🔊 Looking for a Research Assistant in Bacterial Evolution to join my lab 🦠 🥼Main duties: Research (AMR + microbiome) + lab assistance. ⏲️ Post duration: 30 months 🗓️ Closing date for applications: 20th April 2026 💰 Salary: ~£35k Details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/2a3v66y7 Please share!

Hollywood has gone too far this time.

I loved the Made in the Middle exhibition, currently at mac Birmingham. 37 artists creating beautiful things with exceptional technical skills in different media. The pictured vases look like delicate hand-carved clay, but are 3D printed - by www.keeleytraae.com. Full info at craftspace.co.uk/mitm/

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I'll decide if your reminder is gentle or not.

#MicroSky people, have you ever grown a Staph aureus biofilm that forms a crispy or hard exterior crust (not in urine)? My MBio student Izabela has, and we are not finding much literature on this.

Magnesium depletion by Candida albicans unleashes two unusual modes of colistin resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa with different fitness costs. @hsiehyp.bsky.social, Robert Ernst lab, @ajaidandekar.bsky.social, my lab. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/... ipmb.sinica.edu.tw/en/activitie...

📣 The Whelan lab is hiring a bioinformatics postdoc 📣 Together with @fabricejpierre.bsky.social, we are offering a 1-year bioinformatic PDRA position in comparative genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. To find out more please visit whelanlab.co.uk/contact/. Applications close 3 April 2026!

Paid 12-month internship: Communications Officer. We have an exciting opportunity for someone looking to take their first step into a science communication or publishing role. Based Cambridge, UK (& wfh). See the full role description for further details at biologists.com/wp-content/u...

Lovely to see biological art by one of our undergraduates, Joseph Moulton, on display @warwicklifesci.bsky.social! He’s at uk.linkedin.com/in/joseph-mo... #SciArt #SciComm

This is really important, and great to see that studies are starting to focus on perimenopausal women / under 50s. Cochrane reviews highlight the huge research gap for oestrogen/progesterone (www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....) & testosterone (www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10....)

2 year fellowship available in AMR research www.medicalresearchfoundation.org.uk/grants/antim...

I'm struggling to find reviewers for a manuscript and one problem I've found is that it's really, really hard to find email addresses for researchers in Asia if they're not corresponding author on a paper. This is leading to a big bias in who I can invite.

Just discussing ways to present qualitative experimental data (number of successes/failures or positives/negatives) with a student - does anyone have good examples of this sort of data being presented well? Thanks!

I’m painting and listening to music while two robots vacuum and mop the floors, and another one is about to wash my clothes. This is the division of effort I want between brain and AI, not the other way round.

The School of Biosciences at University of Birmingham is recruiting FIVE Assistant/Associate Profs in areas including fungal biology, plant science and bioengineering. Full details below 🍄🌾🧬🧫

“Patriotism is about giving a shit about your country / England isn’t just something that is but something we can continually make.” - Billy Bragg / Kojo Koram. A Very English Chat will tell the story of England in 50 objects, combatting divisive political narratives. www.averyenglishchat.org.uk

Our wall of women in STEM for international women’s day is growing! Set up by the @warwicklifesci.bsky.social & @warwickmed.bsky.social women’s health group and growing organically

If you check out my lab's recent work, you'll notice how much biofilm structure is destroyed by dehydration & vacuum during standard scanning electron microscopy. These are both images of P. aeruginosa PA14 #biofilm on pig lung tissue at 48h p.i: using cryoSEM retains the biofilm matrix. #MicroSky

Paper out! We used RNAseq to track changes in P. aeruginosa gene expression over 7 days of #biofilm infection in our #CysticFibrosis lung model. www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #MicroSky (1/n)

This is genius. I bet Kevin loves it too.

Society Champion, Eliza_coli has designed Multicoloured Microbes colouring sheets which provide a fun microbiome-themed activity for outreach work. Society members can now access these, alongside a host of other resources: https://microb.io/3N9ESZP

*Knowing where to find* information relevant to your field of study is a central pillar of academic competency, and one of the skills a PhD imparts (although by no means confined to those with PhDs). Academics aren't just people who know stuff and have written stuff - they know where to find stuff.

