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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Happy Noodlococcus Day! 🍜🦠🧫

Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

Hi everyone, unfortunately I have some serious health issues so I’ll have to put ContamCalendar orders on hold from next week, hopefully only for a few weeks but may be longer🚨 So if you want a calendar soon please place your order before Monday 5th January. Thank you! 📅🧫🦠

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Hope everyone had a great Christmas! If you’re sad you didn’t get a ContamCalendar 2026 in your pile of presents, don’t worry, they’re still available at ➡️ www.contam.club

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

My cats Keith and Ronnie love the ContamCalendars this year, because the empty calendar boxes make perfect beds to spend all day in 😻📅🧫

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

It’s great seeing the ContamCalendars arriving! The perfect way to fill your 2026 with beautiful microbes 😍🦠🧫🍄

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The ContamCalendar 2026 is full of microbe-related dates so you can celebrate microbiology for the whole year 📅🧫🦠

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Looking forward to seeing the ContamCalendars start arriving! Shipped the first orders this week 📅🧫🍄🦠

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Keith the cat - our Quality Assurance Manager - approves the ContamCalendar 2026

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

The ContamCalendars have arrived! Preparing to ship the first batch, can’t wait for you to get your hands on them! 📅🧫🦠

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

The ContamCalendar 2026 will likely be the final calendar we make, so we wanted it to be a great one. The new design folds out to be A3, perfect for displaying the beautiful microbes inside 😍 Also full of microbe-related days throughout the year 📆🦠🧫🍄

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Amazing!! You’ll be pleased to see that Noodlococcus is the photo for the August monthly spread 🧫🦠🍜

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

💥CONTAM CALENDAR GIVEAWAY💥 Here's your chance to win a ContamCalendar 2026! 🗓️🍄🦠 Just follow @contamclub.bsky.social and repost this post to enter the competition Winner will be randomly selected from Bluesky or Twitter on Wednesday @ 6pm UTC

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

‼️🚨🗓️ CONTAMCALENDAR 2026 🗓️🚨‼️ Excited to say the ContamCalendar is back for its fifth edition! We’ve created a fresh new design, folding out for an A3 monthly spread. It’s our best yet, we hope you’ll love it 🗓️🦠🧫🍄 Get yours here ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Look out for an exciting announcement later…. 👀 #ContamCalendar

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Happy Noodlococcus day to all those who celebrate! 🍜🧫🦠 We’re in 3 different continents now but all celebrating the 6th anniversary of the discovery of our noodle-y friend by eating some delicious noodles @prob91.bsky.social @biostan.bsky.social @gemccallum.bsky.social

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

13/15 The oldest strain in the K. pseudorhizophila strain was first isolated by William A. Randall in a 1949 publication, so we suggest that an appropriate species name for the K. pseudorhizophila clade would be Kocuria randallii

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

12/15 The lack of indication that these strains are genetically distinct from the reference genome for K. rhizophila may lead to conflicting results and inaccurate conclusions For example, this product is derived from a strain present in the K. pseudorhizophila clade ⤵️

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

10/15 Pan-fried noodles: pangenomic analysis of K. rhizophila showed clear clade-specific distinctions, adding weight to the argument that they should be separate species 🍳

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

9/15 All other Kocuria species had inter-species ANI values inline with the typical threshold of >95%. Splitting the two clades into separate species would maintain taxonomic consistency within the genus

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

7/15 When comparing all K. rhizophila genomes, we found that they clustered into two distinct clades 🤔 This was also indicated when calculating average nucleotide identities (ANIs), a common way of comparing genetic similarity (see heatmap)

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

4/15 From the Noodlococcus genome, we identified regions involved in replication 🔂, carotenoid synthesis 🟡 (the set of genes producing the distinctive yellow pigment!), and genome defence 🛡️ (CRISPR-Cas), and discovered four novel mobile elements (ISKrh4-7) 🧬

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

2/15 On August 9th 2019, we found a contaminant resembling a pile of noodles on an old BHI plate After microscopy revealed it was a Gram-positive coccus, we named it Noodlococcus 🦠🍜

