What’s holding back clinical use of phage therapy in the UK? Our workshop last year brought together international experts, biotech and regulators to find out Meeting Report out now in Nature Microbiology with our take on the challenges and opportunities facing the UK phage therapy sector

Application deadline for this postdoc position in my group closing next week 🦠 thank you all who have shared so far!

A new year brings new opportunities: we are looking to fill a permanent professorship position with a Microbiologist preferably with expertise on archaeal biology, RNA biology or imaging techniques to unravel cell biology in prokaryotes! Please share and/or apply :)! www.nature.com/naturecareer...

EMBO Workshop 24 – 27 April 2026 | Taipei, Taiwan Evolving together: from genomics to biological interactions meetings.embo.org/event/26-bio... @chuanku.bsky.social

We are recruiting a tenure track professor in the broader area of molecular biology @zmbh.uni-heidelberg.de at Heidelberg University! www.nature.com/naturecareer... Please share and apply!

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

We are happy to share the presentation about the "Partner Search Tool" from the recent #EUPOHAMR webinar: 2026 Joint Transnational Call, "Treatments and adherence to treatment protocols". Watch the presentation by Alicja Dylag at @ncn.gov.pl, Poland. youtu.be/KDhKQeIEZ1U?... #AMR

Ever wondered what happens if 💊antibiotics are not effective anymore? In this online article I summarize the efforts in the field using 🦁🦠predatory bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus as ‘living antibiotic’: tinyurl.com/4dmt9dps #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR

🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages. Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms. A thread 1/8

🚀New preprint from our lab! I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡 Continue reading (🧵)

When you met your other half in a lab working on molybdenum cofactor (Moco), somehow this museum selfie seems appropriate

✨Opportunity to join the 🦁🦠 Predatory Bacteria lab! My lab will move to University of Bern (CH) in April 2026 based on my #ERCStG. Therefore, we are looking for: -a PhD student (shorturl.at/mt0LR) -a 50% Technical Assistant/Lab manager (shorturl.at/0IIKe) 🙏Thanks for sharing. #MicroSky

We're hiring! Clinical Assistant Professor in Infectious Diseases. Great group of physicians and great community!

Join us in Colorado next spring for the Keystone Symposia “Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection”. Registrations are now open! Details below ⬇️

This #WAAW Don’t forget to get your awesome AMR abstracts submitted to join us in Hinxton to discuss AMR genomics, innovations in diagnostics, therapeutics, and data analytics, and novel mechanisms of antimicrobial survival! #AMR2026

Marjory Stephenson Prize 2026: Professor Mark Buttner — @johninnescentre.bsky.social Outreach and Engagement Prize 2026: @lindsaybroadbent.bsky.social — @uniofsurrey.bsky.social Translational Microbiology Prize 2026: @alanlparker.bsky.social — @cancerwales.bsky.social

Registration is now open for @keystonesymposia.bsky.social "Beyond #Antibiotics: Emerging Strategies Combating #BacterialInfection." Deadline for scholarships and abstract selected short talks is Jan 7! Join us this May for an amazing meeting! keysym.us/KSBeyondAntibiotics26 #KSBeyondAntibiotics26

Mycorrhizal networks transfer jasmonic acid to recruit pathogen-suppressors @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social Spotlight from @dromius.bsky.social on @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social paper from Zhong Wei/Xingang Zhou with @mrillig.bsky.social @mvanderheijden.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

Our article on a 🛠️ molecular toolbox 🛠️ in predatory bacterium 🦁🦠 Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus is published in PLOS Genetics (=> tiny.cc/6wuu001). 🎉 This supports the research on this bacterial predator-prey system & future bioengineering efforts. #MicroSky #SyntheticBiology #PredatoryBacteria

Working in the field of Microbial Sensing, Signaling, and Regulation? Apply for the upcoming STIM GRC soon to be considered for a short talk! See you in sunny Ventura www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

Switzerland is joining Horizon Europe! We are uniting two research powerhouses. For cutting-edge innovation that will boost our energy security, digital transformation, health and so much more. Today is a good day for science, and for our EU-Switzerland partnership.

One of nature’s tiniest predators 🦁 is Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus which kills, invades & eats up other bacteria 🦠. Studying predator protein abundances we found a bacterial prey-degradation enzyme. Read full blog article in Springer Nature Research Community here: tiny.cc/zmju001 #Microsky

and if you don't know what we're talking about bsky.app/profile/oded...

📢 Join the Microbiology Society at Innovations Against AMR 2025! We’ll be leading a Policy Workshop exploring how science, regulation and innovation come together to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). 👉 Register for free here: www.medilinkmidlands.com/event/in-per... #AMR

Pls share: A postdoctoral research position is available in the group of Prof. Dr. Kirsten Jung at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany focusing on SRBs (www.bio.lmu.de/en/research/...)

