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The Francis Crick Institute @crick.ac.uk · 1d

We're now recruiting early career group leaders at the Crick to lead ambitious research programmes and explore bold scientific questions.

Hear our Director, Edith Heard, explain why the Crick is a unique place for curiosity-driven research.

Apply now ➡️ www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

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Zeynep Baharoglu @zeynepbaharoglu.bsky.social · 2d

Happy to share our new review in Royal Society Open Biology 🎉
tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation:
How tRNA mods rewire translation under oxidative + antibiotic stress (MoTTs, moonlighting, therapy angles).
Read: doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
#RNAsky #microsky #AMR #RNAmodifications

tRNA-modifying enzymes in bacterial stress adaptation | Open Biology

Transfer RNAs (tRNAs) and their modifications are central to bacterial translation and physiology, yet their roles in stress adaptation remain underexplored. While extensively studied in eukaryotes, a...

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 2d

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi have won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development of a class of extremely porous materials known as metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide. #chemsky 🧪

Chemistry Nobel for scientists who developed massively porous ‘super sponge’ materials

Susumu Kitagawa, Richard Robson and Omar Yaghi pioneered the creation of metal-organic frameworks, which can capture and store molecules such as carbon dioxide.

go.nature.com

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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 1d

Are you a biologist or an ecologist with a research interest in pathogens, bacteria and symbionts?

Join our upcoming residential meeting in Manchester on obligate intracellular bacteria on 3-4 November 2025.

royalsociety.org/science-even...

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European Food Safety Authority @efsa.europa.eu · 2d

📣 Just published | 4th joint monthly report on #WestNileVirus with @ecdc.europa.eu

➡️ Belgium reports its first WNV outbreaks in wild birds – a new EU country affected
➡️ 989 human cases & 63 deaths across 13 countries
➡️ 127 equid & 217 bird outbreaks across 9 countries

More 👉 link.europa.eu/fNP38x

High Magnification Microscopy of Malaria Infected Mosquito.

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European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 1d

🚀 We’re hiring!

#ECDC is looking for new leaders to strengthen Europe’s defences against infectious diseases.

🧭 Head of Unit – Resource Management Services
🗣️ Head of Section – Science & Public Health Communication

📅 Apply by early November → bit.ly/ECDCjobs

#ECDC #EUJobs #EUCareers

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BioEcoOcean @bioecoocean.bsky.social · 7d

🌊 Join us for the third episode of the #GOOS #BioEco #EOVs webinar series to discuss Coral cover and composition, and Microbe biomass and diversity!
🗓️ October 10th, 2025
⏰ 1:00 - 2:00 PM UTC
Please register now: aircent.re/4nrJNlA

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Shabaana Khader @khadershabaana.bsky.social · 5d

UChicago Microbiology is searching for tenured or tenure-track faculty working in host-pathogens interactions, viral and bacterial pathogenesis, and emerging infectious diseases. Come join our vibrant Department! microbiology.uchicago.edu
Apply here apply.interfolio.com/174404

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Nature Reviews Disease Primers @natrevdiseaseprimers.nature.com · 6d

#Listeria monocytogenes causes serious infections by invading cells and crossing intestinal, blood–brain, and placental barriers, leading to #bacteraemia, CNS, and maternal–neonatal complications https://www.nature.c...

Schematics showing the mechanisms of Listeria monocytogenes infection and dissemination.

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Vienna BioCenter Scientific Training @vbcscitraining.bsky.social · 6d

Institutes across the Vienna BioCenter are offering fully-funded PhD positions in our Autumn call. Don't delay your application as the call is closing on 10 October 2025: www.vbcphd.at

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Pathogenic Mechanisms Research Group @molecularpathogen.bsky.social · 7d

Lecturership in Microbiolgy @uniofgalway.bsky.social. Application submission deadline coming soon - October 9th. universityvacancies.com/university-g...

Lecturer in Microbiology, Permanent, 1 FTE, Contract Type B, 011296 | University Vacancies Ireland

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Teppo Hiltunen @teppo-h.bsky.social · 10d

Professor (full) or Associate Professor (tenure track) in Microbial Genetics of Health (U. Turku Finland). Competitive starting package included! Please share.

duunitori.fi/tyopaikat/ty...

Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto - Työpaikat - Duunitori

Avoin työpaikka: Professor or Associate professor (Tenure Track/Full) in Microbial Genetics of Health - Turun yliopisto, Turku. Duunitorilla lisäksi yli 30 000 muuta avointa työpaikkaa. Lue lisää nyt!

duunitori.fi

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 16d

📢 A new collection 'Climate Change and Infectious Diseases' is open for submissions!

