Ashleigh Griffin
@asgriffin.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist based in Oxford
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🚨Job claxon 🚨
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork Vacancies
my.corehr.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
🚨Job claxon 🚨
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
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Kissing evolved at least 21 million years ago. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @matildabrindle.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Kissing evolved at least 21 million years ago. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... @matildabrindle.bsky.social
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Occurrence of type VI secretion system effector genes in longitudinal isolates of P. aeruginosa from people with cystic fibrosis
Microbial Genomics by Antonia Habich from Daniel Unterweger
with @asgriffin.bsky.social @sandrabandersen.bsky.social
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Microbial Genomics by Antonia Habich from Daniel Unterweger
with @asgriffin.bsky.social @sandrabandersen.bsky.social
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Occurrence of type VI secretion system effector genes in longitudinal isolates of P. aeruginosa from people with cystic fibrosis
Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses multiple type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) to manipulate eukaryotic cells, kill competing microbes and take up nutrients. Bacterial strains are known to differ in their T6S...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
November 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Occurrence of type VI secretion system effector genes in longitudinal isolates of P. aeruginosa from people with cystic fibrosis
Microbial Genomics by Antonia Habich from Daniel Unterweger
with @asgriffin.bsky.social @sandrabandersen.bsky.social
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Microbial Genomics by Antonia Habich from Daniel Unterweger
with @asgriffin.bsky.social @sandrabandersen.bsky.social
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Thank you @juliet-turner.bsky.social This is the best possible response. You rock. @biology.ox.ac.uk
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Thank you @juliet-turner.bsky.social This is the best possible response. You rock. @biology.ox.ac.uk
Congratulations Juliet! Very well deserved for a brilliant body of research. Thank you to Shigeto Dobata and @timbarra.bsky.social for their time and being a great examiner team. 🥂 @biology.ox.ac.uk @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
I passed my viva! 🎊
I’m very happy to share that yesterday, after ~4 years of research, I successfully defended my DPhil thesis and will be awarded the title of doctor 😎
Thank you to my examiners, supervisors, and collaborators for all the advice and support given along the way.
I’m very happy to share that yesterday, after ~4 years of research, I successfully defended my DPhil thesis and will be awarded the title of doctor 😎
Thank you to my examiners, supervisors, and collaborators for all the advice and support given along the way.
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Congratulations Juliet! Very well deserved for a brilliant body of research. Thank you to Shigeto Dobata and @timbarra.bsky.social for their time and being a great examiner team. 🥂 @biology.ox.ac.uk @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social
Check out our new paper in Microbial Genetics tinyurl.com/ye2azm57 showing what Type VI secretion systems are doing in chronic infections of patients with cystic fibrosis @microbiologysociety.org. Led by Antonia Habich in the Unterweger lab. #T6SS #pseudomonas @biology.ox.ac.uk
Occurrence of type VI secretion system effector genes in longitudinal isolates of P. aeruginosa from people with cystic fibrosis
Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses multiple type VI secretion systems (T6SSs) to manipulate eukaryotic cells, kill competing microbes and take up nutrients. Bacterial strains are known to differ in their T6S...
www.microbiologyresearch.org
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Check out our new paper in Microbial Genetics tinyurl.com/ye2azm57 showing what Type VI secretion systems are doing in chronic infections of patients with cystic fibrosis @microbiologysociety.org. Led by Antonia Habich in the Unterweger lab. #T6SS #pseudomonas @biology.ox.ac.uk
After seven years in a portokabin, @biology.ox.ac.uk is back home on the corner of South Parks Road. Genuine joy is in the air. Even the canteen is good! Fresh veg supplied by Roots of Oxford who visited us today🥕💚
October 14, 2025 at 12:07 PM
After seven years in a portokabin, @biology.ox.ac.uk is back home on the corner of South Parks Road. Genuine joy is in the air. Even the canteen is good! Fresh veg supplied by Roots of Oxford who visited us today🥕💚
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There's greed and then there's Springer Nature greed.
No wonder some people are smiling!
No wonder some people are smiling!
August 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
There's greed and then there's Springer Nature greed.
No wonder some people are smiling!
No wonder some people are smiling!
