Forget complicated 'situationships'; read about symbioses - partnerships found everywhere in nature. I had access to some seriously expert brains @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social, @mmontonerin.bsky.social @utehentschel.bsky.social and others to discuss. Enjoy: sangerinstitute.blog/2026/02/13/n...

With great images by @nhm-london.bsky.social 's alumna (and current Sanger Institute postdoc) Dr Maggie Georgieva - dive into seven unique, strange, and wonderful symbioses I wrote about for this Valentine's blog ⬇️ 🧽's might be my personal fave...

I'm currently writing about tools created to study bird genomes. Birds are on my brain. @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social + @kiricarini.com here's some dreamy bird #dataviz! searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com

This blog was incredibly fun to write. I was able to gain access to all sorts of fascinating freezer drawers (under close supervision of course!). Siberian tiger colons, deep-sea isopods, worms of all sorts - have a read to learn more about them! ⬇️

What a breath of fresh air! After four years diving into the microbiology of the cystic fibrosis lung, it’s cool to see how spatial techniques are opening up new ways to understand microbiology and host tissues. Scientists, take these tools and run with them! Such exciting work! Worth a read ⤵️

"We have made great strides in cancer research in recent years, but there is much more to discover."🔬 At the Sanger Institute, we aren't short on inspiring researchers; yet when one of the greatest of the greats get recognized internationally for cancer research, it is still very special. 🧬🎉

Share your thoughts on what you want from future genomics training & events 📢 Our colleagues at Wellcome Connecting Science are looking to understand how their offerings can best support the genomics community. Anyone can take part via the link below ⤵️ survey.rigourresearch.co.uk/wix/7/p71781...

It is no secret that women's health as a research topic is dramatically understudied. Which is why I'm incredibly proud to work somewhere that is actively changing that. ♀️ Read on for a story about curiosity-driven and urgently needed science ⤵️ Congrats to the team led by Prof. Vento Tormo. 🎉

One of my favourite projects to write about - Project Psyche (an @ebpgenome.bsky.social affiliate) and the wonderful researchers whose collaborative efforts. The Project Psyche team are pushing the envelope for genomics-informed evolutionary biology. Please have a read. ⤵️

🚨🧬 #Breakthrough alert! 🧬 Caroline Howard and the Tree of Life Core Laboratory at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social are releasing powerful new extraction methods designed for the toughest #species on Earth. These #innovations are helping #genome scientists crack samples once considered impossible.

The infectious disease researcher in me will never not read a blog about bacteria - and this blog about the biggest study of the human nose microbiome is no exception. 👃 The CARRIAGE study impacts our understanding of how to tackle #AMR so do read on ⤵️ sangerinstitute.blog/2025/12/02/w...

Read 'High frequency body site translocation of nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa’ from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social in @natcomms.nature.com here ⤵️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

A type of hospital bacteria, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, can move from a vulnerable patient's lungs to their gut, raising the risk of sepsis. 🦠 This work could help shape future infection monitoring strategies and reduce sepsis-related deaths. 👇 www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/ho...

Antimicrobial-resistant bacteria and genes found to move freely between ecological compartments – highlighting the need for cross-compartment interventions🌍 Read ➡️ https://www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/antimicrobial-resistant-bacteria-and-genes-move-freely-between-people-animals-and-the-environment/

Struggling to navigate the grant-funding maze? Discover expert guidance and practical tips to help you transform your idea into a successful, funded project ✅ Read more: https://sangerinstitute.blog/2025/11/26/how-to-get-grant-funding-expert-advice-for-a-successful-application/

it is DONE my dudes, 32 goobers for #Invertober2025 now I REST because 3 drawing challenges in 3 months is A TAD BIT TOO MUCH #SciArt #invertebrates

Oh hello! He's only gone and re-written the Microsporidian reproductive tree and published it in @plosbiology.org! Heroic effort, Amjad. Congrats to all the authors! You can read about Amjad and his doctoral research in the blog I wrote all about him: sangerinstitute.blog/2025/07/29/s...

new publication by @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social who mined arthropod reference genome data for hidden microsporidia reads and then did a whole lot of assembling and sleuthing! great job @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social !

Last year, @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social was soaking up Portland, Oregon vibes 🍩 and sending us a drawing-a-day while we created a Darwin Tree of Life project blog all about #Invertober. Genomes and inverts on the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social blog: sangerinstitute.blog/2024/10/14/d...

It is wonderful to get to do comms with scientists who love what they do - and are great at communicating what they to boot. Charlotte, Mark and Joana (L-R) certainly are science communication all-stars in my books. 🌟

I learned a lot reading this latest blog 'Five questions on Lupus' from the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social senior science writer Shannon Gunn. One thing that really stuck with me: 1 in 1,000 people in the UK have lupus - much higher than I'd previously thought. sangerinstitute.blog/2025/10/07/f...

For #WorldMentalHealthDay I want to thank those in my community who have bolstered me when I've felt low and not myself. We all have or know someone who has struggled with mental health. I hope we all also are or know someone who has helped. Today, I've donated to @mind.org.uk and you can too.

A hidden evolutionary process has been uncovered in sperm — where certain harmful DNA changes are naturally favoured as men age. This gives some changes a competitive edge and increases the risk of genetic conditions. 🔬 Read here 👇 www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/hi...