A joint project with @natcomms.nature.com @nathealth.nature.com & @commsmed.nature.com, with @julietai.bsky.social as the lead editor for Nature Microbiology

#MicroSky 🦠
More info: www.nature.com/collections/...

Climate Change and Infectious Diseases

Through this cross-journal Collection, the editors at Communications Medicine, Nature Communications, Nature Microbiology, Nature Health, and Scientific ...

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John M. Drake @jdrakephd.bsky.social · 15d

Newly expanded version of my guide to scientific writing -- known as the “15 steps” -- published in PLOS Computational Biology. Special thanks to Éric Marty for creating a fantastic visualization.

Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...

#ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology

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Salvador Almagro-Moreno @bioetry.bsky.social · 21d

Delighted to announce that The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios will be back next year!

Vibrio2026 will be held in Berlin in September 13-16. See you there Vibriologists!

event.fourwaves.com/vibrio2026/p...

Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios

Fourwaves - Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios

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Angelique Kambeitz @youversion2.bsky.social · 18d

Vibrio is one of the microbes taken off the CDC surveillance list :(

CDC Surveillance ended for
'campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio, and Yersinia.'
www.statnews.com/2025/08/28/c...

Crisis within CDC is spilling into real world, experts say

"I’ve never heard as many colleagues saying things like 'CDC is dead’ as I have today," an agency employee told STAT.

www.statnews.com

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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 15d

Vibrio vulnificus, a potentially harmful marine bacterium, is now found in most coastal regions worldwide, with warming waters and algal blooms linked to its increasing prevalence and northward spread. doi.org/g94n59

Global study maps spread of potentially dangerous Vibrio vulnificus in warming coastal waters

Vibrio vulnificus, a bacterium that is potentially very dangerous to humans, is a natural component of marine plankton.

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 15d

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.

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International Microbiology Literacy Initiative - IMiLI @imili-micro.bsky.social · 16d

Welcome to the social media account of the International Microbiology Literacy Initiative (IMiLI). Nearly 1,000 researchers freely contribute to the IMiLI project integrating microbiology into education providing downloadable resources for all. Explore at imili.org

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Asaf Levy @asaflevylab.bsky.social · 27d

On this week, 40 years ago, my friend Ralph Isberg, then a postdoc with Stan Falkow, reported the discovery of the 1st invasin gene in @nature.com "We report here the identification of a single genetic locus from this organism (Y. pseudotuberculosis) that is sufficient to convert the innocuous

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Wim Meijer @wimgmeijer.bsky.social · 26d

What do mosquitoes like?

People who recently drank beer were 44 percent more attractive to mosquitoes than people who abstained..

Mosquitoes also liked people who used cannabis and people who had slept near another person the previous night…

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www.sciencenews.org/article/avoi...

Want to avoid mosquito bites? Step away from the beer

A Dutch music festival turned into a mosquito lab, revealing how beer, weed, sleep and sunscreen affect your bite appeal.

www.sciencenews.org

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Andreas Bäumler @abaumler.bsky.social · 26d

Hydrogen sulfide production distinguishes Salmonella from close relatives, but its biological significance remains obscure. This study uncovers the secret: Salmonella uses hydrogen sulfide production as a weapon to outcompete E. coli and gain a foothold in the gut.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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The Introvertebrates @introvertebrates.bsky.social · Aug 1

we are @fionatel.bsky.social and @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social, a duo of geneticists from Cambridge (the UK one) that loves to do science arts and crafts, so we decided to open our own little business at the intersection of genetics, paleontology, gardening and more!

theintrovertebrates.etsy.com

A hall full of people setting up tables, two people are sitting down onr with a light blue ammonite blouse the other dark blue cartoony ammonite, the table has multicolor dinosaur crochet planters, paleonthology tshirts, a rack with jewelry, an anti ai sign.

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Derek Severi Lundberg @derekseveri.bsky.social · 26d

record 17,058 Marie Curie proposals in 2025 vs. 10,360 in 2024!!! the reason is pretty obvious, but wow that is a huge jump marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/news/msca-po...

MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 receives record number of 17,058 proposals

This year’s annual MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships call has attracted considerable interest from the research community with 17,058 proposals submitted.

marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu

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Pathogenic Mechanisms Research Group @molecularpathogen.bsky.social · Sep 10

Dongli Dong and James Lyng's study of the thermal resistance of #Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Listeria monocytogenes is published today, including Vibrio isolates from Irish coastal waters. @uniofgalway.bsky.social doi.org/10.1016/j.jf...

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