🍄 ⭐It's #UKFungusDay !⭐ 🍄 If you've taken some great fungus photos, why not submit your favourite to the Photography Competition. Free entry for all ages, amateur & professional categories. Deadline: 13th October. www.ukfungusday.co.uk/photography Thanks to competition sponsors: Caley Brothers !

Our study in #AccessMicrobiology reports the first Irish surveillance of #Cefiderocol vs P. aeruginosa in #CysticFibrosis 💊⚔️🦠 85% of isolates were susceptible, including MDR, XDR, PDR & mucoid phenotypes - highlighting its potential as a salvage option 🛡️🌍 #MicroSky #IDSky 🔗 doi.org/10.1099/acmi...

New in JB: S. aureus is known to incorporate exogenous fatty acids (FA) into its membrane. Menjivar, Bose et al. show that S. aureus has a FA degradation system expressed under catabolite control. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... @asm.org #JBacteriology

Post docs make research possible! #NPAW @mrccmm.bsky.social

What are you doing next April? Do you fancy joining us in Belfast to discuss microbes (ok, #AMR) - we have two half day sessions under the Knocking Out AMR banner. Do send your abstracts, the closing date for submission is the 11th of November and join us for some fun filled discussions #Microbio26

Our study on a mycovirus that boosts fungal virulence is now out — and beautifully covered in this Behind the Paper piece by Amariliz Rivera Huge thanks for capturing the heart of the story so thoughtfully. @natmicrobiol.nature.com rdcu.be/eB9yg

Being an #AccessMicrobiology Editor has been a rewarding experience! From working with wonderful colleagues to engaging with a vibrant world of research and publishing, if you’re passionate about microbiology and want to contribute to the community, this is a fantastic opportunity! 🌍🔬 #MicroSky

🧬Aspiring Editors🧬 Access Microbiology is recruiting Editors to join our board! We welcome expertise across all areas of microbiology, and are especially keen to hear from microbiologists working in clinical microbiology or genomics. Feel free to DM with any questions.

📣 Call for papers! Special issue of #FungalEcology on “Fungal conservation: from knowledge to actions” co-edited by Susana C. Gonçalves @cfemycolab.bsky.social & Jonathan Cazabonne @jonathancazabonne.bsky.social. Deadline for manuscripts: 31 Jan 2026. Find out more: www.linkedin.com/company/brit...

🧫 Today's #ImageOfTheWeek is a dual species biofilm featuring Candida glabrata (pink) & Staphylococcus aureus (gold). These dense biofilms are resistant to antifungal drugs, making treatment extremely challenging. 📸 @orlandorosss.bsky.social & @seanaduggan.bsky.social #AMR #fungi #research

Evolution of antifungal resistance in the environment New Review Article by @normanvanrhijn.bsky.social and @drjorhodes.com Read it here: rdcu.be/eyobz www.nature.com/articles/s41...

My group at is hiring a PhD student to explore how fungal pathogens that live in the environment will adapt their genomes, acquire new phenotypes, and perhaps even increased infectivity as a result of climate change. Please share! More info and applications at @ jobs.uni-jena.de/vrbup

🚨📆⏰ LAST DAY FOR ABSTRACT SUBMISSION 🧬🦠🧫 Got that last bit of data wrapped up & approved by your supervisor? Why not submit an abstract for the ECR Symposium TODAY! Submit at tinyurl.com/BIM-abst... by tonight at 11.59 PM EST (4.59 AM BST) #BiM2025 #BlackInMicrobiology #EarlyCareerResearch

New in #AccessMicro a scoping review on use of Oxford Nanopore’s portable sequencing in infectious disease detection & surveillance across Africa, highlighting applications, costs & challenges. www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #Genomics #GlobalHealth #Nanopore @microbiologysociety.org

📝Call for papers📝 I'm co-editing a @microbiologysociety.org #JMedMicro collection on Fungal Pathogenesis. Contribute a review, research or short communication article by Nov 2025 (flexible) If interested, get in touch! #FungalPathogens #MedicalMycology #InfectiousDiseases

What an awesome first day at FEMS Micro Milan! Thank you very much for the award @femsmicro.org I am truly honoured! 💕 #FEMS2025

Delighted to be at the #BMS2025 and highly appreciate the sparkling water buffet

🚨 Visit Stand 32 at #FEMS2025 and say hi to Vicky, Sarah and Naomi! 👋 @Microbiosoc is a not-for-profit publisher and membership charity.

We now turn to the archive of a newer title: our open research platform, Access Microbiology. Revisiting our first issue in 2019, take a look at this image of human leprosy - doi.org/10.1099/acmi... #AccessMicro

Interested in working on Mucorales adaptation? Thanks to new funding from @wellcometrust.bsky.social, we will have two postdoc and a technician positions advertised very soon! if interested, please get in touch for more information.

Culture harder: use more specimen to increase methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus culture yield relative to PCR. Published #OpenAccess and fee-free in #AccessMicro using a #PublishAndRead agreement: doi.org/10.1099/acmi...

What happens in the lab while you’re away @mrccmm.bsky.social

Fantastic to see so many big players in the publishing sector moving towards transparent and open practices.

Finally! @nature.com is making #PeerReview reports public. Transparency like this is a huge win for science, trust, & credibility. Now if only they'd adopt #doubleblind review and always disclose reviewer identities, they might be as transformative as @stacksjournal.bsky.social #SciPub 🧪

Wrapping up a lovely few days in Jena for the JSMC & ILRS alumni meeting at @leibniz-hki.de, seeing all the old haunts and catching up with so many wonderful people. I’m in awe of science in Jena, going from strength to strength and leveraging all the talent & infrastructure there.

I am recruiting - if you have a background in plant mol cell bio, a keen interest in sustainability and planetary health and are looking to move away from the bench, this may be for you! Have a 👀 and please reach out if Qs 1yr FTC, remote in the UK job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/plos/jobs/46...

Conferences with your friends are some of the best bits of the job. The job is not easy, but how very lucky to have such strong and opinionated women as my peers to conspire and collaborate with

We’ve just finished another wonderful #StaphGBI meeting in Leicester. I’m bowled over by the quality, novelty and amount of unpublished data we were treated to. What a great thing our quorum of staphylococcologists is!

Excited to share our editorial on peer review, out now in #mBio! This was a mighty group effort with my mBio Early Career Editorial Board peer mentoring group @proctordm.bsky.social and Rachy Abraham. From novice to expert: preparing your peer review | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Are you interested in fungus-host interactions in the skin? Then, this postdoc position may be of interest to you 👇 #MedMycoSky #MicroSky

Please repost: We have a postdoc position in Antifungal Immunity Research available to study T cell responses and fungal sensitization in atopic dermatitis. @lableibundgut.bsky.social @neil-gow.bsky.social @mrccmm.bsky.social For more details, visit: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

Huge congratulations to @mervesuzanzeden.bsky.social on her selection as the 2025 FEMS Outstanding Early Career Microbiologist. Its wonderful to see recognition for all of Merve's hard work in the lab and her community.

Interested in superbugs, AMR and stress resistance? Join us to do a PhD in the Corrigan lab @UCDMedicine www.ucd.ie/graduatestud...

We’re gearing up for the 2026 edition of the Early Career Forum Co-chairing Scheme which allows early career members to gain session chairing experience! Register your interest for the scheme by 28 July 2025 23:59 BST - microb.io/3GuiDds

The publishing model has to change Big journals make BILLIONS on margins unheard of in any other business @oana-sandulescu.bsky.social @hoferu.bsky.social @angelahuttner.bsky.social @anniejoseph.bsky.social @escmid.bsky.social #escmidglobal2025

I was today years old when I first heard this gorgeous quote at #EMBOclimateResilience: “The way in which our universities have divided up our sciences does not reflect the way in which nature has divided up its problems” (Kurt Salzinger) - thank you @luciastrader.bsky.social!

There was an excellent standard of posters at #Microbio25. Well done to all presenters and congrats to the prize winners. Getting to see all this science and be a part of awarding prizes - which means so much to the recipients- is one of the best parts of my DEiC role on #AccessMicro

If you're still at #MircoBio25, head down to poster 89 and catch up with all the work that @phoebecrossley.bsky.social is up to as part of her PhD in my lab #microsky #vaginalmicrobiome

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-...

If you're at @microbiologysociety.org annual conference, go find Maryam Ravari #Microbio25 who is presenting her work on mechanisms of biocide tolerance un Proteus mirabilis!

@blackinmicro.bsky.social thank you for everything you do 👏 Thank you @microbiologysociety.org for introducing the EDI prize, it’s great to see these conversations take place at scientific conferences. If you missed it, check out this blog post: microbiologysociety.org/news/society... #MicroBio25

What a fantastic and highly relevant way to start #Microbio25 with a wonderful presentation by the Black Microbiologists Association as our EDI prize winning lecture.

Had a lovely time being interviewed by a dear friend and colleague @rebee.bsky.social about @blackinmicro.bsky.social winning the inaugural @microbiologysociety.org EDI Prize! Come along to the lecture tomorrow at #Microbio25 to hear about making microbiology more equitable for Black scientists.

A sunrise start travelling to #MicroBio25 in Liverpool. I’m looking forward to a few days of catch-ups, cutting edge microbiology, an excellent line-up of prize lectures and surely, as always, making new connections.

The ratio between SARS-CoV-2 RNA viral load and culturable viral titre differs depending on the stage of infection: a case study of household transmission in an adult male. Read the full case report in #AccessMicro: doi.org/10.1099/acmi...

Dr. Rebee Penrice-Randal interviews the 2025 winner of the Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion Prize, The Black Microbiologists Association before their prize lecture. Find out more here: 🔗https://microb.io/PrizeWinnersEDI

📣Publication alert! Another great output from @metagymomics.bsky.social for his PhD. Looking at strain level genetic variation within members of the vaginal microbiome. #microsky @pauldcotter.bsky.social @calumwalsh.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I spent a fantastic few days last week with the @mrccmm.bsky.social gang reflecting, team building & discussing over views of gorgeous Dartmoor.

We're pleased to announce the appointment of Prof Joe Jarvis as Honorary Professor at @exeter.ac.uk. Joe's expertise will complement our ongoing and future activities @mrccmm.bsky.social Read more: sites.exeter.ac.uk/medicalmycology/2025/03/13/prof-joe-jarvis-appointed-as-mrc-cmm-honorary-member/

We are indebted to Alessia Buscaino for the discovery that the Candida albicans type SC5314 type strain is an RNAi Argonaut mutant. Her great talk today also shows that this is relevant to microbiome and macrophage interactions and has host niche specific consequences. @ecfg172025.bsky.social