Congrats Spain! 🥳⚽🏆

I've sometimes wondered if there are additional reasons why bacteria thrive inside mammal guts, and this is a fascinating answer to that question. 👀

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Humans and bacteria share strategies to defend against viruses. We wondered: could they use each other's genes? Yes, both can! Bacteria can use human immune genes to defend against phages AND Human cells can use bacterial genes for viral defense. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#ExE2026 So many animal microbiome talks that it has become a standing joke of the conference. 😅 Sorry on behalf of WAME and the workshop. We love these talks though! 😊

What a fabulous excursion we had yesterday to Lizard peninsula! Perfect weather and gorgeous views. Seals, choughs, and a kestrel. 🦭🐦☀️ Lovely break in the middle of the conference week. #ExE2026 Special thanks to @erikpostma.bsky.social for herding the big group.

#ExE2026 Come chat with us about wildlife microbiomes 😊 Poster session is tonight! #microbiome

The #ExE2026 conference is officially starting today! @erikpostma.bsky.social introduces ExE with the analogy of the goldilocks fairy tale, with it being 'just right', or "lagom" as we say in Swedish. 😄

I did an interview on the MVIF podcast with @pamferretti.bsky.social about wild animal microbiomes, for anyone interested! 🦠🧬

Microbiome Virtual International Forum@microbiomevif.bsky.social · last mo.

#MVIFconversations podcast episode 6 with @elinvidevall.bsky.social is OUT! ▶️ Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/39MK... ▶️ Amazon music: music.amazon.com/podcasts/81c... ▶️ Apple Music: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... ▶️ YouTube podcast: youtu.be/_wQ4AxWoPTc 1/2

The WAME workshop is starting! Will be a fun and interesting day! #ExE2026 #microbiome @stn-wame.bsky.social

The US government is entering a partnership to store frozen cells and other biological samples from endangered and threatened species with Colossal, a private company best known for claiming to "de-extinct" dire wolves. Story by me & @catrineinhorn.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Rzhfw

We're currently four people from Videvall lab traveling from Sweden to Cornwall, UK to participate in the Wild Animal Microbiome Evolution workshop and the #ExE2026 conference! 😊🧳 @stn-wame.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social @estermart.bsky.social

I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

Sad to hear of the passing of Robert Ricklefs - a giant of Ecology who simultaneously pushed forward big ideas at multiple biological levels yet took time for detailed natural history .. McGill does a nice job summarizing his impressive contributions 🌐🧪 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...

Robert Ricklefs – in memoriam

Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…

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We had a fun summer lab meeting last Friday at my place! 😊☀️

Thanks to Kasun Bodawatta @kbodawatta.bsky.social for visiting us at @animecol-uu.bsky.social Uppsala University! Kasun gave a very interesting talk about eDNA methods, such as using mosses, to survey the local flora and fauna. 🧬

Congratulations Qianrui Yang, who successfully defended her MSc thesis today! Well done! Her thesis investigated both gut microbiomes and mitochondrial metabolic rate in hybrid Ficedula flycatchers. 🐦🦠🧬🩸 @animecol-uu.bsky.social

Congratulations David to the Sintring fellowship! We're looking forward to having you in the group and working with you on social transmission of wild rodent gut microbiomes! 🐀🦠🧬

David Simons @davidsimons.bsky.social · 2mo ago

After a couple of failed applications, I am very excited that one panned out. I will be starting my first independently funded fellowship in September! My project will be hosted at the @animecol-uu.bsky.social Uppsala University #DiseaseEcology #Microbiome #SpatialEpidemiology #Hantavirus

We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.

Forgive the title, but it's time we talk about it - 🐘🐣💩🦠 The elephant (bird) in the room: unknown mechanisms and unresolved impacts of low DNA yields in avian microbiome research link.springer.com/article/10.1...

The elephant (bird) in the room: unknown mechanisms and unresolved impacts of low DNA yields in avian microbiome research - Animal Microbiome

To holistically understand the biology of animals, we must unravel the complexities and specificities of host-microbe interactions across animal taxa. Birds represent enigmatic and scientifically comp...

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🚨 Wanted: PhD student excited about population genomics, Natural History Collections and birds! 📍 Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany 🕒 3 Years, funded by the Leibniz Junior Researchgroup program Details and Application portal 👇 jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/d...

New paper alert! Led by David Montagnes, this one is for scientists and non-scientists alike. The history, benefits, and future of Learned Societies. We need community, fostering of critical thinking, and communication, more than ever! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #protistsonsky

The value of learned societies in the biological sciences: benefits, threats, and futures - BMC Biology

Learned societies play a vital role in fostering interactions that are important in scholarly discourse and the advancement of biological sciences. However, they now face threats from declining fundin...

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Wild Animal Microbiome Evolution (WAME) @stn-wame.bsky.social offers another round of funding for early career researchers to visit other labs! 🧳✈️🦌🦠🧬 Let me know if you're interested applying to visit our group in Uppsala, Sweden. 😊

@stn-wame.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Attention ECRs! The next round of our ECR Research Exchanges is open for application! Up to €1400 for travel & accommodation for visits to groups with complementary research interests. You can find the application here: bit.ly/4ntSVY4 and more info on our website: www.wamestn.com/research-exc...

Mom’s helminths rewire microbiota to protect offspring Maternal helminths confer lasting protection against respiratory viruses in offspring. Helminth-induced changes in microbiota increase indole-3-propionic acid, which induces lung IFN-I responses www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Maternal helminths rewire the microbiota to promote offspring antiviral immunity

Fernandes et al. show that maternal helminths, long-standing mammalian partners, confer antiviral immunity to offspring via the microbiota-derived metabolite indole-3-propionic acid (IPA). This work r...

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We discussed this paper on animal #behavior and gut #microbiome transmission in our journal club last week. Very interesting! 🐀🦠🐾 "Selection and transmission of the gut microbiome alone can shift mammalian behavior" www.nature.com/articles/s41... @suzukilab.bsky.social @microbiome.bsky.social

Selection and transmission of the gut microbiome alone can shift mammalian behavior - Nature Communications

Here, the authors present evidence that the gut microbiome alone, without changes in the host genome, can shape how animals respond to selection, identifying a bacterium and its metabolite that indepe...

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Article in one of the big Swedish newspapers @dagensnyheter.bsky.social about rewilding in Denmark (text in Swedish). www.dn.se/varlden/vild... #rewilding #feralization #wildhorses

Vild natur ska förändra Danmark – men ”hästmaffian” protesterar

I ett historiskt politiskt projekt ska Danmarks landskap omvandlas. Både staten och privata aktörer satsar på att förvilda naturen.

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Attention ECRs! WAME is offering support to attend the ExE conference in Falmouth (sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/) & associated WAME microbiome workshop. For more information and the application form, see below! We hope to see you there! 🦠 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Check our Open Access paper on the Tokara Leaf Warbler – a previously undescribed, threatened Japanese bird: doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Thx to all coauthors: Takema Saitoh, @dariashipilina.bsky.social. Shin-Ichi Seki, Canwei Xia, Lijun Zhang & Urban Olsson. @animecol-uu.bsky.social #birds #biodiversity

We have a new exiting opportunity to join our program with a new PhD position supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social co-supervised by @gmkov.bsky.social on the repeatability of evolution in seed beetles! Click the link to read more and apply! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...

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.

New paper! 🐦🦠 Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species doi.org/10.1111/mec.... A 🧵