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Prof @Cambridge_Uni Genomic epidemiologist. #Shigella and #AMR enthusiast. Views own. http://gen.cam.ac.uk/baker-group also www.pdu.gen.cam.ac.uk also @pducambridge.bsky.social
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🚨 We're recruiting! The Journal of Medical Microbiology is seeking two Editors for our Molecular and Microbial Epidemiology section. Help shape the future of microbiology research. 📅 Apply by 20 June 2025 🔗 microb.io/News

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Repeatedly having to write your own bio is one of the most cringey things about being a PI

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This is me and project management software 😆

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🎉 We’ve hit 500 members! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who's joined the TARGetAMR community, your support is driving global change. 🌍💊 Let’s keep growing - join us today and be part of the movement! 🔗 Read more about this milestone: www.targetamr.org.uk/targetamr-ma... #AMR #GlobalHealth

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Gonna be so good ...

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Two academic (lecturer) positions available at the University of Otago in Aotearoa/New Zealand! One in Conservation Biology, another in Evolutionary Ecology. Links for positions below: otago.taleo.net/careersectio... otago.taleo.net/careersectio...

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Defence Systems are so hot right now 🔥 🔥 🔥 so check out our latest preprint to see how DSes contribute to niche adaptation, interact with each other, and drive accessory genome interactions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sexually transmissible shigellosis has gone from an obscure cause of sporadic outbreaks to a sustained endemic AMR priority in only two decades! 🧫💊 Check out our latest preprint to understand how this happened 1/11 www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Exciting news at Cambridge! We are launching the Darwin-Hamied Centre to promote research at the intersection of biodiversity and economics christs.cam.ac.uk/news/darwin-.... We are advertising two 5-year Senior Research Fellowships—application deadline 22nd June! christs.cam.ac.uk/vacancies-ch...

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… and also potentially rising rates of antibiotic resistance in strains of OTHER bacteria. Amazing news! 👏👏👏

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Lyme disease... my wife had ticks on her legs today, despite wearing long trousers. Always check for ticks. I had Lyme disease, with long term consequences. You really don't want it. Pass it on, please, if you can. Thanks 🙂 @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social

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Our JPIAMR grant (led by @edfeil.bsky.social) is ramping up, and Bath are looking for a research associate to work on Candida epidemiology for this project. Come work with us! www.myscience.org/jobs/id31031...

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... June felt so far away a couple of months ago - curse you March Kate for overcommitting us!

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Happy to share the first preprint from my lab. Great work by Lewis Fisher and collaboration with Jukka Corander www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Hello binfies 👋! There is an open position for a senior bioinformatician to join our fab **core bioinformatics** team at @quadraminstitute.bsky.social. jobs.quadram.ac.uk/Details.asp?...

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Hey babe, new omes just dropped

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New preprint, as described by David below. There's been an increase in doxycycline use for prevention and treatment of bacterial STIs. What's happened to resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae? Here we track tetM, a tetracycline-resistance gene, looking at both proportion and phylogenetics.

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The MIMIC lab is hiring a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join my team at @Cambridge_Uni! Exploration and engineering DNA-mimicking proteins (wet-lab position.) 🧬 Details: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50652/ Please get in touch / circulate !

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Come join us! Next week marks my 1 year anniversary at @uniofmanchester.bsky.social and I've never looked back!

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📣📣Are you looking for a postdoc? 📣📣 Does a EU or Horizon Europe assoc country (eg UK, S Korea) seem like a good destination? These fellowships a great funding option for anyone in the 🌎 👀 Check them out - next call opens 8 May 🧪 👨‍🔬👩‍🔬 marie-sklodowska-curie-actions.ec.europa.eu/actions/post...

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Happy #InternationalWomensDay everyone! Now more important than ever.

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I’m speaking today at @camzoology.bsky.social International Women’s Day celebration. Come listen to the amazing research stories from my fellow #womeninscience!

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