It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of Professor Jeff Cole. An esteemed academic, Jeffs research on bacterial adaptation to oxygen and nitrosative stress made a lasting impact on the field. He mentored nearly 60 doctoral students, our thoughts are with his family, friends & colleagues

🚨 Hiring Alert! 🚨My lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: 🦠 Synthetic Biology and🛡️ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! 🇫🇷🥐 research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...

Check out our latest preprint from @jnvmartinson.bsky.social and @leosong.bsky.social! 🌟🦠 We found that conjugative plasmids can actively eliminate recipient bacteria that resist plasmid acquisition. 🧵

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

🆕 Vacancy! We’re looking for an ambitious and collaborative Group Leader or Career Track Group Leader to pioneer the development of next-generation microbiome assays and model systems 💷 Competitive 🗓️ Apply by 15 February 2026 ➡️ buff.ly/7mN281i

Deadline is approaching (Feb 9) to apply for a PI position at Institut Pasteur. Come join us and contribute to an amazing scientific environment!!!

🔬 Call to create junior research groups at the Institut Pasteur Focus: Infectious diseases, host-microbe interactions, vaccines Special interest: AI methodologies 📅 Deadline: Feb 9, 2026 👥 2-12 years post-PhD Apply now 📝 research.pasteur.fr/en/call/crea... #JobOpportunity #Research

New paper just out in Microbial Genomics @microbiologysociety.org! As always, a great team effort! Well done all. 🤩 @imibirmingham.bsky.social @hannahpugh.bsky.social @leahburgess.bsky.social @alanmcn1.bsky.social @astimeosa.bsky.social

The coolest finding of my PhD is finally out! E. coli has a 7th RND pump that is present in phylogroups B2/D/E/F but absent in A/B1/C. As a result EefABC has been absent in all K-12 RND studies! Co-authored by the very talented Dr. Lizzy Darby. @jessicamablair.bsky.social doi.org/10.1099/mgen...

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...

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... New preprint of my first corresponding author research paper! This is the result of my master students and some lovely collaborators! ☺️

Perks of a Saturday morning trip to the @crick.ac.uk 🌈

Does anyone have any experience or knowledge of single cell bacterial FACS? Have a few technical issues due to my tiny cells. Thanks!

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Surprise night in Frankfurt with Susie courtesy of a cancelled BA flight. 🫠 So much for packing up my flat tomorrow 🥹

. @emgoodall.bsky.social presenting her cool new transposon-based method on discovery of novel small proteins #EESMicrobiology

Wir sind in Heidelberg angekommen. 💃🏻

🔥 Open postdoc position in human inflammation-driven control of infection! 🔥 Join me at the University of Geneva, Switzerland this summer as I’m moving my Wellcome-funded research activity to the Department of Microbiology and Molecular Medicine! (1/5) Please share!

Great opportunity with a lab doing some incredible science, fabulous lab head and in a globally leading institute

Northwestern has not received any NIH funds since March. No written communication about why or what can be done. Thank you Ben Singer for raising awareness at #ATS2025

Cliche but I loved Spain, Finland, Poland and Denmark. We love a strong woman 💃🏻 #eurovision

Feel Poland was done dirty with the recap clip. She’s not singing it it…..

Still in awe. An incredible event last week highlighting how genomics can be used in the courtroom. Thank you to Louise and Rosie @crick.ac.uk and @carovinuesa.bsky.social for organising such a fab event. Very inspiring and an absolute privilege to speak with Ms. Folbigg briefly.

Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF

Great to hear @elisabethbik.bsky.social speak again on scientific integrity @crick.ac.uk

So freaking proud 🤩

The below walks you through how to delete your DNA data from 23andMe before it goes bankrupt.

Susie (not yet on Bluesky) representing the lab at the 2025 @ineosoxford.bsky.social ECR event!

Cool review from the Cox lab! rdcu.be/d7OER

I only seem to realise how burnt out I truly was after taking at least 2 weeks off 🫠

Guess we are all back here 🥹🥲

A good friend of mine is starting his own lab up in Edinburgh very soon. Gift suggestions for a new PI very much appreciated!!

A lovely Thursday surprise - authorship for work done in 2017. 👍