Lucy Weinert @lucyweinert.bsky.social · 08/10/2026www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/profess...cam.ac.ukProfessorship of Veterinary ScienceThe 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... 001
Reposted by Lucy WeinertValerie Soo @valeriesoo.bsky.social · 06/10/2026📣 The 2nd StrepGBI meeting is coming in 2027‼️ I'm co-organising this meeting with @lucyweinert.bsky.social and @ulischwarzlinek.bsky.social and we hope to see you there! It'll be a close-knit, ECR-friendly meeting, with opportunities for both talks and posters. Come join us #Streptococcus #StrepGBIstrepgbi.wixsite.com 044
Reposted by Lucy WeinertUli Schwarz-Linek @ulischwarzlinek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Exciting news for streptococcologists. For more info check out strepgbi.wixsite.com/strep-gbi/me... or reach out to @lucyweinert.bsky.social @valeriesoo.bsky.social or me.strepgbi.wixsite.comMeeting 2027 | Strep Gbi 053
Reposted by Lucy WeinertStrep GBI, 1-2 April 2027 in Durham @strepgbi.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Save the date and spread the word! The 2nd Streptococcus Great Britain & Ireland meeting in Durham on April 1st/2nd 2027 will bring together ECRs and experts to highlight cutting-edge research on streptococcal biology. 223
Reposted by Lucy WeinertPhil Rodgers @philrodgers.co.uk · 23/02/2026Statement from the University on the future of the vet school. www.cam.ac.uk/notices/news...cam.ac.ukGeneral Board meeting about veterinary education at the University of CambridgeStatement on veterinary education at the University of Cambridge 022
Reposted by Lucy WeinertBen Fenton @benfenton.bsky.social · 23/02/2026Cambridge University has just announced that the proposal to close its undergraduate course in veterinary medicine, which would have led to the end of its Vet School and Hospital, has been dropped. The vets will carry on with the reforms they had already launched and the course continues. Victory!! 1175
Reposted by Lucy WeinertZannah Salter @zannahdu.bsky.social · 12/12/2025Official Statement: Cambridge University, Department of Veterinary Medicine, 12/12/2025 "The decision to recommend the closure of what the Times Higher Education Supplement ranks as the best undergraduate veterinary course in the world has come as a bolt from the blue." [1] #SaveTheVetSchool 114
Lucy Weinert @lucyweinert.bsky.social · 13/12/2025savethevetschool.co.uk Colleagues, please lend us your support. The University wants to close down the vet school despite being ranked educationally above school average and smashing the REF because they want our land and vet education is too expensive.savethevetschool.co.ukSave the Vet School - join 1000s of voices standing with the Vet SchoolA vital institution. A community in action. A future worth protecting. Stand with us to save the vet school. 155
Reposted by Lucy WeinertMichael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2025Now peer-reviewed, improved and published in @microbiologysociety.org Microbiology - thanks to editor and reviewers! www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...microbiologyresearch.orgChromosomal resistance mutations facilitate acquisition of multidrug-resistant plasmids in Escherichia coliBacteria can gain multiple resistance mechanisms in a single step by the acquisition of multidrug-resistant (MDR) plasmids, but it is unclear how antibiotic selection during the acquisition of MDR pla... 02919
Reposted by Lucy WeinertGlobal Pneumococcal Sequencing Project @globalpneumoseq.bsky.social · 22/09/2025By linking their shifts in the phenotypic map above with the amino acid changes in PBP protein, we could pinpoint particular substitutions and its impact on resistance. 101
Reposted by Lucy WeinertNick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 19/09/2025Terrific new feature presented by @theo.io on @pathoplexus.org called SeqSets for generating DOIs for sequence subsets used in publications, that can then be tracked for impact via CrossRef that will allow data generators to track impact! #IMMEMXiV 24718
Reposted by Lucy Weinertabalmer.bsky.social @abalmer.bsky.social · 17/09/2025New preprint: Antimicrobial Resistance Cartography — a simple way to map multivariate drug-resistance phenotypes, using data from @CDCgov. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 023
Reposted by Lucy WeinertJohn Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org · 17/09/2025The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026): www.embl.org/about/info/e... We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to themembl.orgEMBL International PhD Programme – Unique in the world and waiting for you! 11939
Lucy Weinert @lucyweinert.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Introducing AMR cartography - work by Andrew Balmer 064
Lucy Weinert @lucyweinert.bsky.social · 15/09/2025www.findaphd.com/phds/project...findaphd.comInvestigating pathogenicity in zoonotic Streptococcus suis at University of Cambridge on FindAPhD.comPhD Project - Investigating pathogenicity in zoonotic Streptococcus suis at University of Cambridge, listed on FindAPhD.com 0615
Reposted by Lucy WeinertStrep GBI, 1-2 April 2027 in Durham @strepgbi.bsky.social · 08/09/2025The Streptococcus Great Britain & Ireland 2026 meeting will bring together ECRs and experts to highlight cutting-edge research focused on crucial aspects of Streptococcal biology, in Durham on March 30th/31st 2026. More information strepgbi.wixsite.com/strep-gbi. Registration opening soon. 065
Reposted by Lucy WeinertRebecca Sear @rebeccasear.bsky.social · 17/06/2025The UK university sector is not beaten yet: UK is awarded the highest number of ERC Advanced Grants (56; Germany has next- highest with 35). Other stats: 11% success rate; grants will create approximately 2,700 jobs in the teams of grantees. erc.europa.eu/news-events/...erc.europa.euERC backs cutting-edge research with €721 million in fundingThe European Research Council (ERC) today announced the winners of its latest Advanced Grant competition. The funding, worth in total €721 million, will go to 281 leading researchers across Europe. Th... 0247
Reposted by Lucy WeinertEmily Josephs @emjo.bsky.social · 12/06/2025Hey, Miles' @milesroberts.bsky.social beautiful paper showing that sequence diversity missed by standard methods contributes to Lewontin's paradox is officially published in @evolletters.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...academic.oup.comk-mer-based diversity scales with population size proxies more than nucleotide diversity in a meta-analysis of 98 plant speciesAbstract. A key prediction of neutral theory is that the level of genetic diversity in a population should scale with population size. However, as was note 39955
Reposted by Lucy WeinertMicrobiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 16/06/2025The abstract submission deadline for Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics 2025 is soon approaching! Make sure to submit by 23:59 BST on 7 July 2025. microb.io/Abstracts #MicroEvo25 199
Reposted by Lucy Weinertnvansorge.bsky.social @nvansorge.bsky.social · 04/06/2025📣💥Thrilled to share this preprint from our PhD student Yao Shi on the identification of a conserved motif in Strep suis cell wall glycan for possible vaccine protection. 👏 to team of dedicated international collaborators immunogenicity.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.02.656523v1 063
