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Theoretical ecologist @ox.ac.uk sites.google.com/view/dengjie

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Systems Ecology @systems-ecology.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
🌱 Systems Ecology is now live! A new independent, researcher-run, diamond OA journal for ecological research through systems science. Free to read. Free to publish. No APCs. We are now open for submissions: systems-ecology.org Please help spread the word!
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Systems Ecology
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Mark Hibbins, Great Lakes Swashbuckler @rejectresubmit.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I'm recruiting a PhD student to work on an NSF-funded project developing new models of trait evolution for phylogenetic comparative methods! Info about the lab here: mhibbins.github.io Applications to our grad program are due December 1. Please share!
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Hibbins Lab
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
🌿 Postdoc opportunity in plant evolutionary ecology/genetics! My lab in the Dept. of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to start Fall 2026. We study plant adaptation, using weeds as model systems. #Postdoc #EcoEvo Pls RT!
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iDiv Biodiversity Research @idiv-research.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
iDiv and @uni-jena.de are recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher (f/m/d) in Trait-Based Community Ecology and Modelling. Highlights: 🔺Full-time (100%, 40 h/week) with the option to reduce to 80% 🔺Fixed-term for 2 years 🔺Salary up to E13 TV‑L 📆 Apply by: 29 March 2026 www.idiv.de/career/job-o...
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Job Openings
Explore exciting career opportunities at iDiv. Join a modern, international, and innovative research centre in the heart of Germany.
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Anuraag Bukkuri @evo-eco-onco.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
New paper just out on the Darwinian Dynamics of Host-Pathogen Interactions in #MBE! Had a blast working on this with Sabrina Streipert & Yun Kang 😊 www.aimspress.com/article/doi/...
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Darwinian dynamics of Host-Pathogen interactions
Epizootic hemorrhagic disease (EHD) causes varied clinical outcomes across ruminants and geographical locations. Northern white-tailed deer experience infrequent, high-mortality outbreaks; southern wh...
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International Initiative for Theoretical Ecology @iite-ecotheory.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
📣We will be back soon with a new series of online theory seminars! As ever, free and open for all via Zoom. Follow us on here, or join our email list (iite.info/seminar-emai...) for details. In the meantime, all our past talks are on Youtube: www.youtube.com/@theoretical... See you there!
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Young Modellers in Ecology @yomoseco.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Great opportunity to interact with the French Community of Ecological Theory: "Biodiversity in Equations" Conference in Montpellier, France on April 9 and 10, 2026, organized by GDR TheoMoDive and SFE2. Registration is free! Find more info here: biodiveq.sciencesconf.org?forward-acti...
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Biodiversity in equations - Sciencesconf.org
Welcome
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Julia Van Etten @couchmicroscopy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Exciting announcement! My new department is launching a postdoc fellowship in quantitative biology. Fellows will be co-advised by two Bio faculty, one that is quant focused (not me) and one that is not (me???). I would love to co-sponsor a postdoc and build a collaboration so please reach out!
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Post-Doctoral Associate
Job Description Summary Organization's Summary Statement: The Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, College Park seeks applications for three quantitative biology postdoctoral fellow po...
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Shaun Killen @shaunkillen.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
2nd new postdoc in our group! Looking to hire postdoc in eco-economic modelling for our Amazon ornamental fish project, integrating biological data with supply-chain, livelihood & sustainability analyses. Participatory work in Brazil. Please share! www.jobs.gla.ac.uk/job/research...
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Blake Matthews @ebmatthews.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Eawag 2-year postdoc fellowship in Switzerland. Funding for Independent projects hosted in one of the research departments… come join us in Switzerland 🇨🇭! apply.refline.ch/673277/1335/...
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2-Year Postdoctoral Fellowship
We are pleased to invite applications for a
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Trends in Microbiology @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Early registration discount deadline March 13. Register for the Cell Press Symposia #CSMicrobiome2026 (10–12 May 2026, Bruges). Join leading experts exploring host–microbiome interactions and therapeutic innovation. @cellpressevents.bsky.social dlvr.it/TQzzqr
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Elena Litchman @elenalitchman.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
How will climate change affect human gut microbiomes? In a new @thelancetplanet.bsky.social paper, I analyze the main mechanisms — changes in food availability & nutritional quality, environmental microbiomes, enteric pathogens, increased host stress — and their interactions. tinyurl.com/27kny9z9
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Climate change effects on the human gut microbiome: complex mechanisms and global inequities
Ongoing global climate change is affecting all aspects of life on Earth, including human health. The gut microbiota is an important determinant of health in humans and other organisms, but how climate...
