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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Sep 8

Delighted that our #EcoSalPlus review, with Jeri Barak, on colonisation of plant hosts by E. coli and S. enterica is in an ASM SDG Spotlight Collection.
Our article sits under #SDG2, Zero Hunger, for #foodsafety.
journals.asm.org/asm-sdg-spot...
Gorgeous artwork by @eliza-coli.bsky.social

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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Aug 22

Really chuffed that our article on the sequencing side of the UK Crop Microbiome Biobank has just been published.
Thanks to Payton Yau and Sue Jones for the hard work. Great team effort with CABI, RRI, JIC, SRUC and Hutton.
Read the walk-thru for the #microbiome analysis here: rdcu.be/eBOBB

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Scotland's Centre of Expertise for Waters @crew-waters.bsky.social · Aug 13

🌊Interested in becoming a Project Manager at the Centre of Expertise for Waters?

📍Aberdeen 🗓Apply by 26 Aug
🔗 tinyurl.com/CREWrole

Take a look at our most recent work connecting water policy and science below:

💧AI & Flood Forecasting ➡️ tinyurl.com/AIFlooding
💧AMR Register ➡️ tinyurl.com/ScotAMR

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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Apr 3

Thank you, too kind! Lovely excuse to indulge a bit. And great as ever to see all our micro friends at another successful #Microbio25

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Apr 2

Thank you for attending day three of #Microbio25! Annual Conference would not be possible without the revenue generated by publishing. Learn more about #PublishingForTheCommunity on our website:

Publishing for the Community

We are not for profit – publish with us to benefit your community. As a Society publisher, we are not for profit and everything we offer our community happens thanks to the revenue generated by…

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Apr 1

Thank you for attending day two of #Microbio25! Annual Conference would not be possible without the revenue generated by publishing. Learn more about #PublishingForTheCommunity on our website:

Publishing for the Community

We are not for profit – publish with us to benefit your community. As a Society publisher, we are not for profit and everything we offer our community happens thanks to the revenue generated by publishing.

microb.io

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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Apr 1

Arrived at last for #Microbio25
Looking forward to our session tomorrow Beyond the Lab, come join us in Hall 3B from 1015

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · Apr 1

We hope that you’re enjoying Annual Conference! If you have ever benefited from our events, grants or networks, consider publishing with us: journals revenue supports all that we do for our community. Please submit to give back.
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Bloody Rebecca 🇺🇦 @rebeccablood.bsky.social · Mar 7

www.foodsafetynews.com/2025/03/pres...

President Trump eliminates two key food safety committees

The Trump Administration has eliminated two USDA food safety advisory committees that have been in place for decades. The U.S. Department of Agriculture

www.foodsafetynews.com

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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Mar 7

#foodsafety news from the #WHO: 7th June 2025 is World Food Safety Day. This year's theme is 'Science in Action' (nope, can't escape the irony).
Some great resources on the website to use www.who.int/campaigns/wo...

World Food Safety Day 2025

Science is at the heart of food safety. It helps us understand what makes food unsafe and guides us on how to prevent foodborne diseases. The theme of World Food Safety Day on 7 June 2025 draws attent...

www.who.int

Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Jan 14

If you would like to join us on our crop #microbiome journey there are still have a few days to apply for a PhD project.
We are in Aberdeen, Scotland - a great place for wildlife, history, the outdoors, and bioinformatics of course! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

EastBio - Putting the Context into Microbial Communities: Integration of Contextual Metadata for Crop Microbiomes at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - EastBio - Putting the Context into Microbial Communities: Integration of Contextual Metadata for Crop Microbiomes at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Jan 10

This looks like it will be a fun event - celebrating slow fermentation and real bread. Time to roll up the sleeves and get the sourdough cultures warmed up

scotlandthebread.org/event/scotti...

#foodstudies #foodsystems #urbanfood #urbanagriculture #foodconsumption

Scottish Festival of Real Bread 2025 - Scotland The Bread

Date: Saturday February 15th, 2025 Location: Bowhouse, Fife The Scottish Festival of Real Bread is back, and it’s the perfect way to kick off Real Bread Week 2025 (15 to [...]

scotlandthebread.org

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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Jan 8

If you are looking for a home for your climate change associated #microbiome work, AMI's Sustainable Microbiology has a themed call out at the moment academic.oup.com/sumbio/pages...

