Elin Videvall
@elinvidevall.bsky.social
My lab studies wildlife microbiomes at Uppsala University, Sweden.
SciLifeLab Group Leader.
Previously at Brown University & Smithsonian.
Molecular Ecology, Evolution, Genomics, Hologenomics, Conservation Biology.
she/her. https://www.videvall.com/
SciLifeLab Group Leader.
Previously at Brown University & Smithsonian.
Molecular Ecology, Evolution, 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
Colleagues working on Microbiomes in Conservation (interpreted broadly), consider submitting an abstract this week to join us at #ISME20 in New Zealand!
Excited to announce that I am organizing a symposium on "Microbiomes in Conservation" at #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand together with Madeleine van Oppen.
Consider submitting an abstract; it will be a fab conference! Deadline Feb 15!
isme-microbes.org/isme20-sessi...
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
Consider submitting an abstract; it will be a fab conference! Deadline Feb 15!
isme-microbes.org/isme20-sessi...
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
Invisible allies: the role of microbes in biodiversity conservation – ISME
Convened by Madeleine van Oppen, Australia, and Elin Videvall, Sweden
isme-microbes.org
February 18, 2026 at 11:10 AM
Colleagues working on Microbiomes in Conservation (interpreted broadly), consider submitting an abstract this week to join us at #ISME20 in New Zealand!
Note: The abstract submission deadline has been postponed to February 22! 🗓️
Excited to announce that I am organizing a symposium on "Microbiomes in Conservation" at #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand together with Madeleine van Oppen.
Consider submitting an abstract; it will be a fab conference! Deadline Feb 15!
isme-microbes.org/isme20-sessi...
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
Consider submitting an abstract; it will be a fab conference! Deadline Feb 15!
isme-microbes.org/isme20-sessi...
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
Invisible allies: the role of microbes in biodiversity conservation – ISME
Convened by Madeleine van Oppen, Australia, and Elin Videvall, Sweden
isme-microbes.org
February 12, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Note: The abstract submission deadline has been postponed to February 22! 🗓️
#Revolution2026 has officially started! 😃
Looking forward to two fun science-filled days. Invited speakers are Anna Runemark and Alexei Maklakov. @animecol-uu.bsky.social
Looking forward to two fun science-filled days. Invited speakers are Anna Runemark and Alexei Maklakov. @animecol-uu.bsky.social
February 12, 2026 at 8:18 AM
#Revolution2026 has officially started! 😃
Looking forward to two fun science-filled days. Invited speakers are Anna Runemark and Alexei Maklakov. @animecol-uu.bsky.social
Looking forward to two fun science-filled days. Invited speakers are Anna Runemark and Alexei Maklakov. @animecol-uu.bsky.social
Excited to announce that I am organizing a symposium on "Microbiomes in Conservation" at #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand together with Madeleine van Oppen.
Consider submitting an abstract; it will be a fab conference! Deadline Feb 15!
isme-microbes.org/isme20-sessi...
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
Consider submitting an abstract; it will be a fab conference! Deadline Feb 15!
isme-microbes.org/isme20-sessi...
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
Invisible allies: the role of microbes in biodiversity conservation – ISME
Convened by Madeleine van Oppen, Australia, and Elin Videvall, Sweden
isme-microbes.org
February 9, 2026 at 1:16 PM
Excited to announce that I am organizing a symposium on "Microbiomes in Conservation" at #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand together with Madeleine van Oppen.
Consider submitting an abstract; it will be a fab conference! Deadline Feb 15!
isme-microbes.org/isme20-sessi...
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
Consider submitting an abstract; it will be a fab conference! Deadline Feb 15!
isme-microbes.org/isme20-sessi...
@isme-microbes.bsky.social
Reposted by Elin Videvall
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
January 13, 2026 at 8:27 AM
We've got ISSUES. Literally.
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do?
arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563
A 🧵 1/n
Interested in applying for a postdoc on wildlife #microbiomes in my lab at Uppsala University, Sweden?
The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out generous 2-year postdoc scholarships to early-career researchers who apply with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9.
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out generous 2-year postdoc scholarships to early-career researchers who apply with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9.
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
The Birgitta Sintring Foundation – Department of Ecology and Genetics – Uppsala University
www.uu.se
December 9, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Interested in applying for a postdoc on wildlife #microbiomes in my lab at Uppsala University, Sweden?
The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out generous 2-year postdoc scholarships to early-career researchers who apply with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9.
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
The local Birgitta Sintring Foundation gives out generous 2-year postdoc scholarships to early-career researchers who apply with a PI at the department. Deadline Feb 9.
www.uu.se/en/departmen...
Looking for someone interested to apply for a postdoc grant with me on reindeer microbiomes. 🦌🦠🧬
Please email for details.
Please email for details.
December 5, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Looking for someone interested to apply for a postdoc grant with me on reindeer microbiomes. 🦌🦠🧬
Please email for details.
Please email for details.
New lab group photo 😊
@cenkvist.bsky.social , @estermart.bsky.social , @elinvidevall.bsky.social , Qianrui, and Ramin.
@cenkvist.bsky.social , @estermart.bsky.social , @elinvidevall.bsky.social , Qianrui, and Ramin.
December 5, 2025 at 3:04 PM
New lab group photo 😊
@cenkvist.bsky.social , @estermart.bsky.social , @elinvidevall.bsky.social , Qianrui, and Ramin.
@cenkvist.bsky.social , @estermart.bsky.social , @elinvidevall.bsky.social , Qianrui, and Ramin.
Don't miss the next WAME seminar this Thursday! Online on zoom. #mycobiome #microbiome
Join us for the next instalment in our virtual seminar series this week!
Wild Animal Mycobiomes (not microbiome!)
4th December 2025: 11am GMT/ 12pm CET
Join via zoom here: aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/68695403303
Wild Animal Mycobiomes (not microbiome!)
4th December 2025: 11am GMT/ 12pm CET
Join via zoom here: aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/68695403303
December 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Don't miss the next WAME seminar this Thursday! Online on zoom. #mycobiome #microbiome
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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.
Reposted by Elin Videvall
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
Reposted by Elin Videvall
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
Reposted by Elin Videvall
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.
Reposted by Elin Videvall
*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/...
Reposted by Elin Videvall
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
Reposted by Elin Videvall
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/...
Reposted by Elin Videvall
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)
Reposted by Elin Videvall
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...
Reposted by Elin Videvall
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