Antibiotics designed by AI, and other key developments in the ongoing battle against antimicrobial resistance go.nature.com/4twQntn

Back to beautiful Mosbach for the 77th #MosbacherKolloquium of the @gbmev.bsky.social. Excited to learn more about #membranes and discuss recent developments in the field.

Very convenient way to a conference - tram from home directly to the venue 🚋 Thanks for two great days at #DZIFPEG2026 in Bonn. It was especially nice to reconnect with collaborating labs and meet new colleagues in #infectionbiology and #AMR. Bonus for me and my Spanish colleague: churros! 😄

On #WorldNTDDay, I’m arriving in Berlin for a seminar on effective altruism and how to choose a career that actually makes a difference. A good moment to think about neglected diseases, among other overlooked global challenges. #EndTheNeglect

DFG erlaubt Einsatz von KI in der Begutachtung. Wenn wir jetzt noch die AI dazu kriegen, die komplette Forschung zu machen, haben wir den Menschen komplett von der Last des Forschungsprozzeses befreit und er kann sich komplett auf wichtige Dinge wie Reisekostenerstattungsanträge konzentrieren.

While a week #WAAW of focusing on #AMR has come to an end, the fight against the silent pandemic continues. 100 faces against AMR! (by DNAMR) #WAAW2025 #AMR #OneHealth #HealthForAll @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social de.linkedin.com/posts/deutsc...

While facing deadlines, writing grants, revising a paper and wondering whether I'll still have a job in 2026 #IchbinHanna, it was such a welcome change to officially open the Christmas market in #Bonn with our orchestra yesterday. #LifeOutsideTheLab #PostdocLife 1/2

The EU/EEA is off track in meeting four of its five antimicrobial resistance targets. #WAAW #AntimicrobialResistance #AntimicrobialResistanceAwarenessWeek www.vitalsigns.news/europe-is-cu...

💙It’s #WorldAMRAwarenessWeek! 80 years ago, penicillin changed modern medicine - but how does it work? And how do bacteria resist? 👉Read more to learn how the IOI protects our life-saving antibiotics: ineosoxford.shorthandstories.com/80-years-of-... #WAAW #KeepAntibioticsWorking

Jane Goodall has died. What a wonderful, inspiring life. RIP, Dr. Jane Goodall. #RIPJaneGoodall

Greetings from the #GreatWallSymposium in beautiful Sicily! 🌊☀️ Inspiring talks, great people, and the perfect backdrop of sunshine and sea - science is even more fun with this view! Check out poster 15 to learn about the cell wall mystery of #Wolbachia. #GWS2025 #antibiotics #ScienceByTheSea

🎓 PhD milestone – on my birthday! 🎉 Two weeks ago, I defended my PhD in Pharmacy on my 28th birthday (coincidence, but unforgettable!). A full lecture hall, friends & colleagues from abroad joining online, and afterwards a big celebration at our institute. (1/4) #PhDone #BirthdayDefense #PhDSky

📣 We are pleased to announce that recruitment for 2025-26 Crowd Preprint Reviewers & Leads is open! 📝 The goal of the Crowd Preprint Review initiative is to provide an engaging environment for researchers to participate in giving feedback on preprints and support public reviews of preprints.

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Es ist alles sehr bizarr

Did you know❓ Cycle lanes account for just 0.2% of the current road infrastructure. It’s time to demand safer streets that put the health & safety of pedestrians & cyclists first 👉 bit.ly/4jPzXsa #RoadSafety #StreetsforLife

3 weeks to go before #pint25!! 📅 19-21 May 2025 🗺️ 27 countries 📍+520 cities 🫂👩‍🔬🎉Thousands of scientists and volunteers celebrating science around the globe!! 🦕🦴🧬🦋🪨👓🧠🔭🫀👩‍🔬📚🧫🧪🌎🕷️ All the details here. Join the party! pintofscience.com

🧠🍻 Pint of Science #Pint25DE is coming to Bonn! Join us 19–21 May to grab a drink and listen to fascinating talks (english or german) on neuroscience, astronomy,...! Check the program 👉 pintofscience.de/events/bonn Not in Bonn? #Pint25 is happening around the world, look for the one close to you!

We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international) We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc. Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

Warum stand dieses Geld denn nicht vorher zur Verfügung für all die Forschenden, die schon hier sind? Warum kommt es erst jetzt darauf an, attraktive Jobs (mit längeren Vertragslaufzeiten) zu schaffen? Wer sind "the best and the brightest"? Bitte nicht antworten, ich muss im Bad die Wand anbrüllen.

So excited to be on my way to Okinawa for the #WolbachiaConference2025! Looking forward to great science and (re)connecting with old and new #Wolbachia peers. 🌸

Bis ich heut gecheckt hab, woher die ganzen Raumfahrtwitze kommen, hatten andere schon die ersten Anträge eingereicht 🤪

It’s incredible to think that just 30 years ago there were 3.5 million cases of #GuineaWorm disease globally every year. In each of the last four years, there have been 15 cases or less. We are on the brink of an historic achievement.

🔬The application deadline in our program "CURIOSITY IS INFECTIOUS" is less than a month away! 👉 Apply by April 20 for one of 16 exciting PhD projects - from host-pathogen interactions and novel antiinfectives to molecular mechanisms of infection and immunity. www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...

