gbdraw v0.9.1 is out now on Bioconda!
Easily visualize microbial genomes and enjoy the #gbdraw web app completely offline.
📦 Install via Bioconda: bioconda.github.io/recipes/gbdr...
🌐 Try the online app: gbdraw.app
#bioinformatics #genomics #microbiology #visualization
Wow! So looking forward to trying this out 🧫🦠
Whenever I presented Phold, I was frequently asked "can you do the same beyond phages?" We ( @oschwengers.bsky.social @linsalrob.bsky.social @binomicalabs.org et al) finally did it with Baktfold github.com/gbouras13/ba... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
It’s always fun to look at phenotypic microbial diversity on an agar plate. #microsky
🔊 Looking for a Research Assistant in Bacterial Evolution to join my lab 🦠
🥼Main duties: Research (AMR + microbiome) + lab assistance.
⏲️ Post duration: 30 months
🗓️ Closing date for applications: 20th April 2026
💰 Salary: ~£35k
Details and how to apply: tinyurl.com/2a3v66y7
Please share!
📢 Excited to be offering a Plant Health vacation studentship this summer on plant disease biocontrol and predatory bacteria! Supervised by me at Manchester Uni! @manchester.ac.uk
If interested—or know someone who might be—please share and apply! my.rsb.org.uk/services.php... 28th April deadline 🌿🍅🦠
Congratulations to Daniel Rozen on starting his position today as Professor of Microbial Evolution at #InstituteBiologyLeiden (@leidenscience.bsky.social / @unileiden.bsky.social), an exciting milestone and well-deserved recognition.
The University of Manchester is pleased to be the UK host for MEEHubs2026. Registration now open!
We have an amazing lineup of speakers, Jasmine Ono, Stineke van Houte, and Sarah Coulthurst, & more virtually at other hubs.
We hope to see you here or online 3-5 Aug! meehubs2026.oa-event.com
MEEHubs2026 registration and abstract submission is now online! 🚨🦠✨
Join us Aug 3 - 5, 2026 at one of the 7 hubs or online.
We are incredibly excited about our lineup of speakers, and hope that you submit an abstract to contribute too!
More information and registration links at:
meehubs.org
Here’s the latest preprint from my work on evolved resistance to Type VI Secretion system (T6SS) weaponry, funded by a @wellcometrust.bsky.social Sir Henry Wellcome Fellowship. So happy to see this out!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Slow and steady!
After 15 years of continuous cultivation, we finally isolated the first psychrotolerant ammonia-oxidizing archaeon (AOA) from an arctic environment, Ca. Nitrosocosmicus articus!
Our new article in Frontiers in Microbiology: doi.org/10.3389/fmic...
📣 The Whelan lab is hiring a bioinformatics postdoc 📣
Together with @fabricejpierre.bsky.social, we are offering a 1-year bioinformatic PDRA position in comparative genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. To find out more please visit whelanlab.co.uk/contact/. Applications close 3 April 2026!
We've all heard about the over-prescribing of antibiotics but what can be done to help reduce the amount dispensed?
Our Research Software Engineers have been working together with FBMH researchers and GPs to trial a new scheme.
I am not very active lately in social media, but if you want to see one of our latest works check Alberto’s post on the fitness cost of AMR genes. Great delivery from him and all collaborators. Thanks, guys!
bsky.app/profile/albe...
Just to check what time is this in CET? Right now there's only 5h different between CET and EDT, so 11 EDT should be 16 CET. This is because summer time starts earlier in North America than in Europe (or UK).
DAY 277
SPECIES 277- Sulfodiicoccus acidiphilus
STAGE: Archaea
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatic, QoR & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen, Tombow pencil
Sulfodiicoccus acidiphilus is a coccus shaped, non-motile archaeon.
#sciart #watercolor #archaea #painting #art #paint
DAY 276
SPECIES 276 - Saccharolobus solfataricus
STAGE: Archaea
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. DS , QoR & HWC watercolor, Sakura pen
NOTES: I have 3 colors that I want to keep using over and over.
#sciart #watercolor #archaea #painting #art #paint
With @saramitri.bsky.social, @sonjalehtinen.bsky.social and L. Lehmann we’ve launched the UNIL Center for Theory in Ecology and Evolution @unil.bsky.social🇨🇭
To kick things off, we’re offering short visiting fellowships for theorists in ecology & evolution. Apply & pls RP 😀
tinyurl.com/2wem36zz
Specific details about PLOS Biology's mandatory code-sharing policy
In support of #OpenScience, we routinely ask authors to openly share their #research #code before publication.
We are now formalizing this practice with a mandatory #code-sharing policy and clarifying what we mean by code sharing.
May be nice to cut-out the box for reference
plos.io/47dPeOW
🧪
Lookback meme. Woman in red dress with caption: "Antibiotics". Man in blue shirt checking out woman in red dress captioned: "The public". Partner of man in blue shirt glaring at man who is checking out woman in red dress, captioned: "Cold/flu symptoms"
Surveyed misconceptions around #AntibioticResistance are fascinating:
• 66% believe they aren't at risk of resistance when taking antibiotics
• ~70% assume ‘antibiotic resistance’ refers to the body gaining resistance
• ~25% expect antibiotics for viral infections
#AMR #SciComm
Sources below:
Courtesy of @martibartfast.bsky.social , we have a new release of AllTheBacteria which adds another 322,920 assemblies, covering all ENA (illumina, isolate) prokaryotes to May 2025.
allthebacteria.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ov...
🚨 New pre-print! 🚨 In the largest study of its kind to-date, we investigate the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms driving within-patient evolution of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Read here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... , and follow along with this thread, discussing our findings (1/21)
MENI is back! Join us in Dublin this August 2026 for our 3rd Meeting for Microbial Evolution in Ireland. We are delighted to have @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social @drrebeccajhall.bsky.social @jpjhall.bsky.social and @tweethinking.bsky.social join us as keynote speakers this year. miniurl.com/MENI
Back to Madagascar 🇲🇬 for our 2nd phage field season: exploring eco-evolutionary dynamics in rice fields. Aiming to limit sampling to just 1 year of lab + bioinformatics 😅! Great teamwork between Xplain (@phimresearch.bsky.social) and FOFIFA @mariandm.bsky.social #microsky #phagesky #phage #inrae
📣 2026 PhD studentship 📣
Via @manchester.ac.uk 's President's Doctoral Scholar Awards, we are encouraging applications for a PhD on the effect of pollutant exposure on microbe-immune cross talk. This project will incorporate microbiology, immunology, & bioinformatics. Deadline: 16 March 2026!
Applications for Vacation Studentship Grant are now open. The Society offers a limited number of awards to enable undergraduates to work on microbiological research projects during their summer vacation. The deadline for applications is 15 March 2026: https://microb.io/4kFjubf
Researchers of the evolution of plasticity, tolerance, and resistance, take note. Many common themes for precision targeting of AMR, for instance.
Hello Bluesky!
Does Nₑ really explain mutation rate (μ) or genome size (GS) in vertebrates?
We find the apparent Nₑ–μ link in Bergeron et al. (2023) is a “back-door” path via generation time, and GS is decoupled from both Nₑ and life-history traits.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
#evobio #PNAS
Join us for 4 days of cutting-edge Evolutionary Ecology research in beautiful Cornwall! 👇 #ExE2026