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Luís M. Silva

@luismsilva.bsky.social
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Disease ecology 🦠 | Parasite evolution 🧬| Postdoc with @kayla-king.bsky.social at UBC 🇨🇦 | Music geek and art lover | he/him | 🇵🇹 📍Vancouver, CA luis-m-silva.com #IDSky #DiversityInSTEM #FirstGen #OpenScience

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Subham Mridha @subhammridha.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Predation resistance mechanisms operate at an individual level, adaptations are sometimes pleiotropic and compensatory. Thanks to all my co-authors who made this research possible Ove, Sarah, Saskia, Bernd, @rkmicrobes.bsky.social @simonahuwiler.bsky.social #AMR #Bdello #Evolution tiny.cc/2qpa101
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Outer membrane changes enable evolutionary escape from bacterial predation
Abstract. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a threat to modern medicine. To combat AMR pathogens, natural predators like bacteriophages and predatory bacte
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Erik Svensson @evolodonata.ecoevo.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Come join me and my colleagues at the Department of Biology at #LundUniversity in #Sweden! New position as Senior Lecturer in Computational Biology just announced. Apply or spread the word to all interested candidates! […]
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Michelle Facette @mfacette.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
UMass Amherst Dept of Biology is hiring a TT faculty member in Evolutionary Biology! careers.umass.edu/jobs/assista... We have a diverse and wonderful dept - please consider joining us!
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Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology - Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
Title: Assistant Professor - Evolutionary Biology Executive Area: Academic Affairs College/School/MBU: College of Natural Sciences Department: Biology Work Location: Amherst Schedule: Full Time Work A...
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Elizabeth Duxbury @eduxbury.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
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Early-life sugar restriction causally reduces adult cancer incidence and slows biological aging | PNAS
Excess sugar consumption is implicated in multiple cancers through insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, and metabolic reprogramming, yet wheth...
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John Tuthill @tuthill.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Our digital sphinx, a cautionary tale about the interpretation of connectome-body models, is now a reviewed preprint at @elife.bsky.social. We are grateful to the reviewers for engaging seriously with what we hope is a useful (if absurd) demonstration. elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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The digital sphinx: Can a worm brain control a fly body?
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John Innes Centre @johninnescentre.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
VACANCY - Funded by @European Research Council (ERC), we have three exciting opportunities for Postdoctoral Researchers to join the newly appointed Dr @hassansalem.bsky.social Group. These roles span: Developmental biology - okt.to/nq50wC 🧵
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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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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Are you an ecologist/evolutionary biologist looking for an ongoing academic position? Monash University’s School of Biological Sciences is hiring! Come join us in Melbourne, Australia! Details here: careers.pageuppeople.com/513/cw/en/jo...
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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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Malaclypse the Middle @malaclypse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
A couple of weeks ago I rode to Newburyport MA and saw this COVID memorial and realized this is the only one I have ever seen anywhere. And the fact that I nearly broke down seeing it is something I still think about.
For those who died and those who survived and all we list during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Gerry Carter @gerrycarter.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Job posting: Associate Professor in behavioral ecology and cultural evolution within the Department of Ecology and Evolution (DEE) at the University of Lausanne. Deadline for applications is 30.09.2026: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli... (there is a button to switch to English at the top right)
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Tamara Szentivanyi 🦇🦠🦟 @tamikasz.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
One of my former student, Laura, who is an excellent young researcher, is currently looking for a PhD position in Europe. 👩‍🔬 She recently completed her Master’s in Molecular and Cellular Biology at Université Paris Cité, specializing in Emerging Infectious Diseases.
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Nature @nature.com · 29/07/2026
Mosquito-borne diseases are breaking records as climate change and other human influences allow the insects to expand their range go.nature.com/4x6xhMK
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How mosquitoes are conquering the world — in four charts
Mosquito-borne diseases are breaking records as climate change and other human influences allow the insects to expand their range.
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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 29/07/2026
At ISEMPH meeting @evmed.bsky.social in beautiful Kiel. Enjoyed the tour de force presentation by @trevorgraham.bsky.social showing power of fluctuating methylation for inferring evolutionary history and speed in various cancers. See www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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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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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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Ben Miller @benwritesthings.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
One arrest at the Nazi protest against Pride, multiple arrests at the leftist Internationalist Pride, and a murderer managed to break through a police barricade and drive a van into the big pride event without being stopped or caught. Berlin’s cops and politicians have made their priorities clear.
