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UCD-CVERA @ucd-cvera.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
3 #PhD positions @ucddublin.bsky.social - CLOSING SHORTLY -boviSNP – SNP-based tracking of Mycobacterium bovis for improved bTB control, -CONNECT-TB – Measuring contact rates in Irish dairy herds, and -SENTINEL – Surveillance and early warning for emerging threats using AI www.ucd.ie/cvera/resear...
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Research Opportunities
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PathoGenOmics Lab @pathogenomics.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Aun estáis a tiempo de ver el espectáculo de danza contemporánea y circo que ha puesto en marcha Álvaro Chiner. Nos cuenta lo sucedido durante una gran epidemia de forma exquisita y sugerente. Vale mucho la pena.
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🚨Preprint🚨 #platform technologies are ubiquitous in #biomedicine & #governance. But how do they work? And how have they impacted #genomics, #vaccine innovation, #epidemicmodelling & #GlobalHealth? Let us know what you think about our attempt to update Keating & Cambrosio! hal.science/hal-05770858
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Research Ireland @researchireland.ie · 28/09/2026
Despite finding success as a filmmaker in the 1950s and 1960s, Flora Kerrigan remains largely unknown today. A Research Ireland-funded project is helping uncover her story and shine a light on overlooked women in Irish film history. Read on @irishtimes.com: www.irishtimes.com/sponsored/20...
Sarah Arnold examines preserved film reels in the Irish Film Archive
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Interested in #AMR, #pollution & #regulation? Join the next UPCité #OneHealth social sciences seminar. On 01.12. (12:30 CET), Lise Bjerke will speak on: "Molecular uncertainties: Responding to environmental AMR and pharma-industrial pollution in India" u-paris.zoom.us/j/4930619192...
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Conor (Conchúr) Meehan @conmeehan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
We are looking for someone with a strong background in metagenomics and epidemiology to join our team for ~2 years at UKHSA to work on the mSCAPE programme. Please see (and share) the link below and feel free to message me with any enquiries. www.healthjobsuk.com/job/Canary_W...
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Job vacancy: Senior Scientist (Epidemiology), UK Health Security Agency, Canary Wharf, London | trac.jobs
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Julian Parkhill @julianparkhill.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Chair in Bacteriology in Cambridge Department of Medicine. A great opportunity. Please circulate. www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc...
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Research Professor in the field of Bacteriology
Strengthening Cambridge's leadership in bacteriology research Bacterial infection and antimicrobial resistance remain among the most pressing global health challenges of our time. At Cambridge, the De...
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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Apply to do a PhD at @sangerinstitute.bsky.social with me on global genomics of Mycobacterium abscessus bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/project-refe... About the scheme: bbsrcdtp.lifesci.cam.ac.uk/application-...
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Project Reference: TRG27-SAN-JB1 | Cambridge Biosciences DTP PhD Programme
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Luiz Pedro Carvalho, PhD @luizcarvalholab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Exciting work by H. Minh Thai, Debbie Hunt, Manisha Priya and colleagues from UK and NZ. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... wertheim.scripps.ufl.edu/2026/08/19/s...
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A cloaked glutamate decarboxylase sustains the GABA shunt in Mycobacterium tuberculosis | PNAS
Despite the exponential growth in genome sequencing, the functional annotation of genes, particularly the discovery of novel enzymatic activities, ...
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Luiz Pedro Carvalho, PhD @luizcarvalholab.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Exciting!! Not all protein functions are what we think. We found a protein that looks like a well-known enzyme but does a different job entirely. This discovery reveals hidden metabolic diversity in Mycobacterium and may have implications for malaria parasites and related organisms. Links below:
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
A bit late sharing this - but very happy to featured on the new BBC News CrowdScience episode on the history of #tuberculosis & the first trial of the Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) #vaccine in Paris in 1921. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w... ➡️ the BBC World Service version airs on Monday
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BBC World Service - CrowdScience, Why is TB still killing people?
