Exciting PhD position on algal-driven metal remediation with Dr Michiel Vos and collaborators at the University of Exeter. This project combines plant and microbial ecology, and geochemistry to develop innovative biological solutions for metal pollution www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Our latest paper is out with @adiop.bsky.social and @gmdouglas.bsky.social. We analyzed the extent of homologous recombination between bacterial species (introgression) and how it affects species borders (it can vary a lot depending on the approach used to classify species!). rdcu.be/eQAMf

Our new paper from the MICROWILD consortium is published in ISME Comms, led by MJ Fernández-Alonso and @migueldc1.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Three Bicentenary research fellowships on offer at @officialuom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social for exceptional ECRs with <3y postdoc experience 3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social? www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...

Spread the word 😃 Our department has an open position at the Assitant Professor level 🌱

Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

the current rate of extinction, as estimated by ourselves and others, whom we cited, and across diverse major taxa, we may well be headed in the direction of a new mass extinction event www.cell.com/trends/ecolo... 🌐🧪

🇨🇭The #ETH in #Zürich is looking for an Assistant Professor in #Soil (Bio-/Geo-) Chemistry! Deadline to apply is September 30th! Please Share! #AcademicSky #Biochemistry #biogeochemistry #soilscience ethz.ch/en/the-eth-z...

Re-reading this journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... “Holes in the Hologenome: Why Host-Microbe Symbioses Are Not Holobionts” and agreeing with a lot of it

🌱Alien #plants are reshaping the #tropics -our review @ninadm.bsky.social et al explores how they interact w land-use & #climatechange driving novel ecosystems🌴We call for nuanced adaptive strategies incl nature-based solutions to navigate tropical futures 🔗Free access www.nature.com/articles/s44...

How do macrophages influence the evolution of phage resistance? We show that macrophages reduce the efficacy of a bacteriophage cocktail 🦠, resulting in greater bacteria population densities which, in-turn, facilitate greater rates of phage resistance. Pre-print 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thrilled to share our new paper in @science.org describing our discovery that bacteria can switch from competitors to bonafide predators when resources run dry—arming nanoscale “spears” (T6SS) to stab & consume neighbours. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... #MicroSKy #Microbiology

Microbial siderophores for One Health #Pseudomonas @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Opinion by Zhong Wei et al with @rkmicrobes.bsky.social @veraeva.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

MSc and PhD students abroad: If you are interested in #microbiomes in #soils (or other systems) and keen on research in #Switzerland, consider applying for these #fellowships with us other other groups of the #NCCR Microbiomes nccr-microbiomes.ch/education/nc.... Interested? DM or Email.

Closing tomorrow! Last chance to apply for postdoc to explore the role of animals in savanna ecosystem productivity & nutrient cycling! Link to job: tinyurl.com/53dy4584 #savanna #termites #largemammals

🧩 PhD Position – Origins of Darwinian Inheritance 🧩 This joint PhD project between the @rug.nl (Rampal Etienne & Martijn Egas) and @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social (Bram van Dijk) explores how simple prebiotic systems could evolve reliable information transfer. Apply here: shorturl.at/WgYMF

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Are you an early career researcher looking to establish your own group with as fellowship? Come and join us at @ucllifesciences.bsky.social!

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

🎯 Calling all students & postdocs! Applications for #mbiosys25 fellowships are now open! 🧬 We have multiple fellowships to support ECRs attend the meeting and join us in Chile for cutting-edge discussions in gene regulation & functional genomics. 📆 Apply by April 30! 🔗 molbiosystems.com

I received one of the 232 NIH grant "terminations" sent to scientists at Columbia last night. My research focuses on improving maternal and child health in the US. Also affected: ongoing clinical trials, research training programs, and research centers that aim to improve the health of Americans.

From Vincent Doublet et al "Host ecology and phylogeny shape the temporal dynamics of social bee viromes" www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🐝🦠

Host-Microbe Symbioses- Our favorite summer school is back! Help us spread the word!

“In response to the shocking news predicting up to 10,000 imminent job losses across the UK higher education sector, we write to flag up a fact that the article largely misses: the degree to which arts and humanities subjects are bearing the brunt of these cuts.” ⮛ #academicsky

Lectureship in Evolutionary Biology up for grabs @bristolbiosci.bsky.social for someone who studies "evolutionary processes and the emergence of large-scale patterns of organismal diversity using comparative genomics, and/or bioinformatics. Application deadline February 16

Sabotage. Criminal sabotage. "[The NSF] is planning to lay off between a quarter and a half of its staff in the next two months, a top National Science Foundation official said Tuesday." www.eenews.net/articles/sci...

