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Nils Rädecker @radecker.bsky.social · 3d

🪸🧪 We’re hiring! Join our ERC-funded group at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany to explore the cellular origins of photosymbiosis:⁣
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𝟏 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐝𝐨𝐜 + 𝟐 𝐏𝐡𝐃𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬.⁣
Deadlines: Oct 29 & Nov 5. Links below. ⁣

Questions: [email protected]⁣
#Photosymbiosis #HIFMB #ERC #AcademicJobs

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Mónica Medina @momedinamunoz.bsky.social · 2d

We examined Oxford Nanopore 16S amplicon sequencing as a tool for recovering marine microbial communities and we are pleased with the results! Check out our preprint 🌎🧪🧬🌊🖥️🦠https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.20.676612v2.abstract

Evaluation of full-length 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing using Oxford Nanopore Technologies for diversity surveys of understudied microbiomes

1. The use of long-read sequencing using portable Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT) is becoming increasingly popular in the study of host-associated microbiomes. However, its application has not yet...

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lukethompsonphd.bsky.social @lukethompsonphd.bsky.social · Sep 8

My group at NOAA/Miami is hiring a postdoc to lead a marine eDNA biodiversity effort (Bio-GO-SHIP). You'll develop and deploy high-throughput metabarcoding assays for ocean DNA. Help make foundational contributions to global marine biodiversity monitoring! t.co/p53s7E0YiL

https://explore.msujobs.msstate.edu/cw/en-us/job/509519

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Mya Breitbart @viromegirl.bsky.social · 6d

We're hiring for several positions (a post-bac researcher in #transcriptomics, a #phage #postdoc, a senior researcher (broad topics) and a graduate student to work on #ciliates) - find info here: www.marine.usf.edu/genomics/app...

Apply - Genomics

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Brad Weiler, Ph.D. @bradweilerdives.bsky.social · 13d

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ALT: a judge sitting at a desk with a sign that says what an unexpected treat netflix

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Emily Van Buren MS PhD @emily-vanburen.bsky.social · Aug 29

🪸 New paper alert 🧬
We developed a highly accurate diagnostic tool that classifies between two #coral diseases: white plague and stony coral tissue loss disease. This model accurately classified in situ collected diseased samples, supporting its use as a diagnostic tool.
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Leveraging machine learning to classify and characterize gene expression patterns in two coral diseases

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Mahwash Jamy @mjamy.bsky.social · Sep 3

Check out our new paper on adopting a trait-based framework for protist diversity! We make the case for a unified protist trait database, how to build it, and how it could transform research on protist ecology and evolution.
#protistsonsky

Pierre Ramond @pierreramond.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hello there 🦋
Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social

Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳

▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

#protistsonsky

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Pierre Ramond @pierreramond.bsky.social · Sep 3

Hello there 🦋
Happy to share our piece "Towards a trait-based framework for protist ecology and evolution" in @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social

Let's build a unified trait 📏 database to unlock transformative insights into protist 🔬 ecology 🌍 and evolution ⏳

▶️ doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

#protistsonsky

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Institut de Biologia Evolutiva (IBE) @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social · Sep 3

#JoinOurTeam

📣 L'#IBE_Barcelona ofereix dues posicions a la Unitat de Gestió de Projectes i Ajuts de Recerca!📣

🔹Tècnic/a d’internacionalització
🔹Gestor post-award de projectes ERC

📆 Aplica abans del 21 de setembre 👉https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/work-with-us/job-offers

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Laura Mydlarz @lauradmydlarz.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Mydlarz Lab has a second coral machine learning paper out this month! @emily-vanburen.bsky.social developed a diagnostic tool that classifies two coral diseases: white plague and #SCTLD. 463 genes, some involved in inflammation and protein trafficking, characterized the diseases.
rdcu.be/eCNic

Leveraging machine learning to classify and characterize gene expression patterns in two coral diseases

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Ana Palacio @anapalacio.bsky.social · Aug 29

🚨Job alert 🚨
The University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science (Rosenstiel) and Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) are looking for an omics lab manager 🧬
careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...

Research Associate II in Miami, Florida, United States of America | Research at University of Miami

Apply for Research Associate II job with University of Miami in Miami, Florida, United States of America. Research at University of Miami

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Julie Meyer, PhD @lebetimonas.bsky.social · Aug 29

Looking for a postdoc in coral-associated bacterial genomes/metagenomes/metatranscriptomes? This would be an excellent program to support your original research ideas in a lab with extensive resources, samples, and datasets.

