Dominik Melville
Wildlife microbiology, disease ecology, immunology 🦇🦠 wannabe chef 🥨 married to a Scott 🌈
- This system is incredibly cool and provided another outstanding example of rigorous epidemiological science - congrats to all authors
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleMy first book, Darwin and the Queer Origins of Life, will be published by Yale University Press on 11 August (UK) and 8 September (US). Please help spread the word! 🙏 UK: yalebooks.co.uk/book/9780300... @yalebooks.bsky.social 🏳️🌈📚🐵 US: yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... @yalepress.bsky.social 🏳️⚧️ 🗃️🦋
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- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleI genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.
- New preprint out - using a cosmopolitan neotropical #bat, we asked whether Astrovirus infections affected its gut #microbiome and whether land use change amplified infection effects #OneHealth doi.org/10.21203/rs....
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- Reposted by Dominik MelvillePublished today in PNAS: www-pnas-org.ezproxy.lib.uconn.edu/doi/10.1073/... Mark Urban, Chris Elphick, and I argue that conservation programs should pay more attention to heritable within population variation, enabling rapid evolutionary response to environmental changes.
- Reposted by Dominik Melville(1/8) 🚨Thrilled to share our new research, now published on the cover of @science.org ! 🌳🦠 We discovered that tree #Bark — largely regarded as inert — hosts vast #Microbial communities that actively interact with the atmosphere. 🧵👇 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleThe Research Ireland Pathway Programme is now open. Supporting postdoctoral researchers across all disciplines to build their track record and become independent research leaders. Hear from awardee Dr Jonathan Briody @rcsi.bsky.social below. Learn more: www.researchireland.ie/funding/pathway/
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- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleTheir messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.
- Reposted by Dominik Melville“All evolutionary biologists know that variation itself is life’s only irreducible essence”—Gould Evolutionary biology is the study of how complicated and diverse life can be; the field has its jerks, but a good evolutionary biologist learns pretty fast that life doesn’t like boundaries or binaries
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleI feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war
- Anyone has a complete and up to date list of #MetaCyc pathways, descriptions, classes and subclasses? I seem to be too stupid to find that anywhere… #microbiome #picrust dm me, please
- Very impressed with my husband for crafting this elaborate #bat themed birthday cake for me #nerd #science #academichatter #cake
- New wildlife metagenomics study link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleHow do we make sense of scientific literature that is growing explosively to the point where no-one could read all the relevant papers, and is contaminated with fraudulent and LLM-generated papers? I think that science isn't currently equipped to deal with this, and we need to. #science #metascience
- The topic of this years ethics in science MSc class @uniulm.bsky.social was the #deextinction of the #direwolf! A key take home was that choosing a grey wolf genome as template was a matter of convenience. Convenience breeds bad #science
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleWe are looking for contributors to our series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season 🎄 See previous blogs here 👉 buff.ly/MnMcRqG (1/2)
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- Reposted by Dominik Melville🚨 Exciting new work out today led by @carolinecummings.bsky.social! Do bats host deadly viruses? Yes - but only specific bats (that just happen to be found in a lot of places!). Challenging some big ideas in the zoonosis world with data. Well done Caroline and team!!
- just in time for #batweek --Phylogenetic and ML analyses show that viral epidemic potential is not uniform among bats: virulence, transmissibility, and death burden cluster within distinct clades.🦇@carolinecummings.bsky.social @colincarlson.bsky.social @viralemergence.org go.sn.pub/acnbg1
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- That’s crazy cool! Mid flight feathery snack of noctules! #Bats are awesome www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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- The extent to which closely related hosts share similar gut microbiota fascinates me. Work that truely stands out to me comes from @bperezlamarque.bsky.social and colleagues using process-based modelling over correlative approaches - a 'must' read #mevosky academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleWhy should scientists write op-eds? It's tempting to say the facts ought to speak for themselves. But the facts are largely whispering among themselves in the scientific literature. They need us to give them a voice. How? Advice in my latest @natchem.nature.com Thesis rdcu.be/eJlGL #chemsky 1/3
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- Today I was reviewer 2 - I am sorry
- I am designing my own webpage at the moment - What’s your favourite webpage by fellow scientist and why? Reply with link.
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- Amazing longterm data set in #dolphins linking #MHC heterozygosity to fitness @omanlik.bsky.social - www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7...
- What made our recent work on #meerkats stand out? - here is an expert summary from the @uniulm.bsky.social press office www.uni-ulm.de/en/nawi/facu... #climatechange #tuberculosis picture credit: Evelin Pandiamakkal - get in touch if you have ideas for other questions to test with this rich dataset
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- Interesting new work on bird microbiomes challenging the notion of a lacking signal of phylosymbiosis - www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleComment out now in Nature Reviews Biodiversity where we argue that blocking renewable energy, esp wind and solar, for biodi reasons is unnecessary - we can manage any tradeoffs. And unchecked climate change is far, far worse! Don't let biodi become political football www.nature.com/articles/s44...
