Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyLavisha Parab @lavishaparab.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Our preprint on using waxmoth larvae as a model for in vivo evolution experiments studying the microbiome is out! We'll write a bsky thread soon once we update the figures with new data, and early feedback is appreciated! 065
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyTheoretical Ecology and Evolution (THEE) Group @thee-bank-lab.bsky.social · 10/06/2026The University of Bern's features the "Treasure Chest project", which uses real-world scenarios to teach stats to bio students. Our collaborator Stephan Peischl @spei.bsky.social connects genetics to epidemiology, bringing statistics to life! Article (in DE) in the link below:uniaktuell.unibe.chDie Schatztruhe macht Statistik lebendigDas Programm «IMPULS: LEHRE» fördert innovative Lehrprojekte an der Uni Bern. Eines davon ist die «Schatztruhe». 064
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyGerard Martínez-De León @gerardmdl.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Our first study from the Hasli Outdoor Mesocosm Experiment (HOME) is out!! Here we focus on plant responses to extreme heat and drought during the first two years of the experiment, and we found that fast- and slow-growing plants fully recovered to drought onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...onlinelibrary.wiley.comConvergent Post‐Drought Recovery of Biomass and Functional Traits Under Constant and Periodic Warming in Slow‐ and Fast‐Growing PlantsIn a 2-year outdoor mesocosm experiment, slow- and fast-growing grassland plants exhibit biomass-trait decoupling 1 month after drought, particularly under warmed conditions. This decoupling disappea.... 12012
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 01/04/2026This has been a really crazy read so far. Thanks to @lorhab.bsky.social for bringing it to my attention. I hope that there is even more quirky phage communication stuff in the future! 030
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyMicrobiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 31/03/2026It’s International Transgender Day of Visibility. Annual Conference 2026 includes the 5th LGBTQ+ Networking Event with Trans and Nonbinary pre-meet. Find out more and register: microb.io/Microbio26SocialProgrammemicrob.ioAnnual Conference 2026 021
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyDepartment of Biology | San Francisco State University @sfstatebio.bsky.social · 10/03/2026Join us Wed, Mar 11 at 11 AM at EOS + on Zoom for a seminar by Dr. Sophie George (University of Washington; Professor Emerita, Georgia Southern University): Marine Heatwaves effects on growth and development of Pisaster ochraceus larvae in multidimensional space #MarineBiology #MarineHeatwaves 033
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyCharles Mullon @charlesmullon.bsky.social · 09/03/2026With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭 To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀 tinyurl.com/2wem36zzunil.chUnil center for theory in ecology and evolution (UCTEE) - FBM UnilPage Unil Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution of site Faculty of Biology and Medicine hosted by the University of Lausanne 09276
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyMarie Vasse @marievasse.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Interested in microbial predation? Join us in Ticino Switzerland on July 27-31, 2026! More info at microbialpredation.ethz.ch #predation #ecology #evolution #microbes 11212
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyHermina Ghenu (they/them) @a-hermina-ghenu.bsky.social · 10/02/2026Cool #OpenData and #reproducibility webinar coming up. SORTEE + Dryad = 💘 "Data all the way down: How uncovering the data underlying research findings impacts every aspect of scholarly communication" 📅 Thu, 12 Feb, 5–6pm WEST 🆓 Free registration: events.humanitix.com/love-data-we...events.humanitix.comData all the way down: How uncovering the data underlying research findings impacts every aspect of scholarly communicationDataDryad & SORTEE are teaming up for a panel discussion for Love Data Week 2026 - join us for a lively chat about the present and future of data 042
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyHermina Ghenu (they/them) @a-hermina-ghenu.bsky.social · 16/01/2026Can interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers? peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html We're running an ethics-approved, pre-registered study thanks to funding from the University of Bern. Are you lecturing in the Spring? Contact me to receive the survey link! 22018
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I had a really great time at ESEB 2025. I think the organizers did a great job 👍, and it was a truly gargantuan effort. I am excited that the next ESEB is a hub conference. I hope that future ESEBs also decide to go plant based and plastic free to become even more sustainable. #ESEB2025 #ESEB2027 041
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I wish all the best to everyone completing the Marie Curie fellowship application for next week. It's a big endeavor and you're in the home stretch now! Best of luck! #grants #mariecurie 030
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyDhanya Bharath @dhanyabharath.bsky.social · 05/03/2025New beginnings!✨ Happy to share that I've started a PhD @eawag.bsky.social with Dr. Catalina Chaparro-Pedraza :) Excited to be working on the eco-evolutionary dynamics of regime shifts and tipping points in ecosystems integrating theory and experiments! 2191