Prof Tanya Parish @proftanya13.bsky.social · Aug 29

Great opportunity for postdoctoral fellows is open - deadline Oct 31 🦠🧪 #WomenInStem

lsrf.org/apply/

Application Instructions - Life Sciences Research Foundation

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Brad Weiler, Ph.D. @bradweilerdives.bsky.social · Aug 28

Share widely please! Opportunity to be involved in highly interdisciplinary research focusing on coral reefs. High-tech lab where robots meet coral 🦾🤖🪸

The Coral Reef Research Hub @coralreefresearch.bsky.social · Aug 22

GREAT OPPORTUNITY: Coral Program Internship (NOAA, AOML) – Miami, Florida

Send CV and cover letter to both [email protected] and [email protected]

Learn more here: www.thecoralreefresearchhub.com/082120250700...

#coralreefs #intern #internship #coralintern #coral #careers

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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · Aug 23

Pseudoalteromonas is a novel symbiont of marine invertebrates that exhibits broad patterns of phylosymbiosis https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.22.671635v1

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Gautam Dey @gautamdey.bsky.social · Aug 22

Want to help us image and understand those incredible samples Felix just collected at UBC - and many more?

2 more days to apply!

embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

#ExM #PlanetaryCellBiology

🧪🧬🔬🌍🌱🦠

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bioRxiv Evolutionary Biology @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social · Aug 20

Leaving Academia: Insights from Evolutionary Biologists on Their Career Transitions and Job Satisfaction https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.08.19.671061v1

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Brad Weiler, Ph.D. @bradweilerdives.bsky.social · Aug 22

Congratulations! This is awesome🙌🏻

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Rosa Fernández @rosafernandez.bsky.social · Aug 15

FANTASIA's paper is finally out! Check it out if you're interested in alternative methods to homology for functional annotation in nonmodel organisms 🦐🐙🪱🧬🐝🪲
@gemmaeling.bsky.social @amrojasm.bsky.social @ibe-barcelona.bsky.social @cabd-upo-csic.bsky.social
@csic.es www.nature.com/articles/s42...

FANTASIA leverages language models to decode the functional dark proteome across the animal tree of life

Communications Biology - FANTASIA, a protein language model-based tool, enables large-scale functional annotation across ~1000 animal proteomes, revealing novel gene functions in both model and...

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Brad Weiler, Ph.D. @bradweilerdives.bsky.social · Aug 20

A few of my favourite things! Microbes, Zymo, Oxford Nanopore, and of course chocolate.

Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · Aug 18

Out now!

🍫🦠A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour #chocolate fermentation

By Gabriel Castrillo, David Salt & co

#microsky #microbiomesky 🧪

Read it here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A defined microbial community reproduces attributes of fine flavour chocolate fermentation - Nature Microbiology

An in-depth microbiological and metagenomic analysis of Colombian farm and fermentation facilities resulted in the design of a defined microbial community that can reproduce the flavour of fine chocol...

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Dustin Marshall @djmmeeg.bsky.social · Nov 7

I wrote (ranted) on experimental design as I was frustrated as an editor at how little guidance students were getting. I underestimated the interest in the issue: it has been downloaded 10,000+ times! Clearly it’s something we need to be talking about more. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Principles of experimental design for ecology and evolution

Here I argue that we do not discuss experimental design, often until it is too late. This editorial seeks to begin a conversation about how and where to replicate appropriately.

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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social · Aug 15

🚨🚨We’re hiring graduate students!🚨🚨

We are hiring 1-2 PhD students to start sometime in 2026 (Fall start dates preferred). Opportunities to work on a diversity of eco-evo-immuno and symbiosis projects!

Deadline Oct 15! Please share broadly!

Info here: tinyurl.com/y2abjsem

opportunities – Symbiommunity Lab

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Brad Weiler, Ph.D. @bradweilerdives.bsky.social · Aug 14

Thanks Allyson! Stoked to get it out finally 👀🙌🏻

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Fabien Burki @fburki.bsky.social · Aug 14

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Genomes of nitrogen-fixing eukaryotes reveal an alternate path for organellogenesis #protistsonsky

Genomes of nitrogen-fixing eukaryotes reveal an alternate path for organellogenesis | PNAS

Endosymbiotic gene transfer (EGT) and import of host-encoded proteins have been considered hallmarks of organelles necessary for stable integration...

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Dr. Lauren E. Fuess @laurenfuess.bsky.social · Aug 13

Hey wild immunologists of blue sky… do you work on a non-model taxa???

Would you have 15 min to spare to zoom in and share your research with my comparative immunology class?

I’m looking to spotlight real research this semester. Please spread the word and reach out if you’re interested!

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Andrew Roger @andrewjroger.bsky.social · Aug 12

Our paper describing our new improved GFmix models for phylogenetic inference that capture site-and-branch heterogeneity in amino acid composition.
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Modeling site-and-branch-heterogeneity with GFmix

Phylogenetic trees are often inferred from protein sequences sampled from diverse taxa across the tree of life. The compositions of these amino acid sequences may be heterogeneous across both sites an...

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