If you're you have experience in working in animal / pathogen #aDNA and are interested in a postdoctoral position as part of my ERC Project HERDPATH, please DM/email me kevin[at]palaeome.org

📗✨ Happy Bloomsday! Today we celebrate the enduring legacy of James Joyce (BA 1902), UCD's most celebrated graduate, and his groundbreaking work, Ulysses. #bloomsday #jamesjoyce @ucdlibrary.bsky.social

Up Mayo!🇨🇦

Great letter in @nature.com from @roysleator.bsky.social 'Science must be seen as a viable profession for the many, not the few' www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Oh wow, amazing: "Discovery and identification of a handwritten laboratory notebook by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin describing experimental studies and development of the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis at the Institut Pasteur" doi.org/10.1016/j.tu...

Only a couple of days left to register for the UK Cellular Microbiology Network Meeting - we will have a great line up of speakers and poster presenters investigating various pathogens in cell-based, tissue and in vivo models.

This is cool - ‘Descent from a common ancestor restricts exploration of protein sequence space’ - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... & a great commentary piece too- ‘Maynard Smith’s analogy, realized: Common ancestry constrains evolutionary percolation through protein space’ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Become a citizen scientist and help map red and grey squirrels and pine martens across Ireland. Submit your sighting to the All-Ireland Squirrel and Pine Marten Survey: ROI: tinyurl.com/276jjna2 NI: tinyurl.com/2s4c2cc6 #NVWIreland Led by @uniofgalway.bsky.social @ulsterwildlife.bsky.social VWT

shocking statistics, but only limited public outcry.. We should be more vocal about this tb.impactcounter.com

Interested in the societal & scientific dynamics shaping microbial #conservation, #assetization & #biodiversity research? Then these back-to-back articles with Fred Vagneron on microbial culture collections in JHB's new Microbes & Health collection are for you! link.springer.com/collections/... 1/3

Deadline approaching: Submit an abstract until 12th of May to present at the UK Cellular Microbiology Meeting 2026! Great opportunity for early career researchers! www.ukcellmicro.org

The 2026 UK Cellular Microbiology Network Meeting is approaching fast! Submit an abstract until May, 12th and join us June, 22nd/23rd in Belfast! Exiting keynote speakers and opportunities for early career researchers from the UK, Ireland and beyond to share their work. www.ukcellmicro.org

‼️ A really good meeting for people working on host-pathogen interactions! Great keynote speakers this year: Raphael Valdivia and Florence Niedergang. Please repost!

Really important and relevant study in TB from @danbarberphd.bsky.social and colleagues. We need to re-think many assumptions. Nitric oxide production in mice has been a confounding factor. #tuberculosis

Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Parenthood #mistlethrush #thrush #photography #photographic #photographers #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #nature #EastCoastKin

Hot off the presses 🔥, the 3rd Edition of 'Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease' by Quinn et al. 🦠🧫🔬 In all good bookshops...and Amazon. www.wiley.com/en-gb/Veteri...

I'll speaking tomorrow at HEAS - you can sign up to watch online! www.heas.at/events/heas-...

Each publication in a #Microbio26 journal helps fund 4 student travel grants. Please publish with us if you can!

Hope for control of a centuries-old epidemic www.nature.com/articles/d41...

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... I am delighted to share the latest study on our bTB vaccine. Grateful to Beef Cattle Research Council for the support 🙏

Four stories that Albert Camus might choose to tell if he were alive today www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2026...

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BestOfTheMonth Love how this little guy turned out #Robin #photography #photographic #photographers #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #nature #EastCoastKin

💥Our latest @embojournal.org on membrane damage and repair. Di @dichen02.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk found that calcium is a conserved signal for ATG8/LC3 lipidation on membranes using novel probes to record calcium leakage. Congratulations Di et al! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

One of the deadliest diseases in history is still here. TB kills 1.3M people every year. On #WorldTBDay, VIDO researchers are advancing vaccines, drug targets, and new models to help stop TB. Read more: www.vido.org/news/2026/ad... @usask.ca @jeffchenmycolab.bsky.social #WorldTBDay #TB

All currently approved antibiotics inhibit essential cellular processes. Ever wonder if we could kill bacteria using the opposite strategy? Here, we demonstrate an alternative antibacterial strategy: lethality through pathway over-activation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1 out of 3)

