Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"I believe that science derives its authority from something more than mastering the pipeline from data generation to publication. Rather, it comes from interactions within a community of people trained to interrogate evidence and answer for the conclusions they draw from it." 052
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezGeorge O'Toole (he/him/his) @geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Pls ahre: Open recruitment in the new Department of Systems Biology at UC Irvine. Assistant Professor in Systems Biology, experimental or theoretical, who will complement existing strengths in the department (systems.bio.uci.edu). Application link: recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10377systems.bio.uci.eduSystems Biology | UC Irvine Charlie Dunlop School of Biological SciencesWelcome to the Department of Systems Biology at UC Irvine Leading the way to Discovery, Explanation, and Prediction Department of […] 0510
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A great editorial board!!! Let's make of this a great journal! 021
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Truly worth reading, the journey is possibly more important than the destination. 021
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Truly the surfer dudes that designed that chunk of track were not thinking about longevity - who builds a train track ON THE BEACH!? 010
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Beautiful work getting at why microbial community function (or at least some) are predictable through global interaction effects. 0121
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Dear UC, you have a list of all the courses I have taught with enrollment numbers, why do you make me copy this exact list into a different form (AP-10) every time!!!! 000
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezCarole Hom @clhom.bsky.social · 14/08/2026The colleagues are phenomenal, the research is great, and it’s a department that values teaching and mentoring. Evidence: see the “10 Simple Rules…” paper by faculty and postdocs in the department. osf.io/preprints/ed...osf.ioOSF 065
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezNeedhi Bhalla 💅🏽 @needhibhalla.bsky.social · 13/08/2026WOAH 👀🧪 "we show that eukaryotic chromosomes are ionic hydrogels and that the chromosomal material is a two-state system, with interconversion between condensed and decondensed states through a volume phase transition, analogous to a liquid-gas transition" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgThe eukaryote chromosome, a two-state system with interconversion by a volume phase transitionThe formation of metaphase chromosomes requires the activity of condensins, DNA translocases that reduce chromosomal length through the process of loop extrusion. Reduction of length, however, does no... 23616
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-Gomezcallista yee @csybio.bsky.social · 06/08/2026hiiii 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!!!!!academicjobsonline.orgUniversity 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 16598
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Are you a professor at a UC and you wished that your retirement money was not tied to weapons, ICE, and prisons? There is a very easy way to move (part) of your retirement (with very similar yields). If you want to know more, there is this amazing website: www.ucmoveyourmoney.orgucmoveyourmoney.orgHomeWelcome! Are you ready to divest your UC retirement savings from state violence? Let's get started! Want to Learn More First? Read our UC Move Your Money Campaign Summary and/ watch our recorded st... 063
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezNoah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 06/08/2026I’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/JPF05481aprecruit.berkeley.eduAssistant Professor -Genetics, Genomics, Evolution, and Development - Molecular and Cell BiologyUniversity of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now! 0183232
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezMEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026What, is it over already? MEEHubs2026 concluded just minutes ago. It's been a blast, and here are some stats for you: 711 registrations, 241 posters, 71 talks, 3 days, participants from 32 countries. Bye from all the hubs 🩵🩵🩵 #MEEHubs2026 #MEEHubs26 0299
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezMEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social · 05/08/2026MEEHubs doesn't stop when the talks stop: from a mouth-watering spread in Morelia to a bonfire in Irvine to an Apero in Zurich, we've got your social calendar covered during the conference #MEEHubs2026 #MEEHubs26 0135
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezLuís M. Silva @luismsilva.bsky.social · 04/08/2026New 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...cell.comTransmission heterogeneity emerges from uncoupled parasite shedding and spreadingSilva 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... 1137
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezElena Litchman @elenalitchman.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Interested in doing a postdoc in plankton ecology, on topics of community assembly, trait-based ecological resilience, stressor interactions, harmful algal blooms and others? Contact me to discuss developing a proposal for MSU's EEB Presidential Postdoc Fellowship (Nov 1 application deadline). 12733
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezMEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Great atmospheres at social events at each hub! Not only a great place to listen to MEE talks, but an opportunity to eat a massive spread in Chernihiv, play bocce in Ann Arbor, or stand in the rain in Manchester. Don't worry Montreal, you're not the only hub with downpour! #MEEHubs26 #MEEHubs2026 0184
