Really happy to see the final version of this published in @isme-microbes.bsky.social. We show that production of and competition for biotin shapes S. aureus fitness in the context of nasal commensals doi.org/10.1093/isme... Work lead by the amazing Kevser Bilici!

Editorial: Society journals matter—supporting science through renewed commitment Editorial in @femsjournals.bsky.social microLife by @paulbrainey.bsky.social and colleagues academic.oup.com/microlife/ad...

As part of the WHO World AMR Awareness Week a group of engaged undergraduate students, led by Eloise Nelson, have organised a @microbiologysociety.org sponsored seminars: Dr Ishwar Singh (University of Liverpool) & Dr Tom Hellyer (Newcastle University) @medicalsciencesncl.bsky.social #antibiotics

How thrilling is this! A glowing review of I Dream of Theresa May in the London Evening Standard: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ "There’s honestly not a weak link in this hilarious and heart-breaking production" www.standard.co.uk/culture/thea... On until November 29th @taratheatre.com : taratheatre.com/whats-on/i-d...

We are back, soon! The secrets of bacterial cell envelopes' our free online seminar series is due to resume in January 2026 after a long break. Hosted by Georgina Benn and Syma Khalid- supported by the Microbiology Society. More details soon. @microbiologysociety.org Please spread the word

✨Opportunity to join the 🦁🦠 Predatory Bacteria lab! My lab will move to University of Bern (CH) in April 2026 based on my #ERCStG. Therefore, we are looking for: -a PhD student (shorturl.at/mt0LR) -a 50% Technical Assistant/Lab manager (shorturl.at/0IIKe) 🙏Thanks for sharing. #MicroSky

Very cool print demonstrating how variation in at TonB-dependent transporter repertoires shapes the ability of Bacteroides and Phocaeicola species to utilize fructooligosaccharides (FOS) of different chain lengths

When you met your other half in a lab working on molybdenum cofactor (Moco), somehow this museum selfie seems appropriate

The link between the gut #microbiome and autism is not backed by science, researchers say. Read the full opinion piece in @cp-neuron.bsky.social: spkl.io/63322AbxpA#microbiome @wiringthebrain.bsky.social, @statsepi.bsky.social, & @deevybee.bsky.social

📣New preprint alert! We report the alarming finding that stringent response mutations found in clinical isolates increase the frequency of donation of multiresistance plasmids in S. aureus 😱 Great team effort @microclaire.bsky.social @paulrjohnston.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Super seminar from @mfwhite2.bsky.social thank you for visiting us in Newcastle!

Exciting news! I have two positions open in my lab at the UoManchester: one PDRA and one Research Tech. Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...

James Watson, Co-Discoverer of the Structure of DNA, Is Dead at 97 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/07/s...

Northumbria University attempts to move employees to cheaper pension scheme to bring down sky-high contribution rates https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northumbria-freeze-staff-pay-if-they-refuse-switch-pensions

In which I blabber excitedly about the themes of my play and a whole lot more: www.youtube.com/watch?reload...

Nottingham to suspend music and modern foreign language degrees, warning international fee levy will wipe out income from domestic fee rise. Some nursing, theology, education, microbiology and agriculture degrees hit too www.timeshighereducation.com/news/notting... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

#ISMEJournal paper from Simon Heilbronner Competitive fitness of Staphylococcus aureus against nasal commensals depends on biotin biosynthesis and acquisition academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Genome-wide screen identifies novel factors for surface protein cross-wall trafficking and cell envelope homeostasis in Staphylococcus aureus https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.03.686427v1

We are very much looking forward to the Grand Opening of the Northern Eye Imaging facility tomorrow! Follow us here for all the news coming from NUSBF!

If you are interested in researching how drug resistant bacteria evade killing by our immune system, them this PhD project is for you. Come join the our team at Newcastle, in collaboration with University of Liverpool, and lead research at the interface of microbiology, immunology and metabolomics.

