Great work which I was looking forward to reading the final print since the preprint dropped! Well done to everyone involved
28.02.2026 14:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Great work which I was looking forward to reading the final print since the preprint dropped! Well done to everyone involved
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Heading to the Kalahari Research Centre to spend time in the field with yellow mongooses and meerkats, catch up with collaborators, and carve out space to #think about the bigger picture.
#Fieldwork, #ideas, and moonshoot #science — exactly where I need to be.
Photo Credit: Sofia Forss
I am hiring a research assistant (vampire bats), a Panama fieldwork coordinator (vampire bats), and also considering postdoc apps (social behavior, any species): socialbat.org/2026/02/19/h...
19.02.2026 21:30 — 👍 67 🔁 92 💬 4 📌 7Super happy that the AllTheBacteria hypothetical proteins are now in AFDB - hopefully we can start to understand the function of some of them at least 😁
18.02.2026 04:46 — 👍 39 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
#DarwinDay The "Origin of Species" is deeply enriched with a symbiotic lens. Here's a 15 minute seminar from @BIRS_Math on 25 yesrs of peeling back two layers of speciation to show reproductive and gut microbes have agency in the formation of new host species. youtu.be/DBlkt8UXc_8?...
12.02.2026 13:15 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Finding the natural reservoir for a pathogen and its transmission chain to humans is a great feat- well done @helmholtz-hioh.bsky.social and colleagues www.nature.com/articles/s41...
12.02.2026 09:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This system is incredibly cool and provided another outstanding example of rigorous epidemiological science - congrats to all authors
06.02.2026 17:02 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Jacket design for Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life: A History of Sex and Science by Ross Brooks. It features a historic, drawn image of a gynandromorph gypsy moth, with distinctive female patterning on its left side and male on its right. Against a black background, the image and text (title and author's name) are brightly rendered in a spectrum of colours resonant of the Progress Pride Flag.
My first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏
UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵
US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
🚨Podcast launch🚨
We are happy to announce: the #MVIFconversations podcast episode 1 will be available for listening on Monday via
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I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.
24.01.2026 00:39 — 👍 19374 🔁 3596 💬 920 📌 280New preprint out - using a cosmopolitan neotropical #bat, we asked whether Astrovirus infections affected its gut #microbiome and whether land use change amplified infection effects #OneHealth doi.org/10.21203/rs....
23.01.2026 13:17 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Naja, ... also da fliegen halt dauern Großwale ind die Propeller und außerden bekommt man davon bestimmt auch Gehirnkrebs.
Oder?
Spoiler: NEIN!
Ich hatte die dämlich Walstory mal für Volksverpetzer debunkt:
www.volksverpetzer.de/faktencheck/...
Published today in PNAS:
www-pnas-org.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/doi/10.1073/...
Mark Urban, Chris Elphick, and I argue that conservation programs should pay more attention to heritable within population variation, enabling rapid evolutionary response to environmental changes.
Gosh! That would be the best way to swim if it works. Curious about your review
17.01.2026 19:33 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
(1/8) 🚨Thrilled to share our new research, now published on the cover of @science.org ! 🌳🦠
We discovered that tree #Bark — largely regarded as inert — hosts vast #Microbial communities that actively interact with the atmosphere. 🧵👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The Research Ireland Pathway Programme is now open. Supporting postdoctoral researchers across all disciplines to build their track record and become independent research leaders. Hear from awardee Dr Jonathan Briody @rcsi.bsky.social below. Learn more: www.researchireland.ie/funding/pathway/
12.11.2025 11:43 — 👍 12 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
🚨 Our Lab is HIRING! If you are interested in characterizing model microbiomes using genome-resolved methods, statistical/metabolic modeling, and/or machine learning please submit an application here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05234
#postdoc #sciencejobs #biology #microbiome
Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine.
We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
“All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is life’s only irreducible essence”—Gould
Evolutionary biology is the study of how complicated and diverse life can be; the field has its jerks, but a good evolutionary biologist learns pretty fast that life doesn’t like boundaries or binaries
I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
03.01.2026 09:13 — 👍 22421 🔁 4723 💬 202 📌 177Anyone has a complete and up to date list of #MetaCyc pathways, descriptions, classes and subclasses? I seem to be too stupid to find that anywhere… #microbiome #picrust dm me, please
10.12.2025 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Very impressed with my husband for crafting this elaborate #bat themed birthday cake for me #nerd #science #academichatter #cake
05.12.2025 10:14 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
New wildlife metagenomics study link.springer.com/article/10.1...
23.11.2025 14:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0How do we make sense of scientific literature that is growing explosively to the point where no-one could read all the relevant papers, and is contaminated with fraudulent and LLM-generated papers? I think that science isn't currently equipped to deal with this, and we need to. #science #metascience
20.11.2025 17:01 — 👍 64 🔁 17 💬 7 📌 2The topic of this years ethics in science MSc class @uniulm.bsky.social was the #deextinction of the #direwolf! A key take home was that choosing a grey wolf genome as template was a matter of convenience. Convenience breeds bad #science
19.11.2025 12:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are looking for contributors to our series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season 🎄
See previous blogs here 👉 buff.ly/MnMcRqG (1/2)
Adaptive landscape and the evolution of flight in mammals
A big review of the evolution of bats:
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #EvoBio
🚨 Exciting new work out today led by @carolinecummings.bsky.social! Do bats host deadly viruses? Yes - but only specific bats (that just happen to be found in a lot of places!). Challenging some big ideas in the zoonosis world with data. Well done Caroline and team!!
30.10.2025 14:57 — 👍 34 🔁 11 💬 5 📌 1
"Wir müssen ernst nehmen, dass er diese Aussage als Bundeskanzler getroffen hat, in seinem Amt, bei einem Antrittsbesuch. Bei solchen Terminen und in dieser Rolle müsste er theoretisch für alle Deutschen sprechen. Das hat er ganz offensichtlich nicht getan."
- @danielkubiak.bsky.social
#Stadtbild
Bats are amazing & an important part of the ecosystem 🦇
#planningbill
“It’s a pay-to-destroy system. Developers will put money into a fund to pay for compensation but it may be nowhere near an important colony which needs help.”
@batconservation.bsky.social
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
