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Xav Harrison

@xavh.bsky.social

Molecular Ecologist at the University of Exeter. Interested in Wildlife microbiomes, disease, and statistics. xavharrison.github.io

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Erik Postma@erikpostma.bsky.social · 2w ago

📣 Spread the news to any recent graduates who dare to dream big: Only 10 days left to apply to join #Mast-EER, a cohort of MbyRes students based at the @uniexecec.bsky.social in #Cornwall funded by @aria-research.bsky.social. Places are limited, so apply now!

Erik Postma@erikpostma.bsky.social · last mo.

Spread the word! 📢 Funded by @aria-research.bsky.social, @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall is creating a cohort of 20 (!) MbyRes students that will tackle some of the biggest questions in order to bring about a step-change for ecosystem resilience. For more information, see 👇!

Emily Gilford@emilygilford.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Crickets don’t just “get used to it” 🦗 In this new paper, we find context-dependent learning in wild field crickets: repeated disturbance led to trait-specific responses, with modest sensitisation in some behaviours, stable escape speed, and individual variation 🏃‍➡️ doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Close-up of a cricket nymph, used in this study, at the entrance of a burrow in grassy soil, with a small yellow identification tag on its back and a ruler placed beside it to allow for escape speed measurements. Zoomed-out view of the experimental setup, showing a tripod-mounted GoPro, a tube for a ball to roll through, a marked burrow entrance, and a ruler for scale and escape speed measurements. The cricket nymph can be seen alongside the ruler.
Mark A. Hanson@hansonmark.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hi all, putting feelers out: folks looking for a job ASAP in the 🇬🇧 in Cornwall, or willing to move? Collaborating group hiring a couple roles with skills in any of: - insect injections (incl. gene edits) - machine learning for image analysis - experience with 🦋 a plus! Can email me at link below.

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Melissah Rowe@melissahrowe.bsky.social · 4w ago

Really excited to have this work out as a preprint. Great experiment with great colleagues, special shout out to the fantastic job done by Brian Trevelline and Andrew Moeller www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Gut microbiota promote early-life digestive function in songbirds

The vertebrate digestive tract harbors complex microbial communities whose influences on phenotypes and fitness in non-model organisms remain poorly understood. Here, we show that colonization with gu...

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Jon Slate@jon-slate.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Fancy working with a massive amount of cool genomics, life history and TB-infection status data from a couple of thousand badgers? Here's the project for you then. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/84... New project and very multi-disciplinary team.

Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter

View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow in Evolutionary Genomics This NERC Large Grant- funded ...

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Xav Harrison@xavh.bsky.social · 8mo ago

PhD on #microbiomes, #AMR and #migration open for applications until Jan 9th. Part of #NERC GW4+ DLTP Fieldwork in Iceland on a fantastic model system for behavioural and microbial ecology - the mighty Brent goose! Send me an email for informal enquiries.

Xav Harrison@xavh.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Fully funded NERC GW4+ PhD Opportunity - *Understanding The Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance by Migratory Birds* Supervised by me, @stubearhop.bsky.social (Exeter) & Patricia Brekke (ZSL). Application deadline 8th January. Please get in touch for more info www.findaphd.com/phds/project...