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What is in the cards for One Health and Microbiome Sciences? Why combine them into a single narrative? We see convergence for discovery of microbiome rules across ecosystems. Here is the @psumbiome.bsky.social vision. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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This promises to be a cool PhD project with a very inspiring and nice PI!

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Apply now for the first conference joining the study of all multicellularity events! 👇

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📢 Only 10 days left until the abstract submission deadline for EEBST 2025! Submit your abstracts by 25 May here 👉 eebst.ekoevo.org

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PHD OPPORTUNITY aiming to examine/investigate key sources of pollution, the resulting ecological impacts, and beyond. 📅 Deadline 11th June Part of The de Freitas Studentship, to improve access and participation in PhD study for Black British students. 🏆 www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin... 🌐🦤🌊🧪🦑

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Next: @laahrs.bsky.social shows his lab's work on spatial organisation of metabolic gene expression in P. aeruginosa macrocolonies. More beautiful images, showing division of metabolic pathways between cells in different biofilm layers #Biofilms11 #MicroSky (Image: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...)

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Only 1 day left to apply for this fully funded PhD studentship, working closely with conservation managers to study moorland bird behaviour, diet and reproductive success. Application deadline 14th May! ⚠️⚠️⚠️

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We are delighted to advertise a 3 year fully funded PhD, generously funded by @camphilsoc.bsky.social on the evolution of the mammalian larynx, hosted @angliaruskin.bsky.social Full details here: findaphd.com/phds/project... Please pass it on!

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The Trait Discovery Group @kwsgroup.bsky.social is looking for a new Leader. "The candidate will lead a team focused on identifying and characterizing genes for genome editing that contribute to key trait product launches in KWS crops." #PlantScience #PlantSciJobs jobs.kws.com/job/Einbeck-...

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New publication from our Lesterlin lab in collab with lab of @knutdrescher.bsky.social We determined the spatiotemporal dissemination of conjugative plasmids within biofilms and found that they spread only in specific structural regions. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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New paper: “The clonality window: relatedness and the group covariance effect in the evolution of division of labour”, with @kztwyman.bsky.social #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/evol... @journal-evo.bsky.social #Image: #ChatGPT #Evolution #OA

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#ECR attention! Just finishing your #PhD and wondering if the DFG’s Walter Benjamin Programme might be a funding option for you? Come and find out in our info talk in our research career series #Prospects (in English). The link to the meeting will be published here: ➡️ www.dfg.de/en/research-...

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This highlights how a strong mutualistic interaction can promote the diversification of entire clades by influencing their phenotypes, defining their geographic distribution, and ultimately contributing to their evolutionary and ecological success 🧪🧬🐠 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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www.sheffield.ac.uk/biosciences/.... New PhD positions in our @sheffieldpps.bsky.social research cluster

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🎉 We’re hiring! Two ERC-funded #PostdocJobs on insect–phytopathogen mutualisms are available in my lab. Explore the chemical and molecular evolution of symbioses! 🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb 🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath #SymbioSky #PlantPathology

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Very cool work 👇 😮

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A Teaser: Jan Baedke’s Element book on “The Organism” at @cambridgeup.bsky.social will be available in print & Open Access on July 8th! It discusses philosophical, historical and social dimensions of the organism concept. www.cambridge.org/core/element... #philsci #philsky #HPS #hpbio #histsci

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"There is a cult of ignorance... ...The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge." 🧪 - Isaac Asimov 🔗 tinyurl.com/ytmx84db

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Love this “Life is marvelous, complex, and certainly more than machinery and genetic information”

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Another great looking meeting for UK #Mevosky aficionados June 16-17 with socials on 15 June in Southampton Homebrewed and low £cost (Excellent logo too…) www.ukmgeworkshop.org

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#Mevosky

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Junior faculty job alert in Germany - Marine Evolutionary Genomics @geomarkiel.bsky.social / University of Kiel www.geomar.de/en/karriere/... Marine study system of your choice (no microbes, sorry…), excellent infrastructure and ship access, moderate teaching requirements, closing date 6 June

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Looking to appoint a PhD candidate with background in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or related field to work on discovery of infection combatting therapeutics in marine sponge-associated bacteria. Closing date 31st May 2025. International applications welcomed!🌎

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We are hiring 2 PhD candidates working on resilience of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning across landscapes. Daily supervision by myself, @dominic-martin.bsky.social @iris-hordijk.bsky.social @lucianachr.bsky.social and Merel Hofmeijer. Details & application here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

