Apply to be an editor at an ASM Journal! Open call for editors at mBio, mSphere, mSystems, and Microbiology Spectrum. This is a very fulfilling way to share your expertise and give back to our society journals. @asm.org journals.asm.org/asm-call-for...

The WalRK two-component system in Streptococcus pneumoniae ensures robustness of secondary wall polymer attachment https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.25.714115v1

Research into filamentous actinomycetes, the antibiotic producers, is in steep decline. Loads of natural products chemistry research worldwide but not much aimed at understanding their biology and ecology. The latter is key to unlocking their specialised metabolism link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Funding surgery and hormones for trans people can save Medicare millions: new research theconversation.com/funding-surg...

Our new study on all-cause and cause-specific mortality among trans Australians is now out in Lancet Regional Health – Western Pacific We find that trans people experience significantly higher risk of premature mortality than the general population www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Important cautionary tale on bacterial studying horizontal gene transfer without proper mechanistic or wet lab validation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Remember reading about this with the original paper or possibly hearing about it on TWiM

Excited to share our preprint that describes the mechanism of action of an historical infection remedy called Bald’s Eyesalve. In this preprint, we show that Bald’s Eyesalve has multifaceted mechanism of action against both S. aureus and A. baumannii (1/n).

Right now, the Government is starving medical research of full funding, even as it claims that science and research are national priorities. If our leaders truly value science as much as they say, then they must back their words with action—and fund it properly. Join the campaign!

Beyond mecA: a two-tiered mechanism and regulatory rewiring drive high-level ceftaroline resistance in clinical MRSA! (A link between Spx and c-di-AMP 🤔) | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #cdAMP

New from me, @mohammoud.bsky.social & Ruth in @aunz.theconversation.com - The government has pledged $10 million for inclusive LGBTQIA+ health care. Here's what that means theconversation.com/the-governme...

I made a Starter Pack for the Staphylococcus community. Hope to find more good friends here on Bluesky to keep in touch about Staphylococcus infections, biology, microbiome interaction, antibiotic resistance and more. Please join and repost! go.bsky.app/3zVWbSs

Our first foray into the world of Staph aureus superantigens lead by Linda Wakim. Some novel findings on T cell responsiveness post activation. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How’s that for parallel trends? #dogsofeconsky

Out today, Rifaximin drives cross resistance to Dapto. www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congratulations to the team behind this study! I can only find @clairegorrie.bsky.social on bsky.

Transcription activator-like effectors from endosymbiotic bacteria control the reproduction of their fungal host mBio journal by Ingrid Richter et al from Hertweck Lab journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Here is some recent work we've been doing at Cultivarium on detecting methylation patterns with nanpore. We find that nanopore's modified basecalling models works well - if you have recently sequenced a prokaryotic isolate you can use MicrobeMod to ID methylation: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Our latest paper is out now. The brilliant Chris Connor’s entire PhD in one paper. And I hope a new avenue of research opened in MDR E. coli journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... 1/n

Did a big thread on Twitter, but will keep it short here. We have a new paper out! If you're into signal transduction, staph aureus, and/or nifty molecular biology then check it out. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Protistan predation selects for antibiotic resistance in soil bacterial communities -in ISME Journal www.nature.com/articles/s41...