As the year wraps up, a huge thank you to the team for an outstanding year of hard work. It’s been a fab one, with exciting outputs & great opportunities to share our work. Here’s to 2026: welcoming new faces, generating new #microbiome discoveries & continuing to enjoy the process & the laughs! 🤩

📢 We’re looking for Editors to join Microbial Genomics! We’re seeking Editors with some previous editorial experience to support our to help ensure the publication of high-quality, impactful research. Find out more and apply by 19 January 2026: microb.io/Vacancies

The 2nd round of PhD projects for the DTP in Microbial Genomics for Health Protection, in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social, has just launched, funded by @nihr.bsky.social 6 PhD projects are available (UK students only) www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

Want to shape future collaboration between Parliament and the research community? Share your experiences, challenges and ideas by completing a short survey, led by a Parliamentary Thematic Research Lead. Please complete the survey by 31 December: microb.io/4pg68mB

Delighted to share Magda's new review in Annual Review of Food Science and Technology 🎉 We explore how microbe-diet interactions shape health across the life course and the promise (and challenges!) of microbiome-informed precision nutrition 👇 doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Whoop whoop! 🎉 @hannahtriv.bsky.social’s first-author paper is officially out as a preprint! Some super interesting long-read metagenomics results - especially the dominance of MDR Enterococcus faecium in very sick liver patients. Huge shout-out to the whole team and fab collaborators!

Last chance to register! #MMEG2025 is just two weeks away, and we’re shining a spotlight on two unmissable panel sessions at the event.

HoloGen Doctoral Network Retreat #2 – Barcelona! 🌞 All our PhD candidates together for the first time – a week of project presentations, hands-on workshops, industry talks, and an amazing sailing social on the Med. Science + collaboration + tapas = success! #HoloGen #PhDLife #Microbiome #MSCADN

🚨 Join us on 2-4th March 2026 for this fantastic UK-based #microbiome conference! A stellar line-up of speakers, plus plenty of opportunities for selected talks and flash poster pitches. 🗓️ Abstract deadline: 24th November 2025 - don’t miss out!

🧫 #MMEG2025 is back! 📍 University of Birmingham | 15-16 Dec 🎤 20+ ERC talks, posters & flash talks 🍽️ Social at Indian Brewery Taproom Keynote: Prof. Corinne Whitby Abstracts due 2 Nov - get those abstracts submitted! Join us for a cracking microbial ecology community meeting 👉

Have research, results, or ideas to share with the microbial ecology community? Don’t miss your chance to present it at #MMEG2025 - abstract submissions close 2 November! 📨 Submit your abstract: appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...

New paper out! 🎉 Our collab with Jorge & Amanda shows that Bifido can remotely control placental endocrine function (in 🐀) - modulating >400 proteins! 🚀 Published in J Transl Med - translational-medicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... Gut microbes shaping the placenta - pretty amazing stuff! 🧫🤰

MMEG is coming to @unibirmingham.bsky.social in December - look out for some exciting announcements about the programme in the next few weeks! Abstract submission and registration is open 👇🏻

📢🚨 Check out @drgdavidson.bsky.social's 3-year senior PDRA role below @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social! Super exciting project exploring wildlife ecology 🐾 and gut microbiome bioinformatics 🧬! 👉 Apply: vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18... 💬 Informal enquiries to Gabrielle welcome!

Come join us 2-4th March 2026 for a cracking #microbiome conference in Hinxton UK! Speaker line up is AMAZING and lots of opportunities for ECRs for selected talks, flash talks and posters. Bursaries are also available! See details below 👇

We were gutted that @eliza-coli.bsky.social’s stunning illustration wasn’t chosen for the front cover - I mean, just look at it! ✨ Working with Eliza was a joy & if you’re looking for a brilliant scientific illustrator to bring your projects to life, I can’t recommend her highly enough 🎨🧫🦠

Such an engaged audience at #EESMicrobiome with lots of great questions after my talk! Big thanks to the organisers for inviting me to present some of the teams recent early life #microbiome work. Conference has been AMAZING so far!

