Additive effects of environmental and demographic variation shape the repeatability of evolution across replicated experiments.

Congratulations to @c-cornbill.bsky.social on her prize-winning talk at our Life Sciences & medical School postgrad symposium 🥂 Charlotte has just wrapped up some lovely selection experiments to look at AMR evolution in environments that mimic cystic fibrosis lungs #MicroSky

Rejection from the Wellcome Trust Genomics in Context award. Not unexpected as it was heavily applied to. The most disappointing thing is that we get no feedback. This is appalling from funders. How can they justify not giving any feedback with the amount of work they take to write? #MicroSky

Has anyone found out they have been shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Genomics in Context award? I have an app in and apparently people have had outcomes today but I've not heard anything!! #MicroSky

Has anyone found out they have been shortlisted for the Wellcome Trust Genomics in Context award? I have an app in and apparently people have had outcomes today but I've not heard anything!! #MicroSky

Cool so we've got a 1970s magician presenting #Eurovision this year

I really enjoyed presenting my lab’s research on treatment resistance in #UTI at today’s British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Spring Conference. @bsacandjac.bsky.social #UTISky #IDSky #MicroSky (Thanks to Abhi Das for the photos - he also delivered a cracking talk on neonatal #sepsis!)

EBI and NCBI now both accept antibiotic susceptibility data for genomes #TARGetAMR26

Today we are launching the @target-amr.bsky.social flexible funding initiative to pump prime new research across disciplines in the broad field of AMR genomics. Introduction by @ksbakes.bsky.social at #TARGetAMR26 Flexible Funding – TargetAMR share.google/bWYYdQUo8azy...

Super-excited to be organising the first in-person meeting of the @target-amr.bsky.social network today and tomorrow. We will be launching an initiative for pump-priming and an amazing comic by Eddie Ross on AMR Genomics

FUNDING SUCCESS!! A 12 month project investigating what factors cause Candida UTIs and the potential of a "new" treatment by The Urology Foundation. Not bad for 6 months into the new job! #UTISky #MicroSky

Pretty shitty day finding out I'm at risk of redundancy at the University of Nottingham after only 6 months. But coming home to cuddles from my boy make feel ever so slightly better.

Why does antibiotic resistance evolution vary between patients? Come to @officialuom.bsky.social @mermanchester.bsky.social to help us find out! 2.5 year @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc position in experimental evolution Closing 15 May. Apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

We have a PhD studentship open! (UK only sadly) but if you are or know a student keen to work on some *really* weird mycobacterial enzymes then get in touch! #glycotime Advert below www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

How useful is AI in microbiology? My opinion, VERY useful. Sorry, this may be a long-ish thread. I really enjoy bioinformatics, but I am not "trained" in it, it has been all self learning. I can happily run most programmes through Linux and understand what I need to do and why after... (1/6)

tl;dr: I used AI to help me get over my very limited skills writing code to produce a pipeline/tool to search for mutations produced in an in vitro evolution experiment in a database of assembled clinical isolates, hopefully will help support translation. Happy to share if interested! #MicroSky

tl;dr: I used AI to help me get over my very limited skills writing code to produce a pipeline/tool to search for mutations produced in an in vitro evolution experiment in a database of assembled clinical isolates, hopefully will help support translation. Happy to share if interested! #MicroSky

How useful is AI in microbiology? My opinion, VERY useful. Sorry, this may be a long-ish thread. I really enjoy bioinformatics, but I am not "trained" in it, it has been all self learning. I can happily run most programmes through Linux and understand what I need to do and why after... (1/6)

Apologies for a political post but... Does anyone else find it perverse that the US started a war with Iran and then a few weeks later demandeding a Iran to agree a peace deal? Just blows my mind to say "we'll stop bombing you if you agree to what I say"

This is why I always correct text and capitalise the word Gram! 😅🧐 #IDSky

Super exciting news 🚨 I am hiring a technician to join my brand new lab at the University of Birmingham! @imibirmingham.bsky.social Come and support my BBSRC-funded research on understanding how staphylococci survive antibiotics. Please share! 🧫🧪 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH271/a...

Congrats to my PhD student Rachael Duodu on having her paper published! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

I might be biased but @jennyrohn.bsky.social absolutely crushed her talk 🥳 at #ESCMIDGlobal2026 🦠🧫 human bladder microtissue model to investigate how novel antimicrobial therapies and fluid dynamics affect UPEC survival!

Normal urine is not sterile! Urine microbiome being introduced by @nicoledenisco.bsky.social #ESCMIDGlobal2026 #UTISky

Wrapping up a busy week at MicroSoc AC26 by celebrating my ASM Springboard success 🤩🍾 www.gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...

