Susanne Shultz
@susanneshultz.bsky.social
Professor of Evolutionary Ecology and Conservation Biology. Interested in all things evolutionary ecology: conservation ecology, socioecology, eco-immunology, disease ecology, ecophysiology, evolutionary anthropology to name a few.
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Registration for the Wild and Comparative Immunology 2026 #WACI2026 conference is open! Register early at space is limited.
www.wacimmuno.com
@wildimmunity.bsky.social @menzies-research.bsky.social @utas.edu.au
www.wacimmuno.com
@wildimmunity.bsky.social @menzies-research.bsky.social @utas.edu.au
Wild and Comparative Immunology Consortium
Rewilding immunology across species and environments
www.wacimmuno.com
August 22, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Registration for the Wild and Comparative Immunology 2026 #WACI2026 conference is open! Register early at space is limited.
www.wacimmuno.com
@wildimmunity.bsky.social @menzies-research.bsky.social @utas.edu.au
www.wacimmuno.com
@wildimmunity.bsky.social @menzies-research.bsky.social @utas.edu.au
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"Americans have long glorified their constitution and the rule of law. But Donald Trump’s volatile and vindictive presidency has increasingly replaced that philosophy with something very different – call it “governing by shakedown”. - @greenhousenyt.bsky.social
Trump’s presidential philosophy is government by shakedown | Steven Greenhouse
The president’s strategy is straight out of the authoritarian playbook. Congress and the courts must put a stop to it
www.theguardian.com
August 22, 2025 at 11:51 PM
"Americans have long glorified their constitution and the rule of law. But Donald Trump’s volatile and vindictive presidency has increasingly replaced that philosophy with something very different – call it “governing by shakedown”. - @greenhousenyt.bsky.social
Help please! We are doing FECs of bovids and have found something we cannot identify. Also some diarrhoea in these animals. Any help super massively appreciated! #parasites #wildlife #bovid Please share with any bovid parasitology experts (assuming this is what it is)! Google AI not very helpful....
August 23, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Help please! We are doing FECs of bovids and have found something we cannot identify. Also some diarrhoea in these animals. Any help super massively appreciated! #parasites #wildlife #bovid Please share with any bovid parasitology experts (assuming this is what it is)! Google AI not very helpful....
Elisabeth Vrba's work was ahead of its time and massively inspired my career trajectory. A true giant in palaeontology.
Elisabeth Vrba has died. May her memory be a blessing.
Here’s an obituary by @nilese.bsky.social.
🌱🐋🧪🗃️🧠🦫🦋 #EvoBio #HistSTM
Here’s an obituary by @nilese.bsky.social.
🌱🐋🧪🗃️🧠🦫🦋 #EvoBio #HistSTM
Elisabeth Vrba obituary: palaeontologist who solved a problem that vexed Darwin
The biologist’s theories about how environments prompt rapid species evolution and extinction propelled her onto the world stage.
www.nature.com
March 13, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Elisabeth Vrba's work was ahead of its time and massively inspired my career trajectory. A true giant in palaeontology.
University of Manchester is recruiting a Nature Based Solutions ecologist to deliver novel conceptual advances and/or mechanistic understanding of the responses of species, communities and ecosystems to global change.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
March 13, 2025 at 9:01 PM
University of Manchester is recruiting a Nature Based Solutions ecologist to deliver novel conceptual advances and/or mechanistic understanding of the responses of species, communities and ecosystems to global change.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
We are recruiting a mid- senior- level Ecologist. Please get in touch if interested! We (still) champion EDIA, a sustainable and global future.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
March 11, 2025 at 12:52 PM
We are recruiting a mid- senior- level Ecologist. Please get in touch if interested! We (still) champion EDIA, a sustainable and global future.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
March 11, 2025 at 12:44 PM
We are recruiting a mid- senior- level Ecologist. Please get in touch if interested! We (still) champion EDIA, a sustainable and global future.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Do giraffes struggle with food shortages in the dry season or do their long necks give them an advantage? @uom-ees.bsky.social PhD student @jgranweiler.bsky.social @susanneshultz.bsky.social joins #NEOF to sequence #giraffe faecal samples & uncover how seasonality impacts diet🦒🌿
February 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Do giraffes struggle with food shortages in the dry season or do their long necks give them an advantage? @uom-ees.bsky.social PhD student @jgranweiler.bsky.social @susanneshultz.bsky.social joins #NEOF to sequence #giraffe faecal samples & uncover how seasonality impacts diet🦒🌿
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JOB OPPORTUNITY: come be my peer at @wcs.org as the new Regional Director of the Sudano-Sahel Region, overseeing conservation programs in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad and Nigeria, reporting to a regional office based in Kigali, Rwanda. 🌍🧪 More here: shorturl.at/O2c41
February 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
JOB OPPORTUNITY: come be my peer at @wcs.org as the new Regional Director of the Sudano-Sahel Region, overseeing conservation programs in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad and Nigeria, reporting to a regional office based in Kigali, Rwanda. 🌍🧪 More here: shorturl.at/O2c41
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A rebuttal of the paper that looked at historical samples and found evidence of natural selection due to the Black Death at immune loci. Multiple lines of evidence, incl that observed freq changes were an artefact.