Bert W. O’Malley (1936–2025): A great scientist, mentor, and proud Irishman | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The #BirdOfTheDay theme is #tricolour #starling #photography #photographic #photographers #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #nature #EastCoastKin

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

“Measures to strengthen international biosafety and biosecurity practices” There is an absolute necessity for research on ‘pandemic-prone pathogens’. Studies must, however, be conducted responsibly & according to strict principles of safety & security This outlines steps for global accountability

Very happy to see this out! Great work by @lockwop.bsky.social @crick.ac.uk and first paper on NTMs from the lab! Parise made a set of 12 fluorescently labelled NTMs covering environmental and opportunistic mycobacteria... onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I’m pleased 🤗 to share our new preprint exploring the mode of action and resistance of the antitubercular drug pyrazinamide (PZA) 💊 Thanks to everyone who have participated 🙌 We hope these findings will help the fight against drug resistance in tuberculosis. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

#OnThisDay in 1938, American evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis was born. Margulis is most known for developing and popularising the endosymbiotic theory, which explains how eukaryotic cells evolved organelles from simpler prokaryotic organisms that resided within another and became incorporated.

The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #SideView The elusive jay. #photography #photographic #photographers #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #nature #EastCoastKin

The human right to a healthy, clean & sustainable environment could be a game changer for tackling #AMR's environmental drivers. But how could this work? Wendy Boucrot, Sheila Varadan & I review how the new right could be applied to #antimicrobial pollution. doi.org/10.1017/pub.... #STS #HistMed

I'll swim the seas inside with you And like the waves, without a sound I'll never let you down #Ireland #Mayo #WildAtlanticWay #photography #photographie #photographers #EastCoastKin

On #RareDiseaseDay, we recognise the leadership of Dr Cormac McCarthy, whose voice continues to raise research impact & awareness of Lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM). . #clinicaltrials Patient partnership drives progress. @ucdmedicine.bsky.social @ucddublin.bsky.social

The genomic diversity and spatial patterns of Mycobacterium bovis in Ireland revealed by whole genome sequencing rdcu.be/e50zT

Recovering Mycobacterium tuberculosis 🦠 from ancient samples is notoriously difficult. But, in this new study, the elusive M. tuberculosis DNA was detected in five individuals from medieval Ireland. doi.org/10.1016/j.tu... #MetagenomicsMonday #SPAAM #aDNA #paleogenomics #tuberculosis #TB #pathogen

Can safely way this is the craziest and coolest study I have led. We chart the evolution of sheeppox virus, finding it in the Eurasian steppe ~3700 years ago, and also in a LOT of parchment from medieval Europe (made from a range of animals skins!) #aDNA

Great work by Jamie Gorzynski and Josh-Harling-Lee from the group providing insights into the evolutionary origins of bacterial lineages. A collaboration with @jrpenades.bsky.social @wfigueroac3.bsky.social. #Staph Cell Reports www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Beautiful and solid work on trehalose monomycolate synthesis in mycobacteria by @figlegend.bsky.social lab. Check it out folks. Also, for the non-enzymologists, product inhibition is a thing, and actually does matter. 😜 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Myeloid core of TB granulomas is partitioned into two distinct metabolic environments, one of which is hypoxic & associated with pathological immune cell states that subvert immunity to TB @natimmunol.nature.com @erin-mccaffrey.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Insights into how #Staph aureus adapts to the bovine host by unlocking nutrients from the dairy niche. Great work by Amy Pickering, Jamie Gorzynski and others in the group. Bacterial metabolic remodeling by convergent evolution after a host switch.|Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In the largest study of its kind, scientists in the Bork Group at EMBL have found that a small subset of microbes can carry and transfer genes across disparate habitats, creating a planet-wide, interconnected network of microbiomes 🌍 🦠 🔗 Read more here: www.embl.org/news/science...

Congrats to @aschwalbc.bsky.social for bringing this work to the finish line!

We’re excited to share our latest study that reshapes our understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) lipid composition, with major implications for drug discovery, immunity, and vaccine development. www.nature.com/articles/s41... A thread.

low winter sun #EastCoastKin #photography #photographie #photographers #Ireland

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

Of course I like all the papers that we publish, but this is actually a very cool story, a great example of 'bush mechanics' in mycobacteria. A new role for lipoproteins LpqZ and FecB in orchestrating mycobacterial cell envelope biogenesis | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...