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European Conference on Behavioural Biology @ecbb2026.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

📢 EMAILS HAVE OFFICIALLY GONE OUT! 📢 We thought about using other forms of communication but given the distance, we figured facial displays, bird song, and olfactory signals probably wouldn't carry as far as we needed.

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

🚨4-year fully funded PhD in the lab of @magicmicrobe.bsky.social (& collaborating with me!): How does iron availability shape the ability of pathogens to invade the gut microbiome? Apply by Jan 26th Advert: research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste... How to apply: research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...

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arsweeny.bsky.social @arsweeny.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Pre-holiday preprint! We experimentally manipulated resource availability in a wild rodent population and found pervasive effects on host biology and diverse effects across the parasite community in a naturally co-infected host. Check it out! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Chiara Poletto @chpoletto.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Late advertisement of our new pre-print: Contact structure and population immunity shape the selective advantage of emerging variants www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Delphine De Moor @delphinedemoor.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Excited to introduce the Latent Layers Framework – now out in @behavecol.bsky.social – to help think through when and why network differences confound inference in (comparative) social network analysis! 🧵 tinyurl.com/3k3yahwy

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arsweeny.bsky.social @arsweeny.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Interested in how life history may shape the gut microbiome of a wild mammal? Keen on getting to work with an iconic long-term study system in Scotland? Check out this PhD opportunity with me, Josephine Pemberton and @gfalbery.bsky.social Reach out to chat more! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

🚨 Exciting new work out today led by @carolinecummings.bsky.social! Do bats host deadly viruses? Yes - but only specific bats (that just happen to be found in a lot of places!). Challenging some big ideas in the zoonosis world with data. Well done Caroline and team!!

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Greg Albery @gfalbery.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...

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Lewis Stevens @phylewgenetics.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

New preprint! We unexpectedly discovered that some Caenorhabditis species delete parts of their somatic genome early in development, which fragments their chromosomes and eliminates key germline genes. Multiple lines of evidence suggest this bizarre process was present in the ancestors of C. elegans

Figure with three panels. Left: phylogenetic tree of Caenorhabditis species, highlighting those with programmed DNA elimination. Middle: plot showing chromosomal locations of eliminated DNA. Right: Images showing DNA fragments being eliminated during early development.

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Greg Albery @gfalbery.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

I'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...

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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

2 job adverts on a NERC project w myself + @darrenobbard.bsky.social on “What determines the virome: ecology and the environment, evolution, or species history?” early 2026 in @uniexecec.bsky.social - Postdoc: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... - RA: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr... Pls share!

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

New preprint! 🥳🎉 We looked at viral coinfection patterns at the largest scale ever in wildlife. We found a strong association among CoVs, PMVs, and influenza A, and higher coinfection rates in wildlife trade; plus, evidence that bats accumulate persistent infections. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Figure 3 of our paper, which shows viral coinfection networks at the virus level

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Greg Albery @gfalbery.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Please get in touch if you have any thoughts or interests in working on stuff like this; I've got an exciting series of exciting ideas for investigations and analyses springing from it. There are way too many people involved to tag individually to thank, but this was a great honour to get to do.

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Greg Albery @gfalbery.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

Celebrating the publication of our big collaborative spatial-social meta-analysis of density-dependent transmission effects, out now in Nature Eco Evo! doi.org/10.1038/s415... (or rdcu.be/eD6eB)

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Cécile Sarabian @csarabian.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

🧠 What?! A meeting just on disgust?! Yes!! 📍 @iast.fr, France | 🗓 Dec 4–5, 2025 💥 Keynotes by Paul Rozin @upenn.edu, @cr-amo.bsky.social, Philip Powell @sheffielduni.bsky.social & Cindy Kam 🌍 From Psychology to Politics, Biology & beyond 🎓 Abstract submissions until Aug 31: forms.gle/QBmkUB3aLDjY...

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Krishna Balasubramaniam @krishsubramaniam.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Very excited to contribute to this symposium organized by @delphinedemoor.bsky.social and colleagues, on comparative research on animal sociality. Join us if you are attending @behaviour2025.bsky.social this August!

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