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Kayla King, Ph.D.

@kayla-king.bsky.social
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Prof & Canada Excellence Research Chair | UBC Zoology, M&I | Evolution, ecology, host-pathogen, biodiversity | #firstgen | she/her/hers

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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Oxford
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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callista yee @csybio.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
hi everyone, my department is in the process of establishing an endowment to honour our late colleague, Dr. Don Moerman. your gift will pay tribute to Don’s dedication to fundamental research. give.ubc.ca/memorial/don...
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Don Moerman - give UBC
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Aris Katzourakis @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Interested in a PhD on viral metagenomics from clinical samples? Check out this collaborative project between my group at @biology.ox.ac.uk and @eit.org eit.org/project/viro...
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Virome metagenomics from clinical samples
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Asher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Come work with @viromehunter.bsky.social and myself at UBC! We have a postdoctoral position available for someone with an interest in bioinformatics and genomics, using sociovirology to understand disease dynamics in plant viruses. Advert: ppvlab.sites.olt.ubc.ca/files/2026/0...
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Browser Verification | UBC Cybersecurity
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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (gw4biomed.ac.uk/how-does-tem...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky **Please share** the ad below with anyone who may be interested.
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Jim Sun, PhD @sunlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
We are looking for a postdoctoral fellow to join the team @ubcmicroimmuno.bsky.social @science.ubc.ca to study TB pathogenesis and host-directed therapy! Please help disseminate amongst your network. ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjo...
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Host-Pathogen Interactions & Host-Directed Therapeutics
Academic Job Category Faculty Non Bargaining Job Title Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Host-Pathogen Interactions & Host-Directed Therapeutics Department Research I Sun I Department of Microbiology...
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Daniel Croll @danielcroll.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Our lab is looking for PhD students to join us in 2027 🎓🎉 The projects can be structured around our research directions: - Transposable element dynamics - Fungal pangenomics - ML/language model genomics applications - Pathogen adaptation More here pathogen-genomics.org ("Jobs") and please share! 🙏
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Evolutionary genomics of pathogens
Croll lab at University of Neuchatel. The lab of Daniel Croll wants to understand how pathogens evolve to cause disease. For this, we mainly focus on major crop pathogens to unravel mechanisms of rapi...
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Templeton World Charity Foundation @templetonworld.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Congratulations to Dr @katelaskowski.bsky.social for receiving the 2026 Ctrl-Z award by the Center for Scientific Integrity. The award celebrates scientists who discover errors in their work and take the necessary steps to correct the record. 👉 Learn more about the prize: bit.ly/4hSKk0b
Image of Kate Laskowski, a young woman with medium auburn hair looking at the camera. Text reads: "Kate Laskowski, Ph.D is recognized with 2026 Ctrl-Z Award. Organised by the Center for Scientific Integrity, it celebrates scientists’ courage in retracting their own work"
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Hanna Kokko @kokkonut.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Come and work with us (the Kokkonuts) as a postdoc! Our research within (theory-evo-eco) is broad; let's say it's implicitly defined by the journal club papers we read. Which is why the application process includes a JC-related task, I hope it'll be a fun one for you! www.evoldir.net/brian/evoldi...
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Royal Society Publishing @royalsocietypublishing.org · 26/08/2026
Join Professor Kayla King for the Francis Crick Prize Lecture on 14 October 2026. @kayla-king.bsky.social will explore the rapid evolution of pathogens across the tree of life. She will also reveal what drives evolutionary changes in pathogen virulence: royalsociety.org/science-even...
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Santa Fe Institute @sfiscience.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Influenza spreads faster in a crowded barracks or prison. Ebola proliferates when hospital beds run short. A new paper in Biology Letters, led by SFI's Brandon Ogbunu, introduces "structural causal influence," quantifying how social inequality shapes disease spread and whether interventions work.
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Modeling social inequality in epidemics
For decades, researchers have rigorously documented the way social inequality shapes the spread of disease. In parallel, mathematical models have emerged for forecasting epidemics and weighing differe...
