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Elin Videvall

@elinvidevall.bsky.social
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My lab studies wildlife microbiomes and diet at Uppsala University, Sweden. SciLifeLab Group Leader. Previously at Brown University & Smithsonian. Molecular Ecology, Evolution, Hologenomics, Conservation Biology. she/her. www.videvall.com

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 15h
Earlier this week, visiting PhD student Emma Little from Oregon State University gave a presentation to our lab group about cladoseqR. It's a new analytic method on how to incorporate the microbial phylogeny in #microbiome analysis. 🧬💻 We had a great discussion!
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Last week, I returned from an incredible roadtrip in Queensland, Australia! 🌏🐨🦘 Saw so many unique animals and beautiful nature! It was definitely a trip of a lifetime! What a fantastic country and landscape 😍 Attached a few pics, (blurry because screenshots from videos).
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Thanks #ISME20 from the Videvall lab for a great conference! We had a lot of fun, meeting new and old friends, learning about various microbes, and presenting our research. @isme-microbes.bsky.social @animecol-uu.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social @estermart.bsky.social
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The legendary Margaret McFall-Ngai 👀 gives the final plenary of #ISME20, titled 'Beginning a partnership and keeping it faithful: lessons from the squid-vibrio symbiosis'. 🦑❤️🦠
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Our session on #microbiomes in conservation at #ISME20 is officially done! Full morning and afternoon today with a great lineup of speakers! Thanks to all who presented their important research, it was great to see such a broad diversity of topics and hosts! 🙏 #InvisibleAllies🦠
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Arturo Casadevall opens up the Human Microbiome session; emphasizing that we need ideas, even wrong ones, because these drive the field forward. #ISME20 Also talked about the "pathogenic potential (PP)" of a microbe, and the interesting fungal-driven dinosaur->mammal transition theory. 🦕🦒
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
@noahfierer.bsky.social gives a wonderful morning lecture about Antarctic soil microbes and how the field of microbial ecology has advanced, as the Winogradsky award presentation. #ISME20
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Maureen O'Malley gives a great and thought-provoking keynote titled 'Ecology versus medicine in microbiome research'. #ISME20
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Holly Bik @hollybik.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Reposting for the #ISME20 crowd - If you (or anyone you know) is looking for a postdoc, please come chat to me in Auckland!
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Pilar López Hernández is currently presenting her poster "Could aquatic insects spread AMR?" #ISME20
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
@estermart.bsky.social is presenting her poster on gut microbiota in a flycatcher cross-fostering experiment! Right now in the Animal Microbiome session. #ISME20
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Valerie McKenzie starts the second part of the Animal Microbiome session with a great talk on wildlife microbiomes, focused on toads and parrots. #ISME20
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Graeme Attwood opens the Animal Microbiome session with a talk on the ruminant microbiome. #ISME20
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Wanda Markotter gives the Monday morning plenary about #OneHealth and preventing future pandemics. #ISME20
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Wanda Markotter gives the Monday morning plenary about #OneHealth and preventing future pandemics. #ISME20
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
#ISME20 in Auckland, New Zealand is officially starting! @isme-microbes.bsky.social
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We're four people from the Videvall lab currently traveling from Sweden to New Zealand, to attend the international conference in microbial ecology #ISME20. 🌏 Looking forward to it! 🦠🧬 @estermart.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 11/08/2026
A phylogeny of the Hawaiian honeycreepers reveals how 60 species radiated out from a single rosefinch-like ancestor over a 1-million-year period between 2.5 million and 3.5 million years ago. Just 17 taxa remain—and most are endangered. In PNAS: ow.ly/3nfH50ZxWv7
Mounted specimen of the extinct Hawaiian honeycreeper, Hawaiʻi mamo (Drepanis pacifica) from the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawai’i.
CREDIT: Jeremy Snell (photographer).
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Jocelyn Poissant @jocelynpoissant.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Gut microbes may help wild horses evolve to survive harsh Canadian winters | Science News | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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Gut microbes may help wild horses evolve to survive harsh Canadian winters
Study is first to show that the bacteria in an animal’s gut can give it an evolutionary leg up
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Congrats Spain! 🥳⚽🏆
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
I've sometimes wondered if there are additional reasons why bacteria thrive inside mammal guts, and this is a fascinating answer to that question. 👀
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
#ExE2026 So many animal microbiome talks that it has become a standing joke of the conference. 😅 Sorry on behalf of WAME and the workshop. We love these talks though! 😊
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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
What a fabulous excursion we had yesterday to Lizard peninsula! Perfect weather and gorgeous views. Seals, choughs, and a kestrel. 🦭🐦☀️ Lovely break in the middle of the conference week. #ExE2026 Special thanks to @erikpostma.bsky.social for herding the big group.