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🚨 Very excited to finally say… 🚨 The story of Noodlococcus - the contaminant that started ContamClub - is available to read 📖🍜🦠 Check it out ➡️ doi.org/10.1101/2025... 1/15 🧵

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Excited to share something with you all later this week… 🧫🦠🍜👀

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

😱 have mites been crawling all over my plate? 😭

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

Any idea what this cool little contaminant is from @aislingbrady.bsky.social’s LB +gentamicin plate? Looks like a flower 🌷

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Very few sets of ContamSocks left! And ContamCalendars running low! If you still want some then get them soon! 📆🦠🧫🧦 Available at ➡️ www.contam.club

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

Happy new year! Hope you’ve got your ContamCalendars up 🗓️🦠🍄

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Looking forward to starting 2025 with a new ContamCalendar! 📆🦠 Still some left at ➡️ www.contam.club

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

🧦‼️🚨 Only the last few sets of ContamSocks remaining! 🚨‼️🧦 And not many ContamCalendars left 📆🦠 Don’t miss out ➡️ www.contam.club

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

The ContamCalendar 2025 and ContamSocks have reached the Antarctic peninsula! 🥶❄️🦠🧦📆🧊

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

The ContamCalendar 2025 is filled with the most beautiful contaminants, spreading the joy of microbiology throughout your year 😍📆🧫🦠 Get yours at www.contam.club

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

ContamClub has officially reached every continent on Earth! 🌎🌍🌏 This set of ContamMerch are with Bodil and Livvie who work at the South Georgia Heritage Trust in Antarctica - @southgeorgiaht.bsky.social Antarctica marks 7/7 continents that ContamCalendars have been delivered to since we began 🗺️📆🦠

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Imagine your feet looking this good in 2025 🥶🧦 Get yourself some ContamSocks at ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Great to see the first shipments of ContamCalendars arriving! Hope you like them 🗓️🧫🍄

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

ContamCalendars and ContamSocks are selling fast! 🗓️🧦🦠🧫🍄 #MicroSky Fill your year with Contam love, get yours at ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I’m blown away by these 😍 shoutout to Keir for finding these for me

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Some stunning contaminants found on old plates in the back of the cold room 😍🧫

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

First batch of ContamCalendars and socks sent! Hope you like them, send me pics when you get them! 🗓️🦠🧫🧦 If you haven’t ordered yet then don’t miss out, get them from www.contam.club ⬅️

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The ContamCalendars and ContamSocks are selling fast! 🗓️🧦🧫🦠 I’m going to start shipping them in the next couple of days, can’t wait for you to receive them 🗓️🧦🧫🦠 Get yours ➡️ www.contam.club

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

First 20 sock orders get a free 3D Noodlococcus pin badge!!

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

And we’ve got a surprise this year… You’ve heard of Noodlococcus, now meet NoodloSOCKus 🧦🦠🍜 We’ve loved designing these high-quality crew socks. ContamSocks are now available at ⤵️ www.contam.club ⬅️ 🧫

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

‼️🚨🗓️ CONTAMCALENDAR 2025 🗓️🚨‼️ The ContamCalendar is back for another year! It’s a great one and we hope you’ll love it 🗓️🦠🧫🍄 Get yours here ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Look out for an exciting announcement later this week... #ContamCalendar #Noodlosockus 📆🧦🦠🧫🍄

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 22/10/2024

Some lovely contaminants on Lennox Broth Agar 🧫🦠 any ideas what they could be?

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

Fun fact about this year's ContamCalendar - it was created entirely from a hospital bed after I spent 7 weeks in hospital following heart surgery. This surgery was actually partially related to both contamination and the ContamCalendars.... 📆❤️🩺🦠

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Contamination Club @contamclub.bsky.social · 24/11/2023

🚨 CONTAM CALENDAR 2024 🚨 AVAILABLE NOW ➡️ www.contam.club ⬅️ First 20 orders will get a ContamClub sticker!!! We hope you love this year's ContamCalendar showcasing some of our favourite submissions from the ContamClub community 📆🦠🍄🧫 Keep contaminating! ❤️

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