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CEEC Rebellion's coming!

Make a note in your diaries for the 18 and 19 March 2026 at UEA, and in the meantime, how awesome are the team?! ⬇️

#UEAScience

Virtual webinar on safe microbiome perturbations focusing on gut microbiome and probiotics, scheduled for 26 February 2026.

Save the date! Join us on 26 February 2026 at 1pm (GMT) for the second instalment of our Safe Microbiome Perturbations webinar series, focusing on the gut microbiome and probiotics.

Registration is free and now open: https://microb.io/3OBhVPs

#GutMicrobiome #WebinarSeries

Don’t miss out. If you are in the Netherlands and consider yourself an evolutionary biologist then this is a must attend event!

Colleagues working on Microbiomes in Conservation (interpreted broadly), consider submitting an abstract this week to join us at #ISME20 in New Zealand!

One nice result in the new great tit analysis by @davididiaquez.bsky.social et al. is a lovely illustration of Simpson's paradox: within cohorts of great tits, mass increases as birds get older, but across cohorts the population trend is in the other direction
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Centre for Microbial Interactions – Conference 2026 Centre for Microbial Interactions – Annual Conference 2026. Registration is free and the deadline to sign up is Wednesday 25th February 2026.

Big news! I'll be co-chairing a session and presenting a poster at the @norwichmicro.bsky.social Annual Conference this March.

Deadline for abstract submission coming up soon.

#CMI2026 #Microbiology #Astrobiology #NRP #Extremophiles

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Excited to announce that I am organizing a symposium on "Microbiomes in Conservation" at #ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand together with Madeleine van Oppen.

Consider submitting an abstract; it will be a fab conference! Deadline Feb 15!

isme-microbes.org/isme20-sessi...

@isme-microbes.bsky.social

🚀 New edition, new programme!
We’ve improved our course with @philipleftwich.bsky.social adding @eivimeycook.bsky.social as co-instructor 🎉

Ready to move beyond basics and boost your R skills with reproducible workflows, Quarto, GitHub & AI?

www.physalia-courses.org/courses-work...

#Rstats

Delighted to see our paper featured on the cover of the Journal of Animal Ecology @animalecology.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org

Thanks Pam Hurkens for the lovely image of a heavily pregnant meerkat being weighed at our field site.

Molecular gel stain with large bright band across the top 10% of the gel obscuring markers

Lab scientists of Bluesky. What is happening with our gels?
Standard EtBr staining of a standard 1% gel
Provide your suggestions below and I will say "We already tried that 🙄" in a sarcastic tone.

dplyr 1.2.0 dplyr 1.2.0 fills in some important gaps in dplyr's API: we've added a new complement to `filter()` focused on dropping rows, and we've expanded the `case_when()` family with three new recoding and re...

dplyr 1.2.0 is out now and we are SO excited!

- `filter_out()` for dropping rows

- `recode_values()`, `replace_values()`, and `replace_when()` that join `case_when()` as a complete family of recoding/replacing tools

These are huge quality of life wins for #rstats!

tidyverse.org/blog/2026/02...

Darwin Day 2026, Endless Islands Most Beautiful, Weds 11th Feb 2026; 1.00pm–5.00pm, Julian Study Centre, UEA. An excellent afternoon of talks linked to islands and adaptation. See the attached flier for the schedule. Everyone is welcome…and it’s free …. but please sign up

Darwin Day 2026, Endless Islands Most Beautiful on Weds 11th Feb 2026; 1.00pm–5.00pm, Julian Study Centre, UEA. An afternoon of excellent talks linked to islands and adaptation. See attached flier for the schedule and the link to sign up. Everyone is welcome.

Multiple crayon or marker drawings of the “holobiont”. Most include compartments of “host genome” “environmental microbes” and have them overlapping or interacting in different ways

For lab meeting, we all tried to draw the holobiont - as art, diagram, or in between.

It was surprisingly useful practice to guide some conceptual discussion!

#ArtScience 🎨🦠

Here I am, really emphasizing something! 😂
Brilliant first day!

