Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool

UK’s BBSRC has awarded £9M to support 19 early-career researchers tackling major challenges in health, agriculture, and technology. Projects include innovative approaches to #AMR, gut microbiome therapies, crop resilience, and nature-inspired engineering solutions. www.wired-gov.net/wg/news.nsf/...

🚨WE’RE HIRING!🚨 A Research Technician (2y) to join our team & work on exciting projects in bacterial evolution & gene regulation. Come join our growing, supportive Bacteriology Dept @uofglasgow.bsky.social ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #MicroBio25 #microsky @microbiologysociety.org Apply by 30th April: tinyurl.com/2z9z9kse

New paper from the group - here we show that aurodox prevents shiga toxin mediated damage in a murine model. Interesting changes to the microbiota too. Amazing work by @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social and the group. Paper here- rdcu.be/efW0K

Please spread the word! We have an opening in the Atkinson lab for a post-doc with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of microbial immune systems. Can be a fully computational or experimental or hybrid project. Read more and apply here: lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/... #phage #bioinformatics

‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research. #AcademicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“a well-organized, financed, politically motivated, and steadily globalizing campaign of disinformation & attacks against science that makes it difficult to mount an effective global response to the climate & pandemic threats” @michaelemann.bsky.social & Hotez skepticalinquirer.org/2024/12/a-tr...

Here’s Newhaven harbour, on a less windy/rainy night !

More time to think is the key parameter every researcher seems to crave for.

This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.

This is just “wow”! Blown away by this paper. 🤯

This was the simple and, IMHO, brilliant, solution. Mandated immediate open access, no need for the ridiculous surcharges imposed by the "elite" journals! Thank you NIH!

IT'S OFFICIAL! From today, @plos.org and its journals are no longer posting on Twitter/X. If you want to carry on hearing about great science in our journal, follow @plosbiology.org on Bluesky here: bsky.app/profile/plos...

Hi everyone! For my new followers, I'm a Bioinformatics PhD student (UK) who also runs a science art shop where I make stickers and jewellery! My most recent creation is festive microbial cards ❄️ pinkpetri.etsy.com

Last week I showed to MSc students this iconic movie of a #leukocyte chasing a #bacteria, just wait... Version taken from a 16 mm video made by David Elliot Rogers @VanderbiltU in the 1950s ! (as @mag2art.bsky.social says "the Citizen Kane of #Microscopy) #CellMigration @focalplane.bsky.social

There is no brain microbiome 🧪 Excellent letter by @mjpallen.bsky.social @pathogenomenick.bsky.social @faecalmatters.bsky.social

New paper from the group. Very proud to share our recent work for the first time here on Bluesky- give me 50 likes and it’s a permanent move!🤣. doi.org/10.1098/rsob...

Fully funded PhD available to work with me and the fab @paulhoskisson.bsky.social and @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social on the aurodox story- www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... 💊🦠🧫

Already feels like twitter v2 here and the chance for a better community.

Latest paper from the group - Current understandings of colibactin regulation | Microbiology Society www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

I wrote a short blog post for the Microbiology Society regarding our recent colibactin regulation review. Available here. @sofiasandalli.bsky.social @drandyjroe.bsky.social

Really pleased to share Curtis Cottam’s first paper from his PhD, where he discovered a new Arabinose transporter in pathogenic E.coli and investigated the impact of Arabinose utilisation on virulence gene regulation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Come do a PhD with me at University of Glasgow. 3-year fully funded PhD for UK students. Friend to Foe: Colonisation as an Entry Point for S. aureus Infectionhttps://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/fully-funded-friend-to-foe-colonisation-as-an-entry-point-for-staphylococcus-aureus-infection/?p166823

📢 I have a funded PhD position available in Glasgow. Functional genomics project with vaginal Lactobacillus. Please share www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Making the transit from X to here for all the obvious reasons!