Elin Videvall
@elinvidevall.bsky.social
My lab studies wild animal microbiomes at Uppsala University, Sweden. Previously been at Brown University & Smithsonian. Molecular Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Genomics, Hologenomics, Conservation Biology. she/her. https://www.videvall.com/
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Elin Videvall
@elinvidevall.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Hi all,
I am back again on blue sky after some time of dwindling Twitter engagement.
My group studies #microbiomes of wild animals, we have exciting projects in mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians.
We are based at Uppsala University, Sweden. @animecol-uu.bsky.social
www.videvall.com
I am back again on blue sky after some time of dwindling Twitter engagement.
My group studies #microbiomes of wild animals, we have exciting projects in mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians.
We are based at Uppsala University, Sweden. @animecol-uu.bsky.social
www.videvall.com
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3-year #PhD student #position open in my group @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social Finland on #gut #microbe- host communication in #birds. DL 20.12, start date in April2026. #microbiome #metabolomics #vesicles, please RT
ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...
ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...
Doctoral Researcher: Gut microbiome metabolism and molecular mechanisms mediating gut microbiome-host interactions?
A 3-year Doctoral Researcher position is available at the Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in the group of Dr. Suvi Ruuskanen. The Doctoral Resear...
ats.talentadore.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 AM
3-year #PhD student #position open in my group @uniofjyvaskyla.bsky.social Finland on #gut #microbe- host communication in #birds. DL 20.12, start date in April2026. #microbiome #metabolomics #vesicles, please RT
ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...
ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...
Two weeks left to apply for this position!
Feel free to email if there are any questions.
Feel free to email if there are any questions.
📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits.
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)
Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
November 20, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Two weeks left to apply for this position!
Feel free to email if there are any questions.
Feel free to email if there are any questions.
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AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
November 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
AI slop gracing the cover of Royal Society B. Not only in AI yellow but scientifically nonsensical. Come on. I'm certain human photographs and artworks were ignored to platform ... this.
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STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results
Warning to environmental scientists! 🧪🦑🌎🐟
The journal STOTEN has been placed on hold by Clarivate, meaning it is under investigation and may lose its indexing (including impact factor). Consider publishing elsewhere.
mjl.clarivate.com/search-results
The journal STOTEN has been placed on hold by Clarivate, meaning it is under investigation and may lose its indexing (including impact factor). Consider publishing elsewhere.
mjl.clarivate.com/search-results
November 19, 2025 at 1:39 PM
STOTEN is now dead. It has been completely removed from Web of Science mjl.clarivate.com/search-results
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Former Australian science agency ecology researcher loses two papers
Former Australian science agency ecology researcher loses two papers
One of the retracted papers proposed an epigenetic clock to estimate the age of sea turtles.Brocken Inaglory/Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) A molecular ecology researcher has lost two papers and …
retractionwatch.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Former Australian science agency ecology researcher loses two papers
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More than three-fifths of the editorial board of a @gigascience.bsky.social resigned after the publication’s operations moved from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, China, and the editors and software team were fired with 30 days’ notice.
Dozens of board members resign from big-data journal after mass staff firings
More than three-fifths of the editorial board of a biomedical sciences journal resigned after the publication’s operations moved from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, China, and the editors and software team…
retractionwatch.com
November 3, 2025 at 9:30 PM
More than three-fifths of the editorial board of a @gigascience.bsky.social resigned after the publication’s operations moved from Hong Kong to Shenzhen, China, and the editors and software team were fired with 30 days’ notice.
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*PhD opportunity @uniexecec.bsky.social* How does antimicrobial resistance spread through ecosystems?
Combine fieldwork (rodent trapping 🐭, habitat surveys 🌳, pheasant sampling 🦤), molecular techniques, GIS, and spatial modelling to understand AMR evolution and spread. 🔬🦠🧪
Please repost!
Combine fieldwork (rodent trapping 🐭, habitat surveys 🌳, pheasant sampling 🦤), molecular techniques, GIS, and spatial modelling to understand AMR evolution and spread. 🔬🦠🧪
Please repost!
Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Gamebirds: A One Health Approach to Understanding and Mitigating the Risk of AMR Evolution and Spread through Ecosystems at University of Exeter on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Gamebirds: A One Health Approach to Understanding and Mitigating the Risk of AMR Evolution and Spread through Ecosystems at University of Exeter, list...
shorturl.at
November 12, 2025 at 6:07 PM
*PhD opportunity @uniexecec.bsky.social* How does antimicrobial resistance spread through ecosystems?
