Dear all, I am aware I have not been on the platform for a while but NanoSyrinx is hiring again so I thought I would share. If you are anyone you know is interested, take a look below: www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

Been using Prokka for years now, excellent annotating software. Looking forward to try Bakta

Interesting phys.org/news/2025-12...

Have I agreed to review a grant over Xmas? Of course I have 🤦

Our pre-print on staff & students perspectives on EDI in Medicine is available now on Research Square www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-7... We looked at what students feel confident in learning, what the curriculum currently represents, and how to support staff to enhance EDI topics further.

@simonecoppola.bsky.social has made micromorph, the first native Python application and library for measuring bacterial morphology. It runs interactively in napari or can be easily integrated into automated Python scripts. It integrates deep learning cell segmentation and is easily extended 🔬🦠🧫

I'm proud to share the latest methods work from my group. Led by @revathykri.bsky.social we wrote a book chapter on how we process and analyse viromes. Thanks to co-authors @rikhaagmans.bsky.social @ryancook94.bsky.social & Alise Ponsero link.springer.com/protocol/10....

This should cause some serious reconsideration about holding scientific meetings in the US If scientists can be harassed at the border and prevented entry just because of their private opinions, then conferences should be held in a more inclusive and democratic country www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Interesting - a broad host range marine cyanomyovirus link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Pathway analysis or KoalaKEGG for any non-model organism is really bad. Thousands of differentially expressed genes categorised into 5 pathways, most populated one being "unknown", is really quite poor.

This is fantastic.

We really have no use for these very late mea culpas in the Telegraph. How about putting all your weight behind fixing some of this disaster? Campaign for single market access? Freedom of movement for the young people at least? University home fees for the EU students?

This is giving me serious Mamdani vibes In an absolutely fantastic kind of way

Excellent group and fantastic topics!

Listening to a fascinating talk by @matthutchings.bsky.social on all things Streptomyces. Love it that all the references are author, year and PMID only, no journal names. 👏👏👏

2 days left to apply for a fully funded MIBTP Phd project with me at the School of Life Sciences @warwicklifesci.bsky.social at Warwick. We will do viral functional metagenomics and other cool techniques. Check out the details and apply in the link below warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

I have a PhD position available on freshwater phage pollution, in terms of AMR impact and persistance of phage used in food and agriculture. #PhageSky #MicroSky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Wonderful opportunity

Take notes UK. This is the exact playbook that Reform government will enforce if (when?) they get in power.

How did we get to a point where it is ok to be cruel? It seems to be a perfectly valid policy to try and make the immigrants life as miserable as possible, it seems to be acceptable to just be cruel to the trans people... Why is cruelty suddenly not just justified but revered?

I've made a short blog post summarising currently available substitutes to GeneFrames for bacterial timelapse microscopy. I will keep it updated with any future developments, so let me know if anything should be added. holdenlab.github.io/blog/2025/Ge... #microsky

Fantastic work. Functional characterisation of another viral auxiliary metabolic gene. Cyanophage interference in marine photosynthesis gets another angle.

Anybody tried any mScarlet3 antibodies on a western blot and got any recommendations? Cheers!

In a bookstore in Lisbon @dorianlynskey.bsky.social

Single-particle genomics uncovers abundant non-canonical marine viruses from nanolitre volumes Very cool paper and method. I was looking forward to this coming out of preprint (short thread below on why) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

PSA If your article/essay/blog post/LinkedIn post are sprinkled with emojis, bullet points (or the winning combo, emojis instead of bullet points) and those long dashes (—), I am not reading them. I know where ChatGPT is, I can ask it myself if I want to read a machine generated opinion on RNAseq

Come work with me! I am hiring a senior research technician to help me discover novel phage genes with antibiofilm properties. We will create metagenomic libraries, program robots, sequence viral metagenomes and many more fun things. The application deadline is 02-Dec-25. shorturl.at/GErUo

Check out our latest preprint in which we describe a new phage plaque sequencing pipeline which lowers the cost of sequencing by up to 10-fold while significantly shortening the time required to obtain the phage genome sequences www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Doing RNAseq analysis on Halloween

PhD opportunity in my lab: exploring how commensals and pathogens build biofilm communities on endotracheal (ventilator) tubes. Microbial ecology, medical microbiology and fancy imaging! Co-supervised with the fabulous Saskia Bakker and Jeremy Webb warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky

PhD project claxon!! Interested in phage functional metagenomics? Want to learn how to program a robot? Apply for a fully funded MIBTP PhD with myself, Rich Puxty, and @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social here at Warwick, working on viral anti-biofilm gene discovery. Apply here: tinyurl.com/phagegenomics

History. It repeats itself.

This map is really confusing

Weak and disappointing. If being a Nazi isn't enough to remove someone from the list of Fellows, what is?

Fascinating! Well done, so nice to see familiar names on this publication

Love my town.

Coming soon to the UK if Reform wins...

We have some full length 16S data from isolates that we'd like to match to ASV-level V4-V5 microbiomes from the same samples. It's pretty messy, especially for strains with multiple copies of 16S rRNA genes. Has anyone encountered this in their work, or in the lit? Any ideas how to approach this?

Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of single cell bacterial FACS? Have a few technical issues due to my tiny cells. Thanks!

our new paper on pelagic #Asgard archaea that use #rhodopsins with carotenoid antennas to harvest light energy in the oceans. Structural insights into light-harvesting by antenna-containing rhodopsins in marine Asgard archaea www.nature.com/articles/s41... @galitzlil.bsky.social

hey bluesky 👋 visa hurdles mean I’m looking for opportunities outside the US. I’m a computational biologist (bacterial + phage genomics, postdoc in Koonin’s group @ NIH). I am interested in teaming up on funding apps. reach out if this resonates!

This is a proof that you can get anyone, and I mean ANYONE, into any position, no matter how extreme or inhumane, given enough biased mass media manipulation. More than 50% of adults in this country support placing asylum seekers in concentration camps. We deserve everything coming our way.

West Coast - the Best Coast

How do diatoms cope with nitrogen and phosphorus colimitation? — Happy to share our new paper: "Nitrogen status exerts dynamic control over phosphorus sensing and acquisition via PSR1 in colimited marine diatoms" 🔗 doi.org/10.1126/scia... @exetermarine.bsky.social @thembauk.bsky.social

Good read and important overview. Funny that the illustration shows one of the most common genes in marine phage genomes phoH which is commonly annotated as a phosphate-stress related protein without any proof that it indeed has any role in phosphate metabolism in bacteria, let alone in phage.

A great opportunity! If ypu are an environmental/marine microbiologist eager to learn new analytical skills and support research in a new group, this is for you!

Love this

Good read!

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