Pls help spread word: joint tech post between @gpollara.bsky.social & me. Blends his insightful work understanding host response/immunity to mucosal pathogens with my lab's passion for understanding why #UTI keeps coming back using organoid models. Come work for the dream team! rb.gy/xmw5b5 #UTISky

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on

From Sweden Longitudinal epigenetic rewiring in lung immune cells in patients with post COVID-19 condition link.springer.com/article/10.1... s4me.info/threads/long... Screenshot from latest Science for ME weekly update #LongCovid #COVIDLung #PASC #PwLC #postcovid #postcovid19

This Steller's Jay saw me watching it hide a peanut, and realizing I could see where it was buried, unearthed the nut and flew it to a safer cache. #birding Can't trust the humans

How can a single antibiotic halt translation across all domains of life? 🧬 Our new study in Nucleic Acids Research reveals how Sparsomycin traps active ribosomes through a conserved mechanism. academic.oup.com/nar/article/... #Ribosome #Translation #StructuralBiology #Antibiotics #RNA #iTPseq

Just when you think it couldn’t possibly get worse in 🇺🇸…

Allison Gill@muellershewrote.com · 2d ago

NEW: The Trump Administration is planning to slash human subject research regulations by redefining informed consent. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/trump-plan...

New paper from the lab, out in Nature Microbiology. We ran CRISPRi screens to ask what genes E. coli needs in order to live in a gut and what this can tell us about the gut environment itself. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41564-026-02471-8

Please do consider applying for this exciting lab role with @gpollara.bsky.social and me - nice blend of advanced culture models, immunology, microbiology and ‘omics, in our friendly Central London labs. Closes 2 Oct, please amplify! Happy to chat informally #UTI #UTISky

Gabriele Pollara@gpollara.bsky.social · 2d ago

🚨 NEW RESEARCH TECHNICIAN POST 🚨 👉 Interested in understanding the biology of recurrent UTI? 👉 Keen to work in my own and @jennyrohn.bsky.social research groups at UCL? Then please do take a look at new position available 👇. Informal enquiries encouraged. #UTISky www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

🚨 NEW RESEARCH TECHNICIAN POST 🚨 👉 Interested in understanding the biology of recurrent UTI? 👉 Keen to work in my own and @jennyrohn.bsky.social research groups at UCL? Then please do take a look at new position available 👇. Informal enquiries encouraged. #UTISky www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

UCL – University College London

UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

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Sunday harvest #gardening #growyourown #tomatoes

I love #cosmos because their blooming season is long and very late into autumn, if you keep dead-heading them. Aren’t they lovely? #Bloomscrolling #flowers #gardening

Our #garden is in the final throes of #fruit and #vegetable output, the time of year when we stop tending to things and let it all go wild. Greenhouse: how it started (in March)…how it’s going #gardening

Very disappointed bird of prey (sparrowhawk? merlin?) in our back garden this afternoon, too large and unwieldy to access seed from the Bird Buddy camera #birds cc @katebevan.com (photo by @rpgrant.bsky.social)

Dear all, I have the pleasure to inform you that the online course "Resistance to Antibacterial Agents", produced by the Institut Pasteur, will start on November 3, 2026. How does ABR emerge and spread? ... 🔗 www.fun-mooc.fr/en/courses/r...

Resistance to antibacterial agents

The origin, risks, diagnosis, epidemiology of resistance to antibacterial agents in man and livestock worldwide, as well as preventive and countermeasures, in a « one health » perspective.

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Micro-bladder model offers clues to stopping recurrent urinary tract infections (UTIs) The results indicate that phage therapy – using viruses to kill bacteria without harming people – could help to reduce recurrent infections @microberamon.bsky.social @jennyrohn.bsky.social #UTISky #UTI #IDSky

Micro-bladder model offers clues to stopping recurrent UTIs

A lab-grown micro bladder may explain why urinary tract infections (UTIs) return so frequently, according to a study by researchers at UCL, the University of Oxford and the University of Leicester.

