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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Are you interested in how gut microbes store and use glycogen? Then I have a PhD project for you! 'The Role of Glycogen Metabolism in Survival, Adaptation and Virulence of Human Gut Microbes' warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... Co-supervision with @lucyicm.bsky.social at @imibirmingham.bsky.social
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Professor Willem van Schaik
Professor Willem van Schaik
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If Carlsberg did manhattan plots! 🤣🥳
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I know frivolous AI is bad and all that… but I am increasingly getting bombarded with an app that will take your dogs photo and make a video of the dog singing and dancing to your favourite song… never been so tempted in my life! The algorithms have me 100% sussed!
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hobbslabmicro.bsky.social @hobbslabmicro.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Funded 4-year PhD studentship alert! 📣 "Efficacy & Mechanisms of Novel Treatments for Antibiotic-Tolerant Infections" shorturl.at/ruD0t Come join our vibrant and supportive group in St Andrews and undertake an industry placement @amprologix.bsky.social with @matupton.bsky.social. Please share!
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Eastbio: Efficacy and Mechanisms of Novel Treatments for Antibiotic-Tolerant Infections at University of St Andrews on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Eastbio: Efficacy and Mechanisms of Novel Treatments for Antibiotic-Tolerant Infections at University of St Andrews, listed on FindAPhD.com
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Questioning the fetal microbiome illustrates pitfalls of low-biomass microbial studies - Nature
This Perspective reviews the evidence for and against the existence of a fetal microbiome and concludes that detected microbial signals are most likely the result of contamination, suggesting that the...
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SlenderSherbet @slendersherbet.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
He Told Her To Calm Down. Oil on canvas. 🎨: Henri-Léopold Lévy
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
PhD student no 13 has passed her viva!! Huge congrats to Jenna Callaway and thanks to Alice Halliday and @resp-micro.bsky.social who is of course Mike Cox for their hard work!!
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APC Microbiome Ireland @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Hiring at APC and UCC: PhD position in Bifidobacterial Survival and Viability with Prof. van Sinderen & Knol Roles: buff.ly/W9UxBkC Linktree: buff.ly/ximvsWt #PhD #Microbiology #Bifidobacteria #Microbiome #Bioinformatics #ResearchOpportunity #Microsky
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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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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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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
@imrsankhan.bsky.social worth a read
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It’s a rite of passage!
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
No, I was being facetious 😊
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
It’s to make it more lady-like🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Can take a girl out of Cork to Wexford but there will be signs….
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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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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
And that there is a light that is never getting switched on in my house again !!
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Yet again a university sat on its hands when it should have acted in a measured manner, until the media get involved and then they throw the book at the situation. Tragic, unnecessary and yet they never learn….. absolute assholes! bsky.app/profile/thet...
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And following in Indian, china and the Philippines footsteps to wrestle the monolopy from these companies they have set up their own coop app: tap a taxi Need time to grow, but always worth a few secs to check before the others
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Public service announcement for my Irish based buddies. Been schooled about the corruption within uber lyft and freenow by my taxi driver this morning. Top tips: remove your card from the app on freenow and click ‘pay driver directly’ you will no longer be charged the technology free with is now €6!
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Athena Kugblenu @athenakugblenu.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Guardian once asked me 'what one change would you make to achieve Black equality in Britain?' and it feels appropriate to share my answer again
Athena Kugblenu: Allow Black people to be mediocre too!
Athena Kugblenu
I would like to replace #blackexcellence with #blackmediocrity. True equality is when our talent:recognition ratio is allowed to be as broad as white people’s. Lewis Hamilton had to win two Formula One titles before he bagged BBC Sports Personality of the Year in 2014; Greg Rusedski only had to get battered by Pat Rafter to win his. Kwasi Kwarteng steered the economy towards an iceberg and got sacked. Jeremy Hunt drove the NHS over a cliff, now he’s chancellor. Don’t get me started on how many football clubs get ruined by freshly retired white footballers while very qualified Black managers are overlooked. When the arc of the moral universe bends towards Black people failing upwards as their peers do, we will be in the promised land.
