YouTube video by jonfwilkins
Important Harvard Scientists Attack Kin Selection
The Nowak-Epstein emails reminded us about the genius summary of that strange paper, which has better stood the test of time 😂 youtube.com/watch?v=oE6I...
03.02.2026 11:19 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 1
Some very juicy emails in these files also - especially like this absolute belter from Bob Trivers
02.02.2026 13:33 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 1
Strange discovery that an email about inclusive fitness was forwarded to Jeffrey Epstein, with the emailer quoting Jerusalem and comparing themself to Einstein. Are you one of the >100 evolutionary biologists now in the Epstein files? www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
02.02.2026 09:30 — 👍 29 🔁 7 💬 7 📌 1
Fungicide and warming interact to reduce soil ecosystem functioning
Soil microbial communities are essential to the functioning of their ecosystems, providing vital services such as plant growth promotion and bioremediation. However, intensively managed environments such as agricultural soils are increasingly challenged with multiple harsh environmental stressors from the compounding effects of climate change and conventional agricultural practices. Understanding how soil communities will respond to environmental stress along multiple axes is key for predicting how environmental change will impact terrestrial soil ecosystems. We combine experimental evolution with community phenotyping, 16s rRNA metabarcoding, fungicide resistance assays and plant experiments, to show that fungicide and warming temperatures together drive a synergistic reduction in soil community respiration rates, metabolic capacity and plant growth promotion (Hordeum vulgare), which would have been missed by looking at stressor effects independently. Dual stressors caused widespread loss of metabolic activity, particularly for carbohydrates and carboxylic acids, highlighting impairment of community function. Fungicide-evolved soil isolates had a 16-fold increase in fungicide resistance, but only in the absence of warming, suggesting that the dual stressor treatment constrained fungicide adaptation. Together, our findings suggest that the number of stressors (rather than the nuances of individual stressors) may be key for predicting soil microbial community responses to environmental change across multiple axes. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. BBSRC, BB/T009446/1 IRC New Foundations and Community Foundation Ireland, NF/2022/39250777 NERC, NE/S00713X/1
Combined anthropogenic stressors (warming and fungicide) synergistically reduce soil microbial ecosystem functioning (respiration, metabolic capacity, plant performance, fungicide resistance). A tour-de-force by @kelbrick.bsky.social!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
19.01.2026 12:39 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
🚨4-year fully funded PhD in the lab of @magicmicrobe.bsky.social (& collaborating with me!): How does iron availability shape the ability of pathogens to invade the gut microbiome?
Apply by Jan 26th
Advert: research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...
How to apply: research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...
15.01.2026 19:42 — 👍 13 🔁 18 💬 0 📌 0
^^^ I am in the same boat right now since Sept and absolutely feel your pain! work efficiency is at an all time high, standards at an all time low. They will have immune systems of steel soon though, right?
16.01.2026 15:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Wrapping up 2025 with my favourite Dublin hike, the sea cures all!
31.12.2025 18:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
@jpjhall.bsky.social starts the #MicroEvo25 strong! Looks like it's gonna be fun🧬🧫🧪
26.11.2025 09:51 — 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
🏔️ EMPSEB31 is heading to the mountains!
This year we’ll meet in Oberwiesenthal, Germany (8–12 June 2026), a quiet mountain town in the Ore Mountains, right on the Czech border. Think forest trails, open skies, and fresh air.
Join us for a week of science and fun!🌿
#EMPSEB31 #EvoBio #PhD
14.11.2025 10:05 — 👍 8 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 1
GitHub - hadley/genzplyr: dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap. Contribute to hadley/genzplyr development by creating an account on GitHub.
Do you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp....
genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
06.11.2025 23:25 — 👍 462 🔁 167 💬 41 📌 55
Our Illuminate Global Challenges Fellowships | Research | Queen's University Belfast
🔊 Applications for the tenure-track illuminate global challenge fellowships at Queen’s are now open!
Comes with 5 years protected research time, a PhD studentship, & 60k start-up. I had one of these before getting my FLF, happy to chat to anyone interested!
www.qub.ac.uk/Research/fel...
30.10.2025 12:19 — 👍 12 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 1
I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
03.10.2025 14:05 — 👍 57 🔁 64 💬 0 📌 1
Lecturer in Microbiology, Permanent, 1 FTE, Contract Type B, 011296 | University Vacancies Ireland
Lecturership in Microbiolgy @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Application submission deadline coming soon - October 9th. universityvacancies.com/university-g...
03.10.2025 13:38 — 👍 1 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
Dublin is looking especially radiant this evening, maybe it’s the tenure? Thanks Trinity! 🎉🎓
25.09.2025 16:40 — 👍 53 🔁 0 💬 8 📌 0
Congratulations Rachel!
16.09.2025 10:00 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
UKRI announces winners of £120 million Future Leaders Fellowships
Research into the causes of lung cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are among 77 projects to be funded by UKRI’s Future Leaders Fellowships.
Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship to investigate the impact of microbial interactions on antimicrobial resistance evolution 🎉 🧫 really grateful for this investment in my lab and excited to start my fellowship in Jan’26!
www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...
16.09.2025 09:43 — 👍 125 🔁 4 💬 22 📌 0
A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.
I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky
Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.
16.09.2025 08:08 — 👍 38 🔁 44 💬 2 📌 1
Here's the paper you may be referring to
05.09.2025 05:15 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
This was the paper I was trying to remember last night, it looks great - look forward to getting stuck in!
22.08.2025 15:39 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Heading home after #ESEB2025. Head is melted but inspired by all of the incredible science. Was great to present our work (mostly by the brilliant @kelbrick.bsky.social) on evolution in multistressor environments, and of course to reconnect with old friends and colleagues from across Europe!
22.08.2025 12:37 — 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Boarding a plane to Barcelona for my first #ESEB since 2018 — two kids and one pandemic later. Excited for the science, slightly worried about my drastically reduced beer tolerance. #ESEB2025
18.08.2025 08:20 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Gifted in Euro just to make things awkward
05.08.2025 15:52 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Want to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1
05.08.2025 12:45 — 👍 33 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 3
Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation
Abstract. Most knowledge about bacterial evolution and ecological interactions comes from laboratory studies. One difference between the wild and most labo
Our new paper on experimental evolution in wild tree-holes -Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation
#ISMEJournal
@duhitasant.bsky.social Tom Smith Edgar Wong Juli Cohen
@kayla-king.bsky.social
Tom Bell
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
01.08.2025 08:44 — 👍 17 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
Research Ireland have a new programme to attract mid and established researchers from abroad to Ireland. Nice starting package and we don’t have REF 😂https://www.researchireland.ie/funding/global-talent-ireland/
19.07.2025 12:56 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Bridging the scales: what can microbial ecologists learn from classic ecology?
Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social and @annasophieweiss.bsky.social, also by @juliensluneau.bsky.social and @lambdapp.bsky.social from our lab (not me :)) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...
01.07.2025 08:25 — 👍 40 🔁 26 💬 1 📌 0
Plant pathologist (all things oomycete - especially potato late blight); eDNA enthusiast; climber; runner; cyclist; views/opinions my own
Lecturer in Microbiology at the University of Reading. Interested in uncovering how bacteria fight it out and using those strategies against them
Behavioural ecologist studying a hotter and sicker world. Assistant Professor at Trinity College Dublin // he/him // www.gregalbery.me
Agricultural Ecology Group of the British Ecological Society. Bringing together farmers, researchers, and policy makers.
• a free recurring bite-sized alternative to multi-day #microbiome conferences •
➡️ Every month, a new event... join #MVIF community!
https://www.microbiome-vif.org/en-US
Microbial evolution & ecology, focus on surface structures (capsules) and HGT (#plasmids #phages), mostly in #Klebsiella #MicroSky
From Asturias 🇪🇸 living in 🇫🇷 @cnrs.bsky.social
Welcome to the ESEB 2025 Congress, set to take place in Barcelona. This congress marks another milestone for the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB), which has been organising biennial conferences since 1987. Join us! We are waiting for you.
Microbial ecology and evolution | Professor at University of Lausanne | Theory | Experiments | Egyptian
Phage enthusiast harnessing microbial ecology & evolution to advance phage therapies; University of Bern & Inselspital
"What we do in life echoes in eternity." Gladiator (2000)
"What is an ocean but a multitude of drops?" Cloud Atlas (2012)
Evolutionary genetics: microbes, microbial communities, models; academic at the University of Manchester
Post-Doc at The University of Liverpool. I specialise in microbiology, genetics, evolution, and biotechnology.
Professor. #Zoology, Theoretical #Ecology & #Evolution, Trinity College Dublin.
Ecologist interested in community dynamics and multiple stressors | DECRA fellow at University of Queensland | Research: https://jamesaorr.github.io | Nature photography: jamesorrphoto.com
Evolution | Theory | Social Evolution | Population Genetics | Behavioural Ecology | Kin Selection | Multilevel Selection | Inclusive Fitness | Sex Ratio | Altruism | Professor of Biology at University of St Andrews, Scotland.
RA in Respiratory Immunology 🫁
MSc Microbial Evolution & Ecology 🦠
BA (Hons) Microbiology 🧫
Trinity College Dublin
Currently looking for PhD roles (2026 start)
4th year PhD candidate interested in microbial ecology & evolution in CF🦠🔬👩🏻🔬/ Trinity College Dublin/ Tá Gaeilge agam☘️☘️/ she/her
Microbial Evolution - AMR - University of Manchester
Official profile of the European Society for Evolutionary Biology (ESEB) - an international academic society supporting the study of #evolution
https://eseb.org
Publisher of @jevbio.bsky.social
Co-publisher of @evolletters.bsky.social
Grumpy Scotsman. Mostly here for the science. Genomics of infectious disease, evolution and environmental science. University of Liverpool pays the salary but views are my own.
Evolution. He/him/his. Views not my own. 🐵🦄🏳️🌈👨🔬🍜
