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Andy Edwards

@bugsinblood.bsky.social
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Molecular bacteriologist with an interest in antibiotics, resistance and bloodstream infections.

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Craig MacLean @craigmaclean.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Postdoc position available in my group to work on ERC funded project on evolutionary biology of antibiotic resistance. Looking for someone with expertise in bacterial genetics, AMR, and evolutionary biology. www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DSZ416/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Oxford
Explore an exciting academic career as a Postdoctoral Research Associate. Don't miss out on other academic jobs. Click to apply and explore more opportunities.
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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For the last 34 years I have been on the faculty of the UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Biology and have never regretted that decision. This year we are hiring TWO new Assistant Professors in the broad area of Molecular, Cell, Developmental Biology 1/n bio.unc.edu
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 29/09/2026
The team behind the London Infection Network for/by ECRs (LINE) share what it took to organise it, supported in part by a Society-Supported Conference Grant. Read their reflections 👇 microb.io/3T47qad #ECR #Microbiology
The LINE organising committee. From left to right, top to bottom: Jakson Luk, Will Pearson, Tom Williams, Oscar Torres, Baptiste Pradel, Anita Atanasova (Francis Crick event team), AK Reuschl, Cristina Venturini, Marion Delphin, Julia Sanchez-Garrido, Jorn Stok and Josephine Nemegeer.
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Department of Infectious Disease @imperialinfect.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The first-in-human rabies vaccine study is now underway. The trial assesses a next-generation RNA rabies vaccine that could strengthen future pandemic preparedness.👇️ www.imperial.ac.uk/news/article...
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First participants vaccinated in Imperial rabies vaccine trial
Researchers have launched the first in-human study of a rabies vaccine that could improve global access to protection against rabies while helping ad...
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Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
The final version of our manuscript on TnSeq in bacteriophages (“HIDEN-SEQ”) is out today – if you have an interesting phage phenotype and want to know the underlying genetic basis, this one is for you! 1/4
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Amazing opportunity for post-doctoral researchers to move to the UK 'MOBILITY offers 6 outstanding postdoctoral researchers a 5-year opportunity to develop their own ambitious research programme at University of Birmingham' www.birmingham.ac.uk/about/colleg...
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MOBILITY - University of Birmingham
Retaining Europe's brightest researchers to drive the next generation of life science breakthroughs.
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Imperial MRC DTP @imperialmrcdtp.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
15 new 1+3 MRC Doctoral Landscape Award studentships @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social in medical research funded by the @The_MRC commencing October 2027. Admissions will open open 14 October 2026. #phd, #medicalresearch www.imperial.ac.uk/medicine/stu...
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HealthBRIDGE
HealthBRIDGE is an exciting and innovative 1+3-year PhD training initiative designed to improve human health and drive UK economic growth funded by t...
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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Celebrating 40 years of Steve Busby’s exceptional research career today @imibirmingham.bsky.social
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Thomas Ipoutcha @tomipou.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Finally out! 🎉 After 3 years of postdoc in London, here is my main work, now published in Nature Comm. (and as co-corresponding author!) Using a combination of bioinformatic and experimental approaches, we propose a model of plasmid evolution in Staphylococcus. www.nature.com/articles/s41... ⬇️ 1/4
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Mobile genetic elements drive a plasmid fusion and deletion lifecycle shaping evolution and antimicrobial resistance - Nature Communications
Plasmids drive bacterial adaptation, but how their diversity arises has remained unclear. Here, they show that in Staphylococcus aureus, mobile genetic elements repeatedly fuse and delete plasmids, re...
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DefinitelyNotAlice @alicele.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I have always had a problem with bouncy castles!
