What happens when house sparrow nestlings grow up without a gut microbiome? Find out in our new preprint #microbiota #sparrows #microbes #guts www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Gut microbiota promote early-life digestive function in songbirds

The vertebrate digestive tract harbors complex microbial communities whose influences on phenotypes and fitness in non-model organisms remain poorly understood. Here, we show that colonization with gu...

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Melissah Rowe@melissahrowe.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Really excited to have this work out as a preprint. Great experiment with great colleagues, special shout out to the fantastic job done by Brian Trevelline and Andrew Moeller www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

It's now forecast to be 40 degrees here on Thursday. Our average daily high temperature for this time of year is 18. So angry for all of the people who're going to be unnecessarily harmed by this. So angry for our ecosystems that have not remotely evolved for this.

Move to Eurosky today - hosted in Europe, governed by European law, open to everyone Use Bluesky as normal: your data & your connections all stay the same. Our commitment: we will never sell your content, your data, or profile you for advertising. move.eurosky.tech

done! :D

Guy Leonard@guyleonard.eurosky.social · 2mo ago

Moved my @bsky.app account over to @eurosky.social using the service move.eurosky.tech - everything stays the same (followers/posts/etc) just now my data is stored in the EU & not the USA! Super easy to do and with better protections! I am slowly moving all my services away from US-based providers.

Giving this a bump, I still can’t find any published info.

Freya Harrison@friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hey #MicroSky, can anyone tell me offhand whether Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC13883 has rough or smooth LPS please? My searches are failing. Thank you :)

We are now recruiting for a 3 year NERC-funded postdoc to study the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in migratory birds. Based in the Wild Microbiome Lab @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall.

🐦 Interested in avian reproduction, microbiomes, or reproductive microbiomes? I'm looking for outstanding early-career researchers interested in applying for an NWO Veni grant to join my group at NIOO. Pre-proposals are due after the summer. Email me to discuss ideas. #EarlyCareerResearcher #Postdoc

📣🧬 Postdoc Alert🧬📣 We are hiring a 2+ year NERC-funded postdoc at Edinburgh Uni investigating causes and consequences of sex differences in recombination in house sparrows in Norway. Informal enquiries welcome at Susan.Johnston@ed.ac.uk 🙂 Details here: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Vamos Rayo!! ⚡⚽✊

Como Un Rayo

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GIVEAWAY! Dead Weight is coming out next week and to celebrate I'm giving away two copies that have been personally bitten by Uggi and will be personally signed by me and shipped to the winners wherever they live! To enter just like and share this post and I'll select the winners on May 26th!

Make it happen Bsky! Also, by chance are there any scientists named Riff on here?

Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Let's see how this works on Bsky: I am looking for a scientist by the name of Spice to write a Shugar & Spice paper. 🧪⚒️

I'm currently advertising a PhD position in my lab, to study the transition from commensal to pathogen in Staphylococcus aureus. Details available here, please share! www.keele.ac.uk/research/pos...

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We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪

📣 EvolDir is now managed by @eseb.bsky.social! We are delighted to be taking the reins and express our gratitude to both Brian Golding who began this service to the community in the mid-1980s and to @rdmpage.bsky.social who ran this account until now 👏 You can now find evoldir here: evoldir.net

Mark Zuckerberg has a problem with your friends: they're the reason you signed up to use his platform, but they stubbornly refuse to organize your socialization to "maximize engagement." Every time you and your friends wrap up a social interaction and log off, Zuckerberg loses revenue. 1/

Heb jij kennis van Microsoft SQL‑Server databases, ervaring met programmeren en lijkt het je leuk om in een klein dynamisch team te werken met een nationale impact op het gebied van vogeltrek? Dan zijn we op zoek naar jou! #vacature #wageningen nioo.knaw.nl/nl/vacatures...

Have you ever seen a billboard that really spoke to you?

Looking for MSc student(s) to be involved in some really cool germ-free experiments with house sparrows at @niooknaw.bsky.social @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social ! 🐣🦠Get in touch if you're interested and please share :) nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Early-life microbiome assembly and its effects on bird phenotypes

We are looking for a motivated Masters/HBO/internship student to partake in upcoming microbiome manipulation experiments, investigating how this fascinating community impacts phenotypes in birds. Star...

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Entrevista en National Geographic, donde hablo del impacto de las interacciones entre mascotas y fauna silvestre Paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Entrevista NG: www.nationalgeographic.com.es/mundo-animal...

@ox.ac.uk - this is a huge problem. What are you doing to stop it?

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6mo ago

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WEES March Seminar & Master Class: "Molecular evolution in a defensive symbiosis", Dr. Aileen Berasategui 📍 Master Class Time: 12 March, 14:00 Contact: b.taboada@nioo.knaw.nl (for details) 📍 Seminar Time: 12 March, 16:00 Location: Orion C1040, WUR

Abstract submission may be closed, but it is not too late to sign up to attend the NLSEB Annual meeting. Great plenary talks and a great line up of talks and posters. And thanks to our sponsors NWO and @isme-microbes.bsky.social for helping making this meeting possible.

Hey @britishecologicalsociety.org you're listed as still posting on the twitter. Every post you make, every click, you're supporting Elon musk, a man who makes nazi salutes in public. As a member I think you should stop now.

LSE Impact@lseimpactblog.bsky.social · 6mo ago

💥New post | The majority of UK academic institutions now no longer post on X ✍️ @andytattersall.bsky.social #AcademicSky #X #AcademicSocialMedia

@ox.ac.uk any chance you might rethink your collaboration with OpenAI and the free access to the edu version to all staff and students now? I won't hold my breath.

Don’t miss out. If you are in the Netherlands and consider yourself an evolutionary biologist then this is a must attend event!

NLSEB@nlseb.bsky.social · 6mo ago

We are excited to welcome you to the #NLSEB2026 meeting that will be held on Tuesday April 14 at Akoesticum in Ede! The deadline for abstract submission is March 1st! To register and to learn more about this event, visit our webpage: www.nlseb.nl/nlseb-meetings We hope to see you all there!

Are you, or do you know, a masters/undergrad looking to take part in a cool research project in bird behaviour, in a lovely field site? Look no further! 👇 (pls share!)

Beatriz Taboada@bibi-tabs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Looking for a student to develop a project on house sparrow behaviour and badge size! This project would include field work on the lovely Lundy Island in the Uk. For more information: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...

Do you work on #Passer #sparrows ? We want to bring together all sparrow researchers in a diverse array of fields. If you're interested then please join us for the Oslo Sparrow meeting in May! See here: www.mn.uio.no/cees/english... - sign up deadline fast approaching. Please share!

Application deadline for this postdoc position in my group closing next week 🦠 thank you all who have shared so far!

Rachel M. Wheatley@rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution. Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠 3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share! hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...