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Strep GBI, 1-2 April 2027 in Durham @strepgbi.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Strep GBI 2026 is open. Join ECRs and experts to highlight cutting-edge research focused on crucial aspects of Streptococcal biology. Registration/abstracts 👉 pay.durham.ac.uk/event-durham... ⏳ Deadline Feb 13 📌 Durham 🗓️ March 30/31 2026. 🌐 strepgbi.wixsite.com/strep-gbi.

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Karrera Djoko @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Already missing heather season in the UK 😭

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Karrera Djoko @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Summer, please never leave. Mostly so that all my weekend walks look like this (pics from Swaledale) but also because I still have so much to do before the new academic year starts lolsob.

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Karrera Djoko @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Petition for England to look like this every weekend.

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 12/12/2024

I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report: Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

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Timothée Poisot @ctrlalttim.com · 10/12/2024

Our time is monetized but not valuable

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Karrera Djoko @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

If I have to sit through another meeting where students are referred to as "our target market", I might actually scream out loud instead of internally.

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Karrera Djoko @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Ok, I figured out how to create a Metallobiologists starter pack. I'll keep adding to the list as I find more, but please add your name here if I've missed you. go.bsky.app/SgEyRLv

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Mike Feigin 🥯 @mikefeigin.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

My guess is that this post is a joke to 50% of scientists and serious to the other 50%.

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Angelo Frei @angelofrei.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Only 1 week left to apply for this competition-funded position in my group!

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David K Smith @professor-dave.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Good explanation of recent changes for efficiency: No more academic boards of studies, each module can only have one summative assessment, modules with <10 students cancelled, removal of all double-blind marking. www.yorkvision.co.uk/news/assessm...

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Assessments Cut as University ‘Changes the Work’ | York Vision

The University is set to impose wide-ranging changes to modules, assessment and departmental structures in a bid to save money.

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Daumann Lab @daumannl.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#ChemSky This Preprint by @sophieguti.bsky.social has got it all: Natural Product synthesis, Chelators, Ln, Curium luminescence, mass spec methods, bacteria! doi.org/10.26434/che... Comparative Binding Studies of the Chelators Methylolanthanin and Rhodopetrobactin B to Lanthanides and Ferric Iron.🧪🧵

Two chelators are shown. The ventraö citric acid mojety is highlighted in yellow, the two chelator arms bear either a phenol unit (for MLL) or a 2,3 dihydroxy benzene unit (for RPB B)

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Kevin Waldron @waldronlab.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I have a PhD position available in my group, to start in March 2025. If you have a keen interest in biochemistry and would like to study an exciting and novel class of copper proteins (aka weird Cu tubes) from bacteria, I'd love to hear from you. You should apply here: ibb.edu.pl/app/uploads/...

Figure from Vita et al., 2016, Sci Rep: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep39065

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Karrera Djoko @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Reposting this for new arrivals. PS: this isn't an exclusive PI-only list! If you are student, postdoc, or tech working on metals in biology, and I have missed you, please let me know. ☺️

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Jennifer Goff, PhD @jlgoff.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Final call for early abstracts is tomorrow!

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Prof Cynthia Whitchurch FAA🏳️‍🌈 @cwhitch.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I'm recruiting! I'm looking for a motivated postdoctoral scientist to join my new team at SCELSE in Singapore. The role will explore various aspects of how #eDNA is produced and utilised in #Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms. #Microsky #phagesky #Science ntu.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/Careers/job/...

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Research Fellow (eDNA in Biofilms)

The Singapore Centre for Environmental Life Sciences Engineering (SCELSE) is a unique interdisciplinary Research Centre of Excellence (RCE), funded by National Research Foundation, Ministry of Educati...

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Animalcules @bacteriophile.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

A widespread family of ribosomal peptide metallophores involved in bacterial adaptation to metal stress | PNAS www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Karrera Djoko @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

The Lake District in late autumn never disappoints.

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Karrera Djoko @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

In other news, I discovered last night that the big Tesco in Durham now sells Tim Tams. I may/may not have bought so many that may/may not have prompted the person at the register to comment, "Wow, you must really like Tim Tams."

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Freya Harrison @friendlymicrobe.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Does anyone know of small grants schemes that a PhD student could apply to in order to cover sequencing costs? Looking for ~£4k. #MicroSky

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Urszula McClurg @urszulamcclurg.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I am delighted to announce a tailored PhD scheme supporting candidates from minority backgrounds. This scheme is fully funded, passport blind and comes with tailored mentoring www.findaphd.com/phds/program.... Come join us at @livuni-ismib.bsky.social!

