🚨 We’re hiring – MRC-funded Postdoc (3 yrs)
Research Fellow to investigate how mobile genetic elements interact in Staphylococcus aureus and shape gene transfer and pathogenicity.
University of St Andrews
Closes 31 March 2026
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Enquiries: afh22@st-andrews.ac.uk
So today is the day…. The day I bought tickets to see a matinee musical for my auntie (70th bday) and daughter (17th bday) because they both love musicals. Only to realise only earlier in the week it clashes with the England V Ireland match….
Did I mention that I also HATE musicals….
😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Probably tricky to work out with the new rival tests on the market like Truenat, I know they using that in South Africa for example
16.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Nationally or internationally?
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2yrs ago we went to Paris to watch rugby in the olympics. We melted in the heat and the then 16yr made the statement ‘why don’t they hold the Olympics in the winter when it’s colder’ 🤣
His sister has bided her time and has had so much fun the last few weeks reminding him what he said…. #sisters
Crazy rugby action today!
14.02.2026 17:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0That’s very cool!
13.02.2026 09:21 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Not at all…. It’s just the silly game we play.
12.02.2026 19:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Doubt it helps much but I spent a period of 10 years solidly applying for grants, at least 2 ukri ones a year. Never got any… it’s shit but it will happen. Simon Fosters words stayed with me: doggedness is key!
12.02.2026 18:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Won’t be anyone from ITV, that’s for sure!
11.02.2026 19:07 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0And now he’s joined here @sj-fenn.bsky.social
11.02.2026 18:52 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thanks Tracy! 😊
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Super cool story from Sam Fenn. He developed a wound model where s. aureus & p. aerunginosa & c. albicans fight it out shows that copper is central to the outcome where Candida and pseudomonas take copper from human tissue to gang up on staph!
But staph being staph is as always one step ahead….
Copper as a central element critical to interkingdom interactions within a polymicrobial wound environment. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.02.10.705071v1
11.02.2026 02:16 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 2
Fascinating story…. kick in the teeth for potential of phage therapy?? (Albeit in larvae)
Bacterial phylogeny explains variation in virulence but not phage efficacy in vivo www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
How is it the French are ALSO so good looking…. #NotFair
05.02.2026 21:37 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We’ve always got the Olympics to look forward to… 😭
05.02.2026 20:50 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Ooohhhhh Ireland 😭☘️
05.02.2026 20:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Following the dental analogy…. Looks like it’s got the flag stuck between its teeth and needs a good flossing…. 😊
04.02.2026 09:15 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I know she’s only 16 but still…. The daughter had never heard of Take that!! 😱
31.01.2026 19:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0The management of the release of this info is appalling!
23.01.2026 19:26 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0🤷♀️came via our research office?
23.01.2026 12:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0No, but the bbsrc have announced they are following suit 😬
23.01.2026 12:26 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0
www.findaphd.com/phds/project... interested in bacterial antagonism? PhD opportunity in our team, see below. Please repost!
23.01.2026 10:33 — 👍 22 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 2
🚨 Fully‑funded PhD for Home Students🚨
Explore alternative therapies for UTIs, how they work and interact with antibiotics and help shape new solutions to AMR! Join a our supportive team at UoN and make real impact in infection research.
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A sure sign of a country’s economic regression.
19.01.2026 20:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I don’t know…. But the wheels of these sort of things don’t usually move fast….
19.01.2026 20:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😬
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