Genome-Mining Based Discovery of Pyrrolomycin K and L from the Termite-Associated Micromonospora sp. RB23 | Journal of Natural Products pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

EVENT - Apply today for the John Innes/Rudjer Bošković: Applied #Molecular #Microbiology Summer School (Microbial Specialised Metabolites: Discovery, Biosynthesis and Function) 🗓️ 12 - 20 Sept 2026 📍Inter-University Centre, Dubrovnik, Croatia Deadline: 23 Jan 2026 www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China." www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

@jcv.bsky.social penned an obituary for Ham Smith in @nature.com. Since the early 90s, Ham has been a key figure at the Institute for his invaluable contributions and mentorship. "Ham was the best colleague that one could ever have in science and a great friend." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What kind of dumb clowns would think it’s a good idea to add plastic pellets to a wastewater treatment process, when the company releases raw sewage all the time straight into the sea! Classic UK! 💩

Considering the LMB for your PhD? We’ve got over 25 projects available, covering a wide array of topics. Check them out here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int... Apply by 2nd DEC for Autumn 2026 admission.

Conserved effectors underpin the virulence of liverwort-isolated Pseudomonas in divergent plants Very happy to share the published version of our work on natural Marchantia-Pseudomonas interactions. Out now in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...

Super excited to be part of this beautiful effort led by @zhuyt0515.bsky.social and Hanna Anderson! A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🟢🟡 The First Domino Falls, but Dark Clouds Still Hover Over NR1. 🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social ▪️For 70 mins, a thunderous Carrow Road ▪️In the end, same old ▪️Knapper must be allowed *nowhere near* the recruitment process for new coach LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/09/t... #ncfc

The discovery of DNA and the triplet code inspired me to be a molecular biologist and for that I’m grateful. Forget James Watson. Franklin, Crick, Brenner and Sanger are the heroes in this story.

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Same! 🥺 This book so revealing www.powells.com/book/rosalin...

Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

A view from Norwich Castle of the wonderful Church of St. Peter Mancroft. The Church was built in one phase between 1430 and 1455. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #StPeterMancroft #Norwich

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What a tune @6music.bsky.social

NEWS - Dr Myriam Charpentier awarded Adam Kondorosi prize Dr @charpentiermyriam.bsky.social has received a prestigious international award from the Academia Europaea for her groundbreaking research into plant-microbe interactions. www.jic.ac.uk/news/dr-myri...

🟢🟡 Some NCFC Home Truths … Amid Some Old-Fashioned Anglo-Saxon. 🗣️ @stevocook.bsky.social ** If you read one thing this evening... ⬇️⬇️⬇️ LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/06/s... #ncfc

Useful bot if you listen to a lot of 6Music (BBC radio) @6music.bsky.social

Praying for a miracle

Great speech, dare to dream edition.cnn.com/2025/11/05/p...

6Music is smashing it this morning #cloudbusting

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

PhD opportunity with me and @kshbeckham.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany. More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2) 🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl 📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025 Please repost. #Postdoc

OTD in 1977 Carl Woese and George Fox redrew the tree of life. They proposed a third “urkingdom”—the “archaebacteria”—in addition to eukaryotes and bacteria. Woese later called this taxon “Archea.” AFAIK, he didn’t publish his famous tree diagram until the late 80s. 🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM 🗃️🧠 #evobio 🐡

Postdoc position in my lab in Cologne starting early next year or latest in spring to get this exciting project started. jobportal.uni-koeln.de/ausschreibun...

🟢🟡 We need bravery. We get timidity and cowardice. 🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social ▪️NCFC - the gift that keeps on giving ▪️Attanasio *must* be getting a twitchy finger ▪️The Carrow Road silence is deafening LINKED: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/02/w... #ncfc

Is it the coach? The players? The Exec team? Yes. @paulbb66.bsky.social picks the bones out of the latest pathetic performance. #NCFC Image: @robotcanary.bsky.social

Hull City won for only the second time in 53 years at Carrow Road as the Norwich City fans chanted for head coach Liam Manning to be sacked. #NCFC

Cellulose biosynthesis and function in Streptomyces @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social by Chennan Yang, @xiaobozhong.bsky.social and Dennis Claessen www.cell.com/trends/micro...

PhD opportunity: Exploring the western gut microbiome and how these transfer between family members (2nd Dec 25 deadline). www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d... This bioinformatic-project will teach high-resolution metagenomics, population genetics, mobile DNA and about bacterial species theory. Please RT

#microsky review on #AMR www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

🟩🟨 California sure is pretty… but it ain't Colney. 🗣️Matt Colley ▪️Postponement of stadium development ✔️ ▪️"Relegation not an option" ✔️ ▪️No CEO for Zoe/Ben to report to ✖️ ▪️Could be a long & bloody war for the future of our club ✖️ LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/10/30/c... #ncfc

Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems. For more details and to apply please see www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

If you’re interested in metals, microbes and maths 🤘 - please check out this PhD on the impact of metals on microbial communities with @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social @blindmath.bsky.social Denis Patterson and myself, you’d be based in Durham & be part of a vibrant interdisciplinary research group

12 months ago I was diagnosed with suspected rheumatoid arthritis. It came on suddenly in July 2024 and within 3 months I could hardly walk. I took methotrexate and sulfasalazine for 6 months then they added a monoclonal. Today I am symptom free and in remission. Grateful for the NHS. And science.

🌱plantiSMASH 2.0💥 is now live! I’m very excited to share that the 2.0 version of plantiSMASH is now available online and as a preprint on bioRxiv 📄https://lnkd.in/dN4F56pf 🌱 What’s new in plantiSMASH 2.0? ⬇️

25 years on from publishing the structure of the bacterial 30S ribosomal subunit, alumni, collaborators & friends of Venki Ramakrishnan’s group joined us for a symposium celebrating the legacy of this work. Read about the event and find photos here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/25-years-of-... #LMBNews

If you don’t like what this represents, join me in boycotting for-profit publishers of scientific research. There are still high quality, highly selective non-profit run journals around. They need our business to survive and thrive.

Beyond excited to share our new Perspective just published in ISME Journal! This work is a joint effort with Shamik Roy, @drbradbrad.bsky.social and Marc Dumont exploring how warming and antibiotics influence carbon use efficiency. We hope you enjoy reading it! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

📢 We have an open position for a postdoc to join my lab. It's a great position @animecol-uu.bsky.social, fully salaried for 2.5 years with all benefits. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/... The project is about transmission patterns of bacteria and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in aquatic insects. 🧬🦠 (1/3)

Applications are now OPEN for the JIF Rotation PhD Programme This prestigious 4-year #PhD programme trains graduate students in Plant and Microbial Sciences at the JIC, @thesainsburylab.bsky.social and @earlhaminst.bsky.social. 🗓️ Closing date - 13 November 2025 www.jic.ac.uk/training-car...

R.I.P Hamilton Smith, 1978 Nobel Laureate for the discovery of type II restriction-modification systems (HindII).

The bigger argument here is that we shouldn’t even be using such metrics to assess academic performance. It’s just lazy.

🟢🟡Knapper and Webber cling to power at the expense of doing the right thing. 🗣️@garygowers.bsky.social ▪️City find another new way to lose. ▪️Manning changes winning formula. ▪️Chaos on the pitch, ineptitude off it. LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/10/26/k... #ncfc

Reform UK MP Sarah Pochin, “It drives me mad seeing adverts full of black people, full of Asian people, full of anything other than white" Followed by that time Sarah Pochin said, "My kids say: mum, you're such a moron" 👀