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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 1d

MEEhubs is back in 2026, a highly recommended conference to follow online without a need to travel. I really enjoyed the talks during previous meetings, stayed awake for some talk until midnight (even with recorded talk)

it will be 3-5 August 2026, middle of vacation time in Europe 😭

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Jolien van Hooff @jvhooff.bsky.social · 20h

Very nice documentary about the origins of complex life with my PhD advisor Berend Snel @binfutrecht.bsky.social!

Tegenlicht @vprotegenlicht.bsky.social · 21h

Hoe is al het complexe leven op aarde eigenlijk ontstaan?

Wat DNA uit slootwater ons vertelt over jouw onbekende voorouders | VPRO Tegenlicht

YouTube video by VPRO Tegenlicht

youtu.be

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The Westerdijk Fungal Biodiversity Institute @westerdijkinst.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday, members of the Westerdijk Institute joined the BioSB HotTopics & NIME Symposium: Microbial Ecology, held right here at Utrecht Science Park

Our researchers showcased the exciting breadth of microbial ecology studied at the institute:

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Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social · 1d

Yesterday the @biosb.bsky.social and Netherlands Integrative Microbial Ecology initiative organised a symposium on #MicrobialEcology. We hosted 80+ researchers, with 10 talks and 10 posters at @utrechtuniversity.bsky.social. A beautiful chance to hear more about exciting research across the country!

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I2SysBio @i2sysbio.es · 3d

🎙️ Ja podeu escoltar l’entrevista a @julipereto.bsky.social, investigador del #I2SysBio, en «L’Hora de la Cultura» d'@apuntmedia.es.

Peretó presenta la investigació publicada a la revista Philosophical Transactions, signada juntament amb @pablocarb.bsky.social.

www.apuntmedia.es/programes/l-...

02.10.2025 | L’origen de la vida i l’últim ancestre comú, amb Juli Peretó

Hui parlem amb Juli Peretó, catedràtic i investigador en evolució, que acaba de publicar un article a la revista Philosophical Transactions sobre un mètode basat en la intel·ligència artificial per re...

www.apuntmedia.es

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Sam Turner @renrut-mas.bsky.social · 3d

To save people the reading time: the "some" making this prediction are people who don't understand the limits of current LLM technology and the ones questioning it are people who do. It is, yet again, a "both sides" article where one side has no fucking idea what they're talking about.

Nature @nature.com · 3d

Researchers question whether autonomous AI scientists are possible or even desirable.

Read the full story: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 3d

New preprint!

Ever wondered why only a fraction of genomes encode CRISPR immunity? 🧬 🦠

Turns out CRISPR is rarely beneficial against virulent phages, being most beneficial against those for which resistance mutations are rare!

An epic effort by Rosanna Wright

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Resistance mutation supply modulates the benefit of CRISPR immunity against virulent phages

Only a fraction of bacterial genomes encode CRISPR-Cas systems but the selective causes of this variation are unexplained. How naturally virulent bacteriophages (phages) select for CRISPR immunity has...

www.biorxiv.org

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 9d

Two postdoc positions with @ajfedorec.bsky.social: one computational and one wetlab, for a 5 year grant on synthetic microbial communities

Research Fellow in Computational Synthetic Biology
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Research Fellow in Synthetic Biology
www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

#PostDoc

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

www.ucl.ac.uk

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Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social · 12d

Congrats, all! Very interesting findings!

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Christopher B. Cameron @invertevo.bsky.social · 14d

Apply now & work with me during your Post-doc. The FRQNT postdoc deadline (for Quebec residents) is October 8 & the NSERC postdoc deadline is October 17. Approximately 20% of the NSERC budget will be allocated to non-Canadians.

frq.gouv.qc.ca/en/program/p...

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/Students-Etu...

NSERC - Canada Postdoctoral Research Award program

www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca

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Reinier Egas @raegas.bsky.social · 17d

Coincidental and exciting! Anaerobic methanotrophic archaea (ANME) do like carbon monoxide - two independent studies showcasing CO metabolism across freshwater and marine ANME (ANME-2d and -2b).

