We are extending the deadline to Feb 27, since we still have a few slots. ๐ A semi-informal event to interact with your peers, learn about cutting-edge research, and hear from two leaders in the field (Sophie Armitage & Dieter Ebert).
And it's free! ๐
PIs, please recommend to your grad students!
A new combtooth blenny genome just dropped! Assembled from recycled ONT data + HiC + RNAseq.
Thanks, Nikita Kulikov, Kim Joffroy, @ambonacolta.bsky.social @delcampolab.bsky.social for your hard work
Evolution can create species that look similar โ or completely different.
Hereโs how convergent and divergent #evolution explain these patterns.
At #EcolClips we take a look at classic examples to show how species adapt to their environments.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnoB...
๐ข 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. ๐งฌ๐ฆ (1/3)
Atmospheric evening view of Bristol and the Clifton suspension bridge. Adobe Stock c Stephen Davies
๐ Big news! ๐
We will be moving to @bristolbiosci.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social in 2026!!
We're so excited to be joining such a dynamic and thriving department, university, and city - thank you to everyone who has already been so welcoming!
๐ข But that's not all - come and join us! ๐
Figure 1. Graphic summary of short-read applications discussed in this review.
"The untapped potential of short-read sequencing in biodiversity research"
by Christoph Bleidorn (@cblei.bsky.social) et al
"Genomic resources have the potential to transform our understanding of the vast, still largely unknown diversity of species..."
More at:
authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
We are welcoming applications for a full professorship on Molecular and Evolutionary Zoology at Kiel Univerdity, Northern Germany, with fantastic facilities and infrastructure! @uni-kiel.de @crc1182.bsky.social @transevo.bsky.social www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Two fully funded #PhD positions on insect #Symbiosis available in our lab: Spiroplasma in Neotropical Arthropods (tinyurl.com/spiroplasma) & Psyllid symbionts (tinyurl.com/psyllids).
Please contact me for any questions & share widely #symbiosky #academicjobs
A blue poster describing opportunities to join the Bernhardt Lab -- for more information please see https://www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
โจ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available โจ
Please spread the word!
www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us
#CSEE2025
Awsome job opportunity for a plant ecologist at University of Halle, with many amazing colleagues nearby at @unihalle.bsky.social, @ufz.de and @idiv-research.bsky.social. Halle is a very cool city. Go for it! www.nature.com/naturecareer...
I'm very pleased to share the latest paper from my post doc with @kayla-king.bsky.social. We looked at how host microbiota can influence pathogen virulence evolution in a C. elegans model of infection: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...
๐ ๐ถ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ผ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ฏ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐น๐ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ ๐ด๐ฒ๐ป๐ผ๐บ๐ฒ ๐บ๐ฎ๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ ๐ฒ๐๐ผ๐น๐๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ถ๐ป๐๐ผ ๐ฎ ๐๐ถ๐ฟ๐๐
or maybe not. a ๐งต
roland @environmicrobio.bsky.socialโฌ โชand Krzysztof @ktjurdzinski.bsky.socialโฌ already commented, please also read their posts.
www.science.org/content/arti...
#MicroSky #SymbioSky #ProtistsOnSky
Our new paper, just out โSuperspreaders have lower gut microbial alpha-diversity and distinct gut microbial composition in a natural rodent populationโ.
Highlights gut microbial signatures for those individuals that have the potential to spread the most infectious disease.
doi.org/10.1186/s425...
We have fully funded PhD studentship available for a genomic analysis of the demise of the Mazarine Blue & Large Copper ๐ฆ in the UK. Interested in conservation genomics, extinction, ๐ฆ, bioinformatics? If so, this might be the PhD for you! Full details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DML401/n...
Iโm recruiting a PhD student in macrogenetics at Dalhousie University ๐จ๐ฆ! Focus will be on the biogeography of vertebrate genetic diversity or urban evolutionary ecology.
Full ad: www.schmidt-biodiversity-lab.org/macrogenetic...
