“Insects are essential for the environment,” emphasizes Prof. Evan Economo. “As scientists, we need to play our part in their protection, and provide and analyze the relevant data to ensure the long-term integrity of our ecosystems”. Read the full study @science.org www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

OIST PhD & Research Internship Program - Call for Applications! 🔗Research Internship: shorturl.at/EJMGe (Deadline: 15 October 2025) 🔗 PhD program: shorturl.at/lhheq (Deadline: 15 November 2025)

📢 #FacultyHiring: OIST is hiring! We invite exceptional scientists to apply for faculty positions in: - Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography - Physics and Quantum Science (including related fields) 🔗: www.oist.jp/careers/facu...

Understanding plant-microbe symbiosis is essential in tackling global challenges like food security and ecosystem restoration. In ISME Journal, OIST researchers describe the unique symbiosis between T. azollae cyanobacteria and Azolla ferns: www.oist.jp/news-center/...

4/ 🧵 This project is with @anja1.bsky.social, @tweethinking.bsky.social, @ssolo.bsky.social , @ettema.bsky.social,@chrisrinke.bsky.social, Zheng-Shuang Hua Maraike Probst and Lenard Szantho.

Very happy to announce our new paper on the evolution of metabolism is out now! royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/... With @tweethinking.bsky.social @sabifo4.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social Davide Pisani, Tim Lenton and @phil-donoghue.bsky.social (1/2)

🚨 I’m looking for two enthusiastic scientists to join our team at Cambridge to explore the molecular mechanisms of lactation, early nutrition, and their long-term impact on health. Apply here: 👉 RA: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51988/ 👉 Postdoc: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51984/ Please share 🔬👩‍🔬

New vacancy in my team! PhD student position on microbial genome evolution, focusing on the evolutionary principles underlying bacterial genome architecture. Please repost and share with talented MSc students in #evobio, bioinformatics or related :) www.uu.nl/en/organisat... #MEvoSky #MicroSky

Lyft driver picked me up from UNC, turned out he was a medicinal chemistry post-doc in a building near mine, until his grant got cut last month. Worked on novel antivirals.

We have 2-3 group leader positions opening @fimm-uh.bsky.social !! We are looking for outstanding candidates in human genetics and precision medicine. This time we have a focus on population health data science. E.g. AI for EHR/health data        Generous starting package 💰 shorturl.at/FAk6n

The biggest gift the US can give to its global rivals is to ideologically motivated slashing investment in scientific, biomedical and technological research and innovation and driving away talent abroad.

Looking for a postdoc on bacterial-insect symbiosis, combining evolution and molecular mechanisms? I'll have one open in my lab starting Sept 2025. If interested contact me (or find me at the GRC on Animal-microbe symbiosis if you'll be there). #SymbioSky

Today, the ERC formally adopted a decision to increase its support for researchers moving to Europe. On top of its normal grants, the ERC offers 'start-up' funding to help PIs establish laboratories / research teams in Europe. This extra funding is now x2 (up to €2 million!) europa.eu/!6Vdgmp

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

Great to see our paper on SAR11 SBPs, published in Nature, selected as a 2025 national Frontiers Planet Prize champion!

The ‘fuel’ of our cells, ATP, has been found to regulate the viscosity of the cytoplasm in axons 🧠 This influences the rate of harmful aggregation of proteins in neurodegenerative diseases like Parkinson’s and ALS. New discovery in #ScienceAdvances 👇

With a heavy heart I have decided not to attend a meeting in the US this June. I can’t act as if things are normal when science, universities, dissent & truth are all under threat. And I feel I can’t attend when there are scientists who are not able to travel to the US without fear of arrest.

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Hello binfies 👋! There is an open position for a senior bioinformatician to join our fab **core bioinformatics** team at @quadraminstitute.bsky.social. jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...

So glad this is finally out. The method has been instrumental in allowing us to compress the AllTheBacteria data - ~2 million bacterial genomes shrink from 3Terabytes (gzipped) to 100Gb using phylogenetic compression. Great work by @brinda.eu

Really pleased to be part of this project which shows that aerobic bacteria arose in the Archaean, long before the GOE - after which aerobes proliferated through HGT. Fun @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social collab including @tweethinking.bsky.social @sabifo4.bsky.social @emoody.bsky.social Davide Pisani

We used Great Oxidation Event as a planet-sized "fossil" to add ancient dates to the Bacterial tree of life. @theconversation.com and @science.org articles show oxygen was used by non-cyanos before that cataclysm, surprisingly. theconversation.com/1-trillion-s... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Dating Bacteria is hard due to the lack of maxima. Assuming aerobes likely postdated the GOE gave us better resolved ages, but also surprised us, but not Dr Dayhoff, showing O2 use predated its atmospheric rise by 900 Mys and helped oxygenic photosynthesis to evolve. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🦠🌍 @science.org に発表された研究で、地球の酸素が急増した23億3千万年前の大酸化イベントよりも、9億年前には酸素を利用する細菌が存在していたことが明らかになりました。👇 @ssolo.bsky.social

Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🦠🌍 @science.org study reveals oxygen-using bacteria existed 900M years before Earth's atmosphere had significant oxygen. This suggests some bacteria could use trace oxygen before evolving the ability to produce it through photosynthesis. @oistedu.bsky.social 👇 t.co/eETUHTm4sh

Blue skies over OIST. Follow us for the latest in interdisciplinary science and innovation, from curiosity-driven research to applied technology. #SciSky 🧪

We are looking for a #postdoc to join the VEO Group @microverse.bsky.social @uni-jena.de and build an experimental research line into the dynamics and functioning of microbial communities: jobs.uni-jena.de/jobposting/1...

Job announcement: a four-year postdoc position in phylogenomics at the Milner Centre for Evolution, Bath, with James Clark and me (I'm moving to Bath later in the year...). www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy...

Job Alert: Senior Research Associate in Phylogenomics @bristolpalaeo.bsky.social researching timing, sequence and phenotypic consequences of rediploidisation following whole genome duplication - comparative genomics, molecular clock and phenotypic disparity methods, with @jameswclark.bsky.social

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A new collaborative paper with Anja Spang, Wen-Cong Huang, @chrisrinke.bsky.social @ettema.bsky.social @ssolo.bsky.social Zheng-Shuang Hua Maraike Probst and Lenard Szantho. We investigated the phylogenetic position and metabolic evolution of Panguiarchaeum.

🚨Urgent: 12-month Postdoc in Paris-Saclay on the INCREASE project! 🫘 Dissecting genetic mechanisms of environmental adaptation in common bean Project: [https://www.pulsesincrease.eu/] 📄 Click on Job for description [https://moulon.inrae.fr/] Please share! #Postdoc #JobOpening #INCREASEProject

☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️ 2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!

I have one open PhD position. Maybe one of the last PhD positions in the lab as I'm planning changes in what we do and how we will do it some five years from now. I'm offering freedom (pun intended), respect, an interesting project, and a good full time contract w. health insurance.

Please repost!!!!! Abstraction submission for the next Great Wall Symposium is now open! Come to Sicily in September and learn the latest on bacterial cell wall biology. thegreatwall-symposium.org/abstract-sub...

There is one week to apply for the 2025 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA! More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad... Application deadline: Jan. 29th Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1st

Finally! An article to review with the figures *within* the text and not at the very end! 🧪

Jeff Bezos never wanted this cartoon to become public. He killed it, and as a result, pulitzer prize editorial cartoonist Ann Telnaes quit. Make sure everyone sees this cartoon.

After 24 years of work, I’m thrilled to announce the TYMEFLIES dataset, which comprises metagenomes from Lake Mendota (Madison, WI), collected roughly every 10 days (471 samples) for 20 years! @quendi.bsky.social @robinrohwer.bsky.social rdcu.be/d5put A thread…

Fitting that the NIH’s year end list of basic research highlights contains very little actual basic research www.nih.gov/news-events/...

Me-OW. #Caturday

My favorite thing about this time of year is waking up each morning to a dozen new emails offering holiday wishes from companies that sell pipet tips and have a lengthy record of refusing to listen when I tell them to please unsubscribe me because I do not have a goddamn wet lab.

"Whenever someone starts talking about the `free market', it's always a good idea to look around for the man with the gun. He's never far away." Reading David Graeber's 2015 book during the last days of 2024 is a trip.

Excellent holiday reading, from an experience my wife had many years ago… thetinctorial.blogspot.com/2007/05/grea...

We’re hiring!! Come do a PhD with us using -omics to better understand river microbiomes responses to drought processes! ⬇️

Please RT: Associate Professor position in my department at the University of Oxford. Broad search in molecular and cellular biology: my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Frequent Q is how mirror bacterium could persist in nature. Marine Prochlorococcus good example. Little downside in terms of competitiveness + resistant to protists and phages. Net positive growth allows invasion. See Chapter 8 of technical report here: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

What's a reasonable price to sequence a 96 well plate of ~3.5MB bacterial genomes to high quality? Links to service providers (especially but not uniquely in Oz) welcome! Please repost.

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We are looking for a postdoc to develop novel machine-learning approaches to model coevolution across biological scales. The successful candidate will join the Model-Based Evolutionary Genomics Unit (bit.ly/mod2evol) at OIST 🌺🌊🔬 Apply by May 10: evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...