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Richard Lindsay
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Research Fellow at the University of Exeter working on microbial ecology and evolution. Investigating the evolution of cooperation, virulence, metabolism and antimicrobial resistance
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timbarra.bsky.social
I'm advertising a PhD project on the evolution of horizontal transfer. Interested in this or other topics in evolution and species diversity, please get in touch. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The evolutionary costs and benefits of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes (TB01) at University of Oxford on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The evolutionary costs and benefits of horizontal gene transfer in eukaryotes (TB01) at University of Oxford, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
October 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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talbotlabtsl.bsky.social
New PhD opportunity in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social through the BBSRC NRP DTP Programme - see details of host to apply below

biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/van...
Vanishing Virulence: Investigating pathogenicity loss in a plant pathogenic fungus (TALBOT_T26DTP) | Doctoral Training Partnership
What makes a plant killer lose its edge? This project will investigate why fungal pathogens lose virulence when they are grown in laboratory culture away from their host plant. Use cutting-edge…
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October 12, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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conmeehan.bsky.social
BBSRC Fellowships 2025 Triage Outcome Decisions were today. 277 applications, 42 put through to peer review and interview. A fellow I was supporting didn't get selected and BBSRC now offer *no feedback*.
Months of work and not a single iota of feedback for the applicant. Honestly, disgraceful.
October 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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padpadpadpad.bsky.social
I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.
A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.
September 16, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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timbarra.bsky.social
Our new paper on experimental evolution in wild tree-holes -Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation

#ISMEJournal
@duhitasant.bsky.social Tom Smith Edgar Wong Juli Cohen
@kayla-king.bsky.social
Tom Bell

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Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation
Abstract. Most knowledge about bacterial evolution and ecological interactions comes from laboratory studies. One difference between the wild and most labo
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August 1, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social
Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation

#ISMEJournal by @duhitasant.bsky.social et al from @timbarra.bsky.social
with Tom Bell, @kayla-king.bsky.social

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Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation
Abstract. Most knowledge about bacterial evolution and ecological interactions comes from laboratory studies. One difference between the wild and most labo
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July 24, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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kehelliwell.bsky.social
Yay, team members Courtney Swink, Ellen Harrison and Beth Tindall-Jones representing #marinemicrobes #diatoms this week at the annual @microbiologysociety.org meeting in Liverpool ! 🌊🔬👏👏👏 @thembauk.bsky.social @exetermarine.bsky.social #MicroBio25
April 4, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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danielcroll.bsky.social
@guidopuccetti.bsky.social, Gabriel Scalliet and I are excited to share our latest work.

Resistance in agriculture emerges fast, but we fail to grasp how the myriad mutations in pathogen populations contribute to this.

Please check out and share our latest preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
March 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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mcastd.bsky.social
New phage publication! 🦠 Phage resistance increased host density instead of imposing costs (the more common consequence)! This effect then had impacts on the structure of a three-species microbial community. @padpadpadpad.bsky.social, Rai Lewis & Angus Buckling. doi.org/10.1093/fems...
A graph shows that phage resistant bacteria have higher density during the death-phase of the growth curve than phage susceptible bacteria. This impacts the structure of the microbial community by decreasing the density of a conspecific.
March 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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ledbydonkeys.org
The world’s richest man is promoting the far right in Europe. Don’t buy a Tesla
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Location: Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjWl...
Heil Tesla
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January 23, 2025 at 2:42 PM