I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

Trilha sonora da sua vida

#RainbowMap 2026 is live! Spain breaks Malta's decade-long hold on top spot. As the rules-based international order fractures and democracy is under pressure, Spain's No’1 ranking stands as proof that political courage remains the most powerful answer. Find out more at rainbowmap.ilga-europe.org!

Viver é estranho

Wild how fast conspiracy news went from "rare disease" to "mRNA vaccines" to "lab leak". HFRS-associated human hantavirus infections in Europe/Asia are a significant and persistent public health problem. Vaccines against HFRS have been around since the early 90s.

"a thin commercial crust on top of older, quieter machinery." Beautifully formed and formatted, a long read worth ploughing through over your morning coffee... www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-i...

We’re hiring! We invite applications for an Ecological Statistician to join our team. Work at the interface of cutting-edge biodiversity science and statistics. DL 27 May @jarnovanhatalo.bsky.social @rececochange.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

I've had a lot of questions about Hantavirus recently - and some alarmism in some places. It's been a while since I wore this hat - but let's chat! 💬 Top Line: Am I worried? No, not really. I don't see evidence this is something that will spread widely. 1/N

Pelo fim da escala 6x1

📣 The difference between replicable and not replicable is not itself scientifically replicable. 📣 New work with Erkan Buzbas, showing that verdicts such as "X% of results replicated" are based on an inferential machinery that doesn't work. arxiv.org/abs/2604.26268

We're looking for a postdoctoral fellow to work at the intersection of ecology and data science 🧪 www.tepunahamatatini.ac.nz/posts/postdo... #movingtonewzealand #movingtonz

The PNAS paper on pancreatic cancer treatment that was all over the news a few months ago is retracted "due to an undisclosed relevant competing interest" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

📶 Le temps réel débarque sur cartes.app dans une première salve de réseaux de transport ! Rennes, bien sûr, notre petite Californie à nous où on teste nos nouveautés. Mais aussi Lille, Bordeaux, Auxerre et puis... la SNCF ! 👏 Tout cela est possible via l'Union Européenne et transport.data.gouv.fr

A positive spider story to start the day, which helps to inspire curiosity rather than fear 🕸️🕷️🕸️ #LoveSpiders @smcnz.bsky.social @tvnz.bsky.social @marsdenfund.bsky.social @royalsocietynz.bsky.social www.1news.co.nz/2026/04/28/w...

Interested in ant ecology? Have molecular and bioinformatics experience? Come and join the team! 18-month post-doc position at University of York now live: jobs.york.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

25, 27, 30°C par-ci par-là. Ca devient n'importe quoi nos mois d'avril. C'est tristement banal. On fait comme si de rien était. Parce que ouai, la moyenne des 30 dernières années définissant la norme d'avril c'est de 13°C dans le nord à 20°C dans le Gard. Juste ça. On l'aurait presque oublié... 1/3

Interested in a *staff computational scientist* position? We are looking for an experienced computational biologist (ideally with microbiology experience) to support published packages while also driving new research. Pay range $73k-$111k w excellent benefits. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Happy to finally share these results: Cross-feeding enables robust coexistence between four bacterial species www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... With @saramitri.bsky.social @lambdapp.bsky.social @dan1elmachado.bsky.social @lhtxra.bsky.social Eric Ulrich, Alisson Gillon & Sam Testa #microsky

In which I argue that "AI" as we understand it today is a structurally fascist artifact. https://tante.cc/2026/04/21/ai-as-a-fascist-artifact/

My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

We are recruiting a PI in biomedical data science at @bakerresearchau.bsky.social in Melbourne! A fantastic opportunity and do get in touch if any q's! www.seek.com.au/job/91619982...

Our publication in Nature Ecology and Evolution reveal a multiscale expansion process with both short- and long-distance dispersal or Oropouche virus, a new re-emergent pathogen. Our results also demonstrate a rapid advance on methods that can be used to track pathogens of global importance.

Interested in synthetic biology & microbiomes? 🧬🧫 We are recruiting a PhD student to develop biosensors to study microbe–microbe & microbe–host interactions. In beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland🏔️⛵ @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social Apply by 24.05.2026 👇 shorturl.at/6X7M4 Boosts appreciated!

A GENTLE REMINDER: we are trying to eliminate fossil fuels because using them kills us. If fossil fuels were cheap (they're not) or reliable (they're SO NOT), it would still be urgent to get rid of them because their intended use destroys our life support systems.