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Amazing

Massimo (mirror)@rainmaker1973-m.bsky.social · 5d ago

When scientists put slime mold over a map of Tokyo, they used food to represent urban areas. After a day the mold created a network nearly identical to Tokyo's rail network: all this without any brain. Original post

“Bacterial growth is straightforward to measure, complex in origin and exquisitely sensitive to environmental and genetic perturbations.” Fantastic opening sentence to a deeply interesting topic. Never thought about bacterial growth like this before. #MicroSky #Bacteria

Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · 6d ago

Out Now! Bacterial growth rate in populations and single cells #MicroSky

“I worked in a lab with… limited financial resources. As a result, I learned to do science with little room for trial and error or designing endless experiments. Every experiment had to be carefully thought through so that it addressed the scientific question while remaining financially feasible.”

Development@dev-journal.bsky.social · 6d ago

Pathway to Independence – an interview with Jessica Perochon In this interview, Jessica discusses her research at the intersection of developmental biology and regenerative medicine, as well as her future plans. doi.org/10.1242/dev....

In the rarefied world of £9 London sandwiches, there is a disappointingly fine line between posh brioche bread and a budget supermarket burger bun

Had the best cheer 📣 squad with very clever signs during my half marathon yesterday! Hope others enjoyed them too!🎉 Thanks to @melaniernicol.bsky.social and @draphilbrick.bsky.social for the support! #IDsky #UTIsky #medsky #pharmsky

Absolutely amazing #kidney #transplant #dialysis #CKD

The Lancet@thelancet.com · 6d ago

ICYMI - A genetically modified pig kidney kept a man off dialysis for nine months before a successful human kidney transplant, according to a world-first report in The Lancet. Read now: spkl.io/633257r8p1

Lol

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 7d ago

It’s my self-care hack of the year: I quit our local veg box scheme, and set my mind free | Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett

Your daily reminder that microenvironment matters for susceptibility testing! Great work from Jen Walker lab, Shane Cristy et al. @walkerlab.bsky.social Another great example, this time using more physiological media vs standard diagnostic broth for #Candida #UTISky #CAUTI #ClinMicro #IDSky

The Walker Lab at UTHealth@walkerlab.bsky.social · last wk.

Thrilled to share our most recent publication that was just accepted in #mBio on #FungalCAUTI #UTISky Big shoutout to my student Shane Cristy for all his hard work completing this story doi.org/10.1128/mbio...

“Environmental temperature can be accurately inferred from the DNA composition of microbial communities…using machine learning and based on tetranucleotide frequencies.” A totally different form of fossil record! #MicroSky #ClimateChange

Nature Microbiology@natmicrobiol.nature.com · last wk.

Out Now! Ambient temperature is encoded in the metagenome of microbial communities #MicroSky

Our latest paper has been featured in Nature Comms' Editors’ Highlights page for Microbiology and Infection Diseases! Do check out the paper if you're interested in #UTI, #phage, #UPEC, advanced infection #models & treatment failure! #UTISky #MicroSky #IDSky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Tube #MedSky #UKSky

‘It’s a novelist’s fate, not so much that their characters are like them but that they become their characters.’ Online now from the next issue: Andrew O’Hagan on Anita Brookner. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Andrew O’Hagan · Omelettes and Whisky: Anita Brookner’s Edge

Over the course of 24 novels and 87 years, Anita Brookner achieved many dislocations of selfhood and may have become...

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Probably no surprise that my #favouriteplant is the glorious Marsh Gentian. I love everything about them & this year they provided some extra magic. Watching as the sun set, it was incredible to see the gorgeous blue flowers close for the night, something I'd not observed before. 😍 #wildflowerhour

Sarah@sarahfaulkner.bsky.social · last mo.

Slightly obsessed with Marsh Gentian at the moment, and (in the words of Depeche Mode) I just can't get enough! So took the opportunity to indulge in a visit to another local heathland this weekend - just glorious. 💙 #wildflowerhour

a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes

Unexpected second flush of #nasturtiums after being fried in the drought #Bloomscrolling #Gardening #Rain