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Luke Allsopp @lukeallsopp.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Discussing my passion and career in #STEM + #infection in the #ScientistsMakingaDifference book. I work on the bacterium #pseudomonas that’s particularly common in people with #CF #Youngscientists @cysticfibrosis.org.uk @lifearc.bsky.social @imperialnhli.bsky.social @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social
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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Great collection in Essays Biochem on the social lives of bacteria - put together by @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social & @rachelwheatley.bsky.social doi.org/10.1042/EBC2... happy to contribute with ‘Colony politics to chemical warfare: phenotypic plasticity in #Streptomyces’ doi.org/10.1042/EBC20250034
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A special issue of Essays in Biochemistry on the social lives of bacteria
Abstract. The study of bacterial sociality, understanding when and how bacteria interact and the consequences of those interactions, has rapidly grown in popularity over the last 20 years. This has re...
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Andreas Peschel @andreaspeschel.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Can skin commensals shape skin ageing? Beyond wrinkles | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Beyond wrinkles
Can the skin microbiome shape healthy aging?
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Omar El-Halfawy @omarel-halfawy.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Happy to share our recent paper at @pubs.acs.org's #ACSInfectDis studying the antibiotic responses of MRSA, one of the most common pathogens in paediatric patients with Cystic Fibrosis (CF), in CF artificial sputum compared to standard lab test conditions. pubs.acs.org/aidcbc/artic...
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Laura Mike @lauraamike.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Last year, we reported that arginine stimulates mucoidy in hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae. Now we show an opposing cue, sugars! Here, we report that sugar import suppresses mucoidy. Full story in @natcomms.nature.com: www.nature.com/articles/s41... #microsky #klebclub See 🧵 for a summary:
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Brilliant choice, one of the great microbiologists.
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Researchers celebrate Dolly Parton's contributions to science The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Dolly Parton dies aged 80 – researchers celebrate her contributions to science
The country singer was an advocate for vaccines, public health, literacy and marginalized communities.
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Dolly is gone, but I'll always appreciate her funding and publicly receiving the Moderna vaccine, in addition to her advocacy to wipe out childhood illiteracy.
Picture of Dolly Parton with a mask on with the headline from The New York Times "Dolly parton, who helped fund the moderna vaccine, gets a dose of her own medicine." The country music star broke into song before she was inoculated, and urged her fans to "get out there and get your shot"
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Marc Dionne @marcsdionne.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
There will be an open information session on 9th September 2026 at 11am: teams.microsoft.com/dl/launcher/... Apply/more info here: www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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Vance Fowler @vancefowler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Proud of today's review on MRSA in Nature Reviews Disease Primer. Co-led by Annette Westgeest from Leiden and Josh Parsons from Duke, it features coauthors from 6 countries and 315 references. Read here: rdcu.be/fzE1Q
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Nature Reviews Disease Primers - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a leading cause of antimicrobial-resistant infection. In this Primer, Parsons and colleagues describe the...
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Jakob T Rostøl @jakob-tr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
If you missed it before, check out Xu’s great work here www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... It answers an important question in the anti-phage field, namely how defence genes not encoded by MGEs are mobilised between bacteria 🧫
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Bacteriophages mobilize bacterial defense systems via lateral transduction
Bacteriophages and PICIs spread bacterial defenses via lateral transduction, shaping microbial immunity and pathogen evolution.
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Jakob T Rostøl @jakob-tr.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Congratulations to @antiphagexu.bsky.social for passing his viva and being a newly minted doctor 🍾🧬🥼And big thanks to Franklin Nobrega and Nick Croucher for their (allegedly) thorough examination 🤝 @jrpenades.bsky.social
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Ran Blekhman @blekhman.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Huge faculty recruitment effort at the University of Chicago -- a division-wide, open-rank search looking to hire about 20 faculty across 5 research areas in biology. Come be our colleague! Full announcement: uchicago.app.box.com/s/ckih9zv3rj...
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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Two fictional (presumably AI) stories in recent X posts, now repeated as a Google summary. No need to tell tall tales about your achievements when the AI ecosystem will now do it for you…
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Kevin Ault @kevinault.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Henrietta Lacks was #BOTD in 1920, and died in 1951 of cervical cancer. The cell line from her cancer contains HPV 18 integrated into her genome. Today we have a vaccine that prevents cervical cancer - #OncSky + #MedSky. nmaahc.si.edu/object/nmaah...
