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A nest cup out of moss, in which six great tit eggs are arranged in a little circle. In the middle of the eggs there is an iButton - a small thermometer device.

A nest cup out of moss, in which six great tit eggs are arranged in a little circle. In the middle of the eggs there is an iButton - a small thermometer device.

🪺A nostalgic moment — another PhD chapter finally published earlier this month🐦
3 years of field work and 2 years of revisions 😅
Read more about fitness and life-history of female chronotype in great tits here: 🔗 rdcu.be/eYoJv
👥@babimt.bsky.social @barbarahelm.bsky.social @mevisser.bsky.social

26.01.2026 06:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Discussion - Jobs | Bioclocks Uk Advertise job opportunities here!

#Chronobiology is a broad field encompassing virtually all life sciences. Find PhDs, Postdoctoral roles and more on our jobs board:
www.bioclocks.uk/group/jobs/d...

13.11.2025 11:01 — 👍 6    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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One year anniversary of our third #ERCSyG interview that led to @microclockerc.bsky.social

We are privileged to work on chronomicrobiology in the next 6 years and explore the time keeping mechanism in Bacillus subtilis together with @marthamerrow.bsky.social and @antdodd.bsky.social

09.09.2025 14:54 — 👍 8    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Tipp: die Alceste der Opera Incognita im Klinikum Großhadern - nie waren Freud und Leid so nah beeinander

30.08.2025 21:12 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Postdoc on microfluidics of plant - bacteria interaction The Faculty of Science / the Institute for Biology is looking for a: Post doctoral researcher on microfluidics of plant - bacteria interaction Key responsibilities  We are hiring a post-doctoral scien...

Postdoc on microfluidics of plant - bacteria interaction

Background in microfluidic device fabrication and application of such systems to dissect a biological process
Experience with plant or bacterial cultivation in microfluidic devices is advantageous

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

10.06.2025 07:23 — 👍 4    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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PhD candidate on molecular details of plant-bacteria clock interactions The Faculty of Science / the Institute for Biology is looking for a : PhD candidate on molecular details of plant-bacteria clock interactions  Vacancy number: 15748 Are you interested in unlocking the...

PhD candidate on molecular details of plant-bacteria clock interactions

Background in plant-microorganism interaction, specifically on molecular microbiology of bacteria, preferably experience with genetic engineering of model bacteria and microscopy

www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...

10.06.2025 07:19 — 👍 2    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

We have two new positions, a PhD and a Post doc at #InstituteofBiologyLeiden within our @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG project to discover interaction of #circadianclocks between Bacillus subtilis and Arabidopsis

please share these with your network! 🙏

links below👇
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10.06.2025 07:13 — 👍 38    🔁 47    💬 1    📌 2

A life's journey in chronobiology

Register here: www.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de/neurogenetic...

#Drosophila #CircadianClock #CharlotteFörster #Farewell #ClockClub2025 #Neurobiology #Genetics #Chronobiology #Biology #Würzburg @biologie-uniwue.bsky.social @uni-wuerzburg.de

15.05.2025 07:26 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Wonderful to be in Munich for the kick-off meeting of our MicroClock ERC Synergy programme, and have MicroClock cake! @microclockerc.bsky.social @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @marthamerrow.bsky.social #ERCSyG #chronobiology

08.05.2025 12:11 — 👍 20    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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How plants and microbes synchronize their daily rhythms to keep fit at John Innes Centre on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - How plants and microbes synchronize their daily rhythms to keep fit at John Innes Centre, listed on FindAPhD.com

PhD opportunity in my lab @johninnescentre.bsky.social, on circadian interactions between plants and bacteria. Fully funded. Part of @microclockerc.bsky.social in collaboration with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @marthamerrow.bsky.social #chronobiology #ERCSyG www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

10.04.2025 11:40 — 👍 18    🔁 24    💬 0    📌 2
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Today we start @microclockerc.bsky.social, our ERC Synergy programme focused on the #circadian clock in Bacillus subtilis, with @marthamerrow.bsky.social @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social. Definitely time for lab cakes!! @erc.europa.eu

01.04.2025 11:43 — 👍 30    🔁 6    💬 2    📌 1
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@microclockerc.bsky.social officially starts today: 6 years of chrono(micro)biology funded by @erc.europa.eu
-with @marthamerrow.bsky.social, @antdodd.bsky.social, and @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social

01.04.2025 08:36 — 👍 19    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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We @hughp.bsky.social have a 3 year postdoc in rodent circadian behaviour and ageing at University of Bristol
www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find-in...
deadline 15 April join our BBSRC sLola on CircadiAgeing: circadian rhythms, clock excitability & healthy ageing www.ukri.org/news/bbsrc-i...

20.03.2025 13:31 — 👍 6    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 1
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Details : Research Fellow in Plant Biochemistry : The University of Melbourne Careers at The University of Melbourne

I'm recruiting a 3-yr postdoc for an ARC-funded project on the interaction between circadian rhythms and grain quality in wheat. #plantsci #circadian
We also have a fully-funded PhD position available.
See Job Ad about Postdoc, email me about the PhD.
jobs.unimelb.edu.au/en/job/91954...

