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Abhishek Meena, Ph.D.

@abhishek11.bsky.social
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Evolutionary Ecologist | #Climate_change #Insects #LifeStages #Sexes #Fertility #Adaptation | 🪲 Postdoc @David Berger @Uppsala University 🇸🇪 | 🪰 PhD in Evolutionary Biology @Stefan Lupold @University of Zurich 🇨🇭| 🪰🐝 BS-MS Biology @NG Prasad @IISER Mohali 🇮🇳

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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
PhD-position ALERT! Interested in the genomics of local adaptation and the evolution of niche breadth? 🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬🪲🧬 Come join me and @gmkov.bsky.social at @animecol-uu.bsky.social, Uppsala University, by applying here: uu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... Deadline 1st of November!
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PhD-student in Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics
Do you want to conduct frontier research in an outstanding environment within evolutionary biology at Sweden’s largest faculty of science and technology? The Department of Ecology and Genetics at Up
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Sailee Sakhalkar @saileesakhalkar.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Our latest work is out @natecoevo.nature.com! We revisit a classic: Are interactions more specialised towards the tropics?🌻🪰 Great to lead this with @robtrop.bsky.social, and our coauthors across the world! Grateful for their collaboration🥳, and hope to continue working with this amazing community!
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Clemens Küpper @chorlnev.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
‼️Now published @evolletters.bsky.social Developmental differences between males and females alter the sex ratio. 🐥🧵 about this study 1/9
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Rohit Kapila @kapilarohit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In our new Communications Biology paper, we show that mutation retention is strongly strain-specific, and that structural variants can reshape how mutations remain linked and persist. nature.com/articles/s42... #ScienceTwitter #Research #NewPaper #Genomics #Evolution #OpenScience
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Strain-specific structural variant landscapes shape mutation retention following mutagenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans - Communications Biology
Communications Biology - Strain-specific structural variant landscapes shape mutation retention following mutagenesis in Caenorhabditis elegans
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Tom Ratz @tomratz.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Our new paper is out in @jevbio.bsky.social! Body size shapes aggression as well as how strongly individuals influence their opponents and how responsive they are to social interactions. @cdegroot.bsky.social @roriwijnhorst.bsky.social @dingemanselab.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...
Size-mediated differences in social responsiveness (left) and social impact (right). Here, individual i is smaller, more responsive to variation in opponent body size and elicits more aggression from opponents than individual j.
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Cell Press @cellpress.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Sexual dimorphism in the complete Drosophila male central nervous system connectome. Learn more in Cell: www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Gregory S.X.E. Jefferis & colleagues
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Stephen Montgomery @ebablab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Extremely topical PhD project on the effects of heatwaves on cognition, with @harrysiviter.bsky.social at @bristolbiosci.bsky.social, with @gaynorasmith.bsky.social and me as sidekicks 🐝🥵 gw4biomed.ac.uk/quantifying-...
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Quantifying the impact of heatwaves on cognition, neuroanatomy, and mitochondrial function - GW4 BioMed MRC DTP
Project Code NMH27Br Siviter Project Type Wet lab Research Theme Neuroscience and Mental Health Project Summary Download Summary Climate change is increasing the frequency and severity of heatwaves. I...
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Nature Reviews Biodiversity @natrevbiodiv.nature.com · 04/09/2026
New online! Moving beyond single traits to predict endotherms’ responses to climatic warming
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Moving beyond single traits to predict endotherms’ responses to climatic warming
Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 04 September 2026; doi:10.1038/s44358-026-00195-5Species have morphological, physiological and behavioural responses to temperature, which are typically used in isolation to infer phenotypic change under climate warming. In this Perspective, Symonds and colleagues argue for a multi-trait, integrative approach to better inform understanding of phenotypic changes in response to climatic warming.
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Fredrik Jutfelt 🐠 @jutfelt.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Come join us, PhD and postdoc positions! Please spread! Supervisor @patricepottier.bsky.social (patricepottierlab.com), me as co-supervisor. Impacts of climate change on different life-stages in fish.🐟🧪 PhD web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103... Postdoc web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/103...
