The pace of registrations has really picked up this last week! I'm starting to think that we might reach capacity before the Nov 1 deadline. If you'd like to guarantee your spot, register soon!

Daniel Bolnick@danielbolnick.bsky.social · 2d ago

A reminder about a great conference coming up in the US Northeast: The American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social bridging ecology, evolution, behavior; theory and data. It is an outstanding small conference, welcoming & friendly with high-level science www.amnat.org/announcement...

The stand-alone meeting of the American Society of Naturalists @asn-amnat.bsky.social in an old mansion on Long Island is starting to book up! Registration is open until Nov 1 OR until we hit 200 registrants, so grab your spot before it's gone! www.amnat2027.org

ASN Stand Alone Meeting 2027

Jan 8-12 - Long Island, NY. Learn more about the conference and register here!

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New lab publication shedding light into the role of microbial communities during sargasso blooms in the Caribbean 🧪🌊🦠🧬 www.frontiersin.org/journals/pla...

Frontiers | Microbial community dynamics mediate rapid biomass loss and phosphorus recycling in pelagic Sargassum

Sargassum blooms in the tropical North Atlantic have surged to unprecedented levels, causing massive algal tides that severely impact coastal ecosystems. To ...

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💡This week, we are excited to spotlight @mrosie.bsky.social as one of our SPARC scholars! Rosie’s research examines teacher working conditions, special education practices, and state policies in K-12 schools through a sociocultural lens.

New paper out with @kaylastoy.bsky.social: academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

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Lily Khadempour@khadlily.bsky.social · 4w ago

I'm happy to share my new paper "A new conceptual framework for host-microbe symbiosis" If you've seen me give a talk in the last 5 years, then you've seen me talk about this. It's been a journey. academic.oup.com/ismehm/artic... #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky

📚 Thank you to everyone who joined us at #Ento26 to celebrate the launch of #ApproachesInEntomology, the RES's newest journal. Here's to the authors, editors, reviewers and readers who will help shape its future! 🪰 Read more about the new journal and submit your papers 🔽 buff.ly/5yCcAgD

Submit your Research to our newest Scientific Journal

It was fantastic to see so much enthusiasm for this exciting new platform for methods, philosophies and ethics in insect science. Here's to the authors, editors, reviewers and readers who will help shape its future!

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I'm happy to share my new paper "A new conceptual framework for host-microbe symbiosis" If you've seen me give a talk in the last 5 years, then you've seen me talk about this. It's been a journey. academic.oup.com/ismehm/artic... #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky

A new conceptual framework for host-microbe symbiosis

Abstract. Host-microbe relationships are studied across biological disciplines, with unique but overlapping conceptual frameworks arising from each of them

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So excited about this species description! New eusocial shrimp just dropped 🦐🦐🦐

A new eusocial species of snapping shrimp, Synalpheus idelisae n. sp. (Decapoda, Alpheidae), with a review of caste differentiation in eusocial shrimp

Snapping shrimp in the genus Synalpheus Spence Bate, 1888 are the only marine organisms known to exhibit eusociality, a social structure characterized by colony-living and a reproductive division of l...

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A truly fun #MattersMicrobial session with Dr. Mónica Medina of UCLA to discuss the holobiont concept in corals and jellies. I really appreciate the guests who are flexible so that I can record from New Zealand. #DocMartinInternational @microbetv.bsky.social

My friend Rosie does really fantastic work to study what can make education better in the US. And getting funding to do this work in the current climate!? 🎉🎉🎉🎉 So exciting!

Rosie Miesner@mrosie.bsky.social · last mo.

I am elated to share this collaboration between EPIC and the Frank Porter Graham Institute! Our project examines how contexts inform the experiences of special education teachers and shape outcomes for students with disabilities. Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions!

🚨WARNING🚨 Today is the LAST DAY to leave your public comment on the NSF Proposal. The Proposal implements some of Vought's Science-Destroying OMB Proposal plans in advance: zurl.co/9nywR Leave your public comment TODAY using our guide & tool: fight2win.standupforscience.net/campaign/Pro...

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Scoop: For nearly a year, NSF has struggled to make new grants. Now we know that it will not catch up. In fact, NSF will award just 6,100 new grants—a 30% y/o/y decline, itself down from a previous avg. of 11,000+. In fact, the last time NSF awarded so few grants was in the early '80s.

Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades

The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.

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In case you hadn't heard, the American Society of Naturalists meeting will be on the East Coast this year! It's a small meeting with excellent science and excellent people. Jan 8-12, 2027 in Glen Cove, Long Island, NY Learn more and register here: www.amnat2027.org

ASN Stand Alone Meeting 2027

Jan 8-12 - Long Island, NY. Learn more about the conference and register here!

amnat2027.org

Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention

My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.

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I am happy to share that we are recruiting a postdoc with previous #tuberculosis research experience for a Mtb systems biology project focused on gene networks! Please visit our lab website (www.jasonyanglab.org) and our ad (tinyurl.com/ms92bmj8) for more information!

