Planning your @escmid.bsky.social ESCMID GLOBAL 2026 trip? Marleen Hekker (UMCU) will present her poster 'Urine, vaginal, and vulval microbiome compositions of postmenopausal women with and without recurrent urinary tract infections' on Saturday 18 april, 12:00 -13:30, Hall B3, number P2408.

🌍 verkloot voor de kinderen 😢 “Ze vonden ‘n geschatte vertraging van 42% tot 58% in 2100, ‘n niveau dat wrs tot ‘n ineenstorting zal leiden.“ “Een ineenstorting zou W-Europa in extreem koude winters & zomerse droogtes storten & de zeespiegel rond de Atlantische Oceaan met 50-100 cm doen stijgen.”

Just a few days left‼️ Abstract submission deadline for MEEHubs2026 is April 19! Come present at one of the hubs August 3-5, 2026✨ Links and more info here: meehubs.org

Environmentally mediated interactions predict community assembly and invasion success in a gut microbiota synthetic community #mSystems from @meikewortel.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Interested in predicting the dynamics of antibiotic resistance? Come work with us! We're looking for two postdocs to develop predictive models of resistance. We're interested in a range of approaches (mathematical & statistical modelling, causal inference, machine learning). tinyurl.com/6c4y3jke

The VEO Group has a position open for a PhD student to investigate Fungi-bacteria interactions in complex communities! Check out this position and many more at the JSMC website 👇👇 www.jsmc-phd.de/admission/va...

Interspecies interaction alters the trajectory of antibiotic resistance evolution by amplifying negative fitness epistasis url: academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

New preprint looking at the associations between maternal mortality and having sons in preindustrial Finland from work with León van Dorp during his master’s project. Also with Mirkka Lahdenpera, @lummaalab.bsky.social, and @hannahdugdale.bsky.social

Christiaan Both was een van de ontdekkers van de ‘mismatch’ tussen broedseizoen en voedselpiek: veel vogels broeden te laat, nu de lentes vroeger vallen. De vogels kunnen zich aanpassen, maar geldt dat voor alle soorten – en gaat het snel genoeg? Lees het artikel 👉 www.rug.nl/about-ug/lat...

I just published Don’t Perish! A Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Scientific Paper (2026 edition) Great science deserves to be read—not buried under unclear writing. This is the updated 2026 edition of your favorite guide to writing scientific papers. medium.com/p/dont-peris...

🆒 new pub! Rapid evolution of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms in vitro -> adaptations selected during infection by @gretazabo.bsky.social & Linus Sandegren *hypermucoidy evolves via 📈c-di-GMP, overlaps w/ mutations in UTI and wound isolates. *pleasure to advise this! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happening tomorrow in Groningen (a few tickets still available)! forum.nl/nl/agenda/ta...

Interested in synthetic biology & microbiomes? 🧬🧫 We are recruiting a PhD student to develop biosensors to study microbe–microbe & microbe–host interactions. In beautiful Lausanne, Switzerland🏔️⛵ @dmf-unil.bsky.social @fbm-unil.bsky.social Apply by 24.05.2026 👇 shorturl.at/6X7M4 Boosts appreciated!

Excited to share our new paper out today in @science.org 🎉 We show that HGT via natural competence drives diversification of chromosomal integrons in V. cholerae 🤩 Below a 🧵 on key findings incl. background on natural competence in V. cholerae 1/ #microsky #phagesky www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New in @science.org ‼️ In the most comprehensive study to date, we show that wildlife trade is driving animal-to-human zoonotic spillover at a planetary scale, with +1 spillover per host every 10 years. Live animal markets and illegal trade pose even greater risks. 🔓 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

It's time for some refreshing science! 🍹

Moran et al. in Science Emergent predictability in microbial ecosystems www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

How to measure microbiome health? Commentary proposes adaptive coherence: capacity of host-microbiome systems to sustain integrated function via reorganization. Reframes health as emergent & relational, w/measurements of adaptability/functional integrity www.cell.com/cell-host-mi...

Results from a long term bacteria - ciliate experiment: academic.oup.com/evolut/advan...

My lab at Pitt is looking for a Research Scientist to help us make phage therapy for patients with antibiotic-resistant infections. Please share and apply! cfopitt.taleo.net/careersectio...

Kunnen we nu alsjeblieft verder gaan met zonnepanelen, windmolens, isoleren en warmtepompen?

Scientists invented a fake disease. LLMs told people it was real www.nature.com/articles/d41...

There's still time to get your abstracts in for this year's International Conference on Microbiome Engineering conference in Antwerp! We extended the deadline to September 15th. #microsky #microbiomesky

Lees dit artikel op de Volkskrant www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/w...

