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scienceartnews.bsky.social @scienceartnews.bsky.social · 17h

#Agenda Microbial Population Biology GRC 🔹️June 27–July 2, 2027 🔹️Andover, NH www.grc.org/microbial-po.. Via @wcratcliff.bsky.social -Some of- the participants: @drhhnz.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social @noahhoupt.bsky.social @duhitasant.bsky.social @bkoskella.bsky.social

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Will Ratcliff @wcratcliff.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Application review for the GRC in Microbial Population Biology will start October 15th! Please apply before then if you are keen on coming. www.grc.org/microbial-po...

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175

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Assistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen Genetics

Applications are invited for an Assistant or Associate Professorship in Pathogen Genetics to be held in the Department of Genetics. We are searching for a talented individual with a track record of fu...

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Honour McCann @honour.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Great to see this published! A little paper backstory: was reading about interesting outbreaks during COVID-related shutdowns and happened across some cool work by Emmanuel Wicker et al., who first documented this outbreak and made a collection with fantastic metadata 1/9

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

cam.ac.uk

Assistant/Associate Professor in Pathogen Genetics

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Some old friends on this one which has taken a long time to come together. Congratulations to what I remember as a wonderful community of researchers on this incredible effort 🦇 🧬

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Simon Fisher @profsimonfisher.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“Bats are extraordinary among mammals, having uniquely evolved powered flight & laryngeal echolocation, along with disease resistance, extended healthspan & ability to hibernate. With genome assemblies of 103 bat species we provide new insights into evolutionary history & trait diversification.”🦇🧬🙌🧪

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Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature

An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Is this the academic equivalent of ‘you must show your working’

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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Reminder that the deadline for the tenure track position in my division in MCB is one month away (October 19), as you’ll see it is a wide open search in terms of area within and across fields of genetics, genomics, evolution, and development. Please circulate.

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Didier Mazel @amazeld.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Dear all, I have the pleasure to inform you that the online course "Resistance to Antibacterial Agents", produced by the Institut Pasteur, will start on November 3, 2026. How does ABR emerge and spread? ... 🔗 www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/r...

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Resistance to antibacterial agents

The origin, risks, diagnosis, epidemiology of resistance to antibacterial agents in man and livestock worldwide, as well as preventive and countermeasures, in a « one health » perspective.

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Julian Parkhill @julianparkhill.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This will be an amazing opportunity for the right person. The Department of Veterinary Medicine in Cambridge is recruiting for an established chair who will also be our Head of Department. Your research can be in any area of veterinary science. Please circulate. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/profess...

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Professorship of Veterinary Science

The Board of Electors to the Professorship of Veterinary Science invite applications for this Professorship from persons whose work is connected with veterinary science (ideally in research aligned wi...

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

... short answer yes, but you would have a fun and rewarding few years getting to the long answer! Exciting new group and great environment at Bath looking for a PhD student 👇

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Please read, share, and join the conversation, and thanks to all the great colleagues from India, the UK, and Australia, who contributed, including @target-amr.bsky.social co-director Steph Johnson who brought a much needed ethical lens 8/8

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

So let's get data from international travellers being used where it would have the greatest impact on disease, support building sustainable international partnerships in genomic surveillance, and deliver on the aspiration of being a Good Global Partner in the UK National Action Plan on AMR. 7/8

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

There’s also a lot (feasible and achievable!) work that needs to be done to get the practice up and running 6/8

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This wouldn’t be a perfect system, and shouldn’t disincentivise the development of local surveillance, but it could support it, and there are many compelling reasons to set up the practice of using traveller data to help inform diarrhoeal disease management in LMIC. 5/8

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Genomic epidemiology analyses reveal that these pathogens are geographically structured and analysis of traveller data can reveal important information for disease management in LMIC. Check out the worked example of AMR in Shigella sonnei (and other referenced studies in the paper) for more. 4/8

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Diarrhoeal pathogens in HIC are often under routine genomic surveillance in international foodborne disease networks, but large volumes of these data (~75 000 genomes/year) are generated from people who became ill overseas. See data from GenomeTrkr below. 3/8

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We’re privileged to collaborate on genomic surveillance of diarrhoeal pathogens and AMR in both high-income countries (HIC) and LMIC, though the imbalance in genomic surveillance capacity is stark: with 540-fold more genomic surveillance in HICs (relative to disease burden) 2/8

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Out today: an opinion piece we’ve been thinking around for a while now to narrow the diarrhoeal disease surveillance gap between high income settings and LMIC through traveller genomics. Check it out here 👇 1/8 🧵 doi.org/10.1016/j.ti...

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Yonatan Grad @yhgrad.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Postdoc position in infectious disease epi, genomics, applied stats to join our work on sampling strategies for pathogen genomics surveillance. Based in Shirlee Wohl’s group at BWH but to work closely with my team. See ad here: massgeneralbrigham.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MGBExt...

