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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · 1d

Come work with us, we're a friendly bunch 😊 #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #ProtistsOnSky #IDSky #Fungi #evobio 💻🧬

Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 1d

Microbial Genomics is looking to appoint a Deputy Editor-in-Chief, who will help develop the editorial strategy and new content for the journal. Applications close on 1 November, more information about the role can be found here: microb.io/48Ridd3

<i>Microbial Genomics </i> Deputy Editor-in-Chief: Call for Expressions of interest

06 October 2025

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Rusudan Djakeli @rusudandjakeli.bsky.social · 4d

The crowd in Tbilisi, Georgia right now. Instead of taking part in the sham local elections, Georgians are filling the streets in large numbers for Day 311 of uninterrupted, nationwide #GeorgiaProtests.

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · 7d

#PhD alerts! @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
What do #amoebae and #biofilms mean for environmental and hospital survival of different Klebs? @liam-rooney.bsky.social & @fionahenriquez.bsky.social 🦠 🔬 🧬 💻
#MicroSky #IDSky #Klebsiella
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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · 7d

Midges are extremely prevalent virus vectors but we know very little! Join Emilie Pondeville @uofglasgow.bsky.social Marion England @pirbrightinst.bsky.social & myself @unistrathclyde.bsky.social on a really cool discovery journey 😊🪰🦠🧬💻 #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky #IDSky
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University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Animal Biology in Health & Disease - Emilie Ponderville

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · 7d

What is in #mosquito saliva, how does this impact #arbovirus transmission, is anyone else living there (yes bacteria, looking at you!), & can we use this to combat the increasing arbovirus risk? With Daniella Lefteri & Steven Sinkins 🦟 🦠 🧬 💻 #MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... 2/3

University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Understanding Pathogens, from Molecules to Phenotypes - Daniella Lefteri

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · 7d

#PhD alerts! @unistrathclyde.bsky.social @uofglasgow.bsky.social
What do #amoebae and #biofilms mean for environmental and hospital survival of different Klebs? @liam-rooney.bsky.social & @fionahenriquez.bsky.social 🦠 🔬 🧬 💻
#MicroSky #IDSky #Klebsiella
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Ryan Wick @rrwick.bsky.social · 9d

Happy to share that the paper describing Autocycler is now 100% up:
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Autocycler: long-read consensus assembly for bacterial genomes

AbstractMotivation. Long-read sequencing enables complete bacterial genome assemblies, but individual assemblers are imperfect and often produce sequence-l

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · 12d

Come for the Klebs resistance data, stay for the DataViz! Massive congratulations to @karatsang.bsky.social on juggling such a huge meta-analysis; Ciprofloxacin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae: phenotype, genotype, global resistance patterns #MicroSky 💻🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Ciprofloxacin resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae: phenotype prediction from genotype and global distribution of resistance determinants

BACKGROUND Ciprofloxacin resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae is common or emerging in many geographies, and knowledge of local resistance rates is important for empirical therapy. Whilst there are known K...

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Black Microbiologists Assoc (Black In Micro) @blackinmicro.bsky.social · 26d

Today is a great day to register for #BiM2025 #BlackInMicro Week. Get ready to join our online celebration: linktr.ee/BlackInMicro (or see link in bio)

The summarised schedule of Black in Micro Week 2025, October 14-16. All times are in Eastern Standard Time. Mon 14: Pathways for Change. Welcome and Keynote Address 12pm. Marian Johnson-Thompson, PhD. Panel Discussion: Finding Black Spaces in STEM, 1:15-2:15 PM. Weds 15, Careers & Research: ECR Symposium 9-12 PM. Panel discussion: Navigating Careers in Microbiology 2-3 PM. Thurs 16, Community: Panel Discussion - Empowering Your Science 12-1:15 PM. Workshop: Science in Action

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Patrick Vallely @pjvphotography.bsky.social · Aug 28

"Pat, why do you carry that ridiculous 600mm lens on long hikes?"

Buddy, I can see mountains reflected in the eyes of a trailside pika.

Tighter crop of the same pika, focusing on its head.

An even tighter crop, focusing more on the pika's eye.

An extremely tight crop of the pika's eye, emphasizing their reflection of an early morning mountain scene.

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Petra Korlević @petrathepostdoc.bsky.social · 19d

our paper on the population genomics of An. funestus, one of the major (yet less studied) human malaria vectors in Africa, is now out in @science.org 🦟

read @mariloumercedes.bsky.social's original preprint thread to find out more!

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photo of a pinned anopheles funestus female mosquito, you can see the dried eggs in her abdomen as small white lines, she has extremely long legs and a giant pin through her thorax.

