Luís M. Silva
@luismsilva.bsky.social
Disease ecology and evolution 🧬| Parasites 🦠 | Postdoc with @kayla-king.bsky.social at UBC 🇨🇦 | Music geek and art lover | he/him | 🇵🇹
📍Vancouver, CA
https://luis-m-silva.com/
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#DiversityInSTEM #FirstGen #OpenScience #AcademicSky
📍Vancouver, CA
https://luis-m-silva.com/
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Luís M. Silva
@luismsilva.bsky.social
· Aug 25
Hey Bsky, I’m Luís, a 🇵🇹 disease ecologist in Vancouver 🇨🇦
I study the drama between hosts 🪱🦟 and parasites 🦠 - who wins, who loses, and which cards get played - and why it matters for evolution & health.
Always up for collabs, chats & making science fairer ✨
Say hi 👉 luis-m-silva.com
#AcademicSky
I study the drama between hosts 🪱🦟 and parasites 🦠 - who wins, who loses, and which cards get played - and why it matters for evolution & health.
Always up for collabs, chats & making science fairer ✨
Say hi 👉 luis-m-silva.com
#AcademicSky
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Some news 🎉
After five incredible years in Tübingen, it’s time to say goodbye.
Starting February, the Mutualisms Lab will relocate to the John Innes Centre, right next door to @berasymbionts.bsky.social and her group at The Sainsbury Laboratory 🪲🦠
After five incredible years in Tübingen, it’s time to say goodbye.
Starting February, the Mutualisms Lab will relocate to the John Innes Centre, right next door to @berasymbionts.bsky.social and her group at The Sainsbury Laboratory 🪲🦠
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Some news 🎉
After five incredible years in Tübingen, it’s time to say goodbye.
Starting February, the Mutualisms Lab will relocate to the John Innes Centre, right next door to @berasymbionts.bsky.social and her group at The Sainsbury Laboratory 🪲🦠
After five incredible years in Tübingen, it’s time to say goodbye.
Starting February, the Mutualisms Lab will relocate to the John Innes Centre, right next door to @berasymbionts.bsky.social and her group at The Sainsbury Laboratory 🪲🦠
Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url:
academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...
academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...
November 22, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Time to publish responsibly: DAFNEE, a database of academia-friendly journals in ecology and evolutionary biology url:
academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...
academic.oup.com/jeb/article/...
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Our lab is actively looking for posdocs and there is NOW an Open Call for Postdoc contracts (3 years) here: www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...
www.aei.gob.es
November 7, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Our lab is actively looking for posdocs and there is NOW an Open Call for Postdoc contracts (3 years) here: www.aei.gob.es/en/announcem...
Ever wondered how stressful the life of a mosquito is? 🤔 If u did, check our new paper in @commsbio.nature.com with @tiagogzeferino.bsky.social !!
By tracking the cost of bloodmeal, infection and aging on #Anopheles lifetime resource dynamics, we found energetic shifts predict death ⚡️🦟
#MicroSky
By tracking the cost of bloodmeal, infection and aging on #Anopheles lifetime resource dynamics, we found energetic shifts predict death ⚡️🦟
#MicroSky
Energetic shifts reflect survival likelihood in Anopheles gambiae
Communications Biology - Survival in Anopheles gambiae depends on resource use: survivors switch from carbohydrates to lipids, while non-survivors do not, revealing links between host energy...
rdcu.be
November 12, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Ever wondered how stressful the life of a mosquito is? 🤔 If u did, check our new paper in @commsbio.nature.com with @tiagogzeferino.bsky.social !!
By tracking the cost of bloodmeal, infection and aging on #Anopheles lifetime resource dynamics, we found energetic shifts predict death ⚡️🦟
#MicroSky
By tracking the cost of bloodmeal, infection and aging on #Anopheles lifetime resource dynamics, we found energetic shifts predict death ⚡️🦟
#MicroSky
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Our new paper maps the tRNA modification landscape in Vibrio cholerae! 💫
We describe differences from E. coli and discuss links to decoding of stress-related codons 🦠
Huge thanks to amazing co-authors and collaborators!
@plos.org #rnasky #microsky #tRNAmodifications
We describe differences from E. coli and discuss links to decoding of stress-related codons 🦠
Huge thanks to amazing co-authors and collaborators!