Yang Lab at Rutgers NJMS

The Yang Lab at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School seeks to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying the pathogenesis and treatment of chronic and infectious diseases. We develop approaches for a...

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Are you a professor at a UC and you wished that your retirement money was not tied to weapons, ICE, and prisons? There is a very easy way to move (part) of your retirement (with very similar yields). If you want to know more, there is this amazing website: www.ucmoveyourmoney.org

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Welcome! Are you ready to divest your UC retirement savings from state violence? Let's get started! Want to Learn More First? Read our UC Move Your Money Campaign Summary and/ watch our recorded st...

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Meet three of our #Dros27 plenary speakers! 🧠 Vanessa Auld 🪰 @nabroderick.bsy.social 🧬 Don Fox From glial biology to host-microbe interactions to genome stability and regeneration, they'll bring exciting science to Philadelphia. 🔗https://buff.ly/7IBPyFM

My time at Clark is coming to end. I will defend my thesis this Thursday, July 30th, at 10 a.m. EST. I am grateful to everyone who has encouraged, supported, and mentored me throughout this journey. I look forward to sharing my findings with you.

I love a good scientific article title. "Honeypots: a review of repletism across the ants"

So excited to share that one of the chapters from my thesis has been published! In it we discovered that, despite previous assumptions, Escovopsis (a mycoparasite in the fungus growing ant symbiosis), has a complete MAT locus under purifying selection.

Genome Biology and Evolution@genomebiolevol.bsky.social · 3mo ago

@soleilsolay.bsky.social et al. find that Escovopsis s.l. - specialized fungal parasite of the fungus-growing ant symbiosis - likely undergoes cryptic sex as all examined strains have a complete mating-type locus under purifying selection. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evag160 #evolution #societyjournal

Just had an NSF proposal rejected after almost a year pending. One of the reviewers tanked it by not seeing that we had clear documentation for the things they asked for (and that the other reviewers clearly saw). Didn't go to panel though because the NSF is being destroyed.

Oh, hey, Evolution did a "digest" of our recent piece on rodent stripes. academic.oup.com/evolut/artic... (OG paper here: academic.oup.com/evolut/artic...)

Join our HFSP team on this amazing project! This will be an experimental postdoc position based in Amsterdam. There will be a more bioinformatic/evolutionary postdoc position based in Cambridge coming up soon. #socialfluids

Joris M. Koene@joriskoene.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Are you a biologist with experience in and enthusiasm for imaging and -omics techniques? Apply for working in Amsterdam (@vuamsterdam.bsky.social) on the exciting topic of socially transferred materials! 🐌 🐸 🐜🧬🔬 workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...

This is a great meeting and I’m looking forward to attending and catching up with all the great symbiosis science. I’ll also be there in my role as EiC of the new @isme-microbes.bsky.social journal ISME Host Microbe. Happy to discuss about your next manuscript!

Conference on Beneficial Microbes@benmicrobesmtg.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The 2026 Conference on Beneficial Microbes will be co-organized with the International Symbiosis Society from July 19th - July 23rd. Its not too late to register! #BeneficialMicrobes10 #BeneficialMicrobesMtg #ISS #SymbioSky

On this last day of #Evol2026, a reminder to sign up for the ASN Stand Alone meeting, on the East Coast of the US for the first time! www.amnat2027.org Registration is open. It's a small conference and spots are limited.

ASN Stand Alone Meeting 2027

Jan 8-12 - Long Island, NY. Learn more about the conference and register here!

amnat2027.org

🚨 #Evol2026 attendees - our team at @arcadiascience.com is hiring! We're looking to hire a computational evolutionary biologist interested in asking how and why protein sequences/structures/functions differ across the tree of life 🧬 jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien... Please share widely!

Registration for the American Society of Naturalists stand-alone meeting is now open! www.amnat2027.org The former Asilomar meeting will be held in a mansion on Long Island in Jan '27. Limit of 200 people. @asn-amnat.bsky.social #Evol2026

Want to learn about ant biology, systematics, taxonomy, field ecology, and so much more? Join us for #AntCourse Oct 12-22 at the Colorado State University Todos Santos Center in Baja California Sur, Mexico! Applications due July 1 www.antcourse.org

Ant Course

2026 Dates: October 12–22 Deadline to apply: 1 July 2026 Location: Colorado State University Todos Santos Center, Todos Santos, Baja California Sur, Mexico

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Do you study human microbiomes? Have you used the word "commensal"? Then this paper was written with you in mind! It was an absolute pleasure to write this with the incomparable @ginalewin.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

mGem: Tapping into the language of symbiosis to advance human microbiome research | mBio

An overarching goal in microbiome research is to understand how the complex communities in our bodies contribute to health and disease, and ultimately, we aim to leverage and control these communities...

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