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Sinead English @englishse.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Exciting times both professionally and personally - we're moving to Mainz as I am starting a professorship in September! Thank you to the Wübben foundation @w-s-w.org for the amazing support. Really looking forward to the work and life adventures to come! (1/3)
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Science Magazine @science.org · 15/08/2026
Scientists say honey bees’ ability to both lap up and suck nectar gives them access to a far wider range of flowers than most other pollinators. Learn more on #NationalHoneyBeeDay: scim.ag/45zbx0b
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Liam Dougherty @liamdougherty.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
New preprint just online, led by Fay Frost and me: comparing the thermal sensitivity of 300+ invertebrate life history traits shows that reproduction is more sensitive than lifespan to warming. Studies focusing on survival may be underestimating the effect of warming on animal populations 🔥🔥🔥
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Journal of Experimental Biology @jexpbiol.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Early-career researchers can apply for a FUNDED PLACE at the @biologists.bsky.social Workshop, Integrating Physiology and Behaviour in Assessment of Ectotherm Heat Tolerance, 7-10 March 2027 Organisers: Michael Ørsted and Johannes Overgaard Application deadline: 11 Sept tinyurl.com/23rm6z69
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Integrating Physiology and Behaviour in Assessment of Ectotherm Heat Tolerance 
Organisers: Michael Ørsted and Johannes Overgaard
Early-career researchers apply for funded places
7-1- March 2027
Buxted Park, East Sussex, UK
Bottom left: The Company of Biologists logo
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Liam Dougherty @liamdougherty.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
New pre-print led by the amazing @patricepottier.bsky.social - very little evidence for evolution of life history traits in response to warming, even in insects. Rapid adaptation is unlikely to mitigate the continuing impacts of climate change 🔥🔥🔥
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Shawan Chowdhury @shawan-chowdhury.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Our new Nature Eco Evo paper documents range shifts in 1,758 butterfly species across 105 countries, primarily due to climate change. 🦋80% expanded 🦋27% contracted 🦋22% shifted elevation 🦋342 showed multiple shift types. doi.org/10.1038/s415... @monashbiol.bsky.social @monashscience.bsky.social
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Putter Tiatragul @puttert.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Megan Head at ANU is advertising this amazing postdoc position on thermal tolerance in insects. Canberra is a great place to live and work. Don't listen to the haters! jobs.anu.edu.au/jobs/postdoc...
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Postdoctoral Fellow - Canberra / ACT, ACT, Australia
Classification:  Academic Level ASalary package: $91,546 - $114,906 per annum plus 17% superannuation Terms:  Full time, Fixed term (up to 2 years) (flexible arrangements, job share, or part time hour...
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Caleb Charpentier @calcharp.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Nice! I made a dashboard for this sort of thing recently too: calebcharpentier.com/EcoEvoJobSea...
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Eco & Evo Jobs
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Abhishek Meena, Ph.D. @abhishek11.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
#Bee mating 🐝 🤩
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Genetics Society of America @genetics-gsa.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
What does it really take to land a faculty position? @jazlynmooney.bsky.social shares insights on preparing competitive applications, navigating interviews, building a research vision, and more. 🔗: buff.ly/nLWXT9m
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Tim Janicke, Göran Arnqvist and colleagues have a new paper out discussing how biological sex is rooted in anisogamy (different gamete sizes) and how this relates to broader evolutionary patterns of sex-specific selection. You can read more about it here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Biological Sex Is Binary and Rooted in Anisogamy
Drawing on empirical evidence and evolutionary theory, we argue that biological sex is most coherently defined as a binary classification of reproductive strategies rooted in anisogamy (the productio...
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Abhishek Meena, Ph.D. @abhishek11.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Happy to part of this amazing project. Congratulations to @tyleraudet.bsky.social @idworkin.bsky.social Stefan Lupold and all co-authors. doi.org/10.1093/evol...
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Ian Dworkin @idworkin.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I am excited to tell you about our new study led by Tyler Audet and in collaboration with Stefan Lüpold's group. Below you see two species. On the right is Drosophila melanogaster. On the left, Drosophila prolongata. Notice the highly exaggerated legs of the males in D.p! doi.org/10.1093/evol...
Two panel image of Drosophila prolongata and Drosophila melanogaster. In the top panel is a female of Drosophila prolongata on the left and a female of Drosophila melanogaster on the right. It shows that D. prolongata females are somewhat larger than melanogaster, and have spotted wings. Importantly the legs are proportional in each species.

In the bottom panel are males. On the left is a Drosophila prolongata male which is larger than all the other individuals, and has highly exaggerated legs in terms of width and length, and also has black stripes. In contrast male Drosophila melanogaster are much smaller than all the others, with normally proportioned legs.
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Dieter Lukas @dieterlukas.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 06/07/2026
I compiled a list of 350 #funding opportunities for #postdoctoral research #fellowships: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1J2M… I realized I should share this again after mentioning it to some folks at the #EFP2026
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Abhishek Meena, Ph.D. @abhishek11.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
🌡️ Excited to share my talk today at Global Change! 🗣️ “When Heat Stress Matters Most” I’ll discuss how stress affects life stages of insect 🐞 and why identifying vulnerable periods to climate change is important. 📅 01/07/2026 🕥 10:30–12:30 📍 Area Descartes — talk at 12:00 #ECE2026Tours
🌡️ Excited to share my talk today at GLOBAL CHANGE: Thermal ecology and climate change 3!

