We’re recruiting new Research Group Leaders!
We offer:
🔬 Core funding
💻 Access to world-leading infrastructure
👩🏽🔬A network of world-leading scientists
…and much more.
Apply by 11 April: embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...
#ResearchCareers #Bioinformatics @timcoorens.bsky.social @embl.org
🤩 Woahhh! Sounds like a blast! Not to be missed!
26.02.2026 22:48 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great to see this paper in all its glory online: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
A huge effort from Gordon and the team at @pjkeelinglab.bsky.social!
Phylogenomic tree of Cercozoa based on single-cell transcriptomes from 100 uncultured cells
@ubcbotany.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca
Be part of OMGN! Open to all researchers with an interest in oomycetes, from molecular genetics & genomics to biology, population biology, and ecology, at either an experimental or a computational level. Investigators new to the field are always welcome oomycetes.com
25.02.2026 20:06 — 👍 25 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 2
Some more generative aRt for your eyeballs. You'll have to imagine the birdsong...
🌷geom_meadow
Have a novel protist's genome or transcriptome and want to predict it's mitochondrial proteome? Look no further than CoMR, this handy bioinformatic workflow to help you: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #phylogenetics
23.02.2026 17:06 — 👍 18 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
New postdoc position available in the Tooke lab in our department. Perfect if you like molecular microbiology, structural biology and biochemistry!
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQP592/p...
🗣️Protist friends! I'm looking to put together a list of key protistology resources for new students joining the lab. What are some of your favourite papers???
🧪 #protistsonsky
How specific are heritable symbioses?
And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species?
We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com!
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Applications are now open for our EMBO Practical Course in Computational and Experimental Microbiomics! 🧫🔬🖥️
meetings.embo.org/event/26-mic...
Come learn a mix of computational and experimental microbiome techniques from 6-8th July in beautiful Bath, UK!
Registration Deadline: 11 May 2026
A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our paper, led by @martibartfast.bsky.social
a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny
b) improving representation of the Global South in public data
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Spatial Proteomics Workshop for Protists
(see more in thread below)
Registration
Early Bird Monday 22nd June 2026.
Regular Monday 10th August 2026.
There will be a conference dinner on day 1. To register visit protistology.org.uk/autumn-meeti...
😂
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06.02.2026 16:43 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Exciting new PhD programme CODE-M Control and Design of Engineered Microbial Systems @officialuom.bsky.social Projects now advertised!
Ours is on division of labour & horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities @biotechdixon.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
New PDRA position with @knightjar.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social & me
Community assembly processes in soil microbiomes with focus on bioinformatics and computational modelling of data from field and lab experiments
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
A great resource from Maia and friends! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
03.02.2026 07:50 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Comparative Genomics of Unicellular Eukaryotes (San Feliu, Spain):
Abstract submission is open, with a short deadline! comparativegenomics2026.com
Join us as we explore the most diverse, surprising, and still largely uncharted branches of the eukaryotic tree.
The project is part of the NERC @redalertcdt.bsky.social , which brings together biologists, chemists, and engineers across academia, government, and the private sector to train the next generation of scientists working to protect animal, human, and environmental health.
@cwbe.bsky.social
In collaboration with @ukceh.bsky.social and @cefasgovuk.bsky.social , the project will explore quantitative imaging approaches like the PlanktoScope (see image) and how they can support more conventional, sequence-based biodiversity assessments (i.e., metabarcoding).
13.01.2026 14:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
If you're interested in biodiversity in freshwater ecosystems, there's just a few days to apply for our PhD project: Ecological Surveillance using High-Throughput Quantitative Imaging at @uniofbath.bsky.social .
Deadline: January 16th!
Apply: is.gd/svXBcr
Image: www.planktoscope.org/how-it-works
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/...
13.01.2026 13:32 — 👍 6 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Poster of the EM course in Naples with marine samples. The Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples arises from a very strong and active collaboration between the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn and the EMBL in Heidelberg. The aim of the course is to provide a theoretical and practical training on electron microscopy starting from the basics to the preparation of samples with high pressure freezing and image acquisition using TEM and SEM.
If you are interested in electron microscopy, registration is still open for the
"Electron Microscopy Hands-On Course: sample preparation and imaging of marine environmental samples"
at Stazione Zoologica in Naples.
WIth great teachers from Naples […]
[Original post on biologists.social]
Just on time for the holidays! Happy to share the published version of the discovery of leptophytes, a new deep-branching and widespread group of microalgae based on plastid MAGs (ptMAGs). Now with additional support from a mitochondrial MAG (mtMAG) of leptophytes.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Great conference! Would definitely recommend!
15.12.2025 10:08 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Those interested in performing maximum likelihood phylogenomic analysis on data sets made up of eukaryotic nuclear genes using site heterogeneous mixture models like C60, I suggest you use the ELM model in IQ-TREE instead of the LG model /1
09.12.2025 18:30 — 👍 16 🔁 12 💬 1 📌 1Apologies! theholtlab.com/posts/ln5-21...
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Bath city centre
Pulteney weir in Bath
Bath city centre
Bath cathedral
🎉 There are currently 4 opportunities to join the Holt lab in beautiful Bath! 🎉
If you're interested in protists, parasites, and/or biodiversity then please check out our website:
theholtlab.com/posts/ln5-21...
🚨 Deadlines vary between project.
✉️ Please reach out if you have any questions!
We have a date for the free-to-attend #anvio workshop and ECR Symposium for 2026, and we look forward to meeting you at the @hifmb.de in Oldenburg, Germany!
Please find more information on the venue, program, and the application form here, and spread the word 😇
anvio.org/workshops/20...
