@twistedbacteria
Microbiology editor at a multidisciplinary open-access journal. Born & raised in Asturias, Spain. In the UK since 2008. Dad ×3, husband ×1. Posts in English and Spanish. LinkedIn: http://bit.ly/CesarSanchez The views expressed are my own. Pues eso.
Neat paper from Schwille lab. They demonstrate constriction of synthetic vesicles using important components of the bacterial cell division machinery, FtsZ and FtsN. They induce strong constriction of Z-rings in vesicles just by adding the cytoplasmic domain of FtsN www.nature.com/articles/s41...
An illegal war by USA & Israel, propped up by missions from UK air bases.
Supported by Nigel Farage.
Over 1000 civilians dead & now the threat of global economic fallout. Trump's disaster makes us all less safe, less secure - and we will remember those who backed it.
OpenAI announces ChatGPT is now at the level of real scientific reviewers, “It just tells you to do single-cell RNAseq in response to every query” says Sam Altman
So, Johnson, Farage, Badenoch, the Telegraph… howl about the UK being “an irrelevance on the world stage”.
Remind me again who decided to isolate us with a strategically and economically idiotic Brexit, relying on a trade deal with the US to save us from exactly the kind of weakness they now bemoan.
Two scientists walk through a cluttered old-fashioned science laboratory. The female scientist says “Analogue instruments! Paper records! Chalk boards! I thought you'd agreed to modernise the laboratory?” The male scientist replies “That's what i'm so excited about: we have moved to cloud-based storage for our data!” They step out onto a balcony. She says: “Please tell me you haven't built a library zeppelin” This is exactly what he has done. It floats across the sky and he adds “It's got a fax machine!”
My cartoon for this week’s @newscientist.com
Explainer:
Seven days on, seven questions about the US-Israeli war on Iran
One week on from the first strikes, @theguardian.com look at why the war started, what the cost has been and what may come next
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
Pls re-post: My department @oxfordbiochemistry.bsky.social are recruiting for several new faculty positions (links below). Broad search in molecular biology/biochemistry, across prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Interested in understanding life at the molecular level, this job might be for you!
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DAY 274
SPECIES 274 - Staphylothermus marinus
STAGE: Archaea
MEDIUM: Arches Paper. Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen, Tombow pencil
#sciart #watercolor #archaea #painting #art #paint
¡Felicidades!
Congratulations, #Chile for becoming the first country in the Americas, and the second globally, to eliminate #leprosy disease.
A true milestone for public health! And a testament to what leadership, science, and solidarity can accomplish.
Read more 🔗 bit.ly/4b3Hpga
Any recommendations for books / vids for little ones interested to learn about microbiology?
My 5yo has picked up on work chatter and keeps asking “Tell me about Klebsiella?” and I am running out of ideas! 😂
#MicroSky
How a tiny bacterium 🦠 turns itself into a “tunneling machine”
communities.springernature.com/posts/how-a-...
Some symbiotic bacteria can invade micron-scale host passages by wrapping their flagella around themselves and moving like a tunneling machine
youtu.be/0Og4p0xUtzc
🚨 We’re hiring – MRC-funded Postdoc (3 yrs)
Research Fellow to investigate how mobile genetic elements interact in Staphylococcus aureus and shape gene transfer and pathogenicity.
University of St Andrews
Closes 31 March 2026
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQR250/r...
Enquiries: afh22@st-andrews.ac.uk
Hey #Microsky, time to celebrate your amazing female colleagues, students and mentors for #IWD2026! Nominate an inspiring woman whose research, teaching, innovation, or community leadership deserves recognition! @femsmicro.org crm.fems-microbiology.org/ssp/internat...
"As Jad lay collapsed in an alley, the soldiers created a cordon around him and blocked two Palestinian ambulances from reaching him"
"the Israeli military has refused to return his body to the family and declined to answer any questions about his injuries"
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
OH MY GOSH I JUST FOUND THIS 😃
www.andthemicrobes.org
#comic #bacteria #phage #plasmids 🦠
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DAY 265
SPECIES 265 - Acidilobus saccharovorans
STAGE: Archaea
MEDIUM: Arches Paper, Chromatek & QoR watercolor, Sakura pen
A. Saccharovorans is an archaeon isolated from acidic hot springs in Kamchatka Russia. It's coccoid shaped with a bundle of archaella for mobility
#sciart #watercolor #art
youtu.be/0Og4p0xUtzc?...
"many bacteria spend their lives navigating spaces so small that even a human hair looks gigantic in comparison..."
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communities.springernature.com/posts/how-a-...
#U2 #DaysOfAsh
"a pesar de toda la atrocidad que vemos normalizada a diario en nuestras pequeñas pantallas, no hay nada normal en estos tiempos locos y enloquecedores, y tenemos que plantarles cara antes de poder volver a tener fe en el futuro. Y los unos en los otros”
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Viruses aren’t all bad: In the ocean, some help fuel the food web
@negilbert.bsky.social @joshuasweitz.bsky.social @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social
If you are interested in investigating horizontal gene transfer by phages and virus-like particles using computational approaches, this postdoc position in the Callahan Lab could be for you
jobs.ncsu.edu/postings/226...
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A short research stay in 2019 (back in the pre-COVID era) at José R. Penadés lab turned into the third chapter of my PhD and today it finally sees the light.
Monday
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How specific are heritable symbioses?
And what can we learn from swapping obligate symbionts across host species?
We address this in our latest, led by @inespons.bsky.social & in our collaboration w/ @microbiome.bsky.social 🦠🪲 Out today in @natcomms.nature.com!
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...