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Legitmately thrilled to share our latest work, in which @fernpizza.bsky.social solved an experimental challenge in plasmid biology as old as the field: measuring how plasmids compete and evolve within individual cells!

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Btw this is an actual movie, shot with a Canon DSLR in a photo studio incubator, of fluorescence-expressing plasmids competing and segregating inside cells

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I'm delighted to announce that the 2025 @microbiologysociety.org meeting on "Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics" will be held in Liverpool 26-27 November 2025! Abstract submission will open soon... #microsky 🧪🧫🦠 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ...

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🚨 #PhD opportunity! 🚨 Come and work with @evaheinz7.bsky.social and me at the University of Strathclyde (Glasgow) on an exciting project investigating the roles that #bacteriophages play in the evolution and virulence of #enterococci. 🧫🧬 Details here: www.strath.ac.uk/studywithus/...

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BBSRC fellowships are open: 3yrs of funding, ECRs worldwide are eligible (including the US 👀). Deadline 7th May. If you've a some postdoc experience (but no prior independent fellowships) and fancy coming to my Dept/ Institute in @liverpooluni.bsky.social, drop me a message.

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And this is the result, at 300mm with about 15' integrated exposure. No telescope, no start tracker, just a tripod. Say hello to M42!

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Now's the best time yet to buy a copy of my new book Graphic Novel Builder! For the whole of February, 10% of all sales of my book will go to BookTrust and Scottish Book Trust! You just need to use the affiliate link below to buy from @bookshop-org-uk.bsky.social! uk.bookshop.org/p/books/grap...

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Join our lively interactive community of evolutionary biologists in Northern Germany! 7 PhD positions on TransEvo topics, incl 1 PhD position in the Schulenburg lab. @transevo.bsky.social

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We have an open position PhD position in a project aiming to develop novel methodologies for phylogenomic reconstruction of plasmid evolution. See details and how to apply in the Ad. Candidates who will review the relevant literature (see Ad) have a higher chance to write a successful application.

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Join us at our Disabled and Neurodivergent Members Social for an opportunity to meet with fellow members during #Microbio25. The event is on Monday 31 March 20:00 GMT. Secure your ticket on our website: https://microb.io/Microbio25

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It’s Race Equality Week and we want to shine a light on a very important drop-in session the Black Microbiologists Association will be hosting during #Microbio25 on 31 March. Find out more via our programme and join them on the day: https://microb.io/Microbio25 #REW25 #BlackInMicro

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Hayao Miyazaki's short guide to watercolor painting -- we put this translation together a couple of years ago

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Powerful and important infographics by @firefoxx66.bsky.social about the ongoing destruction of our public health and scientific infrastructure, one of the nation’s greatest assets. Read. Share. Take action.

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Hey folks, microbial evolution (and I interpret this super broadly- bacteria, archaea, viruses, theory, Alife, field, lab, biophys, etc) now has a feed thanks to @atinygreencell.bsky.social. I hope this will be my ye olde Science Twitter v2. Come join us! 🧪 #MEvoSky Link: bsky.app/profile/did:...

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First post of the year to mark my return from maternity leave :) Excited to share the first open PhD position in my group. Deadline end of February. Please spread the word. www.findaphd.com/phds/projectdetails.aspx?PJID=181239

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Just over a week left to apply!

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Can anyone recommend papers where authors look at pairwise interactions between bacteria within a community context? i.e. interaction strength between strain A and strain B when co-cultured with several/many other strains. Thanks!

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🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan lab & @brockhurstlab.bsky.social are seeking a PhD student interested in investigating the ecol & evol of pathogens in cystic fibrosis exacerbations. This PhD is funded as part of @pulse-cf.bsky.social w @alexhorsley.bsky.social et al. More info & link to apply below.

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🧵Just published in @plosbiology.org - one of the most unusual papers that I've ever handled as editor (with help from guest ed @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social). @mallorymrice.bsky.social &co explore the consequences of problematic terminology that has grown up around ecology & evolutionary biology...

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Out now: enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Fun collaboration with @biotechdixon.bsky.social and great work by PhD Alejandro! I guess we really do biotech now?!

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🚨PhD studentship opportunity! Bacteria protect themselves with a huge arsenal of defences, but does this affect how they gain new traits on plasmids? 🧫🦠💫 Apply for a funded 4y position with me @livuni-ives.bsky.social, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social @jojofoth.bsky.social & @multidefence.bsky.social ⬇️

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It’s official: The Microbiology Society is on Bluesky!

