Exciting news! I have two positions open in my lab at the UoManchester: one PDRA and one Research Tech. Join our team to study evolutionary mycology and help us understand antifungal resistance in fungal pathogens. A fantastic opportunity to join the brilliant Manchester Fungal Infection Group!

Absolutely delighted (and proud) that @freyaallen.bsky.social passed her viva with minor corrections today. Thanks very much @jessicamablair.bsky.social @robfagan.bsky.social for examining!

🔊 Applications for the tenure-track illuminate global challenge fellowships at Queen’s are now open! Comes with 5 years protected research time, a PhD studentship, & 60k start-up. I had one of these before getting my FLF, happy to chat to anyone interested! www.qub.ac.uk/Research/fel...

Agnès Vallier, @cmonegat.bsky.social , Baptiste Vierne, @nicolasparisot.bsky.social , Guy Condemine, Pedro Da Silva, Xavier Jaurand, @yschwab.bsky.social , @kaltenpoth-lab.bsky.social , Abdelaziz Heddi, and @annazaidmanremy.bsky.social ➡️ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 5/5

There's still time to submit your abstract to Annual Conference 2026. Abstract submission closes at 23:59 GMT on 11 November 2025. For the full list of abstract submissions we welcome, visit our events page: microb.io/AC26Abstracts #Microbio26

#microsky #mevosky @spp2389.bsky.social A PhD position is available in my lab to work on: Emergence and self-organisation of bacterial metabolism in consortia of cross-feeding bacteria. Please RT Deadline: 12.11.25 More infos 👇 shorturl.at/rAKAT

The bigger argument here is that we shouldn’t even be using such metrics to assess academic performance. It’s just lazy.

Complete nonsense. My advice to post-graduate researchers is to always preprint their work, as it will improve their visibility while the manuscript is going through a (frequently very long) peer review process.

Thank you @target-amr.bsky.social for inviting me to share the benefits using #QualitativeReasearch for AMR Genomics and my experience exploring academic and clinical perspectives of infectious disease diagnostics! If you’re interested to know more, check out the talk below youtu.be/mQ_vwEhFhRM?...

Join us in Birmingham for the annual BSAC #AntibioticResistance & Mechanisms workshop - excellent talks and it’s designed to make conversation & networking between attendees easy #MicroSky bsac.org.uk/antibiotic-r...

QUESTION: anyone knows of a published example of a gene/operon which is toxic in Pseudomonas aeruginosa if in high copy plasmids, but ok in low copy? Got plenty of examples of my own for E. coli (esp of membrane protein genes), but struggling to find for Pae… Cheers! #microsky #synbio

Three Bicentenary research fellowships on offer at @officialuom.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social for exceptional ECRs with <3y postdoc experience 3yrs salary + £30k pa research expenses Do you have a great idea & want to join @mermanchester.bsky.social? www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/research/sup...

Independent research fellowships leading to tenured positions at the John Innes Centre. Repost = nice. Thank you very much!!!

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...

Come and work with me and @ariannebabina.bsky.social on #Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production Origins of a tangled bank: Adaptation and evolution in antibiotic-producing Streptomyces www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... please repost

🔊 Fully-funded 4yr PhD studentship with the NWB DTP, working on novel regulators of bacterial nitrogen metabolism 🦠 Primary supervisor: @ariannebabina.bsky.social (University of Glasgow) Co-supervisors: myself (Queen’s Belfast)+ Dónal Wall (Glasgow) 🌟 please share 🌟 www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

New ERC funded computational postdoc position in my lab! We are looking for someone who will study the genomics of bacterial evolution using samples from experimental evolution and clinical trials. Lots of opportunities for interesting and fun collaboration! my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

Last chance to join us next month for the #Biodiversity25 conference. A fantastic set of speakers, mix of talks & focused workshops, and the chance to meet others in the field of biodiversity genomics 🧬 In-person registration closes next Monday 29th September! Registration 🔗: bit.ly/4j3vAZ9

Excited to share our @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social led by Magda showing how Bif has co-evolved with different animal hosts 🐒🐭🐷🐦 Key takeaways: 🔹 Host ancestry + diet shape Bif evolution 🔹 Mammals enriched for carb-busting enzymes 🔹 Untapped diversity in non-human hosts = new probiotic potential

The Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes are hiring an Assistant Professor in Bacterial Genomics! Happy to have a chat if anyone wants to know more about the department/UoB www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

The Royal Society's Dorothy Hodgkin Fellowship scheme is now open for applications. This scheme offers a first step into an independent research career for early career scientists who require a flexible working pattern. Find out more and apply now: #RSGrants royalsociety.org/grants/dorot...