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School of Biological Sciences, Monash @MonashBiol @monashbiol.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Are you a potential Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Ecology or Evolutionary Biology? The School of Biological Sciences at Monash University is recruiting careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
HIRING MICROBIOLOGIST: effective start asap! The PDRA/PDRF (per xp) will investigate the interactions of bumblebee antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) with the gut microbiota & more. Our work has shown AMPs have striking specificity for ecological microbes. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/13... 1/2
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Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter
View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Researcher Associate or Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow This job is part of an Advanced Research + Inventio...
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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Excited to share this perspective article from my group - how can the interactions between microbes shape the spread of antibiotic resistance mutations? Thank you @microbiologysociety.org for inviting us to submit this 🦠 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Microbial interactions as key players shaping the emergence and spread of de novo resistance mutations
Antibiotic resistance and the microbiome are two of the most prominent and highly active research areas currently in microbiology. However, these studies are commonly siloed. Research into antibiotic ...
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Stu West @stuwest.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Exciting early career researcher EMBO meeting in Dubrovnik. 4 great themes including adaptation and global change. event.fourwaves.com/eysf/pages
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EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) 2026
Join EMBO Young Scientists’ Forum (EYSF) 2026, October 28-30, 2026. Learn more on Fourwaves.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I wrote about a reason not to use generative AI in your writing that I haven't seen anyone talking about. Once I realized this, banning GenAI in our lab's writing became a no-brainer. Feel free to share, I think this is probably useful especially for trainees: www.carlsonlab.bio/thoughts/the...
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The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI — The Carlson Lab
Over the last year, our lab has been developing a policy on AI use. To do this, we did three main things: We read a lot of academic publications and tech news. We set up an #ai channel on our la...
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
I’m thrilled to share that our search for a tenure-track colleague in my *truly wonderful and collegial* Genetics, Genomics, Evolution and Development Division in the MCB Department at Berkeley @berkeleymcb.bsky.social is live! Please share this broad search widely: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481
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Assistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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callista yee @csybio.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
hiiii everyone! my department @zoology.ubc.ca is hiring an assistant professor in cell and developmental biology! deadline is october 1! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/32408 // please share!!!!!
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University of British Columbia, Department of Zoology
Job #AJO32408, Assistant Professor in Cell and Developmental Biology, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, CA
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Sweta Agrawal @hokuba.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Join my department! It's a pretty great place to work.
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Kayla King, Ph.D. @kayla-king.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New King lab paper @currentbiology.bsky.social led by the brilliant @luismsilva.bsky.social on parasite shedders and spreaders: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Transmission heterogeneity emerges from uncoupled parasite shedding and spreading
Silva et al. show that disease transmission emerges from multiple ecological bottlenecks rather than a single host trait. Separating parasite shedding from downstream infection success reveals why hos...
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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
New paper out in @currentbiology.bsky.social ! 🎉 Who drives disease transmission? The answer seems obvious: measure who releases or disperses the most parasites. But after dissecting transmission step by step, we found that’s often not the case. 👇 🧵 #EvoSky #IDSky www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Transmission heterogeneity emerges from uncoupled parasite shedding and spreading
Silva et al. show that disease transmission emerges from multiple ecological bottlenecks rather than a single host trait. Separating parasite shedding from downstream infection success reveals why hos...
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Needhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
From the abstract: “promoting a woman to Associate Professor increases female faculty by 1.5 members after 15 years, leads to six additional female PhD graduates over the following decade, and raises the number who subsequently remain in academia and reach tenured positions”
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Lee Henry @henrylabsymbio.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
⭐Postdoc position available⭐ How do symbionts evolve new beneficial functions? Join the Henry Lab to investigate how horizontal gene transfer drives host–microbe symbioses. 🦠 Apply below Enquiries: l.henry@qmul.ac.uk Please share! #Postdoc #EvolutionaryBiology #Symbiosis henry-lab.co.uk
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Postdoctoral Research Associate in Evolution of Host–Microbe Symbioses - QMUL Jobs
ID: 10612. Title: Postdoctoral Research Associate in Evolution of Host–Microbe Symbioses. Application Deadline:
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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Join us at Institute of Biology Leiden (IBL) as an Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in Mechanisms of Disease Apply before 31st August, 2026: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...