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It's a new year, and I'd love to line up some more #scicomm comics work! I've been making science comics in collaboration with scientists for 15 years. If you have some research you'd love to turn into a short comic, please get in touch! www.edwardross.co.uk/science-comics

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Sharing three fully funded PhD opportunities to join my lab at Queen’s to work on topics spanning bacterial pathogens, antibiotic resistance, microbial interactions, & mobile genetic elements 🦠. Closing dates in January and February, and open to international candidates 🌍 Projects detailed below ⬇️

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Very excited to present our latest work as my first post on Bluesky. Thanks to all co-authors for their valuable contributions! A truly mammoth effort with many different fields of expertise coming together. Looking forward to working with all of you in future as well. #Microsky

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🚨Spoiler alert! It's a weird, ancillary copy of metG — normally a central part of protein translation — spread around by a curious phage-plasmid. Another case of plasmids manipulating core bacterial activity in unexpected & impactful ways. Kate's thread has more on this amazing story 🤩 #Microsky

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Certain sublineages of antimicrobial resistant bacteria dominate the surveillance landscape, but what causes them to become resistant? Check out our latest work in Shigella to find out and/or read the thread below www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.10.27.24316207v2 1/n

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That's me done for the year. This year I wrote, drew and coloured about 190 pages of comics, including a graphic novel, one and a half science comics, a pitch and some other bits and bobs. Thanks to everyone who supported my work this year! ✌️

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BBSRC funded PhD - evolution in the early stages of symbiosis, using Arsenophonus as model. tinyurl.com/Edgeofsymbio.... Apply by 30/01/2025. Available for UK and International students. With @brockhurstlab.bsky.social and @acdarby.bsky.social. #symbiosky

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Out today! Our review on the current evidence of protein import into endosymbionts/early organelles. We cover protists, insects and plant systems, so something for everybody! With Mygg Stiller, Lena Kröninger and Eva Nowack. #protistsonsky #SymbioSky febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

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Registration is now open for the 2025 Symposium on the Immune System of Bacteria, taking place this year in Paris (April 8-10). We have a fantastic lineup of speakers! Register here: www.sisb2025.conferences-pasteur.org/home

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Considering and reflecting on a world in which mirror and non-mirror life might co-exist (and conflict) — an unexpected coincidence for these risks to be highlighted on the day after I started reading China Miéville's "The City & The City"

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JOB OPPORTUNITY! I am hiring a postdoc for 18 months to investigate the links between temperature and antibiotic resistance. Ecoevo microbiology, plasmids, and some super fun stats, modelling, and bioinformatics. To starts in Feb 2025. Please share! #exetercec jobs.exeter.ac.uk/hrpr_webrecr...

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Life isn't even-handed: many cellular components are all either left or right handed. But we are now (uncomfortably) close to being able to make flipped "mirror" cells. A group of us consider and highlight the risks and call for collective effort before we get there. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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PhD opportunity in St Andrews on plasmids, antibiotics and defence systems, in collaboration with Helen Alexander in Edinburgh. Funding via BBSRC EastBio, please share & pass on to anyone interested! #microsky🦠🧫🧬 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Excited to share a sparkly new paper from our lab! We show how spatial refuges can facilitate evolutionary rescue using experimental evolution with P. fluorescens doi.org/10.1098/rspb...

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🚨 New preprint!! How can antibiotic-resistant bacteria increase in abundance in the human gut microbiome, even without antibiotics? 🧐 We show that strain-specific ecological interactions are key to understanding resistance dynamics in microbial communities. 🧵👇 1/5 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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A postdoctoral position is available in the lab of Faizan Said @ Cardiff University to work on multispecies bacterial biofilms and metabolic cross-feeding interactions in the context of antimicrobial tolerance and resistance evolution. Deadline: 3.01.2025 Please RT More info: shorturl.at/md3A8

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Reminder for #PhD opportunity on #plant #microbiomes tinyurl.com/35kx6n7y UK and International funding - info session online Wed 11th Dec, register at docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Looking forward to welcoming colleagues from Mike Begon's 40+ year career assemble for his retirement BegonFest today. An incredible body of work, mentorship and impact in the field. Wishing him and Linda all the best for the future @livuni-ives.bsky.social @livunihls.bsky.social

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