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Okay, so. I don’t know how much of a heads up this is when it’s just a notice about these 2 mutations. Do they really raise serious concerns about “increased transmission?” Sort of. It’s more complex than D701N & E626K, omg pandemic bird flu. What do these mutations do in H5N1?

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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 @evbc.bsky.social

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We're on our way to Manchester! 🚆🎉 📍Michael Smith Building 🗓️ TODAY 🕚 11am - 1pm Make sure you stop by & chat to our team about FREE shipping available at MANCHESTER for our WHOLE PLASMID & Microbial Sequencing services 🦠🧬 @official-uom.bsky.social #MicroSky #MicrobialGenomics #PlasmidSequencing

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OMG the cupcakes have arrived! 🧁🧁🧁 If you are near the Michael Smith building at The University of Manchester make sure you stop by!

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We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/

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Congrats Rowan! Thanks for being a great colleague over the last several years and good luck in Canada 🇨🇦🏒🏔️

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University of Manchester, it’s been 1 year since our POP UP event & next week we’re BACK to launch our Dropbox 📦🧬🦠 Can’t wait to see friendly faces & share our services. See you in AV Hill reception Feb 25th, 11-3pm—we're bringing 🧁 #FreeShipping #MNGPopUp #MicroSky www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2zE...

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Now seems a good time to mention that I haven't yet filled a postdoc position in phylogenetic methods. If you just lost your job, need something temporary, and know something about bioinformatics/statistics/evolution, talk to me.

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New paper: We show that population exposure to colibactin producing E. coli lineages ST95 and ST73 largely explains global variation in colorectal cancer incidence. Same STs are also major causes of UTIs and may be similarly involved in urinary tract cancers. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Today is both #DarwinDay and the anniversary of the first use of penicillin. Here's your annual reminder that #AMR is caused by #evolution... So you can blame Darwin for superbugs 🧫🦠

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#OnThisDay in 1941 the first patient, Albert Alexander, was treated with Penicillin. This event marked the success of antibiotics and their application in medicine. His story serves as a testament to inspire researchers to develop new life-saving antibiotics in an effort against AMR #KnockingOutAMR

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We (The Faculty of Computer Science at Dalhousie) is currently seeking applications for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in AI and Healthy Aging (www.dal.ca/faculty/comp...). This is a great opportunity to join a growing community of researchers and practitioners in the Atlantic Canada region.

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📢 Calling all female African scientists. Applications open for the EMBL-UNESCO 3-month residencies in infection biology: 🪴 Grow your network 🧪Develop your skills 🧠Exchange knowledge with international colleagues Deadline: 31 March 2025 www.embl.org/about/info/s... #WomenInSTEM #WomenInScience

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We have an exciting full-time permanent position available for a proteomics specialist for the Proteomics platform at @johninnescentre.bsky.social The platform has excellent facilities and provides essential experimental expertise research at the institute. jobs.jic.ac.uk/Details.asp?...

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Applications are open for our Independent Research Fellowship Mentorship Programme! The programme supports promising early career researchers to submit fellowship applications and move towards research independence. If you’re looking to make the move, full details are on our website👇 bit.ly/BioIRF

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The 2nd conference of the Society for Mathematical and Theoretical Population Biology @smtpb.bsky.social will be in Chicago @nitmb.bsky.social June 2-6. Applications are now open, both to attend (junior applicants can apply for financial support), and to present, at www.nitmb.org/modeling-and...

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☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️ 2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!

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🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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We are looking for a postdoc in bioinformatics interested in broad questions about the ecology and evolution of host-associated microbiomes using social bees as model. Please share with potential candidates and if interested apply here: career5.successfactors.eu/career?caree...

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NERC Fellowships are open! We (Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, at the @liverpooluni.bsky.social) have a policy to provide a PERMANENT JOB to successful candidates at the end of the fellowship. Please in touch if you're interested!

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BBSRC fellowships are open: 3yrs of funding, ECRs worldwide are eligible (including the US 👀). Deadline 7th May. If you've a some postdoc experience (but no prior independent fellowships) and fancy coming to my Dept/ Institute in @liverpooluni.bsky.social, drop me a message.

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Does anyone have experience supporting someone with Tourette Syndrome (TS) in a lab setting? Or supporting someone who needs noise-cancelling headphones? How did you manage this while maintaining safety for the individual and others working in the lab? Asking for a colleague. #Neurodiversity #Lab

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Interested in doing a postdoc at the intersection of microbial ecology and agricultural engineering? We are recruiting for a collaborative project with me and Chris Voigt, Darcy McRose, Dave DesMarias, and Sixian You. See project announcement and reach out: jwafs.mit.edu/projects/202...

