Our new paper maps the tRNA modification landscape in Vibrio cholerae! 💫 We describe differences from E. coli and discuss links to decoding of stress-related codons 🦠 Huge thanks to amazing co-authors and collaborators! @plos.org #rnasky #microsky #tRNAmodifications

Counterproductive: coinfection of a water flea by a fungus and a microsporidium reduces the reproductive outputs of all parties. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685260v1

Bizarre that our 2020 #Drosophila #AMP review already feels out of date. Thanks to #AnnualReviews to cover the many updates in the field and present a much more complete picture of the diversity, mechanisms, topics, of fly immunity re: host defence peptides. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

🦠🔬🤖🧑‍💻 #mAIcrobe is out! With @pinholab.bsky.social's lab, we launched an open-source framework for high-throughput bacterial image analysis. By rockstars A. Brito & B. Saraiva et al, making #DeepLearning for phenotyping accessible! Easy to use, plus model training 📜 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I'm so proud to announce my most ambitious pin to date: a miniature guide to the trees of Britain (and lots of Europe)! Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...

Are you an early career scientist who wants to get specialist training in C. elegans model for your laboratory research? we co-organize again the EMBO C. elegans course! Do not miss applying!

Don’t miss out on #AsiaEvo! It already has a great number of keynotes and topics! 🙌 And if you are into adaptation under global change☀️🌪️ (any form of life 🦠🐼), take a look at the symposium below 👇 check it our and share :) #EvoSky #MicroSky #Drosophila #Evolution #EEID #ClimateChange

📢 Deadline extended! Apply by Oct 3 for the 2025 Sydney Brenner Thesis Award—honoring outstanding theses in nematode biology (defended Oct 1, 2024–Sept 30, 2025). Send in your nomination today! 🔗:

Interested in #virulence? Not sure what it is - or how to explain it? Just curious? 🧐🦠🧬🦋 @kayla-king.bsky.social and I just wrote a Primer for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the ecology and evolution of virulence! Check it below and share :) #MicroSky #EvoSky #pathogens

Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them. This is getting very dark, very quick.

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!

Evolution Meeting 2026 logo contest! The winner will receive meeting registration and an Evolution 2026 t-shirt. www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo-co...

I am happy to announce publication of our new perspectives paper on applying evolutionary theory to host-microbiome evolution - new tricks for old dogs! @bweek.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de @transevo.bsky.social @crc1182.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This #lichen like the sun. Swirling golden prominences cast into space from areas of intense localised heat. Found on the bushes that skirt the turning circle of the ocean road where I walk my dog. This cul-de-sac hides amazing and wondrous things if you care to look #FungiFriends

A new theme issue of #PhilTransB examines the evolutionary history of bacterial immune systems, their modes of action, and the patterns how different bacterial immune systems are distributed across different ecosystems. Read: buff.ly/Z4qdxY1

In the new book Labwork to Leadership, chemist Jen Heemstra offers actionable leadership advice to principal investigators. Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #ReadABookDay: https://scim.ag/46l2X6y

yes they do. they're spreading disinformation to people who can be confused by it, in order to keep doing things that make money (in this case, fossil fuels). that distinction is foundational to understanding what is happening at all scales of government, including and especially what RFK is doing

Portugal was in mourning after the Glória funicular, one of Lisbon’s best-known sights, crashed this week, killing more than a dozen people and injuring 21 others. Workers removed the wreckage on Friday. Here's what we know: nyti.ms/4p7gtlB

Just wrote a lil piece for @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social about my experience moving for science: problems and solutions 🌎🧪🧫 Curious? Check it below 👇 & check this series for other experiences - a great initiative 👏 #AcademicSky #MicroSky #mobility #PhDChat #AcademicChatter #EcoEvoECRcareer

How do bacteria choose what type of defences to use against phages? We explored that question in the last paper I worked on as a postdoc at the Uni of Exeter @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social with Stineke van Houte, Stefano Pagliara and Edze Westra (not on Bluesky) doi.org/10.1098/rstb...

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!! @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

This is just B A N A N A S. Hymenopteran genetics, amirite? www.science.org/content/arti...

Cell Symposia: Host-microbiome dynamics May 10–12, 2026 | Bruges, Belgium by @cp-immunity.bsky.social @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social and @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social www.cell-symposia.com/microbiome-2...

Scientific mobility in microbiology – 8

Really cool work, which supports our previous works on Anopheles' microbiome, immune response and activation through age and its links to "metabolic reprogramming" - one of my favourite things www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What causes viral transmission bottlenecks? This study uses barcoded virions to show that in the case of #influenza A #virus, early within-host replication dynamics (rather than a reduced inoculum population) drive loss of diversity during transmission @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4ngicDK

I am recruiting a Ph.D. student in microbial ecology, evolution, and systems biology for fall 2026. Please share! Details: qevomicrolab.org/Documents/Gr... Apply by October 1 here: forms.gle/38pPS1Ky84HB...

