Thrilled to share that I recently got a position of an Assistant Professor/SciLifeLab Fellow at Stockholm University, where I will continue my work on #lichen symbiosis. The lab opens in April 2026, and if you are interested in joining please get in touch! #newPI

Join MBA Senior Research Fellow Dr Clare Ostle at The Royal Society for: Warming-driven Shifts in North Atlantic Plankton 📅 Monday 8th December | 🕑 14:15 – 14:45 📍 The Royal Society | Free to attend in person or online 👉 royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/2025/12/marine-biodiversity/

Funded PhD Opportunity: Seagrass Disease Ecology Explore how the pseudofungus Phytophthora gemini impacts Zostera marina and restoration success. Lab + fieldwork @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social & OCT. Combine microbiology, ecology & restoration science 🌱 👉 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK439/p...

Congratulations to Senior Research Fellows Dr Alice Horton and Dr Dan Smale, who have been named in the 2025 Highly Cited Researchers list. This recognition places both researchers among the world’s most influential scientists, with publications ranked in the top 1% by citations.

🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄We’re recruiting!!🌿🍄‍🟫🌱🍄 I’m looking for two postdocs and a technician to join my group @sheffielduni.bsky.social @sheffieldpps.bsky.social to work with me on my exciting @royalsociety.org Faraday Discovery Fellowship project, details for each post as follows:

Applications are now open for two two-year UBC Biodiversity Postdoc Fellowships biodiversity.ubc.ca/training-and.... $77,000 /y + benefits and $7000 /y research funds.

PhD available in my group to work on polar nitrogen fixation www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Become my colleague @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social ! 2 Associate Professorships in the areas of - prokaryotic/eukaryotic microbiology - metabolism my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Dear all, registration for the upcoming EMBO/EMBL Symposium on "the cellular mechanics of symbiosis" is now OPEN 🤩 ! Feel free to register ! www.embl.org/about/info/c... #EESSymbiosis #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky @hassansalem.bsky.social @berasymbionts.bsky.social @embl.org

Good start to @same18-bcn.bsky.social SAME18 this week in Barcelona 🦠🌊🧬🔬🧫

"Why sequence the #genome of every species? A view from evolutionary biology" Did you catch this amazing new review in our journal by @peterhox.bsky.social? REad it for FREE here now: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... @thembauk.bsky.social #dnasequencing #chromosome #mutation #evolution

This week, Christine Wood and John Bishop provided training in the identification of non-native marine species to the dive team of @naturalengland.bsky.social #NaturalEngland #InvasiveSpecies #MBA #MarineBiologicalInvasive #MarineBiologicalAssocation

🔬 We’re Hiring! Become the next MBA Postdoctoral Career Development Fellow Are you ready to take the next step in your research career and lead the way in marine biology? Find out more 👉 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/postdoct... 📅 Apply by 15 October 2025 #MarineBiology #MarineScience #AcademicJobs

The Octopus Survey 🚨 Fishermen across the Southwest are reporting more and more octopus turning up in pots, traps, and on deck this year. We need your insight before the survey closes! 👉 Take the survey now before it closes - survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90884550/...

Three Associate Professor (or Professor) positions available at Oxford Biology. Come be my colleague! www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...

🍄Working in fungal conservation? Call for papers for our upcoming special issue in Fungal Ecology 'Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions' ! Deadline 31 January 2026 www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...

Box-tree Moth (Cydalima perspectalis) in the bathroom. Non-native from south-east Asia.

Want to help us image and understand those incredible samples Felix just collected at UBC - and many more? 2 more days to apply! embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j... #ExM #PlanetaryCellBiology 🧪🧬🔬🌍🌱🦠

We wanted to take a moment to share some positive news this week - some recent promotions for some of our amazing Exeter Marine academics. 🎉 Please join us in giving a huge congratulations to them all! @uniexecec.bsky.social @exetergses.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk @uniofexeternews.bsky.social 🌍🦑🧪

Cnidarian-Microbe Interactions Fully-funded postdoctoral position is available in the Gibson Lab at the Stowers Institute to investigate any aspect of cnidarian-microbe interactions. Strong background in coral symbiosis or eukaryotic microbiology preferred. Contact Matt Gibson: [email protected]

Just over one month left to apply for the MBA Anne Warner Research Fellowship @thembauk.bsky.social to develop an independent research group in the area of cell and molecular biology of marine organisms. Closing date 17 Sept. mymba.mba.ac.uk/job/mba-anne...

Opportunities for visiting researchers to collaborate with scientists @thembauk.bsky.social next year. Ray Lankester Investigatorship for established researchers, Peter Baker Investigatorship for early career researchers (<10 years post PhD). Deadlines in October www.mba.ac.uk/our-membersh...