#microsky #phagesky Mycobacterium #phage review by Graham Hatfull covering the state of the art www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The walk home 🍂 🌌

Interested in a PhD at the intersection of biophysics and microbiology? Apply for this MRC-funded opportunity at Newcastle University to do cutting-edge microscopy in Mycobacterium tuberculosis! 🔬🦠 Closing 4 Dec! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🔊 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...

If you’re interested in metals, microbes and maths 🤘 - please check out this PhD on the impact of metals on microbial communities with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social @blindmath.bsky.social Denis Patterson and myself, you’d be based in Durham & be part of a vibrant interdisciplinary research group

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

An Rhs effector uses distinct target cell functions to intoxicate bacterial and fungal competitors https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.28.685041v1

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #microsky

Chromosome replication and cell division cycles are not synchronized in Staphylococcus aureus, with cells exhibiting two segregated origins of replication at the start of the cell cycle #bacteria #microbiology

Interested in a PhD in ornithology? Funding available for projects at the interface of ecology, behaviour & evolution from Oct '26 working on long-term population studies of tits at Wytham, based in @biology.ox.ac.uk in the new Life & Mind Building in Oxford www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

De-DUFing the DUFs 🧩 @franznarberhaus.bsky.social lab uncovers how small DUF1127 proteins regulate #phosphate uptake by binding the sensor kinase PhoR. Their conserved role from Agrobacterium to E. coli highlights how even small DUFs can shape bacterial physiology 🦠 buff.ly/jJd9Eho

We’ve kept registrations open till the end of this week so get your last minute applications in for posters and talks!

We are recuiting two new Associate Professors here in Oxford Biochemistry. Come join us! Reach out to me if you have any questions. Please repost! tinyurl.com/mr3m7bd3

Hearing about similarly large increases across some of the long-term fellowship schemes in the UK. Will be important to understand where this surge comes from, whether likely to be transient etc

Finally, someone has solved a real problem with AI! No more having to take a paper in the format for a journal that rejected you, and reformat it for a new journal. Well done!! formatmypaper.com

Learn about EMBO Member Ruth Massey and her #research at University College Cork #Ireland: https://www.embo.org/people/thinking-about-the-bigger-picture/#research🧪 #LifeSciences #community #funding #opportunities

1/3 To those interested in microbial iron & metal transport: In 1992, the late JB Neilands (UCB), the pioneer in the study of Fe transport entrusted me with his collection of purified siderophores from a wide range of microbes—many of them unique chemical species that can no longer be reproduced

The CCP4 Northern Structural Biology Meeting is back again in Newcastle 6-7th November 2025. If you are a structural biologist/biochemist in the North of the UK please register and submit abstracts by this Friday 17th. nusbf.ncl.ac.uk/ccp4-norther...

DEPRESSING - the situation for UK universities is very challenging

hosting.northumbria.ac.uk/nu-omics/vom... #phagesky #phage #microsky Come and join us for Viruses of Microbes UK 2026 at @northumbriauni.bsky.social ! Fantastic chance for ECRs to showcase their work 🙂

Open position to work on Type IX secretion (#T9SS) in our lab, in collaboration withe the group of Eric Reynolds at the Dental School of the University of Melbourne. Please spread the word, and forward to anyone potentially interested ! Apply here: emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Docto...

That person you meet when you attend a scientific conference and want to quickly get breakfast alone before returning to your room to prepare your presentation

🧐Checkout our preprint revealing the stepwise firing💥 mechanism of a Contractile Injection System @xujwet.bsky.social&@chipericson.bsky.social trapped the complex by structure-guided engineering🧪 in multiple intermediate states and imaged them by multimodal #cryoEM❄️🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Intracellular glutamine fluctuates with nitrogen availability and regulates Mycobacterium smegmatis biofilm formation #JBacteriol journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Check it out! A proper team effort from past and present group members and a great collaboration with @sergemostowylab.bsky.social

A new paradigm for outer membrane protein biogenesis in the Bacteroidota www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

Our paper on the Bacteroidota BAM complex is out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! With @madejmar.bsky.social We found that BAM in Bacteroides and Porphyromonas gingivalis has a distinct architecture from BAM in Proteobacteria. doi.org/10.1038/s415...