📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at [email protected] 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Fancy working with a massive amount of cool genomics, life history and TB-infection status data from a couple of thousand badgers? Here's the project for you then. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/84... New project and very multi-disciplinary team.

Such a cool paper! ‘…blurring the bacteria-organelle boundary.’

@blongdon.bsky.social @hansonmark.bsky.social 👀

PhD on #microbiomes, #AMR and #migration open for applications until Jan 9th. Part of #NERC GW4+ DLTP Fieldwork in Iceland on a fantastic model system for behavioural and microbial ecology - the mighty Brent goose! Send me an email for informal enquiries.

Fully funded NERC GW4+ PhD Opportunity - *Understanding The Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance by Migratory Birds* Supervised by me, @stubearhop.bsky.social (Exeter) & Patricia Brekke (ZSL). Application deadline 8th January. Please get in touch for more info www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

New preprint to round off 2025, wrapping up work I did @zslscience.bsky.social and continued @uniexecec.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... We studied skin bacterial community diversity in Palmate Newts from the Isle of Rum. Pic: dramatic AI newt emerging from (hovering on?) a pond

Next up in our WAME Seminar series this Thursday 4th December we have 2 exciting talks on Wild Animal Mycobiomes 11am GMT / 12pm CET. Zoom link below

PhD opportunity: MOVE Details: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/c... Deadline: 12/01/26 Supervisors: @shoalgroup.bsky.social, @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social, @wlallen.bsky.social, @nhcooper123.bsky.social, @marinapapa.bsky.social Apply: blogs.reading.ac.uk/crocus-dla/p...

Join us! 🧬🪰🎉🔬 We are currently advertising two #PhD projects to study the #evolution, #development and #genomics of sexual traits in stalk-eyed flies. Deadline for applying is Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Get in touch for more info!

Fully funded NERC GW4+ PhD Opportunity - *Understanding The Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance by Migratory Birds* Supervised by me, @stubearhop.bsky.social (Exeter) & Patricia Brekke (ZSL). Application deadline 8th January. Please get in touch for more info www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Super cool work Jolyon at al!

We have just launched our projects for #phd studentships starting in Sept 26 🙌 ⏰Application deadline: Midday, Wed 3 Dec 25 Come and see the (wide!) range of #bioscience projects 👉 tinyurl.com/3m9um286

PhD studentship on antimicrobial resistance in wild baboons! Fully-funded by @swbiodtp.bsky.social Application deadline: Wed 3 Dec 2025. More details: bpb-eu-w2.wpmucdn.com/blogs.bristo.... Apply here: www.swbio.ac.uk/programme/ho... @inesfuertbauer.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social

Several opportunities to join the Wild Microbiome Lab in 2026 to do a PhD! Details below #phd #ecology @uniexecec.bsky.social

Work with myself + ⭐ team @xavh.bsky.social & @darrenobbard.bsky.social on the 'Ecological and Evolutionary determinants of the bacterial microbiomes of UK moths'. Please get in touch if you are a Chinese student who likes host-pathogen interactions and would like to live in beautiful Cornwall.

@nakedprimate.bsky.social Driving to London listening to you on the BBC Inside Science podcast. Awesome stuff !

New preprint out from the lab, led by PhD student Tasha Meadows, and the culmination of many years collaboration with APHA and Woodchester Park Here we look at spatial and within-individual dynamics of faecal bacterial communities in European Badgers ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

1/3 www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate... PhD studentship! Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems. **this scholarship for UK residents only, as defined by UKCISA regulations** Details below! Please RT (AI-generated image)

Delighted to be involved in this work just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by the awesome @acbowland.bsky.social and @kjhockings.bsky.social

Want to be a field assistant in Sweden this summer?! 📑 Applications should include a motivation letter (1 page), a CV (detailing relevant experience), and contact information of two references. Send the above as a single PDF to [email protected] by May 1st 2025. 🌍 #ExeterCEC #Internship

Just out "Making sense of the virome in light of evolution and ecology" doi.org/10.1098/rspb... from super ⭐ team @meganawallace.bsky.social @duckswabber.bsky.social @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social @ryanmimrie.bsky.social @eddieholmes.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org

Deadline extended for a 3 year #postdoc in my lab exploring the amphibian skin #microbiome and colonisation resistance to chytrid fungi www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN634/p...

SCHOLARSHIPS for international students seeking to join us in Sept 2025 for MSc in @exetergses.bsky.social . The deadline to apply is 27 February 2025. 🧪🌎🦑🐟🦤 Scholarships: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... Degrees: www.exeter.ac.uk/study/gses/ @uniexecec.bsky.social @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social

Recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. Oct 2025 start. Working with @shoalgroup.bsky.social, Rob Heathcote, @willallennz.bsky.social, @joefresna.bsky.social, @marinapapap.bsky.social Advert: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate... Deadline: 24.02

New PhD opportunity with me, Mirjam Schilling @aphapublichealth.bsky.social and Klara Wanelik at U. Surrey This project will use metagenomics to study fox microbiome dynamics 🦊 and investigate their potential to act as sentinels of disease spread. t.co/FdjT15LgLf