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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 22h

It was great to have you in Manchester with us!

Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Fantastic talk today from @paulhoskisson.bsky.social at our UoM Ecology and Evolution Seminar - all about Streptomyces evolution and antibiotic production! 🧬🦠 Such cool work!

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atmicroverse.bsky.social @atmicroverse.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Onto ECR talks, first up Rebecca Palmer on predatory bacteria for plant health 🌱

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 08/09/2026

That's a wrap for our Biotic Control of Bacteria conference in Nottingham. Thank you to the Microbial Genomics (MGen) Editorial Board and everyone who joined us today. Explore our MGen journal, submit your work and join the community: microb.io/MGenJournal 🦠 #BcB26 #MGen #Genomics

Group of scientific professionals standing in front of a colorful mural inside a conference room for Biotic Control of Bacteria event.

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Will Smith @willpjsmith.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

#Manchester #MEEhubs26 Day 2 is on! Fantastic talks from @olimeacock.bsky.social @melissalawson.bsky.social @evokait.bsky.social on microbial community interactions with keynote by @dundee.ac.uk's Prof. Sarah Coulthurst 🦠↔️🦠

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Danna Gifford @dannagifford.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Manchester is very happy and excited to be the UK host for #MEEHubs26!

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MEEhubs @meehubs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

MEEHubs2026 is underway! We had a great start in the first two sessions with Zurich and Manchester hosting some excellent talks! It's not too late to join us virtually via last-minute registration: meehubs.org #MEEHubs2026

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Great first seminar in the series, thank you @taylorlabgroup.bsky.social for joining us in Manchester and telling us about your fab science

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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

A reminder that this position closes in a few days time!

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

Oooo I'm definitely going to go to this. Looks great

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Wasn't selected to apply for a fellowship I was soooo hoping to apply to - went to the allotment to try and make myself feel better - a man starts talking to me about voting reform 🤢 - is there no safe space anymore? I just want to make a raised bed in peace and pretend the world isn't falling apart

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

This is so stressful - Manchester only able to put 3 candidates forward. I need to rethink my career - so far past my PhD but with my career break to have kids I'm so limited with what is available for me to apply. There isn't much hope currently

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Haha, oh I'm sure she would understand. It's too adorable 🐴🐴🐴

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

This tiny pony video does help a lot! Thank you!

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

So hard - worked evenings when the kids had gone to sleep to get this in. All to find it doesn't even count. Outline application was longgggg. Annoying it's only called an 'outline' 🤦🏻‍♀️

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Daniel Padfield @padpadpadpad.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

BBSRC Early Independence Fellowships had an Outline stage this year to try help with amount of peer review. Turns out they received 586 applications, a 110% increase on 2025, and only typically fund 15 a year. They are cancelling this stage and going straight to full app with an institutional sift.

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

My son's notes in bdellovibrio 😆 didn't think he'd been actually listening to me when I was rabbiting on about it

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

April was great - so much growing in the garden and at the allotment 🌱

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Why does antibiotic resistance evolution vary between patients? Come to @officialuom.bsky.social @mermanchester.bsky.social to help us find out! 2.5 year @wellcometrust.bsky.social postdoc position in experimental evolution Closing 15 May. Apply here: www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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Research Associate in Microbial Evolution:Oxford Road

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Earth Day 🌍 Supporting plant health and sustainable systems - both in research and in practice - feels more important than ever #earthday

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

One week left to apply for a plant health vacation studentship 🌱✨ Based in Manchester, working on predatory bacteria and plant health 🦠🍅 Supervised by me!

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Will Smith @willpjsmith.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

MEEHubs26 abstract deadline has been extended to April 26th. Come showcase your awesome Microbiology w. scientists worldwide! meehubs2026.oa-event.com 🦠 What: awesome conference in microbial ecology and evolution, with hubs around the world 🦠 Where: Sunny* Manchester 🦠 When: 3rd-5th August 2026

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The University of Manchester @manchester.ac.uk · 20/04/2026

WINNERS 🏆💜 We couldn’t be prouder of our incredible team for winning University Challenge! This win marks a special milestone. With five victories, we’re the most successful university in the history of the competition, joint with Imperial College London. Well done team 👏🏆

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

📢 Excited to be offering a Plant Health vacation studentship this summer on plant disease biocontrol and predatory bacteria! Supervised by me at Manchester Uni! @manchester.ac.uk If interested—or know someone who might be—please share and apply! my.rsb.org.uk/services.php... 28th April deadline 🌿🍅🦠

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Rachel M. Wheatley @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

🔊 Looking for a Research Assistant in Bacterial Evolution to join my lab 🦠 🥼Main duties: Research (AMR + microbiome) + lab assistance. ⏲️ Post duration: 30 months 🗓️ Closing date for applications: 20th April 2026 💰 Salary: ~£35k Details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/2a3v66y7 Please share!

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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

📣 Still time to apply to this bioinformatics postdoc position with us! If you have any questions, please DM me here or send me an email. Deadline 3 April.

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

A hot vimto is £2.50 from the Michael smith cafe 🤣 the uni must be making an absolute killing from a single bottle of squash 💰

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

All that time sat next to @matthewjshepherd.bsky.social watching him work away at this - absolutely buzzing it's finally out there!! Well done!

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

New PDRA position with @knightjar.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social & me Community assembly processes in soil microbiomes with focus on bioinformatics and computational modelling of data from field and lab experiments www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...

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'Research Associate in Microbiome Ecology:Manchester

We wish to appoint a PostDoctoral Research Associate to an exciting project exploring the assembly, stability and function of microbial decomposer communities.

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 06/10/2025

New preprint! Ever wondered why only a fraction of genomes encode CRISPR immunity? 🧬 🦠 Turns out CRISPR is rarely beneficial against virulent phages, being most beneficial against those for which resistance mutations are rare! An epic effort by Rosanna Wright www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Resistance mutation supply modulates the benefit of CRISPR immunity against virulent phages

Only a fraction of bacterial genomes encode CRISPR-Cas systems but the selective causes of this variation are unexplained. How naturally virulent bacteriophages (phages) select for CRISPR immunity has...

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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Last ECR talk of the day from Logan Sauers on IgA transcriptomics #UoM_EEday

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

This was a brilliant talk, what an amazing career so far - I never knew there were so many different types of placenta!! @evol-molly.bsky.social's work on miRNA and pregnancy outcomes is SO important.

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I was absolutely delighted to give a talk at the University of Manchester Ecology and Evolution day yesterday. An incredible collection of talks and posters were presented and we had some great discussions - thank you to @whelanfj.bsky.social and @knightjar.bsky.social for organising!

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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

@bexlowrypalms.bsky.social up next speaking about her work on bdellovibrio #UoM_EEday

Rebecca presenting a slide introducing bdellovibrio

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

I'll believe it when I see it, fortune cookie 😂

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

It's been a wild week for MERMan! Congratulations Rana, you are incredible ✨✨✨

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Rebecca Wallis D @rebeccawallis.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Whelan lab cake for the win at the Division of Evolution, Infection and Genomics and MCF Winter Celebration 🥳 #bakeoff #whelanlab

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MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

We had two fantastic visiting speakers today MERMan alumnus @rowancallumg.bsky.social spoke about his current work with viral cheating in influenza with @asherleeks.bsky.social And @lavishaparab.bsky.social talked about phage infection trade-offs Thanks to @microbesng.bsky.social for our snacks!

Rowan standing in front of a title slide reading “defective viral genomes in natural infections”

Lavish standing in front of a title slide reading “trade-offs in bacterial evolution in the context of temperate phage infection”

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MERMan Research Group (University of Manchester) @mermanchester.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

More amazing posters presented by our researchers @zahraaalbaqsami.bsky.social and Rana at #MicroEvo25!

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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

What a week! Thanks to everyone who attended the UK Phage Therapy workshop and #MicroEvo25 in Liverpool… every talk, poster, question, chat, and round of applause helps to build our microbial evolution community! Thanks to @microbiologysociety.org and @ukri.org for support

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Rebecca Lowry Palmer @bexlowrypalms.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

So proud of @magdalenakurteu.bsky.social, so much effort goes into everything she does and her presentations always have such amazing hand drawn figures - very well deserved 👏🏼

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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 26/11/2025