Justine Rudkin

📣 NEW! I’ve just released the BIGGEST and perhaps most creative project I’ve ever worked on!

“Searching for Birds” searchingforbirds.visualcinnamon.com 🐤

A project, an article, an exploration that dives into the data that connects humans with birds, by looking at how we search for birds.

As an editor, my concern would be responding to feedback requests from reviewers if I didn't rate their review as high enough quality to earn the reward points.

Karma Reviewer Rewards Program Effective from February 4, 2026, the new JMIR Publications Karma Reviewer Rewards Program is a merit-based system designed to recognize and reward high-quality peer review contributions. Through th...

Interesting new peer review reward system just launched by JMIR Publications. A points-based system which can be exchanged for publishing services, in recognition of quality peer review- emphasis on quality, with detailed instructions for achieving this. support.jmir.org/hc/en-us/art...

Abstract outcomes are due this week 🤞

a woman in a crowd with the word trendizissy on the bottom left ALT: a woman in a crowd with the word trendizissy on the bottom left

OMG!!! Congratulations!!!!! Fantastic news. Bloody brilliant, well done 😁

Let me know how you get on, and if it's worth my investing in a pedicure.

Rich benefactor PI as co-supervisor? Failing that, OnlyFans (she says, only half joking).

Would you not just write it into a grant which covers the experiments, but doesn't ask for staff costs, stating that your employer will fund the fees and stipend of a PhD student who will deliver the work in the grant? It would be part of the institutional support spiel.

Early career group leaders We appoint researchers from across biology and biomedicine to set up their first groups at the Crick.

The @crick.ac.uk is recruiting Early Career Group Leaders

- Lab set-up, research costs, salaries for up to 5 researchers
- Support for up to 12 years
- Access to our core facilities
- Competitive salary
- Fantastic colleagues
- All areas of biology

Deadline 27 Nov

www.crick.ac.uk/careers-stud...

Please send enquiries to my University of Glasgow email address (which you can find online via a simple search), rather than a chat message on BlueSky. Thank you.

PhD opportunity to come and work in Glasgow, developing advanced tissue culture models to study Staphylococcus aureus colonisation and infection #microsky #PhD #DTPprogram

Enquiries from potential applicants are welcome.

www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...

www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

This is what happens when you chose to publish with @microbiologysociety.org. You are building the future of microbiology and giving a start to some incredible new scientists.

Nothing new for him it seems

@microbiologysociety.org have been at this for a while on their innovative Open Research Platform, Access Microbiology. If you like the sounds of this, but your work isn't quite Nature level, send it to Access Microbiology www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
#PeerReview #OpenScience #SciPub

Conferences with your friends are some of the best bits of the job. The job is not easy, but how very lucky to have such strong and opinionated women as my peers to conspire and collaborate with

A small train seat table with reading material and a healthy lunch of salad and fruit for the journey

En route to StaphGBI conference 🚂 Deeply regretting my lunch choices and lack of Greggs sausage roll 😏

Try a Teams call right to work check with passport to get paid for running labs for a different department within the same university. The Teams call became a in-person attendance at the departments HR the year after. Nope, you're going to need someone else to teach this lab.

Cheers to submitting my first major grant as a PI. Reviewers be kind...

Happy to have a quick look at it @aharms485.bsky.social to see if its suitable for Access Microbiology.
You are also at an institution which is signed up to fee free open access publishing with Microbiology Society journals, so you won't pay APCs either! microbiologysociety.org/institutiona...

Photograph shows a laptop on a kitchen table with a scone with clotted cream and jam in the foreground. Cream before jam, of course.

When you work from home home and your mumsey keeps you well fed 🤤

Photo of University of Glasgow attendees at the Microbiology Society Annual Conference, with a blank outline of a person labeled "You!" indicating where you could join.

🚨WE’RE HIRING!🚨 A Research Technician (2y) to join our team & work on exciting projects in bacterial evolution & gene regulation. Come join our growing, supportive Bacteriology Dept @uofglasgow.bsky.social ! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #MicroBio25 #microsky @microbiologysociety.org Apply by 30th April: tinyurl.com/2z9z9kse

If your institution is signed up to @microbiologysociety.org Publish & Read deal you get fee free OA publishing. I think UC Davis has fee free OA in all 6 titles.
microbiologysociety.org/institutiona...

For those of you who approached me at @microbiologysociety.org #Microbio25 (and anyone else interested!!), this is your last chance to apply for our PDRA position. Come join us in Glasgow!

First PhD student of the Rudkin Lab presenting at her first Microbiology Society event. Super proud of how well she's doing. Hope it's the first of many #MicroBio25

Prize Lectures Each year, the Microbiology Society awards Prize Lectures in recognition of significant contributions to microbiology. All members are invited to nominate an outstanding microbiologist for a Microbiol...

Nominations for all prize lectures are currently open, as well as applications to sit on the panels that make the decision. Information in the link- microbiologysociety.org/grants-prize...

Ending a fantastic week at #MicroBio25 with a view of the conference centre from the Ferry cross the Mersey @scousemicrobe.bsky.social

Clydeside taking over Merseyside at the @microbiologysociety.org #MicroBio25 🦠🧫

University of Glasgow Bacteriologists representing at #Microbio25 @uofgsii.bsky.social @uofgmvls.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org

Home home for #Microbio25 conference next week 🥰🦠🔬🧫

Strain-level variation among vaginal Lactobacillus crispatus and Lactobacillus iners as identified by comparative metagenomics - npj Biofilms and Microbiomes npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Strain-level variation among vaginal Lactobacillus crispatus and Lactobacillus iners as identified by comparative metagenomics

📣Publication alert!
Another great output from @metagymomics.bsky.social for his PhD. Looking at strain level genetic variation within members of the vaginal microbiome. #microsky @pauldcotter.bsky.social @calumwalsh.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...