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Henrietta Lacks (HeLa): The Mother of Modern Medicine | National Museum of African American History and Culture
"Henrietta Lacks died of cervical cancer on October 4, 1951 at the age of 31. During an examination, cells were taken from her body without her knowledge or consent by a doctor at Johns Hopkins Hospit...
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Dr. Sam Fenn @sj-fenn.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Shameless self-plug. Our new paper out in NPJ biofilms and microbiomes @masseylab.bsky.social and Mario Recker Copper at the heart of an interkingdom wound-like biofilm. rdcu.be/fw1Ut
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Copper as a central element critical to interkingdom interactions within a polymicrobial wound environment
npj Biofilms and Microbiomes - Copper as a central element critical to interkingdom interactions within a polymicrobial wound environment
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Andy Edwards @bugsinblood.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
I’m increasingly seeing examples of people getting stuck in journal doom loops of minor formatting revision followed by a request to address a new set of trivial formatting issues that weren’t mentioned before…AI issue perhaps? Incredibly frustrating…
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Alexander Harms @aharms485.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Last days in the lab for our friend Vincent Somerville @vincentsomerville.bsky.social before he starts his own operation as junior group leader with Nicholas Bokulich in our institute - watch out for great work on microbes and phages in fermenting foods! 🧀🦠🧬
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Kate Laskowski @katelaskowski.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is the key. Thinking up new ideas is never the bottleneck - it's all the institutional slow downs: Grants take years, purchasing approvals, sponsored projects office need so many docs & let's not forget how long it takes our animals to breed. AI doesn't solve the most important bottlenecks
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Rafael Pinilla-Redondo (Rafa) @rafomics.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
1/4 Every good defence needs a backup! 🛡️⚔ Out now in @natrevmicro.nature.com our Comment on "𝗶𝗺𝗺𝘂𝗻𝗲 𝘀𝗮𝗳𝗲𝗴𝘂𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴"! 🎉 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Immune safeguarding as a conserved principle of antiviral defence - Nature Reviews Microbiology
All organisms defend against viral infections through active immunity mechanisms that clear the virus or population-level mechanisms that cause regulated cell death. Recent research increasingly shows...
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Jessica Blair @jessicamablair.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Applications are OPEN for the 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Multidrug Efflux Systems. 📅 When: March 21–26, 2027 📍 Where: Ventura, California 🔗 Apply here: www.grc.org/multi-drug-e... #GRC #MultidrugEfflux
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2027 Multi-Drug Efflux Systems Conference GRC
The 2027 Gordon Research Conference on Multi-Drug Efflux Systems will be held in Ventura, California. Apply today to reserve your spot.
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Polymyxin B functions as a TLR2 agonist, suggesting that polymyxin B preparations can induce macrophage activation under conditions in which IFN-γ and LPS are present academic.oup.com/jimmunol/art... @jimmunol.bsky.social
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Inspiring day of talks and memories of the brilliant Prof Jeff Cole today @imibirmingham.bsky.social. Now Prof Kevin Foster on the metabolic ecology of microbiomes
Prof Kevin Foster lecturing before slide with the text 'Knowledge of microbial physiology and metabolism is a prerequisite to understanding mechanisms of pathogenicity, Cole 2012'.
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Jessica Blair @jessicamablair.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Fully Funded PhD alert!! Super interesting project with @overtonlab.bsky.social , Sara Jabbari and me!! 🤩
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Georgia Isom @georgiaisom.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Interested in joining our group in Oxford? We are looking for a PDRA with single particle Cryo-EM experience to help us figure out how sphingolipids are transported to the cell surface of Gram-negative bacteria. The deadline is 31st July. Informal enquires are welcome. Please share!
