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@WildImmunity @wildimmunity.bsky.social · Aug 22

Registration for the Wild and Comparative Immunology 2026 #WACI2026 conference is open! Register early at space is limited.
www.wacimmuno.com
@wildimmunity.bsky.social @menzies-research.bsky.social @utas.edu.au

Wild and Comparative Immunology Consortium

Rewilding immunology across species and environments

www.wacimmuno.com

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Murshed Zaheed @murshedz.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Americans have long glorified their constitution and the rule of law. But Donald Trump’s volatile and vindictive presidency has increasingly replaced that philosophy with something very different – call it “governing by shakedown”. - @greenhousenyt.bsky.social

Trump’s presidential philosophy is government by shakedown | Steven Greenhouse

The president’s strategy is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Congress and the courts must put a stop to it

www.theguardian.com

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Susanne Shultz @susanneshultz.bsky.social · Aug 23

Suggestion #1: Pine pollen

Susanne Shultz @susanneshultz.bsky.social · Aug 23

Help please! We are doing FECs of bovids and have found something we cannot identify. Also some diarrhoea in these animals. Any help super massively appreciated! #parasites #wildlife #bovid Please share with any bovid parasitology experts (assuming this is what it is)! Google AI not very helpful....

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Susanne Shultz @susanneshultz.bsky.social · Mar 13

Elisabeth Vrba's work was ahead of its time and massively inspired my career trajectory. A true giant in palaeontology.

Greg Priest @gregpriest.bsky.social · Mar 13

Elisabeth Vrba has died. May her memory be a blessing.

Here’s an obituary by @nilese.bsky.social.

🌱🐋🧪🗃️🧠🦫🦋 #EvoBio #HistSTM

Elisabeth Vrba obituary: palaeontologist who solved a problem that vexed Darwin

The biologist’s theories about how environments prompt rapid species evolution and extinction propelled her onto the world stage.

www.nature.com

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Susanne Shultz @susanneshultz.bsky.social · Mar 13

University of Manchester is recruiting a Nature Based Solutions ecologist to deliver novel conceptual advances and/or mechanistic understanding of the responses of species, communities and ecosystems to global change.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Susanne Shultz @susanneshultz.bsky.social · Mar 11

@uom-ees.bsky.social

Susanne Shultz @susanneshultz.bsky.social · Mar 11

We are recruiting a mid- senior- level Ecologist. Please get in touch if interested! We (still) champion EDIA, a sustainable and global future.

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

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Susanne Shultz @susanneshultz.bsky.social · Mar 11

We are recruiting a mid- senior- level Ecologist. Please get in touch if interested! We (still) champion EDIA, a sustainable and global future.

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

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NERC Environmental Omics Facility (NEOF) @nerc-eof.bsky.social · Feb 24

Do giraffes struggle with food shortages in the dry season or do their long necks give them an advantage? @uom-ees.bsky.social PhD student @jgranweiler.bsky.social @susanneshultz.bsky.social joins #NEOF to sequence #giraffe faecal samples & uncover how seasonality impacts diet🦒🌿

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · Feb 20

JOB OPPORTUNITY: come be my peer at @wcs.org as the new Regional Director of the Sudano-Sahel Region, overseeing conservation programs in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad and Nigeria, reporting to a regional office based in Kigali, Rwanda. 🌍🧪 More here: shorturl.at/O2c41

a herd of African elephants as seen from above. Photo (c) Paul Elkan, WCS

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · Feb 20

A rebuttal of the paper that looked at historical samples and found evidence of natural selection due to the Black Death at immune loci. Multiple lines of evidence, incl that observed freq changes were an artefact.
By Alison Barton, @mathiesoniain.bsky.social et al

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Insufficient evidence for natural selection associated with the Black Death - Nature

Nature - Insufficient evidence for natural selection associated with the Black Death

www.nature.com

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Susanne Shultz @susanneshultz.bsky.social · Feb 20

Seeking a leader to support Nature-Based Solutions. Key research areas: ecological and evolutionary responses to climate change (past/present), sustainable land use, biodiversity conservation and climate mitigation; ecosystem resilience; and the role of biotic interactions in biogeochemical cycles.