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Jon Norberg @jonnorberg.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Please help me spread this postdoc position with me at Stockholm University, Sweden!!!! su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
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Postdoctoral Fellow in Eco-evolutionary Modelling and Machine Learning
The Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences (DEEP) at Stockholm University is located in the Arrhenius Laboratories on the Frescati campus. Currently, approximately 100 people, including
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LaurierBiology @laurierbiology.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Come join #LaurierBiology! We're recruiting 3 tenure-track faculty positions! Integrative Organismal Zoologist! careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... Microbial Systems Biologist! careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... Computational Ecology/Modeling Biologist! careers.wlu.ca/job/Waterloo... DEADLINE MARCH 22nd!
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Richard Lenski @relenski.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Alita Burmeister (@aburmeister.bsky.social) is looking to hire a postdoc (or potentially a PhD student) for projects on phage resistance and evolution. The position description is posted to the Eco-Evo Jobs wiki and also available on her lab's website (arburmeister.weebly.com).
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The Burmeister Lab: Studying Microbial Evolution and Extinction
​Our research integrates evolutionary biology and microbiology, using bacteria and phage as study systems to address fundamental questions in both fields. ​ ​We study microbial evolution, a...
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Jie Deng @jie-eco.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Fully funded PhD opportunity (4 years) at the University of Reading: Study how iron shapes bacterial competition 🧬🦠 research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 07/11/2025
#NewResearch Strain displacement in microbiomes via ecological competition @erikbakkeren.bsky.social #microsky www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Strain displacement in microbiomes via ecological competition - Nature Microbiology
Mathematical modelling and experimental tests reveal principles that govern displacement of a resident strain by an invader in microbial communities.
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Lucas Santana Souza @lucasgenoma.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Paradoxical role of new endosymbiotic associations: they facilitate the emergence of new partnerships, but inhibit deeper integration between hosts and guests (by favoring uncoordinated reproduction over synchronized ones). That is, easy come, easy go. #Endosymbiosis doi.org/10.1101/2025...
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Holly Moeller @mixotrophe.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
NYC and adjacent friends: I'm thrilled and terrified to be giving a public lecture in Manhattan at 6pm on Wednesday, 19 November. If you feel like coming into the city* for the evening, I'd love to see you there! *Yes, NYC = "the city" for Jersey girls. www.simonsfoundation.org/event/trade-...
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Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolution
Trade, Borrow, or Steal: How Acquired Metabolism Drives Evolution on Simons Foundation
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Jie Deng @jie-eco.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Research Assistant or Associate opportunity at Imperial College London: Conduct temperature-resolved microbial experiments to understand how microbes adapt and thrive across thermal environments 🌡️🧫 www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Please note that job descriptions are not exhaustive, and you may be asked to take on additional duties that align with the key responsibilities ment...
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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease? Do you have a great record and an exciting vision? Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships. Deadline 30th September...pass it on! www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...
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Group Leader Career Development Fellowships - Dunn School
Are you an early career researcher interested in the cell or molecular mechanisms underlying disease? Do you have an outstanding record and an innovative research plan?
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The Dunn School, Oxford @dunnschool.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
New study by @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social (Dunn School and @ethzurich.bsky.social) with Médéric Diard (@biozentrum.unibas.ch) reveals how combining vaccines with friendly bacteria can boost vaccination efficacy and potentially reduce reliance on antibiotics www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...
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Boosting vaccines with harmless bacteria to fight intestinal pathogens - Dunn School
Published in Science, a ground-breaking study by the Slack group reveals how combining vaccines with friendly bacteria can boost vaccination efficacy and potentially reduce reliance on antibiotics.
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Will Smith @willpjsmith.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Does your lab perform killing assays? TL;DR: we’ve identified a problem that can bias the outcome of killing assays, making antagonism look stronger than it really is. Adding a simple extra step can mitigate this bias!  Out now at #MicrobioJ www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... 1/n
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Type VI secretion system activity at lethal antibiotic concentrations leads to overestimation of weapon potency
Competition assays are a mainstay of modern microbiology, offering a simple and cost-effective means to quantify microbe–microbe interactions in vitro. Here, we demonstrate a key weakness of this meth...