🚨 An excellent opportunity for scientists in Africa, at all career stages, working on maternal & child microbiome research 🚨 📚 Blended learning (3 months) incl. prep modules, hands-on training (12-17 Apr 2026) & mentoring. coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/human-...

Excited to share our @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social led by Magda showing how Bif has co-evolved with different animal hosts 🐒🐭🐷🐦 Key takeaways: 🔹 Host ancestry + diet shape Bif evolution 🔹 Mammals enriched for carb-busting enzymes 🔹 Untapped diversity in non-human hosts = new probiotic potential

Bursaries to support your participation at our Microbiome research conference! #Microbiome26 Get up to 50% off the conference registration fee - apply by 24 November 📩 Join us to explore the latest tools and approaches driving advances in the field. 📎bit.ly/4kttBOX#Microbiome26#MicrobiomeSky #AcademicSky

Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨ Huge team effort! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧠🌍 Free Online Symposium African Microbiomes & Mental Health 📅 29 Sept 2025 | 🕒 14:00 SAST / 13:00 BST 🔗 Register or submit an abstract: forms.gle/8WBZnimr3xui... 🎤 Join leading researchers, clinicians & lived experience experts. 🌟 Submit an abstract for a 10-min spotlight talk! 📄 Speaker info below

🚨 2 funded #PhD positions (ERC Adv Grant) in the Moissl-Eichinger Lab, Graz! Study Methanobrevibacter as a keystone in the gut microbiome. 💡 Omics, modeling, synthetic consortia 📅 Deadline: Sept 10, 2025 🌍 Int’l applicants welcome! Application link below. #microbiomesky #archaeasky #microsky

Interested in bacteriocins targeting Gram-negative bacteria causing UTIs? Come and work with me and PI @davidnegus.bsky.social as a research assistant on a 12-month project, funded by The Urology Foundation. #UTIsky

Barnstorming talk by @coytelab.bsky.social at the @imibirmingham.bsky.social seminar series today! 🧬 “An ecosystem on a leash: understanding the drivers of gut microbiome dynamics” Thanks for making the trip down from Manchester and sharing some super cool published & preliminary data! 🚀

Exciting webinar on AI & Health Data coming up! 🧠💻 Featuring @unibirmingham.bsky.social & UK Dept for Business & Trade Explore clinical & public health research, collab opportunities & more. 🗓️ July 15 | 10:00–11:30am EST 🔗 lu.ma/9v8i0fdl #AI #HealthData #UKResearch #UoB #DBT #DigitalHealth

Newly published study by Prof Lindsay Hall @halllab.bsky.social and Prof Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social finding that antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus haemolyticus bacteria are common in premature babies www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/wi...

🌍 #WorldMicrobiomeDay 2025 At @halllab.bsky.social we’re uncovering how microbes - right from day one - help shape the gut, strengthen immunity, and protect against infection. We're exploring how, when, and which microbes colonise - in order to develop interventions for a healthier start to life.

Amazing to see this now published! Congrats to @lisalamberte.bsky.social and @wvschaik.bsky.social - on leading this important #microbiome study on #AMR and Staphylococcus haemolyticus in the preterm gut 👇

🌍 Thrilled to share that I've been selected as a 2025 UK Goalkeeper by WIRED Consulting in partnership with @gatesfoundation.bsky.social! This incredible initiative celebrates those driving progress towards the UN SDGs – and I’m honoured to be among this year’s cohort. www.wired.com/sponsored/st...

(1/6) 🌟 Excited to share our new paper! Advancing microbiome safety assessments: opportunities, challenges & recommendations 🧫🦠 This work came out of an academic–industry workshop hosted by @microbiologysociety.org in early 2024. 🔗 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Amazing evening talking science @pintofscience.uk in Birmingham Was really great to present some of the amazing data from @halllab.bsky.social Also credit to the organisers for such an amazing venue !