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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 07/07/2026
New review: Host-driven remodelling of the Staphylococcus aureus cell envelope: mechanisms, consequences and therapeutic implications. Published in Microbiology as part of the Emerging Investigators collection: doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001718 #MicrobioJ
Fig. 3. Functional consequences of host-induced cell envelope remodelling.
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 01/07/2026
Out Now! Identification of chemical features for improved outer membrane permeation in mycobacteria using machine learning #MicroSky
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Identification of chemical features for improved outer membrane permeation in mycobacteria using machine learning
Nature Microbiology, Published online: 30 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02412-5Screening 1,572 compounds for mycomembrane permeation plus cheminformatic and machine learning analyses reveals features associated with improved permeation in the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis and model organism M. smegmatis.
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Omar El-Halfawy @omarel-halfawy.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Thrilled to share our recent paper at @cellpress.bsky.social's @cp-iscience.bsky.social studying the antibiotic responses of MRSA, one of the most common wound pathogens, under wound infection-like conditions vs. standard lab test conditions. www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
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Uncovering the mechanisms of clinically relevant altered antibiotic responses of Staphylococcus aureus under wound infection-mimetic conditions
Biophysics; Clinical microbiology; Microbiology; Molecular biology; Systems biology
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Jose Bengoechea @josebengoechea.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Recruiting a postdoc to join my lab at @lshtm.bsky.social to work in an MRC porgramme grant funded project to dissect the gut colonziation by Klebsiella. In vivo and in vitro models, and new approaches to identify Klebsiella factors involved. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
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Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Fellow
The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...
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Jessica Blair @jessicamablair.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
ZERO! None. Not one. Science is incredible. What incredible news to start the day. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given HPV vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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Adrian Mulholland @adrianmulholla1.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Vaccines work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Cervical cancer deaths fall to zero in young women given vaccine
A new study finds that hundreds of lives have been saved since school-age girls were offered the HPV jab in 2008.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 17/06/2026
Professor Colin Kleanthous FMedSci FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. He is a biochemist whose work has fundamentally changed our understanding of the outer membrane (OM) of Gram-negative bacteria. #RSFellows royalsociety.org/people/colin-klean…
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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 15/06/2026
A generation of children confined to exclusively posting on LinkedIn, humbled to share that they have been recognised as thought leaders in vertically integrating your mom's supply chain.
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
BacPROTACs outperform inhibitors in Mycobacterium tuberculosis www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/20…
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Andy Edwards @bugsinblood.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
New pre-print from the lab! Murepavedin is a Pseudomonas-specific antibiotic, but it disrupts the outer membranes of a wide range of different Gram-negatives. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Murepavadin is a broad-spectrum outer membrane permeabiliser
Murepavadin is a Pseudomonas-specific antibiotic that targets LPS transport protein LptD. However, whilst the mode of action of murepavadin is well defined, the mechanism by which the drug gains acces...
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Tiago Costa @tcostalab.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
📢 We are recruiting! I’m looking for a Research Associate in Structural Biology to join my lab at Imperial College London to study horizontal gene transfer using cryo-EM, biochemistry and microbiology. Please share with interested candidates! Apply: shorturl.at/gmJGS
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Paprapach Wongdontree @paprapach.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I am very happy to be in the part of this work! Congratulations @abarbotin.bsky.social @carballido-lab.bsky.social journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Two temperature-dependent membrane fluidity regimes in gram-positive bacteria | mSphere
Temperature changes affect the physical properties of the plasma membrane. Typically, a reduction in temperature causes a less fluid and thus more viscous, membrane. It has been long established that ...
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Delaevanio @delaevanio.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
PhD position available for self-funded / scholarship students here in lovely Sheffield using flies to dissect macrophage heterogeneity with @macrofage123.bsky.social and Ryan West - more details via lnkd.in/eVDVJF5m
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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Over the last month I saw that human editors are now stripped of control. I could no longer stop the system from auto-inviting "reviewers" with zero relevant expertise. Even worse - the AI began actively revoking the invitations I manually sent out to actual, qualified experts.
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