Another paper from @microberamon.bsky.social's PhD 🦠 Two structural variants of an AMP-inspired antimicrobial polymer have different effects on P. aeruginosa. One kills with a bang, the other with a whimper pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/... #MicroSky @sebperrier.bsky.social @alexiahapeshi.bsky.social

Come and join us in our new home - great colleagues and brand new facilities

Can’t stop feeling for this terrrified little guy 💜 (Source: www.cell.com/trends/immun...)

On my way to UCL to join their MSc Infection & Immunity students' research symposium - looking forward to a day of hearing about their dissertation projects. Jobs like this feel like a minibreak, I get to spend a day listening to new and interesting research.

Utterly dehumanising. If the end goal is to reduce numbers of people waiting in the immigration system, then employ more staff to process asylum/visa applications quickly & efficiently. This is is useless violence (to borrow a phrase of Primo Levi's that seems very appropriate).

Are you a molecular or structural biologist interested in soft X-ray tomography and correlative imaging using fluorescence & electron microscopy? Exciting post-doc opportunity with a fantastic colleague at Warwick's Advanced Bioimaging platform: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!! @imibirmingham.bsky.social www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Hurray! This likely means I can attend :)

Publish with us and invest in the research community. Supported by income from our journals, the Microbiology Society awards hundreds of grants every year, providing opportunities and experience for microbiologists at all career levels.

I enjoyed listening to this interview with Jim Lovell, talking about Apollo 13: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Come be my colleague! We have three open positions at the Assistant/Associate Professor level for candidates in all areas of the biological sciences. www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

one small consolation of being a 60+ year old investigator is the ability to submit to 𝘔𝘈𝘛𝘜𝘙𝘌 family journals — sure they’re low impact (for our knees) but they have an early bird special if you submit between 4:00 and 5:30 on weekdays

Hell yes!

We have a small number of vacancies on Warwick Life Sciences BSc courses via clearing, for applicants with A*-A grades. We offer awesome UG life sciences teaching! Students can get in touch via our clearing hotline on +44 (0)2476 533 544 warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/life...

Antibiotic combinations proposed from in vitro studies can lead to changes in treatment - but should they? Very thoughtful piece from @angelahuttner.bsky.social for @gardp.bsky.social's REVIVE website revive.gardp.org/do-antibioti... #MicroSky #AntibioticResistance

Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Interested in bacteriocins targeting Gram-negative bacteria causing UTIs? Come and work with me and PI @davidnegus.bsky.social as a research assistant on a 12-month project, funded by The Urology Foundation. #UTIsky

🧪🦣🏺 Who wants to hear a story about biotech billions, unscientific claims, and shoddy smear tactics attacking women in science*? Thread 🧵 *which, for legal clarity, are totally denied as being connected

New Microbial Primer published by the @microbiologysociety.org on agr-mediated quorum sensing in Gram-positive pathogens. Explore the full Primer collection here www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

Applications for Outreach and Engagement grant are now open. Eligible members can apply for up to £1000 to support science outreach or public engagement initiatives. Check your eligibility and apply before 01 Oct 25 at 23.59 BST. microb.io/OutreachandE....

Superb posters from life & health sciences @suttontrust.bsky.social summer school students on their week's work. A pleasure to work with such a bright, motivated and chatty group! #SciComm Thanks to our teaching lab team @warwicklifesci.bsky.social & my co-lead Anthony Lyons @warwickmed.bsky.social

Today will be fun - I’ll be hosting 16 @suttontrust.bsky.social summer school students at @warwicklifesci.bsky.social for a day of lab work. They’ll be looking at cystic fibrosis lung biopsies with light microscopes, then doing some molecular diagnostics for CF gene mutations.

#MicroSky job alert: Senior Research Technician in the Mausz Lab at Warwick, on responses of marine microbes to nutrient limitation & environmental changes. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

If you were alive in the 1980s, this is among the most wonderful & truly incredible things you have ever witnessed in your lifetime.

You know it’s been a great party when the host sends you home with badger bones.

Optimizing synthetic cystic fibrosis sputum media for growth of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae. Find out more in #AccessMicro: doi.org/10.1099/acmi...