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Can bacteria swim away from their viruses to escape infection? Blazanin et al. use experimental evolution and mathematical modeling to answer this question, finding that bacteria should rarely, if ever, evolve to escape their viral parasites. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Our mSCAPE project has been formally announced to the world by @smhopkins.bsky.social at #FOG2025 today: www.gov.uk/government/n... - a really exciting academic-public health collaboration to build a surveillance platform leveraging NHS metagenomic diagnostic data. @meerac.bsky.social

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I think the Microbial Evolution feed is working! Simply add the #MEvoSky hashtag to your post and it will aggregate to the feed linked below. Feel free to introduce yourself in context of microbial evo and adjacent topics. Experimental and directed evo welcome too! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Congratulations Dolan! 🎉 Thanks to external Chris Stewart for making the trip from Newcastle @stewartlab.bsky.social

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The evolution of robustness and fragility during long-term bacterial adaptation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.632760v1

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Might be a bit on the nose... but if you're looking to move your research abroad, there are funding schemes specifically for this. For instance, this one offers £300k startup funds to move to UK & closes in March. Another round closes in November. royalsociety.org/grants/royal... 1/3

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Glad to see this out today in MEE! The rarity of mutations and the inflation of bacterial effective population sizes besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #popgen #populationgenetics #evolution #bacteriagenomics #bacteria #microsky #statsstandrews @uniofstandrews.bsky.social

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New preprint! We carried out the largest complementation and inhibition study for diverse homologs in a single protein family (DHFR) to date. Highlights thread follows... 1/n 🧵

submitted 30 days ago • 1 comment

I am part of an amazing immunology community in Manchester so I started a pack to help find us! Do reply if I missed you. #Immunosky go.bsky.app/FwUMk1Q

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Interested in microbial #metabolism, #mucosalbiology and #UTI? Then check out the open postdoctoral position in the Mucosal Immunology Group at ETH Zurich! NB: All applications must go via the ETH job portal: www.jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP... Closing date: 24th Feburary 🧪🧫🔬

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🚨 We are hiring for a 3-yr PDRA 🚨 The Whelan lab is seeking a microbiologist interested in microbe-pathogen competition and use of a Drosophila melanogaster chronic infection model to investigate the cystic fibrosis lung microbiome. For more info check out whelanlab.co.uk & apply at the link below:

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What influence does evolutionary history have on basal transcriptomes? On transcriptomic response to drug? On genetic paths for drug resistance? On fitness tradeoffs? Check out our latest preprint to find out! By @aleciarokes.bsky.social @asantoslopez.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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#MicroSky #ArchaeaSky #Archaea

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I am happy that my first post on bluesky is to congratulate my former PhD student Hanna Isaksson for publishing work from her thesis on multicellularity in PNAS (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...).

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👀 📣 Fellowship in Phage Therapy for UTI & Orthopaedic Infections is currently open for applications!! 📣 👀 Looks like an exciting opportunity in Toronto for ID or MedMicro Drs (trainees or post-qual, open to international applicants) lmp.utoronto.ca/clinical-fel... #IDSky #UTISky #ClinMicroSky

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New pre-print!!! What types of genes end up on plasmids and why? The take home message of this paper is that beneficial genes move from plasmids to chromosome, causing the ecological value of plasmids to decay over time. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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🚨 New preprint! We know that plasmids are associated with very variable fitness costs in their different bacterial hosts. But, what is the contribution of each of the plasmid-genes in these host-specific effects? Study led by @jorgesastred.bsky.social, @sanmillan.bsky.social and myself! 1/14

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📣 PSA for students: ChatGPT will format species abbreviations like this the first time they appear: "Eschericia coli (E. coli)". THIS IS WRONG & a dead giveaway you're using it in an inappropriate way, i.e. copy/pasting without thinking. You don't need the parentheses. /rant off

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New preprint from the lab!! Check it out!

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Scientists have developed a robotic hand exoskeleton that can passively train expert pianists to play faster keystrokes and overcome the ceiling effect in motor skills. Read more in #ScienceRobotics: scim.ag/4htCzKu

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There is one week to apply for the 2025 Workshop on Molecular Evolution (MOLE) at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, MA! More info here: molevolworkshop.github.io Apply here: www.mbl.edu/education/ad... Application deadline: Jan. 29th Workshop dates: May 22nd - June 1st

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Hello world! I'm starting out on bluesky with a job posting - we're looking for lab research tech who shares our love of bugs. More info here brownlab.biology.gatech.edu/opportunities/

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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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