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Barbara Tschirren @btschirren.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
🌟🌟 Postdoc position in Disease Ecology & Nature-Based Solutions 🌟🌟 We are looking for a creative and highly motivated Postdoctoral Researcher to join the UKRI @netpositivecentre.bsky.social and the @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall, UK. careers.exeter.ac.uk/vacancies/11... 🦠🌳🏙️🌍🗺️🐝 🦌🕷️
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Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow in Cornwall | University of Exeter
View details and apply for this Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow vacancy in Cornwall. Postdoctoral Research Associate / Fellow This UKRI funded full-time post is available from 01/1...
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Evolution Students @ssegrad.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
1/4 In today's funding climate, every grant and fellowship matters. Based on feedback from our GSAC Community Check-In Survey, we're building a growing hub of graduate & postdoctoral funding opportunities and job boards to make them easier to find. 🧵
Funding and job board curated by Dieter Lukas and Pro Manna
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Gina Baucom @gbaucom.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
What is academic bullying, and how do you know when criticism has crossed the line into harassment? In the newest Evolution Exchange, I talk with Dr. Morteza Mahmoudi (Academic Parity Movement) and Dr. Aaron Roussell about bullying, mobbing, and doxxing. A long but 🌶️ convo! tinyurl.com/87nyfbzk
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Society for the Study of Evolution
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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Going to #ISEMPH2026 ? 💉🦠 Come by my poster (n90) and check what we have been up to :) @evmed.bsky.social #EvolutionaryMedicine
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Megan Frederickson @mfrederickson.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Come work with me! We are hiring a Research Program & Operations Coordinator to administer a new CREATE training program and support other EEB initiatives at U of T. Please circulate to great people in Toronto looking for an academic admin position: jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Research Program & Operations Coordinator
Research Program & Operations Coordinator
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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Fellowship opportunity of dreams! Check this out if you are an early career life scientist and want some 💭 time to think 💭 call.wiko-berlin.de/procedure/65...
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Wiko Application Platform
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Leeban Yusuf @leebanhy.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
How do coevolutionary interactions begin in nature, and what are the first steps of reciprocal adaptation? Our preprint investigates these questions in a natural experiment: an introduced cricket (T. oceanicus) and its acoustically hunting parasitoid (O. ochracea) in Hawaii. shorturl.at/7llsA 1/n
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Ecological genomics of a novel host-parasitoid arms-race in nature
Novel antagonistic interactions between species are expected to drive especially rapid coevolution. However, little is known about the genomic basis of such coevolution in nature because novel inter-s...
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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
1/🧵 Excited to finally share my latest paper (and my first solo paper)! 🎉 Pathogens evolve. Hosts respond. But does pathogen evolution simply change the magnitude of the host response, or does it reshape which host programmes are activated? 🤔 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s420... #Anopheles #EvoSky
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Host transcriptional signatures associated with disease tolerance and environmental persistence in a mosquito–microsporidian system - Communications Biology
Mosquito host transcriptomes reflect the evolution of contrasting microsporidian parasite life histories, linking virulence and environmental persistence to distinct gene expression programmes.
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Rees Kassen @reeskassen.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
What might a functional theory for the genetics of adaption look like? A first proposal: academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-... TL;DR : it’s all about rebalancing stress and growth.
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Towards a functional genetics of adaptation: insights from microbial experimental evolution
Abstract. A general theory of adaptation is one that accounts for both the quantitative and functional properties of adaptive evolution. To date, the field
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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
On my way to #ExE2026 in #Cornwall! ☀️ Into transmission heterogeneity? 🦠 🪱 🌎 Then come check my talk this Thursday, July 2nd at 16:30 in the Host-Pathogen Session 3 :)
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Kayla King, Ph.D. @kayla-king.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
A new primer in @microbiologysociety.org on epidemic exponential growth with @bnashby.bsky.social @chadisaadroy.bsky.social and Dan Coombs: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... Fun collaboration!
