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Katy Brown @thekatybrown.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Me, @emma-harding.bsky.social, @rtarlinton.bsky.social and @royalsociety.org are organising a meeting on endogenous viral elements! 8-9 Feb 2027, Birmingham UK. 2 whole days of EVEs! Many amazing researchers already agreed to speak. Invites: shorturl.at/jp9sh Provisional schedule: shorturl.at/8O5KV

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Endogenous viral elements | Royal Society

Theo Murphy meeting organised by Dr Katy Brown, Dr Emma Harding and Professor Rachael Tarlinton

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Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Please share! My lab has an open fully-funded PhD position at Vilnius University's Life Sciences Center in Lithuania. The PhD project will involve identifying missing orthomyxovirus segments from public sequence data. Applicants must hold an MSc by June & have bioinformatics experience. 1/2

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Ella Sieradzki @sieravirus.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Deadline is April 20th! Let’s get those viruses

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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

I'm excited to announce that the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology are now published in Peer Community Journal peercommunityjournal.org/articles/10....

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The SORTEE guidelines for data and code quality control in ecology and evolutionary biology

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Have you recently read about a particular field in depth? Perhaps you have just finished your PhD thesis? @jevbio.bsky.social is seeking Review Articles! Find out more about Reviews and Target Reviews at JEB here: academic.oup.com/jeb/pages/re...

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

Applications for the MEME programme (www.evobio.eu ) are now open! MEME is a research- and mobility-oriented master’s in evolutionary biology (& I’m a proud alumna!), jointly run by the Unis of Groningen, Uppsala, Montpellier, and LMU Munich, with Harvard and Lausanne as partners. Spread the word!

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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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Joel Pick @joelpick.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

🚨Introducing the @sortee.bsky.social Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology🚨 doi.org/10.32942/X24... Increasingly E&E journals are recruiting data editors. We provide standardised guidelines for journals with data editors and those wanting to recruit them 🧵

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The SORTEE Guidelines for Data and Code Quality Control in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

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Cassandra Koh 🦟🔬🧪 @cassandrakoh.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

📣 I'm recruiting a postdoc researcher to join my team for a project on mosquito-specific viruses and host interactions. Peep the job description & how to apply below. Perfect for soon-to-be or recent PhD graduates in mosquito vector biology 🦟 or arbovirology 🦠 🗓️ Application deadline 31 August 2025

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Katy Brown @thekatybrown.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

I'm thinking of organising a meeting on endogenous viral elements (RNA, DNA and retroviral) - if you'd potentially be interested, please fill out the form here - forms.gle/wrCiWMw4yXZe... - so I can gauge interest. Please RT or share with anyone maybe interested! 🧪🧬🖥️🦠 #virology #bioinformatics

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EVE Meeting Expression of Interest

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Sebastian Lequime @lequimelab.eu · 20/05/2025

It all starts with an ‘how it should be easy enough right’ on a Friday evening drink with colleagues. About two years later we finally have a genome, but it wasn’t as easy as thought (it never is, right?). Happy to see the preprint out!

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Marion Koopmans @marionkoopmans.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Please share with people interested in arbovirology. We are looking for an enthusiastic colleague to strengthen our team please share if you know of scientists interested in arbovirology, ready to make a move to Rotterdam! www.academictransfer.com/en/jobs/3508...

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Assistant professor Arbovirology

We are looking for a passionate researcher interested in basic arbovirology to join our team!

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Gytis Dudas @evogytis.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We're looking for a PhD student to join us at Vilnius University in Lithuania. We work on RNA virus evolution computationally but we'd like to generate more mosquito RNA virus sequence data. Official ad: www.gmc.vu.lt/en/doctoral-.... Please share & continue reading if interested.

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Jayna Raghwani @jraghwani.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Just over week until the deadline👇

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E. Yağmur Erten @yagmurerten.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Applications for MEME are open! It's a research- and mobility-oriented Evolutionary Biology Master's Programme, where students have the opportunity to visit 4(+2) different universities in two years. Please spread the word! www.evobio.eu #EvoBio

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fischerlab.bsky.social @fischerlab.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Looking for a postdoc in environmental virology? Fascinated by giant viruses and their glycobiology? We have a position available at the MPI for Marine Microbiology! @mpimarinemicrobio.bsky.social @maxplanck.de career.mpi-bremen.de/jobposting/8...

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Post-Doc Protist Viruses

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Sebastian Lequime @lequimelab.eu · 19/12/2024

Happy to see @nbrait.bsky.social and Muriel Ritsch-led paper on data accessibility and availability of endogenous viral elements (EVEs) published in Virus Evolution doi.org/10.1093/ve/v... I really think this is holding back EVE research at the moment: is it easy to solve?

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Endogenous viral elements: insights into data availability and accessibility

Abstract. Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) are remnants of viral genetic material endogenized into the host genome. They have, in the last decades, attract

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Max Reuter @maxreuter.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

We are looking for new editors at @jevbio.bsky.social! If you would like to get involved in publishing and support your society and its journal, then please apply. The deadline is January 20. We will aim for a quick turn-around for a start in early 2025. Further information via the post below:

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sarah-c-hill.bsky.social @sarah-c-hill.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🦠 We are recruiting two 2-year postdocs to work at the intersection of virus genomics and infectious disease. jobs.rvc.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx... Please share widely!

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Pedro Vale @pfvale.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

"What makes a super-spreader? Unravelling the genetics of host infectiousness" Funded #PhD position in my lab exploring the drivers of host heterogeneity in pathogen transmission. Get in touch if interested. Deadline 17 Jan 2025. #HostPathogen #DiseaseEcology www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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EastBio: What makes a super-spreader? Unravelling the genetics of host infectiousness. at University of Edinburgh on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - EastBio: What makes a super-spreader? Unravelling the genetics of host infectiousness. at University of Edinburgh, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Journal of Evolutionary Biology @jevbio.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Opportunity! We are looking for new editors - application deadline is Monday 20th January. Positions available: Associate Editors Handling Editor Commissioning Editor Details here: jevbio.net/call-for-edi...

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Sebastian Lequime @lequimelab.eu · 19/11/2024

Guess it's finally time to move on; here I am! Some Endogenous viral elements/RNA virus evolution/ecology in arthropods are to come (hopefully) soon! 🦠

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