We investigated and identified several skin-derived bacteria that antagonize common pathogenic species: www.nature.com/articles/s41... A cool highlight was that bacteria from feet, where fungi are particularly diverse, tended to be more broadly antifungal than those from other body sites! #microevo

Large-scale investigation for antimicrobial activity reveals newly-identified defensive species across the healthy skin microbiome - Nature Communications

Authors present the EPithelial Isolate Collection (EPIC), a large skin microbiome culture collection, uncovering new species, widespread antifungal activity, and hidden biosynthetic diversity, reveali...

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Excited to share our latest work with Wonpil Im lab about the modeling of mycobacterial inner membrane using atomistic simulations, published in the @pubs.acs.org the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling! Congratulations Hwayoung and Nate! More details here: pubs.acs.org/jcisd8/artic...

Happy to share our recent story on the Type VII secretion system. Here were present new insights into the regulation of secretion mediated by the central pore. Thanks to all authors involved in the work. 🙂

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 5d ago

Intrinsic flexibility of Type VII secretion central pore is required for substrate translocation https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.31.742005v1

FEMS MICRO 2027 – Growing Microbial Futures ✨ Explore Ljubljana & the venue ✨ Submit a session proposal ✨ Save the date Be part of the conversations shaping the future of microbiology. Join us in Ljubljana next July and stay updated: buff.ly/5HEuk3g

The tradition of naming phage systems after ancient deities has the side effect that one cannot evade them even outside of microbiology journals... 🧬🛡☕️

Please repost! #microsky🦠 The Glickman Lab at MSK is recruiting! Projects in Mtb pathogenesis, basic biology of mycobacteria, and mycobacterial cancer therapies. See our publications here: tinyurl.com/3f386f4x Send CV and cover letter to: glickmanmycolab@gmail.com

Tragic and - according to scientists quoted in the article — avoidable.

Exclusive: Death of girl in Chinese gene-editing trial was never made public

Parents want accountability after study went disastrously wrong, Science and Retraction Watch investigation reveals

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The EMBO workshop (March 2027) on marine microbial chemicals communication is open for abstract submission and registration (deadline 20th Oct 2026). The inaugural meeting in 2025 was fantastic and there are already some great speakers lined up, highly recommended. meetings.embo.org/event/27-mar...

Our lab is hiring an enthusiastic and motivated research specialist to study host-pathogen interactions in the context of S. aureus infection. For more information, see below: Lab website: www.reyesruizlab.org jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/researc...

Research Specialist - Madison, Wisconsin, United States

Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:Academic StaffEmployment Type...

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Out Now! Identification of chemical features for improved outer membrane permeation in mycobacteria using machine learning #MicroSky

Identification of chemical features for improved outer membrane permeation in mycobacteria using machine learning

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 30 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02412-5Screening 1,572 compounds for mycomembrane permeation plus cheminformatic and machine learning analyses reveals features associated with improved permeation in the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis and model organism M. smegmatis.

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This has been such a fun collaboration and a great example of team science

Patrick Moynihan@pmoyniha.bsky.social · last mo.

New paper in collaboration with @proftracypalmer.bsky.social, @lislowe.bsky.social and many more. We show that mycobacteria produce Type VII secreted anti-bacterial protein toxins. Excited to explore this new area of mycobacterial biology. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Check out our latest T7SS toxin story. These reverse toxins aren’t as rare as we thought!

bioRxiv Microbiology@biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · last mo.

A novel reverse lipase toxin substrate of the Staphylococcus aureus type VII secretion system https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.22.733114v1

Spare a thought for the Dundee University staff who were told yesterday that their jobs are at risk, who today have to talk to prospective students and parents at an Open Day. They are expected to paint a confident picture. It will take quite a feat of imagination. @ducuuo.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

This just keeps getting worse. For non-science people, we use commercial antibodies on a daily basis to detect proteins of interest using many methods. Bad antibodies mean bad results, which means a lot of medical research was wasted. I can't imagine the costs to trainees (their time), labs, etc.

Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)

Two in five academics at Northumbria University have agreed to switch from TPS to USS pension scheme at the end of a concerted push by the institution to save millions of pounds on its staffing costs. https://ow.ly/O2BG50Z7YFV

The T6SS is a widespread nanoweapon deployed by #bacteria, but why is it deployed heterogeneously? @cascaleslab.bsky.social &co show that #Ecoli adopt distinct #T6SS attacker "ON" & defender "OFF" roles to optimize survival, a key strategy in microbial warfare @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/3S5dL45

Happy to share the last work of Jonas Desjardins, identifying and characterizing a novel Rhs NAD(P) glycohydrolase delivered by the #T6SS of the major cosmetic contaminant, Pluralibacter gergoviae. www.jbc.org/article/S002...

