Last chance to join us next month for the #Biodiversity25 conference. A fantastic set of speakers, mix of talks & focused workshops, and the chance to meet others in the field of biodiversity genomics 🧬 In-person registration closes next Monday 29th September! Registration 🔗: bit.ly/4j3vAZ9

Two fully funded #PhD positions on insect #Symbiosis available in our lab: Spiroplasma in Neotropical Arthropods (tinyurl.com/spiroplasma) & Psyllid symbionts (tinyurl.com/psyllids). Please contact me for any questions & share widely #symbiosky #academicjobs

We are offering an exciting opportunity for a clinical trainee to undertake a PhD in an area relating to outbreak prone infectious disease of public health importance or zoonoses: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNJ811/h...

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

#drosophila @flybase.bsky.social request emergency funding: "As it stands, by the end of July, 2025, there will be no future updates to FlyBase, and in the worst case scenario access to the website will also be lost" => please donate! www.philanthropy.cam.ac.uk/give-to-camb...

New preprint ex @bolinabug.bsky.social (+ @daisukekageyama.bsky.social & @scottishwormboy.bsky.social) on the pronounced secondary expansion of Spiroplasma and Rickettsia genomes in lacewings doi.org/10.1101/2025... #symbiosky 1/2

Rachel Drysdale and I prepared a biographical memoir for Michael Ashburner, now published at: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Our New Paper is out! Great work by Mashaneh Ahrar and the team - thank you all, especially @makaefer.bsky.social and Greg Hurst (is he on Bsky???)! TBC :)

Please spread the word - 2 new PhD positions, one fully funded and one self-funded, with us at Durham and @clarahowcroft.bsky.social at Northumbria Uni! We are looking for people with interdisciplinary experience (biology, computer vision, engineering) and interest to work across disciplines.

Delighted to have been awarded a BBSRC Fellowship to look at the genetics of how insects have adapted to living in freshwater habitats 🧬🦋🪰🪲🌊 Extremely grateful to all who have supported me over the years and excited to be at Liverpool with some great colleagues! www.ukri.org/news/9-milli...

@haraipapilio.bsky.social paper on evolution of Wolbachia MK mechanism through prophage acquisition in molina butterflies - avoiding suppression by the host. Now out! #symbiosky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... With @daisukekageyama.bsky.social @bolinabug.bsky.social and others

Happy to contribute to this piece in recognition of #InternationalWomensDay

New study from my lab and former grad Dr. Kwak shows Liberibacter psyllaurous, a dual insect symbiont and plant pathogen, boosts psyllid fitness by providing essential nutrients like arginine. A rare case of nutritional benefits from non-obligate symbionts #symbiosis journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Job! 2-year postdoc position in EVElab, Bristol UK on nutrition and infections in pregnancy (FLF-funded) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLV631/r... Apply if you are enthusiastic about: - experiments on insects which get pregnant - relevance of evolution to public health - a vibrant city & research environment

Hardly new info, but BSky should know: Warsaw's water quality is monitored by eight clams with magnets attached to their shells. If contamination in the water causes the clams to close, the magnets trigger an alarm and shut off the city's water supply. Thank you, little guardian molluscs. 🧪🌏🚰

🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

NERC Fellowships are open! We (Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social) have a policy to provide a PERMANENT JOB to successful candidates at the end of the fellowship. Please in touch if you're interested!

BBSRC fellowships are open: 3yrs of funding, ECRs worldwide are eligible (including the US 👀). Deadline 7th May. If you've a some postdoc experience (but no prior independent fellowships) and fancy coming to my Dept/ Institute in @liverpooluni.bsky.social, drop me a message.

Celebrating the work of Dr. Ruth Ella Moore, cph.osu.edu/news/2022/01..., who worked on #tuberculosis for her thesis! #28DaysOfBlackSTEMHistory #BlackHistoryMonth

It's the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. In 1995, I visited the camp's Hungarian room. A room of plain white walls with hundreds of thousands of names inscribed. Hundreds of thousands of lost lives. Now, more than ever, for people of all creeds, colours & identities, never again.

Lovely tribute from the Microbiology Society to a wonderful colleague who has left us too soon. microbiologysociety.org/news/society...

New preprint from @haraipapilio.bsky.social with @bolinabug.bsky.social @daisukekageyama.bsky.social and others not on bluesky #symbiosky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Richard Cordeaux (EGCE lab, Gif sur Yvette, France) is offering an 18-month postdoc position in evolutionary genomics to study sex determination and resistance to vertical transmission of feminizing Wolbachia endosymbionts in an isopod. #SymbioSky #Wolbachia filesender.renater.fr?s=download&t...

Two #postdoc positions available in my lab. Position 1 focusses on #phytoplasma transmission via #insects. Position 2 aims to investigate the dynamics of #symbiont #evolution in #psyllids in collaboration with @mgerth.bsky.social, Martin Kaltenpoth and Liliya Serbina. Please share.

