Alex Figueiredo
@alexfig.bsky.social
Microbiome ecology, animal behaviour, evolutionary biology.
Postdoc at NIOO-KNAW
Previously: Postdoc at U. Oxford & PhD in EvoBio at U. Zurich.
Birder & bird ringing trainee. I dig Mini & cooking. He/him
Postdoc at NIOO-KNAW
Previously: Postdoc at U. Oxford & PhD in EvoBio at U. Zurich.
Birder & bird ringing trainee. I dig Mini & cooking. He/him
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Application deadline for this postdoc position in my group closing next week 🦠 thank you all who have shared so far!
🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution.
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Job profile
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk
January 19, 2026 at 11:32 AM
Application deadline for this postdoc position in my group closing next week 🦠 thank you all who have shared so far!
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🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution.
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Job profile
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk
January 5, 2026 at 10:00 AM
🔊 Job Opportunity: Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Bacterial Evolution.
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
Looking to recruit a postdoc to join a UKRI FLF-funded project on antibiotic resistance evolution in the microbiome 🦠
3 years funding, deadline 26th Jan, please share!
hrwebapp.qub.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...
After 4 wonderful years at @biology.ox.ac.uk working with Sarah Knowles on house mouse gut microbiota-behaviour links, today I started a new postdoc position at @niooknaw.bsky.social with @melissahrowe.bsky.social, where we'll be looking at house sparrow reproductive tract microbiotas! Stay tuned :D
January 5, 2026 at 1:41 PM
After 4 wonderful years at @biology.ox.ac.uk working with Sarah Knowles on house mouse gut microbiota-behaviour links, today I started a new postdoc position at @niooknaw.bsky.social with @melissahrowe.bsky.social, where we'll be looking at house sparrow reproductive tract microbiotas! Stay tuned :D
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40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
November 18, 2025 at 6:37 AM
40 years ago today the world was introduced to a small boy and his best friend. Happy birthday Calvin & Hobbes.
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One week left on this! Good opportunity for someone interested in #behaviour, #genomics and #migration to come work will some fun seabirds and some fun people 🧬🐣🛰️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
October 24, 2025 at 4:05 PM
One week left on this! Good opportunity for someone interested in #behaviour, #genomics and #migration to come work will some fun seabirds and some fun people 🧬🐣🛰️
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
What better than the massive social network that #eseb2025 is, to learn about social networks? Go check out @eloisenewman.bsky.social 's poster this afternoon!
Excited to be at ESEB 2025 in Barcelona!
Presenting a poster on my first chapter (with my supervisors Josh Firth and Sarah Knowles) today between 5-7 pm, so come along say hi! Happy to chat about the friendship paradox and animal social networks ☺️ @eseb2025.bsky.social
Presenting a poster on my first chapter (with my supervisors Josh Firth and Sarah Knowles) today between 5-7 pm, so come along say hi! Happy to chat about the friendship paradox and animal social networks ☺️ @eseb2025.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 2:14 PM
What better than the massive social network that #eseb2025 is, to learn about social networks? Go check out @eloisenewman.bsky.social 's poster this afternoon!
What gif pops up when you type your name?
Perfect.
Perfect.
August 15, 2025 at 7:28 AM
What gif pops up when you type your name?
Perfect.
Perfect.
Slightly diminish a band:
Pearl Jelly
Pearl Jelly
Slightly diminish a band:
Moyen Jovi
Moyen Jovi
Slightly diminish a band:
They Might Be Taller Than Average
They Might Be Taller Than Average
August 13, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Slightly diminish a band:
Pearl Jelly
Pearl Jelly
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Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Job title: Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
August 8, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Looking for a PhD in insects, behaviour and/or microbiomes? This is the one for you 👇
Ten more days to apply!
Join us in Bayreuth to study how burying beetles use social behaviors to control harmful and beneficial microbial communities during family life!
Join us in Bayreuth to study how burying beetles use social behaviors to control harmful and beneficial microbial communities during family life!
🎓 #PhD in Evolutionary Ecology @UniBayreuth 🇩🇪
Parental care vs microbe communities in burying beetles 🪲🧫
ERC-funded | 3 years | behavioral ecology & metabarcoding
Details: tinyurl.com/CareVsMicrobes
Apply by May 16, start in September
#AcademicSky #Microbiome #SocialEvolution #Insects
Parental care vs microbe communities in burying beetles 🪲🧫
ERC-funded | 3 years | behavioral ecology & metabarcoding
Details: tinyurl.com/CareVsMicrobes
Apply by May 16, start in September
#AcademicSky #Microbiome #SocialEvolution #Insects
May 6, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Looking for a PhD in insects, behaviour and/or microbiomes? This is the one for you 👇
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🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8r
Designing Microbial Interventions to Study Behavioural Effects in Wild Birds (DAVIDSON_U25DTPR) | Doctoral Training Partnership
This project is open to Home Fee Status applicants only. The gut microbiome influences how animals behave and interact with their environment via the microbiome–gut–brain axis (MGBA).
biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk
April 16, 2025 at 2:27 PM
🚨 🪺🐦🦠 PhD opportunity in my lab for UK home fee students. Feel free to contact me for informal enquiries. Please share! shorturl.at/wUo8r
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Spring slowly advancing this am in Oxford. Fantastic to ring our first willow warbler of the year among a flush of blackcaps and a lovely bullfinch.