Wonderful news. Read it, if you haven’t already- be pulled in by the human stories and somehow learn some science along the way. Perfectly pitched- I loved it. Congratulations Masud (great photo!) @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social @masudhusain.bsky.social
Still a bit stunned but delighted to receive this from @royalsociety.org
October 11, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Wonderful news. Read it, if you haven’t already- be pulled in by the human stories and somehow learn some science along the way. Perfectly pitched- I loved it. Congratulations Masud (great photo!) @newcollegeoxf.bsky.social @masudhusain.bsky.social
Go Toby!!! 🤟🏼https://www.macfound.org/programs/awards/fellows/ @tobykiers.bsky.social
MacArthur Fellows - MacArthur Foundation
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to ...
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October 9, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Go Toby!!! 🤟🏼https://www.macfound.org/programs/awards/fellows/ @tobykiers.bsky.social
Luckily Greta had my Uncle James on her team 🫶 www.sundaypost.com/fp/jim-griff...
Meet the Scots pensioner keeping the Gaza aid flotilla sailing
The retired marine engineer was only supposed to be in Barcelona to help prepare boats travelling as part of the international aid mission.
www.sundaypost.com
October 8, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Luckily Greta had my Uncle James on her team 🫶 www.sundaypost.com/fp/jim-griff...
Just finished another year of LS8 panel duty for @erc.europa.eu CoG awards. Well done to everyone who applied. Even the task of putting something together for one of these is a huge achievement. 💪🏼 Ecology and Evolution is alive and kicking in Europe!
October 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Just finished another year of LS8 panel duty for @erc.europa.eu CoG awards. Well done to everyone who applied. Even the task of putting something together for one of these is a huge achievement. 💪🏼 Ecology and Evolution is alive and kicking in Europe!
Exciting delivery waiting on my doorstep today! Thank you, @joanstrassmann.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Exciting delivery waiting on my doorstep today! Thank you, @joanstrassmann.bsky.social
Join us in our swanky new pad... @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...
We are hiring! Oxford biology has three associate professorships available as we move to new state-of-the-art facilities
www.biology.ox.ac.uk
September 16, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Join us in our swanky new pad... @biology.ox.ac.uk www.biology.ox.ac.uk/article/we-a...
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We will be in the exhibition hall @eseb2025.bsky.social!
✅ Meet our editors
✅ Support your society journal
@agonzalezvoyer.bsky.social @maxreuter.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @vakirlis.bsky.social @arnaudlerouzic.bsky.social @francescaraffini.bsky.social @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social
✅ Meet our editors
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@agonzalezvoyer.bsky.social @maxreuter.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @vakirlis.bsky.social @arnaudlerouzic.bsky.social @francescaraffini.bsky.social @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
We will be in the exhibition hall @eseb2025.bsky.social!
✅ Meet our editors
✅ Support your society journal
@agonzalezvoyer.bsky.social @maxreuter.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @vakirlis.bsky.social @arnaudlerouzic.bsky.social @francescaraffini.bsky.social @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social
✅ Meet our editors
✅ Support your society journal
@agonzalezvoyer.bsky.social @maxreuter.bsky.social @ebablab.bsky.social @vakirlis.bsky.social @arnaudlerouzic.bsky.social @francescaraffini.bsky.social @masahitotsuboi.bsky.social
This is wonderful news. Congratulations Cait and Salma!
We're delighted that Dr Cait Newport and Dr Salma Akter have been awarded Royal Society University Research Fellowships
Cait will explore how fishes navigate in turbid water, while Salma will explore how plants respond to environmental stresses like drought and flooding 👇
bit.ly/4mQ6nDL
Cait will explore how fishes navigate in turbid water, while Salma will explore how plants respond to environmental stresses like drought and flooding 👇
bit.ly/4mQ6nDL
Cait Newport and Salma Akter awarded Royal Society University Research Fellowships
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August 22, 2025 at 2:56 PM
This is wonderful news. Congratulations Cait and Salma!
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With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
August 22, 2025 at 1:32 PM
With #eseb2025 coming to a close, it is time to start making plans for 2026. Interested in the interface of evolution 🧬 and ecology 🌳? Come to our #ExE conference hosted by @uniexecec.bsky.social in beautiful #Cornwall. Leave your email address at tinyurl.com/EvolxEcol to join our mailing list!
