The deadline for the @meehubs.bsky.social Microbial Ecology and Evolution distributed-network conference is Sunday April 17.😅

Great folks organizing and presenting, details here:
meehubs2026.oa-event.com

1/8 🔥 New preprint dropped: Dynamic co-existence of bacteriophages and their hosts 🦠 in the Arabidopsis thaliana 🌱 phyllosphere
Work led by the indomitable @sheilaroitman.bsky.social‬
#plantscience #microbiome #holobiont
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

The Social Lives of Viruses is coming to Vancouver, Canada, from 4th-8th August 2026!

This is a free meeting dedicated to all aspects of virus-virus interactions & evolution.

To apply: socialviruses.zoology.ubc.ca

@sociovirology.bsky.social #socialviruses #evosky #lovevirology #virosky

Deadline is April 20th! Let’s get those viruses

The awesome virome logo of a phage above a strand of DNA

Have you developed a new #bioinformatics tool to understand #phage or #virus? Make sure you add it to #awesome-virome

github.com/shandley/awe...

"Sapiens": One page at a time I've been co-teaching a course for several years in which we read Sapiens . I think I've read it eight times, now. That explains the gumband...

I'm reviewing Sapiens, one page at a time!
It's a little bit fact-checking and a little-bit soul-searching combined into a lot of feelings...
ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/03/sapi...

Want to annotate a bacterial genome with structures?

@oschwengers.bsky.social bakta and @gbouras13.bsky.social phold got together, and the result is Baktfold: protein annotation across the microbial tree of life using structures

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#phagesky #microsky #microbiomesky

Neuer Leibniz-WissenschaftsCampus zur Erforschung von Antibiotikaresistenzen  FZB und CAU erforschen im  WissenschaftsCampus „AMR-PLAS“ gemeinsam die AMR-Plastizität bei bakteriellen Krankheitserregern 

Funding for new Leibniz ScienceCampus on AMR evolution at FZB Borstel and Kiel, with several open PhD positions! Incl @daganlab.bsky.social @bramkamplab.bsky.social @fzborstel.bsky.social @uni-kiel.de www.uni-kiel.de/de/detailans...

Are you going to #SMBE2026 Copenhagen by train, or are you hesitating? Let's share experiences and give ideas to those who think to fly from Western or Central Europe with the hashtag #NoFlySMBE.
If you're coming from 🇨🇭, there are night trains from Zürich or Basel to Hamburg.
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The PhageExpressionAtlas just made it to bioRxiv. Visually explore the transcriptomes of phage-host interactions or harness the database for analysis across infections! Please leave feedback, which functionalities/data you find missing.
Preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#phagesky #microsky

RNA virus Journal Club is on!
🌳March 17th | Tuesday, 10 AM Berkeley time / 18 PM CET 🕰️

You've probably heard about the meta-virus resource? We will get to dive into metaVR database & huge viral diversity within thanks to @mattlabguy.bsky.social 🥳

All welcome! Details ⬇️
@rdrpsummit.bsky.social

New paper showing that much of the apparent success of protein language models in predicting mutational effects is a mirage: These models mostly memorize sites. 1/
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

WEES March Seminar & Master Class: "Molecular evolution in a defensive symbiosis", Dr. Aileen Berasategui

📍 Master Class Time: 12 March, 14:00 Contact: b.taboada@nioo.knaw.nl (for details)

📍 Seminar Time: 12 March, 16:00 Location: Orion C1040, WUR

This talk is happening tomorrow—as part of the Protein Structure Evolution seminar!

Click here to register if you like cool science: tinyurl.com/prose-seminar2

Organized by @lacholt.bsky.social, @caro-rocha.bsky.social, @claudiaalcar.bsky.social, @zachary-ardern.bsky.social and myself.

🚨 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗶𝗻𝘁!