Sustainable Microbiology Calls for Papers

Sustainable Microbiology is a broad-scope, fully open access journal aiming to demonstrate the current and future role of microbes in improving global economic,

academic.oup.com

Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Jan 8

@microbiologysociety.org great to see you here, looking forward to the #microbiology stories

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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Jan 7

bsky.app/profile/unni...
a nice story for @aythyafuligula.bsky.social

Unni Eikeseth @unnieikeseth.bsky.social · Jan 7

Citizen science reveals composition of Jupiter's clouds - ammonium hydrosulfide mixed with smog: phys.org/news/2025-01... 🧪

Citizen science reveals that Jupiter's colorful clouds are not made of ammonia ice

Collaborative work by amateur and professional astronomers has helped to resolve a long-standing misunderstanding about the composition of Jupiter's clouds. Instead of being formed of ammonia ice—the ...

phys.org

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Prof Tom Solomon CBE @runningmadprof.bsky.social · Jan 3

🚨 Exciting opportunity! @thepandemicinst.bsky.social is forming a Public Steering Group to ensure community voices shape our work in pandemic preparedness.

Want to help make a difference? Learn more & apply here: www.thepandemicinstitute.org/news/join-ou...

#PandemicPreparedness #PublicEngagement

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Jay Hinton @jayhinton.bsky.social · Dec 31

Here's the link to the WHO Global burden of foodborne diseases report http://www.who.int/foodsafety/areas_work/foodborne-diseases/ferg/en/

Estimating the burden of foodborne diseases

Around the world unsafe food is known to cause more than ...

www.who.int

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docrodi.bsky.social @docrodi.bsky.social · Dec 31

Produce is the cause of almost half of all foodborne illnesses, followed by dairy and eggs at 20 percent, meat and poultry at 22 percent, and fish and shellfish at just 6 percent.
See bottom of page for good food safety tips to use this coming new year.

www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/12/brea...

Breakthrough in ag water will be benefit to raw produce food safety

Calling it a “a landmark achievement . . . to improve food safety,” an FDA webpage is hailing the agency’s approval of a antimicrobial

www.foodsafetynews.com

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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Jan 2

One for @aythyafuligula.bsky.social :)

Peter Murphy @peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · Jan 1

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education

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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Dec 13

#foodsystems post
For the budding photographers out there, there is still time to submit to the 'Food for Thought' competition from @scafarc.bsky.social - you have til 9th Jan! www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

Food for Thought: Capturing the Big Picture | 16th October 2024

People of all ages across Scotland are invited to explore different perspectives around food using art and photography.

www.gla.ac.uk

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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Dec 11

#foodsafety
Always good to have the reminders about safely enjoying smoked fish at this time of year www.foodstandards.gov.scot/consumers/fo...

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Information from Food Standards Scotland about listeria and how you can prevent getting it.

www.foodstandards.gov.scot

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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Dec 9

#foodsafety Any thoughts on the relationship between the gastroenteritis disease symptoms and virulence factors (eae, cdt) in this outbreak of E. albertii. CDT is a genotoxin, so is it all just down to intimin - sounds a bit like an EPEC... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

An outbreak associated with Escherichia albertii in a junior high school, China | Epidemiology & Infection | Cambridge Core

An outbreak associated with Escherichia albertii in a junior high school, China - Volume 152

www.cambridge.org

Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Dec 9

Interested in what drives crop #microbiomes? We've got a PhD position open to work it out using modelling and bioinformatics. Check out www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

EastBio - Putting the Context into Microbial Communities: Integration of Contextual Metadata for Crop Microbiomes at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - EastBio - Putting the Context into Microbial Communities: Integration of Contextual Metadata for Crop Microbiomes at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College, listed on FindAPhD.com

www.findaphd.com

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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Dec 6

🧪 great to see the developments at Enterobase - a fantastic resource for the #microbiology community and all associated. Congrats to all for the hard work doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

EnteroBase in 2025: exploring the genomic epidemiology of bacterial pathogens

Abstract. This paper presents an update on the content, accessibility and analytical tools of the EnteroBase platform for web-based pathogen genome analysi

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Nicola Holden @nicholden.bsky.social · Dec 5

Looking forward to it!