So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social
On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion
Most plant species world-wide depend on one or more mutualisms – beneficial associations with other species. Evidence is emerging that these biotic mutualisms shape plant biogeography (i.e. distribut....
doi.org
August 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
So excited that my Tansley Insight "On the role of mutualisms in plant biogeography: consequences for ecology, evolution, and invasion" is out today!! @newphyt.bsky.social
🎉 We’re hiring! Two ERC-funded #PostdocJobs on insect–phytopathogen mutualisms are available in my lab. Explore the chemical and molecular evolution of symbioses!
🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb
🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath
#SymbioSky #PlantPathology
🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb
🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath
#SymbioSky #PlantPathology
May 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
🎉 We’re hiring! Two ERC-funded #PostdocJobs on insect–phytopathogen mutualisms are available in my lab. Explore the chemical and molecular evolution of symbioses!
🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb
🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath
#SymbioSky #PlantPathology
🧪Chemical ecology: tinyurl.com/chem-ecol-symb
🦠Phytopathology & mutualisms: tinyurl.com/symb-plantpath
#SymbioSky #PlantPathology
Convergent symbioses: morphology, life history, and niche specialization in coral and lichen mutualisms #symbiosis #corals academic.oup.com/femsre/artic...
Convergent symbioses: morphology, life history, and niche specialization in coral and lichen mutualisms
Corals and lichens, though unrelated and from different ecosystems, both depend on internal photosynthetic symbionts, leading to similar traits in morpholo
academic.oup.com
September 25, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Convergent symbioses: morphology, life history, and niche specialization in coral and lichen mutualisms #symbiosis #corals academic.oup.com/femsre/artic...
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Climate Warming Drives the Breakdown of Plant–Pollinator Mutualisms Despite Phenological Synchrony
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Climate Warming Drives the Breakdown of Plant–Pollinator Mutualisms Despite Phenological Synchrony
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September 22, 2026 at 1:04 PM
RESEARCH ARTICLE
Climate Warming Drives the Breakdown of Plant–Pollinator Mutualisms Despite Phenological Synchrony
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Climate Warming Drives the Breakdown of Plant–Pollinator Mutualisms Despite Phenological Synchrony
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Ecologist Rob Dunn has long been fascinated by mutualisms—the win-win relationships in nature. In his new book, he explores how different species have teamed up with humans and what those partnerships say about us.
Teamwork Between Species Is The Key To Life Itself
“The Call of the Honeyguide” traces the mutualisms found throughout nature, from hunting pairs to the microbes all around us.
buff.ly
September 18, 2025 at 12:53 PM
Ecologist Rob Dunn has long been fascinated by mutualisms—the win-win relationships in nature. In his new book, he explores how different species have teamed up with humans and what those partnerships say about us.
flies are also pollinators and engage in mutualisms with plants your biology sucks ass pierre
March 27, 2025 at 2:46 AM
flies are also pollinators and engage in mutualisms with plants your biology sucks ass pierre
🐕🦺🐴🐦⬛🐄 Our new Multispecies Mutualisms project website is now live. The amazing design work is by Sheffield artist Lisa O’Hara. Some exciting announcements to come about our new post docs - keep a 👀 out 👇 multispeciesmutualisms.org
June 15, 2026 at 11:06 AM
🐕🦺🐴🐦⬛🐄 Our new Multispecies Mutualisms project website is now live. The amazing design work is by Sheffield artist Lisa O’Hara. Some exciting announcements to come about our new post docs - keep a 👀 out 👇 multispeciesmutualisms.org
🚨We're hiring!🚨
Join us as a laboratory technician to work on acquired metabolism, from tree-fungal mutualisms to the evolution of protistan photosynthesis. Apply by Oct. 7 at
careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMP...
Join us as a laboratory technician to work on acquired metabolism, from tree-fungal mutualisms to the evolution of protistan photosynthesis. Apply by Oct. 7 at
careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMP...
careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu
September 27, 2026 at 10:51 PM
🚨We're hiring!🚨
Join us as a laboratory technician to work on acquired metabolism, from tree-fungal mutualisms to the evolution of protistan photosynthesis. Apply by Oct. 7 at
careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMP...
Join us as a laboratory technician to work on acquired metabolism, from tree-fungal mutualisms to the evolution of protistan photosynthesis. Apply by Oct. 7 at
careerspub.universityofcalifornia.edu/psp/ucsb/EMP...
Do you find mutualisms fascinating? Work on behavior, neurobiology, or sensory biology in mutualistic animals? Join us at our symposium or complementary session on the neuroethology of mutualisms at SICB 2027!
