Check out our paper in @asm.org Applied and Environmental Microbiology 🍾 OSMAC guided bioprospecting of Atlantic sponges reveals novel bacterial species and the antimicrobial thiazole alkaloid agrochelin II | Applied and Environmental Microbiology journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... #secmet #microsky

Interested in superbugs, AMR and stress resistance? Join us to do a PhD in the Corrigan lab @UCDMedicine www.ucd.ie/graduatestud...

Interesting antibiotic discovery paper in @plosbiology.org journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

We happily present: “Bakta Web – rapid and standardized genome annotation on scalable infrastructures” @OxUniPress NAR’s Web Server issue doi.org/10.1093/nar/... Easy to use, no registration, fast, scalable, various visualizations, in sync with Bakta CLI: bakta.computational.bio (1/5)

Last night @itvpeston.bsky.social interviewed UK opposition leader @kemibadenochmp.bsky.social… They showed her a series of charts showing why gas – not net-zero – is to blame for high power prices, inc one from me (pic) Watch the full clip here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NuG...

antiSMASH8: The Ocho Manuscript is out! doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

antiSMASH 8.0: extended gene cluster detection capabilities and analyses of chemistry, enzymology, and regulation academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs

When are rhizosphere Pseudomonads different from other rhizosphere Pseudomonads? When they are isolated from different wheat cultivars! We found surprising intra-genus diversity with implications for secondary metabolite production 👇 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Climate TRACE shows you where and when greenhouse gas emissions are occurring.

89% of world’s people want stronger action on climate but mistakenly believe they're in a minority 69% willing to contribute 1% of their income to the climate fight, & more than 50% in all but a few countries, but believed only a minority would also be willing www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There’s still about 60 places left in the microbial natural products starter pack - let me know if you’d like added! go.bsky.app/72NeGsT

📢 Call for papers! Submit your research to #mSystems' new collection on Microbial Ecology and Evolution. Contribute systems-level insights into microbial communities, evolution and ecosystems. Submit now: asm.social/2mq

GTDB Release 10-RS226 (16th April 2025) has been published gtdb.ecogenomic.org

International student decline ‘jeopardising UK research base’. A drop in the number of postgraduate international students coming to the UK is causing “significant and growing insecurity” in the UK’s research base, a report has warned. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

Thirty-eight of 43 experts cut last month from the boards that review the science and research that happens in laboratories at the National Institutes of Health are female, Black or Hispanic, according to an analysis by the chairs of a dozen of the boards.

Virtual cells for predictive immunotherapy - @fertiglab.bsky.social @genomescience.bsky.social go.nature.com/4jfqM3Y

New postdoc position in our lab (2 y+): evolutionary genomics of integrons and MGEs with focus on vibrio-phage interactions. Great environment @pasteur.fr for science, career building. Super collaborators @celineloot.bsky.social @amazeld.bsky.social @fredoleroux.bsky.social 3 weeks to apply!

This is a must-read for everyone involved in metabolomics. Personally I love this article because I no longer have to write a long paragraph when I say 'please don't use pathway analysis' during peer review 🤣

We built this in my laboratory: www.frontiersin.org/journals/mic...

The crisis for UK steel is exposing another – perhaps even bigger – crisis for the UK Our news media seems incapable of even the most basic factchecking YES energy for UK steelmakers is costly NO it's not due to net-zero YES it is due to GAS Here's what UK media isn't telling you🧵

I've answered consulting client questions dozens of times over the years to the effect of "should I force my users traveling to China to take burner devices to safeguard our IP?" It's amazing that in just a few short months, the US is on par with China for many countries' espionage concerns.

Join us for the RSC Chemical Biology Leadership Retreat for Early Career Researchers! This is designed for researchers within 5 years of their first independent position. Bursuries are available (details in link below). Venue: Imperial College London Date: 10-12 Sep 2025 www.rsc.org/events/detai...

Fancy yourself as an editor at Nature Microbiology? This is your chance! Come work with us at @natmicrobiol.nature.com and @naturecomms.bsky.social

One thing maybe not discussed enough is the long term opportunity cost of not investing and supporting open source software. Imagine the more and better Blenders, GIMPs, Firefoxs, InkScapes, QGISs etc we would of had (+ could have) if open source was taken more seriously by government and businesses

Research Visit Grants now open! Funding available for eligible members planning a short 1-3 month lab visit. Apply by 01 May 25, 23:59 BST. Check eligibility & apply here: microb.io/2vS9B2x. #ResearchFunding

The Quadram Institute has a pretty cool setup over there. This sounds like a fun job.

This has been a long journey, but it's now out in final form. @kjamali.bsky.social academic.oup.com/bioinformati...