🗣️ “When Heat Stress Matters Most: Identifying Critical Windows of Thermal Vulnerability”
I’ll discuss how thermal stress impacts organisms across life stages and why identifying vulnerable windows is key to understanding responses to climate change.

📅 01/07/2026
🕥 10:30–12:30
📍 Area Descartes — talk at 12:00
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Abhishek Meena, Ph.D. @abhishek11.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
European Entomology conference begins with Prof. Jerome Casas’ talk!! #ECE2026Tours
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Abhishek Meena, Ph.D. @abhishek11.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🌍🔥🦋 Global collaboration: Ontogenetic Thermal Fertility Limits! We're bringing together researchers to understand how temperature affects fertility across life stages in a warming world. If you work on #insects #fertility, we'd love for you to join us. www.thermalecologyalliance.org #scicommUU26
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TEA - Thermal Ecology Alliance
A global collaborative initiative assessing, communicating, and mitigating the impacts of extreme temperature events on biodiversity.
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Ramakrishnan Vasudeva @rvasudeva.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Inbreeding leads to fitness loss- using (Tribolium castaneum), we tested pre- and post-copulatory inbreeding avoidance mechanisms- Males courted related females more, "a surprising result"...here it is: doi.org/10.1371/jour... #insects #biodiversity #science @exeter.ac.uk #FathiAttia #tomtregenza
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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🐦 Interested in avian reproduction, microbiomes, or reproductive microbiomes? I'm looking for outstanding early-career researchers interested in applying for an NWO Veni grant to join my group at NIOO. Pre-proposals are due after the summer. Email me to discuss ideas. #EarlyCareerResearcher #Postdoc
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Abhishek Meena, Ph.D. @abhishek11.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
🌍🔥🦋 Global collaboration: Ontogenetic Thermal Fertility Limits! We're bringing together researchers to understand how temperature affects fertility across life stages in a warming world. If you work on #insects #fertility, we'd love for you to join us. www.thermalecologyalliance.org #scicommUU26
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TEA - Thermal Ecology Alliance
A global collaborative initiative assessing, communicating, and mitigating the impacts of extreme temperature events on biodiversity.
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Abhishek Meena, Ph.D. @abhishek11.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Excited to share our global collaborative project: “Ontogenetic Thermal Fertility Limits” 🌍🔥🦋🪰🪲🪳🐞 We’re bringing together researchers to understand how temperature affects fertility across life stages in a warming world. Explore the project & get involved: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/projects
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Abhishek Meena, Ph.D. @abhishek11.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
Excited to share our global collaborative project: “Ontogenetic Thermal Fertility Limits” 🌍🔥🦋🪰🪲🪳🐞 We’re bringing together researchers to understand how temperature affects fertility across life stages in a warming world. Explore the project & get involved: www.thermalecologyalliance.org/projects
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Daniel Noble @danielwanoble.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Our TREE paper out on how a systems modelling approach can help to predict extreme heat impacts with some ideas on how we can move forward in implementing www.cell.com/trends/ecolo...
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A systems modelling approach to predict biological responses to extreme heat
Anthropogenic climate change is leading to more frequent and extreme heat waves. These large-scale events are radically reshaping interactions among organisms—impacting biodiversity, community composi...
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Aaditya Narasimhan @aaditya320.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
So happy to see the 2nd chapter of my PhD out! doi.org/10.1093/evol... Here, we studied populations sampled from their local elevational edges and centers on mountain slopes, and characterised the variation in G-matrices (comprised of growth and leaf investment traits) among these populations. 1/5
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Variation in the genetic architecture of ecologically relevant traits along elevational gradients
Abstract. Species are confined within spatial boundaries, which may be determined by various factors. An understudied one is the genetic non-independence o
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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Are you looking for a PhD position, hoping to learn sexual selection theory from one of the true experts in the field? Lehtonen's work is awesome - Look at this and apply! ats.talentadore.com/apply/doctor...
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Doctoral Researcher in Theoretical Evolutionary Biology (1-2 positions)
The Department of Biological and Environmental Science is seeking to recruit Doctoral Researcher in sexual selection theory (1-2 positions) starting 1.9.2026, or as soon as possible after that for a m...
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Amanda Bretman @amandabretman.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Happy to be able to share our review of the consequences of rising temperatures on animal fertility, led by @rhondasnook.bsky.social with @liamdougherty.bsky.social and Claudia Fricke. Research is getting active in this area but there's still a lot of unknowns... rdcu.be/e7uGm
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The consequences of rising temperatures for animal fertility
Nature Reviews Biodiversity - Thermal stress reduces fertility in animals at temperatures below lethal, yet these sublethal effects remain underrepresented in biodiversity forecasts. This Review...