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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 22/05/2025
#Bacteria use weapons to outcompete rivals, but what happens if they're transferred? @prokaryota.bsky.social @jdpal.bsky.social &co show that HGT of toxin #plasmids is rare but recipients can thrive under relaxed nutrient competition, reshaping bacterial warfare @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/43vC3X7
 Modeling predicts that metabolic diversity increases the ecological impacts of weapon gene transfer. Modeling scenarios for each column are shown across the top row. Bottom row: Example dynamics of the strains (attacker, target, transconjugant) during a contest using parameters that correspond to the cross (X) shown in the parameter sweeps directly below.
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Erik Bakkeren @erikbakkeren.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Please read about how we think microbial metabolism might help us understand microbiomes a bit better! Also, please appreciate the mountain goat in Fig 1 ⛰️🐐 and that it also represents my joy for trail running and the mountains 😁
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Ming Liu @mingpapilio.bsky.social · 16/08/2025
Excited to see our latest work published on GEB! We comprehensively compared various environmental predictability measures, their impact on statistical analyses and their global patterns 🤩
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Jie Deng @jie-eco.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Research Assistant opportunity in the Coyte Lab (University of Manchester): Lead analyses of large-scale, longitudinal datasets (already collected) exploring the dynamics of the mammalian immune system and gut microbiome 🦠 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Associate in Microbiome Dynamics:Oxford Road
The Coyte Lab group within the Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics wishes to appoint a Research Associate to an exciting project exploring the interplay between the mammalian immune system and gut microbiome, funded by an 8-year Wellcome CDA in collaboration with Prof. Matthew Hepworth.
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Jie Deng @jie-eco.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
PDRA opportunity in the Coyte Lab at Manchester: modelling carbon-fixing microbial communities in Icelandic hot springs 🌋, with chances for field trips to some very beautiful places! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology:Oxford Road
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Pamela Ferretti @pamferretti.bsky.social · 09/07/2025
Our article on the challenges and opportunities in studying host-microbe symbioses is now published in Cell Host & Microbe! @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Theory of host-microbe symbioses: Challenges and opportunities
Growing insight into microbial symbioses highlights the need to model these systems mathematically. We discuss three areas requiring theoretical advan…
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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
We are on the lookout for postdocs for two different projects at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and the human microbiome. See thread for more information and reach out!
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Martina Dal Bello @martinadalbello.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
This project is in collaboration with @jacrickets.bsky.social and Shawn McGlynn!
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Theo Gibbs @theogibbs.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Happy to share a new preprint! W/ @zachgold.bsky.social, Haylee Oyler, Jonathan Levine and @nathanjbkraft.bsky.social. We use a spatially explicit experimental design to ask: do higher-order interactions structure the dynamics of annual plant communities? Link: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵
(A) A conceptual diagram of interspecific and intraspecific higher-order interactions among annual plants. (B) Conceptual diagrams (along with pictures of actual annual plants) of two different spatial arrangements of competitors to manipulate the relative frequecy of inter to intraspecific higher-order interactions.
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Pamela Ferretti @pamferretti.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Last year, I joined a brilliant group of researchers for a 3-week deep dive into host–microbe systems. Each week explored a different theme, led by inspiring lecturers. I’m excited to share that videos of their talks — along with presentations by several team members — are now on YouTube:
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Armun Liaghat @armunliaghat.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Host Competitive Asymmetries Accelerate Viral Evolution in a Microbe–Virus Coevolutionary System - Liaghat - 2025 - Ecology Letters - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Theo Gibbs @theogibbs.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
New paper w/ Jonathan Levine and @exp-evoeco.bsky.social! We induced plastic responses in annual plants through early-life competition. These responses tended to make subsequent species interactions stronger and coexistence less likely. Link: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
(A) Conceptual diagram of how early-season competition induces plastic responses in focal plants. (B) Species interactions are measured across a density gradient of resident competitors with no induction, with induction from individuals of the focal species or from the resident species.
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Jonas Lembrechts @jlembrechts.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
**NEW DATABASE** - and it's a big one: BioTIME 2.0 is out! I'll guide you through why this database is a game changer for anyone interested in species on the move --> the3dlab.org/2025/05/21/b... The paper --> doi.org/10.1111/geb....
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BioTime 2.0
If we want to understand how biodiversity is shifting in this rapidly changing climate, we need two critical ingredients: microclimate time series and biodiversity time series. (And yes, let’s not …
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Nat Duffus @natduffus.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Super honoured to have been recognised by the ENDS Power List 2025 for my work on Biodiversity Net Gain and invertebrates! 🪲🌱 www.endsreport.com/article/1918...
