Call for #poster #abstracts is open for the #Shigella meeting @shigellameeting.bsky.social thru Feb! Secure your spot by #registering! #ShowUsYourScience
#MicroSky #IDSky ๐ฆ ๐งซ๐ฌ
www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/call-for-abs...
So happy to see this story out! Incredible work on systematically standardizing a good cellular model for iNTS-macrophage interactions, which clearly shows how different Salmonella pathovariants are in terms of intracellular behaviour!
@jayhinton.bsky.social
๐จ Hiring Alert! ๐จMy lab at Institut Pasteur is recruiting several Postdocs! We have exciting open projects in: ๐ฆ Synthetic Biology and๐ก๏ธ Bacterial Immunity. Come do great science with us in the middle of Paris! ๐ซ๐ท๐ฅ research.pasteur.fr/en/job/postd...
We are looking for a new RA to join our team working on host-pathogen interactions during Salmonella infection. The appointment is for two years and you will join a diverse team, using cell and protein biochemistry to further our understanding of pathogenesis. my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Recruitment for the EMBL International PhD Programme is officially open! ๐
At EMBL, we train young scientists to become skilled and creative future leaders in academia, industry and other sectors. Start your career in the life sciences with us!
๐ Read more here:
tinyurl.com/4jdt2ra5
Dear Sir Paul, Re: Royal Society Code of Conduct I am sure that many scientists have written to you about the specific question of Elon Muskโs Fellowship and whether, under the Royal Societyโs Code of Conduct, his retaining that Fellowship is appropriate. I will not rehash these issues. Instead, as a female scientist with extensive experience of activities aiming to increase equality, diversity and inclusion in the engineering and physical sciences sector, I am writing to you (in a personal capacity) to ask you to reconsider the statements you have recently made in this context to the UK press about the Royal Societyโs Code of Conduct and how it is applied. A 2018 report from the joint National Academies of the United States of America, concluded that โsexual harassment is common in academic science, engineering, and medicineโ and that โgreater than 50 percent of women faculty and staff and 20โ50 percent of women students encounter or experience sexually harassing conduct in academiaโ. This report described codes of conduct that make clear that sexual harassment is unethical and will not be tolerated as a โpowerful incentive for changeโ. The authors also noted that sexual harassment can have significant and damaging effects on the integrity of research. In my own praxis, I have found that clear and consistently-implemented codes of conduct that address these issues make female scientists and engineers safer, and allow them to focus more effectively on their research. For codes of conduct to have such a positive effect, it is vital that sanctions for actions which transgress the code are meaningful and substantial.
I was hence aghast to realise that in an interview with the Financial Times published on 9/1/26, you appear to have suggested that the Royal Society โshould only expel fellows if their science proved โfaulty or fraudulent or highly defectiveโโ. Moreover, in a further interview with the Guardian on 11/1/26 you suggested that the code โmay need to be looked at againโ, with the implication that your aim would be to remove the option of sanctions on Fellows for reasons not strictly related to faults or defects in their research. I suggest that changing the Royal Societyโs code of conduct so that the likelihood of serious sanctions for sexual harassment is reduced, would directly endanger women who interact with the Royal Society at events or otherwise, and would provide a licence to harass to the already powerful people on whom the Society bestows fellowship. The implications of your words - that under your leadership the only infringements of the code which are likely to receive the sanction of the Fellowship being removed are those related to research misconduct - already risk empowering harassers. You stated, in the Financial Times interview, that โthereโs many bad people around, but they have made scientific advancesโ. Given this awareness of the possibility of bad actors in our scientific community, it is wholly irresponsible to suggest that the Royal Society would not act to sanction these people if they harass more vulnerable scientists. I am hence writing to request that you retract any suggestion that the Societyโs Code of Conduct should be changed so that the only reason a Fellow might be sanctioned by the removal of their Fellowship is โfaulty or fraudulent or highly defectiveโ research. This action is necessary to safeguard female scientists, a requirement placed on the Society by safeguarding legislation and UK statutory guidance. Yours sincerely, Professor Rachel A. Oliver.
Following coverage over the weekend of Sir Paul Nurse's comments that suggested that the only reason that a Fellow should be expelled from @royalsociety.org is scientific misconduct, I have written to him to explain the risks such an attitude poses of increasing sexual harassment in STEM.
Coverage in the Guardian of responses to Paul Nurse's comments on Musk & the Royal Soc Code of Conduct. Plenty of Nobel Prize Winners defending Nurse and Musk & Fellows seem uncomfortable to be named when they disagree. Also quotes from me & @scurry.bsky.social.
www.theguardian.com/science/2026...
