Professor of Antimicrobial Resistance. Institute of Microbiology and Infection, University of Birmingham. Director University of Birmingham Doctoral School. Editor in Chief of npj Antimicrobials and Resistance.
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We are recruiting for an Editor to join the Journal of Medical Microbiology (JMM)! We’re looking for Editors with some previous editorial experience to handle JMM’s One Health - Emerging, Zoonotic and Environmental Disease section. Find out more and apply here: microb.io/4lnPPBU 🦠
When the world seems so anti-science, here is something to brighten your day! The UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience is recruiting a new Director for its Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery to drive its drug discovery program! #DrugDiscovery #Biotech www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
Current economic and regulatory challenges in developing antibiotics for Gram-negative bacteria www.nature.com/articles/s44...
What was antibiotic resistance like before we ever used antibiotics? How did we change what antibiotic resistance genes looked like over 100 years? Our paper looking at resistance genes from a century of NCTC historical isolates now out in mGen: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Google developer #1: "That's it. Our search engine is simple, efficient, and reliable. It's perfect. We're done." Google developer #2, presumably: "But wouldn't it be *more* perfect if the first search result was always a robot who mansplained your search results to you incorrectly?"
A good way to think about institutional research culture!
💊 Non-antibiotic drugs & resistance A new study shows common medicines like ibuprofen and acetaminophen can boost E. coli resistance to antibiotics, raising concerns for aged care settings. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s44... #SciComm 🧪 #AMR
Nicely done @theguardian.com 👏
Should caveat all this with the fact that I ❤️ efflux pumps though, obvs!
YES! Me too!! You have to understand what you are looking at or it’s just garbage! Enjoy your leave!
Yes, me! Can we add that presence of efflux pump genes in these databases is (generally) useless info when looking for ARGs. In this context, presence does not equal resistance!
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Dear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...
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
Very excited to announce launch of brand new journal npj Fungal Science! As EIC I'm joined by a fantastic board of academic editors from across the mycology field. You can learn more about the journal scope and submit your work here: www.nature.com/npjfungalsci/
The @microbiologysociety.org Journal of Medical Microbiology is looking for a new Editor for One Health - Emerging, Zoonotic and Environmental Diseases. Come join us!
Npj fungal science is open!! This is another exciting title for the npj family and this one has @therad-lab.bsky.social at the helm! 🤩
New Independent Fellowship position in Microbiology to launch your lab in our department @johninnescentre.bsky.social (UK). We are conducting a broad search in the area of plant-associated microbial interactions. Message me if you have any questions. Apply here: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in...
Delighted to have this review out with @jpjhall.bsky.social! We discuss the risk of transmission of antimicrobial resistance in the hospital sink drain microbiome, highlight studies providing evidence of transfer, and consider strategies to mitigate these risks 🪠🦠 doi.org/10.1038/s442...
It was great fun writing this review with @gemccallum.bsky.social , even if our conclusions are rather scary. Lots of important pathogen evolution must be occurring outside of the infection context...
Help shape how BBSRC supports early career researchers like you! We've got 8 vacancies on the People and Talent Strategy Advisory Panel (PAT SAP) Researcher Subgroup. Why get involved? Here's what a current member has to say 👇
Wow Karolinska Institutet is recruiting 20 outstanding early-career researchers for assistant professor positions ki.se/en/about-ki/...
🌟 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
Just a few days left to apply for PhD positions in the Health Protection Research Unit - Public Health Genomics @imibirmingham.bsky.social. preview-uob.cloud.contensis.com/research/cen... I am offering two projects (on Clostridioides difficile & metagenomics of wastewater and freshwater).
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This opportunity is still open but closing at the end of July!
Well here's a sentence I never imagined I'd say - I've just bought tickets to the Metallica World tour......🎸😳
Roasting!!! 🥵
I absolutely love graduation day!! Huge congratulations to all today’s graduates! 🎉🍾😀 @wvschaik.bsky.social @jackf7.bsky.social @alanmcn1.bsky.social
If anyone needs a clear explanation of how to do standardised antibiotic susceptibility testing (MICs) properly then I highly recommend this article www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Won't they melt? Might be better to try UV?
I've wanted to write this article for years. About my and other's struggles to even survive sometime in #academia. Thank you to the amazing editors at @plosbiology.org that gave me the forum to write this piece. #science
🚨🚨New paper out in @natcomms.nature.com!! Come for the first large-scale analysis of plasmid copy number across species, stay for one of the most intriguing results of my lab: universal scaling laws in plasmid biology! 📈🧬 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And IMI Summer school 2025 wraps up! What a fantastic group of students! Thank you UoB school and @hannahtriv.bsky.social @bpettifor.bsky.social @miribiome.bsky.social
One week left to apply for this technician position in experimental evolution—do get in touch if you have any questions!