03.03.2025 05:08 — 👍 27    🔁 27    💬 0    📌 2
https://doi.org/10.1177/07487304251316916

A few months ago, Yao Cai and I had the opportunity to interview the amazing Dr. Charlotte Helfrich-Förster. We asked questions about her career and life experiences. An example of scientific resilience and success. Out now in the Journal of Biological Rhythms.
t.co/v2UxlEFZme

19.02.2025 19:27 — 👍 4    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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Hello, Bluesky! ☀️

We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.

Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.

07.02.2025 08:16 — 👍 1124    🔁 377    💬 42    📌 29
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Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Chronobiology, sensory biology UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowsk

Interested in Arctic Chronobiology? UiT has a scheme to help you write a MSCA fellowship to work with us in Tromsø
euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/309746

21.01.2025 11:42 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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Call for postdoc candidates interested in applying for an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship in Evolutionary Ecology UiT The Arctic University of Norway has established «The Arctic MSCA-PF program» (uit.no/project/arcticmsca) to recruit excellent young researchers planning to apply for a Marie Skƚodowsk

Interested in Evolutionary ecology? Want to work in the Arctic? UiT has a scheme to help you write a MSCA fellowship to work with us in Tromsø @babimt.bsky.social

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/310027

21.01.2025 16:50 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
Administrative Coordinator for the MicroClock consortium (m/f/x)

We are looking for a part time Coordinator for our chronobiology / microbiology research group. We need a 'people-person to coordinate meetings and payments from the office in the Munich city center. Our friendly, supportive team spans from Munich, to the Netherlands and the UK.
shorturl.at/AkEDr

05.02.2025 12:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Postdoctoral Researcher (Dodd Group) | John Innes Centre An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Dodd Group at the John Innes Centre, working interactions between circadian programs in Bacillus subtilis and plants.

Join us to investigate the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock - post-doc opportunity in my lab, deadline 9 February. Funded by the MicroClock #ERCSyG programme @microclockerc.bsky.social in collaboration with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social @marthamerrow.bsky.social www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

03.02.2025 17:47 — 👍 11    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
Technical assistant / laboratory assistant (m/f/x)

We are looking for a half-time technical assistant for our chronobiology / microbiology lab at LMU Munich. We are located in the city center and our friendly, supportive team spans from Munich, to the Netherlands and the UK. Closing date 21 February 2025. shorturl.at/ythJl

05.02.2025 11:13 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Ummm Erik, Alter hat auch viel mit Chronotyp zu tun. Und viel Tageslicht hilft ein ‚dazwischen‘ Chronotyp zu erreichen. Nicht nur die Gene.

25.01.2025 18:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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BioClocks UK: driving robust cycles of discovery to impact | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Chronobiology is a multidisciplinary field that extends across the tree of life, transcends all scales of biological organization, and has huge translational potential. For the UK to harness the opportunities presented within applied chronobiology, we ...

BioClocks UK: driving robust cycles of discovery to impact. Great to see this article, which sets out the vision for the BioClocks UK programme and how chronobiology research has a huge breadth of impact #chronobiology royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

23.01.2025 09:09 — 👍 8    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Here a short reminder that the closing date is approaching (30 January) - for this pretty exciting position (!) to work as a PostDoc on the B. subtilis circadian clock. shorturl.at/LKjWz

15.01.2025 07:45 — 👍 6    🔁 9    💬 0    📌 0

See our next possibility to join the @microclockerc.bsky.social team as post doctoral scientist to work with @antdodd.bsky.social at @johninnescentre.bsky.social in Norwich related to circadian clocks of bacteria and plants

Application deadline is 9 February

www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

13.01.2025 15:05 — 👍 8    🔁 11    💬 0    📌 0
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Description Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...

New postdoc position available to join our team at Imperial. Please feel free to get in touch if interested! Deadline 10th Feb
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... @imperialmed.bsky.social @bioclocksuk.bsky.social

13.01.2025 13:27 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 4
Logo of MicroClock programme, with photos of Martha Merrow, Antony Dodd and Akos Kovacs

Logo of MicroClock programme, with photos of Martha Merrow, Antony Dodd and Akos Kovacs

Post-doc opportunity in my lab at JIC, on the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock and interactions with plants. Part of ERC Synergy programme "MicroClock", collaborating with @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social and Martha Merrow #chronobiology @microclockerc.bsky.social www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/po...

13.01.2025 12:35 — 👍 15    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 1
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Join the MicroClock team and work on the discovery of the Bacillus subtilis circadian clock components: #PostDocPosition in Leiden 🇳🇱 via the @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG project

Deadline: 17 January

www.universiteitleiden.nl/vacatures/20...

please share with your network🙏

02.01.2025 10:19 — 👍 17    🔁 23    💬 0    📌 2
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Join our #MicroClock @microclockerc.bsky.social #ERCSyG team as #Postdoc to discover the components of a bacterial circadian clock

Apply by 17 Jan 2025, if you have experience
-with liquid handling robots/screening of bacterial strains
-in molecular biology of model bacteria

tinyurl.com/2d2c8fe5

24.12.2024 14:33 — 👍 8    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 1
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Skeletal Phenotyping of Period‐1‐Deficient Melatonin‐Proficient Mice In mice, variability in adult bone size and density has been observed among common inbred strains. Also, in the group of genes regulating circadian rhythmicity in mice, so called clock genes, changes...

Our latest contribution to the pleiotropic effects of the missing Period(1) gene in melatonin-proficient mice: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

22.12.2024 15:58 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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