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University of Strathclyde @unistrathclyde.bsky.social · 19d

Strathclyde named Scottish University of the Year and Runner-Up UK University of the Year by The Times and Sunday Times www.strath.ac.uk/whystrathcly...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 19d

I am biased but I don’t think there is a better website on the internet today than TheOnion.com.

Nation Grateful to GOP for Protecting It From TV

Report: You to Be Fired for Reading This Headline About Charlie Kirk

Trump Spends Entire UK Trip Trying to Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

Charlie Kirk, Not In His Own Words: We Honor The Right-Wing Activist By Making Up Quotes That Sound Much Better, Given The Moment

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Dave nλ=2dsinθ @xtaldave.xtaldave.net.ap.brid.gy · 24d

Reminder that 100,000 people marched for Trans Pride in London earlier this year, but because they weren't violent fascists, there was minimal press coverage, unlike the Nazis today.

https://www.them.us/story/london-trans-pride-march-turnout-record-uk-transphobia

London’s Trans Pride March Just Shattered Its Turnout Record

Organizers say it was the largest transgender rights march in the world.

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · 25d

Really exciting talks, and keep in mind our collection at MGen; www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr... @microbiologysociety.org ; all your wonderful and weird tiny, mid-large to absolutely ginormous (!!) (pan)genomes (transcriptomes, proteomes,...) welcome 😊 (4/4)

Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes | Microbiology Society

With technological advances like single-cell sequencing and long-read sequence techniques continually improving, allowing the full resolution of increasingly complex highly repetitive genomes, and wit...

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · 25d

Frederik De Boever, Alberto Rock SAMS; Chenxue Lin @bristoluni.bsky.social; Jolanda van Munster @srucnews.bsky.social; Catarina Marques, Kyrie Dickson, Marija Krasilnikova @uofglasgow.bsky.social; Emma Briggs @newcastleuni.bsky.social; Harry Chown @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social (3/4)

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · 25d

Incredibly inspiring day, with talks from indeed the whole spectrum of #parasites, #protists, #fungi - friendly and not so friendly, #bioinformatics methods, phenotyping; (pan)genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics,... thanks so much all who participated! Maria Rosa Domingo Sananes NTU... (2/4)

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · 25d

Apologies for not posting along #Eukaryotes25 from the @microbiologysociety.org yesterday, my phone was serving as a hot spot to smooth some IT issues and is of an age where it can't handle two things at once 😂 (1/4)

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · 27d

Excited to see some of our #Wolbachia work presented by Laura Chatterley at the #Ento25 from the @royentsoc.bsky.social; great conference and congrats to the society for an inspiring program beyond science! And shout-out to www.rovinghouse.com art selling lovely pins, perfect early Xmas presents..😊

Laura Chatterley presenting her poster on the novel Wolbachia we found in Anopheles demeillioni and moucheti!

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · Sep 4

The ASM, IDSA and many other organisations stepping up to defend science and public health. Thank you.

ASM @asm.org · Sep 3

As national medical, scientific, public health and patient organizations, we call for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to ensure the health of the American people. Read our statement: asm.org/press-releas...

Joint Statement Calling for Secretary Kennedy Resignation

The American Society for Microbiology released a joint statement calling for the resignation of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ah, proteins 🥰 !! Invited back into the wonderful world of the BAM/TAM complex by Nick Noinaj; protein structures are the best 😊 Anyone working on #Fusobacteria interested to do more on surface protein evolution please get in touch, such a cool system! #MicroSky 💻🧬
www.cell.com/structure/ab...

Characterization of the OMP biogenesis machinery in Fusobacterium nucleatum

BamA is essential for mediating the biogenesis of outer membrane proteins in Gram-negative bacteria. Cottom et al. describe the cryo-EM structure and evolution of BamA from the human pathogen Fusobact...

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · Sep 1

This one's for the eukaryotic microbes, and their researchers 🤓! Collection launch in Microbial Genomics @microbiologysociety.org giving all your wonderful weirdness a place to shine 🌟 #MicroSky #protistsonsky #protists #fungi #parasites #Microbiology 💻🧬
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

Microbial Genomics of Eukaryotes | Microbiology Society

With technological advances like single-cell sequencing and long-read sequence techniques continually improving, allowing the full resolution of increasingly complex highly repetitive genomes, and wit...

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Ming Tommy Tang @tommytang.bsky.social · Aug 30

5/ Computers don’t care about truth. They’ll return output even if it’s nonsense. Your job is to sanity-check. Does it fit biology?

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Ursula Dorada @sulamoon.bsky.social · Aug 21

graphic of a gold star written "has never even opened ChatGPT"

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Eva Heinz @evaheinz7.bsky.social · Aug 21

Vacation going towards the last week… sadly no beach for me, but found some time for seeing my lifelong fellow weirdos and being weird together; and in the end, that's the only thing that matters anyways. 🥳 🥃 🎉
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