It’s that magical time of year 🥳 when we delete all work apps from our phones 🙌 Happy holidays everyone, and catch you in 2026! Oh, and don’t forget to register for the @shigellameeting.bsky.social

📣 UKHSA survey on gonorrhoea testing practices in England UKHSA is inviting sexual health services & diagnostic labs to take part in a national survey on current gonorrhoea testing practices across England. ⏱️ 15 minutes 🗓️ Deadline: 14 Jan 2026 🔗 Take part here: surveys.ukhsa.gov.uk/s/sg01bo

The final piece of my PhD work is now published in Science Translational Medicine! We present a new framework to jointly infer epidemiological and antigenic parameters from multi-pathogen population serological studies🦠 www.science.org/stoken/autho...

We are recruiting for a number of PhDs in the HPRU in Public Health Genomics, based at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, in collaboration with UKHSA. 🦠🧬 Apply below to work on cutting-edge science and public health priorities! (NB deadline of 9th January / UK only due to funding restrictions) (1/7)

Come and visit me in Paris! #Shigella2026 - travel bursaries deadline tomorrow. Submit your abstracts at www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home

Travel bursary deadline closing tomorrow - get your abstracts in December 16!

Work on respiratory immunology or microbes? Interested in big data, omics or the latest in vitro models?... Treat your lab to a christmas present of AIR 2026 registration! Feb 11th-13th, registration closing soon: coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/air-20...

Attending ESCMID global and want to go to #Shigella2026 afterward? There are several direct flights a day from Munich to Paris www.skyscanner.net or why not reduce your carbon footprint and take in the European countryside by train www.raileurope.com/en? Most options <£100 See you there!

Get the dates in your calendars guys: June 27 - July 2 2027 for the GRC in Microbial Population Biology 🧬 🧫 🌴

It’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027! See you there!! @wcratcliff.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social #microsky #mevosky

Dr Somenath Bakshi is 1 of 8 @cam.ac.uk researchers who will receive a share of the @erc.europa.eu's €728m Consolidator Grant awards this year www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid... He will map how bacterial physiology controls the infection dynamics of phage – a #virus that infects & kills #bacteria 🦠

📢 Thrilled to see that our work on chikungunya virus (CHIKV) epidemiology in Brazil is out in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social 🧵

One week remains to submit #early #abstracts and apply for #travel grants for the #Shigella meeting! #MicroSky #IDSky 🦠🧫🔬 @ksbakes.bsky.social @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @marteynlab.bsky.social @christinafaher1.bsky.social www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/call-for-abs...

Treat yourself this Christmas to a registration for the #Shigella2026 meeting in Paris!

🦠 EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention 📅 April 20-24, 2026 📍 Institut Pasteur, Paris Register now ➡️ www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home @embo.org @shigellameeting.bsky.social

MetaPointFinder: A new approach for detecting mutation-driven antimicrobial resistance directly from metagenomic reads. Fills a major gap in current resistome profiling by capturing chromosomal AMR mutations that metagenome tools miss. github.com/aldertzomer/...

Opening of a Group Leader position in AI in genomics at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr , Paris research.pasteur.fr/en/call/mid-...

🚨 Registration is now OPEN! 🎉Join us for the TARGetAMR Annual Conference 2026 on Thursday 14 & Friday 15 May at The Studio, Birmingham 🦠Connect, collaborate & tackle antimicrobial resistance ✨Secure your spot today! 👉 Register now: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta... #TARGetAMR26

These two things aren’t mutually exclusive: open.spotify.com/track/5NS0ip...

Poster deadline for the Keystone Microbiome Meeting in Banff is December 30th www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/... Will be a great meeting focused on human microbiomes, spanning basic, mechanistic, and applied. Organized by myself, @amibhatt.bsky.social , and Harry Sokol. Join us!

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Twitching was like Pokémon Go before there was Pokémon Go … minus the battles I guess 🦅 🦢 🐦

Okay, it's the start of the academic year and there have been further funny (and some frustrating) mix ups ... just a gentle reminder that there are two of us - try to make sure you have the right one ...

Encourage creativity and storytelling for young folk 9+ with a copy of Graphic Novel Builder: the illustrated guide to making your own comics! With an intro by Alice Oseman! ✏️ www.edwardross.co.uk/shop/p/graph...

