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What is a model organism? asm.org/Articles/202... #MicroSky #MEvoSky

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"Here, we track the development of balancing selection theory over the last century and provide an accessible review of this rich collection of models." #evobio

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This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

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Live imaging of individual symbiotic bacterial cells colonizing the gut of living Drosophila melanogaster show that Lactiplantibacillus plantarum specifically recognizes the fruit fly foregut as a distinct physical niche. www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #Symbiosky #Drosophila

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A century of theories of balancing selection https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.12.637871v1

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‪The new March issue of #RESPhysEnt, Vol. 50 Issue 1, opens with an editorial: Key questions for future research in Physiological Entomology 👀doi/10.1111/phen.12481 If you’d like to submit an article on any of these key research areas, get in touch! @wybouw.bsky.social @tbuescher.bsky.social

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Fieldwork opportunity: We're looking to hire a field assistant for the www.phenoweb.org project starting 1 April. Please repost. #phenology #fieldwork #birdringing

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V neat: "A naturally occurring mitochondrial genome variant confers broad protection from infection in Drosophila" from Tiina Salminen, Laura Vesala @pfvale.bsky.social et al journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

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Really interesting day discussing impacts of climate change on vector borne diseases workshop today. Lots of great science and discussion about exciting projects to take forwards. @keithrmatthews.bsky.social #reecelab @roslininstitute.bsky.social @amypedersen.bsky.social

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From @blongdon.bsky.social et al! doi.org/10.1093/evle...

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An important study showing that prolonged exposure to higher temperatures makes #Aedes albopictus more tolerant of #viral infection - with important implications for vector-borne diseases in a warming world. #symbiosky #evovir @uoe-eid.bsky.social

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I am very happy to see this first part of my PhD work go online now! 💃🏾 We explored alternative strategies to elicit #diseasetolerance in #Drosophila melanogaster in response to oral #infection with a natural bacterial #pathogen, #Pseudomonas entomophila. (Thread)

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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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PhD Summer School on Host-Microbe Symbioses. Awesome topic. Unbeatable location. #symbiosky #microsky #evobio gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

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This looks like an outstanding meeting, likely of interest to #Drosophila and #EvolSky 🧪communities.

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⭐ NEW PUBLICATION ⭐ A naturally occurring mitochondrial genome variant confers broad protection from infection in Drosophila @pfvale.bsky.social Read more ➡️ https://buff.ly/3EcXnYt

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Support a fantastic society journal by submitting your insect physiology work to @royentsoc.bsky.social PHEN. In the upcoming January volume, we discuss some of the key questions for future research in physiological #entomology. #symbiosky 🐜🐝🦋🦟🧪 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/YJQDXW...

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💭Check our brand new Research Focus - featuring publications from across the Edinburgh Infectious Diseases network! @pfvale.bsky.social @richardsloanlab.bsky.social @dbogaert.bsky.social @fionagreco.bsky.social Full article here ➡️ edinburgh-infectious-diseases.ed.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

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RES has joined Bluesky! We are excited to share fascinating science, news, events & more. To start, we’re featuring the #LargeBlueButterfly 🦋 Our #Conservation Science team recently published ground-breaking findings on the dispersal rates of this #EndangeredSpecies 🔽 https://buff.ly/3Wz5QLU

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Looks like a tremendous amount of work from Rodrigo Cogni's group, and a very useful quantitative review of the negative effects of viral infection across insect taxa. #symbiosky #virosky #InsectEcol #infection #evolsky

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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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Please share widely! We are recruiting a 3-year postdoc at the RVC to develop new methodology to infer epidemic dynamics from wild animal viromes sampled across changeable environments. Further details: jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Feel free to reach out with any questions. Deadline Feb 9th

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www.academics.com/jobs/univers... Please help us find a new colleague at Mainz University. Thanks! #evolbiol

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Absolutely astounding. Experimental horizontal transfer of #phage derived genes to #Drosophila confers innate immunity to #parasitoids. #symbiosky #microsky🧪

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PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...

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jobs.surrey.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx... At the University of Surrey, we are looking for a new colleague. Join us as Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Immunity and Infection Biology at the School of Veterinary Medicine. Do get in touch for any queries or forward to your networks 🙂 #MicroSky #IDSky #MicrobiomeSky

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📣 We are recruiting! Please spread the word! We look to hire an associate professor in animal ecology, specializing in evolutionary ecology. Apply by Feb 7 2025. Come join us in Uppsala, Sweden! Application page and contact info 🔗👇 #ecology #evolution #job www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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"We describe a #mtDNA variant that confers protection against variety of pathogens in #Drosophila. This protection was at least partially caused by enhanced cell-mediated innate #immunity, including higher numbers of immune cells prior to and during infection." journals.plos.org/plosgenetics...

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"What makes a super-spreader? Unravelling the genetics of host infectiousness" Funded #PhD position in my lab exploring the drivers of host heterogeneity in pathogen transmission. Get in touch if interested. Deadline 17 Jan 2025. #HostPathogen #DiseaseEcology www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Opportunity! We are looking for new editors - application deadline is Monday 20th January. Positions available: Associate Editors Handling Editor Commissioning Editor Details here: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...

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🇧🇷Periquito-da-campina 🌎Brotogeris versicolurus Conservação:Pouco Preocupante O periquito-da-campina é uma ave psittaciforme da família Psittacidae. 📷 Luiz Augusto Guto de Paula #birds

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Vesala, L., Basikhina, Y., Tuomela, T., Nurminen, A., Siukola, E., Vale, P. F., Salminen, T. S. (2024). Mitochondrial perturbation in immune cells enhances cell-mediated innate immunity in #Drosophila. BMC Biol, 22(1):60 bmcbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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The original article with @michaelgiolai.bsky.social: A trade-off between investment in molecular defense repertoires and growth in plants www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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UK PhD stipends have not been increasing in line with the national minimum wage, and since the generous COVID increase haven’t even bothered to be anchored against an inflation metric. I’m lucky enough to have a spouse to support me but in what world is this not a barrier to entry for others?

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Interested in fitness consequences of the gut microbiome in the wild? Keen on being involved with an iconic long-term study system? Check out a PhD opportunity working on Soay sheep microbiomes! Info below and feel free to contact with q's. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

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I'm advertising several positions at all levels ( #PhD, #Postdoc, #RA). If you're enthusiastic, collaborative, and interested in the #ecological and #evolutionary dynamics of #infection, please get in touch - link below. pedrovale.bio.ed.ac.uk/open-positions ([email protected])

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Why do people want AI to produce academic text (papers, reviews)? If we humans aren't even willing to write those texts, why in the bloody hell would we want to read them? How about: if no one cares about a text, let's leave it be. No need to review literally everything.🙅🙅‍♀️ #AcademicSky #SciPub

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great #PhD opportunity in #disease #ecology - which species are key for #tick-borne disease transmission in the UK? Combining genetics, community ecology, mathematical modelling     @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social & @ukceh.bsky.social International applicants - contact me by 9th Dec tinyurl.com/wfuak5se

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