New protocol paper outlining a very important piece of work by PhD student Sani Musa with @jessicamablair.bsky.social bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/9...

Exciting to see the trail of roses in London today ahead of the women’s rugby World Cup final on Saturday! 🤩

A bit like spiralling publication costs we need to start having a proper discussion around lab equipment servicing costs. These are often completely disproportionate to the cost of instrument and the service that is provided and seem to serve as a cash cow for vendors.

New paper alert! Serial selection for hyper-biofilm production identifies c-di-GMP as central to genetic control and phenotypic dynamics. @microbiologysociety.org @webberma.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

New paper alert! Another good read from @webberma.bsky.social. Different food preservatives induce similar responses in Salmonella typhimurium, including oxidative stress responses. @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Come and join us in our new home - great colleagues and brand new facilities

We’re missing the care leavers in postgraduate study support. "Postgraduate education should be an attainable goal for all students, not a privilege reserved for those with family support or financial security." @wonkhe.bsky.social @jacobdyke.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdhuv8at

Exciting morning in our house!! 😃🤩💪

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!! @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Come and work with us!! 🤩

We are recruiting for an Editor to join the Journal of Medical Microbiology (JMM)! We’re looking for Editors with some previous editorial experience to handle JMM’s One Health - Emerging, Zoonotic and Environmental Disease section. Find out more and apply here: microb.io/4lnPPBU 🦠

When the world seems so anti-science, here is something to brighten your day! The UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience is recruiting a new Director for its Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery to drive its drug discovery program! #DrugDiscovery #Biotech www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Current economic and regulatory challenges in developing antibiotics for Gram-negative bacteria www.nature.com/articles/s44...

What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years? Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"

A good way to think about institutional research culture!

💊 Non-antibiotic drugs & resistance A new study shows common medicines like ibuprofen and acetaminophen can boost E. coli resistance to antibiotics, raising concerns for aged care settings. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #SciComm 🧪 #AMR

Nicely done @theguardian.com 👏

Dear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others Please share & get in touch if interested! tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3

Very excited to announce launch of brand new journal npj Fungal Science! As EIC I'm joined by a fantastic board of academic editors from across the mycology field. You can learn more about the journal scope and submit your work here: www.nature.com/npjfungalsci/

The @microbiologysociety.org ‪Journal of Medical Microbiology is looking for a new Editor for One Health - Emerging, Zoonotic and Environmental Diseases. Come join us!

Npj fungal science is open!! This is another exciting title for the npj family and this one has @therad-lab.bsky.social at the helm! 🤩

New Independent Fellowship position in Microbiology to launch your lab in our department @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK). We are conducting a broad search in the area of plant-associated microbial interactions. Message me if you have any questions. Apply here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

Delighted to have this review out with @jpjhall.bsky.social! We discuss the risk of transmission of antimicrobial resistance in the hospital sink drain microbiome, highlight studies providing evidence of transfer, and consider strategies to mitigate these risks 🪠🦠 doi.org/10.1038/s442...

It was great fun writing this review with @gemccallum.bsky.social , even if our conclusions are rather scary. Lots of important pathogen evolution must be occurring outside of the infection context...

Help shape how BBSRC supports early career researchers like you! We've got 8 vacancies on the People and Talent Strategy Advisory Panel (PAT SAP) Researcher Subgroup. Why get involved? Here's what a current member has to say 👇

Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...

🌟 Exciting news! We’re launching three fully-funded postdoc positions for "New Horizons for Synthetic Phages” Join us in tackling antimicrobial resistance with cutting-edge synthetic biology + AI bioinformatics. Based at Flinders Uni in vibrant Adelaide. 👇 Read on for details! #Phage

Just a few days left to apply for PhD positions in the Health Protection Research Unit - Public Health Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social. preview-uob.cloud.contensis.com/research/cen... I am offering two projects (on Clostridioides difficile & metagenomics of wastewater and freshwater).

This opportunity is still open but closing at the end of July!

Well here's a sentence I never imagined I'd say - I've just bought tickets to the Metallica World tour......🎸😳

I absolutely love graduation day!! Huge congratulations to all today’s graduates! 🎉🍾😀 @wvschaik.bsky.social @jackf7.bsky.social @alanmcn1.bsky.social

If anyone needs a clear explanation of how to do standardised antibiotic susceptibility testing (MICs) properly then I highly recommend this article www.nature.com/articles/s44...

I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science

🚨🚨New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com!! Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species, stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And IMI Summer school 2025 wraps up! What a fantastic group of students! Thank you UoB school and @hannahtriv.bsky.social @bpettifor.bsky.social @miribiome.bsky.social

One week left to apply for this technician position in experimental evolution—do get in touch if you have any questions!

Culture club! Do probiotic yoghurt drinks really contain live bacteria? Let's find out at IMI Summer school 2025 🦠🦠

Day 2 of IMI Summer school 2025 kicks off with some funky images from @contamclub.bsky.social and Mathematical modelling of an infectious disease with Rowland Seymour 🦠🦠🤢🤢

And so it begins! IMI Summer school 2025 follow us for all the fun this week 🦠🦠

Practicing pipetting and making dilutions - great start to IMI Summer school 2025 with @hannahtriv.bsky.social @miribiome.bsky.social @bpettifor.bsky.social

Windows, hand rails, kettles, water fountains and jelly pots all antimicrobially active 🦠🦠 - swab and send in action with @lstmnews.bsky.social

🌍 #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.

📢JOB ALERT: Join our friendly London team! 18-mo technician post with me & co-I @gpollara.bsky.social to explore probiotics in fighting/preventing urinary tract infection - all in our nifty human bladder microtissue model! Generously funded by Urology Foundation #UTISky www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Has anyone done Klebsiella pneumoniae survival assay in the presence of LL-37? I’ve read several papers, but they all use different media! 😭

The new University of Birmingham Doctoral school has just launched! Very exciting times for Postgraduate research at the university of Birmingham! www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...

Anyone know of technician/research assistant jobs in the UK in infectious disease (mix of wet and dry lab) for a talented former student with MSc degree?

Huge congratulations to Pauline for a brilliant seminar and for passing her PhD viva today!! 🤩🤩🤩 Big thanks to mark sutton and @lucyicm.bsky.social for examining!