‘The latest surveillance data found that the number of antibiotic-resistant infections in 2024 equated to an average of nearly 400 newly reported cases a week.’ www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Another wonderful #BritishRail experience between Manchester and Liverpool - standing all the way to Liverpool, and a 3 hour bus replacement for the trip back 😭.

We are looking for contributors to our series on the Methods Blog, exploring the experiences of ecologists conducting research in remote field stations during the holiday season 🎄 See previous blogs here 👉 buff.ly/MnMcRqG (1/2)

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

Oh, I love this. A new species of sea anemone was discovered recently that parks itself on top of a hermit crab shell like a hat. It seems to feed partly off the crab's faeces, but it also excretes a hard shell that extends the crab's home. In return, it's carried around the seafloor like a king.

The Long-Term Evolution Experiment has returned home. Led by Professors Richard Lenski (@relenski.bsky.social) and Jeffrey Barrick, this groundbreaking work continues to reveal how bacteria evolve in real time. 12 flasks. 1 legacy. 🔗https://tinyurl.com/f6vjyjvr

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

Should we? Really?

We're hiring 🧪🌍 Two amazing senior science opportunities in Northern Ireland Seabird Scientist: Tagging, tracking and monitoring to inform marine policy in NI tinyurl.com/yeuw5znd Conservation Scientist: Restoration of key habitats and priority species tinyurl.com/4rj43dfp

Male Varied Thrush in a southern Vancouver Island forest today. I’ve ringed 10 first-years over the last two weeks here, but this was my first adult! 🪶

This is a scorching article on the absolute state of The New York Times, and much of the rest of the media. Not just the billionaire media, note, but also the billionaire-*compliant* media, which both-sides every issue with purchased junktank talking points. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

Our paper on tinamou evolution is finally out in @systbiol.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/sysbio/advan...

🎨 Recording now live! Developing Your #DataVisualisation Skills in #ggplot2 with @nrennie.bsky.social Watch the creative process exploring the #TidyTuesday cats dataset 🐈 📚 Materials & links: 🔗 nrennie.rbind.io/talks/rladies-rome-ggplot2 #RLadies #ggplot2 #TidyTuesday @fgazzelloni.bsky.social

Our new @science.org paper is out! Cuckoos and hosts are locked in a coevolutionary arms race over egg mimicry. But how are these egg types inherited, and could this drive speciation? We sequenced hundreds of genomes to find out! doi.org/10.1126/scie... 🧵1/6

"It’s not that those things don’t matter: they absolutely goddamn do, and will keep on mattering... It’s just that they never mattered much to the Times and they are, to appearances, mattering less and less by the day. I should remember that, and so should you."

This piece is as good as people say it is. Read it to appreciate that writing isn't just about content, but style. AI can't do this.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Zack for PM, anyone? join.greenparty.org.uk

So happy to share this! Bacteriocins were first discovered over 100 years ago, but what do they actually do? We look at >1000 bacteriocin plasmids and find links to virulence and antimicrobial resistance, and frequent bacteriocin sharing in Enterobacteriaceae. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Nigerian Parliament recently passed sweeping legislation to protect endangered wildlife from illegal trafficking. Once the president signs it into law, offenders could face fines of up to 12 million naira ($8,300) and up to 10 years in prison for trafficking products from threatened species.

#microsky #phagesky #phage plasmids & other #MGE in the bee #microbiome www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What looked like a hearing organ on a tiny stinkbug’s leg turned out to be something far stranger: a fungal nursery that mother bugs use to coat their newly laid eggs in protective symbiotic hyphae, shielding their offspring from parasitic wasps. Learn more in Science: https://scim.ag/4nDrDNm

In cooperation with RWE, we proudly announce the installation of the first #MOTUS station in an offshore wind farm (Amrumbank West) in Germany and in Europe. This will help to fill key knowledge gaps in offshore environmental monitoring. We were supported by our colleagues from Wind Energy Systems

I quite enjoyed a lot of the takedowns of Bill Gates' EA brain snap on climate. It is really deadassed in a number of ways. But no-one mentioned the most important thing. He isn't *just* full of shit. He knows he is full of shit. I can prove it: timinclimate.medium.com/even-bill-ga...

