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Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here exempt from all tax on their foreign assets What they don't say: it would cost the UK £34bn Report here, and thread below: buff.ly/gpe2Dpf

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Modulating cyclic di GMP levels leads to the discovery of novel polyketides in Streptomyces pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

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🆕 Vacancy! We are looking for a Metagenomics Research Scientist to join the laboratory of Dr @bioinf.bsky.social‬ to study the exchange of metabolites between gut microbes and their host 💷 £36,720 to £42,000 🗓️ Apply by 11 July 2025 ➡️ buff.ly/NGi1dUn

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In this Review, Ellen Blaak and colleagues discuss the effect of antibiotic-induced perturbations of the gut #microbiome on host #metabolic health (£) bit.ly/3TpFUjQ #EndoSky #Microsky

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New Session at #ISBA2025 Paul Jensen and @matthutchings.bsky.social talking about the fascinating interactions of actinomycetes with predators and plants… #secmet #bacterialinteractions #naturalproducts

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Thankful that I had the opportunity to chair the #Genomics and #NaturalProductsBiosynthesis Session at #ISBA2025 Thanks to the awesome speakers and their inspiring talks! Lei Dong, Jaclyn Winter, @kblin.bsky.social, Lisa Vader, Eric Helfrich!

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A very happy 123rd birthday to #NCFC - the finest football club in the world. ⚽😘🎉

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A key aspect of my @erc.europa.eu Advanced project 'Community' was to predict biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) function entirely on how BGCs are controlled, without looking at predicted gene function or natural product. We show proof of concept for this idea in this paper in @plosbiology.org (1/2)

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Only a few days until ISBA2025. See you there! www.universiteitleiden.nl/isba2025

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Pearl Necklaces, Molds, Asthma, and a Discovery of the Century. This is a fascinating article on the history of antibiotics. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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If you are in London a week today and are free early evening, please come along to my talk at @royalsociety.org (free!). If you can’t make it, it will be live-streamed and subsequently available online…

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Pearl Necklaces, Molds, Asthma, and a Discovery of the Century. This is a fascinating article on the history of antibiotics. link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Only a few days until ISBA2025. See you there! www.universiteitleiden.nl/isba2025

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How had I never heard this band before. So lovely www.theguardian.com/music/musicb...

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New tenure track assistant professor position in molecular microbiology in our department @dmf-unil.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social! We are casting a wide net for an experimental molecular microbiologist. Apply here: wwwfbm.unil.ch/releve/appli...

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Some interesting history on the early use of antibiotics. #microsky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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Some interesting history on the early use of antibiotics. #microsky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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If your industry can't survive without exploiting people, then you're in the wrong industry.

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A genomic catalog of Earth's bacterial and archaeal symbionts (bioRxiv pdf): www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

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Our own Dr Rachel Wells (Senior Scientist, Crop Genetics) caught up with BBC Radio Suffolk's Louise Hulland at the Suffolk Show yesterday 🎙️📻 They talked everything oilseed rape - from the cabbage stem flea beetle to Colman's mustard! Listen here (starts 2:14:15): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

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We're proud of our community and its impact over the last 80 years. Help us continue to amplify our members’ voices and advance the understanding of microbiology in tackling global challenges. Get involved with the Society - microb.io/Get-Involved

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This is really good youtu.be/-zTUgIDo7Yw?...

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I have a piece in The Observer today. It is about my parents’ deaths, grief and how stories help to keep the dead alive. I haven’t written for Observer Review for a few years so was glad to be back in its pages. observer.co.uk/style/featur...

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@sarfrazmanzoor.bsky.social I’m reading Greetings from Bury Park while listening to The Boss. Thankyou, it’s great!

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#Archaea #ArchaeaSky

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With footballers bidding farewell to clubs all over the country, worth putting up Seb Bassong's leaving message to #NCFC (I've done it a few times over the years 🤭). Just an absolute classic of its genre 😍

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(1/6) 🌟 Excited to share our new paper! Advancing microbiome safety assessments: opportunities, challenges & recommendations 🧫🦠 This work came out of an academic–industry workshop hosted by @microbiologysociety.org in early 2024. 🔗 www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

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A little bear figurine carved out of amber some 6,000 years ago 🐻 ❤️ A hole runs through the bear’s torso, suggesting it was threaded onto a cord and perhaps worn as a protective amulet. Discovered in a peat bog near Slupsk in Poland. 📷 National Museum in Szczecin. #Archaeology

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So So Good 🤤 www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnRK...

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We had a wonderful day yesterday welcoming teachers from Wunan Kindergarten to the @johninnescentre.bsky.social and West Earlham Infant School. Another great opportunity to share ideas on #inspiring cross disciplinary #science #education

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We had a great day with Dr Shannon Woodhouse #exploring natural products at Oulton Broad Primary School. It was inspiring to see how excited students were when investigating leaves for #diseases & #pests with zoomie microscopes and extracting colours from plants. @johninnescentre.bsky.social

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Super happy to see our work on lydiamycin biosynthesis, structure and function published in @pnas.org 😀 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... The work is described in the thread below, where we use BGC info to guide the discovery of multiple key features of this antibiotic. @johninnescentre.bsky.social

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China just pledged $500M to the WHO—filling the void left by the U.S. pullback. As Beijing expands its global health influence, America’s retreat signals a dangerous step back from leadership on the world stage. So much for "Making America Great" www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

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Increased ERC funding for top global researchers moving to Europe now confirmed #Enlightenment #Facts #ProtectScience 🧪 erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

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We are delighted to announce that TSL group leader, Professor Wenbo Ma, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. This honour celebrates her groundbreaking research in molecular plant pathology.

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