⚠️For everyone at @lenagroup4resp.bsky.social #WBConf25, come check out my poster on Tuesday evening #52 on the incidence of #NTM in #FirstNationsPeople in #Australia. 🧫🦠🇦🇺🪃

🧫🦠Only 2 weeks left to submit abstracts (July 15) for @amiposts.bsky.social's #MSCW Conference! Connect with leading scientists, policymakers, and #EMCRs across the #AsiaPacific. #Microbiology, #PublicHealth, #Climate & the #Environment.

⚠️Join us for @amiposts.bsky.social EMCR conference #MSCW25: Microbial Solutions for a Changing World (Melbourne, Australia). Focusing on: #GreenhouseGases, #PathogenControl, & #EnvironmentImpacts. ⏰Abstracts close July 15! #Microbiology #ClimateChange appliedmicrobiology.org/ems-event-ca...

The latest feature in #TheMicrobiologist dives into the emerging threat of nontuberculous mycobacteria, and explores diagnostic options. #NTM @brukercorporation.bsky.social www.the-microbiologist.com/features/the...

Our new paper on the global epi of IMP carbapenemases. We originally called this paper: ‘Planet of the IMPs’ as IMPs are now everywhere. We found IMP variant-specific distributions across species, plasmids, mobile elements and geography www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... #amr #amrsky #IDsky

One patient, two samples Weeks apart, E. faecium picked up vancomycin resistance By sequencing vancomycin-susceptible strains on-site, we caught this early & avoided unnecessary, disruptive interventions #Genomics Proud to share at #nanoporeconf! @nanoporetech.com 🖥️🧬💻 #AcademicSky #MicroSky 🧪🧫🦠

My supervisor, Prof. Rachel Thomson, head of the NTM Research Group at UQ (medical-school.uq.edu.au/research/ntm...), has recently published excellent work on the role of drinking water in MABS transmission. #NTM #GenomicEpidemiology #Abscessus #IDSky #IDEpi

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

"That telomere phages are so prevalent means that they are a selective force, one that we know little about. We now want to understand how the telomere-toxin is secreted and also understand how this ‘telocin’ wheedles its way into unsuspecting bacterial neighbors” www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🦠Happy to share that our paper studying >3000 Klebsiella pneumoniae genomes in a #OneHealth perspective is now published in Genome Medicine! #MicroSky 🎉 @irenlohr.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

From @retractionwatch.com - His manuscript was rejected. Then he saw it published by other authors retractionwatch.com/2025/03/06/p...

🦘✂️ Thanks to @cziscience.bsky.social , @wytamma.bsky.social and I are writing the next version of the Snippy bacterial variant calling pipeline. We want your input on what features s it will have. Please fill out this (longish) survey to help make Snippy great again! forms.gle/YJP6WQjsk8KK...

New preprint is out! We investigate how well you can call variants directly from genome assemblies compared to traditional read-based variant calling. Read it here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Data & code: github.com/rrwick/Are-r... (1/8)

Plenary 3 -Prof Rachel Thomson #NTM infection risk influenced by various #environmental factors, house dust, rainfall, temperature, aerosolisation from water to the air etc … so pretty much everywhere 😅 #antimicrobials2025 #IDsky #AMSSky

For everyone at #Antimicrobials2025 check out my supervisor Prof. Rachel Thomson's Plenary talk on Saturday, February 22 at 9:00 AM on Nontuberculous Mycobacteria #NTM Pulmonary Disease: Epidemiology, Clinical Disease and Natural History. medical-school.uq.edu.au/research/ntm...

Strong background in genomics and bioinformatics education and community engagement. Currently located in Bethesda, MD. Updated CV: app.box.com/s/hg5g6z05cz...

Advice from my therapist: Limit media exposure. Do good works. That’s it. Protect your mental health, friends. 🩷🧡💛💚💙💜

Interested in protist parasites? Want to learn some fun bioinformatics? Think this apicomplexan looks cool? Great! Come and do some protist genomics at @uniofbath.bsky.social! We're advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship open to UK & International applicants! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Literally need this crocheted! #EmotionalSupport #DumpsterFire #WorldIsOnFire

New year, new publication! From @conmeehan.bsky.social and colleagues @tlillebaek.bsky.social ek.bsky.social and @micronorman.bsky.social describing four new species of Mycobacterium.

Amidst growing concerns for emerging strains of Yersinia Pestis the causal agent of the plague, it is good to see candidate vaccine being advanced in human studies. The plague was responsible for several historical pandemics with up to 30% lethality. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01...

🎉 Transform Indigenous genomics! Join SING Australia, a week-long workshop in Gimuy/Cairns (21–25 July 2025). 🌏 Learn lab skills, ethics, & more. Open to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islanders in health, science, & humanities. Apply now & shape the future! 🧬✨

RIP Jimmy Carter who had a massive impact on global health. When the Carter Center began to lead Guinea Worm Eradication programme in 1986, there were 3.5 million cases of this horrible disease. In 2023, there were a total of 14 cases globally, a huge achievement www.cartercenter.org/health/guine...

