Lazy Easter Sunday listening. #nowplaying #throwingmuses followed by #blur

Matchday | Millwall v Norwich City | Read more _____ Norwich City FC 🔰 #NCFC

How. My. Science. It's official. We are heading back to Latitude Festival and are excited to be branching out into the forest of science and culture!! 🥳🥳🥳

#microsky #symbiosky @gavinhthomas.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

Just a deeply unpleasant man.

It's almost certain Putin/Russia has the Epstein files (and other stuff) for blackmail. They know Trump will either die or be voted out in the next 2-3 years and so now is the time to cash in the compromise chips. Everything Trump is now doing benefits Putin - everything.

Bacteria have been fighting off viruses using a huge arsenal of molecular weaponry that scientists did not know about — until now. Researchers have identified proteins that could lead to virus-fighting drugs and technologies. go.nature.com/4dqQnXI

How diverse is bacterial immunity ? We report in @science.org how language models allowed us to predict 2.4M antiphage proteins spanning >23K novel potential systems. 👏 @emordret.bsky.social, @alexhv.bsky.social & al doi.org/10.1126/scie... Explore them here defensefinder.mdmlab.fr/wiki/refseq_...

Our work on chromatin evolution in brown algae is now published in @natecoevo.nature.com! We show that developmentally complex brown algae evolved without epigenetic silencing pathways long thought universal, underscoring why non-model lineages are important to study. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Research visit grant applications are now open. If you are planning a short (one-to three-month) research visit to another laboratory, don’t miss your opportunity to apply for funding. Check your eligibility and apply before 1 May 2026, 23.59 BST: https://microb.io/4tp6byU

Brazil is trouncing the "free speech" warriors trying to meddle in the country's upcoming election—they just banned Trump admin shitplomat Darren Beattie from entering the country—yet Jim Jordan's still trying to make fetch happen and avenge his BFF Elon 😂 1/

Exciting Plant Health Undergraduate Studentships on offer this summer, including one with our very own Dr Wells @oilseedrachel.bsky.social on feeding preference and larval resistance to cabbage stem flea beetle, sponsored by Defra! 🌿🪲

You can now read the Society's full tribute to former President Professor Robin Weiss FRS. Robin was an Honorary Member and, in addition to serving as President from 2006 to 2009, was the winner of the Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture in 2015: https://microb.io/4dRe7Ei

Applications for Society Supported Conference Grants close on tomorrow at 23.59 BST. Awards of up to £2,000 are available to members who wish to organise a conference in any field of microbiology. Check your eligibility and apply now: https://microb.io/4bW52HX

Prof. Dr. Dieter Jahn is a Professor at Braunschweig University of Technology & a Handling Editor for FEMS Microbiology Letters highlights why society journals matter: the income generated by these journals does not simply disappear, it goes back into supporting the scientific community.

Throwback to some of my PhD work! We uncovered the antimicrobial activity of tormentil, a traditional medicinal plant, identifying compounds with activity against MDR bacteria and the ability to enhance colistin efficacy. Really proud of this one ☺️ www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

NEW POD. We are joined by the brilliant Glen Riddersholm, who speaks openly on his time at NCFC. Projects, promises, trust, missing life in the Fine City, thoughts on Knapper, Sarge, Manning and Big Phil (or is it Paul?). Listen here, this one is special🙂 open.spotify.com/episode/54YZ...

Project Hail Mary is a beautiful brilliant film. But molecular biologists be warned there's a deeply disturbing scene midway through when Ryan Gosling's scientist places two eppendorfs directly next to each other in an otherwise empty unbalanced microcentrifuge & sets it spinning with wild abandon.

The @alongcomenorwich.bsky.social interview with Glen Riddersholm is every bit as brilliant as people are saying. What a lovely bloke - and such a thoughtful conversation. open.spotify.com/episode/54YZ...

Alice Augusta Ball (1892–1916) was a pioneering African American chemist who, at 23, developed the first effective, injectable treatment for leprosy (Hansen’s disease) in 1915 while at the University of Hawaiʻi. Her method, which made chaulmoogra oil soluble and injectable,

Not sure if this has done the rounds on BlueSky yet, but it’s bloody lovely #ncfc youtu.be/arBlDylbMUM

The Microbe Zoo will be going to the Royal Society summer science exhibition 2026!!! Fantastic achievement by @sawtrust.bsky.social and @norwichmicro.bsky.social royalsociety.org/science-even...

Streptomyces and other actinos are really fascinating bacteria. Always something new to discover.

