Predation resistance mechanisms operate at an individual level, adaptations are sometimes pleiotropic and compensatory. Thanks to all my co-authors who made this research possible Ove, Sarah, Saskia, Bernd, @rkmicrobes.bsky.social @simonahuwiler.bsky.social #AMR #Bdello #Evolution tiny.cc/2qpa101

Outer membrane changes enable evolutionary escape from bacterial predation

Abstract. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a threat to modern medicine. To combat AMR pathogens, natural predators like bacteriophages and predatory bacte

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Subham Mridha@subhammridha.bsky.social · 3w ago

Our paper in @isme-microbes.bsky.social uncovers the genetic causes of predation resistance in bacteria, that predominantly occur through outer membrane changes. Adaptations are metabolically expensive. This has great implications in the clinical setting for use of #BALOs.

Come join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology at #LundUniversity in #Sweden! New position as Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology just announced. Apply or spread the word to all interested candidates! […]

UMass Amherst Dept of Biology is hiring a TT faculty member in Evolutionary Biology! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista... We have a diverse and wonderful dept - please consider joining us!

Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

Title: Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full Time Work A...

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Early-life sugar restriction causally reduces adult cancer incidence and slows biological aging | PNAS

Excess sugar consumption is implicated in multiple cancers through insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, and metabolic reprogramming, yet wheth...

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Our digital sphinx, a cautionary tale about the interpretation of connectome-body models, is now a reviewed preprint at @elife.bsky.social. We are grateful to the reviewers for engaging seriously with what we hope is a useful (if absurd) demonstration. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...

John Tuthill@tuthill.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🧵 New preprint led by @bingbrunton.bsky.social, @elliottabe.bsky.social, @lawrencehu.bsky.social We gave a worm brain control of a fly body and it walked What did we learn? Nothing, other than deep reinforcement learning is effective We call it the digital sphinx www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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 🧵

HIRING MICROBIOLOGIST: effective start asap! The PDRA/PDRF (per xp) will investigate the interactions of bumblebee antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with the gut microbiota & more. Our work has shown AMPs have striking specificity for ecological microbes. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/13... 1/2

Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow This job is part of an Advanced Research + Inventio...

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Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...

New King lab paper @currentbiology.bsky.social led by the brilliant @luismsilva.bsky.social on parasite shedders and spreaders: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Transmission heterogeneity emerges from uncoupled parasite shedding and spreading

Silva et al. show that disease transmission emerges from multiple ecological bottlenecks rather than a single host trait. Separating parasite shedding from downstream infection success reveals why hos...

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New paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! 🎉 Who drives disease transmission? The answer seems obvious: measure who releases or disperses the most parasites. But after dissecting transmission step by step, we found that’s often not the case. 👇 🧵 #EvoSky #IDSky www.cell.com/current-biol...

Transmission heterogeneity emerges from uncoupled parasite shedding and spreading

Silva et al. show that disease transmission emerges from multiple ecological bottlenecks rather than a single host trait. Separating parasite shedding from downstream infection success reveals why hos...

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A couple of weeks ago I rode to Newburyport MA and saw this COVID memorial and realized this is the only one I have ever seen anywhere. And the fact that I nearly broke down seeing it is something I still think about.

Job posting: Associate Professor in behavioral ecology and cultural evolution within the Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) at the University of Lausanne. Deadline for applications is 30.09.2026: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli... (there is a button to switch to English at the top right)

One of my former student, Laura, who is an excellent young researcher, is currently looking for a PhD position in Europe. 👩‍🔬 She recently completed her Master’s in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Université Paris Cité, specializing in Emerging Infectious Diseases.

Mosquito-borne diseases are breaking records as climate change and other human influences allow the insects to expand their range go.nature.com/4x6xhMK

How mosquitoes are conquering the world — in four charts

Mosquito-borne diseases are breaking records as climate change and other human influences allow the insects to expand their range.

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At ISEMPH meeting @evmed.bsky.social in beautiful Kiel. Enjoyed the tour de force presentation by @trevorgraham.bsky.social showing power of fluctuating methylation for inferring evolutionary history and speed in various cancers. See www.nature.com/articles/s41...

⭐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

Going to #ISEMPH2026 ? 💉🦠 Come by my poster (n90) and check what we have been up to :) @evmed.bsky.social #EvolutionaryMedicine

One arrest at the Nazi protest against Pride, multiple arrests at the leftist Internationalist Pride, and a murderer managed to break through a police barricade and drive a van into the big pride event without being stopped or caught. Berlin’s cops and politicians have made their priorities clear.

Admirable clarity @science.org

David Roberts@volts.wtf · 3mo ago

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓

Sustainable Microbiology journal Calls for Papers! #Microbiology #CallForPapers #MicroSky #Sustainability #EnvironmentalMicrobiology

So so relevant!!

Itai Yanai@itaiyanai.bsky.social · 3mo ago

If you always stick to the field you were trained in, you could be denying yourself the chance of creating a new field.

📝 NEW PREPRINT It’s with an immense joy that our preprint is finally out and it’s my first first co-author paper!!! 🧬🍄 What is the diversity of 3D genome architectures in fungi? We reconstructed the 3D genome architecture of public Hi-C data from 55 fungal. Preprint: lnkd.in/enxTh2Cm

📄 New opinion piece! Agency fuels motivation and well-being, yet early-career researchers rarely get to exercise it. So what can we do to empower ECRs and make academia fairer? We open the dialogue and offer some starting points: www.cell.com/trends-open/...

The PhD is the best point in time to try very dangerous ideas or to try things that don't work. – @odedrechavi.bsky.social, on the Night Science Podcast

“Used ChatGPT as my search engine” 👀 🫠 Editor-in-Chief of Science

Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Hi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.

Exclusive @science.org: Circadian biologist Satchidananda Panda is resigning from Salk following multiple sexual harassment investigations. Lab members and other employees spoke up after Salk refused to reveal the investigations' findings. #MeTooSTEM www.science.org/content/arti...

Prominent Salk Institute biologist to resign following sexual misconduct investigation

Staffers complain that Salk allowed circadian rhythms researcher Satchidananda Panda to depart quietly, while the allegations and findings remain under wraps

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Deadline tomorrow! This grant is dedicated to projects that celebrate equity, equality, diversity and inclusion, encouraging more involvement of underrepresented groups and greater diversity of contributions in entomology. Apply now and make an impact 🔽 buff.ly/rciuzmQ Deadline: 17 July

💡 Got an idea to make entomology more inclusive?

The RES EDI Grant can help fund it.

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Check this new paper led by @tommytraverscook.bsky.social that I got to contribute to 👇 and share :) #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #EcoSky #EvoSky www.cell.com/trends-open/...

Promoting academic agency to empower early-career researchers

Academia faces significant challenges in workplace relations and academic well-being that require urgent attention to ensure its long-term sustainability. Efforts to create a fairer academic environme...

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1. We wrote a letter to the editor about this fluoxetine trial for children aged 4-6. Given the urgency and the expected delay in response, we also published it as a preprint, available here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Which problems did we detect with this study ? 🧵

Chris Aiken, MD@chrisaikenmd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Here's the first trial to test fluoxetine for #depression in children under 6: psych-partners.com/fluoxetine-f... Positive signal, but agitation is a risk, and a single study doesn't change the fact that Parent-Child Interaction #Therapy has the best evidence in this age group. #psychiatry #pmhnp