Siobhán O'Brien
Assistant Prof @ Trinity College Dublin. Microbial Ecology & Evolution. Eurovision fanatic. Mammy of two party animals. Probably awake. 🇮🇪🇵🇸
- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienThe Nowak-Epstein emails reminded us about the genius summary of that strange paper, which has better stood the test of time 😂 youtube.com/watch?v=oE6I...
- Some very juicy emails in these files also - especially like this absolute belter from Bob Trivers
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- Combined anthropogenic stressors (warming and fungicide) synergistically reduce soil microbial ecosystem functioning (respiration, metabolic capacity, plant performance, fungicide resistance). A tour-de-force by @kelbrick.bsky.social! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Reposted by Siobhán O'Brien🚨4-year fully funded PhD in the lab of @magicmicrobe.bsky.social (& collaborating with me!): How does iron availability shape the ability of pathogens to invade the gut microbiome? Apply by Jan 26th Advert: research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste... How to apply: research.reading.ac.uk/foodbiosyste...
- Wrapping up 2025 with my favourite Dublin hike, the sea cures all!
- Reposted by Siobhán O'Brien@jpjhall.bsky.social starts the #MicroEvo25 strong! Looks like it's gonna be fun🧬🧫🧪
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- Reposted by Siobhán O'Brien🏔️ EMPSEB31 is heading to the mountains! This year we’ll meet in Oberwiesenthal, Germany (8–12 June 2026), a quiet mountain town in the Ore Mountains, right on the Czech border. Think forest trails, open skies, and fresh air. Join us for a week of science and fun!🌿 #EMPSEB31 #EvoBio #PhD
- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienDo you teach #rstats? Do your students complain about how lame and old-fashioned dplyr is? Don't worry: I have the solution for you: github.com/hadley/genzp.... genzplyr is dplyr, but bussin fr fr no cap.
- Reposted by Siobhán O'Brien🔊 Applications for the tenure-track illuminate global challenge fellowships at Queen’s are now open! Comes with 5 years protected research time, a PhD studentship, & 60k start-up. I had one of these before getting my FLF, happy to chat to anyone interested! www.qub.ac.uk/Research/fel...
- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienI'm v excited to be recruiting a PhD student to work on badger behaviour and ecology! Starting date is March 2026; see the ad here, or message me for more details: www.gregalbery.me/s/March-2026...
- This looks great but it's behind a paywall (!), would anyone like to send me a pdf? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienLecturership in Microbiolgy @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Application submission deadline coming soon - October 9th. universityvacancies.com/university-g...
- Dublin is looking especially radiant this evening, maybe it’s the tenure? Thanks Trinity! 🎉🎓
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- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienI 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.
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- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienWe have a position for an Assist Prof in Microbial Genomics in our School of III. Hod Joan Geoghegan will be happy to field questions if you are interested. No specific area of microbial genomics preferred so please do consider it www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...
- Heading home after #ESEB2025. Head is melted but inspired by all of the incredible science. Was great to present our work (mostly by the brilliant @kelbrick.bsky.social) on evolution in multistressor environments, and of course to reconnect with old friends and colleagues from across Europe!
- Boarding a plane to Barcelona for my first #ESEB since 2018 — two kids and one pandemic later. Excited for the science, slightly worried about my drastically reduced beer tolerance. #ESEB2025
- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienWant to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1
- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienOur 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 academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...
- Research Ireland have a new programme to attract mid and established researchers from abroad to Ireland. Nice starting package and we don’t have REF 😂https://www.researchireland.ie/funding/global-talent-ireland/
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- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienWe are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor in molecular microbiology in our department in Lausanne! Do consider appyling!!
- Come join us in beautiful Lausanne! Deadline for applications: August 10th, 2025 wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...
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- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienI'm delighted to announce that the 2025 @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" will be held in Liverpool 26-27 November 2025! Abstract submission will open soon... #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienAre plants more likely to be ‘eavesdroppers’ than altruists when tapped into fungal networks? Read our new theory paper out today in @pnas.org w/ @stuwest.bsky.social @tomwscott.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (photo T. Munita)
- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienNew in Nature Comms, we show that azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus are more likely to evolve resistance to new antifungals due to variants in their DNA mismatch repair system rdcu.be/d3Iyc @natureportfolio.bsky.social #microsky #fungi #amr
- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienHello Bluesky, We're so excited to be launching our first post for EMPSEB30! 🎉🤩 We've got lots of news to share! We've found an amazing venue and some fantastic plenary speakers, and we're on the lookout for sponsors! Visit empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de to dive in! #EMPSEB30 #Students #Conference
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- Excited to share a sparkly new paper from our lab! We show how spatial refuges can facilitate evolutionary rescue using experimental evolution with P. fluorescens doi.org/10.1098/rspb...
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- Proportional representation is great and all but voting is a minefield and ballot paper was basically a scroll, anyway - duty done #GE2024
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- Lab meeting + pizza on the cricket pitch on a sunny July Monday afternoon - love the summer on Trinity’s campus!
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- 2 people required to carry 279 exam scripts for 1(!) module to my office today.. and it’s Eurovision week. Send sugar.
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- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienPredicting bacterial interaction outcomes from monoculture growth and supernatant assays #ISMEComms by @microbedesi.bsky.social et al from @rkmicrobes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
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- Our dept at Trinity College Dublin is looking for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor! Details below 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGO006/a...
- Big congratulations to my very 1st PhD student @kelbrick.bsky.social who passed his PhD viva today with flying colours!🔥Was a pleasure co-parenting with @jpjhall.bsky.social 🥳
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- Death by doughnuts at this weeks lab meeting 🤤
- This paper was really fun to write! Unpicking the subtle differences between dependencies, facilitation and cooperation in microbial communities, and why it matters. With Elze Hesse (not here yet!)
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- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienThree-year postdoc available on anti-phage defense systems and phage biocontrol of phytopathogenic Ralstonia solanacearum at Helsinki (FIN) in collaboration with @hauryliuk.bsky.social and gemmaatkinson.bsky.social. Application deadline 29.2.2024. #phagesky #microsky jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...
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- Reposted by Siobhán O'BrienCome and lead a vibrant department full of bright and lovely people. And me. Dept of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour is looking for a new head @LivUni @LivUniHLS tinyurl.com/2p8rrenp Deadline 21/1/24. Happy to discuss