The Microbe Zoo will be going to the Royal Society summer science exhibition 2026!!! Fantastic achievement by @sawtrust.bsky.social and @norwichmicro.bsky.social royalsociety.org/science-even...

So pleased to have been accepted as one of the exhibits for this!! Look out London, a microscopic adventure is coming your way 🔬

How common is multicellularity in bacteria? And archaea? And how does it evolve? We wrote a short review "On the architecture and evolution of prokaryotic multicellularity". Preprint link: bit.ly/4ta06Gq Sharing and comments are much appreciated. 1/4

We've been we've been working on this for quite a while now (hopefully published soon). Grateful to @proftracypalmer.bsky.social for concinving me & @lislowe.bsky.social that mycobacteria produce inter-bacterial toxins. Team science, led by @sambenedict5.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Apply now to attend the next EMBO Bacterial Networks meeting #EMBOBacNet 🗓️13-18 September 2026 📍Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain 📝Program and registration info: meetings.embo.org/event/26-bac... 👩‍🔬Organised with co-chair @s-lab.bsky.social and ECR @coralietesseur.bsky.social #MicroSky

This is very sad - I hope Liam and his family get all the help they need. The grief from losing a child is unimaginable. I’m sure all #ncfc fans wish him well

Born 24 March 1935 - Carol Kaye, one of the most prolific bass guitarists, who has played on an estimated 10,000 recordings in a career spanning over 50 years. Kaye was the bassist on many Phil Spector and Brian Wilson productions in the 1960s and 1970s. She is 91 years old today. #CarolKaye

I don't know who started calling him The Portman Toad but that really is top notch, hats off. #ncfc

This stunt might have damaged Ipswich Town, but it'll have buggered Reform UK's chances with any Norwich City fans. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

I have done the maths! 🤓 Since Manning was sacked after game #15, #NCFC have won 45 points (joint 2nd best) and climbed 13 places (more than any other club) in the Champ. The 'Clement Effect' is a powerful one.

Missed this earlier. Whoever agreed to this at Ipswich Town is beyond stupid. (Don't do likewise, #ncfc, when the grifter comes to Norfolk!)

A terrible look for Ipswich Town FC ahead of the 7 May elections. There have been reports that this wasn’t an official visit and instead Farage booked onto the stadium tour to fake an official visit, but a dressing room full of Farage shirts looks more organised. Either way Ipswich need to clarify

📣 Fully funded PhD position available! Join @suyangzhang.bsky.social’s group to uncover how human cells coordinate RNA transcription and splicing. You’ll use biochemical, structural & cellular approaches, including #cryoEM. Apply by 14th April. More details: mrclmb.ac.uk/careers-and-... #PhDposition

Absolutely astounding paper. Massive 36,000 AA proteins facilitate cell-cell interactions in this bacterial symbiosis. Really beautiful scientific work.

Apply now! Hit me up with questions about studying at the University of Vienna

If you're a senior PhD student or recent graduate interested in doing work at the intersection of AI and microbial genomics and/or microbiomes, please feel free to reach out to discuss the possibility of applying together for an MIT Novo Nordisk Fellowship engineering.mit.edu/novo-nordisk

Nice article about cave microbes and the work of people like Hazel Barton from BBC News www.bbc.com/future/artic...

A 3,500 year-old Egyptian glass cosmetic jar with two little duck heads! 🦆❤️ It belonged to a lady called Merit. Glass was a relatively new material at that time, so it would have been a precious possession. From Merit’s beauty case, Theban tomb TT8. 📷 Museo Egizio, Turin. #Archaeology

Congratulations to the Seung group for its @currentbiology.bsky.social article based on a survey of 105 species in the grass family Pooideae 🌾: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Such a well written article. Very well deserved front page spread! @gdwantibiotics.bsky.social !

ECRs, one week to go! Please join us for an exciting event: The Sainsbury Laboratory Summer Conference in Plant-Microbe Interactions for Early Career Researchers 20th – 31st July 2026 Norwich, UK Application deadline: 12:00 BST (UTC +1) Monday 30th March 2026 www.tsl.ac.uk/tsl-summer-c...

Only two weeks are left for registering for Annual Conference 2026 in Belfast. Register now to secure your spot: https://microb.io/AC26Register #Microbio26

Sad to hear that Robin Weiss has passed. He was President of the @microbiologysociety.org when I was on council almost 20 years ago. A brilliant scientist and a kind and lovely man www.icr.ac.uk/about-us/icr...

This ant species is composed of only queens — no workers or males www.nature.com/articles/d41...