Dr Sariqa Wagley

My takeaways from Virginia Guiffre’s new book on the sexual abuse she says she suffered at the hands of Epstein, Maxwell, & Prince Andrew (which he denies)

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Pallavi Singh Lab is looking for two Postdocs to join our team studying how plants balance carbon, water, and resilience in a changing climate.

PlantPlug PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

REVOLUTION PDRA: vacancies.essex.ac.uk/tlive_webrec...

Deadline: October 15.

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.

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

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Thank you Wes Streeting! That was exactly what we have needed to hear this past few months! Please don’t go back to sleep now

Analyses of protein expression and genetic fitness determinants reveal dynamic pathways active in starved Pseudomonas aeruginosa Heterotrophic bacteria rapidly deplete essential macronutrients during growth and must navigate subsequent periods of growth arrest imposed by starvation. Nutrient limitations can be dynamic in nature...

Analyses of protein expression and genetic fitness determinants reveal dynamic pathways active in starved Pseudomonas aeruginosa
by Megan Bergkessel and group including my friend @chemsley.bsky.social

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

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

Rapid detection and fast induction of viable but non-culturable Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio cholerae Vibrio (V.) species, such as V. parahaemolyticus and V. cholerae, are commonly associated with foodborne infections and are frequently detected in sea…

Rapid detection & fast induction of viable but non-culturable V.parahaemolyticus & V.cholerae
by Susanne Fleischmann &group

Their viable quantitative PCR method detected V. parahaemolyticus & V. cholerae VBNC cells in 50% & 56% of retail samples, respectively.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios Fourwaves - Vibrio2026: The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios

Delighted to announce that The International Meeting on the Biology of Vibrios will be back next year!

Vibrio2026 will be held in Berlin in September 13-16. See you there Vibriologists!

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New series from @EmpirePodUK
THE HISTORY OF GAZA

291. Ancient Gaza: The Philistines
Empire – Apple Podcasts share.google/7fne19kFfVLw...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry Commission’s 72-page legal analysis cites examples including scale of killings, aid blockages and forced displacement * Middle East crisis – live updates A UN commission of inquiry concluded on Tuesday that Israel had committed genocide in Gaza and that top Israeli officials including the prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, had incited these acts. It cited examples of the scale of the killings, aid blockages, forced displacement and the destruction of a fertility clinic to back up its genocide finding, adding its voice to rights groups and others that have reached the same conclusion. Continue reading...

Israel has committed genocide in Gaza, says UN inquiry

I know many people, particularly from London's diverse communities, are feeling extremely worried following the events this weekend. It takes me back to how I felt growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, when far-right political parties marched on our streets. The leaders of the far-right are once again attempting to hijack our flag, with minorities being intimidated and fear, hatred and division being sown. As Londoners, and as proud Brits, we must unite to reject the far-right – just as we have many times before. But it’s going to take a huge effort from us all – from people of all races and backgrounds, who are willing to stand up for our British values of equality, inclusion and mutual respect. As Mayor, I'll continue to do everything I can to challenge the far-right and all those who peddle the politics of fear and division. I urge other politicians and Londoners to do the same. MAYOR OF LONDON, SADIQ KHAN

We must unite against those who seek to divide us.

Letter from Ed Davey to Keir Starmer condemning Elon Musk for inciting violence and urging unity to defend democracy.

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday.

As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

Unmasking the Sea Star Killer After a decade of carnage, we finally know what’s devastating sea stars along North America’s West Coast. Does that mean scientists can save them?

This is an excellent piece about how scientists discovered the culprit behind the mass die-off of sea stars along the West Coast: a warm-water bacterium called Vibrio pectenicida. Researchers are now working on breeding and restoring resistant populations. www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...

Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of cholera, has triggered seven pandemics, with the seventh pandemic emerging in 1961. The success of seventh pandemic El Tor (7PET) V. cholerae as a human pathogen is linked to its acquisition of mobile genetic ...

Excited to share my latest review, now published in the Royal Society theme issue on ‘The ecology and evolution of bacterial immune systems' (available OA):

Defence systems encoded by core genomic islands of seventh pandemic Vibrio cholerae royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Uridine as a potentiator of aminoglycosides through activation of carbohydrate transporters Uridine boosts aminoglycoside treatment efficiency against antibiotic-susceptible as well as antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains.

So excited our antibiotic potentiation story is out 🤩 Led by the extraordinary @manonlang.bsky.social with @fox-science.bsky.social & @amazeld.bsky.social +amazing collaborators @immunobladder.bsky.social @imaneelmeouche.bsky.social 🦠 We believe it can make a difference in #AMR infections!

Israel destroys second Gaza high-rise as military kills another 56 Palestinians, including aid-seekers Residents say military gave them 20 minutes to evacuate 15-storey building before attacking, with casualties unclear An Israeli strike has destroyed a high-rise building in Gaza City – the second in as many days – as the military demanded residents move to a so-called humanitarian zone in the south of the territory and slaughtered at least another 56 Palestinians, including aid-seekers. Israel on Saturday issued evacuation warnings for two high-rises in Gaza City and surrounding tents. Avichay Adraee, a military spokesperson, claimed without providing evidence that the buildings were targets because Hamas had infrastructure inside or near them. Soon after, Adraee said that the military had struck one of the buildings. Continue reading...

