Department of Biology, Lund University

An amoeba seen through a microscope. Photo Wikimedia Commons.

In Environmental Pollution, @hanbangzou.bsky.social and colleagues use microfluidic “soil chips” + AI video tracking to monitor soil protists under nanoplastic exposure. Flagellates & ciliates slowed by 24–30% at high concentration; amoebae unaffected. doi.org/10.1016/j.en...

Portrait of Chelsea Dvorak Specht and Johannes Lehmann. Photo collage.

Welcoming two new visiting professors: Chelsea D. Specht (plant diversity & genomics) and Johannes Lehmann (soil microbial biogeochemistry). Both will work 20 % at our dept over two years while keeping their main posts. read more: www.biology.lu.se/article/chel... & www.biology.lu.se/article/joha...

What if eye...? Computationally recreating vision evolution Recreating evolution by coevolving eyes and behaviors in embodied agents allows exploration of what-if questions in vision.

Dan-Eric Nilsson & his colleagues have created virtual animals with AI vision to study evolution in a new way—watching natural selection and adaptation unfold in real time inside simulated worlds. A powerful new tool for evolutionary biology. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

#evolution #AI #biology

Did you know that we're looking for new Associate Editors to join our Editorial Board? 🌍💭

If you'd like to help shape the publishing landscape of the BES journals, find out more below! 👇

britishecologicalsociety.org/content/appl...

Join us in Upsala Sweden for BioSyst EU, 17th–19th August 2026, for a three-day conference celebrating European systematics and biodiversity research at its origin. Systematics and Biodiversity are proud to be an official sponsor!

A call for symposia will be coming soon.. #BioSystEU2026

🚨 PhD offer (please share)
Fascinated by bird migration and movement ecology? 🦜🌍 Join us at @vogelwarte.bsky.social to study annual cycle energetics with multi-sensor loggers in multiple species

Deadline: 20 Feb 2026
Starting: June 2026
Supervision: Martins Briedis & me

Info: tinyurl.com/2dbv9nzh

DDLS Research School Postdoc call 2026 Call for Academic and Industrial Postdoctoral Fellowships in Data-Driven Life Science 2026 Generic Description of the DDLS Postdoc Program The SciLifeLab and Wallenberg National Program for Data-Drive...

New postdoc funding opportunity in Sweden! If you're interested in applying for this 'Data-Driven Life Sciences' fellowship, please get in touch, we'd be happy to host and help with the application (and talk options beyond the 2-year position). www.scilifelab.se/data-driven/...

BIOGEOMON2026 | slu.se Join Us at the 12th BIOGEOMON Conference The BIOGEOMON conference is an open, interdisciplinary forum for sharing the latest discoveries and exploring future directions in ecosystem biogeochemistry. W...

Interested in #NitrogenBiogeochemistry, links to #Carbon & #Phosphorus cycling; the #Organisms involved in #NutrientCycling? Curious about #BorealForests and #Excursions to large-scale field experiments? Then join our session "Nitrogen Biogeochemistry..." at BIOGEOMON www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

Very proud of this new paper from the lab! Work by the magnificent Andrea Adden and many brilliant collaborators illuminate how moth and butterfly brains have evolved in light of different ecologies. Freely available here: rdcu.be/eVR3B; @lundvision.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social

My collaborator at University of Copenhagen, Anders Garm, is looking for a 3 year postdoc to work on bioluminescence, neurobiology and ecology of ctenophores. More information here:
candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...

Adaptive spread of a sexually selected syndrome eliminates an ancient color polymorphism in wall lizards Genetically determined color morphs are found in many animals. Polymorphism can be maintained by social selection if competitive interactions allow each morph to increase in frequency when rare. This ...

Tobias Uller shows how a long-stable colour polymorphism in the wall lizard can be rapidly lost.

Analysis of >10,000 individuals across 240 populations reveals how the spread of a large, aggressive morph is linked to the disappearance of other colour variants.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Department of Biology, Lund University | LinkedIn Department of Biology, Lund University | 1,018 followers on LinkedIn. Biology – the study of life! | We cover vast aspects of biology and collaborate across many research areas. Our premises and infr...

A small milestone worth celebrating: our Department of Biology, Lund University LinkedIn account has passed 1,000 followers! 🎉 When we published our first post in January 2025, we had no idea what would happen.

Merry X-mas & happy 2026!

Please follow us there:

www.linkedin.com/company/depa...

New technology reveals migratory birds’ stunning precision in flight

“We can now follow a bird’s location throughout the year. How it got there and exactly how long it took,” says Sissel Sjöberg, evolutionary ecologist at Lund University.

👉 read the ful story: www.biology.lu.se/article/new-...

