Attention parents, uncles and aunties... if you want to make Christmas even more magical, an AI tool is available to turn a picture of your Christmas tree into a 10 second CCTV video of "proof" of Santa delivering presents to your house (costs £5): #Christmas santacctv.christmas

New preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

🔔New Preprint🔔 Just posted on Access Microbiology (first time using this platform, seems great!) our work on looking for antimicrobial proteins in snake venom. This is work from the first bit of funding I received and the project (1/3) www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... #MicroSky

Wrapped up a great few days at the 2025 @bsacandjac.bsky.social ARM Workshop! 🎉 Huge thanks to @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social and @conmeehan.bsky.social for organising a fantastic event. Loved hearing about the latest in AMR, from novel fundamentals to therapeutics. Already excited for next year! 💊

‪Evolution at @bsacandjac.bsky.social #AntibioticResistance & Mechanisms: @dannagifford.bsky.social found E. coli mutator genotypes don't just increase probability of resistance evolution, they increase probability of aa substitution vs. frameshift/indel - lower costs? dannagifford.com #MicroSky

🎉 Congratulations to Oluwatosin Orababa @tosinorababa.bsky.social, one of the winners of our 2025 Infection Science Award! 🦠👏 Get to know them in our new interview: microb.io/3XFyCui #InfectionScience #Microbiology #ResearchSpotlight

What drives the acquisition and loss of #AntibioticResistance in Salmonella? @flashton.bsky.social kicking off the @bsacandjac.bsky.social resistance & mechanisms meeting, talking about pathogen genomic surveillance around the world, particularly in Africa www.psi.ox.ac.uk/our-team/phi... #MicroSky

Next at @bsacandjac.bsky.social #AntibioticResistance & mechanisms, @jodywinter.bsky.social is explaining how a partnership between academics, clinicians & health workers in Nottingham & Makerere is is sharing best practice in stewardship between UK & Uganda jodywinter.wixsite.com/waaw/cop #MicroSky

Now at @bsacandjac.bsky.social #AntibioticResistance & mechanisms workshop, Kirsty Sands @ineosoxford.bsky.social stresses the dominance of Kleb pneumoniae in neonatal sepsis, and how the work she leads is quantifying the impact of AMR on neonatal sepsis in LMICs: www.ineosoxford.ox.ac.uk/barnards

OMG no-one has every explained what "MD simulations" actually means before and I think @sykhalid.bsky.social has given me a sufficient understanding in about two minutes - amazing!

Now at @bsacandjac.bsky.social, @sykhalid.bsky.social explains that, while the outer leaflet of the Gram- OM is a calm sea anchored by OmpA to the cell wall, the phospholipids of the inner leaflet are paddling about madly beneath the surface. #MicroSky khalidlab.web.ox.ac.uk/publications

Synthetic teixobactin development: Ishwar Singh is telling @bsacandjac.bsky.social #antibioticResistance & mechanisms meeting about the long and winding road to promising new molecules with good bioactivity www.liverpool.ac.uk/people/ishwa... #MicroSky

'Bacterial dietitian' @danybeste.bsky.social is telling @bsacandjac.bsky.social #AntibioticResistance & mechanisms workshop how switching C sources affects Tb antibiotic tolerance - can we use this info to design adjuvants that increase sensitivity? www.surrey.ac.uk/people/dany-... #MicroSky

Flash talk 1 @bsacandjac.bsky.social #AntibioticResistance & mechanisms! Ahmed Alomar selected E. coli for colistin resistance: clinical isolates evolved higher MIC than MG1655, associated with mutations in pmrA/B, many of those in pmrA not previously described. @imibirmingham.bsky.social #MicroSky

Flash talk 2 @bsacandjac.bsky.social #AntibioticResistance & mechanisms! @taylorwr.bsky.social found that E. coli damaged but not killed by b-lactams die when they try to divide on abx-free solid medium, but not in liquid - so do plate count assays overestimate b-lactam killing? #MicroSky

Flash talk 4 @bsacandjac.bsky.social #AntibioticResistance & mechanisms! Caleb Marsh is designing dual efflux inhibitor-abx molecules, then testing them in @ukhsa.bsky.social's open innovation platform for abx development. Very promising drops in MIC & spontaneous resistance rates. #MicroSky

Flash talk 3 @bsacandjac.bsky.social #AntibioticResistance & mechanisms! @mwilde.bsky.social on AMR gene silencing via mutation & reversion: engineering in SNP in a carbapenemase alters AST profile, but effect depends on genetic background. #MicroSky

gggenomes: A Grammar of Graphics for Comparative Genomics thackl.github.io/gggenomes/ #Rstats

New paper out of the lab this week. Looking at the genomic diversity in isolates from outbreaks of Lactococcosis, and potential virulence mechanisms of the emerging causative pathogen L. pertauri. doi.org/10.1002/mbo3...