Culture club! Do probiotic yoghurt drinks really contain live bacteria? Let's find out at IMI Summer school 2025 🦠🦠
Day 2 of IMI Summer school 2025 kicks off with some funky images from @contamclub.bsky.social and Mathematical modelling of an infectious disease with Rowland Seymour 🦠🦠🤢🤢
And so it begins! IMI Summer school 2025 follow us for all the fun this week 🦠🦠
Practicing pipetting and making dilutions - great start to IMI Summer school 2025 with @hannahtriv.bsky.social @miribiome.bsky.social @bpettifor.bsky.social
Windows, hand rails, kettles, water fountains and jelly pots all antimicrobially active 🦠🦠 - swab and send in action with @lstmnews.bsky.social
🌍 #WorldMicrobiomeDay 2025 At @halllab.bsky.social we’re uncovering how microbes - right from day one - help shape the gut, strengthen immunity, and protect against infection. We're exploring how, when, and which microbes colonise - in order to develop interventions for a healthier start to life.
📢JOB ALERT: Join our friendly London team! 18-mo technician post with me & co-I @gpollara.bsky.social to explore probiotics in fighting/preventing urinary tract infection - all in our nifty human bladder microtissue model! Generously funded by Urology Foundation #UTISky www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Has anyone done Klebsiella pneumoniae survival assay in the presence of LL-37? I’ve read several papers, but they all use different media! 😭
We had a graduate school that looked after all postgraduates. We now have a dedicated doctoral school that focuses only on postgraduate research students
The new University of Birmingham Doctoral school has just launched! Very exciting times for Postgraduate research at the university of Birmingham! www.birmingham.ac.uk/study/postgr...
V exciting finish!! Excited for next week!
Anyone know of technician/research assistant jobs in the UK in infectious disease (mix of wet and dry lab) for a talented former student with MSc degree?
Pleased to see you made it! 😀
She smashed it!! 🎉🤩
Huge congratulations to Pauline for a brilliant seminar and for passing her PhD viva today!! 🤩🤩🤩 Big thanks to mark sutton and @lucyicm.bsky.social for examining!
🌍 Thrilled to share that I've been selected as a 2025 UK Goalkeeper by WIRED Consulting in partnership with @gatesfoundation.bsky.social! This incredible initiative celebrates those driving progress towards the UN SDGs – and I’m honoured to be among this year’s cohort. www.wired.com/sponsored/st...
(1/6) 🌟 Excited to share our new paper! Advancing microbiome safety assessments: opportunities, challenges & recommendations 🧫🦠 This work came out of an academic–industry workshop hosted by @microbiologysociety.org in early 2024. 🔗 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
Def in scope for npj AMR! www.nature.com/npjamar/
An exciting new Doctoral Training Programme in Microbial Genomics for Health Protection, in collaboration with the UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social, has just launched, funded by @nihr.bsky.social there are 9 PhD projects available (UK students only) www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/cen...
**NEW Doctoral Training Programme just launched!!** This exciting programme on Microbial Genomics for Health Protection is joint between @imibirmingham.bsky.social and UKHSA @ukhsa.bsky.social. 9 brilliant projects available!!
Thanks Gavin, so pleased to hear people enjoyed it! 😀
I had a great time last night speaking at the @ypsyork.bsky.social about all things AMR! Thanks @gavinhthomas.bsky.social for the invite! 😃
Join us in Tubingen as a Junior Research Group Leader if you do research on #ESKAPE pathogens and infections and are interested in the highly cooperative environment of @dzif.bsky.social and @cmfi.bsky.social ! Please send your application or forward to colleagues! uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...
Exciting news...Nature Methods is hiring a new editor! This exciting and dynamic role will be shared with the Nature Research Cross-Journal Editorial Team. Apply here by June 1! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
Well hello Franklin’s gardens - it’s been a while! what a beautiful sunny treat you were! (The last minute win helped too!)
Also, you should try then claiming fee/expenses to a bank account that has a different surname to one you use at work and then the real fun and games begin!
I've had this too but north east of London so there are clearly a few making this needlessly difficult! Such a waste of time...
Great paper by @target-amr.bsky.social leadership team colleagues @drtessjohnson.bsky.social and Steph Johnson on the ethics of clinical metagenomics www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
New Research Assistant position available in my lab to work on a project testing the efficacy of pills dependent #phage against clinical isolates of enteric bacteria . Part of a growing phage research theme in my lab my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Choose Science. Choose Europe. A new Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Postdoctoral Fellowships 2025 call is now open. With a budget of €404.3 million, it will support around 1,650 researchers from Europe and beyond. Apply by 10 September → europa.eu/!fBTMgF
Wine tasting in Tuscany! 🤩 #multidrugeffluxgrc2025
Really cool talk by @geocox44.bsky.social on E. coli efflux - experimental platform that feeds into ML model for predictions. #multidrugeffluxgrc25
At the GRC meeting on multidrug efflux - the discussion leader, Megan O’Mara, has just highlighted the key role of physics based modelling in linking structural biology and artificial intelligence - it’s the bridge that will enable information flow that will lead to new therapeutics.