I also heard my first willow warbler yesterday just outside my door. Seemed to be singing somewhere in Elder Stubbs - great to hear them in the city!
I also heard my first willow warbler yesterday just outside my door. Seemed to be singing somewhere in Elder Stubbs - great to hear them in the city!
April 12, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Spring slowly advancing this am in Oxford. Fantastic to ring our first willow warbler of the year among a flush of blackcaps and a lovely bullfinch.
I also heard my first willow warbler yesterday just outside my door. Seemed to be singing somewhere in Elder Stubbs - great to hear them in the city!
I also heard my first willow warbler yesterday just outside my door. Seemed to be singing somewhere in Elder Stubbs - great to hear them in the city!
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A theoretical biology PhD position at the University of Leiden on the coevolution of aging and sociality with awesome @lottedevries.bsky.social please spread the word! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
PhD Candidate in Theoretical Biology
The Institute of Environmental Sciences CML and Faculty of Science is looking for:[PhD Candidate in Theoretical Biology]Vacancy number: 15501 We are looking for an enthusiastic and highly motivated Ph...
www.universiteitleiden.nl
March 5, 2025 at 4:20 PM
A theoretical biology PhD position at the University of Leiden on the coevolution of aging and sociality with awesome @lottedevries.bsky.social please spread the word! www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies...
check out our new paper in ISME! if you're a microbe, is it about who you are or how you get along with others? Find out! 👇
New paper out in ISME Journal. Social interactions between strains shape bacterial communities. However, their impact on community functioning is lower compared to basic strain identity features. @joskramer.bsky.social @alexfig.bsky.social @simonmarech.bsky.social
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
Strain identity effects contribute more to Pseudomonas community functioning than strain interactions
Abstract. Microbial communities can shape key ecological services, but the determinants of their functioning often remain little understood. While traditio
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February 13, 2025 at 8:20 AM
check out our new paper in ISME! if you're a microbe, is it about who you are or how you get along with others? Find out! 👇
Highlights of the Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend: 31 simultaneous starling, 1 blackcap and 12 jackdaw, among which these two absolute beauts:
January 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Highlights of the Big Garden Birdwatch this weekend: 31 simultaneous starling, 1 blackcap and 12 jackdaw, among which these two absolute beauts:
In southern Portugal, we have the absolute best electricians.
January 15, 2025 at 10:46 PM
In southern Portugal, we have the absolute best electricians.
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Hello Bluesky! Beyond excited to share my first post here about our new paper on wild house mouse 🐭problem-solving with Anja Guenther and Valeria Mazza, published open access in @oikosjournal.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1111/oik....
doi.org/10.1111/oik....
January 15, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Hello Bluesky! Beyond excited to share my first post here about our new paper on wild house mouse 🐭problem-solving with Anja Guenther and Valeria Mazza, published open access in @oikosjournal.bsky.social !
doi.org/10.1111/oik....
doi.org/10.1111/oik....
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🧵 How does being a #vegan, #vegetarian or omnivore impact your gut #microbiome? 🥦 Find out in our new paper on gut microbiome signatures of vegan, vegetarian & omnivore diets & associated health outcomes across 21,561 individuals in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social!🎉 1/10
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gut microbiome signatures of vegan, vegetarian and omnivore diets and associated health outcomes across 21,561 individuals - Nature Microbiology
Using 21,561 individuals, the authors present a cross-sectional study of how gut microbiome signatures are associated with dietary intake patterns and with host health outcomes.
www.nature.com
January 7, 2025 at 9:30 AM
🧵 How does being a #vegan, #vegetarian or omnivore impact your gut #microbiome? 🥦 Find out in our new paper on gut microbiome signatures of vegan, vegetarian & omnivore diets & associated health outcomes across 21,561 individuals in @naturemicrobiol.bsky.social!🎉 1/10
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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I already donated, and if I could afford to I would every time he mentioned Wikipedia again. Maybe the world wouldn't be half bad if we all sat down each day and thought, "Now what little thing can I do today that would annoy Elon Musk the most?" Like WWJD but instead WWAEMTM.
December 27, 2024 at 8:30 AM
I already donated, and if I could afford to I would every time he mentioned Wikipedia again. Maybe the world wouldn't be half bad if we all sat down each day and thought, "Now what little thing can I do today that would annoy Elon Musk the most?" Like WWJD but instead WWAEMTM.
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Portugal's population of Iberian Lynx has risen to an estimated 300 individuals, having been almost non-existent 15 years ago:
Iberian Lynx population on the rise in Portugal
Portugal's population of Iberian Lynx has risen to 300 individuals, having been almost non-existent 15 years ago. The big cat has bounced back across its range. Successful conservation measures are cited as the main reasons behind the comeback and resulted in the IUCN downgrading the feline's conser...