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APC Microbiome Ireland @apcmicrobiomeirel.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Copper changed how three wound-associated microbes competed in a lab model. A new study in 𝐧𝐩𝐣 𝐁𝐢𝐨𝐟𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐌𝐢𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐢𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐬 found Candida released copper, making S. aureus more vulnerable to P. aeruginosa. @sj-fenn.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social 📰 buff.ly/S6SyjXK #Biofilms #Microbiology
University College Cork announcement of a new publication titled "Copper as a central element critical to interkingdom interactions within a polymicrobial wound environment," showing a mock journal page, three researcher headshots, the UCC logo, and a caption about copper reshaping bacterial–fungal
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 31/07/2026
Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!
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Seána Duggan @seanaduggan.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
🌍 New paper🌍 Here, I introduce the “cuprosphere” to connect how copper shapes fungal–bacterial interactions across One Health environments. rdcu.be/fwZqD #OneHealth #Microbiology #Copper #Fungi #Bacteria #Interactions @mrccmm.bsky.social @nihrexeterbrc.bsky.social @exeter.ac.uk
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From Fungicide to Phagosome: A One Health View of Copper-Driven Fungal–Bacterial Interactions
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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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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This stuff all blows my mind!!
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
AI on the side of the journals you think?
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John Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org · 27/07/2026
Nick Croucher, Ewan Harrison and I have a project available here 'Pathogen antigen discovery and immune profiling': www.embl.org/editorhub/wp... Applications open until 27th September
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
My own much worse photo of one yesterday in Wexford
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
smugairle róin 😊
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Compass….stingy bugger! Ps did you know that the literal translation of the Irish for jelly fish is ‘seal snot’ 😊
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
It’s just not rugby!
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Nil nil…. 🥱🥱🥱
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
@timothyread.bsky.social did you fork out 2k for a ticket in your home town?
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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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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Happy birthday!! 🥳🥳🥳
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Anyone ever had a journal claim you agreed to review a manuscript when you absolutely didnt??
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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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Seána Duggan @seanaduggan.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
🗞️New Paper🗞️ We show that #Candida & #Staph cooperate via copper handling - with fungal copper uptake & bacterial copper export shaping the community. @mrccmm.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org @universityofexeter.bsky.social www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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Copper-driven mutualism of Candida albicans and Staphylococcus aureus interkingdom biofilms
Although fungi and bacteria commonly co-exist within polymicrobial communities, the molecular mechanisms underlying their interactions are still not well understood. Here, we show that the fungus Cand...
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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 19/06/2026
Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Henry Wellcome was a big fan of Ireland and its science and philanthropy…. Wife was Irish I believe
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Nope…. Pretty insulting when you consider the tiny portion of a percentage of the funding that came here.
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
No explanation provided except they want to make the greatest differences with the biggest impact….😬
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
Is there less money? Are there more scientists? I thought we were a little safer here in Ireland relative to UK, what with brexit etc but Wellcome have just announced they are pulling out of funding here 😳
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Annual department summer BBQ! 🥳🥳🥳☔️☔️☔️
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Staph papers @staph-papers.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Benzylpenicillin versus flucloxacillin or cloxacillin for the treatment of penicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SNAP): an international, multicentre, open-label, non-inferiority randomised controlled trial
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Benzylpenicillin versus flucloxacillin or cloxacillin for the treatment of penicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia (SNAP): an international, multicentre, open-label, non-inferiority randomised controlled trial - PubMed
National Health and Medical Research Council, Medical Research Future Fund, Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Accelerating Clinical Trials Consortium, UMC Utrecht, ZonMW Good Use of Medicines programme,...
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Staph papers @staph-papers.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
Host and antibiotic jointly select for greater virulence in Staphylococcus aureus
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Host and antibiotic jointly select for greater virulence in Staphylococcus aureus - PubMed
Widespread antibiotic usage has resulted in the rapid evolution of drug-resistant bacterial pathogens. Resolving how pathogens respond to antibiotics under different contexts is critical for understanding...
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masseylab.bsky.social @masseylab.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
I’d settle for a ‘reply all’ ban for academics.
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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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