@xavh.bsky.social
Molecular Ecologist at the University of Exeter. xavharrison.github.io
@nakedprimate.bsky.social Driving to London listening to you on the BBC Inside Science podcast. Awesome stuff !
22.09.2025 07:04 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0This work highlights value (and difficulty) of quantifying the relative importance of multiple drivers of wild animal microbiomes; only then can we identify links between host-associated microbes and animal health.
Superb team effort from @uniexecec.bsky.social, @zslscience.bsky.social and APHA
We find noisy but significant social group effects linked to bacterial community composition, but also individual differences in the faecal microbiota correlated with chronological age and probability of infection with the pathogen Mycobacterium bovis.
18.06.2025 07:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0New preprint out from the lab, led by PhD student Tasha Meadows, and the culmination of many years collaboration with APHA and Woodchester Park
Here we look at spatial and within-individual dynamics of faecal bacterial communities in European Badgers
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
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www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
PhD studentship! Comparative Analysis and Modelling of Collective Behaviour in Natural and Artificial Systems.
**this scholarship for UK residents only, as defined by UKCISA regulations**
Details below! Please RT
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Delighted to be involved in this work just out in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by the awesome @acbowland.bsky.social and @kjhockings.bsky.social
21.04.2025 19:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Want to be a field assistant in Sweden this summer?!
📑 Applications should include a motivation letter (1 page), a CV (detailing relevant experience), and contact information of two references. Send the above as a single PDF to b.tschirren@exeter.ac.uk by May 1st 2025.
🌍 #ExeterCEC #Internship
Just out "Making sense of the virome in light of evolution and ecology" doi.org/10.1098/rspb... from super ⭐ team @meganawallace.bsky.social @duckswabber.bsky.social @jemmageoghegan.bsky.social @ryanmimrie.bsky.social @eddieholmes.bsky.social @xavh.bsky.social in Proc B @royalsocietypublishing.org
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Deadline extended for a 3 year #postdoc in my lab exploring the amphibian skin #microbiome and colonisation resistance to chytrid fungi www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLN634/p...
29.01.2025 15:34 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0SCHOLARSHIPS for international students seeking to join us in Sept 2025 for MSc in @exetergses.bsky.social .
The deadline to apply is 27 February 2025. 🧪🌎🦑🐟🦤
Scholarships:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
Degrees:
www.exeter.ac.uk/study/gses/
@uniexecec.bsky.social @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social
Recruiting a #PhD student to work on collective behaviour in real and artificial systems. Oct 2025 start. Working with @shoalgroup.bsky.social, Rob Heathcote, @willallennz.bsky.social, @joefresna.bsky.social, @marinapapap.bsky.social Advert: www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Deadline: 24.02
Would suit someone interested in microbial and pathogen bioinformatics and statistics, and the role of wildlife in the One Health framework
Project at link is under the 'APHA' subheading near the bottom.
Do get in touch for more info!
Application Deadline 28th Feb
New PhD opportunity with me, Mirjam Schilling
@aphapublichealth.bsky.social and Klara Wanelik at U. Surrey
This project will use metagenomics to study fox microbiome dynamics 🦊 and investigate their potential to act as sentinels of disease spread.
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