@davehodgson.bsky.social @stubearhop.bsky.social @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social @brendangodley.bsky.social @elzehesse.bsky.social @kjhockings.bsky.social @marinemollyk.bsky.social @blongdon.bsky.social @ilyamaclean.bsky.social @kristianmetcalfe.bsky.social @padpadpadpad.bsky.social

New paper from my group and the group of @kiranrpatil.bsky.social: Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities By Ghada Yousif @metagenomez.bsky.social with @swagatika.bsky.social @isamirgiri.bsky.social Sharvari Harshe et al. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵👇

Yo, micro/evo/qbio/physics of living systems/astrobiology/renegade cell bio folks- if you are interested in starting a feed, reply/repost this. Let's get the crew back together!

#SOIL - THE WORLD AT OUR FEET new #exhibition 23 Jan-13 Apr 2025 @Somerset House inc: Merlin Sheldrake @cosmosheldrake.bsky.social Anya Gallaccio @dianascherer.bsky.social @elzehesse.bsky.social Book: www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/soil @kewgardens.bsky.social @rhulgeography.bsky.social

"The people shepherding livestock across the continent's great open grasslands have been widely seen as the enemies of its charismatic wild mammals — to be fenced out of protected areas and policed by armed rangers. But that image is outdated..." @yalee360.bsky.social. e360.yale.edu/features/afr...

An important read for all microbiome researchers #microbiomania www.theguardian.com/science/2024...

What are the barriers and enablers for smallholders in Western Kenya to increase tree diversity on farms? Read our post in advance of @peopleandnature.bsky.social paper relationalthinkingblog.com/2024/12/18/p... Paper amazingly led by Ennia Bosshard! @uniexecec.bsky.social @isleconserv.bsky.social 🌍

🌍🌎🧪🌎🌱🌾🌴🌳🌼🌻🌺🍄‍🟫🍄Lovely new plants and fungi from around the world. Found in biodiversity hot spots like Indonesia but also intensively recorded places like UK. Seen this year, maybe not again, as land use is changed. So sad. #BUC2025 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Neglect, it is. WHO finds that the direct cause of "the mystery disease" in Congo is malaria, exacerbated by malnutrition. Malaria can be *cured* by a few cheap pills, as long as it's caught early. So these are deaths of neglect. www.reuters.com/world/africa...

#Bioremediation using synthetic #microbiomes offers significant advantages over traditional single‐strain‐based approaches 🧫🦠. This Perspective outlines 5 important considerations for the rational design of pollutant‐degrading microbiomes for enhanced bioremediation: plos.io/3ZZbBEA

Curious how forest microclimate and soil microbes drive carbon cycling in a changing climate? 🌡️🌳🍄We're offering a 4-year PhD position at @mycopat.bsky.social, SLU-Uppsala. A cool new project in collaboration with @linegreis.bsky.social Apply now or help spread the word! www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share! #exetercec jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

PhD opportunity in St Andrews on plasmids, antibiotics and defence systems, in collaboration with Helen Alexander in Edinburgh. Funding via BBSRC EastBio, please share & pass on to anyone interested! #microsky🦠🧫🧬 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

PhD opportunities - including in @uniexecec.bsky.social

Shameful. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The rhizosphere has been called “one of the most complex ecosystems on earth” But how do host plants control benefits derived from their microbial partners? Read our paper in Nature Microbiology on how legumes mediate conflict & cooperation with N2-fixing symbionts. Here: tinyurl.com/4y4tjx6k

A postdoctoral position is available in the lab of Faizan Said @ Cardiff University to work on multispecies bacterial biofilms and metabolic cross-feeding interactions in the context of antimicrobial tolerance and resistance evolution. Deadline: 3.01.2025 Please RT More info: shorturl.at/md3A8

I participated in a faculty panel a few weeks ago in which senior (ahem) faculty gave advice on careers in academia by pretending luck had very little to do with our success. One piece of advice riled me up, in which it was argued that a reason for their success was their ability to say no. 1/

Interested in cognition, conservation and choughs? This PhD is for you! Fully funded by NERC GW4+. Based at @exetercec.bsky.social; co-supervised by @drrmiller.bsky.social and collaborators. Apply: tinyurl.com/58s9kb4k

Corvids calling! New PhD opportunity on corvid communication in the wild. Sep 2025 start. Fully funded by @swbiodtp.bsky.social. Application deadline 11 December. Apply here: tinyurl.com/yw785v75.

For now, 56 retractions recently at Science of the Total Environment and counting. For now, most of them are linked to one person, Guilherme Malafaia, who seems to have provided fake mail addresses for reviewers. Lost of questions related to the role of.. (www.science.org/content/arti...) [1/x]

* 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... 🌏 🧪 🦑