Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... please repost

PhD fellowship in biofilm-phage interactions - with Mette Burmølle at University of Copenhagen 🇩🇰 deadline 1 October 2025 employment.ku.dk/faculty?show... #phagesky #microsky

Come join us in Knoxville! 🧫🧪🦠

Recent paper from the lab studying predictors of phage cocktail efficacy against complex clinical Pseudomonas populations royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.... Led by Rosanna Wright with extraordinary MSc (PhD) student Maisie Czernuska

Andrew Frando, @jrchandler.bsky.social, and I wrote a primer about excellent work done in Sam Brown's group @brownlab.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Bacterial #QuorumSensing is often assumed to follow a strict hierarchy. @brownlab.bsky.social &co find that #Pseudomonas aeruginosa instead uses a reciprocal, cooperative system that enhances responsiveness to population density & environmental changes @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3I7DhRG

Standing room only for Eli Mehlferber from @brownbio.bsky.social for breakfast talk this morning. Giving a great talk.

WHAT?!? one way to cut off my last connection to the UK. Since when has the BBC News become subscription based?

Do you love phage? I have an opening for a postdoc in my lab at the University of South Florida College of Marine Science (@cmarinescience.bsky.social) looking at interactions between marine phage and iron, which is an important limiting trace metal in the oceans (1/5) 🧵#phagesky 🦠🌊

~3 inch Joro Spider. Invasive species in Georgia now.

New foster in the house. “Lovely” she fits her name to a tee. If you know anyone looking for a dog in the Atlanta area hit me up!

This is what the look of betrayal from a cat looks like.

Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Very proud of my three wonderful Summer undergrad research fellows, all supported by the Molecular Basis for Disease program at State. All three have done great work and have been a pleasure to have in the lab.

Finally got my iPod touch to turn back on. I bought this with my first PhD pay check. Time to listen to some classic pre 2010 tunes.

Used AI to recreate the strangest bathroom I viewed when I was trying to find an apartment in France. This is a fairly close rendering. Including the off angle steps and it being in the center of the room. It was a bizarre death trap. Just the right height if you fell you’d break your neck.

New lab logo

Lovely time with new and old friends at microbiology population biology camp. Leaving with lots of new ideas (and lots of new bug bites) @cbibberson.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social

Feeling tired but inspired after a great week at the #MicrobialPopBioGRC. Great to see old friends and make some new ones! 🦞🗻🧫 @ginalewin.bsky.social @peachypotato.bsky.social @jamesgurney.bsky.social @stephenkdolan.bsky.social

My first GRC and I get why this is so many folks favorite meeting. Great presentations and interaction with some many people. Only gripe is my room was hot. But it also does this! Warning flashing lights!

PhD opportunities at @flindersuniversity.bsky.social in Adelaide, Australia's most liveable city, to study genetics in #phage We will also have genetics #postdoc positions too! #microsky #phagesky www.linkedin.com/pulse/phd-pr...

Nice place to hangout for a week and hear some cool science.

Looking forward to seeing everyone, new and old, at the Microbial Population Biology GRS + GRC in just a couple days! go.bsky.app/GGxRjzC

Just a bit of lightning

The Met Office is currently looking for people to suggest up to 5 names for storms... It would be great if thousands all suggested the same 5 names (in alphabetical order as that's how storm names appear): BigOil, BP, Equinor, Exxon, Shell. www.metoffice.gov.uk/forms/name-o...

It's out! We used the T4P-dependent phage Luz19 to select against the type IV pilus virulence factor in P. aeruginosa, despite the presence of competing S. aureus.

Big day for the Gurney lab, first paper from the lab is now published. @sczerwinski.bsky.social led this work and answered a simple question does phage steering work when other bacteria are around? Tldr: yes! journals.asm.org/doi/epub/10....

The MHRA today released new guidance for #Phage therapy in the UK. This will provide direction for scientists and researchers working to make this treatment a reality for patients. 🔬 🧪 🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...

Phage people: Rich Losick and I are combing the world looking for T4 rIIB mutant FC0 (also known as P13). FC0 was the starting point for Francis Crick's beautiful 1961 paper on the triplet nature of the genetic code. We want to sequence it. Anyone have it in an ancient stock collection?

🚨 I’m hiring a postdoc for Fall 2025 with experience in microbial ‘omics data analysis and phylogenetics/genomics. Projects will be centered around ancient microbial ecology & evolution. Click here for more information: bpb-us-e1.wpmucdn.com/wp.txstate.e... Please share, thank you 🙏🏻

Anyone aware of somebody doing compassionate release type phage therapy in Canada? A friend of mine is having a lot of trouble with ever increasing AMR Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

Hike buddy.

The goal of Middle Author Bioinformatics is to make high-quality, open-source bioinformatics more accessible, transparent, and easier to use — without sacrificing rigor. midauthorbio.com

Weekend find. Little too red to start with.

We are hiring a #phage research assistant here in Christchurch to help with our phagesolutions.co.nz project. If you are looking for a rewarding job in a microbiology laboratory, please take a look! #NZLabLife jobs.canterbury.ac.nz/jobdetails/a...

Almost forgot it is pancake day. Flipping pancakes is a skill every child learns in the UK.

My awesome former lab mate @clara-inrae.bsky.social is looking for a post doc for some neat phage work, in the equally awesome city of Montpellier!

I have an technician job opening in my lab, applications by 25th Feb #PhageSky #Phage www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DLU975/r...

Standing room only for Deb Hogan’s talk on “Chronic lung infections: Lessons from the study of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Candida spp” for GSU’s MBD seminar series.

This sounds like an awesome PhD project.

I just downloaded an app for my washer/drier. I hate the future.

Hello world! I'm starting out on bluesky with a job posting - we're looking for lab research tech who shares our love of bugs. More info here brownlab.biology.gatech.edu/opportunities/

Amazing what some people throw out. Going to restore this 1898 Birds Eye maple chiffonier

Winter refuge

We are looking for a motivated and energetic post doc to work on our research team at Children's Hospital Los Angeles on projects related to bacteriophage, antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial tolerance in cystic fibrosis and chronic airway infection! jobs.chla.org/careers-home...

Quick bit of woodworking before returning to the office tomorrow. Walnut shaker table. Cut all the joinery by hand. Took bloody ages, shoulda used a saw and chisel.

Richard's lectures aren't just one of the best and easily understood stats lectures (a low bar), I'd suggest they are one of the best lectures series in general (high bar!).

If all you want for Christmas is the link to Richard McElreath's miraculously entertaining lectures on Bayesian statistics, here you are

One of my documentary pitches has been commissioned by the BBC World Service! I'm going to be sharing the secret social lives of bacteria on a radio near you next year!

Dear fellow biologists, I submit to you that we just accept this is how Darwin came up with Natural Selection. www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgrX...