In Scotland, we are familiar with Bams
11.12.2025 13:48 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Because freedom of speech is curtailed in Europe 🤔
10.12.2025 16:44 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The top 10 people of 2025 @nature.com who shaped science.
Recognizes Dr. Susan Monarez, the CDC Director who was "fired for holding the line on scientific integrity"
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
08.12.2025 17:05 — 👍 344 🔁 97 💬 6 📌 3
AI protein design marches on - very cool.
09.12.2025 09:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Diversity is a good thing - can we still say that?
09.12.2025 09:21 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
yet more depressing craziness
08.12.2025 16:04 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Phages are full of genes of unknown function that are likely adaptive in specific conditions.
New preprint: Phage TnSeq identifies essential genes rapidly and knocks all non-essentials. We would like to send a pool of phiKZ mutants to anyone wanting it! Reach out
tinyurl.com/bdcfrejh
08.12.2025 15:04 — 👍 87 🔁 40 💬 1 📌 2
I used to do this with courgettes to annoy my kids
05.12.2025 06:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Fascinating, take a look at the thread
05.12.2025 06:42 — 👍 9 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
A great opportunity for aspiring PhD students
02.12.2025 09:58 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
THE conference of 2026. Very glad to hear there's a zoom option, as I ain't setting foot in the USA in the next 3 years.
02.12.2025 09:54 — 👍 11 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Our SPARHA story is out in Nature Communications!
doi.org/10.1038/s414...
We investigated a new short pAgo-HNH defense system, showing that it assembles into filaments degrading cellular DNA, inducing abortive infection, resolved their structure, and uncovered the activation mechanism 🧵
01.12.2025 08:38 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
@multidefence.bsky.social
27.11.2025 09:14 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
a man walking in a field with an umbrella
ALT: a man walking in a field with an umbrella
Come join us! Soon I will be advertising a postdoc vacancy in my group as part of my @erc.europa.eu AdG project 'DARK ROOTS'. Focus of the project will be on phylo- and metagenomic mining of novel prokaryotic lineages. I will soon post a link here - stay tuned, and please repost! #asgardarchaea
26.11.2025 15:39 — 👍 32 🔁 31 💬 0 📌 1
My lab is hiring postdocs! We combine AI, protein structure prediction and comparison, and high-throughput virology to study the virus-host conflict.
You can read more about my lab's research here: jasonnomburg.com/research/
Apply here to join us in lovely Vienna! aithyra.onlyfy.jobs/job/0khkxp82
20.10.2025 13:03 — 👍 14 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
Hot, but very cool!
26.11.2025 06:44 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Now online at @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social from co-first authors @erinedoherty.bsky.social & @jnoms.bsky.social
25.11.2025 21:14 — 👍 10 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
From populations of multicellular organisms to selfish genetic elements, conflicts between levels of biological organization are central to evolution. Plasmids are extrachromosomal, self-replicating g...
Hot off the press! Our latest paper led by @fernpizza.bsky.social, understanding how plasmids evolve inside cells. These small, self-replicating DNA circles live inside bacteria and carry antibiotic resistance genes, but also compete with one another to replicate. 1/
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
20.11.2025 21:42 — 👍 431 🔁 200 💬 11 📌 18
🚨Preprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
A thread 1/8
20.11.2025 20:39 — 👍 210 🔁 89 💬 11 📌 5
Is it a flagellate? A tiny ball with tentacles? Contamination in my ciliate culture? NEW SUPERGROUP OF EUKARYOTES? Yes to all 4! Meet Solarion - just out in #Nature doi.org/10.1038/s415... Huge congrats to Marek Valt, Cepicka Lab & the star team! Very happy to be part of this project. #ProtistsOnSky
19.11.2025 21:38 — 👍 116 🔁 47 💬 5 📌 0
PhD studentship opportunity! Join us at St Andrews to study the factors controlling plasmid transmission in the gut. Competition-funded as part of the EASTBIO DTP, co-supervised with Dr Jaclyn Pearson. Please share & pass on to anyone interested! 🦠🧫 Deadline 15th December👇
18.11.2025 11:41 — 👍 12 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0
Building bridges – People – EMBO
Meet Aude Bernheim, Institut Pasteur, Paris | EMBO Young Investigator
Meet Aude Bernheim @audeber.bsky.social, EMBO Young Investigator at @pasteur.fr #France: “The EMBO Young Investigator Programme has been developed by and for researchers,” she says. “It gives us access to some of the best #research infrastructures in the world.” 🧪 www.embo.org/people/build...
18.07.2025 14:09 — 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Akin to bacterial SIR2 antiphage proteins, human SIRal, also known as FAM118b, forms filaments that are essential for its NAD processing activity.
Awesome to see structures of these filaments that differ from bacterial ones.
Congrats to the authors on this beautiful study.
17.11.2025 16:52 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Just been trying out Nature Research Assistant beta, which analyses your manuscript drafts and suggests "improvements". Strong sub-editor vibes for me and I worry it will homogenise the literature - anyone else had a look?
17.11.2025 09:11 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Amazing piece of work from @rtoshiro.bsky.social
& Kim Seed at UC Berkeley. 🙌
Played a tiny role in this work.
Surviving phage attack dynamically regulates bacterial immunity to defeat counterdefenses
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
15.11.2025 15:37 — 👍 16 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
Federation of European Microbiological Societies | https://fems-microbiology.org | Magnifying microbial impact | Follow the not-for-profit FEMS Journals: @femsjournals.bsky.social | #FEMSJournals | #microbiology
EMBO is the organization of more than 2,100 leading researchers that promotes excellence in life sciences in Europe and beyond.
https://www.embo.org/
Still trying to figure out how to clone the perfect coffee.
Postdoc fellow @ Zhang lab, The Broad institute of MIT and Harvard
Microbe lover, Assistant professor @Uni_Tue @CoE_CMFI
working on system biology of bacteria & antibiotics.
@EMBL alumni, @Uni_WUE alumni
www.brochadolab.com
Editor-in-chief of BusinessGreen, writing for a couple of decades or so about the environment, the economy, green politics, and the Climate Theory of Everything
RNA, microbiology, infectious disease; Helmholtz Institute for RNA-based Infection Research & University of Würzburg, Germany
www.helmholtz-hiri.de
Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology & Joint Head of the Division of Protein & Nucleic Acid Chemistry. Senior Executive Editor, Nucleic Acids Research.
Postdoc in Westra lab, University of Exeter, Cornwall, UK
Interested in host-MGE and MGE-MGE interactions.
💛Temperate phages!
Group Leader/MRC Fellow at the University of Glasgow
Website: marianolab.com/home
Retired Professor of Microbiology in the UK. Love bacteriophages, Streptomyces, fun, outdoors, culture and politics.
Studying DNA replication, repair and recombination using biochemical, biophysical and structural methods. University of Bristol, UK.
ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4612-7141
Royal Society University Research Fellow | NUAcT Fellow @ Newcastle University @mhd-newcastle.bsky.social
Investigating mycobacterial transport systems
#structuralbiology #microbiology
Instagram @kshbeckham
Senior Lecturer, Newcastle Uni UK
We study the chemical language of bacteria (& what influences it) for antibiotic discovery
http://www.medicinesfromthesea.com
Editor Microbiology, Young Academy of Scotland, SAB RSC NatProdRep & EAB ACS JNatProd
Proud Ballymena Professor. Senior Strategic Advisor at RoRI; Emeritus Prof at Imperial. Former DORA Chair. Husband, father, carer. Also cares about science & equity. Personal a/c. Writes occasionally at http://occamstypewriter.org/scurry/.
Environment and climate journalist | Editor in Chief at @nationalobserver.com | Work in The Globe and Mail, The Narwhal, The Guardian | www.jameswsthomson.com
Prof. and Head of Phage-host interactions (Phi) lab. Phage defences, counter-defences, CRISPR-Cas, toxin-antitoxin. FRSNZ / James Cook Fellow
Writer, broadcaster, author (NOMAD CENTURY; TRANSCENDENCE; ANTHROPOCENE https://bit.ly/3QR898d) Human-Earth system science https://toot.community/@WanderingGaia
Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder. Microbiologist. All-around nerd.
http://colorado.edu/lab/aaron-whiteley/
