iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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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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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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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

6/ #Supershedders and #superspreaders are not necessarily the same individuals, or even useful definitions, as they depend on the context. Understanding disease spread means following pathogens beyond release and across the full transmission process.

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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

5/ This suggests that transmission heterogeneity emerges because every stage filters the next one. Rather than looking for a single “super” host, we may need to ask how different hosts reshape transmission at different stages of the infection cycle.

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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

4/ Shedding explained how many parasites reached the next host. But it didn’t explain what those parasites did once they got there. The quantity of transmission and the quality of transmission turned out to be different things.

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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

3/ The surprise? Host rankings kept changing. The hosts releasing the most parasites were often not the hosts causing the highest infection burden or the most severe disease in the next host.

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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

2/ We followed transmission across the infection cycle for a panel of hosts strains: • susceptibility to different routes • parasite shedding • infection-induced dispersal • recipient virulence • recipient parasite burden Instead of assuming these processes covary, we measured each one separately.

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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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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

It was a different time! It also felt different 🥲I still have a box with all my paper tickets and cotton festival bracelets, good old times!

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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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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

In a time we as (early-career) researchers are under immense pressure from all sides, fostering academic agency may help relieve the mental toll science can take on you; and with that open the possibility to make better science!

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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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Luís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Thank you for sharing, didn’t know about this but have seen SORTEE and so on doing similar supplementary tables for transparency. This is really cool and useful!

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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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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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