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Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I had a fantastic time working closely with Pleuni during my PhD! Strong endorse!!

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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

We are searching for an Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology! Looking for colleagues asking fundamental questions relating to evolutionary processes and drivers of evolutionary patterns. If you think it is you, please do apply! And please repost. facultypositions.stanford.edu/jobs/assista...

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Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology - Stanford University, California, United States

The Department of Biology at Stanford University seeks applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Evolutionary Biology. A successful candidate will conduct research that asks fundamental que...

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

1/17 Submissions are now open for the 2027 Microbial Population Biology GRC! We expect this meeting to be extraordinarily oversubscribed. If you want to come, time is of the essence--apply ASAP! June 27–July 2 • Andover, NH www.grc.org/microbial-po...

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Graham Coop @gcbias.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I’m looking to hire an NIH funded postdoc to join our lab here at Davis (please RT). Ongoing areas of interest include: 1) polygenic signals of selection from time series, ARGs, GWAS, etc 2) The interpretation of GWAS, polygenic scores, & sources of confounding

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Reposting this ongoing search (any discipline of biology) for an Assistant to Associate level colleague in the Division of Basic Sciences at Fred Hutch. Great city, great colleagues, great core facilities, great trainees.

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Adam Steinbrenner @adsteinbrenner.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Two faculty searches at Berkeley Plant & Microbial Bio @PMB_Berkeley Submit applications by Sept 30 Plant Responses to Environmental Changes aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Plant-Microbe Communities aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522

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Assistant Professor - Plant Responses to Environmental Changes - Department of Plant and Microbial Biology

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

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Megan Behringer @megbehri.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Today is the day! So excited to share with my colleagues a bit of what we accomplished!

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Nels Elde @elearlybird.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Open your lab here at Utah! utah.peopleadmin.com/postings/208...

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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If you are thinking of applying to the @uwgenome.bsky.social PhD program this fall, we have a couple of zoom info sessions set up for Oct 6 and Oct 22. Please register at the link. Our website also has a ton of useful information about crafting your application. www.gs.washington.edu/news/graduat...

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Graduate Program Information Sessions – UW Genome Sciences

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Kamila Naxerova @naxerova.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Finishing your PhD or looking for a post-bac research position? We’re recruiting postdocs and research technicians to study somatic evolution! Come do interdisciplinary science in a friendly, collaborative environment at @harvardmed.bsky.social Genetics www.naxerova.hms.harvard.edu/contact

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Join Us — Naxerova Lab

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Sue Biggins @suebiggins.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Junior faculty position in Basic Sciences @fredhutch.org! Please repost!

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Sam Díaz-Muñoz (they / ella) @sociovirology.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Kicking off Day 2 of #SocialViruses26: Ed Hutchinson @socialinfluenza.bsky.social from University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research @cvrinfo.bsky.social with "Mechanisms and consequences of influenza virus superinfection exclusion"

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Harmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Come be our colleague. I have been in this Division for 27 years (4 as a postdoc and 23 as a PI). It is an amazing place to work, collaborate, and be inspired. If you are applying to be an Assistant or Associate Professor this Fall, don't miss this deadline.

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Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

For those not able to make it to #socialviruses this year, Sam is live-tweeting all three days of talks, touching on all aspects of social evolution in viruses! #evosky #virosky 🧪 🦠 🔬

The Social Lives of Viruses conference poster

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Sam Díaz-Muñoz (they / ella) @sociovirology.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Back from lunch at #SocialViruses26 — Alexander Robertson @alexrob.bsky.social (University of Washington) on "Cooperative interactions facilitate measles virus brain infection"

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Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Concisely summarizes one of my favorite insights from @alexrob.bsky.social 's latest work!

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Sam Díaz-Muñoz (they / ella) @sociovirology.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Yuksel: Research available in a recent pre-print www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #SocialViruses26

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Sam Díaz-Muñoz (they / ella) @sociovirology.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Hi Everyone! I will be broadcasting live from the Social Lives of Viruses 2026 conference @zoology.ubc.ca @ubcbiodiversity.bsky.social in beautiful Vancouver BC, organized by @asherleeks.bsky.social and myself with the support of Canadian Institutes of Health Research and @moorefound.bsky.social.