@sicb.bsky.social
@biologists.bsky.social
@sicb.bsky.social
@biologists.bsky.social
August 3, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Do you find mutualisms fascinating? Work on behavior, neurobiology, or sensory biology in mutualistic animals? Join us at our symposium or complementary session on the neuroethology of mutualisms at SICB 2027!
@sicb.bsky.social
@biologists.bsky.social
@sicb.bsky.social
@biologists.bsky.social
A new book makes the case that in nature, it’s all about teamwork.
Teamwork Between Species Is The Key To Life Itself
“The Call of the Honeyguide” traces the mutualisms found throughout nature, from hunting pairs to the microbes all around us.
buff.ly
September 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
A new book makes the case that in nature, it’s all about teamwork.
Greetings Bluesky inhabitants, I'm on the lookout for new mutualisms, particularly for ROLEPLAYER ACCOUNT users. If you are not an RP-A user, please disregard this message. To show your interest, simply tap the heart button or repost this message, and I will follow you. #BRP #RPW #SKY
June 11, 2024 at 6:51 PM
Interested in animals, health & STS? Our Multispecies Mutualisms (or perhaps Multispecies Mutualisms?) project is underway and we should be advertising postdoctoral positions over the coming months so keep an eye out! In the meantime, we have a proposed panel at EASST: easst.net/conference/e...
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easst.net
January 20, 2026 at 2:41 PM
Interested in animals, health & STS? Our Multispecies Mutualisms (or perhaps Multispecies Mutualisms?) project is underway and we should be advertising postdoctoral positions over the coming months so keep an eye out! In the meantime, we have a proposed panel at EASST: easst.net/conference/e...
I am constantly fascinated by Anthopleura's ability to form mutualisms with the normal marine Cnidarian symbionts of Symbiodiniaceae (dinoflagellates; brown algae!) but also Chlorella (green algae, more related to plants!) which can also form mutualisms with freshwater hydra! 🧪 🦑
December 18, 2024 at 2:00 PM
I am constantly fascinated by Anthopleura's ability to form mutualisms with the normal marine Cnidarian symbionts of Symbiodiniaceae (dinoflagellates; brown algae!) but also Chlorella (green algae, more related to plants!) which can also form mutualisms with freshwater hydra! 🧪 🦑
1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
February 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
1/ 📣 Big news! For the next 5 years I’ll be working with this amazing team @evahaifa.bsky.social Alasdair Cochrane & Bob McKay on the @wellcometrust.bsky.social funded Multispecies Mutualisms project wellcome.org/grant-fundin...
Some news 🎉
After five incredible years in Tübingen, it’s time to say goodbye.
Starting February, the Mutualisms Lab will relocate to the John Innes Centre, right next door to @berasymbionts.bsky.social and her group at The Sainsbury Laboratory 🪲🦠
After five incredible years in Tübingen, it’s time to say goodbye.
Starting February, the Mutualisms Lab will relocate to the John Innes Centre, right next door to @berasymbionts.bsky.social and her group at The Sainsbury Laboratory 🪲🦠
November 24, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Some news 🎉
After five incredible years in Tübingen, it’s time to say goodbye.
Starting February, the Mutualisms Lab will relocate to the John Innes Centre, right next door to @berasymbionts.bsky.social and her group at The Sainsbury Laboratory 🪲🦠
After five incredible years in Tübingen, it’s time to say goodbye.
Starting February, the Mutualisms Lab will relocate to the John Innes Centre, right next door to @berasymbionts.bsky.social and her group at The Sainsbury Laboratory 🪲🦠
New episode!! 🎉🎙️
A conversation w/ Rob Dunn about mutualisms.
Predation, parasitism, and other negative interactions garner a lot of attention. But interspecies cooperation may be just as common—and it has profoundly shaped our species and our world.
Listen: disi.org/mutualisms-a...
A conversation w/ Rob Dunn about mutualisms.
Predation, parasitism, and other negative interactions garner a lot of attention. But interspecies cooperation may be just as common—and it has profoundly shaped our species and our world.
Listen: disi.org/mutualisms-a...
March 16, 2026 at 4:24 PM
New episode!! 🎉🎙️
A conversation w/ Rob Dunn about mutualisms.
Predation, parasitism, and other negative interactions garner a lot of attention. But interspecies cooperation may be just as common—and it has profoundly shaped our species and our world.
Listen: disi.org/mutualisms-a...
A conversation w/ Rob Dunn about mutualisms.