Beware "Microbial interactions change antibiotic susceptibility of pathogens in co-culture" at #KNVM2026 by Freya Darling Eriksen as part of the ENW-XL project of @lizscurious.bsky.social

At the #KNVM2026 meeting? Tomorrow, 1 April, not one but two presentations of the UTIr project (not a joke!)

Check out our new paper applying fast DIA proteomics to bacterial co-cultures at scale. www.nature.com/articles/s41... @kiranrpatil.bsky.social

I am excited to share our latest paper, Uniform bacterial genetic diversity along the gut, now out in Nature Communications! www.nature.com/articles/s41.... (1/n)

At @uti-revisited.bsky.social we collect the findings of the UTIr project - on the ecology and evolution of recurrent urinary tract infections. Interested in UTIs, pathogenesis, AMR, urobiome, microbial ecology & evolution? Give us a follow! #UTISky #AMR #microbiomesky #microSky #evoSky #mevoSky

Now out in AEM @asm.org! 🎉🧪 *High school student-isolated mutants 👉🏻 novel genetic causes of biofilm-associated adaptations *We learn how diversity arises quickly and is maintained *EvolvingSTEM enables scalable research in classrooms & promotes scientific literacy journals.asm.org/eprint/FBU9M...

Personalized microbiotas (counter-)select for antibiotic resistant strains https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.29.715108v1

Monday send battalions Tuesday, Wednesday say we've won Thursday bomb more civilians Friday head for golf (To The Cure's "Friday, I'm in Love")

Also- Duh.

If you are at the EPS Annual Meeting, please check out these wonderful posters and talks from our PlantBio group @gelifes.bsky.social 🌱

🔊 Looking for a Research Assistant in Bacterial Evolution to join my lab 🦠 🥼Main duties: Research (AMR + microbiome) + lab assistance. ⏲️ Post duration: 30 months 🗓️ Closing date for applications: 20th April 2026 💰 Salary: ~£35k Details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/2a3v66y7 Please share!

Climate has almost disappeared from our conversation. But it remains the most pressing challenge of our times. Last week the WMO said the planet is “more out of balance than at any time in observed history.” Energy security and climate security are not competing priorities.

Nice preprint about #UTI -associated clinical Klebsiella strains, shedding new light on virulence but also (a growing theme... 🤔) how the micro-environment - in this case, presence of urine - can alter these phenotypes #UTISky #MicroSky #IDSky

#microsky #phagesky on #phage cocktails

Dit verhaal van mijn collega @lamyae.bsky.social moet elke Nederlander lezen www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Check out our new publication on AMR evolution in genetically diverse pathogen pops! Great work by former postdoc Aditi Batra! academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

Predicting the effect of a #mutation on #fitness is hard. @oliviamghosh.bsky.social @petrovadmitri.bsky.social &co use fitness effects of adaptive yeast mutants to show that underlying genotype-phenotype-fitness maps are low-dimensional but context-dependent @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4dLy2Ez

‘Wat weet Plato nou van een kind baren?’ www.mareonline.nl/achtergrond/...

So happy to see this finally published in @plosbiology.org! This is the first chapter of @julielebris.bsky.social PhD thesis demonstrating how capsules are exchanged by plug-and-play dynamics w/ @epcrocha.bsky.social #microsky @klebclub.bsky.social Link below- Check out her 🧵 for more details!

Er loopt een petitie voor meer werk voor mensen die geen 8 uur per dag kunnen werken, vb. wegens mantelzorg. Kunnen werken is voor iedereen belangrijk, óók voor mensen die met deze complexe situaties geconfronteerd worden. Daarom: teken en deel! actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/wi...

D66, CDA en VVD zetten de bezuiniging van €800 miljoen op onderwijs door. Bezuinigen op toekomst van onze kinderen is onbegrijpelijk. Onze voorstellen om bezuinigingen (zoals onderwijsachterstanden) te schrappen, werden weggestemd. Het kon wel, maar ze deden het niet. www.aob.nl/actueel/arti...

All currently approved antibiotics inhibit essential cellular processes. Ever wonder if we could kill bacteria using the opposite strategy? Here, we demonstrate an alternative antibacterial strategy: lethality through pathway over-activation. www.nature.com/articles/s41... (1 out of 3)

Het kan wél, toch?

Douche minder en korter. Trek een trui aan als je het koud hebt. Zet de thermostaat op 18 graden, ook in overheidsgebouwen.

We have an opportunity to join our team at @arcadiascience.com jobs.lever.co/arcadiascien... We're looking for an evolutionary biologist who thinks a lot about protein evolution. If you have experience investigating genomic and amino acid sequence evolution and protein structural evolution, apply!