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Open position of Associate Professor in Behavioral ecology and cultural evolution at the @dee-unil.bsky.social! You can toggle the ad to English on top right: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

🚨🪲🧬🦠 We have a new preprint out! Link: doi.org/10.64898/202... Insects and microbes are more connected than we realize. Some insects owe part of their ability to feed on plants to genes acquired from bacteria millions of years ago 🤯 See what we found about glycoside hydrolases in leafhoppers.

Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠

Check out our newly published opinion paper on emergent functions in microbial communities. Grateful to have been part of this.

Read some behind the scenes perspectives from our recent #Micro paper about fungal - bacterial biofilms

Proud to be part of this paper! Behind this article are countless conversations, debates, and whiteboard sketches and it's amazing to see the final version out.

🚨The program for MEEHubs2026 is now online, as is more detailed information about the hubs! Check it out at meehubs.org and register‼️ Less than a month before the conference kicks off! 🦠

HomeA hub-based conference on Microbial Ecology and Evolutionmeehubs.org

Cyanobacterial flocculation as a defence against bacterial predation academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc... #jcampubs

Cyanobacterial flocculation as a defence against bacterial predationAbstract. Many cyanobacteria are capable of flocculation: the formation of floating linked assemblages of many thousands of cells. Flocculation is a highlyacademic.oup.com

➡️ New article out! ⬅️ What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life by Reed Bender, Karina Kofman, Blaise Agüera y Arcas & Michael Levin (@blaiseaguera.bsky.social, @drmichaellevin.bsky.social) Open access: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What Lives? A Meta-Analysis of Diverse Opinions on the Definition of Life - Biological TheoryThe question of "what is life?" has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of discipli...link.springer.com

Four new Associate/Full Professor positions at Aarhus University @au.dk Faculty of Natural Sciences with focus on innovation, i.e. if you have especially strong links to the world outside academia (maybe you've been in industry for some years and are looking to come back?): www.au.dk/om/stillinge...

Professor or Associate Professor within the natural sciences, with a focus on Innovation (4 positions) - Ledig stilling på Aarhus UniversitetLedig stilling ved Natural Sciences, Aarhus Universitetwww.au.dk

How do animals cooperate when they aren't even the same species? Our recent review paper dug deep into the literature... 1/ Read the full paper: doi.org/10.1016/j.an...

Check out this really interesting preprint by @shikharabhat.bsky.social and @kokkonut.bsky.social on models of senescence and their connection to models of multilevel selection. It seems like these fun jump processes, PDEs, and SPDEs arise in a variety of biological contexts.

Two positions (see the text, W2 and W3!!!) in Experimental Medical Biophysics have just been announced here, @hhu.de Come and let's make some great science together! 🤓🔬🧬🧪 jobs.zeit.de/jobs/w2-prof...

W2-Professur für Experimentelle Medizinische Biophysik - Heinrich-Heine-Universität DüsseldorfHeinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf bietet Stelle als W2-Professur für Experimentelle Medizinische Biophysik in Düsseldorf - jetzt bewerben!jobs.zeit.de

A bit more than a week to apply! W 3 Professorship for Plant Biotechnology. Freiburg, Germany. Great university, great faculty, awesome colleagues. Apply, if you want to be my successor. uni-freiburg.de/en/job/00005...

Have ideas for your own, independent research program in Theoretical Biology? Then come and join us as a Group Leader at the @mpi-evolbio.bsky.social in Plön, Germany!

Group Leader in Theoretical Biology (m/f/d)Experience in Theoretical Biology, Applied Mathematics, Theoretical Physicswww.mpg.de

New preprint from our lab Statistical learning of bacterial growth in combinatorially constructed environments, led by brilliant PhD student Andrea Arrabal. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... We systematically study nutrient-nutrient interactions in bacterial growth under carbon-limiting conditions.

Proposed terminology for referring to the homes of #symbionts within their ( #insect ) hosts " #Symbiotic organs in #insects: diversity, functional implications, and terminology " w/ @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social and co., not in bsky doi.org/10.1098/rstb... #SymbioSky

Symbiotic organs in insects: diversity, functional implications, and terminologyAbstract. With over a million described species, insects represent the most successful group of animals on Earth. One of the drivers of insect diversity isdoi.org

Excited to share that our paper is now published in Environmental Microbiology! It's open access. Read on to find out how functionally and taxonomically diverse microbial communities assemble on cellulose and glucose. enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Diverse Microbial Communities Assemble on Both Recalcitrant and Labile Carbon SourcesTaxonomically and functionally distinct communities assemble on cellulose and its monomer, glucose. Although single carbon sources were provided, high and comparable diversity was maintained in both ....enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

2026. Resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists. A collection of websites and literature for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and allies. www.britishecologicalsociety.org/content/reso... by @britishecologicalsociety.org

Resources for LGBTQIA+ ecologists - British Ecological SocietyA collection of websites and literature for LGBTQIA+ ecologists and allies.www.britishecologicalsociety.org

Nine (not so simple) steps: a practical guide to using machine learning in microbial ecology Step 1: Determine whether machine learning is necessary or even worth doing journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Nine (not so simple) steps: a practical guide to using machine learning in microbial ecology | mBioMicrobial ecologists are increasingly turning to machine learning (ML) models to better identify and predict meaningful biological patterns and relationships in molecular microbial community data (inc...journals.asm.org