Tuberculosis kills over a million people every year, despite a vaccine and a cure. Why?
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John Tregoning @prof-tregoning.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Is the scientific paper a fraud? How we write scientific papers does not reflect how we do science. Their formal structure infers a pre-ordained linear process rather than reflecting the messy creativity of research. journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
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Is the scientific paper still a fraud?
How we write scientific papers does not reflect how we do science, masking the human in the process by design. This Perspective invites us to consider the structure of the scientific paper, and the ne...
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Stephen Gordon @steve-myco.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Universal vaccine for pneumococcal disease moves closer to reality www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Universal vaccine for pneumococcal disease moves closer to reality
Targeting shared proteins could help to control bacterial subtypes that current vaccines do not protect against.
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
To re-up this, Jolijn did some very nice simulations on this trying to estimate the effective population size of goat as they were introduced to Mediterranean Europe in the Neolithic! #aDNA
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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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Prof Tanya Parish @proftanya13.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Work on the new edition of the Mycobacteria Protocols is well underway. We have a couple of spaces, so if you are interested and have a new method you think would be a no brainer to include, drop us a line.. #Mycobacteria #MycobacteriaProtocols #TB #TBResearch🦠🧪
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Stephen Gordon @steve-myco.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Mayo, the All-Ireland Football title and an incredible end to one of sport’s longest curses - The Athletic share.google/jiwDormEMrp3...
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Mayo, the All-Ireland Football title and an incredible end to one of sport’s longest curses
Their 75-year wait for a title blew this year’s high-profile sporting exorcisms out of the water
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Gavan Reilly @gavreilly.com · 26/07/2026
“The famine is over! The curse be damned!! Hit the nuclear button! Mayo have won the All-Ireland!!” An all-time great sports commentary moment from Stephen Grealis and Martin McHugh on Mayo’s Midwest Radio. #gaa
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Stephen Gordon @steve-myco.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
John O'Grady and Dave MacHugh leveraged existing whole-blood RNA-seq from 48 TB patients before and during treatment to map cis-eQTL, response-eQTL, and cell-type interaction eQTL, identifying thousands of regulatory variants www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Genetic control of the transcriptional response to active tuberculosis disease and treatment - Communications Medicine
O’Grady et al., use paired whole-blood RNA-seq data from patients with active tuberculosis before and during anti-tuberculosis treatment to map genetic variants that influence gene expression and immu...
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Frank McNally @frankie49.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
St Patrick’s says Mayo by 3
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Siobhán O'Brien @siderophile.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
We rely on healthy soil microbial communities to support ecosystem functioning and plant growth, but what happens when soils are exposed to multiple environmental stressors simultaneously? Spoiler: it's not good doi.org/10.1093/isme...
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Fungicide and warming interact to reduce soil ecosystem functioning
Abstract. Soil microbial communities are essential to the functioning of their ecosystems, providing vital services such as plant growth promotion and bior
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Tom Scriba @tomscriba.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
www.news.uct.ac.za/article/-202...
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Winelands learners win top research prize in Ireland
Two teenagers who are members of the Youth Research Advisory Group linked to the South African Tuberculosis Vaccine Initiative at UCT have won a global accolade.
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Nathan Day @nthndy.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Very pleased to announce that my Crick postdoc work has just been published in Nature Communications: www.nature.com/articles/s41... Big thank you to @bpradel.bsky.social, @jaksonluk.bsky.social, @maxgg.bsky.social and the rest of the host-pathogen interactions in TB lab that made it all possible!
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Fast-growing intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis populations evade antibiotic treatment - Nature Communications
The slow growth displayed by Mycobacterium tuberculosis has been historically associated with pathogen’s persistence and drug tolerance. Unexpectedly, here the authors identify a rare subpopulation of...