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Aaron Sojourner @aaronsojourner.org · 25/07/2026
Admirable clarity @science.org
The Trump administration hates academic science funding, full stop. They hate where that money goes, and they hate who it goes to. They want to keep all that money for themselves, to hand out to favored cronies who can help them get elected and to steer yet more money and more power back into their hands.

That’s it. That’s the story
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Sean Gibbons 🦠💩 @gibbological.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓
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Sullivan Lab at OSU @sullivan-lab.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sustainable Microbiology journal Calls for Papers! #Microbiology #CallForPapers #MicroSky #Sustainability #EnvironmentalMicrobiology
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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
So so relevant!!
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Alice Laigle @alicelaigle.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
📝 NEW PREPRINT It’s with an immense joy that our preprint is finally out and it’s my first first co-author paper!!! 🧬🍄 What is the diversity of 3D genome architectures in fungi? We reconstructed the 3D genome architecture of public Hi-C data from 55 fungal. Preprint: lnkd.in/enxTh2Cm
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Camille Cornet @camillecornet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
📄 New opinion piece! Agency fuels motivation and well-being, yet early-career researchers rarely get to exercise it. So what can we do to empower ECRs and make academia fairer? We open the dialogue and offer some starting points: www.cell.com/trends-open/...
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Itai Yanai @itaiyanai.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
The PhD is the best point in time to try very dangerous ideas or to try things that don't work. – @odedrechavi.bsky.social, on the Night Science Podcast
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Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
“Used ChatGPT as my search engine” 👀 🫠 Editor-in-Chief of Science
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Sara Reardon @sarareardon.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Exclusive @science.org: Circadian biologist Satchidananda Panda is resigning from Salk following multiple sexual harassment investigations. Lab members and other employees spoke up after Salk refused to reveal the investigations' findings. #MeTooSTEM www.science.org/content/arti...
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Prominent Salk Institute biologist to resign following sexual misconduct investigation
Staffers complain that Salk allowed circadian rhythms researcher Satchidananda Panda to depart quietly, while the allegations and findings remain under wraps
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Royal Entomological Society @royentsoc.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Deadline tomorrow! This grant is dedicated to projects that celebrate equity, equality, diversity and inclusion, encouraging more involvement of underrepresented groups and greater diversity of contributions in entomology. Apply now and make an impact 🔽 buff.ly/rciuzmQ Deadline: 17 July
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💡 Got an idea to make entomology more inclusive?
The RES EDI Grant can help fund it.
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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Check this new paper led by @tommytraverscook.bsky.social that I got to contribute to 👇 and share :) #AcademicSky #AcademicChatter #EcoSky #EvoSky www.cell.com/trends-open/...
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Promoting academic agency to empower early-career researchers
Academia faces significant challenges in workplace relations and academic well-being that require urgent attention to ensure its long-term sustainability. Efforts to create a fairer academic environme...
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Martin Plöderl @ploederl.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
1. We wrote a letter to the editor about this fluoxetine trial for children aged 4-6. Given the urgency and the expected delay in response, we also published it as a preprint, available here: doi.org/10.31234/osf... Which problems did we detect with this study ? 🧵
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
As someone in the midst of hiring, I do really appreciate when someone uses CRediT author taxonomy. When the Author Contributions section says "X, Y, Z, performed experiments" in a paper with like... 7 figures spanning all kinds of experiments... please use CRediT! Low-key: I'm hiring. Email me!
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ECMTB'26 @ecmtb2026.org · 10/07/2026
Have a look at ecmtb2026.org/news/2026-07... for some final arrival information in Graz at #ECMTB26!
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Final Arrival Information for ECMTB 2026 | ECMTB 2026
ECMTB 2026 news: Final Arrival Information for ECMTB 2026
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The Advocate @advocate.com · 13/07/2026
Under Trump, a record-breaking number of erectile dysfunction drugs are being prescribed to cis troops while the battle over trans military bans rages on.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/07/2026
A study concluded that the uninhibited pumping of groundwater by farmers, cities and corporations around the world now accounts for 68% of the total loss of fresh water at the latitudes where most people live. (Published July 2025)
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“Staggering” Water Loss Driven by Groundwater Mining Poses Global Threat
A new study finds that freshwater resources are rapidly disappearing, creating arid “mega” regions and causing sea levels to rise.
