Steve Diggle

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Exclusive: retraction-prone editors identified at megajournal PLoS ONE Study says small editor group handled many problematic manuscripts — and a Nature investigation finds out who they are.

Nearly one-third of all retracted papers at PLoS ONE can be traced back to just 45 researchers who served as editors at the journal

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I am excited to announce that the position of a senior postdoc (3 +3 years) in the field of theoretical biology is available in my group.

The position provides the opportunity to closely interact with experimentalists and develop own research projects.

Please RT.

Details 👇:
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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

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...

They will get accepted quickly! A perfect business model.

I’ve been thinking this will happen for sometime now. I feel it’s a matter of when and not if

Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2tn a year by 2050, models show Exclusive: Research on burden of antibiotic resistance for 122 countries predicts dire economic and health outcomes

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The entities enabling scientific fraud at scale are large, resilient, and growing rapidly | PNAS Science is characterized by collaboration and cooperation, but also by uncertainty, competition, and inequality. While there has always been some c...

Important read

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Storage stability of non-encapsulated pneumococci in saliva is dependent on null-capsule clade, with strains carrying aliC and aliD showing a competitive disadvantage during culture enrichment Non-encapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae (NESp) represent up to 19% of circulating pneumococci and exhibit high rates of genetic exchange and antimicrobial resistance. Saliva is increasingly used as ...

New paper alert! In depth characterisation of non-encapsulated pneumococci in saliva: stability, detection and recovery. Important findings for using saliva samples for carriage studies. @microbiologysociety.org @annewyllie.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Have fun y’all

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Pectobacterium atrosepticum SCRI1043 flagella mediate adherence to potato plants indirectly through motility Flagella are widely distributed appendages in bacteria with well-characterized functions in motility and chemotaxis. They also interact directly with hosts and, due to their ubiquity, are potent immun...

New paper alert! Flagella mediated adherence of Pectobacterium atrosepticum to potato plants requires flagella motility. @microbiologysociety.org @nicholden.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

KpSC-ID: a multiplex real-time PCR assay for the simultaneous detection of the Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex and specific identification of Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella quasipneumoniae an... The Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex (KpSC) comprises five closely related bacterial species, namely Klebsiella pneumoniae, Klebsiella quasipneumoniae, Klebsiella variicola, Klebsiella quasivarii...

New paper alert! A real time PCR assay to detect and distinguish Klebsiella pneumonia, quasipneumoniae and variicola. @microbiologysociety.org @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

New Microbial Primer published by the @microbiologysociety.org on agr-mediated quorum sensing in Gram-positive pathogens. Explore the full Primer collection here www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/micr...

Recruitment poster for the Bhamla Lab. Top shows Georgia Tech and CU Boulder logos. Main headline: “Hiring Multiple Postdoctoral Researchers: Organismal Biomechanics, Soft Robotics, and Raman Diagnostics.” Left column lists four roles—Organismal Biology, Bioinspired Engineering, Raman Diagnostics, and a Curiosity‑Based slot—plus note of 3‑year funding from DARPA, NSF, NIH, and Schmidt. Right side features a vintage collage of a Victorian‑era scientist with robotic arm, insects, and globe, and a circular “Physics of Life” diagram linking biology, physics, engineering, and mathematics. Tan background, Bhamla Lab crest at top.

Hiring 4 postdocs — organismal biophysics, soft robotics, frugal Raman diagnostics, or your own bold idea.

3-year funding, $65K+ benefits. GT (Atlanta) now → CU Boulder BioFrontiers Institute in Fall ’26.

PDF/details in next post. Tag/share if someone comes to mind. 🧪🪲🪳#livingphysics

R-pyocins as targeted antimicrobials against Pseudomonas aeruginosa - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - R-pyocins as targeted antimicrobials against Pseudomonas aeruginosa

More on R-pyocins here www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Thanks to the NIH for the F31 award to my grad student Isaac. He is focused on developing R-pyocins as therapeutics against multi-drug resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa

I found the 1894 Lancet Plague paper on my computer the other day. Very interesting. Too much to try and keep up with nowadays though. Too many papers being published

Cool

YouTube video by American Society for Microbiology Bats Are a Bigger Rabies Threat Than You Think

Bats rarely bite, but when they do, the consequences can be deadly. While dog and terrestrial wildlife bites once topped the list, it’s now bats that are behind most rabies deaths in America. Hear how bats became the leading source of rabies fatalities in recent decades. youtu.be/AwiH420lR1c

Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2tn a year by 2050, models show Exclusive: Research on burden of antibiotic resistance for 122 countries predicts dire economic and health outcomes

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Fig. 1. Acute versus chronic and mono- versus polymicrobial infections. (a) Acute infections resolve relatively quickly, with or without drug interventions. Infections that do not resolve over time with treatment become chronic infections. A chronic polymicrobial infection may develop from either an initially monospecies infection that accumulates more species over time or from an initially polymicrobial infection that fails to resolve despite treatment. (b) Polymicrobial infections (yellow) can result from the presence of multiple damage-causing pathogen species and/or the presence of multiple species at an infection site. (c) Chronic polymicrobial infections can exist in previously sterile sites or in non-sterile sites and can be seeded from endogenous microbiota or exogenous species. Various risk factors such as immunocompromise, increased age and other underlying health conditions predispose individuals to developing these chronic polymicrobial infections.

Challenges and opportunities in the treatment of chronic polymicrobial infections ‒ an eco-evolutionary perspective. Published in #MicrobioJ as part of the Microbial Primers collection: doi.org/10.1099/mic....

Awesome! Congrats!

Still remains true. However, there are so many papers published it’s almost impossible to keep the rigor and reading up

Quality of scientific papers questioned as academics ‘overwhelmed’ by the millions published Mainstream mockery of AI-generated rat with giant penis in one paper brings problem to public attention

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Arizona resident dies from plague, health officials say This was the first recorded death from the disease in Coconino County since 2007.

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Totally!

mBio Board of Editors Members of the mBio Editorial Board

Happy to be starting my role as Editor for mBio at the beginning of a new era for the journal. Consider sending your impactful papers to us and support the ASM and Societies in general. journals.asm.org/journal/mbio...

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