Delighted with our new paper on a novel itaconate transporter in the human pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa, led by Javeria and Reyme. @ybri-uoy.bsky.social @javeriamehboob.bsky.social @bethkw.bsky.social A duplicated transporter on its way to itaconate selectivity portlandpress.com/biochemj/art...

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

New preprint reveals bacteria can't just collect all resistance genes like Pokemon cards. We found mutually exclusive evolutionary pathways to multidrug resistance in E. coli & P. aeruginosa - some resistance mechanisms actively prevent others from coexisting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Particularly enjoyed the lovely figures www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Excited to share our new preprint for the tskit_arg_visualizer Python package! ARGs can sometimes feel like a black box, so @yanwong.bsky.social and I have been developing a method to programmatically drawing these graphs. 🔗 arxiv.org/abs/2508.03958 1/6

Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com! We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨ Huge team effort! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Excited to share new #program, STEPS, which can simulate #dynamics of the E. coli Long-Term Evolution Experiment (#LTEE) or other microbes in serial transfer regime. telliamedrevisited.wordpress.com/2025/08/12/s... STEPS developed by @devinmlake.bsky.social, Zachary Matson, Minako Izutsu, and me.

A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others Please share & get in touch if interested! tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3

Ever wondered why some antibiotics are made by Streptomyces on agar plates but not in liquid cultures? Read this work on redox control of antibiotic biosynthesis. Led by katienoble241.bsky.social and Rebecca Devine, and in collaboration with @barriewilks.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Amazing seminar from @bkoskella.bsky.social, seems I might be a phage convert.

Excellent writing retreat, thanks @resp-micro.bsky.social for organising! Might be recovering from the ultimate frisbee for the rest of the day…

Nice to be back.

#Review A discussion on the evolution, emergence and expansion of environmental fungicide and antifungal drug resistance. 🍄 #MicroSky 🦠 @drjorhodes.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This opportunity is still open but closing at the end of July!

Last week to apply for TWO PhDs with me and amazing supervisors at University of Birmingham The Last Of Us - www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Understanding pathogen diversity in maternal and neonatal populations - www.findaphd.com/phds/project... I’m on holiday so can’t answer queries though

Two fully funded #PhD positions on insect #Symbiosis available in our lab: Spiroplasma in Neotropical Arthropods (tinyurl.com/spiroplasma) & Psyllid symbionts (tinyurl.com/psyllids). Please contact me for any questions & share widely #symbiosky #academicjobs

This is a really neat idea

🚨 New preprint klaxon 🚨 We characterised the structure of a PNGaseA superfamily member from Bifidobacterium bifidum LMG13195 and highlight its preference for N-glycan structures attached to a peptide, rather than to a native or denatured protein 💫 @imibirmingham.bsky.social

OrthoFinder just dropped a major update It’s faster, more accurate, and ready for thousands of genomes Let’s break it down (1/10) github.com/OrthoFinder/... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New manuscript from the group 'IS1216 drives the evolution of pRUM-like multidrug resistance plasmids in Enterococcus faecium' www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... /1

Lister Prize Awards 2026. Applications now open. Includes £300k of flexible funding over five years. Open to those working in biomedical and clinical sciences in the U.K. lister-institute.org.uk/how-to-apply/

BEAST X v10.5.0 finally released – you can't just do beta releases forever. github.com/beast-dev/be... Details and instructions for installing on the BEAST website: beast.community

Lovely review!

This is cool @filiphusnik.bsky.social !

Heaven @saskiahogenhout.bsky.social et al. generated chromosome-level genomes for three psyllid species that are plant disease vectors, revealing detoxification gene expansions and genetic substructure across Europe. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf116 #genome #entomology

How might sugar shape antimicrobial resistance in bacteria? Researchers from @unibirmingham investigated whether glucose might change the evolution of resistance in the leading cause of urinary tract infections, uropathogenic E.coli. Read the paper by clicking the link in our bio 🔬

This is awesome