Do you think we do enough, as a community, to support peer review? Genuine question. As an editor, I sometimes have to ask 30-40 people to get 2 reviews. Often the request gets rejected without any reason or suggestions for alternatives. In the software the journal uses I can see some (1/4)

Planning your @escmid.bsky.social ESCMID GLOBAL 2026 trip? Marleen Hekker (UMCU) will present her poster 'Urine, vaginal, and vulval microbiome compositions of postmenopausal women with and without recurrent urinary tract infections' on Saturday 18 april, 12:00 -13:30, Hall B3, number P2408.

Just a few days left‼️ Abstract submission deadline for MEEHubs2026 is April 19! Come present at one of the hubs August 3-5, 2026✨ Links and more info here: meehubs.org

Super stoked to have had the opportunity to present my work on the evolution of some weird transport proteins!! Many thanks @microbiologysociety.org for inviting me and organising this superb conference 🦠🧬 #Microbio26 #MicroSky

Find out about how different host-mimicking environments alter P. aeruginosa biofilm from @kadeayomikun.bsky.social at poster 169 at #Microbio26

Go see Charlotte ( @c-cornbill.bsky.social) at poster B124 to discuss using a ex vivo porcine lung model to study evolution of Pseudomonas in biofilms under antimicrobial selective pressure. Wonderful work with some really cool images, you won't be disappointed. #microbio26

@c-cornbill.bsky.social has has TWO posters at #Microbio26! find out about antibiotic resistance evolution in our cystic fibrosis lung infection model at no. 124

Last conference talk as part of the Foster Lab and possibly my last as part of One Virology 🥲 #Microbio26

Ever wondered if single step mutants are the same in Enterobacteriaceae? Do these mutations also impact collateral susceptibility the same? If so, they go have a chat to Sidra Kashif at poster number A048! #Microbio26

Interested B-lactam/B-lactamase inhibitor combination resistance? Ever wondered how we can remove evolutionary constraints to identify and map a wide range of inhibitor resistant mutations? Head to poster A057 and speak to Hawa about her awesome work! #Microbio26

Come to #Microbio26 poster 192 to hear how @charisthompson.bsky.social is sensitising mycobacteria to beta-lactams by making them flip their wall-building strategy #MicroSky

Cracking talk from @nreddy.bsky.social about her PhD work - designing polymers based on AMPs to kill troublesome biofilm bacteria, or to help antibiotics kill these bacteria #Microbio26

Come to #Microbio26 poster 094 to hear all about natural product antimocrobial discovery from @tosinorababa.bsky.social and me #MicroSky

We had so much fun presenting our network aims and successes so far. Thanks to @microbiologysociety.org for a fantastic EDI session! #microbio26

Thinking about an MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship and working in the AMR space? I’m keen to host applicants interested in AMR evolution or discovering novel resistance mechanisms. Happy to chat with anyone considering applying.

I loved Eerie, Indiana and I can still remember a lot of the episodes, would love if they remade it. My millennial fever dream is Elidor, no one who I have described it to ever remembered it and I only just found out what it was called after decades of wondering. www.imdb.com/title/tt0303...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eerie,_... Another millennial fever dream: Eerie, Indiana.

The Flores-Mireles lab representing at the Amazing #UTICONF26!!! I am so proud of my students, @alabella14.bsky.social , @jonjmolina.bsky.social, Kurt Kohler, and Ellsa Wongso!!! Specially congratulations to Alyssa and Kurt for wining awards for their presentation and poster!!! ##UTIs #UTIsky

Dear Nanopore folks, could you give an advice about an issue that my lab has with direct RNA sequencing on MinION. We're doing RNA004 sequencing of various samples and again and again, there's a staggering amount of reads with just repetitive AAG triplet. This happens for weird IVT RNA and […]

Its been umpety-ump years since I’ve actually presented a poster myself, but @microberamon.bsky.social had so much data we needed multiple posters! Needs must. Sorry Ramón if I get anything wrong! #UTICONF2026 #UTISky

Not many Universities have a beautiful place like this on campus, enjoying working in a peaceful and picturesque location. AND I get to have lunch with my friend who died >20 years a go.

🔊 Looking for a Research Assistant in Bacterial Evolution to join my lab 🦠 🥼Main duties: Research (AMR + microbiome) + lab assistance. ⏲️ Post duration: 30 months 🗓️ Closing date for applications: 20th April 2026 💰 Salary: ~£35k Details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/2a3v66y7 Please share!

Two post-doctoral positions open in our lab. We're looking for people with expertise in molecular microbiology and/or genome-scale tools. Initially 3 yrs, posts could be extended for upto 8 yrs. If you'd like to know more about us take a look at www.graingerlab.com www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQY475/r...

Wonderful morning chatting to the Pharmacy group at UoN on developing ideas for AMR-related grants. Some exciting ideas discussed and (hopefully) some super cool collaborations with the group! I love science!