Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

We are looking for a new RA to join our team working on host-pathogen interactions during Salmonella infection. The appointment is for two years and you will join a diverse team, using cell and protein biochemistry to further our understanding of pathogenesis. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

I have an open BBSRC PhD position in my lab at @northumbriauni.bsky.social to start Oct 2026 This exciting project will focus on the Resistance, resilience, & redundancy in the human gut microbiome This is part in collaboration with the fantastic @stewartlab.bsky.social Project details ⤵️ 1/2

This is bad news, but completely understandable step from WHO. Reminder: measles is an awful disease and vaccination protects against it.

Worth remembering that Private Eye has a lot to answer for with respect to this Wakefield-fuelled shit show.

BREAKING NEWS: UK loses its #measles elimination status @benk-d.bsky.social highlights failure to reach 95% measles #vaccine coverage target in UK + need for secure funding for vaccine outreach efforts & joined-up #PublicHealth response Read more: www.lshtm.ac.uk/newsevents/n...

Dr @mohamedeladawy.bsky.social knocked it out of the park presenting his PhD work to his Egyptian home crowd. *proud former supervisor* 🥹

The task for political leadership now is not just to tell the truth, but to make people care about what is true and what is not.

He was appalled by the examination system, when it was explained to him, he could not imagine a greater deterrent to the natural wish to learn than this pattern of cramming in information and disgorging it on demand.

PhD studentships available through our BBSRC-funded doctoral programme. 🦠🧫💻 Contact me if you're interested in using bioinformatics/lab-based approaches with cultivated and uncultivated bacteria of the human microbiome, to identify and characterize novel enzymes with potential biotech applications.

Wow! www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

Our new paper on Insertion Sequences (IS) in #Klebsiella - Lineages have vastly different IS loads and profiles - An inverse relationship between IS load and metabolic capacity, in particular phosphorus use, consistent with early reductive evolution. www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

(1/2) I wanted to highlight a figure in our recent article on IMP carbapenemases. You may have heard of .newick files, but have you heard about .nhx? This format allows encoding of node AND branch info, meaning you can annotate mutational differences, for example. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

It’s really upsetting to watch this video, but it’s important to do so The HHS Secretary, an AIDS denialist & extreme homophobe, says “the gay lifestyle” is the cause of AIDS, not HIV

More alignment with government priorities and emphasis on economic benefits. Easy fix would be to re-introduce the pathways to impact section on applications + make it explicitly part of scoring grants for panels.

Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk

My team at @cbitoulouse.bsky.social is recruiting a postdoc #bioinformatics with solid experience in metagenomic analyses. Interest in evolution, ecology & MGEs is important. The offer stands until the perfect candidate is found, and it could be you 🫵 🔁 🙏 #microSky #phagesky #UTIsky @cnrs.fr

Shocked to learn of the passing of Peer Bork. His contributions to microbiome research cannot be overstated. My thoughts are with his family and friends.

🧬 Free @microbesng.bsky.social PopUp ECR symposium 🧬 UK-based MRes or PhD student, research assistant or postdoc working on microbial genomics or metagenomics? Present your work and/or chair a session, plus excellent keynote speakers: @halllab.bsky.social and @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social. #MNGPopUp

🚨 Get your abstract in NOW for POPUP Nottingham with @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social & Microbiome-Net deadline 9th Feb 👉 linktr.ee/microbesng #MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium 5th Jun Focus on #ECRs present/chair Keynotes @halllab.bsky.social & @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social #MNGPopUp #MicroSky

Phold's manuscript is now available @narjournal.bsky.social thanks to @susiegriggo.bsky.social @npbhavya.bsky.social @vijinim.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @martinsteinegger.bsky.social @milot.bsky.social @eunbelivable.bsky.social & others not on bsky #phagesky academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Very pleased this is now published - led by Dr Emily Connell & @dvauzour.bsky.social, we show that a Mediterranean diet-inspired supplement can improve disease signs in an Alzheimer's mouse model, acting via the gut microbiota www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 🧪🧠 #gutbrainaxis #meddiet

Bacteria chromosomes contain Genomic Islands that provide virulence, antibiotic resistance, MGE-defence,... They transfer between cells, but the mechanism of most remains elusive. Here we explore the conjugative capacity of these mysterious Genomic Islands. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

RESEARCH | J Chilloux, @marcedumas.bsky.social et al. (Imperial College London) The microbial metabolite TMA (precursor of TMAO) has beneficial metabolic and anti-inflammatory effects🧪

