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Delighted to see our new paper out, led by PhD student Asia Hoile. We explored new genes that emerged during the early evolution of Lepidoptera 🦋 Many cool insights which we think open up new questions to explore. Get in touch if you have thoughts/want to discuss more! 🔗: tinyurl.com/48rx72es

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Have/nearly have a PhD? ≤7 years post-doc experience? Working outside UK? Not a UK citizen? BA & Royal Society offering 2-yr Fellowships for early career researchers to come to the UK! 💷 Includes: Research expenses £12k Relocation up to £8k 🗓️ Deadline: Mar 18, 2025 (17:00 GMT) #ResearchFunding

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Do you work on #biofilms? Do you want to tell people about it? Abstract submission for posters only has re-opened for Biofilms 11 microbiologysociety.org/event/societ... #MicroSky

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A few days left to apply for this Postdoc working with microbes and flies! 🧫 🪰 🦠

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🚨 Job alert 🚨 — are you interested in understanding how mobile genetic elements and defence systems shape bacterial genome evolution? 🧬 🧪 🧫 🦠 2x 5-year research positions available in experimental evolution @mermanchester.bsky.social Join us! #microsky www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Haven’t seen this circulating here yet, but @asm.org is hosting a town hall next Thursday to address recent events concerning executive orders

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I was thinking about this today. Our lab uses BLAST all the time. Scientists pull genomes from NCBI to do comparison studies to identify new genes or figure out what genes do. Pubmed is an important tool to find published studies on most medical topics. These have to be up to date to be useful. 🧪

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ASM did a spotlight article on me last February and it has also been taken down as “under review”. Other spotlight articles are still up so not sure how else to interpret this besides the obvious. It feels pretty crappy to have been singled out and I won’t be engaging with them in the future.

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🚨 We are hiring for a 3-yr PDRA 🚨 The Whelan lab is seeking a microbiologist interested in microbe-pathogen competition and use of a Drosophila melanogaster chronic infection model to investigate the cystic fibrosis lung microbiome. For more info check out whelanlab.co.uk & apply at the link below:

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"UKHSA has confirmed a case of influenza A(H5N1) in a person in the West Midlands region. Bird-to-human transmission of avian influenza is rare and has previously occurred a small number of times in the UK." "The birds were infected with the DI.2 genotype" ukhsa-newsroom.prgloo.com/news/human-c...

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Applications due soon for the T. H. Huxley Award, which recognizes high-quality evolution education resources! The recipient will have the opportunity to attend and present at the NABT meeting in October or #Evol2025 in June. Apply by Feb. 3! http://bit.ly/2kP2pPM @nabtbio.bsky.social

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I am confident that scientific societies will play an unusually important role in the coming years. If you are a microbiologist of any kind, please consider joining @asm.org if you haven't already. There are many ways to get involved, including advocacy. To learn more: asm.org/About-ASM/Vo...

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🚨 We are hiring for a 3-yr PDRA 🚨 The Whelan lab is seeking a microbiologist interested in microbe-pathogen competition and use of a Drosophila melanogaster chronic infection model to investigate the cystic fibrosis lung microbiome. For more info check out whelanlab.co.uk & apply at the link below:

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🚨PhD Opportunity - please share!🚨 We’re hiring a PhD student to start Sept 2025: how do bacteria ‘tame’ phage parasites, and turn them into deadly Tailocins? Come join me, @brockhurstlab.bsky.social, Patrick Cai & @raveentank.bsky.social as we study ZOMBIE PHAGES! findaphd.com/phds/project...

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🔬 Are you interested in fluorescence microscopy of fungal pathogens/pathogenesis? Mycology Bioimaging Intiaitive @mrccmm.bsky.social is thrillied to announce it's first workshop in CapeTown for #African scientists (w/AfricaMicroscopyInitiative) Please disseminate! forms.office.com/e/gcpvytvyuz

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reason #157 I love this job: getting to spend a day getting lost in the coolest dataset uncovering the secrets in a tiny corner of science for the first time.

