Helen Brown

🧫 World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 🧫

Antifungal resistance is a growing threat. At the MRC Centre for Medical Mycology, we’re working together to advance new diagnostics & treatments, & building global research capacity to protect health worldwide.

#AMR #DrugDiscovery #Science #Health

An unlocked padlock holding a chain over a shelf full of journals.

Major Academic Press Calls for ‘Publish or Perish’ Reform

Just one-third of researchers, publishers, funders and librarians believe academic reward and recognition systems are working well, according to a survey from @cambridge.org. https://bit.ly/3WiBjS8

#EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

Still my highest cited paper! Its been propping up my career since 2014!

🤣🤣 the legend that is chicken juice! Glad to see it's still relevant.

A series of cartoons and quotes of the following microbes: Rhizobium, Cyanobacteria, Campylobacter, Bacillus subtilis, Acinetobacter baumannii, Klebsiella, Naegleria fowleri, Burkholderia cenocepacia, Solirubrobacter, Curvularia, Candida auris, Lactobacillus, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans, Aspergilius, Pestalotiopsis microspora.

It’s International Microorganism Day! We asked the Society’s Champions to tell us about their favourite microbes and, our Champion, Eliza Wolfson, has created some fun illustrations to show you a bit more of their character! @eliza-coli.bsky.social @femsmicro.org #InternationalMicroorganismDay

Excellent piece on why the current "business" model of University funding is flawed and what universities might aspire to be.

'Hot Fuzz' swan rescued from road by Essex police officer The swan is back in its natural habitat and was not injured in the process.

Confirmation that it was just the one swan, actually

Pop up science shop....what an absolutely amazing idea, and a resounding success. I take my hat off to all of you, this must have taken a phenomenal amount of work to organise!

Today we said goodbye to our long standing @one-cardiffuni.bsky.social colleague Dr. Rob Thomas, who gave an amazing lecture on his long term research on animal behaviour and climate change.

Academic poaching: when other PIs steal your trainees There are many toxic behaviors in academia, but one we rarely talk about is #AcademicPoaching. Have you ever been a victim?

I just published: Academic poaching: when other PIs steal your trainees

There are many toxic behaviors in academia, but one we rarely talk about is #AcademicPoaching. Have you ever been a victim?

#AcademicChatter #AcademicSky #phdchat

medium.com/p/academic-p...

a group of people are dancing under a tree with lanterns hanging from it ALT: a group of people are dancing under a tree with lanterns hanging from it

Manuscript accepted:

YOU MUST SATE YOUR THIRST TO HAVE STRENGTH TO CRUSH YOUR ENEMIES.

Interesting thoughts on how Wales the way in ensuring student feedback is central to course development. Particularly interesting ideas on how to communicate student rights and training in delivering feedback

Join us today for the latest AMR in Focus webinar, 'Taking STRIDES: The value of diagnostics against AMR'. The webinar is free, and all are welcome to attend. Register before 10:30 BST today to attend: microb.io/4estktQ

Superbugs could kill millions more and cost $2tn a year by 2050, models show Exclusive: Research on burden of antibiotic resistance for 122 countries predicts dire economic and health outcomes

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Ah, so it's not just me then.......

Nods 😊 #writingjokes #reading #writingquotes #amwriting

Petri dishes, phages, and public speaking - at the LAM ECS Research Symposium 2025 Rachael Barton and Luka Brajdić open up on their experiences of the Letters in Applied Microbiology ECS Symposium 2025 at the University of Liverpool on June 12.

Young microbiologists Rachael Barton and Luka Brajdić open up on their experiences of the Letters in Applied Microbiology ECS Symposium 2025 at the University of Liverpool on June 12. www.the-microbiologist.com/careers/petr... #LAM_ECS2025

Petri dishes, phages, and public speaking - at the LAM ECS Research Symposium 2025 Rachael Barton and Luka Brajdić open up on their experiences of the Letters in Applied Microbiology ECS Symposium 2025 at the University of Liverpool on June 12.

Hear about my PhD and Mphil students thoughts on their first ever conference (and first time in Liverpool!)

#LAM_ECS2025

www.the-microbiologist.com/careers/petr...

Update.

#IBMSAwards25 #IBMSWinner @ibmscience.bsky.social
@drjontyrrell-micro.bsky.social @eberllab.bsky.social

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Its day 3 of the heatwave and Edmund has had enough

I love that the new US immigration policy has actually increased distribution of bald Vance photos. I also never thought I'd be reposting the Daily Mail......we do indeed live in interesting times!

The 2025 #PacBio Microbial SMRT Grant is now open! 🚨

Submit your 100-word proposal for a chance to win free #HiFiSequencing, including SMRTbell library construction and use of Revio SMRT Cells for microbial or metagenomics research at SeqCenter.

Apply now: bit.ly/4nfZlcz

The transfer of antibiotic resistance genes between evolutionarily distant bacteria | mSphere Antibiotic-resistant infections pose a growing threat to global health. This study reveals how genes conferring antibiotic resistance can move between bacteria that belong to different phyla lineages ...

The transfer of antibiotic resistance genes between evolutionarily distant bacteria | mSphere journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

First episode of (Un)Serious Science is out now on Spotify!
We talk to LGBTQ+ people in STEMM about their fun science ideas - this episode, "Jurassic Genetics: How plausible is everyone's favourite theme park?"

My thoughts are with all the staff now at risk in Lancaster Uni. The whole HE sector is at risk, with universities try to save frankly eye-watering sums of money

Microbial Primer: Challenges and opportunities in the treatment of chronic polymicrobial infections ‒ an eco-evolutionary perspective In this primer, we will review the key distinctions between acute and chronic infections, between mono- and polymicrobial infections and how these distinctions work together to generate the growing cr...

Interesting primer article on polymicrobial infections

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Bacteria poison and eat their neighbors Bacteria leverage a secretion system to kill and scavenge nutrients from nearby competitors

It’s a bacterium-eats-bacterium world…

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

We're revalidating our degree schemes at the moment and the conflict between "be innovative" vs "the software can't do that" is all too real!