Very insightful launch of @carersinstemm.bsky.social today at @manchester.ac.uk! Understanding the barriers associated with caring responsibilities is something I'm really passionate about and its amazing to see Carers in STEMM quantifying and advocating for carers in academia.

I am constantly searching my version of this cafe. Such a great read:

4 reviewer invites, 4 “no responses” after 7 days. Please, please reject invitations that you can’t do/aren’t interested in so Editors can do their best to handle manuscripts in a timely fashion!

In this week’s seminar we learned about the evolution of intrinsic terminators from @stepadenisov.bsky.social 🧬 Made even more fun by snacks kindly sponsored by @microbesng.bsky.social 🍪

This week @willpjsmith.bsky.social taught us all about microbial competition & Logan Sauers ( @coytelab.bsky.social ) shared recent gut microbiome work. Thanks @microbesng.bsky.social for the refreshments!

I hadnt seen this particular take on this story till now. A minimalist apology. Not impressed. nationalnews.co.uk/news/shamed-...

Not the result I was hoping for but absolutely epic game and series. Totally worth the 4am bedtime! Well, done Blue Jays.

I wonder if anyone has quantified the correlation between how exciting the bioinformatic analysis is & the number of abandoned, half-drunk cups of cold tea surrounding the bioinformatician.

Canadian researchers should be aware the there is a motion before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Science and Research to force Tricouncils to hand over disaggregated peer review data on all applications: Applicant names, profiles, demographics Reviewers names, profiles, comments, and scores

🚨 Another funded PhD alert🚨 We are recruiting again! For a PhD student to start with us in the @langridgelab.bsky.social October 2026 - please share 👀 If you are interested in foodborne pathogens, public health and phage, look no further 🦠🏥🧬 ➡️ tinyurl.com/3zvavp2t ⬅️ Apply by 6 Jan 2026 🗓️

I did not consider that I could have tuned in to watch the end of World Series game 3 this morning in the UK! 😱 What a game!!

📣 PhD opportunity led by @madhvimenon.bsky.social with @kathelse.bsky.social , @tracyh9494.bsky.social , and me open now: "Sex Differences in Immune Responses to Infection: The Role of the Microbiota in Shaping Lymphocyte Dynamics" apps due 15 November 2025 📣 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Friday we celebrated our new MRC Centre of Research Excellence in Exposome Immunology: a joint venture with Oxford that we call MOXIE (Manchester-Oxford Immunology of the Exposome). This challenging adventure is off to a great start. @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social

So much of this article is full of hope then, "About 43% of respondents had experienced some form of discrimination or harassment.. in around four out of ten bullying cases, a student reported bullying by their supervisor." We need safeguards in place to stop this from happening.

I am so proud of @spasqualetti.bsky.social and this BioRxiv paper! I have to prep for class, but later today I'll highlight some of her findings about a stickleback gut isolate that can degrade plastic and other microbes that inhibit it's ability. 🦠🔬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

📣 Reminder of the below fully-funded PhD studentships in exposome immunology! Projects interfacing with other areas (e.g. the human microbiome) are also on offer. Please reach out if you have any questions. Applications due 2 Dec 2025 📣

Postdoc opportunity in the lab for a budding ILC biologist. Informal enquiries welcome - please spread the word. Ad closes in 4 weeks. www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

It's lovely to see the supportive community of UoM Lister Fellows highlighted in this recent piece. Before I was even a UoM colleague, Fellows such as Matt Hepworth @hepworth-lab.bsky.social were so generous with their time in helping me apply (my quote in the article is no exaggeration!).

Less than 70% of science Nobel prize winners awarded this century hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize. “Mobility benefits everyone. Each newcomer brings fresh ideas, new techniques & different ways of looking at old problems” 🧪 #academicSky www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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...

TIL about the 25-year old teacher who fought all the way to the Supreme Court for sexual orientation to become a protected characteristic. It’s awe inspiring to learn about those that fought for what we now have. 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 Amazing new CBC podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

This weeks seminars from PhD students Maisie Czernuszka and Victor Carneiro da Cunha Martirelli! Special thank you to @microbesng.bsky.social for sponsoring refreshments!

Great MERMan seminar today from NSERC PhD visiting researcher @simonjeanneau.bsky.social from @usherbrooke.bsky.social ! Also our first seminar with refreshments sponsored by @microbesng.bsky.social , many thanks for the productive chats over nibbles! 🍪 🧪

Amazing talk from @cathnoakes.bsky.social at a @ukri.org Future Leaders networking event today. It is inspiring to hear the career journey of someone so humble and approachable. Prof Noakes, thank you for taking the time to share your career journey with us!

Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship to investigate the impact of microbial interactions on antimicrobial resistance evolution 🎉 🧫 really grateful for this investment in my lab and excited to start my fellowship in Jan’26! www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

@jtono.bsky.social 🇨🇦 🏉 🇨🇦!!!

Two great talks today from MERMan PhD students @mattjago.bsky.social (mutation spectrum) and @amarquiegui98.bsky.social (bioremediation by microbial communities)

If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities. forms.office.com/pages/respon...

Amazing poster session last night from this year's Lister summer students!

Can't wait to welcome everyone! Always such a brilliant buzz as people and ideas connect

Currently hiding from a thunderstorm in a cozy Oxford pub, reading a stellar student report, while on my way to the annual Lister Fellows meeting…. feeling very privileged to have this job! @thelisterinstitute.bsky.social

🎓 6x fully-funded 4-year PhD studentships 🎓 We are recruiting our first cohort of PhD students to start Oct 2026. Students will shape their own projects within supervisory teams spanning the universities of Manchester & Oxford. www.findaphd.com/phds/program/mrc-core-in-exposome-immunology/?p6899

Join us for Annual Conference 2026! Abstract submission and registration are open for the UK’s largest annual gathering of microbiologists. Held in Belfast, UK, this year’s Conference also features two-day attendance tickets.

Come do your PhD as part of this amazing new network of scientists! Please feel free to get in touch with any questions. @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social

Following on from the PDRA adverts, we are also happy to announce the MRC Core in Exposome Immunology PhD scheme, details below. Reach out with any questions www.findaphd.com/phds/program... www.bmh.manchester.ac.uk/study/resear...

Absolutely amazing inaugural Professorship lecture from @hepworth-lab.bsky.social today! So well delivered, and so well deserved. 👏 Can’t wait to see what’s next, Matt!

MERMan seminars are back! Last week, @zahraaalbaqsami.bsky.social presented her #Thermophiles2025 talk which generated a lot of buzz & Qs from the group!

There’s still time to sign up for the next AMR in Focus webinar, ‘AMR surveillance to policy’, taking place on 8 September 13:00 BST. Register now: microb.io/AMRinFocus-S...

New review 🔥 Single-cell RNA-Seq has been revolutionary for studying eukaryotic cells and now it's time for it to do the same for microbes! We describe the technology for single-bacterium RNA-Seq & the questions now studied using it.🧵⬇️ science.org/doi/10.1126/... @andrewpountain.bsky.social

In case you missed it! 🫵 This September and October, sign up for our upcoming AMR in Focus webinars. From Surveillance to Policy to Transitioning from Academia to Industry, our AMR in Focus webinar series showcases the latest developments in AMR. Sign up now: microb.io/AMR-in-Focus #KnockingOutAMR

Another PDRA position! Join our team exploring how the mammalian immune system shapes microbiome ecology & evolution, and vice versa. In collaboration with @hepworth-lab.bsky.social funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Microbiology Outlooks provides a new platform for impactful reviews and perspectives across all areas of microbiology and intersecting fields. Submit your manuscript or proposal to help shape the field of microbiology. Find out more: microb.io/MOutsJournal

We’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute: Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... 🗓️ Closes 25 August Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in... 🗓️ Closes 5 September

schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2... #MicroSky

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...

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

New paper out @molbioevol.bsky.social on antimutator Ecoli, mutational spectra and the distribution of fitness effects of antibiotic resistance with @knightjar.bsky.social @rokkrasovec.bsky.social and others @mermanchester.bsky.social doi.org/pzfm Read🧵for highlights and fun stats (1/13)

Robert Waterhouse at #ESEB2025 - PIs/Profs please give your students a break when they're doing orthology, ancestral state reconstruction, gene/species tree reconciliation work - it's not an overnight process, there are no push-button tools, and fast doesn't equal correct! Love this :-)

Go Team! Deeply honoured that the MERMan lab reps won an @manchester.ac.uk‬ "FMBH heroes" award - thanks ‪@fbmh-uom.bsky.social‬ and @mermanchester.bsky.social for nominating us ❤️❤️❤️

Thrilled to announce I've been awarded a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Career Development Award at @fbmh-uom.bsky.social , University of Manchester! My research will investigate the remarkable adaptability of Aspergillus fumigatus, a deadly fungal pathogen, to help combat drug resistance.