Come and join us at UEA! A fantastic opportunity to establish your research group on the outstanding Norwich Research Park in a beautiful city! vacancies.uea.ac.uk/vacancies/18...

Job opportunity in my lab! We're looking for a post-doc to come join us for an exciting project exploring the evolution of #AMR and #hypervirulence in #klebsiella. Please share!! @unibirmingham.bsky.social Details: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOV067/r...

I had no idea my expertise in pig farming was in such demand.

Applications close Sunday 8 for this #postdoc role with Falk Hildebrand and Chris Quince at the Earlham Institute and @quadraminstitute.bsky.social. Supporting the UK's #netzero mission, this project will use #metagenomics and #machinelearning to build expected microbial profiles across soil sites.

Deadline approaching for this year’s ARIES Research Experience Placements (REPs)! Opportunities at the University of East Anglia, Plymouth, Essex and Kent - apply by 19th May 2025 Full details here: buff.ly/no2WPus #Placement #Undergraduate #Researchexperience

Step 1 in making my home office living wall - spend more in one go on house plants than I’m prepared to admit

Currently reading the excellent ‘The Guns of August’ by Barbara Tuchman about the outbreak of the First World War. This paragraph struck me in its relevance to today.

The best bit of Easter is going to the supermarket early on Easter Monday and getting half price chocolate.

"Events and activities aimed at the younger generation can show them that they can be part of the world of science. With parts of Norfolk being among the most deprived areas in the country, it’s really important to showcase that science is going on right here in Norwich."

So the rule is I’m only allowed to eat chocolate today, right?

Only a few days left to apply! We’d love to hear from you if you’re interested in coming to join us on the fantastic @mmbdtp.bsky.social PhD programme!

Excellent @mmbdtp.bsky.social PhD project available with an excellent supervisory team ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Slightly regretting having chocolate cake for breakfast.

Come & join us in stunning Plymouth & help develop vaccines for use in agriculture to reduce #AntimicrobialResistance. 1 week to closing date. Starts 1st June for 12 months. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMG178/p...

💬 “Being in Norwich, at the heart of UK #plantsciences, will allow me to build strong collaborations and contribute to the development of resilient, sustainable #crops capable of meeting the challenges of a growing population and a changing climate.” - @willshaw.bsky.social buff.ly/FQEQcIP #synbio

In summary: our results support a model where tight regulation of chromatin remodeling minimizes the cost of pathogenicity island activation, ensuring efficient control of virulence gene expression. Read more here 👇 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We have a 2-year postdoc position available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Predicting and steering experimental evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Reposts appreciated. umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...

🦠 New preprint alert! 🦠 www.biorxiv.org/content/bior... Our study reveals within-host genomic diversity in Salmonella using hybrid sequencing. Key insights for AMR, outbreak & transmission dynamics—challenging single-colony sequencing limits! @langridgelab.bsky.social #Salmonella #AMR #Preprint

PhD opportunity! Come and join us in Norwich to work on this exciting project! Contact me if you’d like to discuss anything about this opportunity.

Such a small simple change in treatment that could help millions of women www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

📢 Applications are OPEN for the @wellcometrust.bsky.social Biomedical Vacation Research Studentships @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social, NRPDTP Doctoral Training Partnership and Norwich Research Park 🧪 🗓️ Deadline - 2 March 2025 💻 Find out more about our projects and apply: www.uea.ac.uk/research/res...

My diet is becoming more and more cheese-based. At what point do I need to admit I have a problem?

We have an open position PhD position in a project aiming to develop novel methodologies for phylogenomic reconstruction of plasmid evolution. See details and how to apply in the Ad. Candidates who will review the relevant literature (see Ad) have a higher chance to write a successful application.

If you're in Norwich in February, check out the #MarvellousMicrobes trail, a microbial treasure hunt through the city. The activity was developed by @rapher97.bsky.social and @norwichmicro.bsky.social More information: norwichsciencefestival.co.uk/whats-on/mar...

I must have put something particularly tasty at the bottom

My life’s ambition is to one day be in the position where I can go through the action list from a meeting to check what I was supposed to have done more than an hour before the next occurrence of that meeting.

Could someone write an AI that could answer my emails for me please?

🚨 We are hiring for a 3-yr PDRA 🚨 The Whelan lab is seeking a microbiologist interested in microbe-pathogen competition and use of a Drosophila melanogaster chronic infection model to investigate the cystic fibrosis lung microbiome. For more info check out whelanlab.co.uk & apply at the link below:

🆕 Vacancy! We're looking for a Microbiome and Health Human Studies Lead to oversee the design, implementation, and management of gut microbiome-based human studies. 💷 £44,500 to £55,000 🗓️ Apply by 21 February 2025 ➡️ https://buff.ly/3Cekv8x #ScienceJobs #Microbiome

The kids seem to have learned of Taylor Swift and are currently singing ‘Shake it off’ in a loop. Looks like my plan to indoctrinate them with ‘70s rock may now be an uphill struggle.

Still feels like sorcery to me that despite there being a frost outside, our air source heat pump can heat our water to 50 degrees C!

A nice way to wrap-up 2024: a neat preprint by @taoranfu.bsky.social (hot on the heels of her successful PhD viva) testing how inflammation-like environments shape Pseudomonas adaptation, limiting loss of quorum sensing www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

🆕Vacancy! We’re looking for a Metagenomics Research Scientist to join the laboratory of @bioinf.bsky.social to work on a project investigating the inheritance and evolution of human associated microbes 🦠 💷 £36,720 to £44,000 🗓️ Apply by 27 January 2025 ➡️ https://buff.ly/3VVxJh0

First day of the Christmas holidays and I’ve somehow had mince pies and Toblerone for breakfast 🫣

🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan lab, @jojofoth.bsky.social, & @brockhurstlab.bsky.social are looking for a PhD student w micro experience to study how commensal bacteria modulate the virulence of P. aeruginosa using a fly infection model. More info & link to apply below. Please spread the word!

Backed by £20 million investment from @ukri.org BBSRC, the NBI Data Centre will harness cutting-edge computing technologies to accommodate the future advancements of @earlhaminst.bsky.social , John Innes Centre , The Quadram Institute & @thesainsburylab.bsky.social 💻