Federal funding announced today will support #WesternU's newest Canada Research Chair, @schulichmeddent.bsky.social prof Patrick Moynihan, & seven renewed chairs across campus. Western also receives $13.9M from Tri-agency Institutional Programs Secretariat to support the indirect costs of research.

One unexpected thing moving to Canada - compared to the UK companies like @thermofishersci.bsky.social and @sigmaaldrich.bsky.social have absolutely abysmal shipping times. It takes *weeks* for things that are 'in stock' to be delivered.

Sadly, this is almost the number of people that die globally of TB every 2-3 days.

Structural motif search across the protein-universe with Folddisco https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.06.663357v1

New paper from my friend Andy Lovering. When porins get weird: rdcu.be/euXWk

I have vastly underestimated the amount of work that goes into moving a lab across an ocean. Great time to be buying loads of stuff that is mostly imported too....

New Type VII ABC Transporter just dropped! We are super excited to present our characterisation of the YbbAP-TesA complex, a novel Type VII ABC transporter linked to a periplasmic thioesterase. doi.org/10.1101/2025...

SCAM ALERT. This is a fake conference that ripped off my and other people’s names to trick people into registering. There is no such conference that I or the others shown were invited or agreed to. We are working to try to get this fraud taken down from the web. chemsymposia.com

Happy to share our newest preprint addressing the basis of trehalose essentiality in mycobacteria! This is a story brewing in the lab for the longest time, started by MSc grad Justin Lim, & now completed by the amazing PhD grad-turned-postdoc @yushuchen.bsky.social! #MicroSky #Mycobacteria 1/8

Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available in the team - one here and second to follow - please repost! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Having a nice walk after @proftracypalmer.bsky.social delivered an excellent talk at the mycobacterial biology GRC.

Excited to be at the first ever GRC on the biology of mycobacteria. Finally a myco meeting that is not immunology or drug-focused!

If anyone is looking for a post doc, or knows someone looking for one, Andy Lovering has a post open. Awesome lab and great opportunity: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Starting to see papers that are just alphafolds of stuff with no experiments. Who is reviewing this?

The punishment for having more than one structure in a manuscript is having to interface with OneDep multiple times. What a brutal interface. Someone give the PDB some more money and a web designer, please.

So proud of Aaron and the entire team for this. Lots of co-authors not in the photo below who helped with this paper.

Congratulations to European Society of #Mycobacteriology (ESM) Hugo David Award Winners 2024 (1st semester): Dr Aaron Franklin and his colleagues. This award is given by the ESM Steering Committee to the two best papers of the year published by ESM members

I am begging people to use fewer acronyms (ideally zero) in their grant/fellowship etc apps. As a panelist if I am even slightly off your subject area it makes it really challenging to parse.

Nothing beats Prism in terms of ease of use, but I am growing to like JASP. It's open source and GUI based and you can even look under the hood and see the exact R code that it runs. jasp-stats.org

I love making figures for papers. Seeing a story come together is a very rewarding part of this job.

Most accurate Oded post ever...

Just renewed my GraphPad Prism license for the last time. They doubled the price on it this year, with zero justification. I guess 2025 is the year I finally learn R.

This is the best description of microbial taxonomy I've ever seen in my life. (xkcd.com/3010/) #MicroSky

Was talking to two different people today about the importance of life outside of science. A good reminder that this job can consume you, but the most important things are not this job.

How does your favorite species elongate? 🧵 "Phenotypic plasticity in bacterial elongation among closely related species" by @mariedelaby.bsky.social, Liu Yang et al https://buff.ly/48Kw96x. How do cells elongate, all over, poles, middle? Close species do it the same way right? Not quite! #Microsky

2 days left. Asst/Assoc Prof position in bacteriology, Université de Montréal. Deadline ***Nov. 15*** come join our growing community of bacteriologists. BTW Canada is the USA’s Bluesky!

Trends in the two-component system’s role in the synthesis of antibiotics by Streptomyces link.springer.com/article/10.1...

A few days late but I'm really happy to announce I passed my viva on Friday. Thank you to my examiners, Dr Tim Knowles and Dr Dany Beste for a really great discussion and a really big thank you to my supervisor @pmoyniha.bsky.social for all the support and advice over the years. Thank you! 🎉

Third PhD in the books. Congrats to Dr. Clare Thomas for successfully completing her viva. Thanks to Tim Knowles and Dany Beste for examining.

Join us! 4 Assistant/ Associate Professor posts available at University of Warwick School of Life Sciences, 2 in Host-Pathogen interactions and 2 in Plant Sciences: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G... #microsky

Please repost: Nov. 15 deadline! We are building a strong bacteriology community at Univ de Montréal, including recent hires Sven van Teeffelen, Frédérique Le Roux & myself. Moving to Montréal in 2018 is one of the best career decisions I made. Come join us! jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/664282/a...

Lots of change is coming my way in 2025. I will leave Birmingham and the UK in March to take up a post at the University of Western Ontario in Canada. This move was triggered for family reasons, but I am excited to join the excellent group of people at Western.

Has anyone studied whether you need hot water to wash your hands safely in a BSL2 lab? Asking for a building that will be ~2 months without it.

🚨 The Whelan lab is hiring! 🚨 We're looking for a Research Assistant to join our lab at U of Manchester. We're seeking someone with experience in microbiology & microbiome to support our growing group. Note this isn't a postdoc role (though keep 👀 for those announcements soon!) #Microsky 🧪 🧬 💻

Does anyone have a good tutorial for 3d printing multi-component structures? There are many simple guides out there for monomers or things with a single ligand, but I'm looking specifically for multi-component complexes.

This is either brilliant satire or a horrific indictment of British food: www.bbcgoodfood.com/user/820725/...

Are there any BioRad NGC users out there? Looking for any relatively recent experience/thoughts vs Akta.

I think it can do the Akta run in less than 12 parsecs.

New paper by led by Sergey Melnikov’s group on the discovery of a new type of ribosome hibernation factor: t.co/iQJ2biOHkx

Anyone out there had luck making binding domains from TLRs in non-euk expression hosts? 🦠

Made a new lab logo, it is based on a Canadian stamp from when I was a kid. The idea is to embed the TB cell wall in the maple leaf using (mostly) the symbolic nomenclature for glycans. Previously put this on twitter, now realising it is hard to maintain 2 accts (I don't know how the trolls do it).🦠

Merry Christmas everyone.

Yes, mark your calendars for this new GRC on the Biology of mycobacteria! Help spread the word and more details to come! 🦠#microsky

My first official post on bsky! @michaelglickman.bsky.social and I will be chairing the FIRST EVER #GRC on the Biology of Mycobacteria! Our goal is to focus on fundamental mycobacteriology for a broad audience. April 6-11, 2025 in Pomona, CA. Mark. Your. Calendars...

Nothing quite like the rush of getting finance forms approved before the holiday shutdown.

The journal Microbiology, published by the Microbiology Society, is looking to appoint two new Senior Editors to help shape panels in regulation, sensing & signalling and eukaryotic microbiology. Join us in advancing microbiological research. Express your interest: microb.io/3sUvKyh

Three assist/assoc prof posts here at Warwick up for grabs! Human-microbe interactions, ecology/evolution and cardiorespiratory physiology. warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/life... #MicroSky

📣 I'm recruiting a Research Technician to work on projects involving experimental evolution of antimicrobial resistance in Manchester. To start ASAP with an end date in mid 2026. Apply by 13 Dec. Please RT! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

I spend far too much time trying to convert gene names between whatever annotation is used on ncbi vs uniprot. I wish the databases integrated better :( #microsky