💾 mlst 2.25.0 has been released! Fixed a bug that missed alleles in increasingly larger schemes like senterica (thanks @microbiologikat.bsky.social) and updated the databases. #bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomics github.com/tseemann/mls...

Who the feck is doing tv scheduling this Xmas. Apocalypse Now at 23:20. Dark Knight at 22:00. Sexy beast at 00:00. These should be prime time everyone watch

Gene dependence during mammalian Acinetobacter baumannii pneumonia and septicaemia infections. Published Open Access and fee-free in MGen using a Publish and Read agreement: doi.org/10.1099/mgen... #MGen #PublishAndRead

There's an extremely easy way to tell if you're old or not. Just see if your toes curl and teeth grind if someone describes themselves as a "content creator".

Pets know when you need company. 21st December is a tough day for us. Beautiful big sis Julie would have been 59 today. Never gets easier.

Myrrh is what people from Hull call the bar owner from the Simpsons.

Her: “Do that thing I like…” Me: *fucks off*

I don’t know if Anthony Joshua is on Bluesky, but I’ve had an idea…

Definitely not, even the top £prize wasn’t enough to pay a Nature APC

When you’ve calculated the cost of ALL your kids’ Christmas presents.

Got to see inside Nature HQ and everything!

I got a peer reviewed rejection on Xmas Eve once…………

Society Event Grant – Annual Conference 2026 Awards of up to £350 (UK) and £650 (International) are available for eligible members wishing to attend the Annual Conference in Belfast. Application deadline is midnight GMT 02/01/26. 🔗Link here: microb.io/AC26Grant #Microbio26 #Microbiology #MiM26

ESCMID is currently accepting CAREer Grant applications! This grant supports researchers balancing work with family or caregiving responsibilities by funding a support person to help sustain research progress. Learn more: https://ow.ly/aMKe50XnG8j 🗓️ Apply by 15 January 2026 #IDSky #clinmicro

Manchester Institute of Biotechnology is looking for a new Professor. There are a few priority areas including microbial engineering (broadly defined, from pathways to cells to microbiomes). Closing 12 Jan. Join us in the best city in the UK 😜 www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Last light over Loch Etive #Scotland #GlenEtive #Argyll www.damianshields.com

When you put Scrappy Doo, 20 Bensons, and Goebbels in a Hadron Collider, and press GO.

It’s official: we’ve been awarded a UKRI Engineering Biology Focal Award to train the next generation of microbial bioengineer PhDs. An exciting collaboration between @officialuom.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social Projects will be advertised in February 2026! www.ukri.org/news/ukri-do...

He’s blocked me, but I’m sure Tommy Stephen Yaxley-Lennon Robinson is chuffed to feature in my ‘2025’ 1000 piece jigsaw 👇👇👇 www.coldwarsteve.com/2025/11/18/u...

That’s a wrap for 2025 work!!! 🍻

Grateful to share our paper on gene-specific selective sweeps in human gut microbiomes, now out in Nature! It has been a joy to work with @rwolff.bsky.social, whose insights and hard work made this possible. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New paper alert! Acr/Tol efflux has strain-specific roles in physiology in Klebsiella pneumoniae. @microbiologysociety.org @ilyasalav.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

He saw the light.

Details such as date, time and location of the preliminary programme at #ESCMIDGlobal 2026 are now available on our webpage. Check out the programme now: https://ow.ly/8KIp50XLrkK#ESCMIDGlobal #IDSky #clinmicro

Rory a worthy winner tonight. Whether you like golf or not. Winning the grand slam and then the Ryder cup in the US is a very rare event.

Anyone interested in discussing this opportunity to eat, drink, be merry and ski with me, my DMs are open! (Oh yeah, and do some science to the tune of $1M/year x 8 years + $500k x 4 years)

The 2nd round of PhD projects for the DTP in Microbial Genomics for Health Protection, in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social, has just launched, funded by @nihr.bsky.social 6 PhD projects are available (UK students only) www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...

When you wake up after an accidental nap and don't know what year it is.

They're all busy submitting their papers to me... Happy holidays!

🎶 Oh I wish it could be the Thursday before Christmas everydaay-ay-ay 🎶

Email traffic is virtually non-existent today. Feels like everyone has checked out early for xmas. If only every day was like this..............

Just decline the peer review invitation. What are you people even doing?

📢 Voluntary opportunity Microbial Genomics is seeking Editors to support high-quality research in microbial genomics. This unpaid, public-facing role supports peer review, editorial decisions & journal strategy. More info: Voluntary Opportunities 👉 microb.io/Vacancies

This isn't in international media yet but Lithuania is in crisis. The ruling coalition is trying to seize control of our public broadcaster LRT using expedited parliamentary procedures. European & Venice Commissions are aware & we've been protesting for the last two weeks. Things are looking grim.

AI folks now having to realise what GWAS folks did about studying bacterial genome datasets. Great work by great researchers

#MachineLearning methods are used to predict #AntimicrobialResistance #AMR from genomic data. @lbarquist.bsky.social &co show that sampling biases driven by population structure severely undermine the accuracy of AMR prediction models even with large datasets @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4iZ0zXQ

Our preprint on predicting drug resistance in bacteria is now out in @plosbiology.org. We show ignoring phylogenetic structure in genome collections leads to overly optimistic evaluations of machine learning methods for AMR prediction. Work from @yanyingyu.bsky.social with @nwheeler443.bsky.social.

Prolonged exposure to teixobactin generates cross-tolerance to other cell wall-targeting antimicrobials in Enterococcus faecalis | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Hive mind query. There is a unique allele of gene X in a bacterial lineage. Allele appears unique in genus (poss wider kingdom). Allele denoted by single synonymous substitution. Why swept to fixation in lineage.

The first preprint from @izziepotterill.bsky.social PhD. A clone within ST131 clade C with a totally unique capsule region.

Nature Reviews Genetics Focus issue: Eco-evolutionary genomics of microorganisms www.nature.com/collections/... 🧬🖥️🧪🦠 🧵 1/

Genomic rearrangement of the capsule operon in a phylogenetically distinct cluster of the multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli lineage ST131 https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.15.689991v1

💾 Prokka 1.15.6 is released! This is the last major release of Prokka. But don't be sad, because @oschwengers.bsky.social already has an excellent replacement called Bakta you can migrate to. #bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics github.com/tseemann/pro...

This could prove to be super helpful, potentially bringing mpox work out of high containment 👇

Sounds about right.

University and College Union members at Southampton Solent University have voted to pursue strike action after the institution moved professional services staff to a subsidiary firm with a different pension scheme. Juliette Rowsell reports #academicsky #UCU https://ow.ly/95fz50XJM6R

If you think academia is disorganised, badly run, underfunded, and largely chaotic. Get involved in a court case……………

Beinn a'Bheithir 'Mountain of the thunderbolt' #Scotland #Glenachulish #Highlands www.damianshields.com