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Jay Shendure @jshendure.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Thrilled to post thread re: new single-cell lineage of mouse embryo reconstructed w/ DNA Typewriter. One animal, zygote to late organogenesis (E13.5). Tree has 1,340,794 transcriptionally profiled, annotated tips (cells), 1,142,588 dated internal nodes, rooted at zygote 1/n

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Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

A few months ago, @elena-romero.bsky.social published a paper showing that HIV escape from broadly neutralizing antibody 10-1074 is driven by very recurrent mutation. In her latest, she asks - just how soft are the signatures of these sweeps? www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Haplotype and diversity signatures of ultra-soft selective sweeps in HIV-1

Many urgent medical and agricultural challenges are driven by resistance evolution via soft selective sweeps of multiple simultaneous mutations. Standard approaches to detect these mutations involve g...

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Dmitri Petrov @petrovadmitri.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Cannot be more excited about the lineup for the inaugural Function of Evolving Systems GRC conference I am co-organizing with the amazing Joy Bergelson. Less than a month away: August 9 - 14, 2026. Still a few spots left! And do check out the amazing list of speakers: www.grc.org/function-of-...

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2026 Function of Evolving Systems Conference GRC

The 2026 Gordon Research Conference on Function of Evolving Systems will be held in Waterville Valley, New Hampshire. Apply today to reserve your spot.

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Amy D Willis @amydwillis.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Genuine question for folx who look at bacterial phylogenies: How do you interpret the bootstrap support and posterior probabilities that you get on your tree estimates? Do you take them seriously? Do you think: "Wow, all 99%, that must be a reliable tree!"? 1/

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Pablo Cárdenas R. @pcr-guy.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

It's go time!

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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Very proud of this preprint out of my lab, our first (of hopefully many) host-microbe spatial transcriptomics paper. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing insights into P. aeruginosa biology and chronic airway disease @cysticfibrosis.org.uk @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk

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Antigen Evolution & Design Lab @antigenevo.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Inaugural post! We are a brand new lab @pasteur.fr studying how pathogen antigens evolve and how we can exploit these proteins' evolution to make better vaccines! Read a few words from the currently sole member of the lab @spyroslytras.bsky.social below! 😁 www.pasteur.fr/en/research-...

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Predicting viral evolution with AI

Spyros Lytras is one of four young scientists selected in 2025 to lead new research groups at the Institut Pasteur. He has headed the “Antigen Evolution & Design laboratory” 5-year Group (G5) since Ju...

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Patrick Dolan @ptdolan.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Folks in the #QVEU have been busy! We recently published two reviews in #JVI @jvico-eics.bsky.social! Check them out to learn more about the tools we use in the lab and the questions we are excited to pursue in the coming years… 🧵

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George O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Pls share: U of Washington has an opening for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position is expected to specialize in molecular virology or bacteriology. Here is a link: microbiology.washington.edu/index.php/ne...

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Micro is Hiring! | UW Microbiology

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Syd Sattler @sydsat.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

What if an embryo made immune cells before it finished building the tissue they usually come from? In our new preprint, we show that annual killifish embryos specify neutrophils before germ layers are fully resolved. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Huge thanks to my PI, @ohnolog.bsky.social ! 🧵

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Early immune cell development precedes gastrulation in annual killifish

During embryogenesis, cell types arise in a predictable order because developmental regulators act sequentially. But how evolutionary changes in morphogenesis reshape the signaling environments that a...

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Amy D Willis @amydwillis.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I'm hiring a #postdoc 🥳 and applications are open 🤩 Candidates with interests in EITHER statistical methodology or microbial ecology / microbiome are welcome to apply. The position / projects will be tailored to the candidate 🌟📈🎤 Thank you for sharing widely! apply.interfolio.com/188571

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Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Elena Romero @elena-romero.bsky.social is now on bluesky! She has been doing awesome work at @uwgenome.bsky.social on HIV evolutionary dynamics in the context of recombination and bNAb escape, and is starting a postdoc with @matsen.bsky.social in a few months. Give her a follow!

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Rishi De-Kayne @rishidekayne.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🚨 #Evol2026 attendees - our team at @arcadiascience.com is hiring! We're looking to hire a computational evolutionary biologist interested in asking how and why protein sequences/structures/functions differ across the tree of life 🧬 jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien... Please share widely!

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Arcadia Science - Platform Scientist: Comparative Protein Evolution

A Bit About Us: We're Arcadia Science, an evolutionary biology company founded and led by scientists. Our mission is to turn natural innovations into real-world solutions by developing systematic and ...

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UW Genome Sciences @uwgenome.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Congratulations to the winners of the GS outstanding Service Award: Bonny Brewer (faculty), Josh Malamy (staff), Joe Min (student), and Ryan Friedman (postdoc)!

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Rob Noble @robjohnnoble.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Two pleas from a journal editor: 1. If you're mid-career or senior and are declining a review, please recommend a junior colleague. 2. If you're early-career and want to be asked to review papers, please ensure editors can readily discover your expertise, current affililation, and email address.