Be sure to read in our latest issue this review from István Molnár, Peng Xu, Bo-Bo Zhang & co. at Shantou University on harnessing microbial co-culture to increase the production of known secondary metabolites #secmet #natprod Find it here🔽

CoverM is published! CoverM: Read alignment statistics for metagenomics academic.oup.com/bioinformati... #jcampubs

OK. I don't need to explain the importance of 'blue-sky' research to people on here, but this story in @nature.com is so cool! The area of research that delivered CRISPR gene editing has exploded and is turning up all kinds of cool tools for molecular biology. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Abstracts for presentation at #CBNP18 from all natural product ECRs are still welcome! Submit yours here: tinyurl.com/3pn3bdak by the 26th May for talks or the 8th June for posters. Thank you to our sponsors @ukri.org @natprodreports.rsc.org @RSC_CBBG @microbesng.bsky.social 🌿🍄🧫🧬

@robfordmancs.bsky.social has it right The government must choose one from: - Issuing more visas for international students - Increasing funding for home undergraduate students - Some* English universities closing in the next year or two * potentially quite a few

Thanks to all #NPLinker #eScience #Workshop 2025 participants for coming to #Wageningen this week to learn about and gaining hands-on experience with paired omics mining based! 😎 @marnixmedema.bsky.social and I wish everyone a safe trip home! #GNPS2 #BiGSCAPE2 @esciencecenter.bsky.social

#MicroSky: GREEN TECHNOLOGIES: Fighting fungal crop diseases with bacteria! Actinobacteria produce antifungal VOCs, including a newly identified compound, to combat Sclerotinia. A promising eco-friendly approach for biocontrol & crop protection! doi.org/10.1111/1751...

The human microbiome-derived antimicrobial lugdunin self-regulates its biosynthesis by a feed-forward mechanism | mBio journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Have a look at our latest tool: ActinoMation - a toolkit for automated E. coli – Streptomyces conjugation on Opentron laboratory automation systems: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Postdocs! Level up your research at FEMS Summer School 2025 📣 🗓️ Dates: 2-10 September 2025 📍 Location: Metropol Resort Hotel Ohrid, North Macedonia 🔬 Focus: Harnessing microbial solutions in environmental research and One Health. Apply by 18 April 2025, 23:59 CET buff.ly/zLA2RQg

Really interesting to think about how much of a role vaccines will play in combating AMR You could imagine vaccines 6 weeks before knee or hip replacement

I wrote something... about writing. #ScientificWriting to be exact, but I think it applies to all kinds of #writing.

By day: decoding Actinomycetes secondary metabolism with multi-omics. By night: running, volleyball & chasing northern lights Looking forward to connecting! 🏃‍♀️🏐 🧬 #actinomycetes #multiomics #secondarymetabolism #running #northernlights #sciencelife

If you generate, or use MAGs, you should really read the work we have done benchmarking their limitations. Using complex mock communities (70 species), we assessed how deeply you need to sequence to accurately conduct common metaG analyses. Webwere shocked to see even HQ MAGs are often chimeric!

The latest discovery from the lab and great colleagues at McMaster and U Illinois, Chicago. Lariocidin, a new lasso peptide antibiotic that inhibits the ribosome. rdcu.be/efdha

First post here! To inaugurate this account, I'd like to share my recent work, now published in JACS. Intercepting a Mycobacterial Biosynthetic Pathway with Covalent Labeling | Journal of the American Chemical Society pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

🎧 Missed our Mini-symposium? 🎧 💡 Don’t worry – all 4 talks from ‘Tackling AMR Together’ the TARGetAMR & Fungal ONE Health joint Mini-symposium, are now live on our website! 🎥✨ Explore the latest in AMR and fungal research.🌍🔬 👇Watch here: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/jo...

Telomeric transposons are pervasive in linear bacterial genomes | Science www.science.org/doi/full/10....

Harnessing microbial co-culture to increase the production of known secondary metabolites - Nat Prod Rep @natprodreports.rsc.org Review pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Although X engagement with new publications is still strong and of quality, there’s a large body of “reposting” activity that seems largely focussed on a certain body of work: vaccine scepticism, MMR, autism, ivermectin, etc. To literally nobody's surprise. 5/11

New online! Global health perspectives on antibacterial drug discovery and the preclinical pipeline

Out now, a comprehensive guide to metagenomics -- from sample collection to data analysis. This primer covers best practices, challenges, and applications in health, agriculture & environment. A roadmap for studying microbial communities 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Great work from a fellow lab member here - improving the efficency of CRISPR tools in Streptomyces! #secmet #microsky