The fabulous Cassandra Quave invited on to her Foodie Pharmacology podcast to talk about our #ancientbiotics and #biofilm research - there are audio (www.podbean.com/media/share/...) and video (www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCs2...) versions available #MicroSky #SciComm

🔔Seminar Opportunity🔔 We're looking for (self)recommendations for a Postdoc who is working in the area of AMR (any area, any discipline) to give an online seminar in May. Reply, DM or email me, there will more opportunities in the future as well so will be good to have a list. #MicroSky #AMR

Come do a PhD with me and @trevor-lithgow.bsky.social at @monashuniversity.bsky.social ! We’re at the leading edge of pathogen biology using cutting edge Cryo-EM and AI-driven genetic screens to uncover the mysteries of outer membrane biology. Reach out to me for a chat! macsys.org/phd-scholars...

Hey #Microsky, time to celebrate your amazing female colleagues, students and mentors for #IWD2026! Nominate an inspiring woman whose research, teaching, innovation, or community leadership deserves recognition! @femsmicro.org crm.fems-microbiology.org/ssp/internat...

No We’ve already had one MP murdered because of what she stood for after abuse from the right We’ve also had another murdered for another reason while he was holding his surgery

Looking forward to a day in Glasgow talking bacteria with colleagues - just off the sleeper train, caffeinating and becoming vaguely human again. Here’s an arty coffee shop reflection in the drizzle

Recurrent and chronic UTIs have a huge impact on patient's quality of life and is an area of research which is often overlooked and understudied. There are massive gaps in our understanding which we can fill to... (1/3) See all images in this post and that follow for the top 10! #MicroSky #UTISky

NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir By me, at FT www.ft.com/content/5207...

Read the whole thread, too.

This goes on next week’s reading list! #MicroSky (and cc to @c-cornbill.bsky.social 🙂)

Also cars with no touchscreens. I’ll be off to shout at a (the) cloud now.

🚨 New pre-print! 🚨 In the largest study of its kind to-date, we investigate the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms driving within-patient evolution of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Read here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... , and follow along with this thread, discussing our findings (1/21)

📢📢📢Lectureships at Bristol!📢📢📢 We're hiring 3 x lecturers (=assistant professor) in Biological Sciences, across the discipline. Great department, great colleagues, great building, great city Details here: www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/de...

New pre-print from the group with our immunology friends! @kylie.belchamber.com led this study of frailty in older people. Our contribution was looking at the respiratory microbiome in younger, healthy older people and frail older people. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

During her PhD, Jenny found something unexpected: biofilm-deficient P. aeruginosa mutants were just as tolerant to antibiotics as the WT when grown in our cystic fibrosis lung model. But why? #MicroSky 1/n

Congratulations to our latest Dr, @phoebesilva.bsky.social! Phoebe has done some beautiful work optimising cystic fibrosis media & models to allow growth of NTHis so we can start to understand their role in lung disease, and exploring interactions between NTHi, P. aeruginosa and S. aureus. #MicroSky

#MicroSky has anyone had trouble growing A. fumigatus on Saboraud dextrose agar at 37°C with ampicillin or chloramphenicol added?

Maternal sepsis waits for no one. In sepsis, hours, even minutes, matter — delays in treatment like source control can be fatal. It's no surprise research has linked some abortion delays and restrictions to higher maternal mortality.

What’s holding back clinical use of phage therapy in the UK? Our workshop last year brought together international experts, biotech and regulators to find out Meeting Report out now in Nature Microbiology with our take on the challenges and opportunities facing the UK phage therapy sector

An utter tragedy. Science solved this problem, but a bunch of charlatans fucked everything up and brought it back

👩🏻‍🔬Today is International Day of Women & Girls in Science! We’re celebrating three inspiring women advancing #microbiology - Samantha McLean, @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social & @sawilks.bsky.social - sharing their journeys & advice Read more tinyurl.com/yc74vps7 #WomenInScience #WomenInSTEM #MicroSky

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The Open Visualization Academy (OVA) IS LIVE! openvisualizationacademy.org Thread follows #dataViz #infographics #dataJournalism #dataVisualization

New round of PhD studentships in microbial engineering, including one with me on engineering non-canonical DNA mismatch repair into E. coli 🦠🧬 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

We're Hiring! We're looking for a postdoc with bioinformatics/modelling skills to join us in an exciting microbiome ecology project in Manchester (deadline 1st March) www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...