‘A bombshell’: doubt cast on discoveries of #microplastics throughout human body, from brain to blood, arteries to testes Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’ Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you have any interest in Klebsiella, registration for the April seminar series is open. Abstract submission for short talks are due Feb 16. Looking forward to connecting this spring! #klebclub2026

🚨vConTACT3 now in Nature Biotechnology: - >95% agreement with ICTV for known viruses - Classifies both prokaryotic and eukaryotic viruses - Extends beyond genus → subfamily, family & order - Systematically assigns taxonomy to tens of thousands of previously unclassified viruses

🥳 #LPSN has been selected as an ELIXIR Core Data Resource! 🎉 LPSN, which provides comprehensive information on the nomenclature of prokaryotes, is now recognized by @elixir-europe.org as one of Europe’s major life science data services. 👉 elixir-europe.org/news/CDR-sel...

Congratulations to former MRes students Mia Horton and Yashwani Malik on their new publication with @davidnegus.bsky.social, characterizing novel phages infecting Serratia spp. academic.oup.com/jambio/advan... #microsky @mohamedeladawy.bsky.social @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social

It really shouldn’t need saying that brilliant students are found across the demographic spectrum. The capacity of parents to pay for a child’s education has very little bearing on whether or not their child will be hard-working, full of curiosity, passionate and quirky, all of which would be

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Congratulations to @microbesity.bsky.social on the publication of his new study on Dysosmobacter welbionis, and thanks to Patrice for letting me play a small part in it. Nice start to the new year. :) #microbiomesky

Synthesis-driven reverse metabolomics reveals 3-hydroxy N-acyl amides as gut microbial molecules https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.01.07.698252v1

Happy New Year – new role! 🎉 We’re looking for a PostDoc to join us in @halllab.bsky.social @unibirmingham.bsky.social. Full-time, fixed-term to March 2028. Note tight closing date: 11 Jan 2026. CV + cover letter (submit via portal). Further details 👇 edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

It has been a long road, but our paper on Klebsiella plasmids is finally out in Lancet Microbe. Thanks to all co authors but especially Marjorie Gibbon and Natacha Couto www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Now published in Nature Biotechnology: go.nature.com/44P7nSm If you missed it, the TL;DR is in my April thread below

🎉🎉🎉 New preprint to start the new year 🎉🎉🎉 Patients recovering from bowel surgery may have stomas formed to divert the flow of faeces to the opening on the skin, away from healing intestinal tissue. The visible sign of this process is an ileostomy or colostomy bag. /1 #surgerysky #medsky

The University of Vienna awards at least 20 four-year and full-time (40h/week) postdoctoral positions to outstanding female scientists in natural sciences, life sciences, and economics.

📢 MicrobesNG POPUP is coming to Nottingham! It's a FREE #MicrobialGenomics & #Microbiome symposium on 5th June 🦠🧬 We're accepting abstracts now! Focus on #ECRs Please RT Submit by 9th Feb 👉 www.surveymonkey.com/r/POPUP_NOTT... @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social & Microbiome-Net #MNGPopUp #MicroSky

🧬 Free @microbesng.bsky.social PopUp ECR symposium 🧬 UK-based MRes or PhD student, research assistant or postdoc working on microbial genomics or metagenomics? Present your work and/or chair a session, plus excellent keynote speakers: @halllab.bsky.social and @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social. #MNGPopUp

Are you interested in #metaproteomics? We have a senior scientist position in my lab focused on metaproteomics, and xenobiotic- #microbiome -host interactions. Check it out. jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...

I have a postdoc position in metagenomic exploration available in my group. Candidates with documented experience in phylo & metagenomics and preferably with petabase-scale data mining and GLM workflows are encouraged to apply. Come join us! 🧬🦠💻 Please repost Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...

Proud to announce SimPhyNI, a new tool for bacterial GWAS with higher precision and scalability than existing tools. Try it out and let us know what you think!!

First grant rejection of the year, and I'm not even back at work yet. Yay!

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

Three million people live in Caracas, five million in the metro area. It's one of the densest cities in South America. Remember this in the morning when they try to spin this as anything other than a cold-blooded attack on a major civilian center.

I know many of you know Joe James (of Binning Singletons) Joe and his family had a terrible tragedy occur on Christmas. If you can give, this is a good family to help out gofund.me/5cbfe22fe

For those of you wanting to start a new project in the new year but afraid you're gonna suck, heed the words of the ancient texts:

Happy new year to you and yours.