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Tom Astle @tjalamont.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Excellent piece by Megan Mayhew Bergman 🌿
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We know how to mourn other humans – but what about ecological grief?
In Iceland, people commemorated its first glacier formally declared lost to climate change. Western culture needs more of these rituals
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QueerAF @wearequeeraf.com · 11/07/2026
When we expand the narrative around trans childhoods beyond stories of feeling wrong, we challenge the idea that people must know they're trans from the moment they become self-aware.
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Girlhood is the reason I have security in a masculine queer adulthood
"I loved being a girl, I just couldn’t see myself becoming a woman."
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accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social @accounts-leaving-x.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
EcoEvoRxiv (short for "Ecology and Evolution Archive"; a non-profit, community-driven research repository specifically designed for the fields of ecology, evolution, and conservation) leaves X (2.886 followers) Bluesky: @ecoevorxiv.bsky.social
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Bob Wong @bbmwong.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Do you have a background in behavioural ecology and are you interested in doing a PhD in Australia? I’m looking for new grad students so check out our website (BobWongLab.org) or come find me in Torino at #ISBE2026. 🐟🐠
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
I’ve been photographing ants for 25 years and have maybe achieved 5% of the species? I’ve got to step up my game because I’ll never get through them at this rate.
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List of Genera
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Julien Lie-Panis @jliep.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Why do societies rely on rigid moral rules? Don't lie. Keep your promises. Don't steal. We all recognize there are good reasons to make exceptions. So why are moral rules so often categorical? Our new paper proposes an answer. 🧵
Screenshot of article title page, "Why human societies adopt rigid moral rules"
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Lia Ferreira @liaferreira.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Quero lá saber das burcas, meus! Puta q vos pariu e às burcas! A PORRA DOS EXAMES, CARALHO! E o estado geral das escolas. Os professores. A saúde. Os médicos. O SNS. A Habitação. O preço das casas. A inflacção. O preço da comida. Os combustíveis. CARALHO. Incompetentes de merda. Escroques. Escarros.
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 08/07/2026
more broadly than just the looksmaxxing weirdos i think the Influencer Era is going to be a golden age for Weird Celebrity Deaths unseen since hollywood in the 1920's. giving people the national fame of movie stars with the institutional mental health support of the wrestling industry is a bad combo
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Brian “Enemy of Civilization” Alexander @brianralexander.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
So Chagas is here. Just in time! Welcome in bugs! RFK has paved your way by gutting public health, and global warming, which expands your range, is a big ol' liberal fake out. www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2026/07/06/r...
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Routine blood testing reveals county’s first case of locally acquired Chagas disease
The kissing bug, associated with rodent nests in the United States, carries a parasite that can cause severe illness if left untreated.
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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Interesting paper, Lots of food for thought 🤔 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Sublethal immune resistance to parasites generates reaction-norm patterns indistinguishable from tolerance
Hosts defend themselves against parasites through resistance (reducing parasite burden) and tolerance (reducing the fitness cost of infection without affecting parasites). This distinction has importa...
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Doctors Without Borders @doctorswithoutborders.org · 07/07/2026
Know anyone who'd be interested in this #Sciencesky #MedSky? Please share! We're urgently seeking an Entomologist to support vector control strategies, including Wolbachia monitoring, in Central America. job-boards.greenhouse.io/proyectosi…
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The Global Vector Hub @globalvectorhub.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
@doctorswithoutborders.org is #hiring a #MedicalEntomologist in #CentralAmerica. Please share and consider applying!
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Marieke Oudelaar @mariekeoudelaar.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
We are looking for someone to lead the new Facility for Protein Biochemistry & Biophysics at the MPI of Immunobiology and Epigenetics in Freiburg — please spread the word and apply if you are interested!
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Miguel Clavero @chikichanka.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Natural history on canvas: Brueghel knew about bird-eating noctule bats Just published in @pnas.org, OA for all eyes Led by the one-and-only @romero-vidal.bsky.social, with the amazing @elena-tena.bsky.social and Sonia Sánchez-Navarro @ebdonana.bsky.social LINK: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
1/🧵 With this paper finally published, I want to talk about the worst peer review experience of my career as a non-native English speaker, early-career researcher, and solo author, and why I think it matters. #AcademicSky #AcademicPublishing #EvoSky
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