Combine fieldwork (rodent trapping 🐭, habitat surveys 🌳, pheasant sampling 🦤), molecular techniques, GIS, and spatial modelling to understand AMR evolution and spread. 🔬🦠🧪
Please repost!
Combine fieldwork (rodent trapping 🐭, habitat surveys 🌳, pheasant sampling 🦤), molecular techniques, GIS, and spatial modelling to understand AMR evolution and spread. 🔬🦠🧪
Please repost!
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We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
November 19, 2025 at 9:20 AM
We're looking for a PhD student! If you're interested in #fungal #genomics & #TEs, meiotic drive, or pathogens, please consider applying. The project is about toxin/antidote genes in the human fungal pathogen A. fumigatus. uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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JFC...
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
JFC...
Happy to share the recent paper by Marta Garrigós et al.
Effects of avian #Plasmodium exposure on the #microbiota of #Culex pipiens. 🦟🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Marta spent a month in our group at UU last year; great to see this published! @jmartinezpuente.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social
Effects of avian #Plasmodium exposure on the #microbiota of #Culex pipiens. 🦟🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Marta spent a month in our group at UU last year; great to see this published! @jmartinezpuente.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social
Effects of avian Plasmodium exposure on the microbiota of Culex pipiens - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Effects of avian Plasmodium exposure on the microbiota of Culex pipiens
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Happy to share the recent paper by Marta Garrigós et al.
Effects of avian #Plasmodium exposure on the #microbiota of #Culex pipiens. 🦟🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Marta spent a month in our group at UU last year; great to see this published! @jmartinezpuente.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social
Effects of avian #Plasmodium exposure on the #microbiota of #Culex pipiens. 🦟🦠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Marta spent a month in our group at UU last year; great to see this published! @jmartinezpuente.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social
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Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration | Royal Society Open Science
Science relies on integrity and trustworthiness. But scientists under career pressure
are lured to purchase fake publications from ‘paper mills’ that use AI-generated data,
text and image fabrication....
royalsocietypublishing.org
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Reformation of science publishing: the Stockholm Declaration
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
A call to action for universities, academies, science organizations and funders to unite and join this effort.
Bernhard Sabel and Dan Larhammar
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
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I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I am recruting a #postdoc for a project investigating the evolution of avian heat tolerance in @erc.europa.eu project #HotLife. Fieldwork over broad latitudinal gradients, common-garden experiments, and more. Read more and apply👇
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
shorturl.at/WA1Qa
Would appreciate a re-post!
@evoldir.bsky.social
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arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
Attention Authors: Updated Practice for Review Articles and Position Papers in arXiv CS Category – arXiv blog
blog.arxiv.org
November 1, 2025 at 5:28 PM
arXiv will no longer accept review articles and position papers unless they have been accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
This is due to being overwhelmed by a hundreds of AI generated papers a month.
Yet another open submission process killed by LLMs.
📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits.
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)
Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
www.uu.se
October 27, 2025 at 7:43 AM
📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits.
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)
www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)
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If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
October 23, 2025 at 3:11 PM
If you like genomics, speciation, and primates, this PhD position is for you! Unraveling the genomic architecture of speciation and gene flow in guenons, a diverse group of African monkeys. Funding through DTP. Do reach out with questions! #genomics #genome_assembly
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
evol.mcmaster.ca/brian/evoldi...
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New paper out!🎉
Gut #microbiome of the pied #flycatcher differs strikingly between an oak forest and a pine plantation — only 1 km apart! 🌳Vs🌲
Fine-scale habitat variation = major #microbial shifts 🧬🐦
doi.org/10.13157/arl...
#Birds #Ficedula
@elinvidevall.bsky.social @cordobaciencia.bsky.social
Gut #microbiome of the pied #flycatcher differs strikingly between an oak forest and a pine plantation — only 1 km apart! 🌳Vs🌲
Fine-scale habitat variation = major #microbial shifts 🧬🐦
doi.org/10.13157/arl...
#Birds #Ficedula
@elinvidevall.bsky.social @cordobaciencia.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 10:40 AM
New paper out!🎉
Gut #microbiome of the pied #flycatcher differs strikingly between an oak forest and a pine plantation — only 1 km apart! 🌳Vs🌲
Fine-scale habitat variation = major #microbial shifts 🧬🐦
doi.org/10.13157/arl...