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezMEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026MEEHubs2026 is underway! We had a great start in the first two sessions with Zurich and Manchester hosting some excellent talks! It's not too late to join us virtually via last-minute registration: meehubs.org #MEEHubs2026 02410
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 23/07/2026If you are coming to Irvine - Thank you to NSF we have free registration for undegraduate students and some travel money for participants coming from other places in the Southland 030
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezMEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026One week left to register for MEEHubs2026 taking place Aug 3-5!! Please join us in Montreal, Ann Arbor, Irvine, Morelia, Zurich, Manchester, Chernihiv, or online. Register here: meehubs.orgmeehubs.orgHomeAbstract submission now closed but we now invite all poster presenters to upload their posters to our platform using the above link by July 31, 2026. 048
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 22/07/2026A good reminder to join your faculty association (cucfa.org) and re-build faculty power and autonomy across the largest public university system in the US.cucfa.orgCUCFA – Coordinating the Faculty Associations of the University of California 083
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This is a cool paper formalizing the fact that being able to do more work faster does not make the work better, and this does not include the university adminstration passing more work onto us because "it is easy" or teaching more students per faculty because we can. 020
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezPeter Ellis @pjie2.bsky.social · 12/07/2026I have absolutely no argument with the fact that gametic sex is a profoundly important aspect of biology in anisogamous species. And yet it is but one manifestation of sexual differences, *all of which are equally biological* 230223
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezHuw Price @huwprice.bsky.social · 04/06/2026Two permanent positions in HPS, Sydney! #hps #philsciusyd.wd105.myworkdayjobs.comLecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Professor to the School of History and Philosophy of Science2 x full time, continuing positions, located on the Camperdown Campus in the Faculty of Science Build your research and apply your expertise by contributing as a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/Associate Pro... 01712
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 12/05/2026People working in microbial ecology and evolution in Southern California, specially if you have some great undergraduates consider register for #MEEHubs2026 at meehubs2026.oa-event.com We will still open the opportunity for local poster presentations and we have funds to cover students.meehubs2026.oa-event.comHome 072
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezMEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social · 18/03/2026MEEHubs2026 registration and abstract submission is now online! 🚨🦠✨ Join us Aug 3 - 5, 2026 at one of the 7 hubs or online. We are incredibly excited about our lineup of speakers, and hope that you submit an abstract to contribute too! More information and registration links at: meehubs.orgmeehubs.orgHome 01917
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezMartin Sperfeld @martinsperfeld.bsky.social · 26/03/2026Excited to support #MEEHubs2026 as part of the local hub at ETH Zurich! This hybrid conference brings together microbial ecology and evolution researchers through global (free!) online access plus local in-person hubs, making science more inclusive and lower-carbon. August 3–5, 2026 🌍🦠 041
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 20/04/2026Your favorite hybrid microbial ecology and evolution conference is back! #meehubs2026. I am hosting a Hub for the US West in Irvine, CA and there will be travel fellowships for some students. Abstract deadline extended to April 26th! meehubs2026.oa-event.commeehubs2026.oa-event.comHome 093
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezAsher Leeks @asherleeks.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The Social Lives of Viruses is coming to Vancouver, Canada, from 4th-8th August 2026! This is a free meeting dedicated to all aspects of virus-virus interactions & evolution. To apply: socialviruses.zoology.ubc.ca @sociovirology.bsky.social #socialviruses #evosky #lovevirology #virosky 06146
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezDr. K. Lotterhos @drk-lo.bsky.social · 27/03/2026Deadline for symposium proposals at the @asn-amnat.bsky.social American Society of Naturalists stand alone meeting on long island due April 30 www.amnat.org/announcement... Plus check out this cool meeting logo of a snail shaped like long island 03012
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezEnrico Sandro Colizzi @escolizzi.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Curious about the origin of development during the transition to multicellularity? A very belated preprint alert: bit.ly/4rr2mHU Reproduction emerges from ecological interactions at the onset of multicellularity. A short 🧵 with lots of videos... 310235
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 11/03/2026For the second preprint, we collaborated with Travis Wiles to understand microbiome transmission and its role in community assembly using zebrafish. We found that dispersal dynamics can readily move gut colonization and assembly from a stochastic to fairly predictable www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 1112
