Staff at Durham University are set to vote in an industrial action ballot over workloads and job cuts, reports Juliette Rowsell #academicsky #edusky https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-calls-strike-ballot-durham-over-workload-fears

Are you involved in research in cellular protein transport? Then please apply to join us at the EMBO workshop on the Spanish coast close to Barcelona! meetings.embo.org/event/26-pro... And please repost!

Save £100 if you book your place for Membrane Proteins Conference before 7 January 2026. Taking place on 7–9 April 2026 in Birmingham, don’t miss the chance to listen to expert researchers discussing membrane proteins in diverse biological processes. 🧪 https://ow.ly/rhHJ50XNBLI

📩 Please email [email protected] by 19 January to express your interest. Find out more: www.rsb.org.uk/voice-of-the... #SciencePolicy #Microsky #ECR

Congratulations to Hannah and colleagues for depicting the consequences of DNA replication hyper-initiation in Gram-positive bacteria! @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

As 2026 begins, the EAM, @Vdlorenzo.bsky.social, Paul B. Rainey and many others remind us the urgency of renewing support to Society Journals and, taking action to reward quality research and curb predatory publishing. 👉 buff.ly/V36xgMO 👉 buff.ly/T8QE90G

We are starting 2026 by looking for candidates to apply for the Junta de Andalucía PhD fellowship. If you are interested in bacterial secretion systems and molecular biology, get in touch. More info about our work: personal.us.es/pbguzman/ & regarding the call www.investigacion.us.es/convocatoria...

We are looking for an exceptional scientist with a research focus on nutrition and microbiome-based interventions for the prevention and management of obesity to join our Food, Microbiome and Health research programme as a Group Leader. 💷 Competitive 🗓️ Apply by 18 January 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/8KeAdxg

Colours of Curaçao

Bonaire. Cactus fences and salt terraces

New paper alert! Insight into the type 7 secretion system of Staph aureus, including locus type similarities and role in virulence. @microbiologysociety.org @proftracypalmer.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Fab afternoon at the MHD festive gathering 🎉 congratulations to the winning quiz team and @johncorrigall.bsky.social for most festive outfit.

🌱 2x David Sainsbury Career Development Fellowships at @slcuplants.bsky.social Unique opportunity for early-career researchers to launch their own independent research programme in quantitative plant development, with generous support & world-class facilities. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/david-s...

An excellent opportunity, please have a look at the position below!🧫👩‍🔬

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

UEA, Reading and Bath among latest UK universities to report multimillion-pound deficits www.timeshighereducation.com/news/intense... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Opening of a Group Leader position in AI in genomics at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr , Paris research.pasteur.fr/en/call/mid-...

The diderm cell envelope is not a stack of layers but a unified scaffold of Inner Membrane–Peptidoglycan–Outer Membrane. We discuss how tethering the OM to the PG in E. coli preserves integrity — and extend the concept across diderm bacteria. Curr Opin Microbiol: doi.org/10.1016/j.mi... #microsky 🔬

Misty winter morning, Newcastle

We're advertising for a bacteriology technician and a post-doc to work on AI-guided antibiotic development as part of a large multidisciplinary Fleming Initiative project: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

If you or someone you know is looking for a post-doctoral position working on mycobacterial envelope biology, please get in touch. I am recruiting here at the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario, Canada.

Fantastic to have Prof Matthias Wilmanns from EMBL Hamburg hosted by @kshbeckham.bsky.social to give a @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social seminar on mycobacterial infection #dreamtheme

We cracked the mystery: Pteridines are the natural ligands of CutA, a widespread protein in nature @pnas.org @hhu.de @cmfi.bsky.social CutA is one of #PII signaling family, but it's function remained unknown coz we didn't know what it binds.... 🧵Thread below👇 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

'The fall of a prolific science journal [Science of the Total Environment] exposes the billion-dollar profits of scientific publishing' english.elpais.com/science-tech... '(It) has been expelled from the indexing system for irregularities. Its publisher, Elsevier, has a 38% profit margin in 2024'

Happy to see work I contributed to during my MSc at @bioscienceleeds.bsky.social with Jennifer Tomlinson’s lab out in @pnas.org! Everyone Bluesky-less except @antoncalabrese.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #AMR #MRSA #NMR

Now properly published at @natcomms.nature.com with few additional experiments incl. demonstration of Daptomycin's ability to depolarise non-growing cells. See the original preprint-thread for a summary of our findings. www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky

Every biologist knows the story of Fleming's chance discovery of penicillin. But is it true? Here, with @asimovpress.bsky.social, I write about inconsistencies in the canonical story, and explore a few alternative theories about what really happened in that St. Mary's lab in the summer of 1928.

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.