Israel destroys second Gaza high-rise as military kills another 56 Palestinians, including aid-seekers

How RFK Jr.’s misguided science on mRNA vaccines is shaping policy − a vaccine expert examines the false claims — The Integrity Project At a Sept. 4, 2025, hearing before the Senate Finance Committee, Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced heated questions from numerous senators about his vaccine policies, inc...

HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faced intense scrutiny yesterday over his vaccine policies, including claims that #COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are broadly harmful — claims not supported by evidence. More in this story by @fullerlab.bsky.social for @us.theconversation.com. 👇

Nigel Farage looks uncomfortable as Jamie Raskin uses his opening statement to absolutely demolish him

Postdoctoral Research Associate in Molecular Microbiology

🚨 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.

End-to-end contact enables long-distance electron transport between filaments in cable bacteria Abstract. Filamentous cable bacteria are capable of centimeter-scale long-distance electron transport and play crucial roles in the biogeochemistry of aqua

End-to-end contact enables long-distance electron transport between filaments in cable bacteria:

Cable bacteria are part The Family Desulfobulbaceae and found in freshwater, brackish water, marine, and haloalkaline habitat usually in the sediments.

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🧬Aspiring Editors🧬

Access Microbiology is recruiting Editors to join our board! We welcome expertise across all areas of microbiology, and are especially keen to hear from microbiologists working in clinical microbiology or genomics. Feel free to DM with any questions.

Melioidosis cases detected in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a positive impact of 3rd South Asian Melioidosis Congress-2023 Melioidosis is a fatal infectious disease caused by the gram-negative soil dwelling bacterium Burkholderia pseudomallei. Bangladesh is considered a de…

Melioidosis cases detected in Dhaka, Bangladesh: a positive impact of 3rd South Asian Melioidosis Congress

by Saika Farook and co workers

2023https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666517425001257

Vibrio cholerae motility is associated with inter-animal transmission - Nature Communications Determinants of Vibrio cholerae transmission are incompletely understood. Here, the authors use an infant mouse model to show that events in the intestine govern inter-animal transmission and that bac...

Vibrio cholerae motility is associated with inter-animal transmission www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🦠

‘Too many women choose death over divorce’: the Indian retreats taking the shame out of separation Divorce is not an end but a beginning, says Rafia Afi, who gets women together to change ideas about toxic marriages

‘Too many women choose death over divorce’: the Indian retreats taking the shame out of separation

#BESAG2025: Aquatic Ecology Group Annual Meeting 2025 Get together with the freshwater and marine research community to hear the latest research, share skills, and build your network!

There is still time to register for our annual meeting!

📍 ZSL London
📅 15/16th Sep. 2025
💻 2x Workshops + Conference

Join us if you are interested in anything #aquatic #marine #freshwater 💧🌊🌍🦠🐋🦪🦐🦀🪼🦑

**REGISTRATION DEADLINE now moved back to the 5th Sep **

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CDC cuts back foodborne illness surveillance program

Funds for monitoring foodborne infections including listeria (primarily milk products), campylobacter and salmonella to be cut by CDC in move to reduce food safety by MAHA - which again, akin to environmental protections and vaccines being reduced will make Americans much less healthier 🧪

Egypt Isn’t Starving Gaza – Israel Is Debunking the latest lie from pro-Israel propagandists: Egypt could open its border crossing with Gaza anytime and end the Israeli-created famine in the Strip. Here's the truth.

"Egypt Isn’t Starving Gaza – Israel Is"

Debunking the latest lie from pro-Israel propagandists: Egypt could open its border crossing with Gaza anytime and end the Israeli-created famine in the Strip. Here's the truth.

Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Political Scientist and liberal Zionist Michael Walzer gave an interview early in the Israeli campaign against Gaza in which he said, “It’s not easy for me to say such a thing, but if there were almost 10,000 Hamas fighters among the 30,000 Palestinians killed, it’s not a bad ratio for […]

Netanyahu far outscores Putin and George W. Bush in Killing innocent Civilians, at 83% of the Dead

‘We didn’t understand the goals of the war’: Israel’s inflated Hamas death toll shows lack of strategy in Gaza ‘War dashboard’ showing number of militants killed was objective in itself with no plan for how Gaza could be governed afterwards, say sources in elite Unit 8200 As Israel gears up for a new offensive in Gaza, figures from a classified database suggest the country’s political and military leadership has for two years misled their country and the world about a war that has overwhelmingly killed civilians. In May this year, Israel’s military intelligence database of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad fighters had 47,653 names. Of them, 8,900 were marked as killed, or probably killed, a joint investigation by the Guardian, the Israeli-Palestinian publication +972 Magazine and the Hebrew-language outlet Local Call has found. Continue reading...

‘We didn’t understand the goals of the war’: Israel’s inflated Hamas death toll shows lack of strategy in Gaza