So this happened www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sphere... #smbc #comics #math

I've updated my El Niño forecast plume with the latest April data (ECMWF, NMME, CFSv2, Canadian models). Its now looking like it might end up giving 2015/2016 a run for its money in terms of strength, with a peak of ~2.6C in the ENSO3.4 region by end of year: dashboard.theclimate...

Avec 30°C en Bretagne, ce 8 avril n'est plus seulement impressionnant, il en est inquiétant. 47 records mensuels battus (en début du mois s'il vous plaît !). « Profite, pour une fois qu’il fait beau » ? Non. Je m’excuse, mais je ne vois rien de réjouissant à danser dans une maison qui brûle.

A reminder that Yanis Varoufakis, the idiot's intellectual, is another of Putin's little blogger-puppets. Hand-maidens for imperialism.

Just so you know what kind of dork I am: I was looking at the Artemis II mission stuff and said to @kaylahornbrook.bsky.social, “The cutaway in those letters in the bottom left corner definitely means something super specific…”

I have been reading through papers on evolution and microbes from the 1940s to 1960s. I have found some amazing work, but I am sure that there is much more that I haven’t found. Can you send me links to classic evolution+microbiology papers from pre Levin era?

End of the day in #Pompeii

Are you going to #smbe2026 Copenhagen by train, or are you hesitating? Let's share experiences and give ideas to those who think to fly from Western or Central Europe with the hashtag #noflysmbe. If you're coming from 🇨🇭, there are night trains from Zürich or Basel to Hamburg. ✅🚆 ❌✈️

Are you going to #eed2026 Glasgow by train, or are you hesitating? Let's share experiences and give ideas to those who think to fly from Western Europe with the hashtag #noflyeed. With the Eurostar, if you can get to a station it serves, then it's easy to get from London to Glasgow. ✅🚆 ❌✈️

Today, MSF is going public with something we've been fighting behind closed doors for months: Gilead will not sell us their new HIV drug, lenacapavir. The sticking point isn't even price, they just refuse to sell. Open letter linked + explainer 🧵1/ www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/gilea...

Phd Position alert 🚨 Join our project ASTRAfun (Adaptation and Starship Traffic in Root-Associated fungi), in which we will use computational models to unveil the hidden dynamics of fungal evolution. It’s not going to be just regular fun. It’s going to ASTRAfun. 🤓 www.uu.nl/en/organisat...

In 1966, abortion was suddenly restricted for most women in Romania. In the decades that followed, maternal mortality increased, and by the 1980s, more than 80% of maternal deaths happened as a result of abortion complications.

We present TaxonMatch, an ML approach trained to align NCBI and GBIF taxonomies and provide an integrated tree. We show how it can align with other taxonomies, using iNaturalist (which you'd think is GBIF but isn't).

The Princeton Guide to Ecology works as emotional support for me, factual support for my memory and literal support for the laptop

MEEHubs2026 registration and abstract submission is now online! 🚨🦠✨ Join us Aug 3 - 5, 2026 at one of the 7 hubs or online. We are incredibly excited about our lineup of speakers, and hope that you submit an abstract to contribute too! More information and registration links at: meehubs.org

🇧🇪 🇨🇩 A Brussels court on Tuesday ordered a 93-year-old former Belgian diplomat to stand trial over the 1961 killing of Congolese independence icon Patrice Lumumba ➡️ u.afp.com/SLsX

Jürgen Habermas ist heute im Alter von 96 Jahren in Starnberg verstorben.

Sunset on Grand Pic de Belledonne (2,977 m asl) from the north on 12th March! 😍

Thanks for the shoutout, @chrisklausmeier.bsky.social! I had an absolute blast chatting with Jeremy about my research and sharing some opinionated views on theoretical ecology.

what function is the biggest jumpscare to you. i'll go first, clear choice for me at least it's obviously the gamma function.

One of the biggest challenges in microbial biotechnology? Unlocking the potential of non-model microbes and synthetic communities! Glad to share our review @sonjablasche.bsky.social @simonemozzachiodi.bsky.social @kiranrpatil.bsky.social @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social🧵(1/7) doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

1/5 Introducing SimPlot-CL! 🧬 Recombination plays an important role in viral evolution. Similarity plots are a great way to visualize recombination patterns, but generating them across many genomes can be cumbersome (Work with my student, Keno Strotjohann!) 📂 github.com/hodcroftlab/simplot-cl

With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭 To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀 tinyurl.com/2wem36zz

New preprint on the limits of detecting higher-order interactions in microbial communities. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We find that the dominance of additive and pairwise interactions on community function may not reflect biological simplicity, but fundamental limits of statistical detection.