Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship to investigate the impact of microbial interactions on antimicrobial resistance evolution 🎉 🧫 really grateful for this investment in my lab and excited to start my fellowship in Jan’26! www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

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We have a position for an Assist Prof in Microbial Genomics in our School of III. Hod Joan Geoghegan will be happy to field questions if you are interested. No specific area of microbial genomics preferred so please do consider it www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Heading home after #ESEB2025. Head is melted but inspired by all of the incredible science. Was great to present our work (mostly by the brilliant @kelbrick.bsky.social) on evolution in multistressor environments, and of course to reconnect with old friends and colleagues from across Europe!

Boarding a plane to Barcelona for my first #ESEB since 2018 — two kids and one pandemic later. Excited for the science, slightly worried about my drastically reduced beer tolerance. #ESEB2025

Want to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1

Our new paper on experimental evolution in wild tree-holes -Eco-evolutionary robustness of wild bacterial communities to experimental perturbation #ISMEJournal @duhitasant.bsky.social Tom Smith Edgar Wong Juli Cohen @kayla-king.bsky.social Tom Bell academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Research Ireland have a new programme to attract mid and established researchers from abroad to Ireland. Nice starting package and we don’t have REF 😂https://www.researchireland.ie/funding/global-talent-ireland/

Beautiful new review paper in preprint bridging microbial ecology and classic ecology led by Maggie Vogel, @olimeacock.bsky.social and @annasophieweiss.bsky.social, also by @juliensluneau.bsky.social and @lambdapp.bsky.social from our lab (not me :)) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

We are recruiting a tenure-track assistant professor in molecular microbiology in our department in Lausanne! Do consider appyling!!

Looking to appoint a PhD candidate with background in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or related field to work on discovery of infection combatting therapeutics in marine sponge-associated bacteria. Closing date 31st May 2025. International applications welcomed!🌎

Very excited to be presenting my work on how within-patient P. aeruginosa diversity can determine interspecies interactions with S. aureus in CF today at #Microbio25 !! 🦠 Come find me at B064 if you want to chat about Pseudomonas, microbial ecology or anything CF !!👩🏻‍🔬🧪

Presenting some of my Masters work today at #Microbio25. Come chat to me at poster A260 :))

I'm delighted to announce that the 2025 @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" will be held in Liverpool 26-27 November 2025! Abstract submission will open soon... #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

Are plants more likely to be ‘eavesdroppers’ than altruists when tapped into fungal networks? Read our new theory paper out today in @pnas.org w/ @stuwest.bsky.social @tomwscott.bsky.social www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... (photo T. Munita)

New in Nature Comms, we show that azole-resistant Aspergillus fumigatus are more likely to evolve resistance to new antifungals due to variants in their DNA mismatch repair system rdcu.be/d3Iyc @natureportfolio.bsky.social #microsky #fungi #amr

Hello Bluesky, We're so excited to be launching our first post for EMPSEB30! 🎉🤩 We've got lots of news to share! We've found an amazing venue and some fantastic plenary speakers, and we're on the lookout for sponsors! Visit empseb30.mpipz.mpg.de to dive in! #EMPSEB30 #Students #Conference

JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share! #exetercec jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Excited to share a sparkly new paper from our lab! We show how spatial refuges can facilitate evolutionary rescue using experimental evolution with P. fluorescens doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

We're looking for an Assitant Professor in Microbiology to join us @tcdgenmicro! Come and join our growing team. www.tcd.ie/microbiology... www.tcd.ie/hr/vacancies/ Job ID: 037876. Closes 31st January

Brilliant idea from Nessa Hourigan - her #ge2024 election info came in the door & is embedded with wildflower seeds.It’s soaking now for 24/48 hours & will be planted as per instructions. If only all election bumpf was so useful - although I’d never plant far right seeds, that would sour the ground!

