🧵 New paper out in Nature Communications! 🐜🦠 How can an ancient nutritional symbiosis persist for millions of years, yet still be lost without killing its host? In Cardiocondyla ants, the answer appears to be remarkable metabolic flexibility. Paper: doi.org/10.1038/s414... 1/6

⭐Postdoc position available⭐ How do symbionts evolve new beneficial functions? Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses. 🦠 Apply below Enquiries: l.henry@qmul.ac.uk Please share! #Postdoc #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis henry-lab.co.uk

New paper out in @gigascience.bsky.social investigating horizontal gene transfer in 163 ant genomes! Well done @jannelrinke.bsky.social, and everyone involved. Thanks for inviting us along! 👏🐜

Janina Rinke@jannelrinke.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share that our paper on Horizontal Gene Transfer is now out in its final form in @gigascience.bsky.social! 🥳 By analysing 163 high-quality ant genomes, we show that HGT from bacteria is widespread across the ants and likely has adaptive functions! doi.org/10.1093/giga... 🐜📸: Alex Wild

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

5M year old whale graveyard that’s still being used?! Bonkers.

franz@franzanth.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Finally, footage from that new whale graveyard. The fact that fossils and fresh carcasses mix together in this spot is bonkers. But of course it makes sense, because the scavengers that live down there also need a steady supply over millions of years. They can't just suddenly adapt to the deep.

UVic is hiring a Terrestrial Plant Ecologist Assistant Professor! Come join our department! We're nice and Victoria is awesome. www.uvic.ca/science/biol...

Faculty Position in Terrestrial Plant Ecology - University of Victoria

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Please share widely! Abstract submissions open for the 2026 Jacques Monod conference: Ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions in a changing world! Held in beautiful Roscoff France from November 2- 6, 2026. Abstracts submission deadline : June 6 cjm.sb-roscoff.fr/en/conferenc...

New paper out in @molbioevol.bsky.social 🧬🦠 We show phage toxin diversity in protective symbionts isn’t random—toxin families are linked to defense against different parasitoid species. This suggests toxin diversification is a major force shaping the functional evolution of these microbes.

Panossian, @henrylabsymbio.bsky.social et al. analyzed Hamiltonella genomes and their toxin-encoding bacteriophages, highlighting how mobile genetic elements influence the ecological roles and diversification of protective symbionts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag079 #evobio #molbio

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 🧪

An ant that behaves like a cleaner fish? With awesome photos. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We have a new exiting PhD position in our program on the skin microbiome of amphibians, supervised by @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social! Follow the link to read more and apply: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/.... Deadline the 8th of May.

Check out this squid-vibrio postdoc position at Penn State with my colleague Tim Miyashiro, especially if you have a background in proteomics/metabolomics. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

Postdoctoral Position - BMB

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Come join us! We're recruiting 3 new academic posts in the School of Biology, University of Leeds, closing 23/04/26. Assoc Prof Plant Science tinyurl.com/4x48jc78 Assoc Prof Animal Biology tinyurl.com/2s4sk85s Lecturer in Ecology, Zoology, Biodiversity or Ecosystem Management: tinyurl.com/39dwp47j

May 5th: if you are around London, please join the London #EvoDevo symposium at QMUL / Charterhouse campus, as usual we will have selected talks and post-event 🍻. A warm up for #EED2026 in Glasgow. Registration £0, more info here: londonevodevo.co.uk

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🚨 PhD opportunity in evolutionary microbiology! Join our lab to study how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses and ecological function Plus: a PDRA position in comparative genomics is available ✉️ l.henry@qmul.qc.uk Apply below #PhD #Postdoc #Microbiology #Evolution #Genomics

Evolution of host–microbe symbioses: linking horizontal gene transfer to ecological function at Queen Mary University of London on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Evolution of host–microbe symbioses: linking horizontal gene transfer to ecological function at Queen Mary University of London, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Registration and abstract submission are open for our annual conference, #Ento26 🦋 Join the entomological community this September, with opportunities to present your work, meet new contacts and build collaborations. ✨ Find out #WhatsOn at #Ento26 🔽

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Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor position in Molecular Microbiology available at Lund University, Sweden: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Molecular Microbiology

The Department of Biology conducts research and teaching in many subject areas such as ecology, evolutionary biology, organismal biology and molecular biology. A total of approximately 300 people curr

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Great opportunity to join Lund University as an Assistant Professor in bacterial molecular biology (open to anyone with up to 7 years of experience post-PhD). lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Associate Senior Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Molecular Microbiology

The Department of Biology conducts research and teaching in many subject areas such as ecology, evolutionary biology, organismal biology and molecular biology. A total of approximately 300 people curr

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Pleased to finally share this fun collab that began at #Ento23 @cedricaumont.bsky.social presented & I had seen NCBI annotated some cockroach genomes as "contaminated." Turns out NCBI & I were wrong (much more fun). Horizontal transfer of an #AntimicrobialPeptide across insects bit.ly/DrsHGT 1/🧵

Amazing opportunity to join the @hassansalem.bsky.social lab studying symbiosis of leaf beetles!

Hassan Salem@hassansalem.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis! Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠 @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

Join @berasymbionts.bsky.social , @tatsuyanobori.bsky.social and us for a postdoc on the remarkable developmental biology of symbiosis! Applications are due March 25th 🪲🦠 @johninnescentre.bsky.social @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

John Innes Centre@johninnescentre.bsky.social · 6mo ago

VACANCY - We’re searching for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the newly appointed group of Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social, to explore the developmental biology of host-microbe symbiosis www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po... Deadline - 25 March 2026 Salary - £37,500 - £45,350 Contract - 3 years, full-time

🚨JOB alert🚨 We have three (yes, THREE) 🌟lectureships🌟 advertised in the School of Biological Sciences, University of Bristol. Broad remit, including #AnimalBehaviour & #GlobalChangeBiology ⏱️Deadline: 8th March 2026 🙏Please circulate widely 😊Come join us! Full #job details: tinyurl.com/y3us95rc

📄 A parasitic, parthenogenetic ant with only queens and without workers or males 🐜 ⬇️ www.cell.com/current-biol...

A parasitic, parthenogenetic ant with only queens and without workers or males

Hamaguchi, Kinomura and colleagues describe an ant species that lacks workers and males and consists exclusively of queens.

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How to study adaptation in organisms that we can’t see, living in environments that we can’t visit? Some thoughts in our perspective piece out today in @pnas.org www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... @biology.ox.ac.uk @stuwest.bsky.social

Studying adaptation at the invisible scale | PNAS

In order to understand adaptation by natural selection, it is necessary to observe organisms in their natural habitat. For this reason, the field o...

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Our new paper in @natcomms.nature.com is now online-early! We describe independent evolution of bacterial genomes of only ~50–52 kb — the smallest known outside cellular organelles — revealing striking convergence toward minimal gene sets. 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414...

How specific are heritable symbioses? And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species? We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com! 1/n www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We understand a great deal about how and why cooperation evolves, but what about its long-term consequences? Great to see our new review on this out now in @asn-amnat.bsky.social!

Stu West@stuwest.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Huge thanks to @asn-amnat.bsky.social for inviting our review on the evolutionary and ecological consequences of cooperation. @annadewar.bsky.social @asgriffin.bsky.social @lauriebelch.bsky.social www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

Comparative analysis across 5,678 insect species shows that, when you control for phylogenetic bias, eusociality has not evolved at a faster rate in haplodiploid species. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...