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December 27, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Portugal's population of Iberian Lynx has risen to an estimated 300 individuals, having been almost non-existent 15 years ago:
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If you’re a PhD student (or you know one) working on questions of an evolutionary flavour, then check out EMPSEB, an amazing student-organised meeting taking place June 2025 in the Czech Republic! empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de
Hello Bluesky,
We're so excited to be launching our first post for EMPSEB30! 🎉🤩
We've got lots of news to share! We've found an amazing venue and some fantastic plenary speakers, and we're on the lookout for sponsors!
Visit empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de to dive in!
#EMPSEB30 #Students #Conference
We're so excited to be launching our first post for EMPSEB30! 🎉🤩
We've got lots of news to share! We've found an amazing venue and some fantastic plenary speakers, and we're on the lookout for sponsors!
Visit empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de to dive in!
#EMPSEB30 #Students #Conference
December 14, 2024 at 3:11 PM
If you’re a PhD student (or you know one) working on questions of an evolutionary flavour, then check out EMPSEB, an amazing student-organised meeting taking place June 2025 in the Czech Republic! empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de
The Guarda Summer School was one of the most stimulating and rewarding weeks of my academic life! MSc and PhD students in EvoBio, apply! You won't regret it!
🧪The 2025 Guarda Summer course is intended for master students and early PhD students in evolutionary biology.
14. - 21. June 2025 in the Swiss mountain village Guarda.
Web page with all details: tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...
Application is open now. Deadline is the 15. January 2025.
14. - 21. June 2025 in the Swiss mountain village Guarda.
Web page with all details: tb.ethz.ch/education/gu...
Application is open now. Deadline is the 15. January 2025.
Summer school:<br> Evolutionary Biology in Guarda
Information about the annual summer school Evolutionary Biology in Guarda
tb.ethz.ch
December 7, 2024 at 9:16 PM
The Guarda Summer School was one of the most stimulating and rewarding weeks of my academic life! MSc and PhD students in EvoBio, apply! You won't regret it!
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Is there a paper you shared on X in the last year you wish your new Bluesky network knew about? In our case it would be this one: Microbiome variation predicts survival in a population of feral horses 🦠 🐴 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Methanogenic patterns in the gut microbiome are associated with survival in a population of feral horses - Nature Communications
Gut microbiota are hypothesized to shape the ecology and evolution of animal life but robust estimates of natural selection acting on gut microbiome variation is lacking. This study provides evidence ...
www.nature.com
December 5, 2024 at 1:18 PM
Is there a paper you shared on X in the last year you wish your new Bluesky network knew about? In our case it would be this one: Microbiome variation predicts survival in a population of feral horses 🦠 🐴 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
What were your #top5birds moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Little grebe at patch lake (1st record)
2. 9 goosander at patch lake (highest count)
3. Pheasant in the garden ( unexpected as its a terraced!)
4. Song thrush at our feeders
5. Hanging out for a few minutes with a very curious goldcrest
Mine:
1. Little grebe at patch lake (1st record)
2. 9 goosander at patch lake (highest count)
3. Pheasant in the garden ( unexpected as its a terraced!)
4. Song thrush at our feeders
5. Hanging out for a few minutes with a very curious goldcrest
Neat idea.
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Two Collared Doves in the garden (only our 4th record).
2. Four Reed Buntings in someone else’s garden.
3. Common Scoter on local loch.
4. Long-tailed Ducks (always!)
5. Hen Harriers at two isle roosts.
🪶 #ukbirds
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Two Collared Doves in the garden (only our 4th record).
2. Four Reed Buntings in someone else’s garden.
3. Common Scoter on local loch.
4. Long-tailed Ducks (always!)
5. Hen Harriers at two isle roosts.
🪶 #ukbirds
What were your #Top5Birds or bird moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Cheeky Magpie at my window feeder
2. Dunnock exploring my garden
3. Garden visits from my Rook friends
4. Red Kite flying in a blue sky
5. Buzzard flying low over the road as I drove
🪶 #ukbirds
Mine:
1. Cheeky Magpie at my window feeder
2. Dunnock exploring my garden
3. Garden visits from my Rook friends
4. Red Kite flying in a blue sky
5. Buzzard flying low over the road as I drove
🪶 #ukbirds
December 1, 2024 at 1:06 PM
What were your #top5birds moments from the past week?
Mine:
1. Little grebe at patch lake (1st record)
2. 9 goosander at patch lake (highest count)
3. Pheasant in the garden ( unexpected as its a terraced!)
4. Song thrush at our feeders
5. Hanging out for a few minutes with a very curious goldcrest
Mine:
1. Little grebe at patch lake (1st record)
2. 9 goosander at patch lake (highest count)
3. Pheasant in the garden ( unexpected as its a terraced!)
4. Song thrush at our feeders
5. Hanging out for a few minutes with a very curious goldcrest