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyAlexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social · 20/08/2025The movie about phage therapy in Switzerland and beyond is available online now 🍿🎬💊 - link to the English version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUMJ...youtube.comViruses as hope against antibiotic resistanceYouTube video by Swiss Academy of Sciences SCNAT 0104
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Come to my talk on Thursday if you want to hear about some soil microbial metagenomics! We are studying how climate extremes affect soil microbial communities. #ESEB2025 071
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyAlexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Phages on the big screen! 🎬 Premiere of a brilliant film about phage therapy by our friend Thomas Häusler - powerful story, a great panel discussion, and inspiring conversations over the apero. 🧬🥂 #PhageTherapy 1192
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyMicrobetv @microbetv.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Look at this very cool #luxart of the late great Elio Schaechter by Jennifer Quinn 🤯😍 (wife of @markowenmartin.bsky.social ) 2173
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 17/07/2025Speaking later today at #FEMS2025 in the "Microbial dynamics in a changing world" symposium. 050
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Looking forward to #FEMS2025! I am heading to Milan tomorrow to give a short talk and a poster. 060
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyThibaut Brunet @thibautbrunet.bsky.social · 03/04/2025Striking new study from @archaeon-alex.bsky.social's lab just out in @science.org on multicellular development induced by compression in Archaea: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgTissue-like multicellular development triggered by mechanical compression in archaeaThe advent of clonal multicellularity is a critical evolutionary milestone, seen often in eukaryotes, rarely in bacteria, and only once in archaea. We show that uniaxial compression induces clonal mul... 6343134
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 05/03/2025Does anyone have suggestions on a UV Transilluminator for gel imaging?? We are in the market for one and apparently there are so so many to choose from. #gelimaging #gelectrophoresis #science #pcr 010
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 26/02/2025This looks really cool! Another banger from Andrew Millard. I am excited to try this out later! 000
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 23/02/2025With all of the uncertainty in the US regarding NIH funds. I wanted to share that the NIH MHRT program allowed me to do an internship abroad and is directly responsible for me being where I am today. It allowed me to connect with European research institutions, get my masters and my PhD here. 010
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyCarolyn Ibberson @cbibberson.bsky.social · 22/02/2025This hurts new and early career investigators (like me) the hardest. Most of us finished our postdocs & started our labs during the COVID-19 pandemic with shutdowns and supply issues at that time. Now we’re being hit with ::all of this:: www.science.org/content/arti...science.orgU.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaosUncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard 110835
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyElliot Lefkowitz @elliot-bhm.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Join us for an ICTV webinar on how to find information about viruses and virus taxa using the ICTV web site Date: March 11, 2025 Time: 10:00 AM CDT; 15:00 UTC For more information: ictv.global/news/webinar... Register here: uab.zoom.us/webinar/regi... 0107
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 15/02/2025My fiancé got me an amazing valentine's day gift. Now I get to add an E. coli and T4 phage to my collection. 030
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 14/02/2025Happy Valentine's Day! If you know me, you know I love to put comics at the end of my presentations. Here is one such comic done by The Amoeba Sisters for Valentine's Day. 000
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyMichael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 06/02/2025☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️ 2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester! 04273
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 13/02/2025⚠️This is not your average preprint on antibiotic resistance. This preprint is a really interesting story from several researchers of my former lab about human gut-microbiota and one potential way AMR resistance is maintained. ☠️ 020
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 13/02/2025I was super happy to see this come out after hearing about this project during the MEEHubs conference in 2024. Congratulations to everyone who worked on this! 010
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyNora Pyenson @norapyenson.bsky.social · 12/12/2024Is it “winner-takes all” when the simplest living things compete? Check out my fresh publication on phage coexistence in Science and a thread below🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...science.orgDiverse phage communities are maintained stably on a clonal bacterial hostBacteriophages are the most abundant and phylogenetically diverse biological entities on Earth, yet the ecological mechanisms that sustain this extraordinary diversity remain unclear. In this study, w... 518298
Zachary M. Bailey @zacharybailey.bsky.social · 02/12/2024I have finally decided to switch from X (which I rarely used) to BlueSky (which I look forward to rarely using). 020
Reposted by Zachary M. BaileyOliver Bossdorf @bossdorf.bsky.social · 15/11/2024Two amazing jobs at Uni Bern. Assistent professorships in conservation biology and computational ecology. Bern is a wonderful place to live and work in! www.iee.unibe.ch/about_us/job... 4195147