If the ad is up, applications are still open.
Please share widely! ๐งฌ๐งฌ
Our article is out. Equity, Diversity and Inclusion: Improving gender equity in academia depends on the workplace environment.
www.idiv.de/striving-for...
The Female Scientists initiative at iDiv is connecting women in science. We learned so much from each other and our community along the way.
@haraipapilio.bsky.social paper on evolution of Wolbachia MK mechanism through prophage acquisition in molina butterflies - avoiding suppression by the host. Now out! #symbiosky www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... With @daisukekageyama.bsky.social @bolinabug.bsky.social and others
Blue sky over the iDiv core centre in Leipzig. Photo: S. Bernhardt
The skyโs the limit for biodiversity research! ๐ณโ๏ธ Join iDiv on Bluesky and stay informed about new research, upcoming events, and #iDiv initiatives, including sDiv, the #InsideBiodiversity podcast, and the yDiv Graduate School.
PhD Opportunity: Last few days to apply to join my lab to explore the co-evolution of male and female genitalia in Drosophila. Feel free to DM me for more details! ๐งฌ๐ #PhDposition #EvolutionBiology #Genetics tinyurl.com/PhD-Drosophila
Our review is out in Nature Reviews Genetics! rdcu.be/d5AY2
We show how phylogeny-based methods can resolve the problem of non-independence in genomic datasets.
These methods must be considered an essential part of the comparative genomics toolkit.
@lauriebelch.bsky.social @stuwest.bsky.social
Two #postdoc positions available in my lab. Position 1 focusses on #phytoplasma transmission via #insects. Position 2 aims to investigate the dynamics of #symbiont #evolution in #psyllids in collaboration with @mgerth.bsky.social, Martin Kaltenpoth and Liliya Serbina. Please share.
BBSRC funded PhD - evolution in the early stages of symbiosis, using Arsenophonus as model. tinyurl.com/Edgeofsymbio.... Apply by 30/01/2025. Available for UK and International students. With @brockhurstlab.bsky.social and @acdarby.bsky.social. #symbiosky
New review on the evolution of insect male terminalia I wrote with Daniela Nunes: www.cell.com/trends/genet...
I made ,some time ago, a starter pack for Microbial #Symbiosis. I'm 100% sure it's incomplete, but short on time lately... You can reply and suggest prople/feeds/etc to add!
#MicroSky #SymbioSky
go.bsky.app/T8VUWCz
What happens to the #genome of #bacteria as their association with the host becomes ever more intimate?๐งช๐ฆ
A lot: Expansion, pseudogenization and shrinkage, driven by reduction of phage pressure
New by Stefanos Siozios, Greg Hurst &co
#evolution #genomics #microbiology
www.cell.com/current-biol...
In our new study โWolbachia in Antarctic terrestrial invertebrates: Absent or undiscovered?โ doi.org/10.1111/1758... we summarise the diversity of terrestrial #invertebrates and discuss why #Wolbachia - the common #endosymbiont of invertebrates was not found in #Antarctica.
Text: Chloรฉ Schmidt, 2024 Society for the Study of Evolution Dobzhansky Prize. Headshot of Chloรฉ Schmidt.
Congratulations to our Dobzhansky Prize recipient, Chloรฉ Schmidt! Dr. Schmidt will give the joint Dobzhansky Prize/ASN Early Career Investigator Award talk at #Evol2024 on Sunday at 2:30 PM EDT. shorturl.at/D6P1C @chloology.bsky.social
Several positions opening in my lab and the Centre for Functional Genomics at Oxford Brookes:
- 2 PhD positions via the Oxford Bioscience DTP
- a fully funded PhD in my lab, co-supervised by Darren Williams, KCL
- a research tech position (0.5 FTE) to help tagging Drosophila transcription factors
Journal cover depicting a nighttime forest scene
Excited to have done a cover illustration for the November issue of Trends in Genetics, related to our article about conservation macrogenetics! Made in inkscape.
