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Marie Vasse

@marievasse.bsky.social
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Research in Evolutionary biology | Community ecology and evolution | Philosophy of science she/her also @marievasse@ecoevo.social

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Will Smith @willpjsmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
#Manchester #MEEhubs26 Day 2 is on! Fantastic talks from @olimeacock.bsky.social @melissalawson.bsky.social @evokait.bsky.social on microbial community interactions with keynote by @dundee.ac.uk's Prof. Sarah Coulthurst 🦠↔️🦠
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Sara Mitri @saramitri.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
@massimoamicone.bsky.social giving a fantastic talk on evolutionary rescue in simple microbial communities at MEEHubs 2026 @meehubs.bsky.social #meehubs2026
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Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo @multicellgenome.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
1/10 For decades, cellular aggregation was considered an evolutionary dead end. Cells could come together temporarily. But complex multicellular organisms like animals? Our study, led by JP Gerdt, with Ruibao & @jennahed.bsky.social suggests it may be time to rethink that🧵 #ProtistsOnSKy
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Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Koonin & team dive deep into YprA-family defence systems that define “SPIDER” elements: satellite phage-like defence islands that overlap with the GIs we showed are transferred by jumbo phages. They're packed with ecologically relevant genes. The stuff that moves matters! doi.org/10.1016/j.ch...
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Redirecting
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Ricard Solé @ricardsole.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
How did complex cells emerge? In this groundbreaking paper, @tonigabaldon.bsky.social & co show that eukaryotes arose through multiple waves of ancient genetic exchange involving diverse bacteria (& giant viruses!) revealing a far more complex origin than we imagined. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
Day 4, anthropologist Adeline Le Cabec and philosopher Mathilde Lequin making everyone wish they were paleoanthropologists this morning. Nothing more intellectually stimulating than listening to passionate experts speak about their research 🙏
Adeline Le Cabec and Mathilde Lequin standing in front of a presentation slide featuring an "early modern human" and "recent modern human" skull.
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Christopher J Stevens @metaphysiology.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Day 1 of Bordeaux philosophy in biology & medicine summer school @philinbiomed.bsky.social Program includes presentations of open scientific questions, how philosophical tools can be used to address them, plus-most importantly-group work where participants will do philosophy in science themselves.
Alan Cohen and Maël Lemoine standing in front of presentation screen, subject is "What is aging anyway?"
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Chiara Pertile @chiarapertile.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
#PhilinBioMedsummerschool2026 starts! @philinbiomed.bsky.social
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Marie Vasse @marievasse.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Microbial predation conference: we have student support funds! Thanks to@snf-fns.ch! microbialpredation.ethz.ch/student_gran...
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STUDENT GRANTS
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Marie Vasse @marievasse.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
What's predation like in the microbial world? Greg Velicer @usyseth.bsky.social and I take you on a tour in our new review! @ethz.ch @cnrs.fr
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Marie Vasse @marievasse.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Registration is open for the Microbial Predation Conference 2026! Abstract submission deadline is May 29th microbialpredation.ethz.ch/registration...
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Registration for the Microbial Predation Conference 2026
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Flora Vincent @floravincent.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Hard to think the EMBO/EMBL symposium on the cellular mechanics of #symbiosis is already over @embl.org. Some personal scientific heroes in there, and a very unique collegial and open minded vibe (and great dancers💃🏻 ) #EESSymbiosis Wonderful way to reconnect with science after 🐣! #womeninscience
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Gulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Last talk for the day, @floravincent.bsky.social on diatomes' symbioses. How can we study them in natural environments? Expansion microscopy together with immunolabeling can give a high-resolution picture. See more here www.cell.com/current-biol... #EESSymbiosis
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Diatom ultrastructural diversity across controlled and natural environments
Flori et al. establish high-resolution and generalizable immunofluorescence in cultured and environmental diatoms, thanks to 4-fold cryo-expansion microscopy. This represents a step-change for compara...
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Gulnara Tagirdzhanova @metalichen.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Next, @marievasse.bsky.social on bacterial predator-prey interaction. Under specific conditions, prey can kill and eat the predator 🤯 More here journals.plos.org/Plosbiology/... #EESSymbiosis
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Killer prey: Ecology reverses bacterial predation
Shifting temperatures can turn the tables in bacterial ecosystems. This study shows that varying temperatures prior to interaction can dramatically alter predation roles, turning bacterial prey into p...
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Michael Friendly @datavisfriendly.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
#rstats Here's a useful guide to creating publication-ready #ggplot figures to journal specifications, which is often quite fiddly. jaquent.github.io/2026/02/crea...
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Creating actually publication-ready figures for journals using `ggplot2`
A practical guide to creating publication-ready figures in R using ggplot2, covering journal dimension requirements, custom themes, updated geom defaults, and SVG export—with minimal manual adjustment...
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EMBL Events @events.embl.org · 24/02/2026
Welcome to 'Collectivity in living systems'! During the next few days we'll explore coordination, cooperation, emergence, and decision-making in systems ranging from bacterial biofilms and cell migration to tissue formation, disease models, and animal behaviour. Let's go! 🙌 #EESCollectivity
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Marie Vasse @marievasse.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Interested in microbial predation? Join us in Ticino Switzerland on July 27-31, 2026! More info at microbialpredation.ethz.ch #predation #ecology #evolution #microbes
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Carolin Wendling @ccwendling.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Interested in exploring prophages in your (meta)genomes, but don't know how and where to start? We've put together a beginners guide to exploring viral diversity in prokaryotes @marievasse.bsky.social @sebwielgoss.bsky.social @oxunipress.bsky.social
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PhilInBioMed @philinbiomed.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Impressions of Day 2 of the #PhilInBioMed at University of Bordeaux! (1/?) Full program here: www.philinbiomed.org/event/bordea... Marie Vasse on "Predictions and Unexpectedness" #BSS2025 #Philosophy #Biology #Medicine #SummerSchool
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Chiara Pertile @chiarapertile.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
The #PhilInBioMed Summer School has started! Five days of exciting talks, big ideas, and fun crossovers between philosophy, biology, and medicine. @philinbiomed.bsky.social 👉 www.philinbiomed.org/event/bordea... #BSS2025 #Philosophy #Biology #Medicine #SummerSchool
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PhilInBioMed @philinbiomed.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Some impressions of the first day of the #PhilInBioMed at University of Bordeaux! (1/?) Full program here: www.philinbiomed.org/event/bordea... #BSS2025 #Philosophy #Biology #Medicine #SummerSchool
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