Registration is now open for the first UK Virome Forum meeting! 📍 Advanced Research Centre (ARC), University of Glasgow 🗓️ 5-6 Oct 2026 🦠 Animal, human and environmental viromics For more info, including speakers, check bit.ly/ukvf-2026 or @ukvf.bsky.social Register for free: tinyurl.com/yhnartn5

UKVF-2026

The UK Virome Forum will bring together researchers from across the UK using genomic approaches to study viromes, with a particular focus on whole-virome analyses, viral ecology, and evolution beyond ...

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Deadline 2 Dec (tomorrow)!

Roman Biek@rbiek.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Come join us - we are recruiting a postdoc in phylodynamics and epidemiological modelling to join an exciting project on foot-and-mouth-disease virus in African buffalo www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... Please share widely! #jobs #disease #ecology #evolution #phylodynamics

Come join us - we are recruiting a postdoc in phylodynamics and epidemiological modelling to join an exciting project on foot-and-mouth-disease virus in African buffalo www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research... Please share widely! #jobs #disease #ecology #evolution #phylodynamics

Fantastic opportunity to join some excellent programmes to gain quantitative ecological training at the University of Glasgow 
 @sbohvm.gla.ac.uk 
@uofglasgow.bsky.social for full details see bsky.app/profile/uofg...

Ecological Data Science@uofgecodatasci.bsky.social · last yr.

📣🚨📣Deadline extended to 6th June 2025! 📣🚨📣 Applications are still open for our MSc+PhD scholarships in Ecological Data Science available to those from underrepresented groups. This offers fully funded MSc (full UK fees and UKRI stipend) followed by entry to our 4-year PhD programme.

Hey everyone, we are now on Bluesky! We are the #parasites and #pathogens #ecology and #evolution group of the BES @britishecolsoc.bsky.social Give us a follow and help us reach fellow parasites and pathogens enthusiasts!

Downloading datasets from Our World in Data in R www.r-bloggers.com/2025/01/down... via @Rbloggers

fantastic opportunity for emerging leaders in one health research

Helmholtz Institute for One Health (HIOH)@helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social · 2y ago

🚀 We are looking for a Junior Research Group Lead as part of the Helmholtz Initiative with 2 to 6 years of academic experience 🌟 👉 Application process: You apply by 15.02.25. One candidate per institute will prepare a full proposal by 30.04.25. 📄 More: one2.vs12951.internet1.de/sites/defaul...

Since 2016 we have been fortunate to host Tanzanian conservation leaders thru the Karimjee MSc Conservation scholarship at the Univ Glasgow, a full ride 2-year scholarship, generously supported by a local Tanzanian NGO the Karimjee Foundation. Please help us spread the word to potential applicants!

🦠 We are recruiting two 2-year postdocs to work at the intersection of virus genomics and infectious disease. jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Please share widely!

this looks useful and might render some current subscription based applications obsolete

Claus Wilke@clauswilke.com · 2y ago

Bioart, courtesy of the NIH. All images are in the public domain and available for download as high-quality SVGs. bioart.niaid.nih.gov

great talk - really interesting results, including the regional differences seen across Europe

Dr Steven White@drstevenmwhite.bsky.social · 2y ago

Dom Brass talking about our tick model from our TickSolve project at @ukvbd.bsky.social. @bethpurse.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

PhD project of potential interest to folks attending @ukvbd.bsky.social - please share

Roman Biek@rbiek.bsky.social · 2y ago

great #PhD opportunity in #disease #ecology - which species are key for #tick-borne disease transmission in the UK? Combining genetics, community ecology, mathematical modelling



 @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social & @ukceh.bsky.social International applicants - contact me by 9th Dec tinyurl.com/wfuak5se

How fast are viruses spreading in the wild? Check out our latest study now published in @plosbiology.bsky.social: doi.org/10.1371/jour.... A study performed with Paul Bastide, Pauline Rocu, Denis Fargette, Olivier Hardy, @msuchard.bsky.social, @stephaneguindon.bsky.social, and Philippe Lemey (1/7)

Ticksolve research on landscape effects on hosts and cascading effects on ticks presented at @ukvbd.bsky.social by Saudamini Venkatesan @livuninews.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social

@bethpurse.bsky.social talking about some of the modelling outputs from our TickSolve project at @ukvbd.bsky.social

one of many great #PhD projects in #evolution #biodiversity #ecosystems offered by @iapetusdtp.bsky.social two ways to apply www.findaphd.com/phds/program... www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