#Birds #Ficedula
@elinvidevall.bsky.social @cordobaciencia.bsky.social
Gut #microbiome of the pied #flycatcher differs strikingly between an oak forest and a pine plantation — only 1 km apart! 🌳Vs🌲
Fine-scale habitat variation = major #microbial shifts 🧬🐦
doi.org/10.13157/arl...
#Birds #Ficedula
@elinvidevall.bsky.social @cordobaciencia.bsky.social
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This is an amazing program and I was lucky enough to work with many MEME students during my time @animecol-uu.bsky.social. One of the best MSc training programs you can do if evolution is your jam!
Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!
October 23, 2025 at 5:53 PM
This is an amazing program and I was lucky enough to work with many MEME students during my time @animecol-uu.bsky.social. One of the best MSc training programs you can do if evolution is your jam!
Our lab group went out to celebrate the recent big grant with some cocktails and delicious food! 🥂🎉
Qianrui, @estermart.bsky.social, @cenkvist.bsky.social, @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social
Qianrui, @estermart.bsky.social, @cenkvist.bsky.social, @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Our lab group went out to celebrate the recent big grant with some cocktails and delicious food! 🥂🎉
Qianrui, @estermart.bsky.social, @cenkvist.bsky.social, @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social
Qianrui, @estermart.bsky.social, @cenkvist.bsky.social, @madeleinebergstrom.bsky.social
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📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch
September 30, 2025 at 10:20 AM
📢🚨Please share! We’re hiring! 📢🚨Have a strong interests in wildlife ecology and gut microbiome bioinformatics? 3 year Senior Research Associate for NERC Pushing the Frontiers grant. Apply here: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18.... Informal enquiries welcome! drgldavidson.github.io/ACMEresearch
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Does your ecology journal even lift, bro?
October 23, 2025 at 6:23 AM
Does your ecology journal even lift, bro?
Excited to share that I was awarded a 6M SEK grant from Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development ! 🎉
The project is about the early-life gut #microbiome of reindeer calves, and how it's associated with their health and growth. 🦌🦠🧬
The project is about the early-life gut #microbiome of reindeer calves, and how it's associated with their health and growth. 🦌🦠🧬
October 21, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Excited to share that I was awarded a 6M SEK grant from Formas, the Swedish Research Council for Sustainable Development ! 🎉
The project is about the early-life gut #microbiome of reindeer calves, and how it's associated with their health and growth. 🦌🦠🧬
The project is about the early-life gut #microbiome of reindeer calves, and how it's associated with their health and growth. 🦌🦠🧬
At a recent journal club, we discussed this paper on urban coyote #microbiomes and diet by Sugden et al., and I really enjoyed reading it. 😊
An altered microbiome in urban coyotes mediates relationships between anthropogenic diet and poor health. 🐺
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
An altered microbiome in urban coyotes mediates relationships between anthropogenic diet and poor health. 🐺
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
October 21, 2025 at 1:07 PM
At a recent journal club, we discussed this paper on urban coyote #microbiomes and diet by Sugden et al., and I really enjoyed reading it. 😊
An altered microbiome in urban coyotes mediates relationships between anthropogenic diet and poor health. 🐺
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
An altered microbiome in urban coyotes mediates relationships between anthropogenic diet and poor health. 🐺
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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How do insects respond to changing climates? Our new review and analysis in @annualreviews.bsky.social suggests that phenological adaptation trumps thermal adaptation.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Life-History Evolution of Insects in Response to Climate Variation: Seasonal Timing Versus Thermal Physiology | Annual Reviews
Climate adaptation in insects can proceed via responses in life-history traits and their thermal plasticity and through phenological shifts mediated by responses to photoperiodic cues (photoperiodism)...
www.annualreviews.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:03 AM
How do insects respond to changing climates? Our new review and analysis in @annualreviews.bsky.social suggests that phenological adaptation trumps thermal adaptation.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Keeping cats indoors not only makes them healthier and keeps them safe, we also protect native birds and other small animals. 🐈🐦🦎
Our team has published a new study in Avian Conservation Ecology showing that #cats kill between 19–197 million #birds each year in Canada!
In the time it has taken you to read ~3 posts (1 min) 114 birds have been killed at the paws of cats in Canada.
ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a...
1/4
In the time it has taken you to read ~3 posts (1 min) 114 birds have been killed at the paws of cats in Canada.
ace-eco.org/vol20/iss2/a...
1/4
October 16, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Keeping cats indoors not only makes them healthier and keeps them safe, we also protect native birds and other small animals. 🐈🐦🦎