Really pleased to share the first paper to come out of the lab. We found that hospital patients were frequently colonised with P. aeruginosa and that the same clone was shared between the gut and the lung. The phylogenies indicate that the clones moved from lung->gut www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I have a wonderful colleague who calls these things out by saying “It’s interesting you think that, what makes you think that?”

Normally I would agree with this but it’s 2025 and the 30th of November is right there. A conveniently located Sunday. It’s gonna happen people.

#Abstract submissions are open for The #Shigella Meeting! If you would like to be considered for a #travel #grant, abstracts are due December 16, 2025. Regular submissions due January 14, 2026. Show us your #science! @shigellameeting.bsky.social 🦠 🧫🔬 #Microsky #IDsky

Don't forget to register for the #1st ever @shigellameeting.bsky.social at Pasteur next year! Apr 20 - 24 www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home

This #WAAW Don’t forget to get your awesome AMR abstracts submitted to join us in Hinxton to discuss AMR genomics, innovations in diagnostics, therapeutics, and data analytics, and novel mechanisms of antimicrobial survival! #AMR2026

This #WAAW Don’t forget to get your awesome AMR abstracts submitted to join us in Hinxton to discuss AMR genomics, innovations in diagnostics, therapeutics, and data analytics, and novel mechanisms of antimicrobial survival! #AMR2026

Happy to share our new AMR resource which has phenotypic AMR (usually MIC data) collected from publications and databases. This is paired with assemblies and annotations We're excited for users who might train new models, find phenotype/genotype mismatches, or any other use

🚨Job claxon 🚨 University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153

London interdisciplinary #PhD position now open with myself, @sergemostowylab.bsky.social, & @gmknght.bsky.social on #phage -bacteria-host immune dynamics for WHO priority bacterial pathogens #Klebsiella, #Shigella, and #Staph. Combines cellular microbiology, genomics, & mathematical modelling.

Know metagenomics and could spare 2 mins? I'm applying for funding to build a visual repository for metagenomic classification data (not sequence data). To support the application, I have a short 2 minute survey and it would be a big help if you could fill it in: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

If you’re at @astmh.bsky.social #ASTMH2025 check out our session today on Enteric Pathogen Genomics & Evolution (room 717, 16:30) featuring @ksbakes.bsky.social on Shigella, plus 2 other great talks on V. cholerae phages, and Salmonella!

For anyone else whose Mac Outlook 365 has started making regular, massive faux pas through Autocorrect recently: Start typing new email > Edit > Spelling and Grammar > uncheck 'Correct Spelling Automatically'. Literally just called a new collaborator Baby because of this ... 🙄

Are you hungry for some Shigella news? Why not come to the 1st International Shigella meeting www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home 20-24 April 2026 Paris

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Funded PhD position available in @langridgelab.bsky.social! Excellent project in a very supportive, driven & knowledgable group 🧬

Can we stop calling it a slow pandemic yet?

We are running a hackathon at EBI in Feb: biomics.bacpop.org If you are at EMBL, ETH Zurich, GRC or GIMM working on a biological problem in data science or programming, consider putting a project forwards!

Sign up for tomorrow's hybrid Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Danny Dorling of @ox.ac.uk. He'll be discussing the politics of epidemiology & public health in the UK 📅 Wed 15 October, 1 PM (UK) Register - buff.ly/wblZfOx @dphpc.bsky.social @mrc-bsu.bsky.social @phgfoundation.bsky.social

Abstracts you're thinking about for this conference might also be suitable for our Nature AMR collection in the genomics of resistance - open until March 24 2026! www.nature.com/collections/...

Enhanced virulence and stress tolerance are signatures of epidemiologically successful Shigella sonnei @sydneylmiles.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social 🙏to transformative collaborative effort www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Present your #AMR work at our dedicated forum for global researchers and practitioners! 🧫 🗓️ 23-25 March 2026 Submit abstract by 1 December 📩 Share #genomics and big data approaches for navigating the growing complexities in the AMR field. 📎bit.ly/3SWzJUm#AMR#genomics#MicroSky #AMR2026

We had the in-person meeting of the @target-amr.bsky.social leadership team today. We have some great plans for AMR genomics for the next year (and beyond), so follow us for updates!

new preprint from our group & Antoine Hocher: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.

New respiratory 🫁 infection and microbiomes conference in Hinxton with stellar line up of speakers. 🚨 Submit your abstracts now! 🚨 Please RT coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/air-20...

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important