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
#ExE2026 Come chat with us about wildlife microbiomes 😊 Poster session is tonight! #microbiome
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The #ExE2026 conference is officially starting today! @erikpostma.bsky.social introduces ExE with the analogy of the goldilocks fairy tale, with it being 'just right', or "lagom" as we say in Swedish. 😄
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
I did an interview on the MVIF podcast with @pamferretti.bsky.social about wild animal microbiomes, for anyone interested! 🦠🧬
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The WAME workshop is starting! Will be a fun and interesting day! #ExE2026 #microbiome @stn-wame.bsky.social
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 25/06/2026
The US government is entering a partnership to store frozen cells and other biological samples from endangered and threatened species with Colossal, a private company best known for claiming to "de-extinct" dire wolves. Story by me & @catrineinhorn.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/43Rzhfw
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
We're currently four people from Videvall lab traveling from Sweden to Cornwall, UK to participate in the Wild Animal Microbiome Evolution workshop and the #ExE2026 conference! 😊🧳 @stn-wame.bsky.social @cenkvist.bsky.social @estermart.bsky.social
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Torsten Günther @trstngnthr.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I am recruiting a PhD student (fully funded, 4yrs) to analyze modern 🧬 and ancient 🦴 genomic data from humans and domestic animals 🐑 Please share, I am happy to chat at #ICP2026 or #SMBE2026 this summer www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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PhD student position in Population Genomics - Uppsala University
PhD student position in Population Genomics , Department of Organismal Biology, Uppsala University
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Brian J. Enquist @bjenquist.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Sad to hear of the passing of Robert Ricklefs - a giant of Ecology who simultaneously pushed forward big ideas at multiple biological levels yet took time for detailed natural history .. McGill does a nice job summarizing his impressive contributions 🌐🧪 dynamicecology.wordpress.com/2026/06/11/r...
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Robert Ricklefs – in memoriam
Robert Ricklefs, a giant of ecology, passed away on Sunday. It is hard to overstate the extensive impact Bob had on the field. He was elected a member of the National Academy of Sciences in the US,…
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
We had a fun summer lab meeting last Friday at my place! 😊☀️
Group of scientists outside
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Thanks to Kasun Bodawatta @kbodawatta.bsky.social for visiting us at @animecol-uu.bsky.social Uppsala University! Kasun gave a very interesting talk about eDNA methods, such as using mosses, to survey the local flora and fauna. 🧬
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Congratulations Qianrui Yang, who successfully defended her MSc thesis today! Well done! Her thesis investigated both gut microbiomes and mitochondrial metabolic rate in hybrid Ficedula flycatchers. 🐦🦠🧬🩸 @animecol-uu.bsky.social
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Congratulations David to the Sintring fellowship! We're looking forward to having you in the group and working with you on social transmission of wild rodent gut microbiomes! 🐀🦠🧬
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Barbara Tschirren @btschirren.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
We are recruiting 🌟2 postdoctoral researchers🌟 for a NERC Large Grant project on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of badger - bovine tuberculosis (bTB) interactions.
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KevinDKohl @kevindkohl.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Forgive the title, but it's time we talk about it - 🐘🐣💩🦠 The elephant (bird) in the room: unknown mechanisms and unresolved impacts of low DNA yields in avian microbiome research link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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The elephant (bird) in the room: unknown mechanisms and unresolved impacts of low DNA yields in avian microbiome research - Animal Microbiome
To holistically understand the biology of animals, we must unravel the complexities and specificities of host-microbe interactions across animal taxa. Birds represent enigmatic and scientifically comp...
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Mozes Blom @moosblom.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
🚨 Wanted: PhD student excited about population genomics, Natural History Collections and birds! 📍 Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin, Germany 🕒 3 Years, funded by the Leibniz Junior Researchgroup program Details and Application portal 👇 jobs.museumfuernaturkunde.berlin/jobposting/d...
