Please help spread the word (again)! Searching for a #PhD student to join my group to work on #Symbiont - #pathogen interactions in #Hemiptera. Fully-funded, 4 years *Details 👇🏼 besymblab.univie.ac.at/wp-content/u... 🧵 on the project 👇🏼 bsky.app/profile/aman... #ScienceJobs #SymbioSky #MicroSky

Alejandro Manzano Marín@amanzanom.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Very happy to that our large-scale collaborative weave project (w/ @annamichalik.bsky.social & @sympiotr.bsky.social ) "Plant pathogens in #insect #microbiome [...]" has been approved! @fwf-at.bsky.social @ncn.gov.pl @univie.ac.at @jagiellonskiuni.bsky.social @dome-vienna.bsky.social 1/6 👇🏽

🚨 New preprint from our lab at NIAID! We discovered hundreds of sRNAs and mapped RNA–RNA interactions in the Lyme disease pathogen, revealing a dynamic regulatory network and OspR, an sRNA that directly binds and downregulates the mRNA encoding OspA, the antigen used in Lyme disease vaccines! 🧬

Global RNA-RNA interactome mapping in B. burgdorferi reveals base-pairing sRNAs that rewire gene expression across growth

Small RNAs (sRNAs) are prevalent across the bacterial kingdom and produce diverse regulatory effects when base pairing with target RNAs. To better identify sRNAs, we designed an experimental and compu...

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This is today - oct 28th. Join us for an exciting seminar

STRIVE@strivestn.bsky.social · 4w ago

The STRiVE online seminar series continues! 🐟🧬 🗓️ Wed, Oct 30 | 5 PM CET (9 AM PDT / 12 PM EDT) 🗣️ Nina Therkildsen (Cornell University) 🔬 "Beyond ecotypes: How chromosomal inversions shape continuous local adaptation"

Your monthly reminder that if you're using ChatGPT to do your science, you're failing your colleagues, community, and all of us. Here, ChatGPT makes up data and presents it as the real thing — then apologizes when confronted.

Pre-Submission Research Checklist 📋✨ Before hitting "Submit", read your draft like a first-time reviewer. Make sure your paper is built on clear questions, proper methodology, and strong evidence! 📌 Check out the guide below: #AcademicChatter #Research #PhDLife #ScienceWriting #Academics

I'm hiring a bioinformatician! Review of applications starts October 1 with a start date as soon as possible. 🧪 #Genomics #popGen #CompBio northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Please share! I have two positions for graduate students in my lab, starting Fall 2027. Details on the position s and application process can be found here: kjmathot.wordpress.com/opportunities/

Opportunities

********************************************************************************************************* ***Two graduate student positions in the Mathot Lab**** I am recruiting two new graduate st…

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Dawid Sadowski presenting his poster on #TIBESTRIVE conference

So excited to announce our search for 4 postdocs (funded by the Simons Foundation) who will use genomics to "test how ecological interactions, natural selection, natural enemies, hybridization & environmental gradients shape...tropical tree communities" in Panama: stri.si.edu/story/bci-ev... ...1

We are advertising a 3-year Evolution Education Trust funded #PhD studentship at @ugiatucl.bsky.social UCL to investigate the genomic history of infectious diseases preserved within historical pathology collections. Details: www.findaphd.com/phds/project.... #findaphd #EET

Unlocking the Genomic History of Pathogens Through Pathology Archives at University College London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Unlocking the Genomic History of Pathogens Through Pathology Archives at University College London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Postdoc search update! I am continuing to solicit applications for a postdoc opening in the lab, and probably around the beginning of July I will start selecting applicants to interview. See evoldir ad here: evoldir.net/brian/evoldi... Please RT or whatever!

Makes me sad more people don't know about @reviewcommons.org and the incredible system they've built! Get peer reviews independent of a journal, then submit with reviews in hand to a stable of excellent journals from across non-profit and society publishers. Review Commons: good for what ails ya.

Genome-wide associations of host susceptibility to helminth and blood pathogens in spatially structured rodent populations https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.19.726205v1

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

New preprint is out. How to deal with GWAS in structured populations? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Our preprint on complex associations between parasitic infections in voles and weather conditions across different spatial and temporal scales is now on BioRXiv: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Registration now open for @embo.org workshop on the evolution of biological interactions on April 24 - 27, 2026! Come join us in Taipei, Taiwan to see how interactions shaped the genomes of various organisms and meeting people from across the globe. Info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio...

Sadly, the conservation outlook for #BiałowieżaForest World Heritage Site is now "critical" largely on account of state border barriers, #militarization and breakdown in #transboundary cooperation. The IUCN released the assessment some days ago: worldheritageoutlook.iucn.org/explore-site...

Exciting news! The next #PopGroup meeting will take place in Lille 🍟, France, 7–9 January 2026 – just 1 hour by train from London, Brussels, and Paris. This year, PopGroup will also host ALPHY, the annual meeting of Evolutionary Genomics. More info: populationgeneticsgroup.org.uk See you there !

hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!

🦣🍖🧬 Fully funded 3-yr PhD in palaeogenomics & bioinformatics! Help me push non-model palaeogenomes beyond their limits @DTU in Denmark. Start: Feb 2026 (flexible) Application deadline: 24 Oct 2025 For details click here: tinyurl.com/BioExtPhD Reposts appreciated 😁

With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!

Every plant is a cabbage

BeatrixSpira@pebblepupidaho.bsky.social · last yr.

#plants #phylogeny

Lovely!

Claus Wilke@clauswilke.com · 2y ago

Bioart, courtesy of the NIH. All images are in the public domain and available for download as high-quality SVGs. bioart.niaid.nih.gov

I am looking for a postdoc! Pls share #postdoc #genomics #insects #inversions genomicsofoutbreaks.com/?page_id=141

Congratulations to Prof. Josephine Pemberton on being awarded the prestigious Genetics Society Medal! 🏅 Her groundbreaking contributions to genetics, from understanding natural populations to evolutionary biology, continue to inspire us all. genetics.org.uk/medals-and-p...

First snow in Warsaw yesterday. Sadly, most of it has melted already.

First post on Bluesky, let’s share some websites offering many free illustrations for scientific figures 🖼️ 🧪 🌍 : scidraw.io bioart.niaid.nih.gov www.phylopic.org More well known but very nice though: www.freepik.com

We’re excited to consider applicants for scholarships for our 2025 Biology of Vector-borne Diseases course! See our advert below. Please re-skeet to trainees and colleagues, as graduate students to faculty and practitioners across plant, animal and human health can apply.