Check out our interactive timeline of some of the most devastating infectious diseases in history, alongside major advances in science and medicine that have helped control and prevent them. In English, Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, German and Spanish. 🦠🧫🔬💉 #CelebrateVaccines

We have 3 positions for students who want to start a PhD in the next 12 months. If you like advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques and S. aureus cell biology, check links and apply(April 4) euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/325394 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/325395 euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/325396

Already Day 3 of the #MosbacherKolloquium! Yesterday, Florestan introduced our relatively new group of #GBMPostdocs. Join us today at 7 pm if you’re interested (open to final-stage PhDs). No GBM membership required - however, the first year is free if you register before March 31. @gbmev.bsky.social

#PubMed now back for me, but the damage is done. When you suddenly realise you maybe can’t rely on something you absolutely need to rely on, that’s when you start to look for alternatives. And that’s happening over & over again with anything USA-related right now 😢

🚨 Yesterday a bit after 4 pm CET (#PhDlife), I lost access to #PubMed & #PMC, and at first found no other posts on here (no wonder on a Saturday…). But, turns out: I wasn’t alone – users worldwide had the same issue. #NIH #OpenScience #AcademicSky

Roses are red, Violets are blue, Antibiotics fight bacteria, Not the seasonal flu. 💊🚫🤧 #AntibioticStewardship #AntibioticResistance #AMR #FluSeason #AcademicSky #IDSky

Today in global Neglected Tropical Diseases. These diseases place a devastating and unacceptable burden on some of the most vulnerable communities in the world. Working together, governments, communities, NGOs & researchers can #BeatNTDs #NTDs Learn more and see how @who.int is tackling 🧵

Today is #WorldNTDDay! 🌍 Neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) such as river blindness and lymphatic filariasis urgently need new treatment options. These diseases are caused by filarial nematodes, which rely on #Wolbachia bacteria for survival. (1/2) #NTDs #AMR #Antibiotics #OneHealth

Just be prepared. We've all seen that headline going around today that Bluesky is the current #1 app, and X dropped out of the top 25. That means the absolute worst people in the world are going to be coming here trying to turn THIS place into just as much of a shithole. Block them. Don't engage.

@ all #peptidoglycan folks out there! #AcademicSky #PhDSky #GWS25 #cellwall

Seeking scientist volunteers for this spring! Want to practice science communication and help author a ✨comic✨ about your research? Learn more & sign up here by 1/30: bit.ly/comicscollabspring2025

#Throwback to a year ago today: I arrived in Umeå, Sweden, for my research stay. The #Cava lab gave me a warm welcome (unlike the weather – it was -21 °C!). I loved learning HPLC-MS analysis of #peptidoglycan and exploring snowy Umeå. ❄️ 1/3 #AcademicSky #PhDSky #PGN #CellWall #Fika

I am extremely excited to announce that for the first time ever, Skype a Scientist is offering mini-grants to support IRL science communication!! Communicating science out in our communities is critical. We want to enable others to get their projects off the ground! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Drug resistance is not just an issue with #AMR - when it comes to disease prevention we are going to have to think a lot more about practical #PublicHealth measure www.livescience.com/health/virus...

Alice Weidel nennt Universitäten "queer-woke Kaderschmieden" und sagt: "Wir schließen alle Gender Studies und schmeißen alle diese Professoren raus". Die Naturwissenschafts-Community muss sich hier klar auf die Seite der Geistes- & Sozialwissenschaft stellen. Das ist ein Angriff auf alle. (Thread)

Last year, I attended an international conference (April), a national conference, and a workshop (both in September). Still waiting for even a cent of reimbursement. 1/2 #IchbinHanna #Einkuscheln #Reisekosten #PhDSky #AcademicSky #AcademicPrecarity

About a million people die every year due to antimicrobial resistance. Causes: - Excessive and inappropriate use of antibiotics - 70% of antibiotics are given to livestock - No financial incentive to develop new antibiotics - no new antibiotic classes since 1980 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

What a great idea! #ThankAMicrobe #Wolbachia #AcademicSky #MicroSky

I fell in love with #Ljubljana in the summer of 2017 and always wanted to come back. Now I'm thinking about coming back around Christmas. 🤩 I would add a #phage, #mosquito and an #antibiotic. #DNA spanning the street would be cool as well! #AcademicSky

Exciting! Researchers at HIPS developed 𝗔𝗖𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗢𝗧, a CRISPR-Cas9-based tool to activate hidden biosynthetic gene clusters. This has already led to the discovery of 39 new natural products in 4 classes! #AMR #DrugDiscovery #CRISPR-Cas9 #BGC #ACTIMOT

My opinion: Scientists should get paid for thinking time "Thinking time is often undervalued; it is rarely, if ever, quantified in employment practices." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

My Wolbachia-infected insect cells are cell-ebrating Christmas. Happy holidays everyone! 👩‍🔬🦟🦠🎄 #Wolbachia #PhDSky #AcademicSky

1/ Imagine being a kid, just vibing at school, when boom—a tapeworm decides to set up camp in your brain. 🧠🏕️ Welcome to the wildest, most unexpected outbreak Belgium has seen. And no, this isn’t an episode of House MD but it reads like it. I love ID #IDSky #MedSky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#AgarArt is so cool! 🎨 This year's @asm.org contest theme asked “What Brings You Joy?” and the first place is titled "Petri Dish Jazz Club". I also love "Birds of Agar" and "Anybody can dance! Even microbes!" Check them out here: asm.org/Events/ASM-A...

I just wish this cartoon I drew 10+ years ago wasn't so relevant today...

Happy birthday to the extraordinary #Wolbachia! A century - and we still don't fully get you!