I asked participants for tips attending scientific conferences #BES2025 youtu.be/ow_ickvkvbA?...

We are recruiting for a number of PhDs in the HPRU in Public Health Genomics, based at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, in collaboration with UKHSA. 🦠🧬 Apply below to work on cutting-edge science and public health priorities! (NB deadline of 9th January / UK only due to funding restrictions) (1/7)

Fantastic news! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Long shot, but does anyone in Switzerland have an emergency Theremin to loan tomorrow night ( Friday 12 December )? #ViaMardot is playing a show in St Gallen, and the airline lost her equipment!!! We can help pay for a courier if needed, please share to get this message out!! #theremin #switzerland

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

I can’t resist posting another photo of Aseroe rubra (Anemone Stinkhorn). This was the largest specimen I found and nicely shows the remains of the ‘egg’ it emerged from. Surrey 4/12/25 #fungi #FungiFriends

a fun thing from a class I'm guest teaching tomorrow: which of these will turn out OK for you, and which will be a disaster? (they're all from a single Chinese city between 2010 and 2022)

Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

"If you are eligible for vaccination, please don’t wait." www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...

This is a Nomad Bee appreciation post! 🐝 They are “nomads” because they do not build their own homes, instead laying eggs in the nests of other bees where their larvae develop as kleptoparasites There are up to 39 species of nomad bee in the UK; here are two! Nomada flavopicta & Nomada fucata

The face I pulled reading those does not seem to have an emoji equivalent... Anyway, huge congratulations Dr Turner and do follow for some fascinating eco and ento content!

Postdoc (Columbia, USA) Mathematical epidemiologist supporting several projects on eco-epidemiology of infectious disease at University of South Carolina More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2403

We will be recruiting graduate researchers to start Fall 2026 in the Dallas lab at U South Carolina. We are a mix of population, community, and disease ecologists. Parasite macroecology!!! Feel free to reach out to chat and see our webpage for more info on our science (taddallas.github.io).

Reposting this just in case anyone who is interested missed it. We’ll be reviewing applications on Nov 1st, so there is still time to apply for this position this week! Great position for people who want to do both research and teach at a high level with undergraduates!

Superb thread!

POSTDOC JOB AD: I'm hiring a Bayesian ecologist to build a (IMO, extremely fun) model of humpback whale spatiotemporal dynamics in California 2-year position starting fall 2026. in-person in Santa Cruz; collab w with Mevin Hooten's lab at UT Austin. ask me Qs or apply: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02003

Wikipedia is the best single thing the Internet has ever given us and it's not even close

In Peterborough today for the Food Safety Research Network STEC workshop - exciting stuff!

I have a question for any ambidextrous people who may be on this fine site! do you do everything with whatever eg hand that's most convenient at that point in time, or do you have things you do with your right hand/on your right side and things you do with the other? thanking you

after the 10th radioactive shrimp recall in 7 weeks, i decided to do some digging little did i know it would lead me to an underreported industrial accident that may have released an airborne plume of radioactive debris over swaths of indonesia www.consumerreports.org/health/food-...

🆕 Blog! Dr Emad Shehata and Yasmin Briddon, our model colon experts, explain the importance of the Colon Model Facility facility for finding out more about the fascinating world of our gut microbiota ⚗️

Okay I loved this piece but didn't immediately check the artist's orher work and it's all amazing; go look! bsky.app/profile/cait...

The infected pollinator Painted in watercolor and acrylics

Okay I gather there is ✨️drama✨️ with the Bluesky people, and I see a lot of posts about Blacksky and Northsky. Can anyone point me to an explainer of what these are and if/how they're going to avoid similar issues?

VACANCY - Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions We’re inviting applications from outstanding researchers who either hold, or wish to apply for, Independent Research Fellowships. APPLICATION DEADLINE: 10 November 2025 Click here to apply: jic.link/Fellows

Jesse Lazear died of yellow fever Sept. 25, 1900. Along with other research by the Yellow Fever Commission, his demonstration that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes provided the basis for efforts to control this devastating disease. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_W...

NEW opportunity to return to a research career! Applications are invited for a three-year Daphne Jackson Fellowship funded by @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social. Word of mouth works wonders for us, do you know anyone who may be interested? daphnejackson.org/fellowship/a...

Ben Pascoe @benizao.bsky.social @sheppardlab.bsky.social shining a light on C. coli - although less common than C. jejuni, it has higher levels of AMR. His work in Peru highlights the importance of this pathogen in LMICs due constant exposure with backyard livestock and antibiotic use 🇵🇪 #CampyUK2025

A warm welcome from the head of @biology.ox.ac.uk Prof Martin Maiden and a thank you to our sponsors @microbiologysociety.org, Don Whitley Scientific and @genewiz.bsky.social

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Really fascinating talk - very excited to hear more about the anti-N-glycan vaccine approach but it sounds very promising!

Back in Oxford for #CampyUK this week! The schedule looks amazing - looking forward to some great talks.

Exciting to see this launch today! This research is an excellent example of using plant science to improve human health, and highlights the value of BBSRC’s long-term investment in plant and nutritional science🍅🔬

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s. Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ?? here she is at her burrow entrance.

Warmly recommend the Substack of @hcrichardson.bsky.social for following what is happening in US. Each post is headed by just a date and provides a daily detailed - and not sensationalised - account and evaluation of the day's political events. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine," That's... usually not the case! In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using. We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that? youtu.be/vKDPast9WFk

Oh HELL yes

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

Great piece by Léa LOISEL and colleagues from Bioepar, Nantes, Fr with a little help from our lab :) Better modeling intra-vector viral dynamics is necessary to better understand vector competence 🦟 #mosquito #arbovirus pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40853981/

One week left to apply, folks! And I promise that I'm not spending my final month in post making all sorts of daft decisions that you'll have to unravel if you get the job...! 😉

Greek Cheese of the day! 🧵: 1/n: Nothing says I love you more than cheese, right? So now I've got your attention, this unusual Greek cheese of the day is from a lovely little island in Cyclades, because I love you! "Kefalysio Spilias Milou" (tbc)

You’ve never had chocolate like this… We could soon taste new kinds of chocolate not even Willy Wonka could dream of after the discovery of fungi and bacteria that produce fruity and caramel notes from cocoa beans.

📢 Calling all Postgrad Virologists! 🦠 Postgraduate Virologists Network are hosting their first conference for virology students, by virology students. 📍 @uofglasgow.bsky.social 📆 8-9 September Register and submit an abstract: www.postgradvirologistsnetwork.co.uk/2025-meeting

Absolutely fantastic news!

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...

Are you an early-career biologist or ecologist who would benefit from an invited seminar? Would you like to come to UMaine next fall or spring to give a talk? Leave a brief comment with some info about what you do. I'm co-hosting our seminar series again, and am filling out our rosters.

(1/6) 🌟 Excited to share our new paper! Advancing microbiome safety assessments: opportunities, challenges & recommendations 🧫🦠 This work came out of an academic–industry workshop hosted by @microbiologysociety.org in early 2024. 🔗 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

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