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Postdoctoral Fellow

Site: The Brigham and Women's Hospital, Inc. Mass General Brigham relies on a wide range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, business people, tech experts, researchers, and systems analysts t...

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John Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org · 03/09/2026

I am hiring in this round – please do apply if you are interested in: machine learning (protein/genome/gene language models), methods for pathogen data analysis, pangenomes (or share with any students who might want to work with us)

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Adrian Liston @labliston.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Two post-doc positions available in our lab! It is a supportive environment and on which boosts careers! Historically, of our ~30 post-docs 27% have gone on to tenure-track positions, 27% did another post-doc, and 42% have gone on to positions in biotech or pharma.

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Andrea Schreier @andrea-schreier.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

So proud of PhD student Grace Rosburg-Francot's hard work, developing eDNA methods to detect/monitor aquatic invasive species in Lake Tahoe! Would you like to join us in protecting Lake Tahoe from the golden mussel? Check out her campaign at experiment.com! experiment.com/projects/how...

A graduate student collects water quality data at a boat launch in Lake Tahoe.

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Academia feels like being a cold caller at the moment 😆 congratulations Jesse!

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Lauren Cowley @laurencowley.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Have you registered for Genome Science yet? www.genomescience.org.uk Its going to be in mad for it Manchester September 14th-16th 2026. Lots of great microbial genomics and bioinformatics speakers so make sure you secure a place. Early bird registration ends on 31/7/26.

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Liam Gallagher: Oasis Rooftop Walk

ALT: Liam Gallagher: Oasis Rooftop Walk

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Jonathan Coxhead @4130chromo.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Are you going to Genome Science UK 2026 in Manchester 14th-16th September? We know life can get extra busy 😧 before the summer holidays 🏖️ so we've extended abstract submission deadline to 24th July & early bird registration deadline to 10th August 😁 Check out the agenda 🧬🧬 www.genomescience.org.uk

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Genome Science UK 2026

Manchester University

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

👀👇 New work on sexually transmitting Shigella (press-friendly: bit.ly/4bBarEL) From continued collaboration with @clairejenkins2.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social, @pducambridge.bsky.social co-lead @hsalje.bsky.social, a talented student Julia Marshall www.linkedin.com/in/julia--ma..., and others! 🧫🧬💊

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François-Xavier WEILL @fxweill.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Can bacterial genomics bring 70 years of epidemiological surveillance back to life? We're hiring a postdoc (2–3 years) to explore the historical evolution of Salmonella Typhi using a unique genomic dataset. More details: euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/449895

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Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 30/06/2026

Congratulations to Aude Bernheim (@audeber.bsky.social), elected EMBO Member 2026 🎉 Her work on bacterial immunity is reshaping how we understand immune systems across all life forms — from bacteria to humans. @embo.org

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Dr Charlotte Hammer @epihammer.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I am very honoured to have had my work on disease emergence and pandemic preparedness highlighted together with the work of @ksbakes.bsky.social in this @cam.ac.uk Research Profile. Thank you to everyone who is making this research possible.

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TARGetAMR @target-amr.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

🧬 TARGetAMR’s Prof @ksbakes.bsky.social & @drtessjohnson.bsky.social feature in The Lancet Microbe podcast on AMR National Action Plans & microbial genomics. 🎧 The episode is available via The Lancet Microbe, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music. 👉 Listen: www.targetamr.org.uk/targetamr-le...

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I know a lot of people on the fence about frontiers… hopefully this is all you need to come down

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Michael Okun @michael-okun.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

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sylvain Brisse @sylvainbrisse.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

👉 Only 2 weeks to go for registrations to the famous ICARe course on #antimicrobials and #resistance in #Annecy, France: www.icarecourse.org Great course, great venue, great networking opportunity with @gdwantibiotics.bsky.social and other huge legends in the field

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Interdisciplinary Course on Antibiotics and Resistance

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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Today I'm posting a new blog about an astonishing scientific own goal. Hundreds of papers have reported using a totally wrong antibody to investigate the tumor suppressor p16. This mistake has happened because scientists have muddled the names of two proteins. forbetterscience.com/2026/06/02/m...

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Edward Ross @edwardross.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

My latest science comic just dropped! A collaboration between me, @target-amr.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social and Prof. Paul Flowers. Very cool bringing the story of antimicrobial resistance to life, with an interesting detour to Victorian epidemiology and the story of Cholera hunter John Snow!

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

and be sure to check out other work by the wonderful @edwardross.bsky.social

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Our TARGet AMR genomics-comic is out now - check it out, share it, print it, use it in your lectures, PE events, or maybe even when trying to explain what you do to dinner guests! 🤓 🧬 🧫

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Benoit Marteyn @marteynlab.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Join our team at IBMC in Strasbourg as a postdoctoral fellow to develop/assess new familles of Shigella vaccine. Please RT. emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

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Portail Emploi CNRS - Job offer - Postdoctoral researcher (M/F) – Shigella vaccine development

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