Really proud of the @prideinmicro.bsky.social team, in particular @nicholasbio.bsky.social and @katie-barnes.bsky.social for putting this together for @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social for #Pride! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ahead of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Prize lecture 2026, Ashish William interviewed the Pride in Microbiology Network to learn more about their careers and how it feels to win a Microbiology Society prize. Read the blog: https://microb.io/4sYAUTy #Microbio26

EDI Prize 2026: @edelplopez.bsky.social — Université Laval, Canada, @bfrancescol.bsky.social — Fluminense Federal University, Brazil, @landongetz.bsky.social — @utoronto.ca, @katie-barnes.bsky.social — @uwmadison.bsky.social and @nicholasbio.bsky.social — The State University of New York, USA

I've been developing a semantic search tool that covers not just bioRxiv and medRxiv, but the entire PubMed database. This means you can search across a massive collection of biomedical research using keywords, questions, hypotheses, or even full abstracts. Try it out: mssearch.xyz

If you are looking for community, @prideinmicro.bsky.social has a discord channel that is becoming increasingly more active these days. Come hang out with us! Check out @prideinmicro.bsky.social for more information on joining our community!

I am appalled by the ASM's decision to remove DEI content from their website. Here is my email to the American Society for Microbiology, @ASM.org asking them to put everything back as it was. If you are an ASM member, please consider writing them.

The Pride in Microbiology Network is excited to announce dates and times for Virtual Coffee Hours for the first half of the year! Join our email list to receive the link before each event! 🏳️‍🌈 Our first Coffee Hour is this Friday! ☕ 🔬 🌈 #PrideinMicrobiology #PiM #QueerinSTEM

‘Stamp out paper mills’ — science sleuths on how to fight fake research By Anna Abalkina, René Aquarius, Elisabeth Bik, David Bimler, Dorothy Bishop, Jennifer Byrne, Guillaume Cabanac, Adam Day, Cyril Labbé & Nick Wise @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Read. Read books. Reading books is resistance. Buy. Buy books. Buying books is resistance. Share. Share books. Sharing books is resistance. Celebrate Celebrate books. Celebrating books is resistance.