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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 5d

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Dr van Tilburg @drvantilburg.bsky.social · 6d

The Trump administration has stopped funding of PubMed, not considering a vital service.

Your doctor will not know the newest information that affects your health. This will cost lives.

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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 14d

I would check the publisher's editorial policies and flag this with the handling editor and editor in chief. Often academic editors' involvement with a paper stops at the acceptance stage, and they don't see the paper again until it's published.

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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · 19d

🆕 Blog! Our Quadram Student Forum committee share their top tips to help you make the most of your PhD in Norwich 🎓

@quadramsf.bsky.social

How to make the most of your PhD in Norwich - Quadram Institute

Our Quadram Student Forum share their top tips for studying a PhD in Norwich. This will equip you with the tools to become a scientific leader in the future.

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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · 16d

Incredibly proud of Dr Revathy who is inspiring the next generation of scientists around the world. And even though we can't see them through a foldscope, bacteriophages are still our favourite microbes 🤩

quadram.ac.uk/blogs/inspir...

Inspiring the next generation: exploring the invisible microbial world with students in Koothanoor, India - Quadram Institute

Research Scientist Dr Revathy Krishnamurthy reflects on her visit to the village where she grew up in India and inspiring the next generation to discover the world of science.

quadram.ac.uk

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José R Penadés @jrpenades.bsky.social · 29d

Thrilled to share our two latest papers with the @tcostalab.bsky.social
lab! In the first, we uncover a new mechanism of satellite transfer: cf-PICIs hijack tails from diverse phages to spread across species.
@imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Chimeric infective particles expand species boundaries in phage-inducible chromosomal island mobilization

Capsid-forming PICIs (cf-PICIs) produce their own capsids and exploit phage tails from unrelated species to transfer their DNA across bacterial hosts. This tail piracy enables broad dissemination and ...

www.cell.com

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 28d

My plans to start a new university in Dorset have run into significant economic headwinds, but I am confident that the business case is solid

A screenshot of Google Maps of Oxbridge, Dorset

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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today, I'm excited to announce the publication of the Duplodnaviria realm Profile and Chapter.
The realm includes viruses of archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes and is best known for its inclusion of herpesviruses and tailed phages.

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profile: Duplodnaviria 2025

The realm Duplodnaviria includes viruses of archaea, bacteria and eukaryotes, with linear dsDNA genomes. Duplodnavirians share a distinct morphogenetic module of four hallmark genes encoding the HK97-...

www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · Sep 3

The ICTV Report chapters, which are linked to the profiles and get updated when the taxonomy changes, can be found on the ICTV website:
ictv.global/report

ICTV Report Chapters | ICTV

ictv.global

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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · Sep 3

We have expanded our ICTV Virus Taxonomy profiles and chapters to include higher ranks, which have been recently introduced and may not be familiar to all virologists.

You can find our 2-page Profiles (citable record) in JGV @microbiologysociety.org
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/ictv...

ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles | Microbiology Society

Journal of General Virology ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles are a freely available series of concise, review-type articles that provide overviews of the classification, structure and properties of indivi...

www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · Aug 29

Three postdoc positions are now open for applications! Live and work on Kaurna land (Adelaide) in sunny South Australia. We have beach views, wineries, kangaroos, and koalas.

Develop new synthetic biology to engineer and understand #phage, and computational tools for #phage and #microbiome analysis

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Professor Lesley Hoyles @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social · Aug 26

Awesome opportunity to join an excellent young research group.
#microsky #Klebsiella

Joe Wanford @jwanford.bsky.social · Aug 26

🚨 Job alert 🚨

I’m recruiting two postdoctoral research associates to join my lab at KCL to study how #Klebsiella pneumoniae regulates virulence factor expression during infection! #klebclub

Mol Micro: tinyurl.com/mtrwtx5e

Infection: tinyurl.com/2s3u8ca2

Deadline: 21st September.

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Molecular Microbiology

www.kcl.ac.uk

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Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social · Aug 20

The movie about phage therapy in Switzerland and beyond is available online now 🍿🎬💊 - link to the English version here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUMJ...