Latest research from the lab out now. We examined the role and expression of fimbriae during UPEC bloodstream infection. A real team effort and brilliant collaboration with Mark Schembri’s lab in Brisbane. Thanks to the MRC and BBSRC for supporting our research @ukri.org

Yad fimbriae are triggered by host cues and enhance extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli tissue colonisation during bloodstream infection

Author summary Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) colonise the human gut without causing disease but can disseminate to the urinary tract and bloodstream. Understanding the mechanisms...

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Register now for the EMBO Workshop "Advances and new frontiers in #ProteinTranslocation across membranes" in Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain, 21–25 Sep 2026. Abstract submission/Registration by 19/30 Jun https://meetings.embo.org/event/26-protein-translocation #EMBOProteinTranslocation #EMBOevents 🧪

🛠️💉It's time for engineering contractile injection systems! @chipericson.bsky.social & @davidschaumann.bsky.social introduce programmable CIS - PROCIS, combining tail length control, non-native cargo loading, and cell retargeting all in one system! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... 🧵 1/5

"Everyone I know in academia is hanging by a thread. The profession has always been fraught, but in the past few years I’ve sensed an edge of desperation in many of my colleagues. In theory there might be a tipping point beyond which we simply break." My latest blog post bit.ly/4nXsFpb #AcademicSky

One week left to apply for two 3-year postdocs in the lab on molecular mechanisms of Burkholderia pathogenesis. Posts associated with Magdalen College. Our lab is based in the Dunn School of Pathology with amazing collaborators at Oxford and MORU magdalencareers.pinpointhq.com/postings/c90...

Calleva Centre Postdoctoral Researchers- The deadly enigma of melioidosis: Decoding the pathogenesis of Burkholderia pseudomallei.

Job Opening: Calleva Centre Postdoctoral Researchers- The deadly enigma of melioidosis: Decoding the pathogenesis of Burkholderia pseudomallei. at Magdalen College in Central Oxford.

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This is REALLY bad of Thermo. They've got caught, and their statement (in thread) smacks of a complete misunderstanding of of what they've done and disregard for their customers. What would happen if I submitted a paper with an image that had been "adjusted for presentaton purposes". Quite.

Reese Richardson@reeserichardson.bsky.social · 2mo ago

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

TL;DR: We've identified more than 100 cases of apparent manipulation in Thermo Fisher Scientific's antibody verification data. @sholtodavid.bsky.social @johanduchene.bsky.social reeserichardson.blog/2026/05/28/h...

How much of Thermo Fisher’s antibody data has been manipulated?

We’ve documented more than 100 instances of apparent data manipulation in Thermo’s catalog

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Universities across England face ‘real risk’ of closure due to insolvency for first time www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

Universities in England face ‘real risk’ of closure due to insolvency for first time

In a new report, the Education Committee said 24 institutions are at risk of insolvency and closure within 12 months

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Two in five UK universities are open to or are actively considering acquisitions and mergers with other institutions, find @universitiesuk.bsky.social survey www.timeshighereducation.com/news/two-fiv...

Two in five universities considering mergers as majority cut jobs

UK institutions look to structural changes to address cost pressures, but warn there is only so much they can do without government support

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As an editor at the Biochemical Journal, I'd love to see more papers submitted in the areas of bacterial immune systems / CRISPR / archaeal molecular biology / nucleic acid processing enzymes

Biochemical Society@biochemsoc.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Researchers at our Read & Publish institutions can benefit from fee-free OA publishing and access to read content in our journals. Not sure if your institution has signed up? Check out the full list on our website: https://ow.ly/yeH150Z0THn 🧪

Want to learn about Francisella and its T6SS (especially the spike complex), have a look at our article on IglF in interaction with the PAAR protein IglG. Indeed, very collaborative work @ciri-lyon.bsky.social with @fronzeslab.bsky.social & @laurentterradot.bsky.social. Kudos to all the authors!

First paper for PhD student in the Bolam / Lowe labs Natalia Łoś on a the characterisation of a new CBM family that binds (beta) mannan! #glycotime @natalia-los.bsky.social 🥳🥳 link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Unusual molecular architecture of a human gut microbiota β-mannanase reveals a new CBM family - Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences

β-mannans are plant structural and storage polysaccharides prevalent in the human diet. Their degradation in the gastrointestinal tract is mediated by the human gut microbiota (HGM) through expression...

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