Very pleased to plug our latest preprint, lead author @microberamon.bsky.social - fantastic collaboration with labs of Dario Carugo (Oxford) and Martha Clokie (Leicester) https:// - and others #UTISKy #UTI #IDSky #MicroSky www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.12.688052v1 more below👇🧵

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure. A really informative article, perfect for a weekend coffee read. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Help, #MicroSky! We bought the Ausubel PA14NR transposon library, but half of the stock plates disappeared from a shared -80 and we've been unable to trace them 😭 Would anyone in the UK be willing to give us copies of these stocks please? I can supply proof purchase. And my eternal thanks.

🔊 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...

Back by absolutely zero demand, its the Hubbard annual pumpkin carving competition. Which is best, left or right?! #Halloween

Back by absolutely zero demand, its the Hubbard annual pumpkin carving competition. Which is best, left or right?! #Halloween

My beautiful boy enjoying autumn!

🧪If you are interested in #microbial growth data, you may have have a look at μGrowthDB; an open repository designed to store, visualize, analyze & share quantitative measurements of species abundances and metabolite profiles from monocultures & communities of known composition. #microsky #mevosky

Wonderful news today that my PhD student @mwilde.bsky.social will be giving a talk at the BSAC Antimicrobial Resistance and Mechanisms Workshop in November. Brilliant to see an excellent students hard work being rewarded! #microsky

There is a potential opportunity to get a PhD student funded internally, but I would need to find money to supplement the consumables over the 3 years. Has anyone been in this situation and how did you go about getting that extra funding? #microsky

Disappointing response from The Royal Society. Looks like I'll be looking for other funders to reject my grants in the future...

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

Job opportunity for microbial genomicists interested in E. coli and Klebsiella infections and AMR 👀⬇️ - do get in touch if you might be interested! Closing date 7th Oct.

Abstract submission for Annual Conference 2026 is open! Submit your research today for a chance to showcase your pioneering work with leading minds in microbiology. Abstract submission closes at 23:59 GMT on 11 November 2025.

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine. 1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro 2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute 3) Center for Vaccine Research 🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

After 4 years, starting my group, some grant success, numerous wonderful PhD, Masters and BSc students, I have to say goodbye to NTU. I've throughly enjoyed my time here and worked with wonderful colleagues and develop multiple collaborations! On to the next adventure at Uni of Nottingham

After 4 years, starting my group, some grant success, numerous wonderful PhD, Masters and BSc students, I have to say goodbye to NTU. I've throughly enjoyed my time here and worked with wonderful colleagues and develop multiple collaborations! On to the next adventure at Uni of Nottingham

The current state of politics is in full view at the moment. Starmer is being criticised (by Labour, Tories and Reform) for appointing Mandelson as an ambassador for his link to Epistein while the same parties are happy to host and cosy up to Trump who has the same links. Make it make sense, please!

⚠️ New publication ⚠️ here we explore how daptomycin interacts with bacterial membranes, demonstrating that calcium ions and lipid composition play a crucial role in modulating its activity. Using a stable analogue (1/3) #MicroSky doi.org/10.1016/j.bb...

⚠️ New publication ⚠️ here we explore how daptomycin interacts with bacterial membranes, demonstrating that calcium ions and lipid composition play a crucial role in modulating its activity. Using a stable analogue (1/3) #MicroSky doi.org/10.1016/j.bb...

We’re excited for our first invited talk at the Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes meeting! Microbial Genomics Editor, @blackpassiflora.bsky.social from @ntubiosciences.bsky.social, will be discussing her work on ‘Evolutionary repair of a broken mitotic entry switch’ #Eukaryotes25

Is there anything more frustrating that speaking to a funder on an application, getting feedback to change to a specific focus, applying that feedback and then being rejected without going to review because "other applications are more explicitly focused on translational IPC". Very annoyed.

We have a position for an Assist Prof in Microbial Genomics in our School of III. Hod Joan Geoghegan will be happy to field questions if you are interested. No specific area of microbial genomics preferred so please do consider it www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOO184/a...

Oh and I emailed the authors for the data over a month a go and got no reply....

Do you have a background in bioscience with a medical application? Interested in and/or have experience with teaching? Nottingham Trent University are recruiting! I can highly recommend as a great place to work and with some fabulous colleagues www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOM450/l...

Its 2025, how are we STILL having papers published where genomic data is "available upon request"??? www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Applications are now open! We are recruiting 20 Assistant Professors in a wide range of subject areas. We're looking for early-career researchers with strong scientific merits and future potential. 🔗 All positions: ki.se/en/about-ki/...

TONIGHT... we're holding our second focused public involvement event on cancer (19th June) Come and listen to our research and provide feedback on it and the direction Tell us you lived experiences Would you like to be involved? Become a public contributor!

"We’ll see these diseases again, and that is very disturbing." www.statnews.com/2025/06/13/v...