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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · 8h

New respiratory 🫁 infection and microbiomes conference in Hinxton with stellar line up of speakers.

🚨 Submit your abstracts now! 🚨

Please RT

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AIR 2026: Genomic and Systems Approaches to Respiratory Infection, Microbiomes and Immunity — 20260211

Course exploring how genomics, microbiome profiling, and systems biology reshape our understanding of respiratory infections and immune dynamics.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

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EMBO Lab Leadership @embolableadership.bsky.social · 13d

The @embo.org self-leadership for women scientists course focuses on 4 pillars of experience as a human being + researcher: self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-management + self-growth. Places still available on 14-16 October online course: www.embolableadership.org/course/self-... #SelfLeadership

woman writing on a flipchart. Text highlighting that our next self-leadership for women scientists online course on 14-16 October still has places available

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Prof. Dr. Dolors Armenteras @darmenteras.bsky.social · 9d

I can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun

Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending | Nature

Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system. Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.

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Seema Sheth @seemasheth.bsky.social · 11d

Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
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Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco

Job Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco Job Summary: The Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a fu...

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 11d

Microsoft Outlook just told me some of my attachments are "pretty large" and asked if I wanted to upload to OneDrive instead. How come you're allowed to use superfluous adverbs Outlook while all my "really"s and "very"s get your snooty little blue line?!

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Christina Faherty @christinafaher1.bsky.social · 11d

A great opportunity to attend the #Shigella meeting April 20-24, 2026! Abstract submissions are open! @shigellameeting.bsky.social #Microsky

Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 12d

External Event Grant awards of up to £750 are available for eligible members as a contribution towards the costs of registration, travel, and accommodation to attend an event beginning 01 Jan – 30 April 2026. Apply now before the deadline 01 Nov at 23:59: microb.io/ExternalEven...

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 12d

Why not apply for a Microbiology Society grant to support your attendance at @shigellameeting.bsky.social?

microbiologysociety.org/grants/all-g...

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 12d

Awesome news Siobhan! Congratulations!

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 13d

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 13d

Dang - should have aligned our @target-amr.bsky.social in person!

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John M. Drake @jdrakephd.bsky.social · 14d

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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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 15d

🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...

Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper

We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine. 1) Fundamental researc...

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Sam Lipworth @samlipworth.bsky.social · 15d

Come and work with Nicole Stoesser and I in Oxford with the fantastic team @modmedmicro.bsky.social - great opportunity for a postdoc in microbial genomics to do some creative research with great datasets as part of our HPRU.

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 18d

Output != Productivity, which is a measure of efficiency, and the first Figure in this paper seems to suggest that women actually produce more papers per year than men (albeit from a disadvantaged starting point, x-axis is years in research). Graphical abstract also seems misleading on this.

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 18d

x-axis is years in research

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Christina Faherty @christinafaher1.bsky.social · 19d

Registration & abstract submissions are open for the #Shigella meeting! Travel grants available too! All are welcomed, whether you are active in #Shigella research or interested in the 21st century perspective on this formidable pathogen! 🦠 🧫 #Microsky
www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home

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Lucy Weinert @lucyweinert.bsky.social · 21d

Introducing AMR cartography - work by Andrew Balmer

bioRxiv Genomics @biorxiv-genomic.bsky.social · 21d

Antimicrobial Resistance Cartography: A Generalisable Framework for Studying Multivariate Drug Resistance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675231v1

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Christina Faherty @christinafaher1.bsky.social · 21d

We will be talking about our favorite microorganism #Shigella at the @shigellameeting.bsky.social in April 2026! 🦠 🧫
@ksbakes.bsky.social @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @marteynlab.bsky.social

FEMS @femsmicro.org · 21d

Happy International Microorganism Day! 🎉

Today, we are celebrating the tiny powerhouses that have a massive impact on our world. From the bacteria in our gut to the fungi that give us antibiotics, these incredible organisms are essential to life.

Let's make some noise for the microscopic!

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 21d

Come and join us at @shigellameeting.bsky.social in Paris 2026. Registrations are now open! www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home and follow the Shigella starter pack go.bsky.app/6Vbwhjc (message to be added)! 215 days to go!

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 22d

It’s nearly that time of year again 🎃 👻 🦇 please give me your best scary book recommendations blueskyers 📕

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Lucy Weinert @lucyweinert.bsky.social · 23d

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Investigating pathogenicity in zoonotic Streptococcus suis at University of Cambridge on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Investigating pathogenicity in zoonotic Streptococcus suis at University of Cambridge, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 24d

Keeps us on our toes… and another compelling argument for genomic surveillance and agile systems!

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 24d

(Alluding to what happened for chlamydia in Sweden 🇸🇪 for those new to the area sti.bmj.com/content/96/5...)

Rise and fall of the new variant of Chlamydia trachomatis in Sweden: mathematical modelling study

Objectives A new variant of Chlamydia trachomatis (nvCT) was discovered in Sweden in 2006. The nvCT has a plasmid deletion, which escaped detection by two nucleic acid amplification tests (Abbott-Roch...

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 24d

History repeats itself: more disappearing STIs from molecular target mutation 😬 Great 🕵️ work by @sarah1alexander.bsky.social and colleagues!

Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 27d

The @ukhsa.bsky.social STI Reference Lab has identified a strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae which evades detection on the Cepheid Xpert CT/GC Assay.

Read more in our eurosurveillance article

www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

Detection and characterisation of Xpert CT/NG assay Neisseria gonorrhoeae diagnostic escape mutants, England, June 2025

We report the timely detection of a strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae which was confirmed as a diagnostic escape mutant on the Cepheid Xpert CT/NG assay in England in June 2025. The reason for assay failure was a likely recombination event with Neisseria meningitidis, which removed both assay target sites. Seven historical putative Xpert CT/NG assay diagnostic escape mutants were also identified following subsequent in silico screening of gonococcal genome collections, but currently there is no evidence of widespread circulation.

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