BBSRC funded PhD - evolution in the early stages of symbiosis, using Arsenophonus as model. tinyurl.com/Edgeofsymbio.... Apply by 30/01/2025. Available for UK and International students. With @brockhurstlab.bsky.social and @acdarby.bsky.social. #symbiosky

My wonderful PhD advisor is accepting inquiries for a postdoc - come work in beautiful Narragansett @urigso.bsky.social on anaerobic ciliates and their symbionts -- very cool project with international collabs. ive been in this lab for past 5+ yrs and will miss it dearly! #ProtistsOnSky #SymbioSky

🆕New in @plosbiology.bsky.social: we show compensatory mutations make plasmids play Rock-Paper-Scissors and turn conjugation into a weapon🛡️💫✂️🦠 w/Rosanna Wright, Jamie Wood, @mbottery.bsky.social, @kmudz.bsky.social, @scottishwormboy.bsky.social, Ellie Harrison & @brockhurstlab.bsky.social #MicroSky

Are you or do you know someone interested in symbiosis research? Anaeramoeba is an exciting organism to explore symbiosis in a low-oxygen environment. Less than a week (December 6) to apply for the PhD position in my group! uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share widely!

I created this stater pack with women in ecology and evolution. If you want to be added you can comment or DM me, but also please suggest the names of those I am missing 🧪🌎🌐 go.bsky.app/8jFH7cS

I am hiring! PhD studentship available through the SWbio DTP. The interested student will investigate the evolution of innate immune signalling in a model species group. Infection biology & #Drosophila genetics combined! #ImmunoSky #AcademicSky More info: mahansonresearch.weebly.com/blog/phd-stu...

Repost if BlueSky is now your primary social media site.

last couple days to apply (for free! from anywhere in the world!) to the Sanger 2025 PhD Programme — Deadline: 28th November 2024 (09:00 GMT) For more info, visit www.sanger.ac.uk/about/study/...

PhD studentship position- Symbiosis in a thermally variable world. Goal: to understand how & why insect symbiosis is disrupted by low/high temperature. Pays Stipend + fees; International students eligible. Webinar for questions: 5th December at 12 noon UK time. tinyurl.com/4jn96z3h #symbiosky

New publication on the decline of melanic two-spot ladybirds, with @greghurst.bsky.social and Jack Archer eje.cz/artkey/eje-2...

Here's a starter pack for early career researchers in evolutionary biology. I prioritized the most-junior folks, and this list quickly filled up with undergrads, grad students, and postdocs. Might do another list later, but I'm tired. Have fun everyone! 🐒 #evobio go.bsky.app/MzND7nX

Reposting this since suddenly everyone's on Bluesky now - We are looking for a postdoc to study the physiology, evolution, and cell biology of anaerobic ciliate-methanogen symbioses using 'omics, experiments, and/or microscopy. Please share widely and send inquiries by Dec.1!

Use it or lose it: Unless we publish papers in our society owned and published journals they will cease to be, along with all the conferences and meetings the proceeds support. Microbiology Society publishes many excellent journals, all edited by experts. #microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org

So here is a Wolbachia starter pack. Please let me know if you'd like to join or have other suggestions. go.bsky.app/FTCKEyB

4-year PhD program in the UK! This funded PhD opportunity is open to international students. If the candidate is selected by the committee, the position would begin Sept 2025. Deadline for applications Dec 11th 2024. #PhDchat #AcademicSky #Drosophila #ImmunoSky #EvoSky #Dros25 #EvolBio #EcoEvo

Fun new paper led by @greghurst.bsky.social &co using genomics to show that facultative symbiont genomes get bigger as they adapt to life inside a host (through HGT & loss of CRISPR) before undergoing genome reduction as they become obligate #symbiosky #microsky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

We are very proud to announce our new paper published in mSystems, in which we described unique bacterial association and transmission mechanisms alongside other unique symbiosis evolutionary patterns! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Beetles are masters at coopting microbial genes, enzymes & metabolites. Together w/ Marleny García-Lozano, we review how microbes shaped one of the most successful animal radiations, through horizontal gene transfer & symbiosis: www.cell.com/trends/micro...

I made ,some time ago, a starter pack for Microbial #Symbiosis. I'm 100% sure it's incomplete, but short on time lately... You can reply and suggest prople/feeds/etc to add! #MicroSky #SymbioSky go.bsky.app/T8VUWCz

PhD position available in our lab in 🇨🇭! Interested in microbial ecology and evolution in the context of #Symbiosis, #Microbiota, #Bees? Like to analyze shotgun metagenomics data with the possibility for fieldwork and experiments? This is for you. Apply here: shorturl.at/swHf1 #SymbioSky

A few days left to apply!

Welcome to the Symbiosis feed. This feed is thought for being all things symbiosis (not only host-microbe & not only beneficial ones)! For now, no need to sign up in any way, just tag your posts with #SymbioSky (case-insensitive) and your posts will be collected here! Like and pin!

🚨New pre-print 🚨 Pain, inconvenience, & blame: Defining work-related injuries in veterinary workplace doi.org/10.1101/2023... Funder: CVS UK Ltd Written with amazing co-authors! Thread to follow 1/n

Come and lead a vibrant department full of bright and lovely people. And me. Dept of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour is looking for a new head @LivUni @LivUniHLS tinyurl.com/2p8rrenp Deadline 21/1/24. Happy to discuss

I am passionate about both doing and communicating evolutionary research effectively. If you are too, do check out this #PhD opportunity with me and Prof L Hurst. Deadline 11th Feb, Start Sept 2024, Funding available for home students (Sorry). #scicomm *Pls RP* www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

I'm going to track down as many of you as I can. Please could people repost me, so others can see I am here - and I can find them, and them me. Blue skies, herds of unicorns and sunlit uplands beckon. Oh...and another two Tory candidates bite the dust, I understand 👍👍👍