Spatial proximity dictates bacterial competition and expansion in microbial communities @natcomms.nature.com by @esimsek.bsky.social et al from @lingchongyou.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Coxiella burnetii Nine Mile II Δcbu0533 as a suitable laboratory replacement strain by Carrie Mae Long and co workers journals.asm.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

📣🦠Check out our new Editor’s Spotlight! Senior MGEN editor Jesse Shapiro tells us about a recently published paper on the bystander effect on the evolution of Bordetella parapertussis, a non-target species of the pertussis vaccine #MGEN Read the full blog here: microb.io/48zfOlJ

Vibrio cholerae interaction with predatory bacteria on chitin suggests an alternative mode of biofilm formation in marine snow conditions https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.31.685833v1

Structures of the sheathed flagellum reveal mechanisms of assembly and rotation in Vibrio cholerae

Sharing the link to our updated Vibrio preprint, where we compare and contrast Ecospecies with other genetic structures, and using the opportunity to fix typos and update some bluesky handles! with @danielfalush.bsky.social @whqqq.bsky.social @yjchao.bsky.social @chaooo.bsky.social

Online today! De Novo Genome Sequence Assembly of the RNAi-Tractable Paramecium bursaria 186b: An Endosymbiotic Model System academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

My takeaways from Virginia Guiffre’s new book on the sexual abuse she says she suffered at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell, & Prince Andrew (which he denies)

**Please Repost** Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate. PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec... Deadline: October 15.

I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.

Analyses of protein expression and genetic fitness determinants reveal dynamic pathways active in starved Pseudomonas aeruginosa by Megan Bergkessel and group including my friend @chemsley.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Rapid detection & fast induction of viable but non-culturable V.parahaemolyticus & V.cholerae by Susanne Fleischmann &group Their viable quantitative PCR method detected V. parahaemolyticus & V. cholerae VBNC cells in 50% & 56% of retail samples, respectively. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Delighted to announce that The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios will be back next year! Vibrio2026 will be held in Berlin in September 13-16. See you there Vibriologists! event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026/p...

New series from @EmpirePodUK THE HISTORY OF GAZA 291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

We must unite against those who seek to divide us.

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

This is an excellent piece about how scientists discovered the culprit behind the mass die-off of sea stars along the West Coast: a warm-water bacterium called Vibrio pectenicida. Researchers are now working on breeding and restoring resistant populations. www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

Excited to share my latest review, now published in the Royal Society theme issue on ‘The ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systems' (available OA): Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

So excited our antibiotic potentiation story is out 🤩 Led by the extraordinary @manonlang.bsky.social with @fox-science.bsky.social & @amazeld.bsky.social +amazing collaborators @immunobladder.bsky.social @imaneelmeouche.bsky.social 🦠 We believe it can make a difference in #AMR infections!

Israel destroys second Gaza high-rise as military kills another 56 Palestinians, including aid-seekers

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced intense scrutiny yesterday over his vaccine policies, including claims that #COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are broadly harmful — claims not supported by evidence. More in this story by @fullerlab.bsky.social for @us.theconversation.com. 👇

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

🚨 Job alert 🚨 I’m recruiting two postdoctoral research associates to join my lab at KCL to study how #Klebsiella pneumoniae regulates virulence factor expression during infection! #klebclub Mol Micro: tinyurl.com/mtrwtx5e Infection: tinyurl.com/2s3u8ca2 Deadline: 21st September.

End-to-end contact enables long-distance electron transport between filaments in cable bacteria: Cable bacteria are part The Family Desulfobulbaceae and found in freshwater, brackish water, marine, and haloalkaline habitat usually in the sediments. academic.oup.com/ismej/articl...

🧬Aspiring Editors🧬 Access Microbiology is recruiting Editors to join our board! We welcome expertise across all areas of microbiology, and are especially keen to hear from microbiologists working in clinical microbiology or genomics. Feel free to DM with any questions.

Melioidosis cases detected in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a positive impact of 3rd South Asian Melioidosis Congress by Saika Farook and co workers 2023https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666517425001257

Vibrio cholerae motility is associated with inter-animal transmission www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🦠

‘Too many women choose death over divorce’: the Indian retreats taking the shame out of separation

There is still time to register for our annual meeting! 📍 ZSL London 📅 15/16th Sep. 2025 💻 2x Workshops + Conference Join us if you are interested in anything #aquatic #marine #freshwater 💧🌊🌍🦠🐋🦪🦐🦀🪼🦑 **REGISTRATION DEADLINE now moved back to the 5th Sep ** www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/besag2025-...

Funds for monitoring foodborne infections including listeria (primarily milk products), campylobacter and salmonella to be cut by CDC in move to reduce food safety by MAHA - which again, akin to environmental protections and vaccines being reduced will make Americans much less healthier 🧪

"Egypt Isn’t Starving Gaza – Israel Is" Debunking the latest lie from pro-Israel propagandists: Egypt could open its border crossing with Gaza anytime and end the Israeli-created famine in the Strip. Here's the truth.

Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

‘We didn’t understand the goals of the war’: Israel’s inflated Hamas death toll shows lack of strategy in Gaza

Effectiveness of a novel selective medium ‘Modified MacConkey Agar for Burkholderia’ for isolation of Burkholderia pseudomallei from contaminated specimen By Md. Shariful Alam Jilani and co workers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Israeli media ‘completely ignored’ Gaza starvation – is that finally changing?

"Our society views women’s time as infinite like sand whereas we guard men’s time as if it’s finite like diamonds. Nowhere is this more obvious than the workplace.” @everodsky.bsky.social qz.com/women-workpl...

Why RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vaccine Campaign is Working www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...

How German media outlets helped pave the way for Israel’s murder of journalists in Gaza | Hanno Hauenstein

West Bank settler attacks happen on ‘daily basis’ – Israeli columnist www.channel4.com/news/west-ba...

Surveillance gap in seafood safety: Multidrug resistant Vibrio parahaemolyticus detected in shrimp imported to Norway By Cecilie Smith Svanevik and co workers www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

“This is my duty…reporting the suffering of a people that I am living amidst, suffering that I am experiencing myself.” – Reporter Anas al-Sharif in what would become his final interview with us just weeks before being killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. Full report ⤵️ youtu.be/YeQD6spHyEU

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the ‘assassination’ of its Gaza correspondents and photographers by Israeli forces. 🔗: aje.io/eeht0q | #JournalismIsNotACrime

There are a huge number of people on the National March for Palestine in London. @pscupdates.bsky.social #FreePalestine

A protester in London held a sign at a Palestine march reading: “If you attended one funeral a day for every child killed in Gaza, you’d be going everyday for more than 52 years.”

National March for Palestine is starting in London. We are loud, we are angry, and we are here to demand an end to Israel's genocide in Gaza, which our governments are supporting. #ShutItDownForPalestine #StopGazaGenocide #Intifada

Type 6 secretion system immunity protein RhsFI has been repurposed for small RNA regulation in pathogenic Escherichia coli academic.oup.com/nar/article/...