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Sean Meaden
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Microbial ecology / evolution / genomics @ University of York
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Giusy Mariano @giusym1990.bsky.social · 7d
🚨PhD Opportunity Alert🚨 Join me, @suzieh.bsky.social and @walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophage–prophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Paul Fogg @pcmfogg.bsky.social · 15d
🚨Exciting #Postdoc opportunity in the Fogg & Antson labs: 3-year post based @biologyatyork.bsky.social to explore the #StructuralBiology & mechanism of viral DNA-packaging motors using cutting-edge #Cryo-EM, biophysical and molecular approaches. Apply by 9th Oct at bit.ly/3Iz3bOu #ScienceJobs
Jobs - The University of York
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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 22d
I have an MRC-funded PhD project available (www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...) on how warming will change the problem of AMR. Join a small and friendly group (padpadpadpad.netlify.app/about) in (sometimes) sunny Cornwall. 🧪🦠 #microsky

Please share the ad below with anyone who may be interested.
A teal flyer for a PhD opportunity to investigate how warming may change antimicrobial resistance. The project will use experiments on Klebsiella bacteria to answer questions about how temperature affects their response to antibiotics, plasmid transfer, and fitness costs. The research involves microbiology lab work, bioinformatics, and mathematical modeling. The flyer includes contact details for Dr. Daniel Padfield and the logos of the sponsoring institutions.
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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 23d
Today in the AI hellscape we are building for ourselves, people are easily creating "official looking" websites of popular bioinformatics software that are not at all linked to the developers.
Heng Li @lh3lh3.bsky.social · 29d
minimap2.com is potentially a phishing site. Please don't use anything from that website.
github.com/lh3/minimap2...
Phishing site : minimap2.com · Issue #1316 · lh3/minimap2
Not sure how to label this one, but I have come across a website minimap2.com which appears to be AI generated but is serving it's own copy of the Github repository. If you search the address or em...
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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · 28d
Really looking forward to sharing our science with Yorkshire Philosophical Society at Tempest Anderson Hall on Oct 14th - thank you to @gavinhthomas.bsky.social for the invite www.ypsyork.org/events/antib...
Antibiotics from the Abyss | Yorkshire Philosophical Society
promoting the understanding of science since 1822
www.ypsyork.org
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Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social · Sep 8
closing at the end of this week!
Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social · Aug 27
Another PDRA position! Join our team exploring how the mammalian immune system shapes microbiome ecology & evolution, and vice versa. In collaboration with @hepworth-lab.bsky.social funded by the @wellcometrust.bsky.social

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Microbial Ecology:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
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Sean Meaden @seanmeaden.bsky.social · Sep 3
"the assemblage used a peak of 2.18 million CPU cores"
Fair enough 🤯
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Rayan Chikhi @rayanchikhi.bsky.social · Sep 3
🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵

Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.

doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Rayan Chikhi @rayanchikhi.bsky.social · Sep 3
🌎👩‍🔬 For 15+ years biology has accumulated petabytes (million gigabytes) of🧬DNA sequencing data🧬 from the far reaches of our planet.🦠🍄🌵

Logan now democratizes efficient access to the world’s most comprehensive genetics dataset. Free and open.

doi.org/10.1101/2024...
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Kat Coyte @coytelab.bsky.social · Aug 12
A new 4 year PostDoc position in our lab! Modeling + experiments to explore dynamics of carbon fixing hot-spring microbiomes. Part of an exciting multidisciplinary team with Sophie Nixon, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social & others

Please share & get in touch if interested!

tinyurl.com/e7j7bha3
Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology:Oxford Road
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Aug 13
We are also hiring a 4-year postdoc to study the dynamics and evolution of mobile genetic elements in the C-fixing Icelandic host-spring microbiomes

Join our exciting multidisciplinary team funded by @ukri.org BBSRC sLoLa

www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Ellinor Alseth @ellinoralseth.bsky.social · Aug 8
Feels surreal to say but: I'm hiring! If you are or know anyone interested in looking at the evolution of phage resistance using A. baumannii and natural transformation, then this might be for you
www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...
Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139) | UiT The Arctic University of Norway
Job title: Research position in Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology (282139), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
www.jobbnorge.no
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Meaghan Castledine @mcastd.bsky.social · Aug 5
Want to name a real virus? I have recently discovered 9 new phages which now need names! To enter, you simply need to donate to the Cystic Fibrosis Trust on my JustGiving page (£2 = 1 entry) and share your email with me on donation (see link info). Please share 💚 www.justgiving.com/page/meaghan-c-1
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Ryan Cook @ryancook94.bsky.social · Jun 17
New pre-print alert! 🚨🫁

COPD affects millions worldwide. While we know bacterial dysbiosis drives disease, the role of bacteriophages remains unexplored. We re-analysed 135 COPD metagenomes to characterise the lung virome for the first time 🫁 1/9

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Asaf Levy @asaflevylab.bsky.social · Jun 11
Our new paper is online in Genome Biology:
"Plasmids, prophages, and defense systems are depleted from plant microbiota genomes"
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Plasmids, prophages, and defense systems are depleted from plant microbiota genomes - Genome Biology
Plant-associated bacteria significantly impact plant growth and health. Understanding how bacterial genomes adapt to plants can provide insights into their growth promotion and virulence functions. He...
genomebiology.biomedcentral.com
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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · May 28
HMMER is the bedrock of genomic annotation globally, and now its funding is terminated for no reason.