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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · Aug 18

Hello. I wrote a nice long essay about AI and this very strange moment where we're constantly told we're living in the dawn of a strange new future but the only thing that's actually clear is that everyone feels pretty unmoored and uncertain. I hope you'll read it

AI Is a Mass-Delusion Event

Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.

www.theatlantic.com

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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · Aug 19

Here is a press release/ summary blog post about our new paper.

Key conclusion: For every single professional use that scientists used to use Twitter for, Twitter is much worse now than it used to be, and Bluesky is better that Twitter currently is.

www.southernfriedscience.com/twitter-suck...

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant

My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

www.southernfriedscience.com

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Hall Lab @halllab.bsky.social · Aug 17

Really pleased to see this study led by @raymondkiu.bsky.social now published in @natcomms.nature.com!

We show that probiotics help modulate the preterm infant 👶#microbiome - to reduce ARGs, lower MDR bacteria 🦠 & increase beneficial Bifido ✨

Huge team effort!

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · Aug 11

Lol. Not sure if he'll listen as well as my phage crowd :D.

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Nicolas Galtier @nicolasgaltier.bsky.social · Jul 17

New preprint about open science in eco-evo!
We sampled 110 journals, 550 articles, and assessed whether data and code are accessible: (1/5)
ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

#ScientificPublishing #OpenScience #ecology #conservation #EvolutionaryBiology #paleobio #systematics #archeology

An overview of open science in eco-evo research and the publisher effect.

ecoevorxiv.org

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David Negus @davidnegus.bsky.social · Aug 5

Interested in investigating the use of bacteriocins for the treatment of urinary tract infections? Come work with me and @bugsinyourguts.bsky.social Professor Lesley Hoyles as a research associate on an exciting project funded by The Urology Foundation

vacancies.ntu.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

Research Associate:Clifton Campus

vacancies.ntu.ac.uk

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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · Aug 4

I’m very excited to be at the 26th #Evergreen Phage Biology Conference, now in Knoxville TN. We started yesterday with preconference workshops and have our first full day of talks today. I can’t wait to hear about all the great #phage research going on!

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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · Jul 25

Can I express my interest 😅?

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Evelien Adriaenssens @evelienadri.bsky.social · Jul 25

Amazing opportunity and seems like there's project for every type of phage researcher!

Rob Edwards @linsalrob.bsky.social · Jul 25

🌟 Exciting news! We’re launching three fully-funded postdoc positions for "New Horizons for Synthetic Phages”

Join us in tackling antimicrobial resistance with cutting-edge synthetic biology + AI bioinformatics. Based at Flinders Uni in vibrant Adelaide.

👇 Read on for details!
#Phage

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Quadram Institute @quadraminstitute.bsky.social · Jul 24

Congratulations to all our former PhD students who are graduating this summer! 🥳

Here you can see our former students Dr Bushra Schuitemaker and Dr Claire Elek who graduated earlier this month 📸

Discover more about our PhD and student opportunities 🎓
➡️ buff.ly/3gSiDwt

Dr Bushra Schuitemaker in a graduation gown

Dr Claire Elek with her supervisor Dr Evelien Adrianssens

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Simon Roux @simrouxvirus.bsky.social · Jul 22

We (with Clement Coclet, not on Bsky) had the chance to work on a broad "state of viromics" review. We tried to use this to give an overview of how the field changed over the last ~ 15 years, and also what we think are some of the major remaining challenges. Full-text access at -> rdcu.be/excHt

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Nature Reviews Genetics @natrevgenet.nature.com · Jul 21

New online! Viromics approaches for the study of viral diversity and ecology in microbiomes

Viromics approaches for the study of viral diversity and ecology in microbiomes

Nature Reviews Genetics, Published online: 21 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s41576-025-00871-wIn this Review, Roux and Coclet outline current viromics approaches and discuss how they have contributed to our growing understanding of viral genomic diversity, focusing on uncultivated viruses of microorganisms.

www.nature.com

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Kelly Wyres @kelwyres.bsky.social · Jul 22

Our new #klebsiella O type nomenclature, codesigned with Chris Whitfield, is now live in @pathogenwatch.bsky.social!

Need a quick explainer on the new names? Check out my blog post: tinyurl.com/y8yb3rbb (+link to full review article)

#MicroSky @klebnet.bsky.social @tomstantonmicro.bsky.social

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