Alex Figueiredo

😱 i knew Bob Trivers wasn't one to mince words, but what a scorch

Application deadline for this postdoc position in my group closing next week 🦠 thank you all who have shared so far!

🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution.

Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠

3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

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

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Calvin & Hobbes walking along a tree trunk laid across a river as a bridge.

40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.

I'm from PT, have worked in Oeiras and have ridden the monorail a bunch of times. This episode was phenomenal and your grasp of the "Rouba mas faz" ethos was on point. I know you've "been" to Portugal a few times on the podcast, but please please do an ep. on Fátima Felgueiras or Valentim Loureiro!!

One week left on this! Good opportunity for someone interested in #behaviour, #genomics and #migration to come work will some fun seabirds and some fun people 🧬🐣🛰️

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

I'm a simple guy, I see Ska-p, I like it immediately

What better than the massive social network that #eseb2025 is, to learn about social networks? Go check out @eloisenewman.bsky.social 's poster this afternoon!

thank you!

What gif pops up when you type your name?

Perfect.

yes please!

nice!! or The Smacking Pumpkins

Slightly diminish a band:
Pearl Jelly

I'm the same, so I've contacted the organisation about this. Was told some minor adjustments to the agenda were still being made, and then a pdf version would be released :) #eseb2025

Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway Job title: Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Wednesday, August 27, 2025

Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Wonderful post! One of my (few) regrets in life is not (yet) being into birds when I was still living in Portugal.

Hi Brooke! wonder if I could be added to the postdoc one :) thank you very much!

Looking for a PhD in insects, behaviour and/or microbiomes? This is the one for you 👇

Maybe it's time for a 2nd PhD 🤔

Designing Microbial Interventions to Study Behavioural Effects in Wild Birds (DAVIDSON_U25DTPR) | Doctoral Training Partnership This project is open to Home Fee Status applicants only. The gut microbiome influences how animals behave and interact with their environment via the microbiome–gut–brain axis (MGBA).

🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8r

Willow warbler in the hand after ringing under licence.

Male blackcap in the hand after ringing under licence.

Female bullfinch in the hand after ringing under licence. Photo credit: Alex Figueiredo.

Female greenfinch in the hand after ringing under licence.

Spring slowly advancing this am in Oxford. Fantastic to ring our first willow warbler of the year among a flush of blackcaps and a lovely bullfinch.

I also heard my first willow warbler yesterday just outside my door. Seemed to be singing somewhere in Elder Stubbs - great to hear them in the city!

Ah thats fair, maybe I misunderstood that emphasis on your original post.

Agree the piece is utter nonsense, but why does it matter where the author works?

PhD Candidate in Theoretical Biology The Institute of Environmental Sciences CML and Faculty of Science is looking for:[PhD Candidate in Theoretical Biology]Vacancy number: 15501 We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Ph...

A theoretical biology PhD position at the University of Leiden on the coevolution of aging and sociality with awesome @lottedevries.bsky.social please spread the word! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

Just checmed your account, awesome work! For the UK there is now @cooperativesuk.bsky.social but dont know much else.

check out our new paper in ISME! if you're a microbe, is it about who you are or how you get along with others? Find out! 👇

Highlights of the Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend: 31 simultaneous starling, 1 blackcap and 12 jackdaw, among which these two absolute beauts: