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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 18h

Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Evolution induced state shifts in a long-term microbial community experiment

Biological communities are complex, dynamic systems that underpin ecosystem functionality, yet their long-term dynamics and predictability remain poorly understood. Understanding how Darwinian evoluti...

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KOJAMF🤘🖤🤘 @kojamf.bsky.social · 6d

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 9d

We're hiring for several positions (a post-bac researcher in #transcriptomics, a #phage #postdoc, a senior researcher (broad topics) and a graduate student to work on #ciliates) - find info here: www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...

Apply - Genomics

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Nicolas Tromas @cyanophage.bsky.social · 10d

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Elle était de celles dont on ne peut que s'inspirer. Son travail est juste énorme et j'espère que ses paroles et ses conseils continueront d'être partagés.

Jane Goodall, la primatologue qui a révolutionné le regard porté sur les chimpanzés, est morte

Pionnière de l’éthologie moderne, devenue ambassadrice de la protection de la faune sauvage, la chercheuse britannique est morte à 91 ans.

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 18d

Come on @theguardian.com!

Wrong, incorrect, irresponsible. Not contentious.

Headline in the Guardian.

Trump warns pregnant women not to take paracetamol making contentious autism claim.

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Lukas VF Novak @animalculum.bsky.social · 28d

#Arctic #algae aren't immobile or entombed. They're not just surviving either—they're gliding into record books phys.org/news/2025-09...

Ice gliding #diatoms establish record-low temperature limits for motility in a eukaryotic cell www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#protists #microbes #extremophiles

schematic pictures and microscopic photos showing various aspects of movement in single-celled algae

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Heike Zimmermann @heikezimm.bsky.social · Sep 5

📣We seek a talented and enthusiastic postdoc - 3 yrs

Join our team at #GEUS, and use environmental genomics applied to marine sediment cores from the #Arctic to decipher past dynamics of toxic #phytoplankton species. 🌊❄️🧬

#protistsonsky #ancientDNA #PHATE

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Postdoc in marine environmental DNA/sedimentary ancient DNA

The Department of Glaciology and Climate at the Geological Survey of Denmark and Greenland (GEUS) is looking for a talented and enthusiastic postdoctoral resear

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Nicolas Tromas @cyanophage.bsky.social · Sep 11

Would love to get the pdf if anyone can get it. Thanks!!!

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Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · Sep 10

A few more days to apply!!!

Anna-Liisa Laine @annaliisalaine.bsky.social · Aug 26

We are recruiting‼️A permanent university lecturer position in BIOSTATISTICS is available at @helsinki.fi Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences. Great colleagues, excellent infrastructures and startup support 🙌🏻
DL 14 September

jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

University Lecturer in Biostatistics

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Lingchen He 何灵尘 @lingchenhe.bsky.social · Sep 9

We discovered a new horizontal gene transfer mechanism: tail-less cf-PICIs hijack free phage tails extracellularly, forming infectious chimeric virions that drive both intra- and inter-species transfer among bacteria. @jonaszpatkowski.bsky.social @tcostalab.bsky.social @jrpenades.bsky.social

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · Aug 29

Ever heard of the Nous Group? A consulting firm that desperate universities hire to help with cost-saving and restructuring? Turns out they are actually vampires who parasitize tertiary education: drive.google.com/file/d/1_1Fk...

Nousferatu Are corporate consultants extracting the lifeblood from universities .pdf

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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · Aug 29

Three postdoc positions are now open for applications! Live and work on Kaurna land (Adelaide) in sunny South Australia. We have beach views, wineries, kangaroos, and koalas.

Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis

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Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social · Aug 22

Are you a theoretical biologist that is intererested in the ecology and evolution of metabolic interactions among microorganisms?

Do you like to cooperate with experimentalists?

Do you have a PhD and experience in modelling and statistics?

Then this position might be for you👇:

shorturl.at/iiiOv

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FAR.AI @far.ai · Aug 19

Planning capabilities double every 7mo→human-level in 5yrs? @yoshuabengio.bsky.social: "We still don't know how to make sure powerful AIs won't turn against us" AIs now lie to avoid shutdown, self-preserve. Solution: Non-agentic "Scientist AIs" + global governance beyond market forces 👇

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Aug 20

Nitrogen availability shapes evolution of phage resistance in cyanobacteria

-in #ISMEJ

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#phagesky

Nitrogen availability shapes evolution of phage resistance in cyanobacteria

Abstract. Nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria play a key role in nitrogen and carbon biogeochemical cycles in aquatic ecosystems. Under nitrogen-limited conditio

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Aug 13

We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes

Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · Aug 12

I will never get over how creepy it is how the NIH X account is a full time propaganda machine now

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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · Aug 8

Fully funded PhD position at the university of Turku. ats.talentadore.com/apply/vaitos...

Doctoral Researcher / Project researcher in Experimental Evolution of Host–Microbiota Interactions

The Faculty of Science at the University of Turku invites applications for a doctoral researcher / project researcher position at the Department of Biology. The position is fully funded 4-years. Emplo...

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Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social · Aug 5

Good question. We are starting to see longer and longer viruses in invertebrates with no clear evidence of proof-reading enzymes. To be resolved.

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · Aug 1

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

Electron micrograph of two phage infecting a host cell side-by-side, with hearts between them

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Jed Fuhrman @jedfuhrman.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just out: metagenomics with internal standards yields phylogenetically resolved genome ("~cell") counts of bacteria, archaea, and photosynthetic eukaryotes per L of seawater, over the AMT29 Atlantic transect, via "single copy" genes (recA, radA, psbO). Compares with microscopy and flow cytometry.

Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · Jul 30

Quantitative metagenomics for marine prokaryotes and photosynthetic eukaryotes #USC_MEB #jcampubs 🌊 academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Quantitative metagenomics for marine prokaryotes and photosynthetic eukaryotes

Abstract. High-throughput sequencing has provided unprecedented insights into microbial biodiversity in marine and other ecosystems. However, most sequenci

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Miguel A. Gómez-Serrano @gomezserrano-ma.bsky.social · Jul 19

Europa dice adiós al exitoso programa LIFE, desmantelando un pilar básico para la financiación de proyectos de conservación de la naturaleza. La decisión afecta especialmente a las ONG, limitando sus posibilidades de participación en los programas de conservación.
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Bruselas borra del nuevo presupuesto el programa LIFE para la naturaleza y el clima - Climática, el medio especializado en clima y biodiversidad

Los proyectos para la recuperación del lince ibérico son el ejemplo más tangible de este programa comunitario en España.

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Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social · Jul 1

Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social and @annasophieweiss.bsky.social, also by @juliensluneau.bsky.social and @lambdapp.bsky.social from our lab (not me :)) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

Bridging the scales: what can microbial ecologists learn from classic ecology?

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Nicolas Tromas @cyanophage.bsky.social · Jun 24

Amazing ! Would love to get few of them :D

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Meaghan Castledine @mcastd.bsky.social · Jun 20

this paper is also the spiritual predecessor of this paper 👇 where we looked deeper into the causes and consequences of phage-resistance associated increases in Variovorax densities 👀 academic.oup.com/femsec/artic...

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