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Stephen Gordon @steve-myco.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Oh wow, what a game...am I dreaming? Mayo end 75-year All-Ireland drought with dramatic win over Kerry www.irishtimes.com/sport/gaelic...
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Mayo end 75-year All-Ireland drought with dramatic win over Kerry
Mayo look to overcome reigning champions to end 75-year Sam Maguire wait
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Luiz Pedro Carvalho, PhD @luizcarvalholab.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Multiple very interesting papers coming online in Nature Microbiology, but I would like to call your attention to this one. Particularly important for the mycobacterium drug discovery community. @siegristpalmore.bsky.social and team, congratulations. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Identification of chemical features for improved outer membrane permeation in mycobacteria using machine learning - Nature Microbiology
Screening 1,572 compounds for mycomembrane permeation plus cheminformatic and machine learning analyses reveals features associated with improved permeation in the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis ...
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Hannah Daly @hannahdaly.ie · 07/07/2026
The CSO has released data on metered electricity consumption for 2025. The extraordinary headline figures: - Electricity consumption from data centres grew by nearly 10% last year, and now accounts for 23% of Ireland's electricity demand.
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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/07/2026
Two papers pin the introduction of smallpox on British colonists and suggest that Australia held far more people than previously believed. Learn more: scim.ag/3R2lLmf
British ‘First Fleet’ brought smallpox to Australia—and may have killed millions
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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
First author is superstar PhD student Cecilia Kyany'a @katungececilia.bsky.social who was profiled here (and is looking for postdoc opportunities): sangerinstitute.blog/2026/06/24/b...
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Breathing new life into cystic fibrosis research - Wellcome Sanger Institute Blog
Cecilia Kyany’a studies the fascinating microbiology of the airway microbiome, especially in people living with cystic fibrosis. As part of her PhD research, Cecilia is uncovering the hidden microbial...
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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Very proud of this preprint out of my lab, our first (of hopefully many) host-microbe spatial transcriptomics paper. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing insights into P. aeruginosa biology and chronic airway disease @cysticfibrosis.org.uk @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk
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TomFinn @tomfinnerty.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Fine dress does not charm him, and flattery's breath Is lost on the dog, for he's faithful to death; He sees the great soul which the body conceals— Oh, it's great to be young with a dog at your heels! #photography #photographie #photographers #EastCoastKin #Mayo #WildAtlanticWay
a boy and his dog run along a cliff on a blustery day, there's a ramshackle fence and the choppy deep blue sea behind them
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Tracy Palmer @proftracypalmer.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Check out our latest T7SS toxin story. These reverse toxins aren’t as rare as we thought!
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
If you're you have experience in working in animal / pathogen #aDNA and are interested in a postdoctoral position as part of my ERC Project HERDPATH, please DM/email me kevin[at]palaeome.org
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University College Dublin @ucddublin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
📗✨ Happy Bloomsday! Today we celebrate the enduring legacy of James Joyce (BA 1902), UCD's most celebrated graduate, and his groundbreaking work, Ulysses. #bloomsday #jamesjoyce @ucdlibrary.bsky.social
Composite image of first edition copy of Ulysses by James Joyce showing front cover, inside cover with dedication, publishing notes and frontispiece and title.
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Stephen Gordon @steve-myco.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Up Mayo!🇨🇦
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Stephen Gordon @steve-myco.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Great letter in @nature.com from @roysleator.bsky.social 'Science must be seen as a viable profession for the many, not the few' www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Science must be seen as a viable profession for the many, not the few
Letter to the Editor
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Stephen Gordon @steve-myco.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Oh wow, amazing: "Discovery and identification of a handwritten laboratory notebook by Albert Calmette and Camille Guérin describing experimental studies and development of the BCG vaccine for tuberculosis at the Institut Pasteur" doi.org/10.1016/j.tu...
Title page of the notebook: Cahier D'experiences sur la tuberculose.
