Now peer-reviewed, improved and published in @microbiologysociety.org Microbiology - thanks to editor and reviewers! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

By linking their shifts in the phenotypic map above with the amino acid changes in PBP protein, we could pinpoint particular substitutions and its impact on resistance.

Terrific new feature presented by @theo.io on @pathoplexus.org called SeqSets for generating DOIs for sequence subsets used in publications, that can then be tracked for impact via CrossRef that will allow data generators to track impact! #IMMEMXiV

New preprint: Antimicrobial Resistance Cartography — a simple way to map multivariate drug-resistance phenotypes, using data from @CDCgov. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026): www.embl.org/about/info/e... We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them

Introducing AMR cartography - work by Andrew Balmer

The Streptococcus Great Britain & Ireland 2026 meeting will bring together ECRs and experts to highlight cutting-edge research focused on crucial aspects of Streptococcal biology, in Durham on March 30th/31st 2026. More information strepgbi.wixsite.com/strep-gbi. Registration opening soon.

The UK university sector is not beaten yet: UK is awarded the highest number of ERC Advanced Grants (56; Germany has next- highest with 35). Other stats: 11% success rate; grants will create approximately 2,700 jobs in the teams of grantees. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Hey, Miles' @milesroberts.bsky.social beautiful paper showing that sequence diversity missed by standard methods contributes to Lewontin's paradox is officially published in @evolletters.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...

The abstract submission deadline for Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics 2025 is soon approaching! Make sure to submit by 23:59 BST on 7 July 2025. microb.io/Abstracts #MicroEvo25

📣💥Thrilled to share this preprint from our PhD student Yao Shi on the identification of a conserved motif in Strep suis cell wall glycan for possible vaccine protection. 👏 to team of dedicated international collaborators immunogenicity.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.02.656523v1