Output != Productivity, which is a measure of efficiency, and the first Figure in this paper seems to suggest that women actually produce more papers per year than men (albeit from a disadvantaged starting point, x-axis is years in research). Graphical abstract also seems misleading on this.

Registration & abstract submissions are open for the #Shigella meeting! Travel grants available too! All are welcomed, whether you are active in #Shigella research or interested in the 21st century perspective on this formidable pathogen! 🦠 🧫 #Microsky www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home

Introducing AMR cartography - work by Andrew Balmer

We will be talking about our favorite microorganism #Shigella at the @shigellameeting.bsky.social in April 2026! 🦠 🧫 @ksbakes.bsky.social @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @marteynlab.bsky.social

Come and join us at @shigellameeting.bsky.social in Paris 2026. Registrations are now open! www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home and follow the Shigella starter pack go.bsky.app/6Vbwhjc (message to be added)! 215 days to go!

It’s nearly that time of year again 🎃 👻 🦇 please give me your best scary book recommendations blueskyers 📕

History repeats itself: more disappearing STIs from molecular target mutation 😬 Great 🕵️ work by @sarah1alexander.bsky.social and colleagues!

Anyone else currently in Ghent to learn about phage proteins?

I really enjoyed chatting about our new study on CoV with Dr Norman Swan on ABC Radio National’s Health Report this week- great to discuss the work with a journalist with specific expertise! www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...

Willing to join us @pasteur.fr for a PhD for a project on how interactions between mobile genetic elements shape bacterial adaptation? Subject to be tailored to candidates with keen interest in evolution, genomics, computational biology, microbiology. Check www.pasteur.fr/en/education...

Reminder that we are recruiting an Assistant Professor Bacterial Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a... Deadline 24 Sept.

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!! @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

[New paper alert 🚨 ] What happens when pneumococci 'slip' and 'add' just one extra A in a promoter spacer of a sugar scavenging gene? 🧬 www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years? Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Are you a postdoc interested in the mechanisms of disease? Do you have a great record and an exciting vision? Come and start your own lab @dunnschool.bsky.social by applying for sponsorship for early career fellowships. Deadline 30th September...pass it on! www.path.ox.ac.uk/work-with-us...

How should #XDR #shigellosis cases be treated? Our new education piece at #BMJ #SexuallyTransmittedInfections explores specific empirical treatment. Our recommendations are subsequent to our microbial genomic, phenotypic #AMR, and clinical/pharmacological analyses. sti.bmj.com/content/earl... 🧫💻🛟🧪🧬🦠

An inspiring read! academic.oup.com/genetics/adv... A beautiful historical perspective on Ester Lederberg's legacy from @ccwendling.bsky.social & @zacharybailey.bsky.social

Awesome to see the transparent, systematic, and evidence-based approach behind the WHO Bacterial Priority Pathogens List 2024 out in the Lancet Infectious Diseases www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The honour is real ...

Our Pitt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics department in the School of Medicine is recruiting.. Microbiologists! 🧫🦠🔬🧪 Please apply to join our faculty and enjoy these views 👀 while doing great science cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

#Vaping at a young age may act as a gateway to smoking, study suggests @rebeccaglover.bsky.social explains that young people globally face a serious range of physical & psychological harms from vaping, as evidence indicates higher risk of transitioning to #smoking. www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Dear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

Come be my colleague! We have three open positions at the Assistant/Associate Professor level for candidates in all areas of the biological sciences. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

We are recruiting for an Editor to join the Journal of Medical Microbiology (JMM)! We’re looking for Editors with some previous editorial experience to handle JMM’s One Health - Emerging, Zoonotic and Environmental Disease section. Find out more and apply here: microb.io/4lnPPBU 🦠

Celebrating a successful summer with @grace-jennings.bsky.social and PhD student Julie! Grateful for their contribution & the adorably crocheted intestines 😊 Exciting times ahead! I truly enjoy #mentorship. Go team #Shigella! 🦠 🧫🔬 #Microsky

My parents brought the last of my effects over from Oz including my first ever scientific poster (and the only piece of high school work I kept) … maybe I was destined to end up in @geneticscam.bsky.social

Just announced - @smhopkins.bsky.social will be the new chief executive of the UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social. Starting in September.