A very accurate illustration of what all work should look like for the next 2 weeks until 2025.😊

STEM's lack of support for #neurodivergent scientsts is causing it to lose out on so much amazing talent: cen.acs.org/careers/dive... @cenmag.bsky.social #ChemSky #DisabledInSTEM #Neurodiversity🧪

A superb collection of free, practical guides and hands-on resources for authors looking to improve their scientific publishing skillset by @plos.bsky.social plos.org/resources/wr...

Hosts and Invaders Watercolor on Paper, 2018 #ArtAdventCalendar Day 3 #sciart

All of this!! I have a very non-traditional path! Bachelor > Non-science job (7y) > Masters (3y) > PhD > RA (7m) > Postdoc 1 (2.5 y) > Industry science job (7m) > Postdoc 2 (1y) > career break (6m) > Postdoc 3 (3y contract). I feel like my chances of getting an NHMRC EL1 are now non-existent 😰.

Recent review on Shigella sonnei rdcu.be/d1DGx

Excited to share “Bin Chicken”, substantially improving genome recovery through rational metagenomic assembly. Applied to public 🌍 metagenomes, it recovered 24,000 novel species 🦠, including 6 novel phyla. doi.org/10.1101/2024... @wwood @rhysnewell @CMR_QUT 🧵1/6

Day 5 of the @who.int World #AntimicrobialAwarenessWeek. We've covered what #AntibioticResistance is & how it spreads. But how do bacteria resist #Antibiotics? From modifying drug targets to producing enzymes that break down antibiotics, here are some common #AMR mechanisms🧵🧪 #WAAW #WAAW2024

Day 6 of @who.int World #AntimicrobialAwarenessWeek: AMR isn't just a global crisis—it has local consequences🌏 It’s not just about humans. #AMR affects animals, the environment & everything in between. To truly understand AMR, we need to see how these 3 are connected #OneHealth #WAAW🧵👇🧪 #WAAW2024

#SciArt too

Kaptive v3 is out! It’s much faster than the old version, with improved typeability of K and O loci from low quality draft genomes. Go see Tom’s poster at #KLEBS24!

Day 4 of the @who.int World #AntimicrobialAwarenessWeek: Composite transposons are another way #AntimicrobialResistance genes spread. These ‘jumping genes’ move resistance genes within & between bacterial DNA, increasing bacterial resistance to #Antibiotics! 🧵👇 #WAAW2024 #AMR 🧪

Day 3 of the @who-global.bsky.social World #AntimicrobialAwarenessWeek: Did you know that viruses called phages can also spread #AntimicrobialResistance? A phage can infect bacteria & can sometimes transfer #AMR genes between them. Let’s see how! 🧵👇 🧪 #WAAW2024

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Welcome to Day 1 of the @who-global.bsky.social World #AntimicrobialAwarenessWeek! Today, let’s break down what antimicrobial resistance is & why it’s a threat to New Zealand & the world 🧵👇 #WAAW2024 #WAAW #AMR 🧪

It's day 2 of the @who-global.bsky.social World #AntimicrobialAwarenessWeek: How does #AntimicrobialResistance spread between bacteria? Let’s explore how #plasmids, tiny DNA molecules, can transfer resistance genes across bacteria—even different species in some cases! 🧵👇 🧪 #WAAW #AMR

Trying to purify and sequence #phage for phage therapy? Try #sphae a new approach to identify if your phage could be useful for treatment #phagesky

It’s wildin’ out there in the microbial world 💀🦠 - with Aureispira grappling and stabbing 🔪🩸 and Yersinia sacrificing themselves 🫥🤕 Now, it’s time we expose the violent tendencies 🥷 of a salty 🧂 #archaea in our new paper in Science Advances! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵1/5 #cryoET #teamtomo

🌟 Join me in supporting NTMir! 🌟 NTMir is making a difference for those living with Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) lung disease and I’m raising funds to help them continue their incredible work! Donate here: givemiamiday.org/story/Dbqwff #GiveMiamiDay2024

Zotero is great and I think that anyone who needs to organise and cite more than a handful of references should be using it. Here's an intro to Zotero that I made for my undergrad students (but the info is relevant for anyone new to Zotero). Full vid [13 mins]: youtu.be/SlUHjOqVCyU Preview ⬇️

A timeline of historical pandemics [From @scientificdiscovery.dev's great overview article: ourworldindata.org/historical-p...

We are advertising for a Post-Doc Researcher to advance epidemiological methods for understanding #tuberculosis transmission. This is part of a major new Wellcome Discovery project, based at @uofglasgow.bsky.social MLW Malawi, ZAMBART Zambia, and University of Cape Town iddjobs.org/jobs/the-can...

Incredible graphic - the myriad of ways that bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics. 14 resistance mechanisms, summarised by Idan Yelin & Roy Kishony in Cell www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Phylogenetics is famous now 🧪

JOB CLAXON! I am recruiting a post-doctoral researcher on a BBSRC-funded project (36 months) on the genetics and functional genomics of vancomycin resistance in enterococci. Further details here: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... Please DM or email me if you want to discuss this post.

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