@plos.org #rnasky #microsky #tRNAmodifications
The tRNA epitranscriptomic landscape and RNA modification enzymes in Vibrio cholerae
Author summary This study charts the first genome-wide map of transfer RNA (tRNA) modifications in the cholera pathogen, Vibrio cholerae, revealing how chemical marks on tRNAs shape translation and st...
journals.plos.org
November 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Our new paper maps the tRNA modification landscape in Vibrio cholerae! 💫
We describe differences from E. coli and discuss links to decoding of stress-related codons 🦠
Huge thanks to amazing co-authors and collaborators!
@plos.org #rnasky #microsky #tRNAmodifications
We describe differences from E. coli and discuss links to decoding of stress-related codons 🦠
Huge thanks to amazing co-authors and collaborators!
@plos.org #rnasky #microsky #tRNAmodifications
Reposted by Luís M. Silva
Counterproductive: coinfection of a water flea by a fungus and a microsporidium reduces the reproductive outputs of all parties. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685260v1
October 29, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Counterproductive: coinfection of a water flea by a fungus and a microsporidium reduces the reproductive outputs of all parties. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.29.685260v1
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Bizarre that our 2020 #Drosophila #AMP review already feels out of date.
Thanks to #AnnualReviews to cover the many updates in the field and present a much more complete picture of the diversity, mechanisms, topics, of fly immunity re: host defence peptides.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Thanks to #AnnualReviews to cover the many updates in the field and present a much more complete picture of the diversity, mechanisms, topics, of fly immunity re: host defence peptides.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
October 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Bizarre that our 2020 #Drosophila #AMP review already feels out of date.
Thanks to #AnnualReviews to cover the many updates in the field and present a much more complete picture of the diversity, mechanisms, topics, of fly immunity re: host defence peptides.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Thanks to #AnnualReviews to cover the many updates in the field and present a much more complete picture of the diversity, mechanisms, topics, of fly immunity re: host defence peptides.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Reposted by Luís M. Silva
🦠🔬🤖🧑💻 #mAIcrobe is out! With @pinholab.bsky.social's lab, we launched an open-source framework for high-throughput bacterial image analysis. By rockstars A. Brito & B. Saraiva et al, making #DeepLearning for phenotyping accessible! Easy to use, plus model training
📜 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📜 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 22, 2025 at 11:10 AM
🦠🔬🤖🧑💻 #mAIcrobe is out! With @pinholab.bsky.social's lab, we launched an open-source framework for high-throughput bacterial image analysis. By rockstars A. Brito & B. Saraiva et al, making #DeepLearning for phenotyping accessible! Easy to use, plus model training
📜 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
📜 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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I'm so proud to announce my most ambitious pin to date: a miniature guide to the trees of Britain (and lots of Europe)!
Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
October 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I'm so proud to announce my most ambitious pin to date: a miniature guide to the trees of Britain (and lots of Europe)!
Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
Reposted by Luís M. Silva
Are you an early career scientist who wants to get specialist training in C. elegans model for your laboratory research? we co-organize again the EMBO C. elegans course! Do not miss applying!
🪱 Ready to take your C. elegans skills to the next level? Join our #EMBOCelegans course!
🎯 Learn hands-on genome editing, AI-driven imaging, microfluidics & uncover development, physiology & evolutionary insights.
📍 EMBL Heidelberg
📅 23 – 29 Mar 2026
👉 Apply by 8 Dec: s.embl.org/cel26-01-bl
🎯 Learn hands-on genome editing, AI-driven imaging, microfluidics & uncover development, physiology & evolutionary insights.
📍 EMBL Heidelberg
📅 23 – 29 Mar 2026
👉 Apply by 8 Dec: s.embl.org/cel26-01-bl
October 5, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Are you an early career scientist who wants to get specialist training in C. elegans model for your laboratory research? we co-organize again the EMBO C. elegans course! Do not miss applying!
Don’t miss out on #AsiaEvo! It already has a great number of keynotes and topics! 🙌
And if you are into adaptation under global change☀️🌪️ (any form of life 🦠🐼), take a look at the symposium below 👇
check it our and share :)
#EvoSky #MicroSky #Drosophila #Evolution #EEID #ClimateChange
And if you are into adaptation under global change☀️🌪️ (any form of life 🦠🐼), take a look at the symposium below 👇
check it our and share :)
#EvoSky #MicroSky #Drosophila #Evolution #EEID #ClimateChange
Call for Abstracts Open! The 4th AsiaEvo conference will be held at Kumming, China Dec 8-11 2025. We are organizing Symposium 3 aiming for a broad discussion on organisms’ adaptation under global change, from bacteria to large mammals. Also check other symposium topics that attract you!