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12/2026 PhD student (f/m/d)
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Dacks Lab (Evolutionary Cell Biology) @dackslabecb.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
New paper alert! Led by David Montagnes, this one is for scientists and non-scientists alike. The history, benefits, and future of Learned Societies. We need community, fostering of critical thinking, and communication, more than ever! link.springer.com/article/10.1... #protistsonsky
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The value of learned societies in the biological sciences: benefits, threats, and futures - BMC Biology
Learned societies play a vital role in fostering interactions that are important in scholarly discourse and the advancement of biological sciences. However, they now face threats from declining fundin...
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Wild Animal Microbiome Evolution (WAME) @stn-wame.bsky.social offers another round of funding for early career researchers to visit other labs! 🧳✈️🦌🦠🧬 Let me know if you're interested applying to visit our group in Uppsala, Sweden. 😊
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Cell Host & Microbe @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Mom’s helminths rewire microbiota to protect offspring Maternal helminths confer lasting protection against respiratory viruses in offspring. Helminth-induced changes in microbiota increase indole-3-propionic acid, which induces lung IFN-I responses www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...
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Maternal helminths rewire the microbiota to promote offspring antiviral immunity
Fernandes et al. show that maternal helminths, long-standing mammalian partners, confer antiviral immunity to offspring via the microbiota-derived metabolite indole-3-propionic acid (IPA). This work r...
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
We discussed this paper on animal #behavior and gut #microbiome transmission in our journal club last week. Very interesting! 🐀🦠🐾 "Selection and transmission of the gut microbiome alone can shift mammalian behavior" www.nature.com/articles/s41... @suzukilab.bsky.social @microbiome.bsky.social
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Selection and transmission of the gut microbiome alone can shift mammalian behavior - Nature Communications
Here, the authors present evidence that the gut microbiome alone, without changes in the host genome, can shape how animals respond to selection, identifying a bacterium and its metabolite that indepe...
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Article in one of the big Swedish newspapers @dagensnyheter.bsky.social about rewilding in Denmark (text in Swedish). www.dn.se/varlden/vild... #rewilding #feralization #wildhorses
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Vild natur ska förändra Danmark – men ”hästmaffian” protesterar
I ett historiskt politiskt projekt ska Danmarks landskap omvandlas. Både staten och privata aktörer satsar på att förvilda naturen.
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stn-wame.bsky.social @stn-wame.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Attention ECRs! WAME is offering support to attend the ExE conference in Falmouth (sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/) & associated WAME microbiome workshop. For more information and the application form, see below! We hope to see you there! 🦠 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Per Alström @peralstrom.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Check our Open Access paper on the Tokara Leaf Warbler – a previously undescribed, threatened Japanese bird: doi.org/10.1093/pnas... Thx to all coauthors: Takema Saitoh, @dariashipilina.bsky.social. Shin-Ichi Seki, Canwei Xia, Lijun Zhang & Urban Olsson. @animecol-uu.bsky.social #birds #biodiversity
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We have a new exiting opportunity to join our program with a new PhD position supervised by @dbergerbiol.bsky.social co-supervised by @gmkov.bsky.social on the repeatability of evolution in seed beetles! Click the link to read more and apply! www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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PhD-student in Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics - Uppsala University
PhD-student in Evolutionary and Ecological Genetics, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
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Animal Ecology Uppsala @animecol-uu.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
We have a new exiting PhD position in our program on the skin microbiome of amphibians, supervised by @cortazar-chinarro.bsky.social! Follow the link to read more and apply: www.uu.se/en/about-uu/.... Deadline the 8th of May.
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PhD in Evolutionary Ecology and genomics - Uppsala University
PhD in Evolutionary Ecology and genomics, Department of Ecology and Genetics, Uppsala University
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Chuen @chuenlee.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
New paper! 🐦🦠 Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species doi.org/10.1111/mec.... A 🧵
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Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species
Social transmission of microbes has profound impacts on disease epidemiology and host health. However, how social factors influence gut microbiome (GM) transmission in wild populations is not well un...
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Last week I visited the lab of @jmartinezpuente.bsky.social at @ebdonana.bsky.social in Seville, Spain. 🌴 We stayed in beautiful Doñana National Park to discuss the PhD thesis plan of Paula Parra Jimenez and birdwatch. After, we stayed in Seville to experience Semana Santa and this lovely city. 🕍
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