🎉 Fantastic start to the @hologen.bsky.social in sunny Copenhagen! From 5-9th May we had a week of training, talks & new connections - including our 1st #HoloGen Symposium. Brilliant energy from our new PhD cohort - excited for the impactful years ahead! 💥 #Hologenomics #Microbiome #PhDLife #MSCADN

Looks like I’ve got another move across the world in me! 🌏✈️📦 I'll be starting at @uniofbath.bsky.social in a few weeks as senior lecturer/associate prof in human microbiome. Excited to be back in Europe + for new collabs (alongside ongoing 🇦🇺🇬🇧🇫🇮🇸🇪🇦🇹 ones). Thanks to everyone who helped; more soon!

Very happy that HiBC is out: rdcu.be/ekSCO 🔥 @natcomms.nature.com Excellent team spirit, and, as always, great driving factor by @tcahitch.bsky.social ⭐⭐⭐⭐ We hope that these bacterial isolates from the human gut will facilitate many studies by others... 😀

This meeting will be great! Abstract submission open now See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

Check out @sekid.bsky.social's exciting preprint on critical microbe-microbe interactions during🤱 feeding! A clinical cohort & (new) ecological computational analysis highlights key relationships & in vitro studies indicate how & why E. coli helps stabilise Bifido during this early diet window!

And here jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available in the team - one here and second to follow - please repost! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Applications are now open for positions on our Advisory Council, Committees, Divisions, and Members Panel. Increase your professional development and networking opportunities while getting more involved with the Society's community: microb.io/GovernanceVacancies2025

To all enjoying #MicroBio25 remember: all @microbiologysociety.org events rely on our journals - every paper pays 4x travel grants! Make 2025 when you submit a paper to a MicroSoc journal www.microbiologyresearch.org $0 OA for Publish+Read institutions www.microbiologyresearch.org/publish-and-...

Fantastic talk from @raymondkiu.bsky.social on preterm infant gut microbiome in the Knocking Out AMR session this afternoon! Proud to be part of @halllab.bsky.social surrounded by great scientists and research 🧫🧬🥼 #Microbio25 @microbiologysociety.org

Find out what my amazing colleagues are working on at #Microbio2025 Luke: poster 263 (Iron transporter in Bifidobacterium) and Charlie: poster 255 (therapeutic Bifidobacterium for IBD). @lukeacton.bsky.social @charliejones17.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @imibirmingham.bsky.social

First up at 9am today at #Microbio25 is Prof Lindsay Hall @halllab.bsky.social winner of the Peter Wildy prize, the award recognises excellence in science communication, outreach and engagement in the field of microbiology – congrats Lindsay 🎉

Big thanks to Liam for such a fun conversation on a range of #microbiome and public engagement topics ahead of my @microbiologysociety.org Peter Wildy Prize Lecture in Liverpool next week! 🦠🧫💩🤱🗣️

🎓 #PhDPosition ! 🔬 Bioinformatic & Experimental Discovery of Novel Bifidobacteria for Breast Cancer Therapy with Dr Stephen Robinson and Professor Lindsay Hall @halllab.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/nml1L1W

Anyone interested in joining us @quadraminstitute.bsky.social as part of @norwichmicro.bsky.social we’re recruiting for group leaders! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMF274/g...

🎉 Congratulations to @stewartlab.bsky.social who has been named the Life Sciences Laureate at the 2025 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the UK 🎖️ Read more 👇 www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articl... #WeAreNCL

Have you had a good mentor that has influenced you or your career in a profound way? Here’s how to show your gratitude - the Nature Award for mentoring in science is open for nominations! This year our focus is on mentors in the UK #academicSky 🧪 www.nature.com/nature/award...

So excited to share this latest work by @kelseyhuus.bsky.social !!! She shows that flagellin in the human gut affects whether or not people develop fever in response to vaccine, and the amount of flagellin reflects diet