We're looking for two new U of Arizona undergraduate researchers to join our group. More details below. uncultured.carinilab.com/p/were-hirin...

It's inspiring working with researchers and communicating science beyond the lab. So this story from @spectrum.ieee.org hit home. Glenn (writer) and Luigi (photographer) joined @ebpgenome.bsky.social researchers in the field for @projectpsyche.bsky.social. spectrum.ieee.org/whole-genome...

In molecular microbiology, you can't get very far in the laboratory without plasmids. 🧬 Whether designing them (SnapGene 💙) synthesising them (@genescript.bsky.social 💙), recombining them, or making them glow - plasmids are the bread and butter of lab work. Now, we know more about their history ⤵️

We have space for two postdoctoral fellows in the Taipale Lab at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social. This is a core-funded open position! Come with your ideas and interests and we can develop a project together. sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco...

CLOSING: ➡️ Senior Bioinformatician with Roser Vento Tormo sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco... ➡️ Technical Specialist (neuro) with Omer Ali Bayraktar sanger.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Wellco... Both @sangerinstitute.bsky.social roles close on 2 October

SO CLOSE to submitting our last paper that was started pre-pandemic!

Join us at #Biodiversity25 ! Interested in Lepidoptera? There will be the session on @projectpsyche.bsky.social with project updates, the highly anticipated re-launch of Lepbase and discussions on the analysis of the first 1,000 lep genomes. Plus there's a keynote by @lepphylo.bsky.social!🦋

Exciting work at the intersection of AI and genomics, have a quick read ⤵️ Plus, beautiful images of skin fibroblasts by April Rose Foster from the @mhaniffa.bsky.social lab.

Early-onset colorectal cancer is expected to become the leading cause of #cancer death in ages 20 to 49 in the U.S. by 2030. Research is urgently needed to better detect and treat patients, argues this #SciencePerspective: https://scim.ag/3IfUgBA #WorldCancerResearchDay

As if campus couldn't get any prettier - a rainbow appeared as I walked to my car yesterday 🌈

Sooooo excited to see this paper in @science.org now live! Bravo to @marakat.bsky.social , @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social , and an impressive team of authors -spanning continents - who were involved in this research.

James has some seriously cool photos and shares some really unique knowledge in this thread 🧵 ⤵️

(5/6)The #ProjectPsyche community is also forming international teams to jointly use these genomes to: 🧬 Drive discovery with genome data. 🌍 Inform conservation strategies. 📌 Help tackle societal challenges. Link Psyche: www.projectpsyche.org

Working in science communication nearly a decade I have worked with a variety of incredibly intelligent, creative humans and met some kindred spirits. Fer - one of those kindred spirits - wrote this great piece in @cenmag.bsky.social. Have a read about blue poo ⤵️ cen.acs.org/analytical-c...

Interesting. My partner and I definetely have cycling in our Top Five when we have looked for new opportunities and new locations to live. From Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Konstanz, Germany to Cambridge, UK, we've been fortunate to keep biking as our family's main form of transport.

An amazing PhD opportunity with strong links to @projectpsyche.bsky.social, LepEU & @10klepgenomes.bsky.social!

Listening via Zoom to author of The Authority Gap. She's speaking @sangerinstitute.bsky.social right now! Mary Ann Sieghart, 'a recovering journalist' authored the book to give a name/proof for something she experienced in her career. "Once you see the authority gap, you can't unsee it".

I first met Colin whilst wondering the halls @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, looking for large cardboard recycling. ♻️ He pointed me in the right direction, then stayed on for a chat where I learned about all about his cool career. Now you can meet Colin too ⤵️ sangerinstitute.blog/2025/08/27/b...

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This blog might be the most fun you'll have reading all week. Are there pink mosquitoes? Can you identify this squished bug? Are there evil mosquitoes in the UK? Go on, indulge your inner 7 year-old and have a read ⤵️ 🦟...with beautiful main image by @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social

Hi 👋 I'm the human behind the @developmentseed.org account. I do my best to share our work so that the things we are building and learning can be helpful and useful to as many people as possible. Give the DevSeed account a follow for me, and share our posts if you find them useful. 🚀

Meet @amjadkhalaf.bsky.social. Amjad is a great science communicator. I've listened to him present his research. I've interviewed him twice. I've read his papers. Head to the blog, so you too can get swept up by his enthusiasm and #microsporidian studies ⤵️ sangerinstitute.blog/2025/07/29/s...

Working remotely from my slice of rural Dorset heaven, thunder storm raging outside, and I'm listening to a seminar by Google DeepMind's John Jumper about building AlphaFold 1,2 and 3. Learning about the history and complexity of this work is mind-blowing. Thanks @ebi.embl.org for hosting!

Hear from the speciation experts in this latest @pnas.org paper authored by @joanameier.bsky.social plus a flutter of other butterfly experts. 🧬🦋 The @sangerinstitute.bsky.social story below shares some of the exciting genomics findings of this paper! ⤵️ www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/re...

Little did I know that we've got a group leader who trained in Oregon here at the Sanger Institute!

Are any of my followers aware of microbes that code for aerobic metabolism but can not grow aerobically? That is are there physiologically obligate anaerobes that contain genetic machinery for oxidative metabolism? #microsky