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleImmune genetic and disease surveillance of a wild meerkat population over 20 years shows that tuberculosis imposes strong pathogen-mediated balancing selection on major histocompatibility complex and identifies underlying mechanisms www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- New, fantastic work by Nadine Müller-Klein, whose dedication to understanding pathogen-mediated balancing selection drove this effort forward! Great team effort all around -Image credit: Evi Zehntner #meerkats #MHC www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- What an intriguing idea, #ESEB! Another way to save CO2 emissions is to offer exclusively vegetarian and vegan food (like The British Ecological Society in their annual meetings) - system change is possible, @eseb.bsky.social I would be super keen to help organise the meeting in Munich.
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- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleDear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleAn open W2 Professorship position in Molecular Crop Improvement at my Institute @uni-muenster.de! Excellent scientific environment and great conditions for Plant Research 🔬🍅🫛🥒🌽🍓🍎🥔- now open for applications !
- Your research brings together fundamental plant biology & applied research to enhance crop traits? 🌱🌾🎓🏭 Join us as professor in 'Molecular Crop Improvement' @uni-muenster.de & @fraunhofer.bsky.social Please PM if you got questions. stellen.uni-muenster.de/jobposting/d...
- Linyung Sun reporting on changes in the #microbiome of butterflies over the last 30 years with climate only explaining a small fraction of variation #ESEB25
- Do you want to see some odd looking mammalian gut #microbiomes? Learn about phylosymbiosis in #bats at 3.15pm Monday the 18th in symposium S07! @eseb2025.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleInterested in host-associated microbiomes? Attending @eseb2025.bsky.social? Then come check out Symposium S07 on Monday August 18th and hear all about how microbiomes contribute to adaptation. Gut microbiomes, climate change, thermal physiology, behaviour, invasion biology, blood-feeding, and more!
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- Reposted by Dominik Melville... and here's a second #ESEB2025 starter pack! go.bsky.app/DnUAnt5at://did:plc:yqxcc5ayxllwkvel4narbha4/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lwem7p5x242s
- Earlier in the year I was part of the bird and #bat census in Panama - what an incredible long-term effort to document the diversity of flying vertebrates - and big thanks to Rachel Page and Camilo Calderon-Acevedo for bringing us along #stri stri.si.edu/story/batbir...
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleWe are seeking a highly motivated PhD candidate at Murdoch to work on bat movement ecology 🦇 with a focus on predicting wind energy impacts 🌬️ www.nicholaswulab.com
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleMakes sense that diverse microbial communities can be maintained on a recalcitrant substrate like cellulose, but on glucose, surely not? Surprisingly there is no difference 🤔 The first part is live 👇 but more to come (including answers). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleI am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group. The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects. Please RT. Details 👇: shorturl.at/iiiOv
- New study showing that #coinfections in juvenile #bats coincides with peak shedding times in adults www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleDr Aaron Corcoran does some amazing work on bats and moths. He is looking for a bat person to work with him in Colorado Springs starting in September. Check the link for more information. This would be an amazing opportunity! cu.taleo.net/careersectio...
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- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleIf people think American scientists are somehow going to land in Europe, I've got news for you about the difference between millions and billions. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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- More recently I also loved reading about the work by @klarawanelik.bsky.social on how superspreading field voles have distinct gut microbial compositions animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #gutmicrobiota happy World #microbiome Day!
- It’s World #Microbiome Day today! For all those fans of #GutMicrobiota I am just going to leave one of my favourite papers from the last year here: www.nature.com/articles/s42... @laballaband.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleHope this is useful - consensus statement "Guidelines for preventing and reporting contamination in low-biomass microbiome studies" rdcu.be/er3Io
- Calling on all #wildlife ecologists! I am looking for time-stamped longitudinal fecal collections from #mammals (n>250; spread throughout the day; frozen at min -20*C; ideally, repeated sampling) - please DM me #feces #poop #faeces #droppings #scat #microbiome #MEvSky #glucocorticoids #diet
- New study showing links between innate and adaptive immune markers and the host-associated gut microbial community in wild #hyena - congrats @vhjarquind.bsky.social and colleagues #microbiome #immunity #MEvoSky #MicroSky www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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- New-ish baboon Microbiome work showing how host age is or isn’t predicted by the Microbiome. elifesciences.org/articles/102...
- Reposted by Dominik Melville15 Unis dürfen sich bewerben, 5 werden gefördert, 10 vernichten Steuergelder. Dazu mehr von @amreibahr.bsky.social und mir: substack.com/home/post/p-.... #ExitExzellent #ExStra #ArbeitInDerWiss
- The moment you realise how incredibly well ducklings are camouflaged among grasses, when you captured 6 of 8 but spend 45 mins trying to locate the other two! Mother duck comes back and finds them in a minute!
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleFound a baby songbird? Here's a newly updated chart!
- Reposted by Dominik MelvilleDelighted to see this paper from danderson123.bsky.social 's PhD out. We have been building tools for AMR gene detection for over a decade now, but multicopy genes remain challenging. Dan shows that with a gene-space de Bruijn graph and long reads, you can do well www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Dominik Melville🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com
- This week started off with a little visit to the Villa Eberhardt. The ProTrainU department had organised a terrific and informative get-together for those young researchers who sucessfully applied for funding support in order to carve out their own research agenda. Thanks @uniulm.bsky.social
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- It’s international #bat appreciation day! Here are some of my favs from my trip to Panama! 🦇🦇🦇 correct guesses give you a 😍 response
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- The writing recommendations in this career feature are spot on - read, write, edit, repeat - „writing is thinking“ #academia
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