Anybody be able to help me! Journal is being picky, I've uploaded the sequences to NCBI for a publication and selected for them to be published in a year or on publication but the journal are insisting that they won't review unless they are public now. How can I change this? #microsky

Gets data and figures perfect. Waits year waiting for second figure to come together. Checks and one genus has been reclassified 🙄 reproduces figure 1 but has lost half the R code....

Put my submission on BioRxiv before submitting been invited to put my hand microbiome paper into the journal of Agriculture and Horticulture 🤣🤣🤣

Imposter syndrome is real, I'm not sure I am mature enough for this but first last author publication submitted 😬😬😬🙏🙏🙏

Proud supervisor today 👏 to Megan presenting her first poster at the #LAMSECS2026 🥳🦠🥳🦠🥳

I'm preparing a ND mentee for their first conference later. Got me thinking what's in your bag for a conference?

It's official I'm giving up. Transformation of a full 5.6 kb operon was always a tough ask but these poorly E. coli really are rejecting the operon 😢 1 week to achieve OD0.1!

Hey #MicroSky, can anyone tell me offhand whether Klebsiella pneumoniae ATCC13883 has rough or smooth LPS please? My searches are failing. Thank you :)

Can we make working individually normal again. Collaboration is great don't get me wrong, but as a neurodivergent individual communication is the bit of science I'm worst at. I can design awesome programs of work, dream up experiments, write grants (and papers if I have a fixed deadline).

Is there anything more frustrating than reading "we did the protocol of Z with the following modifications" only to find Z saying "we did the protocol of Y with the following modifications" only to find Y saying "we did the protocol of X with the following modifications" 🙄

Long shot the computer for our Multiskan Ascent died and with it the software. Anybody have a 2.6 legacy copy they can share???

I'm looking for an enthusiastic student to join my team as a PhD candidate on archaeal genome evolution 🦠💻 Work in beautiful Utrecht, at @binfutrecht.bsky.social, an international group full of caring, amazing scientists, and with frequent cake breaks! www.uu.nl/en/organisat... Please share! 🙏

Early morning flight to Belfast for #MicroBio26 Excited to be giving a whistle top your of our second year projects at 10:30 tomorrow in the Education and Outreach forum. Or catch me at Poster session 1 A013!

Since when was it normal for people to take pictures of computer screens on phones and not to take a screenshot of the screen for reports....

The biggest tragedy with science is the loss of materials. Someone publishes something and the assumption is that it can be made available for future use. This falls down when a group leader retires. A combination of their group moving on and loss of contacts.

Alas my ERC starting grant was not passed to stage 2. I always knew my goal was just to get the second part read and this just feels like one more kick in the teeth. Guess I'll buy some new jumping spikes tonight....

We only launched a few days ago and we already have members in the Americas, Europe and Asia. Let’s spread the word and connect our global community!! Join us at www.ndinmicro.org #neurodivergent #microbiology #microbiologist #autistic #ADHD #virology

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ND in Micro@ndinmicro.bsky.social · 6mo ago

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Can someone explain why my pile of marking didn't just vanish into thin air over the Christmas break 😒

Very humbled to have been awarded the Skyrac AC senior track and field athlete of the year during an injury riddled season when others stepped up so much ☺️ couldn't have got through this year without the support of my my amazing team - Sue, Sam and Alan

I wonder if there are any academics out there who have taken a step back from a permanent position to a post-doc. I'd be interested to talk to anyone who has made this decision as I'm contemplating it as a possibility.

Happy #InternationalStudentsDay 🧪🗺️ Did you know that international Master’s and Undergraduate students can join the Microbiology Society as part of our new student membership category? Be part of our global community: microb.io/4qfCiA6 #StudentMembership #STEM

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I recently sequenced an interesting bacterial genome, with the idea of making the interesting recombinant genes from this strain. Problem: after a morning searching the genes of interest just aren't there. Not a trace, and all literature says there should be 2 copies. 😭🤯 #help

What a lovely lawn of marshmallows....but not the Staphylococcus homonis that I was looking for 😮‍💨 @contamclub.bsky.social

After optimizing said script went it's time to load in 265 sequences not 1. Yeah that's going to take my poor little computer ~18 hours 😭🥴 *Should have logged into the HPC 🤣

Sara Henderson@microsara.bsky.social · 9mo ago

That slightly giddy feeling when you write an R script and it actually does what you wanted it to do (after 3 hours of talking to copilot) 🥹

That slightly giddy feeling when you write an R script and it actually does what you wanted it to do (after 3 hours of talking to copilot) 🥹

Fellowship submitted. Now to catch up on 3 months sleep 😴😴😴😴

Internal checks passed 🥹 fellowship to be submitted Tuesday. Can't quite believe this little girl with hundreds of ideas actually managed it 🥹🥹🥹