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FindAPhD : Fully funded studentship at the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology at University of Liverpool

Apply for a PhD: Fully funded studentship at the Institute of Systems, Molecular and Integrative Biology at University of Liverpool

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Melanie Blokesch @mblokesch.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Exciting times! Our latest preprint is now live 🤩! After nearly 16 yrs of running my lab, I truly believe this is one of the most significant contributions we've made. It offers fresh hypotheses about how pandemic Vibrio cholerae spreads globally. Let’s dive in!🧵..1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Diverse phage defence systems define West African South American pandemic Vibrio cholerae

Our understanding of the factors underlying the evolutionary success of different lineages of pandemic Vibrio cholerae remains incomplete. Interestingly, two unique genetic signatures define the West ...

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Karrera Djoko @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Re-bluesky-ing this? Re-posting? What's the word? 😅

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BejaLabTechnion @bejalab.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

The Parkinson’s disease drug entacapone disrupts gut microbiome homoeostasis via iron sequestration www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Ben Neely @benneely.com · 24/11/2024

I took biochem in 2001, and for nearly 20 years read amino acid sequences daily… and I never knew Dayhoff named them or even the logic behind things like Q until last Friday (h/t Mike Janech). Also, this is another big Dayhoff moment for me. She was incredible! #proteomics #bioinformatics

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Dr. Margaret Oakley Dayhoff

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

ChatGPT and similar LLM systems will help you save time here when used judiciously 👇

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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Crazy stuff in PNAS dental plaque bacterium 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘺𝘯𝘦𝘣𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘳𝘶𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘵𝘪𝘪 can divide into an unprecedented 14 daughter cells at once—then each daughter cell starts growing immediately in a rare process called multiple fission, achieving 0.5 mm per day of expansion www.snexplores.org/article/bact...

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These mouth bacteria use a new type of cell division to make 14 cells at once

The newfound strategy seen in C. matruchotii might help oral bacteria recover lost territory after each eviction by toothbrushing.

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Karrera Djoko @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Took the group out for afternoon coffee to celebrate paper acceptance, new members, returning member, and end of a successful UG project. Definitely the best parts of my job.

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Karrera Djoko @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We have a fully-funded PhD position to develop and test a mathematical model that can explain how metal ions influence microbial coexistence. Will suit candidates with a natural sciences, maths, ecology, or microbiology background who can imagine themselves doing some wet lab and some modelling.

findaphd.com

Population-scale impacts of metals on microbial communities at Durham University on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - Population-scale impacts of metals on microbial communities at Durham University, listed on FindAPhD.com

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Lucy Crouch @lucyicm.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

We also have a industry-linked PhD position on Bacteroides and host glycans that will be advertised soon #glycotime🍭 The IMI is an amazing environment with lovely PIs doing loads of cool science, so please apply if you see a project you're interested in 🥼🧪

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Matthew Freeman @mjafreeman.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Here’s my spreadsheet of starter packs (>80!) related to broadly ‘mechanistic biology’ plus some intriguing extras Complete with collective nouns I’ve been tracking these but now can’t keep up Hope it’s helpful 2/2 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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@mjafreeman.bsky.social's BlueSky starter packs for 'mechanistic' biologists

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Bacillus on the Blue place, starting small, but hopefully extending to keep the conversation active [it was also gorwing slow on Twitter] go.bsky.app/BfusVyD

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Alasdair Hubbard @dralhubb.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

PhD studentship available. The project is VERY interdisciplinary, combing social science, biophysics and microbiology to understand inequalities of UTIs treatment and replicate them in vitro to help choose the correct antibiotic. Pls share, home students only #AMR #MicroSky tinyurl.com/45d8h54u

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Health inequalities which impact the treatment of urinary tract infections

Find out about this studentship opportunity on Health inequalities which impact the treatment of urinary tract infections.

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Karrera Djoko @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We have a fully-funded PhD position to develop & test a mathematical model to explain how metal ions influence microbial coexistence. Would suit candidates with Maths, Bio, or Nat Sci background. Great project & training. Our project undergrads this year are currently writing a paper already!

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Jessica Blair @jessicamablair.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

PhD studentship alert!! Two projects available with me fully funded by BBSRC This one is a collaboration with Dr Michelle Buckner warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... And this one a collaboration with @overtonlab.bsky.social warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... Both will be lots of fun! Come & join us 😃

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Professor Jessica Blair

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Dr Katherine Duncan @kateduncan.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

The starter pack I made is at the 50/50 limit - I’ve heard many packs were expanded automatically to 150 people, any suggestions on how to make this happen? go.bsky.app/72NeGsT

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Susanne Gebhard @gebhardlab.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

New preprint from the team, looking at the links between carbon metabolism, calcium detoxificatin and bacterial biomineralisation! As always a fun collaboration with Kevin Paine and many other wonderful people. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Metabolic insights into microbially induced calcite formation by Bacillaceae for application in bio-based construction materials

Microbially induced calcite precipitation (MICP) offers promising solutions for sustainable, low-cement infrastructure materials. While it is known how urea catabolism leads to biomineralization, the ...

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