Man plans, DB laughs

My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...

Alas my train travel smugness has predictably backfired. Stranded in Mannheim and will miss my booked Eurostar for sure

#escmidgoobal2026 is a very different type of conference. Absolutely huge. Loved giving my talk. VIP lounge is genius.

City come out on top in the biggest game of the year. They’ll be chanting the name of Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the streets of Manchester tonight

A bad drawing of Gabriel of Arsenal head-butting Manchester City forward Erling Haaland #MCIARS

That was fun

No travelled through the day yesterday. Was seamless but also realise I may have got lucky. Either way it is much more relaxing than airports and flights.

"Mosquitoes in Iceland are more than a curiosity or future annoyance. They are a warning …" - Amanda M. Koltz and Lauren E. Culler

Iceland—previously the only Arctic nation without mosquitoes—no longer holds that distinction.

"The detection of mosquitoes just north of Reykjavík in 2025 reflects an ecological shift already underway," write Amanda M. Koltz and Lauren E. Culler in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4tg86pJ

Sorry I asked whether your toddler's first words were ‘phone home’.

This is how train travel should be

2nd leg

Two in my talk tomorrow

Loch Lomond from Firkin #LochLomond #Scotland #Trossachs www.damianshields.com

Robert Read from Journal of Infection describing AI in publishing as a tsunami of custard 😂

#ESCMIDGlobal2026

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name

OAI: say no more

So begins a long but very sustainable journey to #ESCMIDGlobal2026

Excited to share our new findings in @science.org on how the DRT3 bacterial defense system uses a reverse transcriptase that builds DNA repeats without a nucleic acid template. Microbes never cease to amaze!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Applying for an ERC grant in the 2027 competitions: what you need to know The ERC plans to launch the grant competitions under its 2027 Work Programme between July 2026 and June 2027, with the calls for proposals introducing several changes to the eligibility rules for appl...

I don’t know if you saw the MASSIVE news announced by @erc.europa.eu today: from now on, if you get a B at step 1 you are eligible to apply at N+3(!!!) years. Say you got a B in STG2026 step 1, you thought you could apply in STG2028, but no: only in STG2029! erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

Evolution of pandemic cholera at its global source - Nature The seventh cholera pandemic, driven by El Tor Vibrio cholerae, evolved separately in Bangladesh and India, with the Ganges Basin acting as the global source, and its evolution has been shaped by...

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

#phage #phagesky #microsky

This Bayern game is the finest example of the brilliance of European club football. Amazing game

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I promise you will always remember those first representations of your group at MicroSoc. I do

Our company does loads of shitty 'team building' events. The ice breaker is always 'tell everyone an interesting fact about yourself'. I always make them up. Last time I convinced everyone I drove the bulldozer in Bowie's Ashes to Ashes video.

This whole thread has become pure comedy gold

"Bunch of fucking amateurs"

A worthy winner. Sorry I couldn’t be there

Pope notified about new Trump insults by orange smoke rising from the chimney From now on Pope Leo will be notified about any new insults from Donald Trump by looking up to see orange smoke coming from the Sistine Chapel chimney.

NEWS! Pope notified about new Trump insults by orange smoke rising from the chimney newsthump.com/2026/04/15/p...

A firm entry

NASA’s Artemis II Reveals the Basin in Full
For the very first time, the mysterious Orientale Basin has been fully photographed. Thanks to Artemis II, humanity now sees the Moon in unprecedented detail, reminding us of the endless wonders beyond Earth. 🛰️