Predation, parasitism, and other negative interactions garner a lot of attention. But interspecies cooperation may be just as common—and it has profoundly shaped our species and our world.
Listen: disi.org/mutualisms-a...
Excited to share that my first chapter of my dissertation has been published in @behavecol.bsky.social ! We found species-specific roles in the initiation and maintenance of snapping shrimp goby mutualisms. academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...
Species-specific behaviors drive the initiation and maintenance of snapping shrimp-goby mutualisms
We studied a well-known mutualism between snapping shrimp and gobies to learn about the nuanced behavioral interactions involved in the initiation and main
academic.oup.com
September 22, 2026 at 6:37 PM
Excited to share that my first chapter of my dissertation has been published in @behavecol.bsky.social ! We found species-specific roles in the initiation and maintenance of snapping shrimp goby mutualisms. academic.oup.com/beheco/advan...
Busy week for Multispecies Mutualisms... firstly, we're over the moon to be working with these four amazing researchers: multispeciesmutualisms.org/welcoming-fo...
Welcoming four new researchers to Multispecies Mutualisms - Multispecies Mutualisms
As we mark one year since Multispecies Mutualisms began, we’re delighted to welcome four new researchers to the project team.
multispeciesmutualisms.org
September 9, 2026 at 12:28 PM
Busy week for Multispecies Mutualisms... firstly, we're over the moon to be working with these four amazing researchers: multispeciesmutualisms.org/welcoming-fo...
I had so much fun talking about my favorite plant-pollinator mutualisms today!
The MSU herbarium's Jennifer Apland in action, doing outreach at Bee Palooza.
August 25, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I had so much fun talking about my favorite plant-pollinator mutualisms today!
1/ Calling all ECRS - we have 4x 3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥
digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team!
We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs)
In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available.
If you are ready to take the next s...
digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk
March 3, 2026 at 12:47 PM
1/ Calling all ECRS - we have 4x 3 year post docs on Multispecies Mutualisms working with us at Sheffield. Don't want to read through all the stuff to work out if its right for you? Here is a short video explainer 🎥
digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
Here is a little write up of what I was doing at #POLLEN26 for our new Multispecies Mutualisms project multispeciesmutualisms.org/rosaleen-duf...
July 18, 2026 at 5:20 PM
Here is a little write up of what I was doing at #POLLEN26 for our new Multispecies Mutualisms project multispeciesmutualisms.org/rosaleen-duf...
Super excited to be joining @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and to begin this new chapter in Norwich!!
And thrilled to be neighbours with the Mutualisms Research Group at @hassansalem.bsky.social and the wider community at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get started! 😁
And thrilled to be neighbours with the Mutualisms Research Group at @hassansalem.bsky.social and the wider community at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get started! 😁
November 24, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Super excited to be joining @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and to begin this new chapter in Norwich!!
And thrilled to be neighbours with the Mutualisms Research Group at @hassansalem.bsky.social and the wider community at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get started! 😁
And thrilled to be neighbours with the Mutualisms Research Group at @hassansalem.bsky.social and the wider community at @johninnescentre.bsky.social. Can’t wait to get started! 😁
There are myriad examples of prey naivete, enemy release, biotic resistance, mutualisms etc, that demonstrate the importance of evolutionary context in species interactions.
This is why species origins matter. #bioinvasions
This is why species origins matter. #bioinvasions
June 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
There are myriad examples of prey naivete, enemy release, biotic resistance, mutualisms etc, that demonstrate the importance of evolutionary context in species interactions.
This is why species origins matter. #bioinvasions
This is why species origins matter. #bioinvasions
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A transformative reimagining of Multispecies Mutualisms Find out more About the Project Funded by a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award (2025-2030), Multispecies Mutualisms rethinks the idea that human-ani...
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September 24, 2026 at 2:51 PM
You can subscribe to the newsletter on our website - scroll to the bottom of the page multispeciesmutualisms.org
Don’t worry - we wont spam you, it’s for quarterly news letters only 🐕🦺🐄🐎🐦⬛
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A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...
Multispecies Mutualisms - Join Our Research Team!
We’re hiring 4 Postdoctoral Research Associates (PDRAs)
In this video, members of the team share insights into four exciting PDRA opportunities currently available.
If you are ready to take the next s...
digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk
March 6, 2026 at 1:44 PM
A rare thing: *four* three-year hums/soc-sci posts in animal studies, on the Multispecies Mutualisms project at UoSheffield - with @rosaleenduffy.bsky.social, me, Robert McKay and Alasdair Cochrane; see here for a video explainer: digitalmedia.sheffield.ac.uk/media/Multis...