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Christmas is go
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Annual Conference 2026
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AI and Machine Learning are transforming how we understand microbial systems, integrating omics workflows to predict and guide the future in research. Don’t miss the AI-enabled Microbiology session at Annual Conference 2026. Register now: microb.io/AC26Register #Microbio26
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Releases · tseemann/abricate
:mag_right: :pill: Mass screening of contigs for antimicrobial and virulence genes - tseemann/abricate
💾 ABRicate 1.2.0 has been released!
This 'oversight' lasted 6 years, but with help from @finlaym.bsky.social we got CI working and updated all the databases. #bioconda #conda #bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics
github.com/tseemann/abr...
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Receiving a peace prize from FIFA reminds me of the time the Good Food Guide awarded a star to Jeffrey Dahmer for his innovative approach to food preservation and culinary exploration.
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Medieval volcano may have indirectly sparked Europe’s Black Death
Crop failures caused by eruptions possibly forced grain imports from plague-ridden regions
The Black Death was history's worst documented demographic disaster. New research shows it was also a bizarre anomaly, the unlikely result of volcanic eruptions, multiple consecutive poor harvests in Italy, a war between Genoa, Venice and the Mongols, AND a Black Sea plague outbreak. @science.org
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Preprint out! Check out our new long-read metagenomic SNP-caller, SNooPy 😀. Work with Chris Quince. Thread 🧵
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Is UoB email down. I haven’t had an email this morning 🤯
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Yes it would lead to ruin. As there isn’t a uni council in the land wouldnt demand huge cuts and restructuring to right the ship.
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2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
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📣🦠Check out our new Editor’s Spotlight! Senior MGEN editor Jesse Shapiro tells us about a recently published paper on the bystander effect on the evolution of Bordetella parapertussis, a non-target species of the pertussis vaccine #MGEN
Read the full blog here: microb.io/48zfOlJ
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A gentle jest. I was in the new building week before last. Can’t fail to be impressed
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Every time you have to pay for something…………
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Meanwhile Ekitike who does nothing but perform sits on the bench
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Ditto MacAllster. Too slow
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Lots of talk about Salah being Liverpool problem this season. Well am sorry but VVD is playing league 1 level and no one wants to accept it.
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ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia?
My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re…
I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia?
My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building.
medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...
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Who did your guttering mate?
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A mute button, but on people's foreheads.
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Kolo-Muani playing for spurs this evening
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Obviously editors read this post and had the last laugh by desk rejecting one this morning………..
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A very happy St Andrew's Day to ye all! Awa for a dram.. Slainte! Winter on Loch Affric, Glen Affric #Scotland #StAndrewsDay #GlenAffric damianshields.photoshelter.com/p/2026-calendar
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For viewers in Scotland, Your Party will of course be known by its full title: “Oor Party, Your Party, A’body’s Party!”
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Postdoc - high-throughput experimental evolution - AMR @ University of Oxford
Virologist. Professor. Cambridge, UK
https://www.immunology.cam.ac.uk/staff/professor-sam-wilson
https://tinyurl.com/samjwilsonscholar
PhD student/ Microbial Ecology & Evolution in CF🦠🔬👩🏻🔬/ Trinity College Dublin/ Tá Gaeilge agam/ she/her
Microbial ecologist/carer. NERC IRF and MRF Emerging Leaders Fellow at the University of Exeter in Penryn. I like warming up bacteria, open & reproducible science, making focaccia, and exercise.
PhD candidate in Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich | AMR evolution in the gut microbiome
{Microbiology ∩ ecology ∩ physics}. Research fellow @sheffielduni.bsky.social. Alumnus of the labs of @saramitri.bsky.social, Mack Durham and Kevin Foster. Lab website: https://sites.google.com/sheffield.ac.uk/microbial-ecosystem-physics/home
Associate Prof @HarvardMed. Microbial evolution, antibiotic resistance, mobile genetic elements, algorithms, phages, molecular biotech, etc. Basic research is the engine of progress.
baymlab.hms.harvard.edu
Computational evolutionary biologist - phylogenetics, molecular and microbial evolution
Writer. Doesn't go on about it. Likes a laugh. Rep'd for children's lit by Fraser Ross Associates, Edinburgh. Crime Fiction WIP.
Executive Director of SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics @sib.swiss and Professor at the University of Lausanne (UNIL), Switzerland. @cdessimoz and @dessimoz@mstdn.science elsewhere. Comparative Genomics, Phylogenetics, Evolution, Computational Biology.
Prof for chemical biology at ETH Zurich
Interested in: genetic code expansion - chembio tools - bioorthogonal chemistries - PTMs - Ub in all its shades - protein engineering
Bacterial Mobile Evolution. Staff Scientist at Sanger Institute. I study how pathogens emerge and evolve by sharing genes. Interested in AMR, Plasmids, Phages, ICEs, and everything that moves within and between genomes.
Assistant Professor in Infection Biology and the Microbiome
Prof, interim Director Institute for Global Food Security, Queen’s University Belfast, Welsh speaker
The MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology aims to understand biological processes at the molecular level to help tackle human health problems and disease.
PhD student at the University of Birmingham | AMR, evolution and enterococci
RNA modifications, antibiotic tolerance, bacterial stress, non coding RNAs, Vibrio cholerae.
Institut Pasteur & EGM (IBPC, CNRS)
UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Group Leader in Microbial Genomics at UCL Genetics Institute @ugiatucl.bsky.social.
Reconstructing the evolution of us and our pathogens past, present and future using large-scale genomics.
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucbpvan
Putting genomic surveillance at the heart of outbreak response. Wellcome Trust-funded Collaborative Award.
co-founder of ContamClub • plasmid fan • purveyor of artisanal bioinformatics