Research Technologist - Life Sciences Advance Professional - Bordenstein Lab APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

📢 JOB OPPORTUNITY We are hiring a Research Technologist (Advanced Professional) to design, implement, support, analyze, and report on rigorous research in genetics, entomology, and host-microbe interactions. Please consider and share with others in need.

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Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland?

Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social

Reach out to chat more!

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Detecting signatures underlying the composition of biological data Abstract. Biological compositional data is inherently multidimensional and therefore difficult to visualize and interpret. To allow for the automatic decom

Led by Anthony Duncan, and after much hard work, we have now published an Enterosignature follow-up paper: cvaNMF

academic.oup.com/nar/article/...
This work represents a generalization of the Enterosignature (ES) framework e.g. discovering ES disease associations, and describe "Terrasignatures"
👇👇👇

Join us! A great opportunity to join the @ukcehseabirds.bsky.social team working on the Isle of May. Great team, great place, great birds... what more could you want?!

#seabird #fieldwork #job #ornithology #superseabirdsunday

Please repost: 🚨Field assistant position 🐧

We offer a 14-months field assistant position through the French Polar Institute to work on king penguin ecophysiology and behavioral ecology.

Requirements: EU citizen < 30yo having experience with harsh fieldwork & wild bird/mammal handling/sampling.

After 4 wonderful years at @biology.ox.ac.uk working with Sarah Knowles on house mouse gut microbiota-behaviour links, today I started a new postdoc position at @niooknaw.bsky.social with @melissahrowe.bsky.social, where we'll be looking at house sparrow reproductive tract microbiotas! Stay tuned :D

Google's New AI Tool Can't Do Much. That's Exactly the Point Finally, an AI research tool that doesn't hallucinate papers

I'm usually skeptical about AI research tools. But Google's new tool for literature search is fantastic - because it does less, not more. New post:

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Picture of a Christmas tree shaped from laboratory equipment, molecules, viruses and atoms. Copyright: Anna Zhuravlova

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Peaceful New Year from everyone in the School of Biological Sciences.
Have a wonderful break. 🎄🥳

We’re hiring 2 Postdocs (f/m/d) in Drug–Microbiome–Host Interactions 🦠💊

Focus: how non-antibiotic drugs shape the gut microbiome, drug efficacy & side effects.

#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs

Full job ad:
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Jobs - Balance of the Microverse

New 2-year Postdoc: Ancient #Metagenomics & #Microbiome Sciences! 🧬🦷

Join Prof. @christinawarinner.bsky.social ’s group at @mpi-eva-leipzig.bsky.social to study the evolution and ecology of ancient oral microbiota.

📅 Apply by Jan 20, 2026: www.microverse-cluster.de/en/career/jo...

🌊 🐟🦭🐋🐧 I have a PhD position available (4 years, start Mid-2026) at NRM Stockholm to work on the macrogenomics of sea warming.

Apply here:

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#PhD #MarineGenomics #ClimateChange #EvolutionaryBiology #PopGen #Bioinformatics #conservationgenomics

Medfly

UEA campus

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We have a Postdoc position available here @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social to develop innovative genetic control strategies for insect agricultural pests in collaboration with @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

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Ecological Perspectives on Aging Controlled settings may offer limited insight into the complexities of aging in natural and variable ecosystems. Artwork by Zahida Sultanova.

Controlled settings may offer limited insight into the complexities of ageing in natural and variable ecosystems, and why (and how) ageing patterns vary so widely across individuals, populations, and species.

We call for more research on ecology of ageing!

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Join us for the next instalment in our virtual seminar series this week!

Wild Animal Mycobiomes (not microbiome!)

4th December 2025: 11am GMT/ 12pm CET

Join via zoom here: aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/68695403303

a wonderful, fully funded PhD opportunity

Deadline approaching (ok not that quickly but you may forget over Christmas!)

7th January

www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...

Next up in our WAME Seminar series this Thursday 4th December we have 2 exciting talks on Wild Animal Mycobiomes

11am GMT / 12pm CET. Zoom link below