What a cool paper! 🤩 Using iNaturalist observations, Martin Mayer & Co. found that there are more melanistic snakes in colder regions than in warmer ones AND that melanistic snakes are more abundant with ⬆️ avian predator density 🐍🐦 Have look at it here: doi.org/10.1111/jbi.15…

And to end our 2024 seminar series, Linyang Sun presented preliminary results from his systematic review investigating environmental and host-associated factors shaping bee bacterial communities 🐝

Co-evolution and Gene Transfers Drive Speciation Patterns in Host-Associated Bacteria academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar…

Comparative Analysis of Immune Response, Gut #Microbiota, and Susceptibility to Bacillus thuringiensis #Bacteria in the Colorado Potato #Beetle Leptinotarsa decemlineata link.springer.com/article/10.113…

Pervasive horizontal transmission of Wolbachia in natural populations of closely related and widespread tropical skipper butterflies bmcmicrobiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… #PedroRibeiro et al. Niklas Wahlberg Hamid Ghanavi investigated Wolbachia phylogenetics & demography to shed lights on acquisition

A few more days to apply for this position in my lab in Helsinki! OEB-ResPrg University of Helsinki

I have extended the deadline until the 20th! Don't think twice - Join us in Helsinki!

Proposals are due Feb. 19 for the R.C. Lewontin Early Awards, which provide funds for beginning Master’s and PhD students. Check your eligibility and review the proposal requirements here: buff.ly/3YZlUHf

Recovering ecological interactions by mining non-target data from whole genome re-sequencing projects biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Vicencio Oostra Michelle D @Marjo__S Abhilash Nair etal. on the metagenome of #MelitaeaCinxia - parasitism with #Spiroplasma, #Cotesia and #Wolbachia

Proposals due March 1 for the Small Grants for Local and Regional Outreach! This program awards up to $1,000 USD for a variety of evolution education and outreach projects, workshops, and events. Apply now! buff.ly/3OU3tz6

🌿MSc students and doctoral researchers are encouraged to apply to iDiv’s 5-day Summer School on deep learning for biodiversity and ecological research from 25-29 Aug 2025 in Leipzig! 🌎 🗓️ Apply by: 28 Feb 2025 🔗 More info: idiv.de/events/summers…

Open call! The EMBO Global Investigator Network supports group young leaders who are setting up their laboratories in Chile, India, Singapore or Taiwan. Apply by 1 May: embo.org/funding/fellow… #ResearchFunding #LifeSciences

The loss of megafauna over the last 50,000 years has caused ecological theories to be based on already-degraded ecosystems. doi.org/10.1111/oik.11… Skjold Alsted Søndergaard Rasmus Ejrnæs Camilla Fløjgaard Jens Svenning Nordic Society Oikos Wiley Ecology & Evolution

Insects as Natural Hosts, Vectors and Reservoirs of Botulinum Neurotoxin-Producing Clostridia and Their Non-Toxinogenic Counterparts: Preliminary Evidence dx.doi.org/10.1111/1462-2… Investigating #Clostridium in #insects

NEW PAPER! What explains associations with defensive symbionts? In Ecology Letters we show symbiont occurrences align with sharing the same parasitoids, but not plants, highlighting enemies as key selective agents shaping symbioses in nature🦠 doi.org/10.1111/ele.70…

🤩Two days left to apply! Open position in REC as Project Coordinator with a focus in science communication and event organisation 🗨️💡 DL this Wednesday 26.02. Apply here: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki-P… #Akatemiatyö #Tiedeviestintä #Työpaikat #SciCommFI #Rekrytointi

ISME supports graduate students and postdoctoral fellows to further develop their academic knowledge and skills in a host institution outside of their country of study. Make sure to submit your application by 31 March 2025. 🔗isme-microbes.org/isme-scholar-m… #MicrobialEcology #microbes

An important piece from 30 women including One Health Microbiome Center Penn State Biology faculty @momedinamunoz. They make it clear why we must support and celebrate diversity. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Join us at #ESEB2025 to discuss and learn about the latest research on 'evolutionary ecology of microbial symbiosis' - Symposium 22. We have two exciting invited speakers Lee Henry & #MarjoleinBruijning and we can not wait to welcome you all in Barcelona!

Ecological and evolutionary responses of earthworm #holobionts to environmental changes | ⁦The ISME Journal ⁩“In holobionts, the host and associated microbiota are considered an ecological unit with a common genome called #hologenome” ✔️ academic.oup.com/ismej/article/…