This essay is extraordinary. By a 93-year-old who remembers what life was like before modern vaccines.

Less than 1 week to apply for this postdoc! If you want to find out more about the project have a look at our recent preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #mevosky

🚨 Calling all microbial genomics & metagenomics researchers 🚨 Join us in Nottingham, 5 June for a day of talks, posters & FREE networking lunch 👀 🎤 Keynotes @halllab.bsky.social @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social 🤝 with @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social & Microbiome-Net 🔗 linktr.ee/microbesng#MicroSky #MNGPopUp

🧬 Join us in Nottingham on 5 June for an ECR symposium exploring microbial genomics & metagenomics! Talks, posters, networking lunch included 👀 🔗 linktr.ee/microbesng 🎤 Keynotes: @halllab.bsky.social @alexmsalmeida.bsky.social with @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social & Microbiome-Net #Microbiome #MicroSky

The 1st Klebsiella Epidemiology and Biology Symposium in 2024 was much needed and a great event, so I'm really looking forward to the 2nd in 2027.

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Lots of people have reached out asking how they can support us after the devastating fire in the MSL building, the heart of @cmarinescience.bsky.social Here’s one way, a GoFundMe organized by our graduate students - gofund.me/4373c6ff3. Please share widely, and thanks for helping our community!

Want to find #prophage in your #bacteria genomes? We built PhiSpy a long time ago, and now we've created a new web page for it: linsalrob.github.io/PhiSpyWeb/ Best of all, the data never leaves your computer! #phage #phagesky

Registration is open for the Biotic Control of Bacteria meeting, hosted by MGen Deputy Editor-in-Chief Dr Conor Meehan. Explore innovative approaches to controlling bacterial growth and network with leading researchers in the field. Find out more: https://microb.io/3Qv6k5B

Come and work with us in a beautiful corner of Germany: 5 years of funding for your microbiology research and lots of great colleagues 🦠🧫

Out Now! Sulfated bile acid produced by a human gut commensal alleviates paediatric sepsis in mice #MicroSky

For no particular reason this week… If you want to know how close we came to having the human genome sequence behind a paywall, & the very concept of using gene sequences to benefit health (e.g. as diagnostic or drug targets) locked up behind patents, read this: www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/produc...

Why does antibiotic resistance evolution vary between patients? Come to @officialuom.bsky.social @mermanchester.bsky.social to help us find out! 2.5 year @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc position in experimental evolution Closing 15 May. Apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Our lab is proud to present our latest work harnessing Bridge Recombinase for genome-scale editing in diverse bacteria, microbiome editing, and programmable horizontal gene transfer.

🧫 #AMR #PhD open @newcastleuni.bsky.social! How does #Cdifficile protein "armour" help it resist antimicrobials? Join me and @henrikstrahl.bsky.social to find out using: 🔬 #Structuralbiology, #microbiology #microscopy #genetics 📅 Deadline 20 May 2026 #PhD #PhDLife Pls share! (UK home only)

Interested in working on the evolution of photosynthetic endosymbioses? Come join us! I have 2 open positions in my new group @cemess.bsky.social in Vienna 3yr postdoc info: tinyurl.com/4emkjpn4 4yr PhD info: tinyurl.com/mtxmsjpy Apply by 1st June! Please share/repost #Protists #Symbiosis #PhD

**PhD opportunity** Join me, @henrikstrahl.bsky.social, and Alistair Brown at @newcastleuni.bsky.social to uncover how Mycobacterium tuberculosis survives antibiotics, one molecule at a time! 🔬🦠 #PhD #microbiology #biophysics #microscopy 📅 Deadline 20 May 2026 (UK home only) RT = 🙏

New paper out in @pnas.org 🎆! Across healthy humans, the same bacterium encounters markedly different gut microbiomes. How does this shape the ecological interactions it experiences? We explored this focusing on commensal E. coli.
 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Image: @illuzation.bsky.social

We have a PhD studentship open! (UK only sadly) but if you are or know a student keen to work on some *really* weird mycobacterial enzymes then get in touch! #glycotime Advert below www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

You are an ambitious young scientist, on the verge to independence, in a research field related to our Cluster of Excellence @cmfi.bsky.social “Controlling Microbes to Fight Infections”? Join our vibrant, interactive scientific community in Tubingen. Repost and apply! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

🎉 New in @plosbiology.org: Temperate phages of Klebsiella pneumoniae show capsule-driven host tropism — but how? The working assumption was depolymerases: enzymes that chew through the bacterial sugar capsule. Turns out that's not the whole story. 🧵 journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Excited to finally share our new preprint on bioRxiv describing Verticall (github.com/rrwick/Verti...), a robust & efficient tool for building recombination-free bacterial phylogenies. Huge thanks to @rrwick.bsky.social & @katholt.bsky.social for this incredible work! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Great overview of the grant review process.