Fully funded PhD in #Ecophysiology at UBC in Vancouver! 🍁 Possible topics include leaf physiology, thermal ecology, microclimates, scaling, tree physiology, forest ecology, and more. Start Sept 2026/Jan 2027. michaletzlab.org Please share! #PlantEcoPhys #Ecology #Botany #PhDposition #GradSchool

“The men and women who have joined C.D.C. across generations have done so not for prestige or power, but because they believe deeply in the call to service. They deserve an H.H.S. secretary who stands up for health, supports science and has their back. So, too, does our country.”

The #MaxPlanckPostdocProgram offers a guaranteed contract of at least 3 years, targeted mentoring, and career workshops. The call for applications is open now! 🚀 Take advantage of this opportunity and browse the job vacancies. www.mpg.de/en/max-planc...

mRNA vaccines are safe, have been in development for decades, & have far broader applications than older vaccine technologies. New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasn’t possible before. 5/

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✨Starting on Monday!✨ #SciArtSeptember is a month-long creative challenge inspired by natural sciences. 🌿 Post on your own schedule. Post new work, old work, work-in-progress. Post artwork, music, words - whatever you like to make. (Thematic baked goods?🤞) - #SciArt #SciComm #Nature

OUT in @evolappjournal.bsky.social ! 🧑‍🔬💧🦠 Using our #transmission framework on #microsporidia parasite lines we found that performance outside the host trades off with increased virulence in #Anopheles #MicroSky #SymbioSky We show the importance of parasite ecology to virulence evolution.

FlyBase needs your help! Visit the link below for more information, and please consider donating to help save this amazing resource. wiki.flybase.org/wiki/FlyBase...

The Pulmonary Microbial Signatures of Early Stages of Severe Infection in Children https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.25.672262v1

Congratulations to Dr. Kayla King who was awarded the 2025 Francis Crick Medal & Lecture by the Royal Society for contributions to the fields of evolutionary biology & genetics of infectious disease. @zoology.ubc.ca @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social @kayla-king.bsky.social @royalsociety.org bit.ly/4lGJrWB

What could be more exciting than watching Euplotes scurry around under the microscope? How about adding some raptorial predation by supergiant cannibal cells? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Video by Vittorio Boscaro. 1/n

Hey Bsky, I’m Luís, a 🇵🇹 disease ecologist in Vancouver 🇨🇦 I study the drama between hosts 🪱🦟 and parasites 🦠 - who wins, who loses, and which cards get played - and why it matters for evolution & health. Always up for collabs, chats & making science fairer ✨ Say hi 👉 luis-m-silva.com #AcademicSky

O #AndreVentura #Ventura pergunta quem lucra com os incêndios. A resposta é: o #Chega. #Portugal #LimparPortugal

Delighted to share the peer-reviewed version of our study led by @tomlewin.bsky.social now out in Genome Biology @bmc.springernature.com! We analyzed 64 chromosome-level genomes across 15 animal phyla and found that extensive genome rearrangements are the norm in bilaterians. doi.org/10.1186/s130...

This is brilliant and nearly made me cry

Are you a theoretical biologist that is intererested in the ecology and evolution of metabolic interactions among microorganisms? Do you like to cooperate with experimentalists? Do you have a PhD and experience in modelling and statistics? Then this position might be for you👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv

Final words of the last #ESEB2025 plenary by @jmappes.bsky.social: "Science moves forward when we keep both our curiosity and our humility"

Now Fred Thomas presents a novel Group Phenotypic Composition perspective on cancer evolution #ESEB2025

Acabo de crear un starter-pack para ecologós en América Latina - !!! favor de sugerir más gente !!!! go.bsky.app/BdhnF3f

Los microbios ya se adaptan al cambio climático: biólogos detectan en hospitales un hongo híbrido resistente al calor #ESEB2025 www.elperiodico.com/es/sociedad/...

And what about at the CDC? Our analysis found that more than 3,000 workers at the CDC have been lost so far. While RFK Jr claimed in a Senate hearing last May that HHS had not fired any “working scientists," we found **a third of lost CDC staffers worked as scientists or in health care roles.**

#HappeningToday #ESEB2025 Poster presentation on the intriguing #phylogenomic diversity of wild #Saccharomyces #cerevisiae strains from Botswana, #Africa... And the exciting way forward😁. Poster Number: 194 #yeastofSA