I hope all my fellow #shigellaphiles have 20 - 24 April 2026 blocked out in their diaries for @shigellameeting.bsky.social next year in Paris! In the meantime, check out (and join) our starter pack to start community building now 🧫

Finally out!! It was a long time in the making, I hope you enjoy it!! #salmonella #iNTS #AMR

Really looking forward to the First #Shigella International Meeting to be held in Paris, France, April 2026! The meeting website is almost ready. Please follow @shigellameeting.bsky.social for more information and updates! #Microsky 🦠 🧫 🔬

Was great to put the dream team back together for a commentary on this with @alisonmather.bsky.social very cool study on AMR flow through food production chains in Europe www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Had a great lunch today at @unibirmingham.bsky.social's Winterbourne Gardens with Rivie and Kev, the brilliant @target-amr.bsky.social admin team. I am also terrible at making selfies.

There are half a million cases of invasive non-Typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) every year and while you might know S. Typhimurim and Enteritidis, you may not have heard of S. Panama 💩 🩸 🧫 💊 Check out our latest in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.la... and the 🧵 below to find out more 1/n

Am super excited about this ... www.theasm.org.au/asm-conferen...

Great work from PDU PDRAs this week supporting this summer school!

There are half a million cases of invasive non-Typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) every year and while you might know S. Typhimurim and Enteritidis, you may not have heard of S. Panama 💩 🩸 🧫 💊 Check out our latest in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.la... and the 🧵 below to find out more 1/n

New research article Global diversity and evolution of #Salmonella enterica serovar #Panama: a genomic epidemiology study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #MicroSky #AMR #OpenAccess #OA

Very pleased to say we have an Assistant Professor job opening (tenure track) in the Department of Genetics at Trinity College Dublin! 😀 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOA399/a... - deadline is August 19th! Please repost!

Two PhD studentships available in real-time infectious disease modelling, jointly with LSHTM, Imperial and UKHSA. January 2026 start + 3.5 years of funding: www.lshtm.ac.uk/study/fees-a...

💥 Excited to introduce Bacformer 🦠 - the first foundation model for bacterial genomics. Bacformer represents genomes as sequences of ordered proteins, learning the “grammar” of how genes are arranged, interact and evolve. Preprint 📝: biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵 1/n

Our new Faraday Discovery Fellowships Accelerated International Route provides a fast-track option for international mid-career researchers looking to relocate to the UK, providing up to £4m over a five-year period. Find out more: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/farad...

Comprehensive taxonomic identification of microbial species in metagenomic data using SingleM and Sandpiper www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

⭐ Excellence fellowships accepting applications ⭐ for Black ECRs who have a degree from the UK. sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco... I have an amazing spatial transcriptomics project available on the world's most important pathogen, TB: www.sanger.ac.uk/wp-content/u... Please reach out!

Gisèle Pelicot given France's highest award. I should bloody well hope so. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Are you a top US-based scientist wanting to relocate to Australia? We are now calling for formal applications from both Australian and non-Australian citizens based in the US whose work is internationally recognised as exceptional. 📅 Applications close: Aug 29, 2025 🔗 science.org.au/gtap/?utm_so...

Super stoked and honored to be elected as co-chair along with @ksbakes.bsky.social for the Microbial Population Biology 2029 GRC! And looking forward to a great 2027 meeting in Andover chaired by @drhhnz.bsky.social and @wcratcliff.bsky.social !

Looking forward to seeing everyone, new and old, at the Microbial Population Biology GRS + GRC in just a couple days! go.bsky.app/GGxRjzC