By Alison Barton, @mathiesoniain.bsky.social et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By Alison Barton, @mathiesoniain.bsky.social et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Insufficient evidence for natural selection associated with the Black Death - Nature
Nature - Insufficient evidence for natural selection associated with the Black Death
www.nature.com
February 20, 2025 at 6:46 AM
A rebuttal of the paper that looked at historical samples and found evidence of natural selection due to the Black Death at immune loci. Multiple lines of evidence, incl that observed freq changes were an artefact.
By Alison Barton, @mathiesoniain.bsky.social et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
By Alison Barton, @mathiesoniain.bsky.social et al
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Yes, we want you! 🫵 💼 Pre-advert alert! We will shortly announce a position in ecology in Earth and Environmental Sciences @UoM targeted at mid/senior level. Advert wording in reply below. And yes, we still champion workplace diversity (GIF notwithstanding). Please share widely and get in touch!
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February 20, 2025 at 10:24 AM
Yes, we want you! 🫵 💼 Pre-advert alert! We will shortly announce a position in ecology in Earth and Environmental Sciences @UoM targeted at mid/senior level. Advert wording in reply below. And yes, we still champion workplace diversity (GIF notwithstanding). Please share widely and get in touch!
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PhD position in bean palaeogenomics!🌱
Join our group at @hologenomics.bsky.social , U. of Copenhagen. The PhD, funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation, will study bean domestication and its coevolution with rhizobia using ancient and modern genomes.
Apply by March 16: tinyurl.com/24uzrj2f
Please share!
Join our group at @hologenomics.bsky.social , U. of Copenhagen. The PhD, funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation, will study bean domestication and its coevolution with rhizobia using ancient and modern genomes.
Apply by March 16: tinyurl.com/24uzrj2f
Please share!
PhD fellowship in Evolutionary Biology at the Globe Institute
A PhD fellowship in Evolutionary Biology is being posted in the research team lead by Assistant Prof Jazmín Ramos Madrigal commencing 1 July 2025 or as soon as
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February 12, 2025 at 9:59 AM
PhD position in bean palaeogenomics!🌱
Join our group at @hologenomics.bsky.social , U. of Copenhagen. The PhD, funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation, will study bean domestication and its coevolution with rhizobia using ancient and modern genomes.
Apply by March 16: tinyurl.com/24uzrj2f
Please share!
Join our group at @hologenomics.bsky.social , U. of Copenhagen. The PhD, funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation, will study bean domestication and its coevolution with rhizobia using ancient and modern genomes.
Apply by March 16: tinyurl.com/24uzrj2f
Please share!
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Have/nearly have a PhD?
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?
BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?
BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding
International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for two years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
February 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Have/nearly have a PhD?
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?
BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding
≤7 years post-doc experience?
Working outside UK?
Not a UK citizen?
BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK!
💷 Includes:
Research expenses £12k
Relocation up to £8k
🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT)
#ResearchFunding
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Nice to see our opinion paper on #species #range #shifts & #species #traits among the 🔟 most downloaded papers in 2024 in #GCB 🌏🌐🧪
@globalchangebio.bsky.social
shorturl.at/j7tQW
@globalchangebio.bsky.social
shorturl.at/j7tQW
Bringing traits back into the equation: A roadmap to understand species redistribution
In this opinion piece, we explore under which circumstances species traits are expected to explain the rates and directions of species redistributions in response to climate change and discuss how fu...
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February 5, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Nice to see our opinion paper on #species #range #shifts & #species #traits among the 🔟 most downloaded papers in 2024 in #GCB 🌏🌐🧪
@globalchangebio.bsky.social
shorturl.at/j7tQW
@globalchangebio.bsky.social
shorturl.at/j7tQW
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World's richest man ends America's modest aid to the world's poorest people.
I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
February 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
World's richest man ends America's modest aid to the world's poorest people.
