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...

cell.com

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...

cell.com

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.

go.nature.com

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 · 2w 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 · 2w 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 · 3w 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

science.org

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.

buff.ly

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...

cell.com

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 · 3w 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

As someone in the midst of hiring, I do really appreciate when someone uses CRediT author taxonomy. When the Author Contributions section says "X, Y, Z, performed experiments" in a paper with like... 7 figures spanning all kinds of experiments... please use CRediT! Low-key: I'm hiring. Email me!

Crossref@crossref.bsky.social · 3w ago

Think about the last paper you wrote 🤔 how many different roles were involved? And how many different roles did one contributor 🧑‍💻 take on? Explore how we've built multiple contributor roles and support for CRediT in Schema 5.5 🔗https://doi.org/10.64000/6xx3c-nmp80 #CrossrefUpdate #Schema55

You could also say that in this country, one person a day, on average, is shot trying to get away from the police.

Jessica Pishko@jesspish.bsky.social · 3w ago

So much police violence is the norm. Around 3 people a day die from police violence. One-third of them are running away. mappingpoliceviolence.us

Have a look at ecmtb2026.org/news/2026-07... for some final arrival information in Graz at #ECMTB26!

Final Arrival Information for ECMTB 2026 | ECMTB 2026

ECMTB 2026 news: Final Arrival Information for ECMTB 2026

ecmtb2026.org

Under Trump, a record-breaking number of erectile dysfunction drugs are being prescribed to cis troops while the battle over trans military bans rages on.

A study concluded that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. (Published July 2025)

“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat

A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.

propublica.org

Excellent piece by Megan Mayhew Bergman 🌿

We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?

In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals

theguardian.com

When we expand the narrative around trans childhoods beyond stories of feeling wrong, we challenge the idea that people must know they're trans from the moment they become self-aware.

Girlhood is the reason I have security in a masculine queer adulthood

"I loved being a girl, I just couldn’t see myself becoming a woman."

wearequeeraf.com

EcoEvoRxiv (short for "Ecology and Evolution Archive"; a non-profit, community-driven research repository specifically designed for the fields of ecology, evolution, and conservation) leaves X (2.886 followers) Bluesky: @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social