Multiple small, curved, predatory bacteria (Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus) lyse the bacterial prey remnants below. How are they doing this & which predator proteins are involved in this process? See our newly released research article 📑 => rdcu.be/eL6gu 🦠 #microsky #bacteria #PredatoryBacteria

AMR kills 1.27M people each year — we urgently need new solutions. On #WorldPhageDay, we celebrate phages: nature’s powerful allies against bacteria. At INCATE, we support innovators bringing phage therapies to life. Working on one? We want to hear from you! #AMR #Phage

A simple shift in NHS critical care practice is set to save more lives from #Sepsis. The @ICS_updates & @BritInfectAssoc now recommend continuous infusion for key antibiotics over intermittent dosing. Evidence shows increased 90-day survival. We urge all hospitals to adopt this practice immediately

Interested in discovering natural products from fungi? 🍄🤖 Don’t miss the chance to be part of this exciting collaborative project with @slavi-jan.bsky.social and me!

Pls share: Secchi group at ETH Zürich is recruiting two fully funded, four-year PhD positions for an SNSF-funded project investigating the nonlinear rheology of bacterial biofilms. Deadline: 30 November 2025. Full advert and submission details: jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...

"Join ISME’s #UnityinDiversity 2025 Virtual Meeting on 21 October, which will elevate diverse voices in microbial ecology and affirm the importance of equity, inclusion, and global collaboration" 🦠 isme-microbes.org/invitation-t...

Day 2 of #BlackInMicro week kicks off with our research symposium! Join us for a morning full of exciting science presented by early career scientists from across the world 👩🏾‍🔬🔬🌎

Between 2018–2023, antibiotic resistance increased in over 40% of the pathogen–antibiotic combinations monitored, with an average annual rise of 5–15%. Resistance is highest in the WHO South-East Asian & Eastern Mediterranean Regions, where 1 in 3 reported infections were resistant 👉 bit.ly/438Ta1u

There’s still time to sign up for our next AMR in Focus webinar! Taking place on 20 October at 13:00 BST, ‘Transitioning from academia to industry in AMR’ will feature insights from several key speakers, as well as a Q&A session. Sign up today: microb.io/42mO69s

Interested in bacterial sensing, signaling and regulation? Come join us in January at the GRC in sunny California! www.grc.org/sensory-tran...

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre. Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

New paper online at @nature.com from co-leads @erinedoherty.bsky.social + @benadler.bsky.social !

Happy to share that our story on the bacterial archaellum was published today in @natmicrobiol.nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41... Congrats to the authors: @sshamphavi.bsky.social @loumollat.bsky.social @mariejoest.bsky.social Najwa Taib and @sgribaldo.bsky.social

Please share: The application for Les Houches is open (until Oct 31) fluorescenceleshouches.wordpress.com *This is for you, if you ever wanted to learn all about fluorescence markers & how to apply them for your biological research!* PS: no fees this year, you just need to get there, that's all!

Deciphering microbial spatial organization: insights from synthetic and engineered communities url: academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...

🚨 Important paper in Nature: "Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors". www.nature.com/articles/s41...

📢 A Junior Professorship (W1, tenure track) is open at the Center for Plant Molecular Biology at Uni Tübingen (@zmbp-tuebingen.bsky.social) — to work on plant protein biochemistry (composition, structure, dynamics, or regulation of protein complexes). 🌱 Great opportunity — Apply by Oct 17th!

Please re-post: Interested in chromatin and its evolution? Good news! There's still time to join us in beautiful Catalonia (9-12 Dec) to discuss eukaryotic, bacterial, archaeal, and viral chromatin and how it all hangs together meetings.embo.org/event/24-evo... Abstract deadline: 30 September

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work with Daniel Probst, Justin van der Hooft and myself on an exciting project involving federated learning and integrative omics for discovery of new antibiotics from natural products. Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... Please share!

🚨 We're hiring, please share! The FMI seeks a tenure-track Group Leader (Assistant Prof) in Structural Biology 🔬 Innovative scientists in genome regulation, RNA metabolism, or protein homeostasis—especially using cutting-edge approaches—apply now at www.fmi.ch/education-ca...

I am very much looking forward to starting my ERC Starting Grant at the Institute for Infectious Diseases at the University of Bern in 2026! The details of all ERC Starting Grant 2025 projects at the University of Bern @unibe.ch are in the link below. #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

Ich freue mich sehr darauf, meinen ERC Starting Grant am Institut für Infektionskrankheiten der Universität Bern im 2026 zu starten! Details zu allen ERC Starting Grant 2025 Projekten an der Universität Bern @unibe.ch sind unten. #ERCStG @erc.europa.eu

In case you missed it... Yesterday we announced the new 2025 ERC Starting Grant winners. 478 early-career researchers will be pushing the frontiers of science - from cancer and mental health to quantum breakthroughs. 👉 europa.eu/!89nG4M 5 explain what this funding means for their work & careers.👇