I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
I'm not a big believer in hell, but willing to make an exception
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The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
February 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
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Nice write-up in Popular Science on our recent article in SciAm! "In a global crisis, working harder isn’t the best solution" 🏺🧪 @felixthehauskat.bsky.social & Iza Romanowska www.popsci.com/science/work... Original paper is here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
In a global crisis, working harder isn't the best solution
Archeologists put four resilience strategies to the test.
www.popsci.com
February 4, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Nice write-up in Popular Science on our recent article in SciAm! "In a global crisis, working harder isn’t the best solution" 🏺🧪 @felixthehauskat.bsky.social & Iza Romanowska www.popsci.com/science/work... Original paper is here: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
PhD opportunity! We are recruiting for a study on population resilience of reintroduced European bison in partnership w/ Rewilding Spain & University of the Basque Country. Applications must be processed by the 14th of Feb. UK home students only. Please get in touch Susanne.shultz@manchester.ac.uk
February 4, 2025 at 7:18 PM
PhD opportunity! We are recruiting for a study on population resilience of reintroduced European bison in partnership w/ Rewilding Spain & University of the Basque Country. Applications must be processed by the 14th of Feb. UK home students only. Please get in touch Susanne.shultz@manchester.ac.uk
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The value of scientific serendipity www.nature.com/articles/d41...
How often do unexpected scientific discoveries occur? More often than you might think
A study assessed 1.2 million biomedical publications and measured the ‘unexpectedness’ of their findings.
www.nature.com
January 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
The value of scientific serendipity www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Funded PhD opportunity! Are you interested in macro-ecology, conservation biology, EcoHealth, gut health and/or EcoImmunology? Please get in touch as there are a range of project possibilities in these areas. Please drop me an email or pass it on to keen students Susanne.shultz@manchester.ac.uk
January 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Funded PhD opportunity! Are you interested in macro-ecology, conservation biology, EcoHealth, gut health and/or EcoImmunology? Please get in touch as there are a range of project possibilities in these areas. Please drop me an email or pass it on to keen students Susanne.shultz@manchester.ac.uk
Uncovering gut health with novel faecal inflammatory markers. The first paper for PhD student Alice Burton and @kathelse.bsky.social showcasing the use of novel gut markers in an ecoimmunology context. @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/d8...
January 22, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Uncovering gut health with novel faecal inflammatory markers. The first paper for PhD student Alice Burton and @kathelse.bsky.social showcasing the use of novel gut markers in an ecoimmunology context. @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/d8...
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Really important paper in which 18 funders, including many major ones, describe how they now ask applicants what the evidence is for the effectiveness of their suggested actions. The supplementary material gives the details of each. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Approaches for integrating evidence of the effectiveness of actions in conservation funding to inspire more effective practice
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January 18, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Really important paper in which 18 funders, including many major ones, describe how they now ask applicants what the evidence is for the effectiveness of their suggested actions. The supplementary material gives the details of each. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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PhD position on the ecology and evolution of animal memory! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us
PhD position available! Are you interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of animal memory? Be part of our experimental evolution plans at UCL @ucl-pnl.bsky.social @treesdla.bsky.social , co-supervised by Flo Camus @fcamus.bsky.social. www.trees-dla.ac.uk/projects/evo...
Evolutionary ecology of animal memory | UCL Trees
This project seeks to explore how memory evolves in response to the ecological tasks that animals face in their natural environment. Associative memory exists in some form in almost all animal species...
www.trees-dla.ac.uk
January 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
PhD position on the ecology and evolution of animal memory! Please get in touch if you’re interested in joining us
Just out! Our new paper on niche contraction in three Procapra gazelles. Take homes: Range loss leads to niche loss and shift. Protected areas across all three species do not overlap with core niche space! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Anthropogenic Pressures Lead to Different Patterns of Niche Contraction and Protected Area Cover in Three Species Procapra Gazelles on Qinghai‐Tibet Plateau and Mongolia
Aim Anthropogenic threats often lead to range contraction towards the margins of a species historic niche, resulting in increased extinction risk. Here, we investigate niche characteristics of curre...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 17, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Just out! Our new paper on niche contraction in three Procapra gazelles. Take homes: Range loss leads to niche loss and shift. Protected areas across all three species do not overlap with core niche space! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
👀 for promising young scientists for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career.... UoM internal deadlines (c.v. + 1 page proposal) are early in the new year. If you are an ECR with interests in eco-immunology, macroecology, or OneHealth, please get in touch!
www.leverhulme.ac.uk
December 12, 2024 at 6:14 PM
👀 for promising young scientists for Leverhulme Early Career Fellowships. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/early-career.... UoM internal deadlines (c.v. + 1 page proposal) are early in the new year. If you are an ECR with interests in eco-immunology, macroecology, or OneHealth, please get in touch!