🚨 We're recruiting! 🚨 Are you interested in antimicrobials and their evolution? Join Me, @coytelab.bsky.social and Tucker Gillman as we build a "silicon colosseum" to model their advantages in bacterial communities! Do share with anyone who might be interested :) willsmithlab.com/2026/10/06/n...

New vacancies opening! - SMITH lab @ Manchester University

Delighted to announce that the lab is recruiting! Bacteria poison prey and rivals using a diverse arsenal of weaponised toxins, spanning a huge diversity of molecular and interaction lengthscales. But...

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🔊 Fully-funded 4 year PhD: How does the microbiome evolve under repeated pathogen exposure? 🦠 Project looking at how commensal microbes resist pathogen invasion, impact of antibiotics on these outcomes, and selective pressures in the microbiome. Come join us at QUB! www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

We are hiring! Start at a #MaxPlanckInstitute with your own independent Max Planck Research Group. This position is equivalent to a W2 Professorship at a German university, or Associate Professor internationally. 🔗Apply until October 14th! www.mpg.de/career/max-p... #ScienceCareer #MPRG #TenureTrack

Two Assistant Professor Positions in Evolutionary Biology and Mechanistic Processes - including microbes! faculty.utexas.edu/career/191568

Fully funded 4-year PhD position in my lab on ecological and evolutionary dynamics in polymicrobial urinary tract infections using a model system, combining wet lab and computation: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Please share with your networks. I hope to find someone with a strong scientific drive.

Doctoral student in Medical Science: Predicting eco-evolutionary dynamics in a polymicrobial urinary tract infection model

Description of the workplace The position is based in the Microbial Evolutionary Genetics (MEG) Lab led by Johannes Cairns at the Department of Experimental Medical Science, Faculty of Medicine, Lund

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😮😮 Microbial community dynamics in a traditional Swiss mountain cheese over 142 years of cheesemaking: Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biol...

Microbial community dynamics in a traditional Swiss mountain cheese over 142 years of cheesemaking

How did modernizing cheesemaking change the microbes inside the cheese? By sequencing preserved traditional Alpine cheese wheels spanning 142 years from a single Alpine dairy, Somerville et al. trace ...

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The final version of our manuscript on TnSeq in bacteriophages (“HIDEN-SEQ”) is out today – if you have an interesting phage phenotype and want to know the underlying genetic basis, this one is for you! 1/4

Check out @sulheim.bsky.social's paper! The latest from our lab showing that some species do actually coexist robustly, no matter what or how much you feed them, whether the environment around them is constant, and whether or not they depend on each other metabolically for amino acids and vitamins.

Snorre Sulheim@sulheim.bsky.social · 3w ago

Finally online! Cross-feeding enables robust coexistence between four bacterial species | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #microsky

🌱 Systems Ecology is now live! A new independent, researcher-run, diamond OA journal for ecological research through systems science. Free to read. Free to publish. No APCs. We are now open for submissions: systems-ecology.org Please help spread the word!

1/17 Submissions are now open for the 2027 Microbial Population Biology GRC! We expect this meeting to be extraordinarily oversubscribed. If you want to come, time is of the essence--apply ASAP! June 27–July 2 • Andover, NH www.grc.org/microbial-po...

We are recruiting!! We are looking for an expert in the metabolic engineering of non model microorganisms to join our team working on plastic waste upcycling. For details please check the link below. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

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Chair in Bacteriology in Cambridge Department of Medicine. A great opportunity. Please circulate. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...

Excited to share our latest preprint! 🧫 We move beyond observing bacterial Voronoi patterns to actively controlling gaps, anti-gaps, curved boundaries, asymmetric structures, seedless regions, and complex composites. @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hello from the Pacheco Lab! It's about time for a first post, and what better time than on the lab's first birthday! We study the metabolic ecology of microbial communities, using computation and experiments to understand and engineer interactions and community assembly -> more at pachecolab.com!

Question for evolutionary biologists. Am I missing something or are Fisher's geometric model and Simpson's adaptive landscape model exactly the same thing? And why has nobody said so? If you know a paper that makes this point even tangentially, pls let me know. #evolution #popgen #quantgen

Very happy that our paper Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities just came out in Nature Microbiology. See here 👇 Paywalled version: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Free read-only version: rdcu.be/fBHAb

Obligate cross-feeding of metabolites is common in soil microbial communities - Nature Microbiology

Cultivation-dependent techniques, computational analyses and genome-scale metabolic models show widespread amino acid auxotrophies, suggesting that soil microorganisms exist within integrated ecologic...