October 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Don’t miss out on #AsiaEvo! It already has a great number of keynotes and topics! 🙌
And if you are into adaptation under global change☀️🌪️ (any form of life 🦠🐼), take a look at the symposium below 👇
check it our and share :)
#EvoSky #MicroSky #Drosophila #Evolution #EEID #ClimateChange
And if you are into adaptation under global change☀️🌪️ (any form of life 🦠🐼), take a look at the symposium below 👇
check it our and share :)
#EvoSky #MicroSky #Drosophila #Evolution #EEID #ClimateChange
Reposted by Luís M. Silva
📢 Deadline extended! Apply by Oct 3 for the 2025 Sydney Brenner Thesis Award—honoring outstanding theses in nematode biology (defended Oct 1, 2024–Sept 30, 2025).
Send in your nomination today! 🔗:
Send in your nomination today! 🔗:
2025 Brenner Award Nomination
This nomination form is for the 2025 Brenner Award Nomination. Due: September 30th, 2025. Please do not include any information besides what is asked as a formal nominee form and recommendation…
buff.ly
September 30, 2025 at 6:02 PM
📢 Deadline extended! Apply by Oct 3 for the 2025 Sydney Brenner Thesis Award—honoring outstanding theses in nematode biology (defended Oct 1, 2024–Sept 30, 2025).
Send in your nomination today! 🔗:
Send in your nomination today! 🔗:
Interested in #virulence? Not sure what it is - or how to explain it? Just curious? 🧐🦠🧬🦋
@kayla-king.bsky.social and I just wrote a Primer for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the ecology and evolution of virulence!
Check it below and share :)
#MicroSky #EvoSky #pathogens
@kayla-king.bsky.social and I just wrote a Primer for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the ecology and evolution of virulence!
Check it below and share :)
#MicroSky #EvoSky #pathogens
Ecology and evolution of virulence
Silva and King discuss the concept of virulence and the ecological and evolutionary
factors that shape it.
www.cell.com
September 22, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Interested in #virulence? Not sure what it is - or how to explain it? Just curious? 🧐🦠🧬🦋
@kayla-king.bsky.social and I just wrote a Primer for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the ecology and evolution of virulence!
Check it below and share :)
#MicroSky #EvoSky #pathogens
@kayla-king.bsky.social and I just wrote a Primer for @currentbiology.bsky.social on the ecology and evolution of virulence!
Check it below and share :)
#MicroSky #EvoSky #pathogens
Reposted by Luís M. Silva
Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
September 13, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Today people went around my neighborhood in north east London spray painting St George’s crosses onto people’s homes. Many of these houses have non British people living in them.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
This is getting very dark, very quick.
Reposted by Luís M. Silva
With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
August 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
Reposted by Luís M. Silva
Evolution Meeting 2026 logo contest! The winner will receive meeting registration and an Evolution 2026 t-shirt. www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo-co...
Evolution Conference Information
Evolution 2026 Cleveland needs a logo! Submit your design(s) to [email protected] with the subject header 'logo contest 2026' Guidance: 3-4 colors maximum try to avoid single organism...
www.evolutionmeetings.org
September 5, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Evolution Meeting 2026 logo contest! The winner will receive meeting registration and an Evolution 2026 t-shirt. www.evolutionmeetings.org/2026-logo-co...
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I am happy to announce publication of our new perspectives paper on applying evolutionary theory to host-microbiome evolution - new tricks for old dogs! @bweek.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de @transevo.bsky.social @crc1182.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Applying evolutionary theory to understand host–microbiome evolution - Nature Ecology & Evolution
This Perspective discusses how well-established theoretical models of evolution can be adapted to study and generate testable predictions about the evolutionary dynamics of host–microbiota association...