Proportional representation is great and all but voting is a minefield and ballot paper was basically a scroll, anyway - duty done #GE2024

Too often we spend only two weeks choosing a problem and then many years trying solving it, but this limits our potential impact. A must read for PhD students: Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38608651/

Excited to share some work from a great collaboration with a bunch of people not yet on Bluesky including Anna Frangou, David Wedge, Matt Murray, Clare Verrill, Andy Protheroe, and many others. Huge thanks to the patients and to Genomics England! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Enhanced metabolic entanglement emerges during the evolution of an interkingdom microbial community #MicrobialEcology #EvolutionaryBiology #ExperimentalEvolution #science www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very proud to see this paper now out in Evolution Letters! "The evolution of reduced facilitation in a four-species bacterial community" academic.oup.com/evlett/advan... Congratulations again to all co-authors! Check out the thread from the pre-print for details...

Lab meeting + pizza on the cricket pitch on a sunny July Monday afternoon - love the summer on Trinity’s campus!

Job alert!! Join Integrative Biology at UC Berkeley. We are hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of global change biology with emphasis on the Ecology and Evolution of Host-Microbe Interactions (pathogens, mutualists, microbiomes). aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04476

2 people required to carry 279 exam scripts for 1(!) module to my office today.. and it’s Eurovision week. Send sugar.

Feeling like commenting on a thread from @baym.lol from the other site but not on the other site so here we go. Feel free to add or call me on BS or modify (I’m thinking through) Q: Why don’t we just always treat patients with multiple antibiotics that target different mechanisms?

Secondary messenger signalling influences Pseudomonas aeruginosa adaptation to sinus and lung environments #ISMEJournal by Dilem Ruhluel et al from Daniel R Neill academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

Predicting bacterial interaction outcomes from monoculture growth and supernatant assays #ISMEComms by @microbedesi.bsky.social et al from @rkmicrobes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

Using phage therapy to resensitize P aeruginosa to antibiotics in murine lung infection, featuring @mermanchester.bsky.social’s Rosanna Wright, led by Jo Fothergill www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Trinity College, Dublin is searching for an Assistant Professor of Microbiology. Info at: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGO006/a...

Our dept at Trinity College Dublin is looking for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor! Details below 👇 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DGO006/a...

Big congratulations to my very 1st PhD student @kelbrick.bsky.social who passed his PhD viva today with flying colours!🔥Was a pleasure co-parenting with @jpjhall.bsky.social 🥳

Interesting bioRxiv by @mcastd.bsky.social and Angus Buckling ... three pairs of coexisting soil bacteria ... evolve with three species-specific bacteriophages over eight weeks of experimental evolution, both as host-parasite pairs in isolation and as a mixed community."👇

Death by doughnuts at this weeks lab meeting 🤤

This paper was really fun to write! Unpicking the subtle differences between dependencies, facilitation and cooperation in microbial communities, and why it matters. With Elze Hesse (not here yet!)

What can we learn from timing the onset of symbiosis? And how does symbiont acquisition & molecular evolution impact host adaptation & diversification? We ask these questions of leaf beetles, led by Marleny Lozano & out today in CurrentBiology! www.cell.com/current-biol... 🧵1/n 🦠 🧪 🧫

Three-year postdoc available on anti-phage defense systems and phage biocontrol of phytopathogenic Ralstonia solanacearum at Helsinki (FIN) in collaboration with @hauryliuk.bsky.social and gemmaatkinson.bsky.social. Application deadline 29.2.2024. #phagesky #microsky jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

Fascinating story. A reassuring one too, having been challenged earlier this week to explain how lab experiments in simple environments can tell us anything about “real systems”. Well, they reveal the fundamental rules governing how evolution works. (I wish I’d put it like that at the time).

Come and lead a vibrant department full of bright and lovely people. And me. Dept of Evolution, Ecology and Behaviour is looking for a new head @LivUni @LivUniHLS tinyurl.com/2p8rrenp Deadline 21/1/24. Happy to discuss

New preprint from the lab - we show spatial refuges are important for salt adaption, but refuges also constrain environmental adaptation because of trade-offs associated with motility - with @jpjhall.bsky.social plus lots of folks not on the "better" site just yet! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...