With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

**Postdoc opportunities**👇👇 Find me at poster 302 today between 17:30-18:00 for a chat. 🦡🦠🔬🧬 #eseb2025

Excited to see Katie Prescott's MSci project published today. Co-infection (but not infection intensity!) increases shedding in a gamebird-helminth system onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @uniexecec.bsky.social 🦠🔬

I am looking for a postdoc wanting to use functional genomics to understand why birds 🐦 struggle with climate warming in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Ideal candidate is a molecular evolutionarybiologist. Join us at @biologylu.bsky.social. Details 👇 shorturl.at/wijEq Would appreciate a re-post!

3-year #Postdoc position on the role of #genetics and #microbiome on #thermal #physiology in @erc.europa.eu project in my group at @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social FIN! We establish #selection lines on quails, collab @btschirren.bsky.social DL 15.7., start Nov25-Jan26 ats.talentadore.com/apply/postdo...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Interested in a PhD connecting sensory ecology and evolutionary genetics? Applications are now open for a project on the Speciation Genomics of Eye Size Variation in Heliconius Butterflies in our lab at LMU Munich: www.evol.bio.lmu.de/research/mer... Please repost!

New publication by @matteobeccardi.bsky.social and @oscarvedder.bsky.social (with @btschirren.bsky.social) in @royalsocietypublishing.org: 'Male inbreeding reduces fertility, but does not accelerate in vivo sperm senescence: an experimental approach in a polyandrous bird' doi.org/10.1098/rsbl...

First chicks today on Penryn Campus @uniexecec.bsky.social #springhassprung #phenology #nestboxpopulation

Happy to share our new paper 'Wild chimpanzees share fermented fruits' @currentbiology.bsky.social Thank you to the amazing team. @kjhockings.bsky.social @joanahbessa.bsky.social , @xavh.bsky.social, Marina Ramon, Elena Bersacola, Matthew Carrigan, @amelinlab.bsky.social . @uniexecec.bsky.social

How did the #COVID-19 pandemic shape scientific productivity? Stephanie Meirmans, @maurineneiman.bsky.social, Shalene Singh-Shepherd @royalsocietypublishing.org and I crunched the submission and acceptance data for 25 journals in #Ecology&Evolution: doi.org/10.1098/rspb... @uniexecec.bsky.social

Emile Michels' first PhD paper published today. Amplification of Borrelia in ticks at pheasant-release sites – an intriguing example how non-native species can increase zoonotic disease risk through spillback. @uniexecec.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

What do you think, can we forecast evolution❓ @sevans.bsky.social and I would love to hear your thoughts, so if you are going to #ESEB2025, submit a talk to our symposium (S24: Forecasting evolution in natural populations) and join @colingarroway.bsky.social and Patrik Nosil! Deadline April 25.

Field assistant position available to support a project on host-parasite interactions in Bank voles in beautiful Skåne, Sweden 🇸🇪 from mid July to end Sept 2025. The position is paid, right to work in the UK is required. Get in touch for more information. @uniexecec.bsky.social 🐭🧪🔬🌲🦠

OneHealth **PhD Opportunity** to work at the interface of gamebird management, AMR evolution and spread, and zoonotic disease risk with me @Exeter’s Cornwall Campus and collaborators @UKHSA. #ExeterCEC #PhDsky #AcademicSky @uniexecec.bsky.social 🧪🌎🕷️🔬 Apply here: www.surrey.ac.uk/bbsrc-wessex...

Want to use a unique dataset to study the spatial and temporal dynamics of genomic diversity and its drivers in a wild bird population? Apply for this #NERC #PhD position @uniexecec.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social. www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🐦🌍🧪🧬 #ExeterCEC #Vlieland #NIOO-KNAW

great #PhD opportunity in #disease #ecology - which species are key for #tick-borne disease transmission in the UK? Combining genetics, community ecology, mathematical modelling



 @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social & @ukceh.bsky.social International applicants - contact me by 9th Dec tinyurl.com/wfuak5se

* NEW #PhD * #Evolution #Ecology of Immune #Senesence in Wild Badgers - exciting project with me, @btschirren.bsky.social & our awesome collaborators @ APHA. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social in Cornwall, UK. !PLEASE SHARE! See www.animalsocieties.org and apply: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🌏 🧪 🦑

🚨 JOB ALERT 🚨 The Isles of Scilly Community Research Network, with IoS Wildlife Trust, Five Islands Acad and @uniofexeter.bsky.social, is looking for a lead of a unique project aimed at enabling people on Scilly to undertake research that matters to them and their community www.ioscv.co.uk/jobs

SWBio-funded PhD position on Autoimmunity gone wild: understanding the interactive effects of environmental stress and genetic risk in the development of autoimmune disease in a wild rodent 🐭🦠 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... at Exeter #ExeterCEC. Open to everyone. #EcoEvo #WildlifeDisease #PhD

4-year PhD program in the UK! This funded PhD opportunity is open to international students. If the candidate is selected by the committee, the position would begin Sept 2025. Deadline for applications Dec 11th 2024. #PhDchat #AcademicSky #Drosophila #ImmunoSky #EvoSky #Dros25 #EvolBio #EcoEvo

I couldn't find one, so I decided to put together a starter pack of folk working on the evolutionary ecology of host-pathogen interactions, eco-immunology, or similar. I know I've missed many (sorry) so please share and let me know if you want to be added (or removed). go.bsky.app/QvrnjHS

#evosky #evoeco

Deadline for our #NERC-funded postdoc position in evolutionary ecology @exetercec.bsky.social is fast approaching 👇👇👇Why are balanced genetic polymorphisms in immune function maintained in natural 🐭populations? tinyurl.com/4dkn64x8 Get in touch if you would like to know more. 🌍🧪🐭🦊🦠🧬🔬

Delighted to say that University of Exeter's Centre for Ecology and Conservation based in Penryn, Cornwall (SW tip of England) is now here @exetercec.bsky.social Sharing: Behaviour, Conservation, Disease, Ecology, Evolution, Marine and Microbes. 🌏🦑🧪🐧🦆🦢🦏🦛🐒🐌🦟🐝🦇

Delighted that our Graduate School of Environment and Sustainability is online www.exeter.ac.uk/study/gses/ and on @exetergses.bsky.social Themes from Critical Minerals to Marine Environment to Sustainable Development and Business 🌏🧪🦑 #ExeterGSES #ExeterESI #ExeterCEC @uniofexeternews.bsky.social

Interested in host-pathogen interactions and how genetic variation in disease susceptibility is maintained over evolutionary times in wild 🐭? Join us at #ExeterCEC for a 3 year #NERC -funded postdoc position. See jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... for more information.   #Evobio #evoeco 🧪🌏🦊🐭

Can we use animal personality to reduce chronic stress in captive 🐟 populations? This #BBSRC #SWBio DTP PhD project with Alastair Wilson #ExeterCEC and Christos Ioannou #UniversityOfBristol aims to find out. Interested? Information on the project and how to apply 👉 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Nominations now open for the Dobzhansky Prize, which recognizes the work and promise of an outstanding early career evolutionary biologist. This award comes with a 5000 USD prize, and the recipient will speak at #Evol2024. Apply now! rb.gy/vxpar