Funeral and house clearance aside, nit too shabby a pre-Xmas view…. Beat that @proftracypalmer.bsky.social 🤣

Rural Australia has a lot of interesting quirks, but free roaming actual dinosaurs I wasn’t quite expecting!

@holafly.bsky.social these travel sims are a great idea but your set up system is so clunky and whatever the opposite to user-friendly… that’s what this is!!

We're advertising for a bacteriology technician and a post-doc to work on AI-guided antibiotic development as part of a large multidisciplinary Fleming Initiative project: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-... www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...

Have clearly displeased the airplane gods, after 6hr at schiphol last week, now 5hrs at Bristol followed by a coach trip from Dublin to cork 😭

Our Annual Meeting in Ireland was another success! Thank you to everyone who joined us for #MicrobioIrish25. Congratulations to this year’s prize winners: Dr Lizzie Ledger – Best Offered Oral Presentation Amelia Cox-Fermandois – Poster Prize Meghana Srinivas – Microbial Genomics Poster Prize

6hr layover at Schiphol airport due to a cancelled flight…. Magical start to the week! 😭

New PhD position in my lab at @uniofbath.bsky.social (with both @tweethinking.bsky.social & Dr Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun)! We're looking for someone keen on bioinformatics and microbiome evolution. Important info below on eligibility & URSA competition funding👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Play list for a bit of a disco-pissco for dads 80th on Saturday: Mr brightside Living on a prayer I got a feeling Dancing queen Footloose More suggestions please….

Both the UCC and Bristol based lab members getting together in person at the Irish Division @microbiologysociety.org meeting.

The Streptococcus Great Britain & Ireland 2026 meeting will bring together ECRs and experts to highlight cutting-edge research focused on crucial aspects of Streptococcal biology, in Durham on March 30th/31st 2026. More information strepgbi.wixsite.com/strep-gbi. Registration opening soon.

Lecturership in Microbiolgy @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Application submission deadline coming soon - October 9th. universityvacancies.com/university-g...

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...

PhD opportunity to come and work in Glasgow, developing advanced tissue culture models to study Staphylococcus aureus colonisation and infection #microsky #PhD #DTPprogram Enquiries from potential applicants are welcome. www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Our work deciphering the substrate preferences of a di-/tripeptide transporter from S. aureus is now available as a proof at @plos.org Pathogens! Big thanks to the reviewers and to all the brilliant co-authors, particularly Callum who helped get those last few crucial experiments across the line

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

Latest from Lizzie Ledger in the lab…. Very cool story demonstrating the cross reactivity of a single AMR mechanism to confer resistance/tolerance to two distinct classes of antibiotics. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

🧫 Seeking a postdoc in gut microbiome? Join our ERC-funded group at UCC/APC Microbiome Ireland (focus: spore-forming gut bacteria). Apply for the 2-yr Govt of Ireland Postdoc Fellowship (deadline Oct 23). Email CV + research interests to [email protected] . #Postdoc #Microbiome #Ireland

This reminders me of Covid Christmas 2020 when I knitted everyone in the lab something despite being shit at knitting!! @seanaduggan.bsky.social 🤣🤣🤣

Fancy living by the sea in Cornwall and crunching some very cool data for a living. Look no further: jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

We have a position for an Assist Prof in Microbial Genomics in our School of III. Hod Joan Geoghegan will be happy to field questions if you are interested. No specific area of microbial genomics preferred so please do consider it www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

New work from the lab, lead by Nathan Palk and supported by Tarcisio Brignoli and Marcia Boura…. None of which are on here! If you like S. aureus, toxin production and two component regulatory systems, you’ll like this: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

New work from the lab, more details on new levels of regulation of cytolytic toxin production by Staphylococcus aureus: www.biorxiv.org/cgi/content/...

Looking to appoint a PhD candidate with background in Microbiology, Biochemistry, Biotechnology or related field to work on discovery of infection combatting therapeutics in marine sponge-associated bacteria. Closing date 31st May 2025. International applications welcomed!🌎

Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available in the team - one here and second to follow - please repost! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...

Road trip to see Six the musical with ruby and friends…. Quite literally the shittest seats in the house as i left it so late to book…. My varifocals giving me vertigo this high up…. By god this better be good 🤣

Apologies if this is a dumb question, but are the awful funding problems over in the US likely to be affecting ASM type journals from functioning as normal?

PhD opportunity in bacterial pathogenesis- deadline tomorrow Feb 13 !

Latest from the lab, driven by Lizzie Ledger. Crossover in antibiotic resistance activity between oxacilin and daptomycin. …. All roads may lead to Rome in some places but for S. aureus they all lead to Agr activity!! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Exciting, fully-funded PhD opportunity aimed at turning biofilms as weapons against bacteria in the fight to combat antimicrobial resistance. Don’t miss out! bit.ly/40HYabo

50 % of the household is happy 🤣

This is a bit nerve wrecking…..

The Cork lab out for our ‘Christmas’ dinner in January…. Left hand side of the table happy to be photographed, right hand side less so! 🤣

Fiiiiinnnnneeee!!! I’ll come check this ‘new’ happy place out even though I fundamentally object to anywhere that is only ever happy 🤣 Where is Mike Cox who has shamed me into this??