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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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I think I have much more to learn from you then I was able to share today but presenting was a great way to get stuck into this awesome community! Thanks for the invitation @deepanshund.bsky.social and thank you #manchesterflyclub !!

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

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Yay, the Microbiology Society are now taggable on here! @microbiologysociety.org. In time for all sorts including annual conference in Liverpool!! #microbiology

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@microbiologysociety.org Microbial Genomics is looking for new Senior Editors and Editors, particularly those with expertise across the breadth of eukaryotic microbiology, viral genomics, and ecological microbiology. Candidates can send their CVs and cover letters by Friday 17 January 2025!

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🧪🎅 12 Days of Tools for Science Management 🦠🎄 Day twelve: clockify.me /time keeping When I'm not making the progress I would like to be making I keep track of how much time I am spending on activities (e.g. admin, career dev, research, service). The results (often 👁️💦) help me prioritize my efforts.

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🧪🎅 12 Days of Tools for Science Management 🦠🎄 Day eleven: Plotting timelines in R w ggplot2 I keep R markdown records of grants (submitted, rejected/accepted), manuscripts, lab members, & teaching that are visualized with ggplot2. This helps me see the big picture & plan future responsibilities.

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🧪🎅 12 Days of Tools for Science Management 🦠🎄 Day ten: notability.com (or similar) In conferences, seminars, & meetings I use an app that will allow me to make notes across multiple devices (in text or w an Apple Pencil) all stored in the same location (& organized into folders for faster recall).

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🧪🎅 12 Days of Tools for Science Management 🦠🎄 Day nine: Slack (or similar) From communication within my research group to collaborating with scientists worldwide, its biggest advantage is (probably) that it isn't email. Slack notifications = cool new research results!

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🚨 PhD opportunity 🚨 The Whelan lab, @jojofoth.bsky.social, & @brockhurstlab.bsky.social are looking for a PhD student w micro experience to study how commensal bacteria modulate the virulence of P. aeruginosa using a fly infection model. More info & link to apply below. Please spread the word!

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🧪🎅 12 Days of Tools for Science Management 🦠🎄 Day eight: Agenda book w weekly/monthly goals. I keep a to do list that I organize into weekly/monthly goals, & use a timeline to keep track of project progress/hold ups. I prefer pen & paper but there are many digital versions (Trello, Notion) too.

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🧪🎅 12 Days of Tools for Science Management 🦠🎄 Day seven: Instapaper Many of us work from >1 location/device; I use Instapaper to make articles (e.g. a Nature News & Views) that I would like to read easily accessible across devices, including offline (handy for 🚂/✈️). www.instapaper.com/u

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🧪🎅 12 Days of Tools for Science Management 🦠🎄 Day six: Table of contents (TOCs) email alerts A recommendation of @surettem.bsky.social 's, TOCs from broader journals like Nature & Science help me keep on top of major advancements in other fields & to think more broadly about my own science.

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🧪🎅 12 Days of Tools for Science Management 🦠🎄 Day five: Pomodoro tracking Writing doesn't come naturally to me so I need every trick I can find. Pizza slicing* (i.e. breaking down tasks into small chunks) is one way I can convince myself to get words to paper.

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🧪🎅 12 Days of Tools for Science Management 🦠🎄 Day four: Overleaf Speaking of word processors, I love Overleaf. Writing in LaTeX isn't everyone's cup of tea but I find it advantageous for manuscript writing: easy to integrate Figures & can keep "to dos"/ideas as comments not visible in the PDF.

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🧪🎅 12 Days of Tools for Science Management 🦠🎄 Day three: Paperpile/Zotero/Mendeley etc. This will be obvious to many but can't be ignored. A good reference manager should allow you to organize into folders, make notes/highlights, and export citations into your word processor of choice.

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🧪🎅 12 Days of Tools for Science Management 🦠🎄 Day two: pubcrawler.gen.tcd.ie Written by the amazing Karsten Hokamp, Pubcrawler is a customizable alert system for newly-published manuscripts that gives you power over type and frequency of alert. Many other tools exist, but none with as much neon!

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