentation in 2025, so I went full CSI 😂 I wonder though: even though it copies the copyright statement... this does count as a copyright violation? Thoughts?

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

A bachelor student gifted me this beautiful artwork she made based on my first year course, and I am sp excited I wanna share it with “the internet” ❤️

We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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

This is very cool. @sanmillan.bsky.social I wonder to what extend these non-random IS-dynamics are naturally selected for. Could it be the result of a long co-evolutionary history of ISs and bacteria? Are there differences in natural/non-natural antimicrobials? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper out! 🔈🔈📣📣 Plasmids promote antimicrobial resistance through Insertion Sequence-mediated gene inactivation. Combining experimental and computational approaches, we unveil how two of the most prevalent bacterial MGE accelerate the evolution of AMR. 🧵👇🏻 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

If I were me a few years ago, I would immediately apply. Wonderful environment to work in and Osnabrück is a (suprisingly 😝) fun city.

Highly recommend this great opportunity to develop #theory together with @kostchristian.bsky.social and group who are simply a wonderful bunch!!

I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

We’re #hiring! 2 #post-doc positions for an interdisciplinary project funded by the @hfspo.bsky.social in #axolotl and #Drosophila #wound healing at @sickkidsto.bsky.social #Canada and @umontpellier.bsky.social #France @laghalab.bsky.social. Share and apply here: www.nature.com/naturecareer...

Delighted to have started my tenure as an editor for mBio journals.asm.org/journal/mbio handling papers on Streptomyces, natural product evolution and biosynthesis, experimental evolution, bacteriophage resistance, Corynebacterium and engineering biology

💃 Let's to to the beach-each, let's go get away! 💃 bsppjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Amazing stuff by one of the most hard working lab rats I’ve ever met. In a good way ;p www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

❤️ www.uu.nl/en/news/paul...

ISME congratulates @ilafores.bsky.social from @usherbrooke.bsky.social as the winner of the Alma Dal Co Award, recognizing her as an exceptional early-career scholar who has made important contributions to microbial ecology. isme-microbes.org/winner-of-th... #MicrobialEcology #microbes #isme20

Come join us at TBB in simulating the sh*t out of everything related to biology! :) (in this case, evo-devo/ animal development in general!)

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

We should call failed sceptics what they are: cynical. Nobody should take pride in being a cynic.

Symbiosis stories keep giving intrigue and importance. Very interesting.

Happy pride, folks! <3

This is still open for another week or so! Please apply :)

My brain wouldnt science this morning so I wrote a pretentious blog (as one does). I think biology-first modelling deserves more attention. It’s not the only way, but it’s one of the few that can capture the unruly, generative, and surprising nature of life. thevirtuallaboratory.com/blog/biology...

Some random guy talking about evolution 🙊 #NWOlife #LTEE

🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩 This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer. Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF

📣 🥳 🧑‍💻 Our department is hiring: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor in Bioinformatics at Aarhus University, Denmark Deadline June 1st Thanks for sharing! mbg.au.dk/en/news-and-...

Diversity is our strength❤️🧡💛💚💙💜 On #IDAHOT, we reaffirm our commitment to end violence and discrimination against LGBTIQ people — and raise the progressive flag at our headquarters. Respect for fundamental rights and equal treatment are key pillars of our Union.

Interested in phages ? Want to work as team that will isolate, genome sequence and charachterise 1000s of phage to build a biobank . Come work with me and Martha Clokie at Leicester jobs.le.ac.uk/vacancies/va...

Longer working hours have been linked to higher emissions, yet the climate movement seems reluctant to join the campaign for a four-day week—a potential strategic error given the social, health and climate benefits of working less. My latest for Sower ⬇️🧪.

PhD position available at @binfutrecht.bsky.social. Join us if you are interested in modelling how plants respond to stress! www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩 This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer. Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF

I am happy to share our latest preprint, spearheaded by Laura Camus. We show that tyrosin-dependent interactions can foster integration of S. aureus into the nasal microbiome. @cmfi.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🎉 We’re hiring! Two ERC-funded #PostdocJobs on insect–phytopathogen mutualisms are available in my lab. Explore the chemical and molecular evolution of symbioses! 🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb 🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath #SymbioSky #PlantPathology

How often do people type a response on social media and then opt out and hit “discard” because you realise you’re being a pedantic ****. No? Just me? 💃

Having recently read >500 applications for recent hirings, AI CVs are a fast growing problem Giveaways are summaries eerily matching the job spec (but bearing little relevance to the rest of the CV) & weird generic phrases like “detail orientated” no-one says Tell your mentees/classes to avoid!

Fungi shape genome evolution of bacteria even in the absence of major growth phenotypes #ISMEJournal from @benwolfe.bsky.social Penicillium camemberti and Geotrichum candidum on Pseudomonas carnis evolution academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

We are pleased to announce that registration for 3rd MGE Workshop is now live! If you are interested in giving a talk please register online through our website by Friday 16th May. We look forward to seeing you all in Southampton in June! www.ukmgeworkshop.org

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Nearly missed my bus stop reading this fascinating review :)

I have written with emdashes – these things – for a long time. Now suddenly, I sound like chatGPT. :(

Elated and honored to have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant! We’ll explore why beetles lose genes — only to rely on symbionts instead 🪲🦠 Incredibly proud of the team and excited for this project to take off w/ some remarkable beetles! @erc.europa.eu www.bio.mpg.de/466825/news_...

Read preprints. Cite preprints. Email people and tell them you loved their preprint. Email people you hated their preprint. Embrace preprints, preprints are good.

I can’t believe it’s 25 years later, and I still have to watch a tutorial on how to properly put a figure next to a table in Ms Word…

Yesterday someone told me that diffusion of glucose through cellulose is not much slower than diffusion through water. I'm not sure where they get their data from, but how does that compare to agar? Does glucose diffuse faster/slower through soft/hard agar? I always assumed so, but now I'm doubting.