Claudia Bank

Can interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers?

peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html
We're running an ethics-approved, pre-registered study thanks to funding from the University of Bern.

Are you lecturing in the Spring?
Contact me to receive the survey link!

Claudia Bank's (@cbank.bsky.social) research group, Theoretical Ecology and Evolution (THEE) is now on Bluesky! I posted a thread showing some of the group's publications from 2025 to get the account going. Please consider following the group for updates related to ecology and evolution 😀

🧬 Our 2025 review is here!
A (very belated) Happy New Year from the THEE group! From transcription factor evolution to microbiomes, epistasis, biodiversity, and antimicrobial resistance — here’s a thread highlighting our group’s contributions to research in 2025 👇

Last chance to apply - the deadline is tomorrow!

Reminder: the application deadline for this #PhD position is in two days (9 January)! Join us at @unibe.ch to study evolution on and of fitness landscapes!

Check out this advertised professorship in Bern with my colleagues at the Institute of Plant Sciences! Please share widely to reach candidates from across the world and beyond our local academic bubbles. 🫧

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Picture of MEME students on the beach

Do you want to do a Masters in Evolutionary Biology? The call for applying to the MEME program is now open! MEME is a fantastic 2-year MSc between four European Universities on all areas of Evolutionary Biology. Apply and study in Sweden/France/the Netherlands/Germany/USA/Switzerland! www.evobio.eu

We have an open PhD position (application deadline 9 January 2026) in "Theory of fitness landscapes" at @unibe.ch 🤓⛰️📊👩‍💻🎓: banklab.github.io/positions/

Please share widely!

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🚨🚨Job! 🚨🚨Permanent (75% time) job! We are a pretty awesome research group & seek a manager who deals with everything: personnel tasks, organizing retreats, preparing code for teaching / data structures for research... Fluency in German & English essential. stellenboerse.uni-mainz.de#/jgu/job/51527

Uni Bern: Assistant Professor with tenure-track for Quantitative Cell Biology Start date of employment: anticipated for August 2027

Please spread the word! 10 days left to apply for this #sciencejobs as Assistant Professor Tenure Track in Quantitative Cell Biology 👩‍🔬
@izb-unibern.bsky.social @unibe.ch! ohws.prospective.ch/public/v1/jo...
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ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

UPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Read the accepted manuscript online now! 👇
academic.oup.com/evo...
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@linneansociety.bsky.social

Speciation occurs when populations are reproductively isolated, though the role of intrinsic postzygotic incompatibility (reduced viability of hybrid offspring) is debated. While the BDM model can explain these, @ayajulio.bsky.social argues multi-locus models may offer better insights! 🌍🧪🧬

Check out my first PhD paper on between-species genetic interactions (intergenomic epistasis) with @cbank.bsky.social 🌿↔️🦠✨ We define intergenomic epistasis mathematically and highlight its potential in understanding co-evolution :)

When the @sib.swiss Roadshow Initiative works out, everyone wins: optimized travel, more scientific exchange, and a chance to catch top speakers across Switzerland—this time with Prof. Piyanun Harnpicharnchai on fungal communities & water quality.
@saramitri.bsky.social @cbank.bsky.social

We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/

We are looking for a bioinformatician with expertise in microbiome data analysis join our team at the University of Lausanne. The successful candidate will lead and support research projects within nccr-microbiomes.ch. More details here: shorturl.at/mC46o . Please share with potential candidates.

So manipuliert man dich über Messerangriffe In den vergangenen Tagen gab es Messerangriffe in Bremen, Lübeck, Ratingen, Erfurt, mehrere in Dortmund und in Berlin. Teilweise mit Toten, mit Schusswechsel mit der Polizei. Von keinem hast du wahrsc...

@volksverpetzer.de stellt so viele gute Analysen auf die Beine 😍
👉 Gerade auf der Webseite entdeckt: "So manipuliert man dich über Messerangriffe"

Bitte lesen, teilen, liken.
Und bitte unterstützt die Arbeit des Teams mit einer Spende 🙏

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📅 Talk Schedule:

🔹 24 March, 15:00, Ephémère Building (EPH), room 160, @unil.bsky.social (hosted by @saramitri.bsky.social)
🔹 26 March, 16:15, Studer Auditorium, @unibern.bsky.social
(hosted by @cbank.bsky.social)
🔹 28 March – SUPSI, Mendrisio (hosted by Andreas Brugger)

👉 Join us!

Prof. Piyanun Harnpicharnchai will give a series of talks on Fungal communities (www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...) in Switzerland. Supported by SIB’s Speaker Roadshow Initiative, which coordinates talks.

#RiverBiodiversity #WaterQuality #FungalResearch

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- What happens when a small country decides to play Monopoly... with an ENTIRE US state? 🤯 Buckle up:" - Breaking: One nation's billion-dollar fever dream about to shock the world 💥 - The most audacious territorial acquisition plan you've never heard of...." denmarkification.com?utm=.share.b...

Prof Dame Alison Etheridge: 'In spite of appearances, everyone is insecure and no-one will judge you for asking what feels like a stupid question. Most people in the room probably wanted to ask the same thing but were too embarrassed - asking will win you many friends!'

Prof Erin Saupe: I wish I would have realised sooner that it's OK to be wrong in science, and that admitting you were wrong is a strength, not a weakness. Science should be about testing your assumptions and re-thinking paradigms, not just 'getting things right'.

Prof Daniela Bortoletto: 'That it's okay to say no and set boundaries. You don't need to feel obligated to take on every task, especially those disproportionately assigned to women. Focus on roles that support your scientific and professional growth.'

Prof Tamsin Mather: 'A career is a marathon not a sprint and there will be times things feel better than others or where life has priority. Be patient when things feel tough. Taking time off is so important, not just because work isn't everything, but to stay creative. I've had my best ideas on my bike, kayak, or up a mountain!'

'No one will judge you for asking what feels like a stupid question.'

For #IDWGS2025, the Mathematical, Physical, and Life Sciences Division asked scientists from across the faculty about the advice they wish they had received at the beginning of their careers ⬇️

3,2,1 … und los! Der Wahl-O-Mat zur Bundestagswahl 2025 ist online: www.wahl-o-mat.de

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(Non-scientifically) Testing how much #bluesky attention varies between cute #dog picture and #sciencejobs alert (my previous post) 📊🤓

<1 month left to apply for these cool #sciencejobs in #switzerland at @unibern.bsky.social! Check out the accumulating FAQs here: tinyurl.com/IEEjobsFAQ
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IT'S OFFICIAL! From today, @plos.org and its journals are no longer posting on Twitter/X. If you want to carry on hearing about great science in our journal, follow @plosbiology.org on Bluesky here: bsky.app/profile/plos...

The Institut Pasteur is recruiting group leaders!
Pasteur is an absolute incredible environment to start your lab. Surrounded by so many great scientists, in the beautiful city of Paris.
Come eat 🥐 and conduct awesome science.
Contact me if you want info !

research.pasteur.fr/en/call/call...

Here's the visual proof of why vaccines do more good than harm See year by year how vaccines beat back nine dangerous infectious diseases

Sadly, it’s a good time to once again share this amazing infographic that we ran at @science.org more than 7 years ago
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...

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Job alert! Director of Oxford University Museum of Natural History: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DKV017/d...