Used to do that journey on the Corail. Such a difference on the TGV.

Thank you. Currently dealing with the impact of this decision that will deny entry to a student with a $200k fellowship to work on antibiotic drug discovery.

Researchers @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social and @uniofsurrey.bsky.social have developed a new technique to measure the content of individual human immune cells infected with a model bacteria for Mycobacterium tuberculosis ⬇️ www.kcl.ac.uk/news/new-sin...

MRC curiosity-driven research reopens with new approach The Medical Research Council (MRC) unpauses curiosity driven research funding and improves the funding process.

MRC have announced their new approach to curiosity-driven research: www.ukri.org/news/mrc-cur...
Boards gone (?) replaced with flexible panels and interviews. DPFS and Gap fund renamed.

2 year fellowship available in AMR research www.medicalresearchfoundation.org.uk/grants/antim...

Algorithm allows paramedics to predict brain damage risk after cardiac arrest | King's College London Researchers at King’s College London have shown that a widely used cardiac arrest risk score can be applied before patients reach hospital, enabling paramedics to assess the risk of brain injury at an...

Researchers at King’s have shown that a widely used cardiac arrest risk score can be applied before patients reach hospital, enabling paramedics to assess the risk of brain injury at an earlier stage of care

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/algorit...

Fantastic. Very clever.

Interdisciplinary scientists at King's are using highly powerful magnets to drive new discoveries.🧲

The state of the art #NuclearMagneticResonance (#NMR) machine enables researchers to see what cannot be seen with the naked eye, at the atomic level.

#ScienceAtKings @kingslsm.bsky.social

Synthetic opioids may have caused hundreds more UK deaths than thought Study find nitazenes, which are up to 500 times stronger than heroin, can degrade significantly in portmortem blood samples

Deaths due to synthetic opioids nitazenes could have been underreported by as much as a third.

New research by @kingslsm.bsky.social sheds light on the UK’s growing opioid problem.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

So Starmer, a man who never met Epstein but made a bad appointment, might resign. But Trump, his closest friend, fellow sex abuser and coverer-upper of his crimes, is going nowhere.

That’s how it works, isn’t it?

It was massively oversubscribed. Over 17,000 applications and more than 60% up on last year.

Chef’s kiss for the Alt text for the one on the bottom right.

Dear John, very much enjoy your reporting across different platforms. Perhaps this is the week (again?) to ask why the club is still on X and does not have an official presence on here?

Winners announced for the 2026 King's Engaged Research Awards | King's College London Staff, students and community partners have celebrated public and community engagement at the King’s Engaged Research Awards ceremony.

Researchers across King’s are making a profound impact on society – locally, nationally and across the world.

The King’s Engaged Research Awards, held at the King’s Great Hall, celebrated this remarkable impact. ⬇️

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/winners...

The One King’s Impact Fund is open for applications!

🌍 Open to students and staff at King's, the fund offers £25k–£50k to support projects tackling local and global challenges.

💡 Turn bold ideas into real-world impact.

Apply by 1 April: www.kcl.ac.uk/impact/fund

Rogers 104th or something on the spreadsheet.

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Come work with me!!! Opportunity for a Senior Scientist to join our wonderful, friendly and productive team at UKHSA, Porton Down. Working as part of our Phage and Open Innovation Teams. Closing date 10th Dec. #job #microsky Please share with your networks :D www.healthjobsuk.com/job/UK/Londo...

Metabolic control of porin permeability influences antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli - Nature Microbiology The permeability of bacterial porins is dynamically regulated by periplasmic proton and potassium concentrations, altering antibiotic resistance.

#NewResearch

The permeability of bacterial porins is dynamically regulated by periplasmic proton and potassium concentrations, altering antibiotic resistance.

#MicroSky #AMR 🦠 @andresfloto.bsky.social

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

PhD opportunity in my lab: exploring how commensals and pathogens build biofilm communities on endotracheal (ventilator) tubes. Microbial ecology, medical microbiology and fancy imaging! Co-supervised with the fabulous Saskia Bakker and Jeremy Webb warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure Franklin was no victim in how the DNA double helix was solved. An overlooked letter and an unpublished news article, both written in 1953, reveal that she was an equal player.

What Rosalind Franklin truly contributed to the discovery of DNA’s structure. A really informative article, perfect for a weekend coffee read. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great name!

Maybe, but I suspect ChatGPT is also making drafting an application easier.

Think ChatGPT is also playing a role here.

Metagenomics testing: From PhD project to the ICU A new diagnostic test that can detect a broad range of microorganisms in a single sample and give same-day results has been shown to improve the diagnosis and treatment of patients with…

What if ICU doctors could diagnose infections in hours, not days?

A new test, developed from a PhD project at King's, now makes this possible.🔬

🔗 www.kcl.ac.uk/metagenomics...

Now published! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Very nice collaboration with Hoogenboom ( @ucl.ac.uk ) and Bonev ( @uniofnottingham.bsky.social ) labs.

Exciting to see what impact will come from this in how all cause lung injuries are treated in the future.

King’s are doing the drug testing so some of my colleagues from the 4th floor might be there but I know quite a few people who couldn’t get tickets. Will be amazing to have Twickenham full for this.

It is a hot ticket! No joy in the ballot ☹️

If you are UK-based and working on any aspect of microbiomes (human, plant, insect, soil, animal, ...), please do sign up to Microbiome-Net for details of networking, funding and training opportunities.

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