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Susanne Shultz @susanneshultz.bsky.social · Feb 20

Yes, we want you! 🫵 💼 Pre-advert alert! We will shortly announce a position in ecology in Earth and Environmental Sciences @UoM targeted at mid/senior level. Advert wording in reply below. And yes, we still champion workplace diversity (GIF notwithstanding). Please share widely and get in touch!

a man with glasses and a beard is sitting at a desk and says are you trying to recruit me

ALT: a man with glasses and a beard is sitting at a desk and says are you trying to recruit me

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Jazmín Ramos Madrigal @jazminrm.bsky.social · Feb 12

PhD position in bean palaeogenomics!🌱
Join our group at @hologenomics.bsky.social , U. of Copenhagen. The PhD, funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation, will study bean domestication and its coevolution with rhizobia using ancient and modern genomes.
Apply by March 16: tinyurl.com/24uzrj2f
Please share!

PhD fellowship in Evolutionary Biology at the Globe Institute

A PhD fellowship in Evolutionary Biology is being posted in the research team lead by Assistant Prof Jazmín Ramos Madrigal commencing 1 July 2025 or as soon as

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Matthew Collins @matthewcollins.bsky.social · Feb 9

Have/nearly have a PhD?
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?

BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding

International Fellowships 2025

The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.

www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk

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Jonathan Lenoir 🌳🌲🌴 @jonlen.bsky.social · Feb 5

Nice to see our opinion paper on #species #range #shifts & #species #traits among the 🔟 most downloaded papers in 2024 in #GCB 🌏🌐🧪

@globalchangebio.bsky.social

shorturl.at/j7tQW

Bringing traits back into the equation: A roadmap to understand species redistribution

In this opinion piece, we explore under which circumstances species traits are expected to explain the rates and directions of species redistributions in response to climate change and discuss how fu...

shorturl.at

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Bill McKibben @billmckibben.bsky.social · Feb 3

World's richest man ends America's modest aid to the world's poorest people.

I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · Feb 5

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

$A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.$

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Colin D. Wren @cdwren.bsky.social · Feb 4

Nice write-up in Popular Science on our recent article in SciAm! "In a global crisis, working harder isn’t the best solution" 🏺🧪 @felixthehauskat.bsky.social & Iza Romanowska www.popsci.com/science/work... Original paper is here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In a global crisis, working harder isn't the best solution

Archeologists put four resilience strategies to the test.

www.popsci.com

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Susanne Shultz @susanneshultz.bsky.social · Feb 4

PhD opportunity! We are recruiting for a study on population resilience of reintroduced European bison in partnership w/ Rewilding Spain & University of the Basque Country. Applications must be processed by the 14th of Feb. UK home students only. Please get in touch [email protected]

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Edinburgh Infectious Diseases @uoe-eid.bsky.social · Jan 22

The value of scientific serendipity www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How often do unexpected scientific discoveries occur? More often than you might think

A study assessed 1.2 million biomedical publications and measured the ‘unexpectedness’ of their findings.

www.nature.com

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Susanne Shultz @susanneshultz.bsky.social · Jan 22

Funded PhD opportunity! Are you interested in macro-ecology, conservation biology, EcoHealth, gut health and/or EcoImmunology? Please get in touch as there are a range of project possibilities in these areas. Please drop me an email or pass it on to keen students [email protected]

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Susanne Shultz @susanneshultz.bsky.social · Jan 22

Uncovering gut health with novel faecal inflammatory markers. The first paper for PhD student Alice Burton and @kathelse.bsky.social showcasing the use of novel gut markers in an ecoimmunology context. @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/d8...

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William (Bill) Sutherland @billsutherland.bsky.social · Jan 18

Really important paper in which 18 funders, including many major ones, describe how they now ask applicants what the evidence is for the effectiveness of their suggested actions. The supplementary material gives the details of each. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

Approaches for integrating evidence of the effectiveness of actions in conservation funding to inspire more effective practice

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besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · Jan 7

PhD position on the ecology and evolution of animal memory! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us

Elli Leadbeater @ellileadbeater.bsky.social · Dec 9

PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...

Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | UCL Trees

This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...

www.trees-dla.ac.uk

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