ANME-2d: doi.org/10.1101/2025... (Welte lab)
ANME-2b: reposted (Orphan lab)

bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 18d

Carbon monoxide oxidation expands the known metabolic capacity in anaerobic methanotrophic consortia https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.21.677609v1

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Sonja-Verena Albers @archaellum.bsky.social · 22d

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

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Joe Sorg @thejoesorg.bsky.social · 27d

We're hiring! 5 tenure track assistant professors. 2 #microbiology, 2 #Evolution, 1 #biologicalclocks

jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/675062/f...

Five Tenure-Track Assistant Professor Positions in Microbiology, Evolution, and Biological Clocks - College Station, Texas job with Department of Biology - TAMU | 675062

Texas A&M University (TAMU) invites applications for five full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor positions

jobs.sciencecareers.org

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Dame lab at Leiden University @damelab.bsky.social · 24d

Time flies .. it is today 25 years ago that we published our studies that revealed that bacterial H-NS is a DNA bridging protein:
academic.oup.com/nar/article/... @narjournal.bsky.social

H-NS mediated compaction of DNA visualised by atomic force microscopy

Abstract. The Escherichia coli H-NS protein is a nucleoid-associated protein involved in gene regulation and DNA compaction. To get more insight into the m

academic.oup.com

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Thomas Lin Pedersen @thomasp85.com · 28d

I am beyond excited to announce that ggplot2 4.0.0 has just landed on CRAN.

It's not every day we have a new major #ggplot2 release but it is a fitting 18 year birthday present for the package.

Get an overview of the release in this blog post and be on the lookout for more in-depth posts #rstats

ggplot2 4.0.0

A new major version of ggplot2 has been released on CRAN. Find out what is new here.

www.tidyverse.org

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Macarena Toll-Riera @mtoll8.bsky.social · 29d

We are hiring a PhD student! Are you fascinated by microbes and evolution? Come join us in Barcelona!

Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · Sep 9

#WeAreHiring

📣 The #IBE_Barcelona is seeking a #PhD Student for the Evolutionary #Microbiology Lab.🔬🧫

⏳ Apply before September 30th and #JoinOurTeam!

#UnravellingEvolution #ConservingBiodiversity

✍ https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/job-offers

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 29d

#microsky

Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 29d

Sometimes you meet absolutely incredible bioinfo-magicians.
It was a huge privilege when @shenwei356.bsky.social
joined our group for a year on an @embl.org sabbatical.
While here, he developed a new way of aligning to
millions of bacteria, called LexicMap 1/n
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Efficient sequence alignment against millions of prokaryotic genomes with LexicMap - Nature Biotechnology

LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.

www.nature.com

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Tobias Warnecke @tobiaswarnecke.bsky.social · Sep 8

Please re-post:

Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo...

Abstract deadline: 30 September

EvoChromo: Evolutionary approaches to research in chromatin

Chromatin is the complex of DNA, RNA and protein that is found making up the chromosomes in eukaryotic cells. Chromatin is essential for proper genome function and is involved in chromosome segregati…

meetings.embo.org

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Aileen Berasategui @berasymbionts.bsky.social · Sep 8

🚨 Save the date! Thrilled to be co-organizing the next iteration of the @embl.org Symposium on the Cellular Mechanics of Symbiosis (📅 March 17-20), w/ @floravincent.bsky.social, @hassansalem.bsky.social & Tom Richards.
www.embl.org/about/info/c...
#EESSymbiosis #Symbiosis #SymbioSky #MicroSky 🦠

The cellular mechanics of symbiosis: sensing friend from foe

www.embl.org

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Eduardo Rocha @epcrocha.bsky.social · Sep 8

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

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Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social · Sep 7

A tu, Toni!

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · Aug 29

Why has the Dalhousie Board @dalhousieu.bsky.social been using such strange and disrespectful tactics in this labour dispute @dalfaculty.bsky.social ? Is the playbook coming from Nous Group, the consulting company that brought us "Uniforum" and presides over cost-cutting at universities worldwide?

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Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social · Sep 4

Huge congrats, Megan!!

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Daniel Tamarit @danieltamarit.bsky.social · Sep 4

Huge congrats, Hanneke!! 👏👏👏

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · Aug 25

I gave a symposium talk at the European Society for Evolutionary Biology 2025 (#eseb2025) meeting last week and this was my title slide showcasing how I was speaking as an independent scientist because @dalhousieu.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social has locked us out.

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