TWO PhD positions open in the Waring lab! 1) Seedling dynamics in a large-scale reforestation experiment in Mexico: findaphd.com/phds/project/t… 2) Soil carbon dynamics in rural English landscapes: findaphd.com/phds/project/c…

🇬🇧Oh hey, UK ☕️Why not enjoy Ecology Live over a nice cuppa Thursday morning at our new time of 9am 🦠Samraat Pawar from Imperial College London will be talking about thermal constraints on microbiome structure and functioning 🤩Sign up here before 3pm today!

Really happy to have this paper out in PNASNews. We found that colder, more population-dense states had higher SARS-CoV-2 transmission rates, but that these environmental effects were negated when strong non-pharmaceutical interventions ("lockdown") were in place.

Excited to be able to share our paper in Ecology Letters investigating the temperature dependence of microbial carbon use efficiency! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…

Our new paper is out today in Royal Society Publishing #ProcB #openaccess We use #genomic data to investigate the history of some of the rarest plants on #Madagascar - we tackled a simple question - were these rare species always rare? bit.ly/3CA4VP0 Thread 1/7

New paper in Ecography & R package: Fauxcurrence: simulating multi-species occurrences for null models in species distribution modelling and biogeography doi.org/10.1111/ecog.0… 1/8

Message to Tory MPs. This is who you're voting on.

Great day discussing microbial ecology and seeing the kids' artistic interpretations! Georgina Mace Centre for the Living Planet Imperial College London Imperial Science @ic_blabs PawarLab

Registration now open for #MMEG2022 mmeg2022.weebly.com! We are very much looking forward to welcoming you to #Glasgow on 1-2 December to discuss all aspects of molecular microbial ecology! Please register early to secure your place at the meeting!

Scholars in all disciplines & countries, we invite you to sign this open letter to White House Office of Science & Technology Policy calling for equitable access & participation in research for all Why we think you should sign ostp-letter.github.io/why.html Or go straight to the letter ostp-letter.github.io #OSTPLetter

Really enjoying the first day of MMEG, great to get to share our work from the Bell lab @ic_blabs Imperial Science #MMEG2022

Communities of bacteria alter their composition in response to temperature changes, tapping into a reservoir of latent species which are better suited for these new conditions. elifesciences.org/digests/80867/…

Recipients of the best talk and poster awards 🎉🎉

In a bit of a COVID throwback, our new paper is out in Scientific Reports! We investigated the impact of environmental conditions on the transmission of different variants during their selective sweeps: doi.org/10.1038/s41598… Will Pearse Ilaria Dorigatti @creswapi Mahika K. Dixit

Sought: Highly motivated Post-Doctoral Research Associate to join our food system resilience project, led by Uni of Reading , joining a large interdisciplinary team with an excellent track record in food system research. Apply now! (deadline 5th Nov) jobs.reading.ac.uk/internal/Job/J…

Had a fun time talking to BBC Rare Earth about microbes in the environment- tune in shortly!