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Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Excited that Elena Romero is speaking about HIV intra-host evolution in the Crow Award session today at #PEQG26! Her talk focuses on her recent paper (www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...) and unpublished follow up work asking what diversity and linkage signatures look like for "ultra-soft" sweeps!

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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Yun Deng @yundeng.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

#PEQG26 folks! I will be presenting my postdoc project with @jkpritch.bsky.social and @jeffspence.github.io about inferring population structure dynamics over time with tensor decomposition on ARG. The talk will be at the James Crow Talk session on Wednesday. Look forward to seeing everyone there!

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Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Very excited that @alexrob.bsky.social will have an opportunity to share some of his cool work on measles brain adaptation (joint with Ben Kerr) in this session!

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Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I’m excited to share a new paper about HIV escape from broadly neutralizing antibody monotherapies! In it, we describe the most highly recurrent adaptation I have ever seen. A close collaboration with Lillian Cohn (FHCC) led jointly by Elena Romero and Abby Clyde. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Karolin Luger @nucleosomepolice.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Out today - structure of the human HIRA histone chaperone complex bound to nucleosomes. Ever wondered how nucleosomes are assembled in the wake of transcription? It takes a 'hulk of a protein complex'. Work by the amazing Wei Tian weetian558.bsky.social. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵

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Alex Cope, PhD (he/him) @alexcope241.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

I'm looking for postdoc opportunities for the 2026-2027 academic year. If you're looking for a postdoc with a broad skill set spanning evolutionary genetics, bioinformatics, and various omics methods, feel free to reach out. Some recent pubs: (1) doi.org/10.1126/scie... (2) doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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Macroevolutionary divergence of gene expression driven by selection on protein abundance

The regulation of messenger RNA (mRNA) and protein abundances is well-studied, but less is known about the evolutionary processes shaping their relationship. To address this, we derived a new phylogen...

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Chris Brooke @christopherbrooke.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Excited to announce that we are moving the lab to Minneapolis to join the University of Minnesota Department of Microbiology & Immunology and Institute on Infectious Diseases this summer!! We will be hiring so please reach out if interested in viral evolution, viral immunology, etc.!!

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Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

We're recruiting! We're looking for two graduate students to join us at UBC in Vancouver. Fully funded and open to global applicants, with flexible start-date. Topics include theory, bioinformatics, and microbiology. More details: asherleeks.com/apply #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪

Leeks Lab is recruiting. We study social evolution in viruses. We're recruiting for two fully funded PhD or MSc positions, starting from September 2026. Evolutionary theory / experimental microbiology / viral bioinformatics. Experience optional / enthusiasm essential. asherleeks.com/apply

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Alison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Do you teach undergrad bioinformatics? If so, I'd love to hear about how (if at all) you're changing your course to reflect advances in generative AI. Please send me a DM!

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Ishmail Abdus-Saboor @ishmailsaboor.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

This program transformed my career! Please apply. @hhmi-science.bsky.social's #FreemanHrabowski Scholars Program offers early career faculty up to $10M over 10 yrs, plus salary & benefits. Postdoc? This year's competition has a program for you too. Applications open 11/3! bit.ly/4vhC0LA

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Early Career Faculty Program | Freeman Hrabowski Scholars | HHMI

The Freeman Hrabowski Scholars Program offers comprehensive support to outstanding early career faculty committed to scientific excellence in their own research, and to fostering labs that expand the ...

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Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

The Social Lives of Viruses is coming to Vancouver, Canada, from 4th-8th August 2026! This is a free meeting dedicated to all aspects of virus-virus interactions & evolution. To apply: socialviruses.zoology.ubc.ca @sociovirology.bsky.social #socialviruses #evosky #lovevirology #virosky

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Ivana Bozic @ibozic.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Join us on Tuesday, April 7 at 11am PDT to hear Kamila Naxerova @naxerova.bsky.social from Harvard Medical School in the next installment of the Mathematical and Computational Modeling of Cancer Seminar. Livestream link to follow shortly.

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Ben Good @benjaminhgood.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Happy to share the final version of @oliviamghosh.bsky.social's paper on inferring low dimensional phenotype-fitness maps from high-throughput fitness measurements across environments. Fun collaboration with @oliviamghosh.bsky.social, @grantkinsler.bsky.social, & @petrovadmitri.bsky.social

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hsiehyp.bsky.social @hsiehyp.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Hiring Alert: My lab(www.labofpie.org) is looking for BS/MS-level research assistants to study fungal-bacterial competition. Come join us if you are interested! ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en/recruitme...

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IPMB | 中央研究院植物暨微生物學研究所

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