How social is social resistance? Check out our new mini-review, co-authored by Rosie Randall. Her first paper! 👏🏽 portlandpress.com/essaysbioche... Thanks to @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social and @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social for the invitation. @biology.ox.ac.uk @ilesla.bsky.social

Same reason I don’t take a car jack to the gym.

Re-posting this as we’ve still not found any parallels #MicroSky

Had a super time at Flag Fen’s Viking Festival this weekend. A friend wanted a walk-through of early medieval bookbinding, so I improvised a jig and we each got a new book sewn. I love the diversity of crafty hobbies and skills that reenactment has introduced me to.

How do harmful microbes interact with menstrual cups and discs, and what are the impacts on users’ bodies? #MicroSky

Super poster from Simran on her PhD work and plans at today’s student symposium! She’s co-infecting our CF lung model with Pseudomonas & Burkholderia species to see how they interact #MicroSky

Birch Bark Tar (Gloop!) provides evidence of #Neanderthal #Medicine (which can affect Staphylococcus aureus). The evidence suggests that some tar produced originally for hafting tools and arrows may have been used on wounds and been potentially effective archaeomedicus.blogspot.com/2026/04/in-n...

Another lab presentation success - well done @kadeayomikun.bsky.social for winning "best talk" at the Warwick Respiratory Infections Sparking Chronic Diseases symposium 🎉

Great overview of the grant review process.

This is so cool! #SciComm #MicroSky

And a 7th post @warwicklifesci.bsky.social! This one assistant/associate prof in quantitative, systems & engineering biology: warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Fantastic news 🎉 @charisthompson.bsky.social is working on ways to wrangle NTMs #MicroSky

My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Fantastic that @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social not only spoke at #Microbio26, but stayed to join in the Knocking Out AMR workshop the following day. Thanks @catrinm.bsky.social, Jonathan Cox & @marwaalawi.bsky.social for organising & chairing. #MicroSky

A great way to round up my PhD work with a talk in the knocking out AMR forum @microbiologysociety.org annual conference! Very grateful for the opportunity!

Find out about how different host-mimicking environments alter P. aeruginosa biofilm from @kadeayomikun.bsky.social at poster 169 at #Microbio26

@c-cornbill.bsky.social has has TWO posters at #Microbio26! find out about antibiotic resistance evolution in our cystic fibrosis lung infection model at no. 124

Saskia is presenting her MBio project on optimising our cystic fibrosis lung model for working with Aspergillus - no. 141 at #MicroBio26 @warwicklifesci.bsky.social

How to make your own robot! A review of people making awesome lab robots out of commercial 3D printers. Thank you @vsaggiomo.bsky.social and Sander for inviting me to help write this paper in @digital-discovery.rsc.org. Beep boop! 🤖 #chemsky doi.org/10.1039/D5DD...

Each publication in a #Microbio26 journal helps fund 4 student travel grants. Please publish with us if you can!

Come to #Microbio26 poster 192 to hear how @charisthompson.bsky.social is sensitising mycobacteria to beta-lactams by making them flip their wall-building strategy #MicroSky

Cracking talk from @nreddy.bsky.social about her PhD work - designing polymers based on AMPs to kill troublesome biofilm bacteria, or to help antibiotics kill these bacteria #Microbio26

Come to #Microbio26 poster 094 to hear all about natural product antimocrobial discovery from @tosinorababa.bsky.social and me #MicroSky

En route to #Microbio26 on a very crowded train. But I have a case to sit on and a brew, so it’s not all bad.

Quorum sensing, biosensors and careers in this interview with Paul Williams. Paul was also one of the senior people who really supported me during my last post-doc and in becoming independent - the prize is throughly well-deserved! #MicroSky

Research visit grant applications are now open. If you are planning a short (one-to three-month) research visit to another laboratory, don’t miss your opportunity to apply for funding. Check your eligibility and apply before 1 May 2026, 23.59 BST: https://microb.io/4tp6byU

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when someone says "a whole civilization will die tonight" usually you lock them up in some facility. anyway, great job, media.

Who else spent Easter Sunday paddling a coracle while wearing early medieval drag?

anyway ending on Ada since she started Critical AI Literacy in the 1840s bsky.app/profile/oliv...

PLEASE SHARE. PhD Opportunity with me, Ben Raymond and Jan Engelstaedter and Andrew Letten at University of Queensland. Experimentally testing mechanisms of how temperature may change selection and spread of AMR in E. coli. Coupled with some advanced modelling and sequencing. 🧪🦠 #microsky

🔊 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