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Gunnar N. Schroeder @gunnarns.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Only a couple of days left to register for the UK Cellular Microbiology Network Meeting - we will have a great line up of speakers and poster presenters investigating various pathogens in cell-based, tissue and in vivo models.
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Paul Hoskisson 🧫 🦠🐸 @paulhoskisson.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
This is cool - ‘Descent from a common ancestor restricts exploration of protein sequence space’ - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... & a great commentary piece too- ‘Maynard Smith’s analogy, realized: Common ancestry constrains evolutionary percolation through protein space’ www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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vwtireland.bsky.social @vwtireland.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Become a citizen scientist and help map red and grey squirrels and pine martens across Ireland. Submit your sighting to the All-Ireland Squirrel and Pine Marten Survey: ROI: tinyurl.com/276jjna2 NI: tinyurl.com/2s4c2cc6 #NVWIreland Led by @uniofgalway.bsky.social @ulsterwildlife.bsky.social VWT
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Wilbert Bitter @wilbertbitter.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
shocking statistics, but only limited public outcry.. We should be more vocal about this tb.impactcounter.com
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Tuberculosis Impact Counter | Tracking TB Funding Impact
Tracking the impact of TB funding via USAID
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Claas Kirchhelle @kirchhelle.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Interested in the societal & scientific dynamics shaping microbial #conservation, #assetization & #biodiversity research? Then these back-to-back articles with Fred Vagneron on microbial culture collections in JHB's new Microbes & Health collection are for you! link.springer.com/collections/... 1/3
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Microbes and Health
The past century has seen an extraordinary shift in the perception of microbes, both within biomedical science and in the broader culture, from deadly enemies ...
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UK Cellular Microbiology @ukcellmicro.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Deadline approaching: Submit an abstract until 12th of May to present at the UK Cellular Microbiology Meeting 2026! Great opportunity for early career researchers! www.ukcellmicro.org
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UK Cellular Microbiology @ukcellmicro.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
The 2026 UK Cellular Microbiology Network Meeting is approaching fast! Submit an abstract until May, 12th and join us June, 22nd/23rd in Belfast! Exiting keynote speakers and opportunities for early career researchers from the UK, Ireland and beyond to share their work. www.ukcellmicro.org
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Max Gutierrez @maxgg.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
‼️ A really good meeting for people working on host-pathogen interactions! Great keynote speakers this year: Raphael Valdivia and Florence Niedergang. Please repost!
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Max Gutierrez @maxgg.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Really important and relevant study in TB from @danbarberphd.bsky.social and colleagues. We need to re-think many assumptions. Nitric oxide production in mice has been a confounding factor. #tuberculosis
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TomFinn @tomfinnerty.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Parenthood #mistlethrush #thrush #photography #photographic #photographers #Birds #Wildlife #Ireland #blueskybirds #birdsofbluesky #nature #EastCoastKin
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Stephen Gordon @steve-myco.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Hot off the presses 🔥, the 3rd Edition of 'Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease' by Quinn et al. 🦠🧫🔬 In all good bookshops...and Amazon. www.wiley.com/en-gb/Veteri...
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Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease, 3rd Edition
<p><b>The definitive resource for understanding infectious disease in veterinary medicine</b> <p>The revised third edition of <i>Veterinary Microbiology and Microbial Disease</i> equips veterinary pr...
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Stephen Gordon @steve-myco.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
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J. Craig Venter, Scientist Who Decoded the Human Genome, Dies at 79
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Kevin Daly @gingerhowley.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
I'll speaking tomorrow at HEAS - you can sign up to watch online! www.heas.at/events/heas-...
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HEAS Talk with Kevin Daly - HEAS
We are looking forward to welcoming Kevin Daly from University College Dublin to Vienna for a HEAS Talk on Livestock Genomic Health During Domestication: A Palaeogenomic Perspective on the 24th April ...
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Fiona J Whelan @whelanfj.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Each publication in a #Microbio26 journal helps fund 4 student travel grants. Please publish with us if you can!
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