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Well done to those who campaigned for this. This sort of thing should not be allowed in this day and age.

”I wanted him to see all of this, not in reports or maps, but in person, the weariness of the river, and the suffering of the fish that no longer breathes as before.” The fly fishing community feels it too on degraded, warming rivers. #RestoreNature is deeply personal for us.

When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same. Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow. academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...

New pre-print: Plasmid dependent phage effectively eliminate AMR bacteria and block plasmid transmission in the chicken gut microbiome Fun collaboration with Tao He lab (JAAS) and @brockhurstlab.bsky.social lab (Manchester) #phagesky#microsky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Russia has kidnapped a 70-year-old Ukrainian marine biologist, Leonid Pshenichnov, for backing a curb on Antarctic krill fishing, saying that it would harm the economic interests of Russia.

"After only one year, the transformation is dramatic", says a conservation manager about the growth of a colony of 2,000 sooty tern seabirds. Previously, invasive rats had destroyed their eggs, making it impossible for the native birds to persist on the islands. www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/inv...

Once abundant on Christmas Island, the tiny, five-gram shrew filled the night forest with its high, thin cry before vanishing into silence. Its loss adds to Australia’s grim record of extinctions—a quiet reminder of fragile lives erased by invasion, neglect, and the noise of human expansion.

Down the Hatch! Lovely to be out all day with the camera yesterday. The gulls were reaping the rewards from a very rough sea. Less lovely time suffer my first ever card failure when trying to load my images. Have recovered them, but a tense evening. #BlueSkyArtShow #inside #birds #EastCoastKin

Myself and Alastair Wilson wrote an updated version of our 2016 primer to quantitative genetics in the wild: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Happy to share a copy if interested. It is also on research gate

📢 Our meta-analysis examining effects of experimental inoculation of plants with soil rhizobacteria on insect herbivores is now online. 📜Inoculated plants reduce insect fitness and alter host-choice behaviours, promising effects also on recruiting natural enemies. ✔️ Open access at bit.ly/49cMX8v

Great. Firework season. Sounds like a war zone outside for the last 3 hours in Whalley Range #Manchester #BanFireworks

BirdLife International has issued a firm warning against proposals to cull Great Cormorant across Europe, arguing that the measures would fail to address pressures on fish stocks and could damage years of conservation progress:

Standoff Acrylic on Board 2025

The @theguardian.com really should have paired this unpleasant woman with someone her own age who she couldn’t just brush off as ‘naive’. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Fear of novelty varies across species & individuals, impacting adaptability & survival. @themanybirds.bsky.social @drrmiller.bsky.social &co assess #neophobia in 1400 subjects from 136 #bird species, identifying phylogenetic influences & broad ecological drivers @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/4haLEsN

Never realised that jays have gorgeous mauve eyes! Definitely one of Europe’s most handsome avian residents. This one ringed and released, hopefully to spend the next years planting a new generation of oak acorns.

Lovely morning with the ringing group at a local nature reserve. Good reminder of how to age redwings, and a jay in the net was a nice surprise. Always amazes me how important small but well managed local reserves are for biodiversity.

To be effective, protest must be noisy, obstructive, annoying. No longer is this allowed. Now the last attribute of effective dissent – persistence – is also to be banned. But the moment protest ceases to be effective is the moment democracy dies. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

🧬 Meet ORF Verifier (orfverifier.farnunglab.com) 🧬 Validating ORFs from plasmid sequences—such as those from @plasmidsaurus.bsky.social —can be tedious and error-prone. Manual inspection and alignments in tools like SnapGene take time and attention. ORF Verifier automates sequence verification.

WHO reports 1 in 6 bacterial infections worldwide are antibiotic-resistant, with resistance rising sharply since 2018. Gram-negative bacteria like E. coli and K. pneumoniae pose the biggest threat. Action on #AMR surveillance and responsible antibiotic use is needed. www.who.int/news/item/13...

“Living car-free is the most impactful behavior by far in terms of reducing emissions.”

NEW JOB in #ornithology with @RSPBScience to oversee research in #Wales with #seabirds and #waders: buff.ly/qkTVU6m

Please enjoy these super cute, secretly metal bats!! I love them!! 🧪 🌎 www.scientificamerican.com/article/this...