@cryptogenomicon.bsky.social is now on bsky:
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Sean Eddy @cryptogenomicon.bsky.social · May 22
NIH funding supporting the HMMER and Infernal software projects has been terminated. NIH states that our work, as well as all other federally funded research at Harvard, is of no benefit to the US.
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David Sünderhauf @davvi36.bsky.social · May 12
I *finally* get to share our work on plasmid competition– super proud to now have this on bioRxiv:

CRISPR-Cas is beneficial in plasmid competition, but limited by competitor toxin-antitoxin activity when horizontally transferred

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

1/6 👇
pKJK5 vs RP4 cartoon sketch on plasmid competition
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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · Mar 28
Come join us! Next week marks my 1 year anniversary at @uniofmanchester.bsky.social and I've never looked back!
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Mar 26
Job alert ‼️
2x professorships available @uniofmanchester.bsky.social
- ecology www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
- organismal biology (inc genomics, evolution etc.) www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI506/s...
Senior Lecturer/Reader/Chair in Ecology:Manchester
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
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Karim Majzoub @karimaj.bsky.social · Feb 28
TIGR-Tas: A family of modular RNA-guided DNA-targeting systems in prokaryotes and their viruses
RNA-guided systems provide remarkable versatility, enabling diverse biological functions. Through iterative structural and sequence homology-based mining starting with a guide RNA-interaction domain o...
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Sean Meaden @seanmeaden.bsky.social · Feb 11
This was great fun during my PhD- highly recommend!
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Karina Xavier Lab @karinaxavierlab.bsky.social · Feb 11
Host-Microbe Symbioses- Our favorite summer school is back! Help us spread the word!
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The Symbiosis Courses Alumni Network @symbiosisalumni.bsky.social · Feb 5
Save the date 📅: The PhD Summer School on Host-microbe Symbioses is taking place from 6-19 of July in Oeiras, Portugal.
Registration is opening soon!
Learn more 👉 gimm.idloom.events/phd-summer-s...

@gimmfoundation.bsky.social @moorefound.bsky.social
@crc1182.bsky.social #CIFAR #CBR
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Daniela Barillà @danielabarilla.bsky.social · Feb 6
📢 New round of PhD studentships.
Open to applicants worldwide.

📅 Deadline 14th March
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

#microsky #archaeasky #chromosome 🧬🧬🧬
@steve-quinn-lab.bsky.social @georgerheath.bsky.social

Join us in beautiful York, UK!
Life pushed to extremes: probing the mechanisms of chromosome segregation in thermophilic Archaea at University of York on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Life pushed to extremes: probing the mechanisms of chromosome segregation in thermophilic Archaea at University of York, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
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Giusy Mariano @giusym1990.bsky.social · Jan 24
🚨We are hiring! A MRC-funded PDRA position to study novel anti-phage systems & their evolutionary dynamics in P. aeruginosa, in collaboration with @friendlymicrobe. If you are passionate about phage-bacteria interactions & evolution, apply now ! tinyurl.com/bddz4z44
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Feb 6
☎️ Calling #MEvoSky ☎️

2x 5-year research associate / research assistant positions in experimental evolution

ERC-funded project: How do mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution?

Join the friendly and exciting @mermanchester.bsky.social community in Manchester!
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · Feb 6
🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Research Associate in Experimental Evolution:Manchester
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Sorek Lab @soreklab.bsky.social · Jan 23
Our paper out @CellCellPress: Structure guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity

Congrats Erez Yirmiya, Azita Leavitt, Gil Amitai, our collaborators at the Kranzusch lab, and coauthors

A 🧵 1/10

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Structure-guided discovery of viral proteins that inhibit host immunity
Large-scale, structure-guided computational pipeline sifts through millions of phage proteins to identify those that bind and antagonize host immune proteins. Detected proteins are shown to inhibit no...
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Hetan Shah @hetanshah.bsky.social · Jan 21
Please spread the word as we have opened the call for @britishacademy.bsky.social International Fellowships which enable researchers to work for two years at a UK institution. If you fancy being away from your country right now this could be an option!
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/funding/inte...
International Fellowships 2025
The International Fellowships Programme enables researchers to work for three years at a UK institution with the aim of building a globally connected, mobile research and innovation workforce.
www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk
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Sean Meaden @seanmeaden.bsky.social · Jan 13
Bioinformatician job at Aberdeen. Opportunity to work with David Fisher and other great people (inexplicably not on BSky).
www.abdnjobs.co.uk/vacancy/bioi...
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