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Excited about microbiomes and want to study them at the single-cell level? Join our team to pioneer research using microfluidics paired with automated timelapse microscopy. We're hiring motivated postdocs to push the boundaries of microbial ecology! Apply now: apply.interfolio.com/165601

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Join us in Amsterdam to explore the inner lives of mycorrhizal fungi using robotics, fluorescence microscopy & machine learning. Work at AMOLF w/ @thomasshimizu.bsky.social + more 📅 Application Deadline: 15 May, 2025 Advert here: amolf.nl/wp-content/u... Photo (!) @vkokkoris.bsky.social

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Very cool new work by @megbehri.bsky.social and William F. McLaughlin: Starvation drives co-existence in cross-feeding bacterial populations www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Dear All, We're trying again to hire our future #Professor in #Plant #Chemical #Ecology. Please share this post, and if you apply, please do follow the guidelines and translate the documents into the right language. #Scijobs #plantscience lbvpam.univ-st-etienne.fr/en/join-us/c...

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Elated and honored to have been awarded an ERC Consolidator Grant! We’ll explore why beetles lose genes — only to rely on symbionts instead 🪲🦠 Incredibly proud of the team and excited for this project to take off w/ some remarkable beetles! @erc.europa.eu www.bio.mpg.de/466825/news_...

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This Friday at 11am: Dr. Jennifer Martiny will talk about her groundbreaking work on the eco-evolutionary dynamics shaping wild microbial communities! 🦠 #MicrobialEcology #EcoEvolution Off campus? DM us for the Zoom link

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Last week, President Trump removed key protections from a marine protected area that's home to coral reefs, whales, sea turtles, and countless fish. My op-ed for @us.theconversation.com explains why that's bad and we should not do that. theconversation.com/trump-is-str... 🧪🦑🌎🐟

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Only 1 more week to apply for this postdoc position on the genomics of parallel climate adaptation in yeast! Link to application portal is in the post below. Please share widely! 🧪🌳🧬🍄

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1/ In our new paper, we explored whether obligate mutualisms can survive abrupt stress via evolutionary rescue. We found that evolutionary rescue is possible—but it comes at the cost of mutualism. @jfriedman.bsky.social #microsky #evosky #mevosky

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Professorship (W3) of Palaeontology - Munster, Germany - www.earthworks-jobs.com/jobs/munster... - #jobs #facultyposition #professor #palaeontology #geoscience #geology

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Excellent example of environmental-science communication using a simple video format & approachable delivery & messaging for my #ENVSCOMM25 students to consider as they make their own videos this week. 🧪

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We have a fully funded MSc position at UofA, Canada "Ecological time machines: bridging paleontology and community ecology" www.i-deel.org/opportunitie... co-supervised by Christine Sosiak (scholar.google.com/citations?us...) Please repost!

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Proud to present the first data paper from the lab, published today in @pnas.org. We describe a new mechanism for CLE peptides as local symbiosis-amplifying signals, promoting plant interactions with beneficial arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. Congratulations @sagarbashyal.bsky.social et al.!

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#Sciencejob Alert! Scientific career, experience in leading #research projects & international network? Strong expertise in #forest #ecology and/or #soil #processes and/or #tree functions? 🌳 We are looking for a new head of the forest and soil ecology research unit: apply.refline.ch/273855/1726/...

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Join us in at #ESEB2025 Barcelona for our symposium on microbial adaptation to changing conditions. Organised by @mtoll8.bsky.social @javierdelafuente.bsky.social and me. Amazing invited speakers @saramitri.bsky.social and Itzik Mizrahi!! @eseb2025.bsky.social

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This 👇

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📢The scientific program for #TMHMS is now live! We'll explore the incredible diversity of marine #holobionts and discuss how to embrace an integrated perspective on #symbioses across ecosystems, with an exciting lineup of speakers! We can’t wait to welcome you to Padova! marinesymbioses.eu/program/

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🌊 Calling all MSc & PhD students! Apply now for our #Summerschool on #Host-Microbe Symbioses in Aquatic Environments Dive into 5 days of field, lab & computational activities in the stunning Venetian Lagoon + amazing invited speakers! www.unipd.it/en/animals-c... 🗓️ Deadline: May 20

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🧬 Rethinking Cooperation in Biology? New study suggests that natural growth differences – not just strategy – matter big time for cooperation in nature. Turns out, yeast don't need to be strategic. www.evolbio.mpg.de/3815028/news... #evolution #ecology #cooperation #science

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I keep seeing heartbreaking stories about people who spend years in grad school, apply to jobs, and only then learn that their dream job needs a skill they didn’t learn during grad school. Looking at job ads now, years before you’re applying, can help identify skills to develop. 🧪🌎🦑🐠

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