Deaths due to synthetic opioids nitazenes could have been underreported by as much as a third. New research by @kingslsm.bsky.social sheds light on the UK’s growing opioid problem. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

So Starmer, a man who never met Epstein but made a bad appointment, might resign. But Trump, his closest friend, fellow sex abuser and coverer-upper of his crimes, is going nowhere. That’s how it works, isn’t it?

Researchers across King’s are making a profound impact on society – locally, nationally and across the world. The King’s Engaged Research Awards, held at the King’s Great Hall, celebrated this remarkable impact. ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/winners...

The One King’s Impact Fund is open for applications! 🌍 Open to students and staff at King's, the fund offers £25k–£50k to support projects tackling local and global challenges. 💡 Turn bold ideas into real-world impact. Apply by 1 April: www.kcl.ac.uk/impact/fund

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Come work with me!!! Opportunity for a Senior Scientist to join our wonderful, friendly and productive team at UKHSA, Porton Down. Working as part of our Phage and Open Innovation Teams. Closing date 10th Dec. #job #microsky Please share with your networks :D www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Londo...

#NewResearch The permeability of bacterial porins is dynamically regulated by periplasmic proton and potassium concentrations, altering antibiotic resistance. #MicroSky #AMR 🦠 @andresfloto.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure. A really informative article, perfect for a weekend coffee read. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

What if ICU doctors could diagnose infections in hours, not days? A new test, developed from a PhD project at King's, now makes this possible.🔬 🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/metagenomics...

Now published! www.nature.com/articles/s41... Very nice collaboration with Hoogenboom ( @ucl.ac.uk ) and Bonev ( @uniofnottingham.bsky.social ) labs.

Exciting to see what impact will come from this in how all cause lung injuries are treated in the future.

If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Please share my 1 min video on the importance of maintaining NIH funding of infectious diseases and drug discovery research vs rising antibiotic resistance Drastic budget cuts harm our health and imperil the next generation of scientists More @UCSanDiego “Behind Every Breakthrough” bit.ly/3FlXQs3

Impressive paper in 𝘕𝘢𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 Describes a new sensory modality: "𝙉𝙀𝙐𝙍𝙊𝘽𝙄𝙊𝙏𝙄𝘾 𝙎𝙀𝙉𝙎𝙀" Links bacterial flagellin to appetite control Gut-Brain Circuit: flagellin activates TLR5 on PYY+ neuropod cells that synapse onto vagal neurons → feeding suppressed independent of microbiota, immunity, or metabolism

If high quality treatment is provided to everyone with bacterial infections + innovative new antibiotics funded ... By 2050: Health costs ⬇️ $97 billion The economy ⬆️ $960 billion Generated health benefits 🟰 $680 billion to countries Return on Investment 🟰 28 to 1 www.cgdev.org/publication/...

It is time to improve diagnostics of Urinary Tract Infections! We developed a new technology that can work out which antibiotic would be best suited to treat UTIs in <five hours rather than the >40 hours that it currently takes. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Excited to see this trial published & related BBC feature www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... I was very peripherally involved, but it could be huge for antimicrobial resistance Amazing work ‪Blair Merrick & Simon Goldenberg @gstt-nhs.bsky.social @kingslsm.bsky.social @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

We are pleased to announce a new clinical research fellowship at King’s to advance the nation’s metabolic health in honour of British broadcaster, author, and science journalist Dr Michael Mosley. @kingslsm.bsky.social | @kclalumni.bsky.social

A new report has found that people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) feel like ‘second class citizens’. Launched today at the House of Commons, the report sets out the stark reality people with COPD face in securing diagnosis & accessing care. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/people-...

Two thirds of adults were able to eat peanuts without an allergic reaction after taking part in ‘groundbreaking research’ at @kingslsm.bsky.social and @gstt-nhs.bsky.social. The study used daily doses of peanuts to desensitise patients with life-long allergy. www.kcl.ac.uk/news/daily-d...

Some important ground work for studying metabolism of the vaginal microbiota www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Polymyxin B lethality requires energy-dependent outer membrane disruption New preprint in collaboration with colleagues @ucl.ac.uk and @uniofnottingham.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are recruiting again - 20 AI+ Academic Fellowships www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/role/ki...

Arguably the impact agenda driven by REF (which determines QR funding) is one of the more important levers for driving the benefits to the economy and the NHS that government desires.

Applications are open now for the King's Prize Fellowship. These provide salary and up to £30k consumables for up to 24 months. @kingslsm.bsky.social is one of the best places in the world to start your independent biomedical or health-related research career. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/108525-...

Substantial academic recruitment @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social in AI (up to 7 positions) and in physical sciences of life and/or engineering biology (up to 4 positions) www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/interdi...

New online! The role of bacterial metabolism in antimicrobial resistance

𝗣𝗿𝗼𝘃𝗼𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲: 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝘂𝗲𝗹𝘀 𝗔𝗠𝗥 Staphylococcus aureus evolves antibiotic resistance rapidly in diabetic mice, as hyperglycemia aids the expansion and takeover of resistant mutants VISA strains have a large fitness defect in control mice but not in diabetic mice ➡️ www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Two new positions for group leaders working on #AMR at the Ineos Oxford Institute. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Our latest manuscript is now available in Biochemistry @acs.org (bit.ly/3Ct1PSm) In it we show that C-terminal amidation of an antimicrobial peptide increases its conformational flexibility, which improves membrane penetration, leads to faster bacterial killing & better selectivity for pathogens.

Tonight, we’re celebrating the Inaugural Lectures of Professor Maya Thanou and Professor Tomoki Arichi 🎓 Full details of the upcoming events in the series, along with recordings of previous lectures, can be found here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/serie...

Congratulations to Prof Tomoki Arichi, Deanne Naula, Kaat De Backer and Dr Abigail Easter from our Faculty who were winners at the 2025 King's Engaged Research Awards last week 👏 Follow the link to read more about their awards and public and community engagement work ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/winners...

The Royal Society's Newton International Fellowships are now open for applications. These fellowships are for non-UK early career scientists who wish to conduct research in the UK. Find out more, including how to apply: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/newto...

The King's Engaged Research Awards celebrate excellence in public and community engagement research, recognising King's staff and community partners for their achievements. Read about this year's winners and how they contributed to impactful research. ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/winners...

Dr Caroline Copeland has been appointed to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs She will work with other members to advise the government on drug harms, such as substances that are being misused or could potentially cause significant health and social harms

Could gut bacteria be the reason behind your sugar cravings? 🤤 Check out this new paper by Zhang et al. linking a gut microbe, a free fatty acid receptor, and sugar intake. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I would like to tell you about the journey to publish our vaginal meta-transcriptome paper https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-024-01992-w. I'm planning on doing this over the next few days as it's a little *complicated*.

Nice work from Mahnoor and Barry, with the ever present support of our friends at UKHSA - "Construction of a drug sensitised Candida auris strain". Idea is to first find new classes of antifungals and then solve the efflux problem www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I’m excited to share a new preprint from our lab! We showed that vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE) colonise antibiotic-treated intestines by occupying distinct nutrient- and metabolite-defined intestinal niches. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Final published version of Miruna and Chris' (and my) first study using machine learning to identify behaviour of #antimicrobialpeptides that only emerges when used in combinations. Is this a key property that keeps AMPs effective throughout evolutionary history? pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...

Just a couple of days left to apply for this job with my most excellent colleague Chris Lorenz: www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/098126-...