FindAPhD : Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme at Durham University

Apply for a PhD: Iapetus Doctoral Training Partnership: Diversifying Talent Scholarship Scheme at Durham University

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Roman Biek@rbiek.bsky.social · 2y ago

great #PhD opportunity in #disease #ecology - which species are key for #tick-borne disease transmission in the UK? Combining genetics, community ecology, mathematical modelling



 @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social & @ukceh.bsky.social International applicants - contact me by 9th Dec tinyurl.com/wfuak5se

Super proud of Antonia Hilbig for passing her PhD viva on epi/evol of bacterial zoonoses with flying colours - well done! Fab supervisor team including Taya Forde, Tiziana Lembo (U Glasgow) and Sam Lycett (U Edinburgh). Special thanks to Lucy Weinert (U Cambridge) for being external seminar!

Our @NorthWestBio1 PhD project applying natural language processing to virology literature is now open for applications: Get in touch with if you are interested and want to find out more. gla.ac.uk/postgraduate/d…

Interested in fitness consequences of the gut microbiome in the wild? Keen on being involved with an iconic long-term study system? Check out a PhD opportunity working on Soay sheep microbiomes! Info below and feel free to contact with q's. e4-dtp.ed.ac.uk/e5-dtp/super...

Great team of collaborators too: @drstevenmwhite.bsky.social @bmable.bsky.social, @cmillins.bsky.social, , Beth Purse & Mafalda Viana

Roman Biek@rbiek.bsky.social · 2y ago

great #PhD opportunity in #disease #ecology - which species are key for #tick-borne disease transmission in the UK? Combining genetics, community ecology, mathematical modelling



 @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social & @ukceh.bsky.social International applicants - contact me by 9th Dec tinyurl.com/wfuak5se

Disease ecologist starter pack -- reply with people/organizations to be added or to share similar lists / feeds #diseaseecology 🦠🐀🦠🦇🦠🦭🦠🦆🦠 go.bsky.app/RwAuiNT

Another damning @uk.theconversation.com piece by @jamesgyke.bsky.social, Robert Watson & @wknorr.bsky.social "In 2021 we argued that net zero was a dangerous trap. Three years on & we can see the jaws of this trap beginning to close" theconversation.com/the-overshoo...

The overshoot myth: you can’t keep burning fossil fuels and expect scientists of the future to get us back to 1.5°C

The net zero approach of the Paris agreement has become detached from reality as it increasingly relies on science fiction levels of speculative technology.

theconversation.com

Congrats to the amazing team effort led by Huaiyu Tian mapping changes in 🐀 communities over decades and the subsequent change in Hantaan virus www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Anthropogenic land consolidation intensifies zoonotic host diversity loss and disease transmission in human habitats - Nature Ecology & Evolution

A 43-year dataset of rodents in the Hu region of China reveals how urbanization-induced changes to land-use configuration affect rodent community composition, including benefitting striped field mice,...

nature.com

interesting new preprint emphasising the importance of host species identity (rather than species diversity) for tick-borne pathogen transmission www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Urban greenspace connectivity drive shifts in host assemblages and tick-borne pathogen infection

Habitat fragmentation is often highlighted as a driver of tick-borne disease hazard and spillover risk via reduction in biodiversity. However, habitat fragmentation can have divergent impacts on host,...

biorxiv.org

The School of #Biodiversity, #OneHealth & #VeterinaryMedicine at the #UniversityofGlasgow - my base - is now on Bluesky! Give them a follow if you want to hear about our research & teaching #TeamUofG @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social

great #PhD opportunity in #disease #ecology - which species are key for #tick-borne disease transmission in the UK? Combining genetics, community ecology, mathematical modelling



 @uofgsbohvm.bsky.social & @ukceh.bsky.social International applicants - contact me by 9th Dec tinyurl.com/wfuak5se

Great tool, very handy

Flo Débarre@flodebarre.eurosky.social · 2y ago

Sky Follower Bridge is a great tool to find here people you were following on X. Be careful, there is a scam website, and it is currently better ranked on Google than the real one. The tool is free and works as a Chrome extension. The real one is www.sky-follower-bridge.dev

Sky Follower Bridge is a great tool to find here people you were following on X. Be careful, there is a scam website, and it is currently better ranked on Google than the real one. The tool is free and works as a Chrome extension. The real one is www.sky-follower-bridge.dev

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