I'm in @theobserveruk.bsky.social today looking at why so many unis are in financial trouble and what the government needs to do to save HE. observer.co.uk/news/columni...

Research visit grant applications are now open. If you are planning a short 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/4sYNKRL

Come and study for a PhD with us on antibiotic-producing Streptomyces, trying to understand the roles of primary metabolic enzymes with additional cellular roles - Details below - please repost www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Doing the periodic cleaning of used plasmid miniprep columns and realized in honor of Earth Day it may be worth reminding you molecular biologists: Plasmid miniprep columns can be cleaned and reused essentially indefinitely! Just add 1 M HCl, soak overnight and wash 3x w/ water. Save $ and plastic

Congrats to my PhD student Rachael Duodu on having her paper published! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

MEEHubs26 abstract deadline has been extended to April 26th. Come showcase your awesome Microbiology w. scientists worldwide! meehubs2026.oa-event.com 🦠 What: awesome conference in microbial ecology and evolution, with hubs around the world 🦠 Where: Sunny* Manchester 🦠 When: 3rd-5th August 2026

My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Study from my Lab detailing how Aerobactin-mediated iron acquisition is critical for hypervirulent Klebsiella to disseminate from the gut to cause invasive disease. Tour de Force work led by my wonderful Grad student, Giovanna Hernandez! #PLoSPathogens #Klebsiella journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough

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Do you work on Klebsiella oxytoca genomes? Want to know which K and O loci they have? Check out the new Klebs oxy species complex databases here: github.com/klebgenomics... Poster today #ESCMIDGlobal2026 by Naoise McGarry! Papers to follow soon. @klebnet.bsky.social @klebclub.bsky.social

go home biology, you’re drunk. reverse transcriptase is now taking sequence instructions from a protein

Excellent piece.

I have now read this piece and it is very good. Massive respect for @merenbey.bsky.social and Iva for their persistence and documenting this torturous process. Highly recommended reading for anyone who cares about reproducibility in science.

The risks of antimicrobial resistance have been increasing, while harmful biocides have continued to be used where they are not needed. The government must act now to reduce these risks and safeguard our future. #AMR #MicroBio26

www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky #synbiosky

🆒 new pub! Rapid evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms in vitro -> adaptations selected during infection by @gretazabo.bsky.social & Linus Sandegren *hypermucoidy evolves via 📈c-di-GMP, overlaps w/ mutations in UTI and wound isolates. *pleasure to advise this! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Breathing both ways: simultaneous aerobic–anaerobic respiration in microbes www.cell.com/trends/micro... #jcampubs

Multiple fully funded PhD/postdoc positions available: experimental evolution of tumour suppression, egalitarian & fraternal ETIs, jumbo phage ecology & genetics. Related EoIs welcome. Email CV/statement of motivation written in own words. Open until filled. Grateful for reposting 🙏

Excellent talk from Jay Vornhagen on colonization success outcomes of Klebsiella pneumoniae. So nice to see (micro)aerobic vs anaerobic environments considered. ABX model at the moment, but will be great to see if same principles apply to gut colonization models in metabolic health.

Whenever I presented Phold, I was frequently asked "can you do the same beyond phages?" We ( @oschwengers.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @binomicalabs.org et al) finally did it with Baktfold github.com/gbouras13/ba... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🎉🥳 Preprint out 🥳🎉 Here is a work you will hear about for a while, lead by @lucasmoriniere.bsky.social in the @vivekmutalik.bsky.social's lab, we developed a workflow predicting phages receptor specifity and identifies RBP from genomes🤯 Very happy to be part of this adventure and this dream team 🥰

Study in the Lancet reckons 14m excess deaths from the aid cuts, so that's the figure to beat. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

‼️ Excited to announce 1st session of #KlebClub2026! We kick things off with a session on pathogenesis, with *Jay Vornhagen* as keynote speaker, alongside 2 short talks selected from submitted abstracts - Sylvie MIQUEL & @microbiosaroj.bsky.social 🗓 Thursday 9 🕘 9:00 -10:30 AM (EDT) (1/2)