Our preprint on using waxmoth larvae as a model for in vivo evolution experiments studying the microbiome is out! We'll write a bsky thread soon once we update the figures with new data, and early feedback is appreciated!

The University of Bern's features the "Treasure Chest project", which uses real-world scenarios to teach stats to bio students. Our collaborator Stephan Peischl @spei.bsky.social connects genetics to epidemiology, bringing statistics to life! Article (in DE) in the link below:

Our first study from the Hasli Outdoor Mesocosm Experiment (HOME) is out!! Here we focus on plant responses to extreme heat and drought during the first two years of the experiment, and we found that fast- and slow-growing plants fully recovered to drought onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

This has been a really crazy read so far. Thanks to @lorhab.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention. I hope that there is even more quirky phage communication stuff in the future!

It’s International Transgender Day of Visibility. Annual Conference 2026 includes the 5th LGBTQ+ Networking Event with Trans and Nonbinary pre-meet. Find out more and register: https://microb.io/Microbio26SocialProgramme

Join us Wed, Mar 11 at 11 AM at EOS + on Zoom for a seminar by Dr. Sophie George (University of Washington; Professor Emerita, Georgia Southern University): Marine Heatwaves effects on growth and development of Pisaster ochraceus larvae in multidimensional space #MarineBiology #MarineHeatwaves

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

Interested in microbial predation? Join us in Ticino Switzerland on July 27-31, 2026! More info at microbialpredation.ethz.ch #predation #ecology #evolution #microbes

Cool #OpenData and #reproducibility webinar coming up. SORTEE + Dryad = 💘 "Data all the way down: How uncovering the data underlying research findings impacts every aspect of scholarly communication" 📅 Thu, 12 Feb, 5–6pm WEST 🆓 Free registration: events.humanitix.com/love-data-we...

Can interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers? peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html We're running an ethics-approved, pre-registered study thanks to funding from the University of Bern. Are you lecturing in the Spring? Contact me to receive the survey link!

I had a really great time at ESEB 2025. I think the organizers did a great job 👍, and it was a truly gargantuan effort. I am excited that the next ESEB is a hub conference. I hope that future ESEBs also decide to go plant based and plastic free to become even more sustainable. #ESEB2025 #ESEB2027

I wish all the best to everyone completing the Marie Curie fellowship application for next week. It's a big endeavor and you're in the home stretch now! Best of luck! #grants #mariecurie

New beginnings!✨ Happy to share that I've started a PhD @eawag.bsky.social with Dr. Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza :) Excited to be working on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of regime shifts and tipping points in ecosystems integrating theory and experiments!

The movie about phage therapy in Switzerland and beyond is available online now 🍿🎬💊 - link to the English version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUMJ...

Come to my talk on Thursday if you want to hear about some soil microbial metagenomics! We are studying how climate extremes affect soil microbial communities. #ESEB2025

Phages on the big screen! 🎬 Premiere of a brilliant film about phage therapy by our friend Thomas Häusler - powerful story, a great panel discussion, and inspiring conversations over the apero. 🧬🥂 #PhageTherapy

Look at this very cool #luxart of the late great Elio Schaechter by Jennifer Quinn 🤯😍 (wife of @markowenmartin.bsky.social )

Having a good time at #FEMS2025

Speaking later today at #FEMS2025 in the "Microbial dynamics in a changing world" symposium.

Looking forward to #FEMS2025! I am heading to Milan tomorrow to give a short talk and a poster.

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/...

Does anyone have suggestions on a UV Transilluminator for gel imaging?? We are in the market for one and apparently there are so so many to choose from. #gelimaging #gelectrophoresis #science #pcr

This looks really cool! Another banger from Andrew Millard. I am excited to try this out later!

With all of the uncertainty in the US regarding NIH funds. I wanted to share that the NIH MHRT program allowed me to do an internship abroad and is directly responsible for me being where I am today. It allowed me to connect with European research institutions, get my masters and my PhD here.

This hurts new and early career investigators (like me) the hardest. Most of us finished our postdocs & started our labs during the COVID-19 pandemic with shutdowns and supply issues at that time. Now we’re being hit with ::all of this:: www.science.org/content/arti...

Join us for an ICTV webinar on how to find information about viruses and virus taxa using the ICTV web site Date: March 11, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar... Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

My fiancé got me an amazing valentine's day gift. Now I get to add an E. coli and T4 phage to my collection.

Happy Valentine's Day! If you know me, you know I love to put comics at the end of my presentations. Here is one such comic done by The Amoeba Sisters for Valentine's Day.

☎️ 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!

⚠️This is not your average preprint on antibiotic resistance. This preprint is a really interesting story from several researchers of my former lab about human gut-microbiota and one potential way AMR resistance is maintained. ☠️

I was super happy to see this come out after hearing about this project during the MEEHubs conference in 2024. Congratulations to everyone who worked on this!

Is it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I have finally decided to switch from X (which I rarely used) to BlueSky (which I look forward to rarely using).

Two amazing jobs at Uni Bern. Assistent professorships in conservation biology and computational ecology. Bern is a wonderful place to live and work in! www.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/job...