📣 The Journal of Medical Microbiology is looking for Editors for the Antimicrobial Resistance section! No prior editor experience required, so it's a great first gig for an ECR. And you get subsidised attendance at the annual meeting. Open to applicants worldwide 🌍 @microbiologysociety.org
This meeting will be great! Abstract submission open now See you 26-27 Nov in Liverpool microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
This is fascinating, but also terrible news regarding antimicrobial resistance in multidrug-resistant Gram-positives 'Emergence of transferable daptomycin resistance in Gram-positive bacteria' www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Abstract deadline for the @microbiologysociety.org ECR summer conference is end of next week! Submit before May 4th and join us in Newcastle microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...
Not surprising, and sad - but boosting to my UK/European colleagues in case of interest: GAMRIC 2025 is apparently now in London thanks to American chaos #AMR #IDSky www.gamric.org
It’s nice here #multidrugeffluxgrc25 The intricacies of efflux pumps discussed in beautiful surroundings @jessicamablair.bsky.social
Gorgeous lunch backdrop at #multidrugeffluxgrc25 🤩
On my way to Florence for the GRC on multi drug efflux systems which is my favorite conference 🤩 however right now I’d actually rather be in London watching my husband run the London marathon for meningitis research UK 😬
Bank holiday gorgeousness! (Before the rain set in!) 🤩
Brilliant news Becca!! congratulations!! 🎉
The global resistance problem and the clinical antibacterial pipeline (Nature Reviews Microbiology) www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Congratulations!!
Given discussions at I had at #ESCMIDGlobal, it might be useful for new researchers to know how a journal editor screens submissions (obviously this is my approach and so it might differ for others).
On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...
And a huge thanks to @jessicamablair.bsky.social for inviting me to write this piece. We knew how important & timely such a piece was but little did we know that it would be even more important now more than ever. Let’s us all keep pushing for a more inclusive scientific community 🧑🏻🔬🧑🏼🔬🧑🏽🔬🧑🏾🔬🧑🏿🔬👨🔬👩🔬
🚨New publication🚨 Thrilled to share our article about the Importance of Diversity & Representation in Science, now out in npj Antimicrobials & Resistance @springernature.com Huge thanks to my wonderful co-authors @blancaps.bsky.social & @edcoakes.bsky.social for their awesome support
It was absolutely my pleasure! You all did a great job and very pleased we could publish such an important piece 😃
Really delighted to see this out in npj antimicrobials and resistance! @emmabeansworth.bsky.social @blancaps.bsky.social & @edcoakes.bsky.social have done a fantastic job with this 🤩
The garden at the university of Birmingham doctoral school is looking stunning today! 🤩
Two ERC-funded postdoc positions available in the team - one here and second to follow - please repost! jobs.ncl.ac.uk/job/Newcastl...
TWO postdoc positions in Computational Microbiology and/or biochemistry. Join our interdisciplinary group in the new Life and Mind Building @OxfordBiology, @UniofOxford, @IneosOxford Please apply and share this post: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMP641/p...
PLASMID REQUEST: long shot, but does anyone have an IncP-9 megaplasmid, or can anyone direct me to a source of one?
Delighted our study (7+ years in the making) is out today in Nature. In a nutshell, 48 hours of antibiotics in week 1 led to impaired vaccine responses up to 15 months later in infants. We show (in-vivo) a probiotic can fix it #microbiome #science #immunology www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Amazing news for an amazing scientist!! 🤩 Absolutely over the moon for you @ilyasalav.bsky.social 🎉
We are embarking on a mission to #KeepAntibioticsWorking. Our antibiotics are under threat from antimicrobial resistance and we all need to work together to save them for future generations. Join us on 7 April - click the link or scan the code to learn more public.govdelivery.com/accounts/UKH...
We are in Liverpool this week at the @microbiologysociety.org Annual Conference our IMI line up today looks like this .. #Microbio25
Today a lovely undergrad described the horror of my diary as “iconic”. This made me feel approx 150 but on the plus side has given me a new positive spin on being busy. Every cloud and all that! 😫😆
Well done bex!! So pleased to see this out!! 🤩😃
This is a super cool story! 🤩
Congratulations Imran!! This is wonderful news! I hope you had lots of fun celebrating!
www.nature.com/articles/s41... I had to dig through the supplementary tables, but it is nice to see that AcrAB-TolC is also important for C. rodentium colonisation of mice.
We have a salaried 4-year PhD student position available in the Lind Lab at Umeå University, Sweden! Exploring the eco-evolutionary dynamics of salt-induced cell clustering in bacteria. Reposts appreciated. umu.varbi.com/en/?jobtoken...