Honeybees have consequences for foraging bumblebees in Irish heathlands Abstract. Heather provides vital forage for wild bumblebees, as well as managed honeybees that are brought to heathlands in late summer for honey productio

Hur stor är konkurrensen bland pollinatörer?
Ett svensk–irländskt forskarteam visar nu att honungsbin tränger undan humlor även på blomrika ljunghedar. 🐝🐝🐝

Studien publicerades i Proceedins of the Royal Society B:

royalsocietypublishing.org/rspb/article...

Big congratulations to our biology researchers @cnilsson.science and @mikebok.bsky.social – who get @erc.europa.eu Consolidator grants! Well deserved! 👏👏👏

Read the full story: www.lunduniversity.lu.se/article/thre...

Big congratulations @cnilsson.science 👏👏👏

Agree to disagree or transform conflicts into collaboration?

New paper by Juan Gefaell and Tobias Uller out now in Trends in Ecology and Evolution. www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
Read the story on Department of Biology website: www.biology.lu.se/article/turn...

I’d apply for this myself if I wasn’t busy in Aberdeen, take the chance to work with some of the nicest people I know!! 😍

Group photo of the attendees of the 10KLepGenomes community at the workshop held at the University of Lund, in February 2025.

10kLepGenomes logo in black and orange.

(3/5) This collaborative paper was kickstarted during a collaborative workshop at @biologylu.bsky.social , funded by the @10klepgenomes.bsky.social, highlighting the power of community-driven science. 🤝
#10kLepGenomes #CA2311

We're hiring!
A Post-doctoral fellow in Eco-evolutionary shifts in bumblebee communities. You will be working within @beccsweden.bsky.social w/ Professor Bengt Hansson at The Department of Biology.

👉https://lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/jobID:867222/
Please apply no later than 19 December!

Old military air filters reveal nature’s secrets: moss spores in northern Sweden are released weeks earlier than 35 years ago. Climate change is quietly rewriting the calendar of the wild. Published in Journal of Ecology.
Read the story on our website: www.biology.lu.se/article/old-...

There is still time (until 25 Nov) to apply for this #postdoc position 🐦. Get in touch if you have questions. Details 👇 @erc.europa.eu @evoldir.bsky.social @biologylu.bsky.social

Visste ni att hundarnas enorma utseendevariation började redan för tusentals år sedan? Nu visar ny forskning att formförändringen började redan för över 11 000 år sedan.

Läs hela nyheten på biologisk institutionens webbplats: www.biologi.lu.se/artikel/hund...

Congratulations to @hanbangzou.bsky.social
– he got a research grant from Familjen Knut & Ragnvi Jacobssons stiftelse for the research project "Commercialization of Fungi-Healing Concrete for Sustainable Infrastructure".

More about Hanbang Zou's research on: portal.research.lu.se/en/persons/h...

Big congratulations to our biology researchers Johanna Stedt and Yohan Sassi who will receive career support from @formasforsk.bsky.social for their projects with focus on sustainable development! 👏👏👏

Find out more and follow us on our Linkedin page! www.linkedin.com/company/depa...

We're hiring! Post-doctoral fellow in evolutionary ecology w/focus on ecophysiology.
Uncover why global warming and heatwaves reduce reproductive success and cause excess mortality in wild birds. Work with @cyanistesnord.bsky.social 👏

Please apply no later than 25 November.
👉 lnkd.in/dkAh9jnc

Congrats Staffan Bensch, @mikebok.bsky.social, Yedra Garcia Garcia, Dennis Hasselquist, Prof. Anders Hedenström, Lina Herbertsson, Sebastian Marquardt, Erik Selander, Ernö Vinzce, Prof. Eric Warrant, Dan-Dan Zhang and @kruthsatz.bsky.social – all awarded grants from @vetenskapsradet.bsky.social!

A unique long-term study by @olofhellgren.bsky.social in which blood samples were collected from the same population of blue tits over a 30-year period, shows that rising spring temperatures have doubled the incidence of avian malaria in southern Sweden.
www.biology.lu.se/article/warm...

Exiting career-boosting opportunity for a a skilled and highly motivated postdoctoral researcher: We're hiring a Post-doctoral fellow in Evolutionary Biology!

Please apply no later than 31 October!
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

We created an ‘unsexy’ moth that could be the key to greener pest control Scientists have learned how to turn off moths’ sex signals – this could help farmers fight pests without pesticides.

A single “sexy” gene can help combat one of the most destructive fruit pests. By deleting the gene that lets female moths produce their mating scent, researchers created an “unsexy” moth and showed a way to turn insect attraction into a powerful pest control tool.
theconversation.com/we-created-a...