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We're hiring an Associate Professor in Behavioral Ecology and Cultural Evolution More information and applications here: www.unil.ch/fbm/en/home/...

VACANCY - Funded by @European Research Council (ERC), we have three exciting opportunities for Postdoctoral Researchers to join the newly appointed Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social Group. These roles span: Developmental biology - https://okt.to/nq50wC 🧵

We are looking for a TT professor in Rapid Marine Adaptation to study marine eukaryotic evolution to climate change. Join our growing & vibrant department! Please spread the ad: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Tenure-T... Contact me if you need more information! @univie.ac.at

Professor in Bacteriophage Biology & Evolution at the University of British Columbia (UBC). Closing date 1 October, with an expected start date no earlier than January 1, 2027, and a salary within the range of $200,000 to $270,000 per year. For details: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfac...

If you're looking for a PhD position, or know someone looking checkout our interdisciplinary PhD Fellowship program! We are always looking for talented students with a physics or computational background to join our group to work on the physics of living systems!

Biozentrum, University of Basel@biozentrum.unibas.ch · 2mo ago

Ready for the next step in your scientific career? Apply now for a fully funded Biozentrum PhD Fellowship and explore a wide range of research fields before choosing your PhD lab. 🧪 Applications for the current call are open until October 18, 2026. More information 👇

Open position in the Department of Ecology and Evolution here in Lausanne! Come be our colleague! Topic: behavioral ecology, cultural evolution, or evolutionary psychology

Faculté de biologie et de médecine@fbm-unil.bsky.social · 2mo ago

📣 #Job alert Associate Professor in #behavioral #ecology and #cultural #evolution within the Department of Ecology and Evolution @dee-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social Apply before September 30th, 2026 👉 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

What, is it over already? MEEHubs2026 concluded just minutes ago. It's been a blast, and here are some stats for you: 711 registrations, 241 posters, 71 talks, 3 days, participants from 32 countries. Bye from all the hubs 🩵🩵🩵 #MEEHubs2026 #MEEHubs26

Come be our colleague. I have been in this Division for 27 years (4 as a postdoc and 23 as a PI). It is an amazing place to work, collaborate, and be inspired. If you are applying to be an Assistant or Associate Professor this Fall, don't miss this deadline.

Fred Hutch Basic Sciences Division@basicsci.fredhutch.org · 2mo ago

Join @FredHutch.org's Basic Sciences Division as an Assistant or Associate Professor and help shape the future of fundamental biology. We welcome applicants whose work will complement, extend, or bring new directions to the division.

@massimoamicone.bsky.social giving a fantastic talk on evolutionary rescue in simple microbial communities at MEEHubs 2026 @meehubs.bsky.social #meehubs2026

Hybrid conferences rock! I'm attending @meehubs.bsky.social from my office, as I couldn't free up enough time to travel. Such a cool model - live talks in seven geographically disparate hubs, all networked and available online.

THE new lab to follow ! Amazing science with an amazing person, seems like a unique opportunity 🤩

Osterman Ilya@ostermanilya.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 We're hiring! My new lab at EMBL Hamburg is looking for a Research Technician. I'm looking for someone excited by phages, metabolism, enzymes, structural biology and bacterial immunity—if you know the right person, please share this post!🧵⬇️ Apply here: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

Beautiful new pre-print by @lambdapp.bsky.social! Rather than asking whether microbial interactions are mainly positive or negative, Prajwal asks: how strong or weak are they and why? The answer: not Gaussian, but skewed. This is similar to larger organisms, but not for the same reason. Read it!

Prajwal Padmanabha@lambdapp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Very happy to share that the work I've been doing with @saramitri.bsky.social is now out on biorxiv! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We broadly ask how are microbial interactions distributed, is there a common shape across datasets, what drives it, and why it matters. Summary thread below 🧵 1/17

Interested in coming to Berlin on a Humboldt Fellowship? Please consider the new modalities: There are 3 calls for applications annually, each opening 8 months before the respective selection meeting. The new call opens on 15 July 2026, closing once 800 applications are in.

🚨The program for MEEHubs2026 is now online, as is more detailed information about the hubs! Check it out at meehubs.org and register‼️ Less than a month before the conference kicks off! 🦠

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