www.nature.com
September 8, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I am happy to announce publication of our new perspectives paper on applying evolutionary theory to host-microbiome evolution - new tricks for old dogs! @bweek.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de @transevo.bsky.social @crc1182.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Reposted by Luís M. Silva
This #lichen like the sun. Swirling golden prominences cast into space from areas of intense localised heat. Found on the bushes that skirt the turning circle of the ocean road where I walk my dog. This cul-de-sac hides amazing and wondrous things if you care to look #FungiFriends
September 6, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This #lichen like the sun. Swirling golden prominences cast into space from areas of intense localised heat. Found on the bushes that skirt the turning circle of the ocean road where I walk my dog. This cul-de-sac hides amazing and wondrous things if you care to look #FungiFriends
Reposted by Luís M. Silva
A new theme issue of #PhilTransB examines the evolutionary history of bacterial immune systems, their modes of action, and the patterns how different bacterial immune systems are distributed across different ecosystems. Read: buff.ly/Z4qdxY1
September 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
A new theme issue of #PhilTransB examines the evolutionary history of bacterial immune systems, their modes of action, and the patterns how different bacterial immune systems are distributed across different ecosystems. Read: buff.ly/Z4qdxY1
Reposted by Luís M. Silva
In the new book Labwork to Leadership, chemist Jen Heemstra offers actionable leadership advice to principal investigators.
Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #ReadABookDay: https://scim.ag/46l2X6y
Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #ReadABookDay: https://scim.ag/46l2X6y
September 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
In the new book Labwork to Leadership, chemist Jen Heemstra offers actionable leadership advice to principal investigators.
Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #ReadABookDay: https://scim.ag/46l2X6y
Check out the #ScienceBooks Review on #ReadABookDay: https://scim.ag/46l2X6y
Reposted by Luís M. Silva
yes they do. they're spreading disinformation to people who can be confused by it, in order to keep doing things that make money (in this case, fossil fuels). that distinction is foundational to understanding what is happening at all scales of government, including and especially what RFK is doing
September 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
yes they do. they're spreading disinformation to people who can be confused by it, in order to keep doing things that make money (in this case, fossil fuels). that distinction is foundational to understanding what is happening at all scales of government, including and especially what RFK is doing
Reposted by Luís M. Silva
Portugal was in mourning after the Glória funicular, one of Lisbon’s best-known sights, crashed this week, killing more than a dozen people and injuring 21 others. Workers removed the wreckage on Friday. Here's what we know: nyti.ms/4p7gtlB
September 6, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Portugal was in mourning after the Glória funicular, one of Lisbon’s best-known sights, crashed this week, killing more than a dozen people and injuring 21 others. Workers removed the wreckage on Friday. Here's what we know: nyti.ms/4p7gtlB
Just wrote a lil piece for @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social about my experience moving for science: problems and solutions 🌎🧪🧫
Curious? Check it below 👇 & check this series for other experiences - a great initiative 👏
#AcademicSky #MicroSky #mobility #PhDChat #AcademicChatter #EcoEvoECRcareer
Curious? Check it below 👇 & check this series for other experiences - a great initiative 👏
#AcademicSky #MicroSky #mobility #PhDChat #AcademicChatter #EcoEvoECRcareer
Scientific mobility in microbiology – 7
Luís Manuel Macedo da Silva (Luís M. Silva)
www.cell.com
September 5, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Just wrote a lil piece for @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social about my experience moving for science: problems and solutions 🌎🧪🧫
Curious? Check it below 👇 & check this series for other experiences - a great initiative 👏
#AcademicSky #MicroSky #mobility #PhDChat #AcademicChatter #EcoEvoECRcareer
Curious? Check it below 👇 & check this series for other experiences - a great initiative 👏
#AcademicSky #MicroSky #mobility #PhDChat #AcademicChatter #EcoEvoECRcareer
Reposted by Luís M. Silva
How do bacteria choose what type of defences to use against phages? We explored that question in the last paper I worked on as a postdoc at the Uni of Exeter @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social with Stineke van Houte, Stefano Pagliara and Edze Westra (not on Bluesky)
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
Phage provoke growth delays and SOS response induction despite CRISPR-Cas protection | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Bacteria evolve resistance against their phage foes with a wide range of resistance
strategies whose costs and benefits depend on the level of protection they confer
and on the costs for maintainance....
doi.org
September 4, 2025 at 4:02 PM
How do bacteria choose what type of defences to use against phages? We explored that question in the last paper I worked on as a postdoc at the Uni of Exeter @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social with Stineke van Houte, Stefano Pagliara and Edze Westra (not on Bluesky)
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
doi.org/10.1098/rstb...
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Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!!
@imibirmingham.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...
@imibirmingham.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...
Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics at University of Birmingham
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics on jobs.ac.uk!
www.jobs.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!!
@imibirmingham.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...
@imibirmingham.bsky.social
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...