Some don't like it hot - the Continuous Plankton Recorder (CPR) survey @thembauk.bsky.social shows how marine heatwaves are reshaping phytoplankton communities in the Northeast Pacific 🌊🔬 Open Access Read @aslo.org 👉 aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Today is Rosalind Franklin’s Birthday - thanks for making it all possible 🧬 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalin...

Study - how marine heatwaves are reshaping the shape & carbon content of #phytoplankton in NE Pacific. Elongated cells dominate during warming, likely altering the carbon pump. Long-term #CPRsurvey data is critical to understanding #climatechange impacts at microbial scales. doi.org/10.1002/lno....

We are looking for a new @thembauk.bsky.social Anne Warner Research Fellow (5 year post) to develop an independent research group in the area of cell and molecular biology of marine organisms here in #Plymouth 🔬🦠🧫🧬 mymba.mba.ac.uk/job-listing....

Excellent figure! Fungi are more than 🍄!

📢 Call for Abstracts – Ocean Sciences Meeting 2026 🔬 "Patterns and Drivers of Marine Plankton Community Variability: Time-Series Insights" 📝 Submit your abstract by 20th August 2025 agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Our Annual Scientific Meeting kicks off this afternoon - looking forward to the latest fungal biology research at #BMS2025! John Taylor, University of California, will give the BMS’s John Webster Award Lecture. See who else is speaking: www.britmycolsoc.org.uk/asm.html

Thanks so much to Oceanographic Magazine for this excellent article on the pink sea fan reef we discovered during the filming of Ocean with David Attenborough oceanographicmagazine.com/news/flouris... @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social #oceanfilm #attenborough 🪸

Marine fungi culture collections (such as the one we have at @thembauk.bsky.social) are helping unlock the possibility for finding new solutions to many of the world’s biggest challenges 🌊🍄=💊🥓🪲 @uk.theconversation.com @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social @erc.europa.eu 👉 theconversation.com/marine-fungi...

Thanks to @funaction.bsky.social Partner Leho Tedersoo @tedersoo.bsky.social we can look forward to incredible advances in the fungal tree of life! Congratulations Leho! 🥳

🚨 We’re hiring! Join a cutting-edge marine conservation project using #ComputerVision + #AI to monitor marine mammals. Work with @plymuni.bsky.social + MSeis, funded by @ukri.org 🗓️ Apply by 29 June 2025 🔗 lnkd.in/eHBNYEH7 #MarineMonitoring #Jobs

Marine Fungi are found everywhere in the ocean. They are recyclers, a goldmine of compounds and symbiotic with other marine life. I chat about Marine Fungi in the BBC programme 'Secrets of the Sea'. Follow the link 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p... @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social

📢 Job Alert! We're hiring a Project Officer to lead stakeholder engagement, fostering science-policy-society interaction & co-produced knowledge on biodiversity. 📍 Paris-based @frbiodiv.bsky.social‬ 🗓️ Start ASAP, apply by 11 July 2025 Details: www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/wp-content/u...

NEW in @science.org Global tracking #MarineMegafauna shows <8% of areas used overlap w/ existing MPAs, while >75% of important areas overlapped by threats like #fishing #shipping & ocean warming - 30x30 goal will be insufficient for their conservation www.megamove.org @thembauk.bsky.social

Today is #WorldOceansDay2025 A day to think about the amazing biodiversity in our oceans 🦠🍄‍🟫🪸🦀🐟🐋 from the smallest microbes to the largest animals @thembauk.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social

OCEAN DARKENING ON CNN: PML's Prof Tim Smyth speaking to @cnn.com this morning about his new study with Dr Thomas Davies of @plymuni.bsky.social / @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social that revealed a 21% reduction in sunlight zones vital for life in the sea. More: pml.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

Our latest discovery science on chytrid fungi is just out in @royalsociety.org Proceedings B. Using a range of tools we explore how chitin-degrading specialists are adapted and evolved. @thembauk.bsky.social @plymuni.bsky.social @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social 👉 royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

One more week to apply! if you are a few years past your PhD and interested in advancing marine genomics and population genetics, come to Kiel, Northern Germany, to join a thriving, collaborative research and teaching environment.

No plans for #BiodiversityDay? Join us to celebrate aquatic fungi diversity in this free webinar with talks on marine arenicolus fungi, freshwater lichens, fungi as bioindicators, & driftwood fungi. 💧🍄 🗓️ 22 May, 2pm UTC 🔗 Register: tinyurl.com/aquaticfungi... #AquaticFungi

Read more about MBA RV Sepia's IT upgrade. www.mba.ac.uk/mba-rv-sepia...

Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

Mason bees are out and active in this late April sun. Second year for this colony in our garden ❤️🐝🐝🐝