Claas Kirchhelle

No better place to geek out - and annoy the family - than Micropia in Amsterdam!

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week."

--Willa Cather, 1925 and timeless

🔍 What is TARGetAMR? It’s more than an acronym - we are a collaborative network driving innovation in the fight against antimicrobial resistance 🔬
🧬By combining genomics and trans-disciplinary expertise, we’re working to reduce AMR and improve global health
#AMR #Genomics

It's that time again. Sounding the Exeter #academicjob klaxon! 3yr Research Fellow post with a focus on environmental-social-health inequalities, working with my excellent colleague Rebecca Lynch in Egenis. Come and join us! #sts #sustainability #medsoc #anthropology

Therapeutic innovation in drug repurposing: Challenges and opportunities Drug repurposing leverages existing drugs for new therapeutic uses, offering significant opportunities but facing challenges such as financial and reg…

Interested in drug repurposing? Although this strategy can represent a short-cut to new therapies, it is not without its pitfalls. We (UCL's Repurposing Therapeutic Innovation Network) wrote a review on how to exploit repurposing for maximising success! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

(PDF) Beyond breakpoint – reconceptualising AMR as a symptom of planetary stress PDF | On Jun 19, 2025, Claas Kirchhelle and others published Beyond breakpoint – reconceptualising AMR as a symptom of planetary stress | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate

Some weekend reading:🔍🌍📖
Claas Kirchhelle and Adam P. Roberts
Beyond Breakpoint: Reconceptualising AMR as a symptom of planetary stress @kirchhelle.bsky.social

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Wow, what an opportunity for bio-archaeologists! Looking forward to reading the publications over the coming years!

"The Mask" by @brunostrasser.bsky.social and #thomasschlich is out today. I have listened to talks and seen some papers and cannot wait to read this.

Plenty studies showing that your postcode is a better predictor of your health outcomes than your genome.

Excited to share a new commentary with @gcagatgcaatg.bsky.social in NPJ #Antimicrobials & Resistance on the need to expand narrow clinical approaches & reconceptualise #AMR within a #planetaryboundaries framework:

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

@cermes3.bsky.social @willhgaze.bsky.social #histmed

Without Borders Media Fellowship - Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF)/Doctors Without Borders MSF is looking for journalists, photographers, filmmakers, and newsrooms to work together, build communities of practice and support humanitarian actors to better understand crises and contexts, and w...

📢 The deadline for the Médecins Sans Frontières(MSF) South Asia #WithoutBordersMediaFellowship has been extended to 30 June 2025!

GARDP is proud to support this opportunity for journalists across South Asia through a grant on antimicrobial resistance (AMR).

Apply👇
msfsouthasia.org/without-bord...

Advertisement poster roundtable showing book cover of the Politics of Zoonoses.

On June 19th (13:30-15:00 CET), join us in Paris (CNRS campus Villejuif) for a roundtable on Frédéric Keck's new book on the politics of #zoonoses (Découverte 2024; soon out in English). Discussions in 🇫🇷🇬🇧

You can also join online: cnrs.zoom.us/j/9512659974...

@cermes3.bsky.social

Long-term effects of azithromycin mass administration to reduce childhood mortality on Streptococcus pneumoniae antimicrobial resistance: a population-based, cross-sectional, follow-up carriage survey Azithromycin MDA is associated with macrolide resistance that persists and potentially spreads to untreated populations. The co-existence of multidrug resistance and transmissible resistance on integr...

Important finding. Widespread antibiotic use, with best intentions, has long term #AMR consequences.

"Azithromycin MDA is associated with macrolide resistance that persists and potentially spreads to untreated populations."
#IDSky #ClinMicro #MedSky @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social

We have officially moved in.

Our Pop-Up Science Shop will be open to the public from 7th July until 3rd August 3025.

Find us in the St David's shopping centre in Cardiff near John Lewis, Zara and Apple.

Learn about the microbial world in, on and around us.

Including the black death.

TODAY

@engelmal.bsky.social @mcbresalier.bsky.social @sjvanders.bsky.social @annakspeaking.bsky.social

An inspiring two days discussing the role of platforms in biomedicine @cermes3.bsky.social & touring the real platforms @pasteur.fr. Thanks to all labs for hosting us! The tour of Pasteur's crypt was an extra treat - including finding Metchnikoff in the blue plastic box... @millieqed.bsky.social

Optimising agricultural microbiology was already at the heart of one of the first international microbial development programmes, the UNESCO Microbiological Resource Centres (MIRCENs). Key now as then is to ensure actual sustainable access to resulting resources.

Further particulars, page 1 (too much text to reproduce here). Contact: anna_greithanner@psych.mpg.de.

Further particulars, page 2. (too much text to reproduce here). Contact: anna_greithanner@psych.mpg.de.

Interesting #HistPsych post: the Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry is looking to hire an archivist for their historical archive.

Wonderful #STS and history job opportunities on #antibiotic innovation coming up at the University of Vienna!

Hunting extreme microbes that redefine the limits of life An adventurous survey of inhospitable habitats unearths extraordinary organisms that pose challenging research questions.

"In contrast to some cultured, slow-growing archaea, populations of which double over weeks and months, and laboratory strains of Escherichia coli that can double every 20 minutes, chronophiles would take hundreds or thousands of years to muster enough energy for cell division"

Per @washingtonpost.com: 'President Donald Trump on Thursday fired Carla Hayden, the Librarian of Congress — the first woman and first African American to hold the position. She was informed of the decision in a terse, two-sentence email'.

#DrCarlaHayden #LibraryofCongress.

I had been planning to work this afternoon but now find myself glued to German radio... Oh boy...

There is a very nice book on the expedition by Jaclyn Duffin: www.penguinbookshop.com/book/9780773...

Is wastewater surveillance the next frontier in tracking antimicrobial resistance? 🦠💧

In this seminar, @oxonandrew.bsky.social will discuss how wastewater surveillance could become a powerful tool in the global fight against #AMR.

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Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 at University of Oxford Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Associate Professor in History, 1000-1500 on jobs.ac.uk!

New job at Oxford - do please share widely!

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMS153/a...

Expressions of Interest: Historian(s) for history of UK Government policy towards Northern Ireland during the Troubles at Northern Ireland Office Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...

Who wants to be official historian of UK policy in Northern Ireland during the Troubles? (Don’t all shout at once)
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMQ310/e...