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 11/03/2026I am a little behind in sharing the newest pre-prints from the lab. First, Ariel Favier (an incredible graduate student) sampled bacteria (Gammaproteobacteria) all over California to evaluate if there was signs of local adaptation to temperature: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.org 281
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezHarmit Singh Malik @harmitmalik.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Total annual budget for NIGMS: 3.2 billion Total (estimated) daily cost for war in Iran beyond the inestimable cost in human lives and suffering (and gasoline prices if that’s what you care more about, like many do): 900 million dollars (www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/p...) 13213
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 27/01/2026What are your favorite examples of successful ecological and/or evolutionary forecasting/prediction? 030
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 16/01/2026This is a very beautiful paper from the dissertation of @daniireyes.bsky.social in @ayari.bsky.social lab on how species interactions matter for antibiotic resistance. 0165
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezColin Kremer @quant-ecology.bsky.social · 17/12/2025Incorporating realistic ecological interactions changes our understanding of which traits are optimal in different environments, including the temperature-size rule. Awesome paper by David Anderson, outstanding former postdoc with me and Mary O'Connor. 02815
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezAlison Feder @alisonfeder.bsky.social · 10/12/2025So excited to share this work led by @alexrob.bsky.social with Ben Kerr! We investigated a poliovirus capsid inhibitor that exploits a breakdown in the genotype-phenotype map to prevent drug resistance evolution. Or does it? See Alex's thread, but a few extras: #socialviruses #evosky #virosky 🧪 12610
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 11/12/2025Ok, this is really cool! Using a modified rabies virus, scientists were able to identify where rewiring of the brain happens on psilocybin. 🍄🦠🧠 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...cell.comPsilocybin triggers an activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networksPsilocybin reshapes brain networks through activity-dependent plasticity, including a weakening of recurrent cortical loops that could underlie its therapeutic effects. 000
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezWill Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 09/12/20251/28 New preprint up, which I think is the best theoretical idea I've ever had. We asked a simple question: what are the costs of investment into non-reproductive somatic cells? Turns out these costs decrease with the *logarithm* of organism size! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...biorxiv.orgThe fitness costs of reproductive specialization scale inversely with organismal sizeThe evolution of reproductive specialization represents a fundamental innovation in multicellular life, yet the conditions favoring its evolution remain poorly understood. Here, we develop a populatio... 615467
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 04/12/2025Two amazing people and plant evolutionary biologists, who are also two great mentors! 130
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezJosé Aguilar-Rodríguez @jaguilarrod.bsky.social · 22/10/2025One of the most exciting works of my career, years in the making. We used high-throughput precision genome editing to test the fitness effects of thousands of natural variants. Our findings challenge the long-held assumption that common variants are inconsequential. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...biorxiv.orgMassively parallel interrogation of the fitness of natural variants in ancient signaling pathways reveals pervasive local adaptationThe nature of standing genetic variation remains a central debate in population genetics, with differing perspectives on whether common variants are almost always neutral as suggested by neutral and n... 516884
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 16/10/2025Paper is finally out!! Thanks to reviewers we dig deeper on the differences between domestication events -spoiler alert: it doesn't matter that much. nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.comPlant domestication does not reduce diversity in rhizosphere bacterial communitiesDomestication has profoundly shaped the genetic makeup of numerous plant and animal species. While its genetic and phenotypic effects are well documented, the impact on the plant microbiome remains ... 03210
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 01/07/2025I keep finding really cool papers to teach in @evolletters.bsky.social 040
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 19/06/2025I have to confess that sometimes I do blame the victim... If a coyote eats your pet, it was an accident; if a coyote has eaten three of your pets in the last two years, it is your fault! 010
Maria Rebolleda-Gomez @mrebolleda.bsky.social · 18/06/2025I would love to host a PhD student on my lab with strong quantitative training interested in projects integrating ecology and evolution, or cell physiology and ecological dynamics www.simonsfoundation.org/grant/simons...simonsfoundation.orgSimons Graduate Fellowships in Ecology and EvolutionThe purpose of these awards is to provide support for students entering U.S.-based Ph.D. programs with a plan to perform research in ecology and evolution. While we will consider all projects in ecolo... 089
Reposted by Maria Rebolleda-GomezLaboratory of Plant Morphodynamics @plantmorpho.bsky.social · 23/05/2025The fantastic work of @kampova.bsky.social is finally out in PNAS: weather sensing and programmed cell death in anther dehiscence and opening. Cool science and awesome microscopy! @svosolsobe.bsky.social @handle.invalid @moritznowack.bsky.social 0408