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Katharina Ruthsatz @kruthsatz.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Interested in the role of gut microbiomes in bird thermal resilience? 🥚⚡🐣🌡️🐥🧫 Come join us as a #postdoc in the #HOTGUT project at @biologylu.bsky.social ! Supervisor me, @cyanistesnord.bsky.social as co-supervisor. 💫 Please spread! Apply here 👇: lu.varbi.com/what:job/job...

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 21h

New lab group photo, we're a lot of people currently! 😊 What a privilege working with all these talented students and young scientists. 💛

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

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 · 21/09/2026

Congratulations and well done!! 🥳

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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

Link to Prof. Casadevall's papers on the pathogenic potential concept. The Pathogenic Potential of a Microbe | mSphere journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... Expanding the Pathogenic Potential Concept To Incorporate Fulminancy, Time, and Virulence Factors | mSphere journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

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The Pathogenic Potential of a Microbe | mSphere

ABSTRACT Virulence is a microbial property that is realized only in susceptible hosts. There is no absolute measurement for virulence, and consequently it is always measured relative to a standard, us...

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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

Mike Taylor, chair of #ISME20 gives the chair address and welcomes us to New Zealand.

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Raquel Peixoto gives the ISME President’s Address #ISME20

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

#ISME20 First a greeting and acknowledgement from the local tribe, iwi Ngāti Whātua Orakei.

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

How fun! Hope to meet you there!

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My second flight to Singapore was unfortunately cancelled, so got stuck in Frankfurt over night! But hoping the next flights go smoother. 😊✈️

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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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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Looks super interesting! Love this 😊 Will definitely have a look at the preprint later! 🐎🦠

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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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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 · 02/07/2026

Agree, this was a wonderful plenary!

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Gersende Feraud presents a poster titled 'Seasonal variation in the Przewalski’s horse gut microbiome'. 🐎 Number 1004 at #ExE2026

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Charlotte Enkvist @cenkvist.bsky.social has a poster on 'Variation of the gut microbiota in wild and captive wolverines'. 🐺Number 1003 at #ExE2026.

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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Ester Martínez-Renau @estermart.bsky.social presents a poster on 'Early-life assembly of gut microbiota in Ficedula flycatchers: insights from a cross-fostering experiment'. 🐤🐦 Number 1005 at #ExE2026

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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! 😊☀️

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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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