*JOB AD*: interested in doing a postdoc in microbial metabolomics? Passionate about natural products mass spec? Come join the group! Informal enquires welcome! Closing Date: 19 August 2025 jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Folklore needs to be told. It needs to be transmitted. It desires to jump from pub to pub, playground to post office queue. It has a. Intrinsic dislike of stasis, of being trapped in the ink cages of of books. Folklore wants to be in our conversations and in our shivers. - #CLNolan #FolkloreSunday

I found the most beautiful shieldbug in the garden yesterday! Opulent purple and gold, accessorised with bold stripes. Apparently it’s a hairy shieldbug.

Delighted to share our latest publication from @medmycology.bsky.social adapting the EVPL model to study A. fumigatus virulence, made possible through collaboration with @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social. Many thanks to @researchireland.ie for funding this work www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

And @aaroncurtismicro.bsky.social is on bluesky so I can tag him! Aaron came to our free workshop on using the EVPL model and our collaboration grew out of that.

New paper! Dual proteomics of Aspergillus fumigatus #infection of ex vivo pig lung. Aaron Curtis & Kevin Kavanagh at Maynooth used fresh (immediately post-slaughter) lungs to show changes in fungal metabolism and host tissue remodelling over 96 hours #MicroSky www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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The bull is my favourite part of this carpet page, he ended up looking so cute. Red ochre ink sketching, with egg tempera / glair mineral paints.

NEW: In an unprecedented move, the NIH will soon disinvite dozens of scientists about to take positions on advisory councils that make final decisions on grant funding. NIH staff were told to select others aligned with the Trump administration and told to expect placements by political appointees.

The team is killing it at the Warwick Open Research Awards - first and second place in the STEM category to me and @phoebesilva.bsky.social for our open approach work using the ex vivo pig lung model of #CysticFibrosis infection @warwicklifesci.bsky.social #MicroSky

Reminder: We're hiring a technician to support pivotal research on using probiotic bacteria to fight #UTI, explored in our human urothelial model system. Work with my friendly team in Bloomsbury, London alongside our great collaborator @gpollara.bsky.social ! #UTISky www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Gut bacteria have the ability to accumulate PFAs, and the potential to help facilitate PFA excretion by their host: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #MicroSky

New Independent Fellowship position in Microbiology to launch your lab in our department @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK). We are conducting a broad search in the area of plant-associated microbial interactions. Message me if you have any questions. Apply here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...

...and also of their subsequent study, in which they show how 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘶­𝘤𝘩𝘰­𝘵𝘪𝘪 lays the foundation for the shrubs. schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2...

@jmarkwelch.bsky.social showing one of the most visually and scientifically beautiful images in microbiology: a microbiome “hedgehog” in dental plaque (Just made it to KCL #Biofilm hub symposium in time to hear this talk 😮) #MicroSky

A superb paper for learning/teaching how to analyse data with GLM/ANOVA: portlandpress.com/essaysbioche... #MicroSky #Statistics

the most basic, enduring plea from medicine: stop obsessing over tech solutions for tiny marginal returns when we haven't even mastered the basics of 19thC public health reform, let alone anything more sophisticated.

Paper! @phoebesilva.bsky.social's labour of love* optimising synthetic #CysticFibrosis mucus for growth of NTHi is out #MicroSky #Biofilm www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... *more like seething resentment as the bugs steadfastly refused to grow in most things we threw at them ^_^

This version of the video, from Forbes, is available in the UK. youtu.be/r_tgux5pAn0?...

I had fun talking to people about my PhD research and how we are trying to link the past with the future of biofilm treatment. It was a great experience.

There has been lots of talk about this article. I agree that there are short term costs to shifting field, but this analysis does not capture the potential long term benefits. My advice: Follow your interests and instincts, not citation metrics!

Yesterday, Warwick held a public festival of arts & culture. @tosinorababa.bsky.social, Erin Connelly and I had an excellent day talking about historical medicine, alchemy and the modern-day science we’re doing as part of the #Ancientbiotics collaboration. #SciComm

Come and learn about historical medicine and alchemy tomorrow at Warwick's Resonate Festival of Arts & Culture! #ancientbiotics www.resonatefestival.co.uk/events/fest-...