Oh no, not again! Come join us at #VTEC2026 to see what's happening about this pathogen www.vtec2026.org/outline-prog...

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Raw milk: The latest episode of AMI’s ‘Under The Lens’ video series turns the spotlight on the contentious issue of raw milk, with Prof Emmanuel Adukwu interviewing Prof Nicola Holden and Dr Gil Domingue. www.the-microbiologist.com/news/under-t... @srucnews.bsky.social @nicholden.bsky.social

Under the Lens: Nicola Holden and Gil Domingue weigh in on the raw milk debate

The latest episode of Applied Microbiology International's 'Under The Lens' video series turns the spotlight on the contentious issue of raw milk, with AMI Trustee Professor Emmanuel Adukwu interviewi...

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#foodsafety Check out the #VTEC2026 stellar keynote speakers, conference activities, the P&J Live venue and your trip to Aberdeen. A big thanks to our wonderful local committee, co-organisers SRUC and CPD & Event Services, University of Aberdeen, and very generous sponsors. www.vtec2026.org

🧪 It is all getting very exciting: less than 2 months now until the #VTEC2026 conference. Find out everything you need to know about STEC, VTEC, O157, nonO157, covering all OneHealth topic areas. If you haven't registered yet, there is still time, go to the website www.vtec2026.org/registration

Do you work on #STEC #VTEC #EHEC #Ecoli for #publichealth #foodsafety #datascience #farming or in #biosciences 🧪 Want to join the community for the triannual conference in Aberdeen (UK) next year? The #VTEC2026 conference website has all the info you need. Just head to www.vtec2026.org

Last chance alert!! the deadline for abstract submission to #VTEC2026 is TODAY! Only 250 words, you can still do it :) www.vtec2026.org/call-for-abs... 🧪#foodsaftey

Delighted that our #EcoSalPlus review, with Jeri Barak, on colonisation of plant hosts by E. coli and S. enterica is in an ASM SDG Spotlight Collection. Our article sits under #SDG2, Zero Hunger, for #foodsafety. journals.asm.org/asm-sdg-spot... Gorgeous artwork by @eliza-coli.bsky.social

Really chuffed that our article on the sequencing side of the UK Crop Microbiome Biobank has just been published. Thanks to Payton Yau and Sue Jones for the hard work. Great team effort with CABI, RRI, JIC, SRUC and Hutton. Read the walk-thru for the #microbiome analysis here: rdcu.be/eBOBB

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Arrived at last for #Microbio25 Looking forward to our session tomorrow Beyond the Lab, come join us in Hall 3B from 1015

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www.foodsafetynews.com/2025/03/pres...

President Trump eliminates two key food safety committees

The Trump Administration has eliminated two USDA food safety advisory committees that have been in place for decades. The U.S. Department of Agriculture

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#foodsafety news from the #WHO: 7th June 2025 is World Food Safety Day. This year's theme is 'Science in Action' (nope, can't escape the irony). Some great resources on the website to use www.who.int/campaigns/wo...

If you would like to join us on our crop #microbiome journey there are still have a few days to apply for a PhD project. We are in Aberdeen, Scotland - a great place for wildlife, history, the outdoors, and bioinformatics of course! www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

EastBio - Putting the Context into Microbial Communities: Integration of Contextual Metadata for Crop Microbiomes at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - EastBio - Putting the Context into Microbial Communities: Integration of Contextual Metadata for Crop Microbiomes at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College, listed on FindAPhD.com

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This looks like it will be a fun event - celebrating slow fermentation and real bread. Time to roll up the sleeves and get the sourdough cultures warmed up scotlandthebread.org/event/scotti... #foodstudies #foodsystems #urbanfood #urbanagriculture #foodconsumption

Scottish Festival of Real Bread 2025 - Scotland The Bread

Date: Saturday February 15th, 2025 Location: Bowhouse, Fife The Scottish Festival of Real Bread is back, and it’s the perfect way to kick off Real Bread Week 2025 (15 to [...]

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If you are looking for a home for your climate change associated #microbiome work, AMI's Sustainable Microbiology has a themed call out at the moment academic.oup.com/sumbio/pages...

Sustainable Microbiology Calls for Papers

Sustainable Microbiology is a broad-scope, fully open access journal aiming to demonstrate the current and future role of microbes in improving global economic,

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@microbiologysociety.org great to see you here, looking forward to the #microbiology stories

bsky.app/profile/unni... a nice story for @aythyafuligula.bsky.social

Unni Eikeseth@unnieikeseth.bsky.social · 2y ago

Citizen science reveals composition of Jupiter's clouds - ammonium hydrosulfide mixed with smog: phys.org/news/2025-01... 🧪

🚨 Exciting opportunity! @thepandemicinst.bsky.social is forming a Public Steering Group to ensure community voices shape our work in pandemic preparedness. Want to help make a difference? Learn more & apply here: www.thepandemicinstitute.org/news/join-ou... #PandemicPreparedness #PublicEngagement

Here's the link to the WHO Global burden of foodborne diseases report http://www.who.int/foodsafety/areas_work/foodborne-diseases/ferg/en/

Produce is the cause of almost half of all foodborne illnesses, followed by dairy and eggs at 20 percent, meat and poultry at 22 percent, and fish and shellfish at just 6 percent. See bottom of page for good food safety tips to use this coming new year. www.foodsafetynews.com/2024/12/brea...

Breakthrough in ag water will be benefit to raw produce food safety

Calling it a  “a landmark achievement . . . to improve food safety,” an FDA webpage is hailing the agency’s approval of a antimicrobial

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One for @aythyafuligula.bsky.social :)

Peter Murphy@peterwmurphy1.bsky.social · 2y ago

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square. 45² = 45 x 45 = 2025 Also, 9² x 5² = 2025 40² + 20² + 5² = 2025 My favourite? 1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025 #Mathematics #teaching #education

#foodsystems post For the budding photographers out there, there is still time to submit to the 'Food for Thought' competition from @scafarc.bsky.social - you have til 9th Jan! www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

#foodsafety Always good to have the reminders about safely enjoying smoked fish at this time of year www.foodstandards.gov.scot/consumers/fo...

#foodsafety Any thoughts on the relationship between the gastroenteritis disease symptoms and virulence factors (eae, cdt) in this outbreak of E. albertii. CDT is a genotoxin, so is it all just down to intimin - sounds a bit like an EPEC... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Interested in what drives crop #microbiomes? We've got a PhD position open to work it out using modelling and bioinformatics. Check out www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

EastBio - Putting the Context into Microbial Communities: Integration of Contextual Metadata for Crop Microbiomes at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College on FindAPhD.com

PhD Project - EastBio - Putting the Context into Microbial Communities: Integration of Contextual Metadata for Crop Microbiomes at SRUC - Scotland’s Rural College, listed on FindAPhD.com

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🧪 great to see the developments at Enterobase - a fantastic resource for the #microbiology community and all associated. Congrats to all for the hard work doi.org/10.1093/nar/...

EnteroBase in 2025: exploring the genomic epidemiology of bacterial pathogens

Abstract. This paper presents an update on the content, accessibility and analytical tools of the EnteroBase platform for web-based pathogen genome analysi

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Mark your calendar: the 6th Plant Microbiome Symposium will be held at Hotel Antequera, in Antequera, Spain, 3-7 Nov 2025 - organized by @microsos.bsky.social, @vcarryon.bsky.social, @gstringlis.bsky.social, and colleagues 6thplantmicrobiomesymposium2025.com #MicrobiomeEcology at #LeidenBiology