Wit, warmth and charm in presidential address from fellow Dundonian and Edinburgh alumnus Mike Ritchie. (Lovely shout-out to Aubrey Manning) Perfect ending to @eseb2025.bsky.social Support your society journal! @jevbio.bsky.social @journal-evo.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social
August 22, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Wit, warmth and charm in presidential address from fellow Dundonian and Edinburgh alumnus Mike Ritchie. (Lovely shout-out to Aubrey Manning) Perfect ending to @eseb2025.bsky.social Support your society journal! @jevbio.bsky.social @journal-evo.bsky.social @evolletters.bsky.social
Evidence that lifestyle drives genome fluidity from @annadewar.bsky.social today. Keeping everyone going on last day of @eseb2025.bsky.social! Great talk Anna!
August 22, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Evidence that lifestyle drives genome fluidity from @annadewar.bsky.social today. Keeping everyone going on last day of @eseb2025.bsky.social! Great talk Anna!
Brilliant plenary today from Carrisa de Bekker @zombieantdoc.bsky.social at @eseb.bsky.social conference. On her work funded by @erc.europa.eu CoG. Great example of inter-disciplinary collaboration to solve a mystery..
August 21, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Brilliant plenary today from Carrisa de Bekker @zombieantdoc.bsky.social at @eseb.bsky.social conference. On her work funded by @erc.europa.eu CoG. Great example of inter-disciplinary collaboration to solve a mystery..
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Where are mycorrhizal fungi and are the protected? (spoiler alert - no, they aren't) www.nature.com/articles/s41... @tobykiers.bsky.social
Global hotspots of mycorrhizal fungal richness are poorly protected - Nature
Machine-learning algorithms trained on 25,000 geolocated soil samples are used to create high-resolution global maps of mycorrhizal fungi, revealing that less than 10% of their biodiversity hotspots a...
www.nature.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Where are mycorrhizal fungi and are the protected? (spoiler alert - no, they aren't) www.nature.com/articles/s41... @tobykiers.bsky.social
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Who lives underground?
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
July 23, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Who lives underground?
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
Find out now in our new paper published in @nature.com.
Key finding: 90% of predicted mycorrhizal biodiversity hotspots lie outside protected areas.
Read here: buff.ly/WmDqAP3 🧵
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SPUN is featured in @science.org in a piece written by @humbertobasilio.bsky.social. Learn where some of the most unique fungal communities exist, such as West Africa’s Guinean forests, Tasmania’s temperate rainforests, and Brazil’s Cerrado savanna.
Read here: www.science.org/content/arti...
Read here: www.science.org/content/arti...
Most of Earth’s critical underground fungus is unprotected
First global map of mushrooms that form beneficial relationships with plant roots reveals 90% live outside of conservation areas
www.science.org
July 25, 2025 at 10:33 AM
SPUN is featured in @science.org in a piece written by @humbertobasilio.bsky.social. Learn where some of the most unique fungal communities exist, such as West Africa’s Guinean forests, Tasmania’s temperate rainforests, and Brazil’s Cerrado savanna.
Read here: www.science.org/content/arti...
Read here: www.science.org/content/arti...
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3/3 Funding for the workshop provided by iTHEMS & JSPS. @asgriffin.bsky.social and I used the exercises from 'Scientific Papers Made Easy' with @queensoxbiology.bsky.social: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
June 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
3/3 Funding for the workshop provided by iTHEMS & JSPS. @asgriffin.bsky.social and I used the exercises from 'Scientific Papers Made Easy' with @queensoxbiology.bsky.social: global.oup.com/academic/pro...
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2/3 Some great science posters by attendees, plus a superb online lecture by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social on language barriers in scientific communication - both the challenges and the solutions. Link for a previous talk he gave at @linneansociety.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS08...
One-Way Mirror in the Room: How Language Barriers Impede Conservation | Tatsuya Amano
YouTube video by Linnean Society
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June 27, 2025 at 1:09 AM
2/3 Some great science posters by attendees, plus a superb online lecture by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social on language barriers in scientific communication - both the challenges and the solutions. Link for a previous talk he gave at @linneansociety.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS08...