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Microbial Primer: Understanding the exponential growth of epidemics
Microbiology Society journals contain high-quality research papers and topical review articles. We are a not-for-profit publisher and we support and invest in the microbiology community, to the benefi...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
🔥 Published today, and just in time for summer conferences, here are your guidelines for presenting badly www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fqa92
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Rachel Germain @gerlame.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
To the #Evol2026 folks, I am recruiting MSc/PhD students (with or without their own funding) - please send people my way if you know of anyone interested in blending ecology & evolution!
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Kayla King, Ph.D. @kayla-king.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Evolutionary rescue in a phage community! New paper from former PhD student, Sam Greenrod, with brilliant colleague @craigmaclean.bsky.social : academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
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Rapid adaptation accelerates competitive suppression in a parasite community
Abstract. Environmental stress leads to changes in community composition by altering competitive hierarchies and pushing taxa towards extinction. Parasites
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Ben Longdon @blongdon.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Masters by Research at @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall ecologyconservation.exeter.ac.uk/masteer-coho... these are *funded* - covering home tuition fees, a research/training support grant and a prog of cohort activities. Lots of projects available (including one w/ me!) - pls share!
Penryn campus - home of CEC - views across campus and Cornish coastline
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callista yee @csybio.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
apply to be a postdoc in kenji's lab! he's got great neighbours (me and kota mizumoto)!
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Prof Jenny Rohn @jennyrohn.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Horrific #AcademicSky #WomenInSTEM
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Xav Harrison @xavh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We are now recruiting for a 3 year NERC-funded postdoc to study the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in migratory birds. Based in the Wild Microbiome Lab @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall.
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Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) - UNIL @dee-unil.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Next week's DEE External Seminar welcomes Luis Silva (hosted by Tad Kawecki) for a talk on pathogen transmission. June 18th, 12:15 at the Biophore Amphitheater or REC UNIL.
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Noah Houpt @noahhoupt.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Come by my poster (AEM 737) today from 3-4PM if you’re interested in phage therapy, Pseudomonas lung infections, phage training, or filamentous phages!
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Mike Blazanin @mikeblazanin.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
Presenting my final poster later today at #ASMicrobe
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Ben Sheldon @sheldonbirds.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Excellent opportunity here: a 5 year senior research fellowship in Life Sciences (broadly defined) at All Souls College Oxford. Many opportunities to work with the diverse & inclusive community here in @biology.ox.ac.uk here in the brand new Life & Mind Buiilding www.asc.ox.ac.uk/post-doctora...
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Post-Doctoral Research Fellowships | All Souls College
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S Otto @sarperotto.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Why we’re concerned about “Getting Major Projects Built in Canada” 👀 and its impact on nature and a healthy environment. Have your voice heard - read the govt’t proposal www.canada.ca/en/one-canad... and email feedback to engagement@pco-bcp.gc.ca by June 7, 2026 🙏@baumlab.bsky.social
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Getting Major Projects Built in Canada - Discussion Paper on Proposed Legislative, Regulatory, and Policy Reforms - Canada.ca
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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Excited to share this new paper from the lab: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...! See thread below
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Eco-evolutionary responses to plasmid-dependent phage constrain the spread of multidrug-resistance plasmids
Abstract. Phage therapy offers an alternative to antibiotics for treating multidrug-resistant infections. Plasmid-dependent phages (PDPs) are promising the
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Mike Blazanin @mikeblazanin.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Widespread Pleiotropy Among Axes of Defense Against a Bacterial Pathogen in C. elegans 📍 MECH-SAT-503 📅 Saturday, June 6 ⏰ 4:00–5:00 PM
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C. Elegans Moving
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