New research from @pasteur.fr reveals how ๐ฟ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ uses LpDot1 to methylate SFPQ, disrupting paraspeckles & rewiring host splicing, dampening immune genes like NF-ฮบB2 & CD45 for survival.
โ๏ธ @cbuch.bsky.social, @mrolando.bsky.social & coll.
๐ Read the preprint: shorturl.at/kFh8z
#MicroSky
I will be recruiting two postdocs early next year.
- One image analyst
- one biologist interested in working on lymphatics!
Reach out if you are interested ๐
Cartoon representation of PhoP control of CRP-cAMP. PhoP promotes transcription of the mgtA gene and the mgtCBRUcigR operon, which encode the Mg2+ importers MgtA and MgtB and the F1F0 ATP synthase inhibitor MgtC. Mg2+ is an essential cofactor of cAMP-synthesizing adenylate cyclase CyaA and ATP is CyaAโs substrate. cAMP-bound CRP directly activates transcription of the carbohydrate utilization determinants ptsG, glpK, and malT. Red crossbars indicate negative regulation whereas green arrows indicate positive regulation.
Inside #macrophages, #Salmonella faces Mg2+ scarcity that disrupts cAMP synthesis & metabolism. @npokorzynski.bsky.social @microbelab.bsky.social &co show that PhoP restores control by promoting Mg2+ uptake & directing cAMP production to sustain growth via CRP @plosbiology.org ๐งช plos.io/3Lcav3T
๐จ We are excited to announce that @virginiestevenin.bsky.social has been awarded a starting grant from the @frm-officiel.bsky.social to establish her research team at IPBS and study the nutrition of pathogenic bacteria inside human host cells.
More info: shorturl.at/U6zSa
#MicroSky #Salmonella
If youโre interested in solving bacterial mysteries, this PhD project is for you!
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Congrats Dr Newman!! It was a pleasure to meet at the GRC this year!
Don't forget to register for the #1st ever @shigellameeting.bsky.social at Pasteur next year! Apr 20 - 24 www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
๐New preprint from our lab!
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. ๐งฌ๐ก
Continue reading (๐งต)
๐จPreprint alert - this is a big one! We transfer the revolutionary power of TnSeq to bacteriophages.
Our HIDEN-SEQ links the "dark matter" genes of your favorite phage to any selectable phenotype, guiding the path from fun observations to molecular mechanisms.
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#Abstract submissions are open for The #Shigella Meeting! If you would like to be considered for a #travel #grant, abstracts are due December 16, 2025. Regular submissions due January 14, 2026. Show us your #science!
@shigellameeting.bsky.social
๐ฆ ๐งซ๐ฌ #Microsky #IDsky
Text box reading: Vaccines do not... do not overload or weaken the immune system โ it's safe to give children and adults several vaccines at a time and this reduces the amount of injections needed do not contain mercury (thiomersal) do not contain any ingredients that cause harm โ only ingredients essential to making them safer and more effective and only in very small amounts do not cause autism โ studies have found no evidence of a link between the MMR vaccine and autism
Should you find yourself - for whatever reason - looking for a new set of authoritative, accessible summaries of the risks and benefits of vaccines to share with people, the NHS website is still doing a good job at this www.nhs.uk/vaccinations...
With this working, as a first test we took two plasmids, identical save for 8 point mutations changing the color, and competed them against one another. Hereโs a video of what it looked like when we activated the recombinase. You can see the two compete in real time: 4/
Nottingham to suspend music and modern foreign language degrees, warning international fee levy will wipe out income from domestic fee rise. Some nursing, theology, education, microbiology and agriculture degrees hit too www.timeshighereducation.com/news/notting... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
Cannot agree more with this thread ๐. More supportive grant for early career and junior group + a continuum of supportive landscape is the way to keep science at high level (never been a big fan of the science "mercato"...)
๐๏ธFrom the archive: "Academic freedom had progressively increased from the 1940s to the 2010s, but it reversed and started to decline in the last decade both at the global level and in the 25 leading countries in science."
#AcademicFreedom
Some great news for this Monday! So incredibly proud of @jayhinton.bsky.social et al!!
so yeah, just keep moving.
Autumn is in full force in Paris, so sleepy cats season has begun! Sending you lots of positive fluff vibes
Excited to share our preprint led by Carlos Voogdt et al
We developed new genetic tools & genome-wide libraries for species of the Bacteroidales order; constructed saturated barcoded transposon libraries in key representatives of three genera.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The unique lipopolysaccharide composition of Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 dampens pyroptosis and inflammasome activation and suppresses host cell death https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.29.679141v1
Link to HHMI preprint mandate hhmicdn.blob.core.windows.net/policies/Imm...