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Natalie Pilakouta @nataliepilakouta.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
New paper from our lab showing that larvae exposed to thermal stress suffer higher mortality, but for those that survive, there are no long-term effects on reproduction later in life www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🌡️🐞 Congrats to @jakobwiil.bsky.social on his first paper from his PhD! 🥳
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Natalie Pilakouta @nataliepilakouta.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
📣 PhD opportunity in my lab 📣 We're looking for a motivated student interested in the effects of thermal stress on animal survival and reproduction: www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Project is open-ended to allow student to define its direction depending on their interests Please share widely!
PhD project entitled "Are we underestimating the effects of climate change on animal populations?"
Supervised by Dr Natalie Pilakouta and Dr David Shuker
Deadline: 6 January 2026
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Steve Ramm @steveramm.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
POSTDOC recruitment! We’re looking for a post-doc to join us to work on the (epi)genetic basis of inbreeding depression as part of the ANR-funded project FRIDA macrostomum.wordpress.com/the-genetic-... Please share!
A cartoon Macrostomum flatworm
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 14/12/2025
Males of the fruit fly (Drosophila prolongata) engage in territorial contests, using their elongated forelegs as weapons to fend off rivals and secure access to females and food. Read 'Social plasticity and individuality shape variation in contest behaviour': doi.org/10.1098/rsbl... #BiologyLetters
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)
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Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology - Uppsala University
Postdoctoral researcher in molecular ecology, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
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ISBE2026 @isbe2026.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
TRAVEL AWARDS - Apply for a travel award to support your trip, accommodation and registration! Application guidelines on www.isbe2026.com
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David Berger @dbergerbiol.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
How do insects respond to changing climates? Our new review and analysis in @annualreviews.bsky.social suggests that phenological adaptation trumps thermal adaptation. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
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Life-History Evolution of Insects in Response to Climate Variation: Seasonal Timing Versus Thermal Physiology | Annual Reviews
Climate adaptation in insects can proceed via responses in life-history traits and their thermal plasticity and through phenological shifts mediated by responses to photoperiodic cues (photoperiodism)...
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Amanda Bretman @amandabretman.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Perfectly timed to coincide with our Thermal Fertility Limit Special Topic Network meeting we’ve received a further 2 years of funding, thank you @eseb.bsky.social! And great work fellow leads @rhondasnook.bsky.social, @liamdougherty.bsky.social and Claudia Fricke.
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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
3.5-year #Postdoc position on avian microbiomes and reproduction @animalecol-nioo.bsky.social @niooknaw.bsky.social on a fully-funded ERC project focused on understanding the significance of reproductive microbiomes for host biology and fitness. Reach out for more info! nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies...
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Postdoctoral researcher: avian microbiomes and reproduction
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team working on avian reproductive microbiomes at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the group of Dr. Melissah Rowe. The postd...
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Abhishek Meena, Ph.D. @abhishek11.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
✨Life update: Excited to start my postdoc with David Berger at Uppsala University, Sweden, exploring how warming affects fertility and adaptive potential in beetles 🌡️🪲 Thanks to Stefan Lüpold and the lab for an amazing 4.8 years, and to Sven och Lilly Lawskis fond for supporting the next chapter 🥳.
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Abhishek Meena, Ph.D. @abhishek11.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🎉 I’m delighted to share that the final paper of my PhD is out! We studied how heat stress affects male and female fertility across reproductive stages in Drosophila melanogaster. @StefanLupold @anDeNardo @KomalMaggu, Viktor Kovalov, Benjamin Eggs 🥳🥳🥳🥳 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jt...
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Melissah Rowe @melissahrowe.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
We are looking for a postdoc to join our group to work on an ERC funded project on avian reproductive microbiomes. nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies... Please RT! #microbes #microbiomes #sparrows #postdoc
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Postdoctoral researcher: avian microbiomes and reproduction
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to join our team working on avian reproductive microbiomes at the Netherlands Institute of Ecology (NIOO-KNAW) in the group of Dr. Melissah Rowe. The postd...
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Steven Van Belleghem @svbelleghem.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Excited to advertise a shared PhD position at KU Leuven (Belgium) and Mondsee (Austria) with @markusmoest.bsky.social on the genetic basis, plasticity and evolution of melanization in Daphnia from alpine lakes. Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
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Erin Macartney @erinmacartney.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
6 years ago I got to do a research visit thanks to the @eseb.bsky.social Godfrey Hewitt Mobility Award. I’m so happy to reunite with the lab I visited in Zurich and my adoptive Swiss parents who took me in 🥰
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