We are deeply saddened by the passing of Prof. Jeff Cole, former President and current Vice President of #EFB. A respected microbiologist and leader, his legacy will endure. Our thoughts are with his family & colleagues. @unibirmingham.bsky.social @taeseokmoon.bsky.social @lehorsfall.bsky.social

Feel like doing a SynBio PhD in Spain? Check this offer, many fellowships available 👉🏻 lifehub.csic.es/synbio-cofund/

Delighted to share good news after a long embargo! We'll be part of C-Loop an EPSRC Bio-manufacturing Hub focusing on making value out of waste!! Looking forward to this project led by Stephen Wallace at Edinburgh #circulareconomy @imperiallifesci.bsky.social www.ukri.org/news/new-res...

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Unlocking the power of Engineering Biology www.gov.uk/government/n...

Reposting this from last month, cos it’s the same bullshit from the same company that is flooding your media with wolfshit. Reviving the woolly mammoth isn’t just unethical. It’s impossible www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Spoiler alert: In a few days we will announce around 30 PhD positions for the Cluster of Excellence Circular Bioengineering, one of them in my lab at @bokuvienna.bsky.social on synthetic single carbon pathways in yeast. Stay tuned!

Just a suggestion - Can we celebrate women in STEM in the middle of the day please and not at evening events? And not always in London? And with a few more weeks’ notice? Thx

How little we understand about the #biodiversity of the deep oceans. Which we cannot afford to trash, as we have trashed the rest of the planet: #NoDeepSeaMining phys.org/news/2025-02...

I have resigned my Fellowship of the #RoyalSociety due to their Council's inability to act proportionately on #ElonMusk. See fediscience.org/@A_J_Millar/...

Beautiful image for engineering biology of microbes and metals interacting

The deadline for applications for #MicrobioJ Editors is in one week. If you are interested in getting involved, please find more information and details on how to apply:

The big thaw begins…

What a fab day! - loved seeing former colleague, the amazing @dave-thesmith.bsky.social, in his element lecturing about AI in teaching. Followed by @mjcapeness.bsky.social being awarded sustainability prize in the #CSEStaffAwards and then this turned up too #RSCPrizes

Congrats to the winner of the sustainability category at the college of science and engineering awards - our very own @mjcapeness.bsky.social

Use it or lose it: Unless we publish papers in our society owned and published journals they will cease to be, along with all the conferences and meetings the proceeds support. Microbiology Society publishes many excellent journals, all edited by experts. #microsky www.microbiologyresearch.org

This is rather nice... It feels a bit like moving house. It has all the same things that the old house had, but feels a little bit different at first... It's already starting to feel like home now a few friends have visited. And this place hasn't got that awful crabby landlord...

Looking forward to using some of this investment to move our research closer to commercialisation www.ukri.org/news/ukri-in...

🚨 Today is the last day to submit abstracts for the Microbiology Society Annual Conference 2025 in Liverpool 🚨 microbiologysociety.org/event/annual...

Thanks to both the IBioIC and the Edinburgh Genome Foundry for accelerating the development of this exciting emerging technology t.co/jmsjsMXmKU

It’s #biology week and #recycling week, what a great excuse to share this animation m.youtube.com/watch?featur...