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Power List 2025: The UK’s 100 most impactful environmental professionals
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 20/05/2025
We are pleased to announce the 90 outstanding researchers from across the world who have been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society this year. The group includes trailblazers from AI and electron microscopy to global health and neuroscience. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/news/2025/05...
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Exceptional scientists elected as Fellows of the Royal Society | Royal Society
Over 90 outstanding researchers from across the world have this year been elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society, the UK’s national academy of sciences.
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The Dunn School, Oxford @dunnschool.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Delighted to announce that Prof. Kevin Foster has been elected Fellow of @royalsociety.org! This honour recognises the unique way he combines maths, ecology, evolution and microbiology to study microbial communities Many congratulations Kevin! Find out more: www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...
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Kevin Foster elected Fellow of the Royal Society - Dunn School
Many congratulations to Kevin for this prestigious honour, recognising his contribution to integrate ecological and evolutionary principles into microbiology to understand the human microbiome and oth...
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Jie Deng @jie-eco.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
PhD opportunity at Manchester: using math modelling + bioreactors to study how temperate and lytic phages interact. Open to international applicants: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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(EPSRC DTP) How do the interactions between temperate and lytic phages shape microbial communities? at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (EPSRC DTP) How do the interactions between temperate and lytic phages shape microbial communities? at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
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Emma Slack @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
We are recruiting @ox.ac.uk @dunnschool.bsky.social for a joint project between Kevin Foster's group and mine! Cluster hire of two postdocs interested in: 1) Mucosal immunology and oral vaccine development my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... 2) Microbiology my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru... Please share!
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Jie Deng @jie-eco.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Two postdoc positions open in the Foster Lab at Oxford! Details here: www.fosterlab.uk/vacancies
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vacancies — Foster Lab
job vacancies in the Foster lab
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
My drawing below illustrates the importance of spatial ecology for stability: if we ignore space, it's like everyone dancing on the tip of a pin. When space is included (and complex dynamics, too), diversity is easily sustained.
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Is there (like in physics) a "least action" principle for ecological network complexity, from microbiomes to forests? Check our paper in @currentbiology.bsky.social led by MIT + @sfiscience.bsky.social Serguei Saavedra & @jie-eco.bsky.social sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @guimaguade.bsky.social
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Yizhou Liu @yzliu.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
As a predator, would you prefer fewer or more competitors? Plot twist: it depends on your prey! Our @pnas.org study shows ecosystem stability isn't about having more or fewer species - it's about the diversity gap between predators and prey. Nature keeps surprising us! 🦊🐰 Read full article:
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Ecosystem stability relies on diversity difference between trophic levels | PNAS
The stability of ecological communities has a profound impact on humans, ranging from individual health influenced by the microbiome to ecosystem s...
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The Dunn School, Oxford @dunnschool.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
We are recruiting! 2 computational biology positions are available in the group of Monika Gullerova, to advance RAIDEN, an AI-powered platform transforming RNA-drug discovery! Deadline is the 13th of December Find out more: www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...
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Vacancies - Dunn School
Listing the latest job vacancies at the Dunn School.
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iBartomeus @ibartomeus.bsky.social · 19/10/2024
I tried to build a starter pack for researchers in ecology sensu lato. Who am I missing? go.bsky.app/2MdGeqi I can add more people and spread it around.
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Elisa Granato @prokaryota.bsky.social · 07/11/2024
For those moving from X/Twitter, I just used this excellent tool to transfer 1000+ Followings in 5 min. chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-f...
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Sky Follower Bridge - Chrome Web Store
Instantly find and follow the same users from your Twitter follows on Bluesky.
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Kirk Lohmueller @klohmueller.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hi all! I'm excited to announce a tenure track faculty position in conservation genomics in EEB at UCLA! We're looking for candidates who use genomic tools to study evolutionary processes related to conservation. Note, the actual application deadline is Nov 29. recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09875
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Conservation Genomics Faculty Position
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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Nathan J.B. Kraft @nathanjbkraft.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
There are two open faculty searches in our department: an Endowed Chair in Vert. Bio. (recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09874) and another in Conservation Genomics (recruit.apo.ucla.edu/JPF09875). Both are open at the assistant professor or higher (tenured) levels, and both close on Nov 29th. Join us!
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Donald R. Dickey Endowed Chair in Vertebrate Biology (Tenure-track or Tenured)
University of California, Los Angeles is hiring. Apply now!
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