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Sarah Worsley

@sarahfworsley.bsky.social
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Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow @ University of East Anglia. Interested in the evolutionary ecology of host-microbe interactions. Microbiomes, phylosymbiosis, viromics, island populations.

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Xav Harrison @xavh.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
We are now recruiting for a 3 year NERC-funded postdoc to study the transmission dynamics of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in migratory birds. Based in the Wild Microbiome Lab @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful Cornwall.
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Sarah Worsley @sarahfworsley.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
🚨New paper 🚨“Gut Microbiome Communities Vary Across Translocated Populations of the Seychelles Warbler” 🐥🏝️💩http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ece3.73750
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Gut Microbiome Communities Vary Across Translocated Populations of the Seychelles Warbler
Conservation translocations are an increasingly common tool used to help combat species extinction but their success is dependent on a wide range of abiotic and biotic factors. To date, the potential...
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Microbiome @microbiomej.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
In #AnimalMicrobiome The elephant (bird) in the room: unknown mechanisms and unresolved impacts of low DNA yields in avian microbiome research Read more👉 doi.org/q7jv #OpenAccess #ElephantBird #Microbiome #Avian #Birds
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Sarah Worsley @sarahfworsley.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Excellent opportunity for ECRs studying wild animal microbiomes! See details about funded research exchange programme below
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stn-wame.bsky.social @stn-wame.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Attention ECRs! WAME is offering support to attend the ExE conference in Falmouth (sites.exeter.ac.uk/exe/) & associated WAME microbiome workshop. For more information and the application form, see below! We hope to see you there! 🦠 docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Chuen @chuenlee.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
New paper! 🐦🦠 Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species doi.org/10.1111/mec.... A 🧵
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Social Structure and Interactions Differentially Shape Aerotolerant and Anaerobic Gut Microbiomes in a Cooperative Breeding Species
Social transmission of microbes has profound impacts on disease epidemiology and host health. However, how social factors influence gut microbiome (GM) transmission in wild populations is not well un...
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Elin Videvall @elinvidevall.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
New review paper on bird #microbiome methods out! Bridging the gap: improving methodologies for future avian microbiome research 🐦🦠🧬 #OA @avianbiology.bsky.social @charlisdavies.bsky.social @kbodawatta.bsky.social nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Bridging the gap: improving methodologies for future avian microbiome research
Recent advances in the field of wild avian microbiome research have significantly deepened our understanding of the eco-evolutionary dynamics of bird–microbe interactions. Consequently, the field is ...
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Chuen @chuenlee.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
🧵 New paper! How does the immune system shape the gut microbiome in wild animals? We studied the Seychelles warbler using shotgun metagenomics to test how variation in MHC genes (key immune genes) influences both the taxonomy and function of gut microbes. rdcu.be/e7Wxv Here’s what we found 👇
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Host immunogenetic variation and gut microbiome functionality in a wild vertebrate population
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stn-wame.bsky.social @stn-wame.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Join us for the next instalment in our virtual seminar series this week! Wild Animal Mycobiomes (not microbiome!) 4th December 2025: 11am GMT/ 12pm CET Join via zoom here: aarhusuniversity.zoom.us/j/68695403303
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Dugdale Research Group @hannahdugdale.bsky.social · 25/08/2025
Congrats 🎉 Sarah Worsley "Gut microbiome communities demonstrate fine-scale spatial variation in a closed, island bird population" ISME Communications doi.org/10.1093/isme... @chuenlee.bsky.social @terryburke.bsky.social @david-s-richardson.bsky.social
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Chuen @chuenlee.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
New paper out now! 🥳📄 Massive shoutout to Sarah Worsley, who did the heavy lifting 💪 – absolute star! 🌟
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