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Ville Friman
@frimanscience.bsky.social
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Professor in Microbiology at the University of Helsinki. Guitar in Insomnium. Honorary Fellow at the University of York and Honorary Professor at Nanjing Agricultural University https://www.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/microbial-ecology-and-evolution
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 3d
5-years in the making this paper has been a real journey!

Also, a fun collaboration with @frimanscience.bsky.social @jofoth.bsky.social Edze Westra, Simon Lovell, Aras Kadioglu

#mevosky #phagesky
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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 23d
I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

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A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.
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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 9d
Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share.

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Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto - Työpaikat - Duunitori
Avoin työpaikka: Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto, Turku. Duunitorilla lisäksi yli 30 000 muuta avointa työpaikkaa. Lue lisää nyt!
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Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social · Aug 12
A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others

Please share & get in touch if interested!

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Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology:Oxford Road
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Aug 13
We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes

Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Ville Friman @frimanscience.bsky.social · Aug 12
Congrats Mike 🥳
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Jun 30
One week left to submit your abstract to @microbiologysociety.org meeting on “Understanding and Predicting Microbial Evolutionary Dynamics” at Liverpool 26-27 November

Lots of spaces for ECR talks and posters!
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Jun 24
1/27 We have a new paper out! Turns out that snowflake yeast have been hiding a secret from us - they've evolved a (very!) crude circulatory system. Not with blood vessels or a heart, but through spontaneous fluid flows powered by their metabolism. 🧪🔬

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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · Jun 20
🚨 Reminder! You have just over two weeks to submit an abstract, if you want to present at the @microbiologysociety.org meeting "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" in Liverpool in November! #microsky 🦠🧫🔬
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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · May 2
‼️Update! Abstract submission is now open for the 2025 Liverpool UK @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics”! Deadline July 7th #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
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Ecology of Soil Microorganisms @esmmicrobes.bsky.social · Jun 11
Fresh new abstract books are waiting for the #esm2025 congress, which starts in a few days. Don’t forget to follow us from Sunday onwards!
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Ville Friman @frimanscience.bsky.social · Jun 11
Great postdoc opportunity available in Zurich!
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Rolf Kümmerli @rkmicrobes.bsky.social · Jun 10
We are looking for a highly motivated postdoc to work on pathogen interactions. Please send in your application via

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UZH: Postdoctoral researcher in microbiology
The Department of Quantitative Biomedicine is an interdisciplinary biomedical research unit that combines basic science with biotechnological and medical research, using both experimental and computat...
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Ville Friman @frimanscience.bsky.social · May 30
Top two recurring typos with the current grant write-up:

1) Metagnomes 🧌 (Metagenomes)
2) Pants 🩳 (Plants)
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Di Jiang @dijiang319.bsky.social · May 11
🧫🦠🔬🧬 @science.org Sedentary chromosomal integrons as biobanks of bacterial antiphage defense systems | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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#microbiology #phage #immunity #phagesky #MicroSky
Sedentary chromosomal integrons as biobanks of bacterial antiphage defense systems
Integrons are genetic systems that drive bacterial adaptation by acquiring, expressing, and shuffling gene cassettes. While mobile integrons are well known for spreading antibiotic resistance genes, t...
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Ville Friman @frimanscience.bsky.social · Apr 29
This will be an excellent meeting - highly recommended!
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Apr 29
This meeting will be great!

Abstract submission open now

See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Apr 29
This meeting will be great!

Abstract submission open now

See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool

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Ville Friman @frimanscience.bsky.social · Apr 24
Hope to see lots of interesting Ralstonia research in Wageningen next year!
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IBWS2026 @ibws2026.bsky.social · Apr 24
The 8th International Bacterial Wilt Symposium (8th IBWS2026) will be held on 22-26 March 2026 in Wageningen, the Netherlands. The preparations regarding its organization are in full progress! Follow us to stay updated 🧫🌱👩‍🔬
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Ville Friman @frimanscience.bsky.social · Apr 22
Join the ESEB 2025 symposium on bacteria-phage ecology and evolution (S43) with Frédérique Le Roux and Michael Brockhurst as invited speakers. Submit abstracts by April 25, 2025 (eseb2025.com/call-for-abs...). See you in Barcelona, August 17-22, 2025! #phagesky
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ESEB 2025 Congress @eseb2025.bsky.social · Apr 21
👂We want to hear all about your work!
This is your chance to showcase your research in #EvolutionaryBiology and network with colleagues from all over the world!
Select from 51 symposia for your #Abstract: https://eseb2025.com/list-of-symposia/​
 👉🏻 Submit Now: https://eseb2025.com/call-for-abstracts/
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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · Mar 26
Michael Lin (Stanford) reports his grant on anti-COVID meds was terminated.

Pandemics become endemic.
Endemic diseases require treatments.
Treatments require research.
Research requires continuity of support.
Continuity of support requires federal funding.

But the WH just doesn't get it.
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Mar 26
Job alert ‼️
2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social
- ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...
Senior Lecturer/Reader/Chair in Ecology:Manchester
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Gemma C. Atkinson @gemmaatkinson.bsky.social · Mar 19
Please spread the word! We have an opening in the Atkinson lab for a post-doc with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of microbial immune systems. Can be a fully computational or experimental or hybrid project.

Read more and apply here:
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#phage #bioinformatics
Postdoctoral research fellow with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of bacteriophage-host interactions
Description of the Workplace In the Atkinson lab we are interested in making discoveries about protein function and structure, with a focus on bacterial immune system components that protect against b
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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · Mar 19
Awwww yeah, check this out: snowflake yeast making their cover debut!

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We have two papers in this issue:
1) A paper examining whole genome duplication in the MuLTEE

2) A review of long-term experiments in evolutionary biology led by @jameststroud.bsky.social 🧪
A microscopy image of snowflake yeast on the cover of Nature, with the extended cells of two clusters barely touching in a manner reminiscent of Michelangelo's depiction of Adam touching God in the Sistine chapel.
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Kelton Minor @keltonminor.bsky.social · Mar 18
There are days in life that shake you.

I’m shattered 💔 to share that I just found out that the US Government terminated my 2024 NIH Director’s Early Independence Award (~$2 million), threatening my long-promised assistant professor job at Columbia University
& academic career... 1/🧵
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Clara Torres-Barceló @clara-inrae.bsky.social · Feb 26
Join us at the Plant Health Institute of Montpellier (PHIM) in the south of France! ☀️ We're looking for a POSTDOC to explore the phageome and plant microbiome, diving into cutting-edge research at the intersection of viromics and microbial ecology.

📆 Deadline: March 15, 2025

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Jamie Hall @jpjhall.bsky.social · Feb 18
I'm delighted to announce that the 2025 @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" will be held in Liverpool 26-27 November 2025! Abstract submission will open soon... #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
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