After years of work, I'm excited share our manuscript
"𝗣𝗿𝗲𝗴𝗻𝗮𝗻𝗰𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝗹𝘆-𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲 𝗚𝘂𝘁 𝗩𝗶𝗿𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗶𝗳𝗲𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗲𝘀 𝗡𝗘𝗫𝗧 𝗰𝗼𝗵𝗼𝗿𝘁: 𝗢𝗿𝗶𝗴𝗶𝗻, 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲, 𝗜𝗻𝗳𝗹𝘂𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗙𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀".

doi.org/10.64898/202...

A thread🧵👇 (1/11)

⏰Abstract submission for #ViBioM2026 is open until midnight tonight (00:00 CET) - Don't miss your chance to present a talk at the International Virus Bioinformatics Meeting! 🎤🦠🧬💻
👉 evbc.uni-jena.de/events/vibio...
#virology #bioinformatics

So I pleased to announce the conceptual spawn of FigTree: PearTree (acronym still to be finalised). If you want to dive right in it is hosted as a web app here: artic-network.github.io/peartree (click the “Example...” button for immediate candy and then click every button you can find).

Directors

Expressions of interest: Director at MPI EvolBio (f/m/d) — We invite expressions of interest from distinguished scientists in evolutionary biology with a bold, long-term research vision that complements our Institute. More information: www.evolbio.mpg.de/3856225/Dire...

Postdoc Ad Postdoctoral Position in Computational Phage Biology Microbial Genomics Group, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB), Jagiellonian University, Kraków PL Summary We are seeking a postdoctoral rese...

📢 Hiring a Postdoc in Computational Phage Biology (Kraków, Poland)

We study the evolution & structural modularity of prophage-encoded glycan-degrading enzymes in Klebsiella pneumoniae — combining genomics and AlphaFold-based analyses.

Details in attached PDF 👇

Sounds like a great opportunity for a professor position in computational biology in the Netherlands careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan...

We are excited to welcome you to the #NLSEB2026 meeting that will be held on Tuesday April 14 at Akoesticum in Ede!

The deadline for abstract submission is March 1st!

To register and to learn more about this event, visit our webpage: www.nlseb.nl/nlseb-meetings

We hope to see you all there!

Stealing @agapakis.com's meme here

It's a bit last minute, but we have an RA/junior postdoc position available in my lab (closing Sunday). Please reach out if you're interested in developing and applying methods to analyse microbial genomes and metagenomes! careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURN...

Interested in developing your skills in microbial 'omics? Consider joining us in Brest 🇫🇷, Oct. 10-24 for two weeks of intensive lectures an tutorial from top faculties and TA! maignienlab.gitlab.io/ebame/
Bonus: beautiful seascape and friendly spirit!

Last seats available! 🚨
Join our #ComparativeGenomics course with @sedlazeck.bsky.social & @Ingo Ebersberger and learn how to analyse, compare, and interpret genomes using modern bioinformatics approaches. Don’t miss it—registration is closing soon!

@nanoporetech.com @pacbio.bsky.social

Hooray 🎉 from virologists! :)

Our latest preprint: Together with the team of Jan Löwe, @danieltamarit.bsky.social and many others we discovered and characterized several Asgard tubulin genes and propose that microtubule architecture and dynamics evolved in Asgard archaea prior to eukaryogenesis
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

If you are interested in investigating horizontal gene transfer by phages and virus-like particles using computational approaches, this postdoc position in the Callahan Lab could be for you

jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/226...

Inferring context-specific site variation with evotuned protein language models Abstract. Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) have been traditionally used for making inferences about site-specific diversity in proteins. Recent advancem

Our paper on inferring context dependent entropy using protein language models is officially out in NAR Genomics & Bioinformatics! 🧬🤖

with Adam Strange, Jumpei Ito, and @systemsvirology.bsky.social

academic.oup.com/nargab/artic...

details below...

#NARGAB

what can be better than global RNA virome and Dolja?
Nothing for me.. :)
Join RNA virus club (by @rdrpsummit.bsky.social ) already tomorrow:
Thu, Feb 12, 11:00 AM Pacific Time (US 🇺🇸, Canada🇨🇦)
(or 7pm London time 🇬🇧)

for an hour with one and only Prof. Valerian Dolja (Oregon State University)