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Kate Baker
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Prof @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social Connecting pathogen evolution with public health outcomes. #Shigella and #AMR enthusiast. Views own. http://gen.cam.ac.uk/baker-group also www.pdu.gen.cam.ac.uk also @pducambridge.bsky.social
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ksbakes.bsky.social
It’s that magical time of year 🥳 when we delete all work apps from our phones 🙌 Happy holidays everyone, and catch you in 2026! Oh, and don’t forget to register for the @shigellameeting.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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sarah1alexander.bsky.social
📣 UKHSA survey on gonorrhoea testing practices in England

UKHSA is inviting sexual health services & diagnostic labs to take part in a national survey on current gonorrhoea testing practices across England.

⏱️ 15 minutes
🗓️ Deadline: 14 Jan 2026
🔗 Take part here: surveys.ukhsa.gov.uk/s/sg01bo
Starting survey...
surveys.ukhsa.gov.uk
December 18, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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meganodris.bsky.social
The final piece of my PhD work is now published in Science Translational Medicine! We present a new framework to jointly infer epidemiological and antigenic parameters from multi-pathogen population serological studies🦠

www.science.org/stoken/autho...
December 18, 2025 at 10:04 AM
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edcoakes.bsky.social
We are recruiting for a number of PhDs in the HPRU in Public Health Genomics, based at @unibirmingham.bsky.social, in collaboration with UKHSA. 🦠🧬

Apply below to work on cutting-edge science and public health priorities! (NB deadline of 9th January / UK only due to funding restrictions)
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December 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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shigellameeting.bsky.social
Come and visit me in Paris! #Shigella2026 - travel bursaries deadline tomorrow. Submit your abstracts at www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home
shigellameeting.bsky.social The Shigella Meeting @shigellameeting.bsky.social · Sep 18
Come and join us in Paris 2026 to talk all about Shigella!
December 15, 2025 at 8:36 PM
ksbakes.bsky.social
Travel bursary deadline closing tomorrow - get your abstracts in December 16!
shigellameeting.bsky.social The Shigella Meeting @shigellameeting.bsky.social · Sep 18
Come and join us in Paris 2026 to talk all about Shigella!
December 15, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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josiebryant.bsky.social
Work on respiratory immunology or microbes? Interested in big data, omics or the latest in vitro models?... Treat your lab to a christmas present of AIR 2026 registration!

Feb 11th-13th, registration closing soon:
coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/air-20...
December 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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shigellameeting.bsky.social
Attending ESCMID global and want to go to #Shigella2026 afterward? There are several direct flights a day from Munich to Paris www.skyscanner.net or why not reduce your carbon footprint and take in the European countryside by train www.raileurope.com/en? Most options <£100 See you there!
December 12, 2025 at 3:43 PM
ksbakes.bsky.social
Get the dates in your calendars guys: June 27 - July 2 2027 for the GRC in Microbial Population Biology 🧬 🧫 🌴
drhhnz.bsky.social Heather Hendrickson @drhhnz.bsky.social · 25d
It’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027!
See you there!!

@wcratcliff.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social

#microsky #mevosky
Screenshot from GRC portal confirming microbial population biology meeting June 27, 2027 in Andover, New Hampshire.
December 10, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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drhhnz.bsky.social
It’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027!
See you there!!

@wcratcliff.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social @surtlab.bsky.social

#microsky #mevosky
Screenshot from GRC portal confirming microbial population biology meeting June 27, 2027 in Andover, New Hampshire.
December 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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eng.cam.ac.uk
Dr Somenath Bakshi is 1 of 8 @cam.ac.uk researchers who will receive a share of the @erc.europa.eu's €728m Consolidator Grant awards this year

www.eng.cam.ac.uk/news/cambrid...

He will map how bacterial physiology controls the infection dynamics of phage – a #virus that infects & kills #bacteria 🦠
Cambridge researcher awarded ERC funding to explore virus-bacteria interactions to combat antibiotic resistance
Dr Bakshi will map how bacterial physiology, including cellular resources, energy and stress, controls the infection dynamics of phage – a virus that infects and kills bacteria. To achieve this, he wi...
www.eng.cam.ac.uk
December 10, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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ocortesazuero.bsky.social
📢 Thrilled to see that our work on chikungunya virus (CHIKV) epidemiology in Brazil is out in @thelancetinfdis.bsky.social 🧵
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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shigellameeting.bsky.social
One week remains to submit #early #abstracts and apply for #travel grants for the #Shigella meeting!
#MicroSky #IDSky 🦠🧫🔬
@ksbakes.bsky.social @sergemostowylab.bsky.social @marteynlab.bsky.social @christinafaher1.bsky.social
www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/call-for-abs...
Call for abstracts - EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention
EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention
www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org
December 9, 2025 at 9:06 PM
ksbakes.bsky.social
Treat yourself this Christmas to a registration for the #Shigella2026 meeting in Paris!
pasteur.fr Institut Pasteur | 130 years of biomedical research @pasteur.fr · 25d
🦠 EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention

📅 April 20-24, 2026
📍 Institut Pasteur, Paris

Register now ➡️ www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home

@embo.org @shigellameeting.bsky.social
Shigella was the leading cause of diarrheal disease during World War One; and more than 100 years later, it continues to cause approximately 200 million cases and 216,000 deaths per year around the globe. Shigella is a leading cause of moderate to severe diarrhea in children less than five years of age in low- and middle-income nations, and significant disease occurs throughout Europe and North America due to sexual transmission, food borne and water borne outbreaks, and high incidence in homeless populations. The lack of a licensed vaccine, coupled with alarming increases in antimicrobial resistance, has led the World Health Organization to declare Shigella a priority pathogen for which research into new therapeutics are urgently needed.
December 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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pasteur.fr
🦠 EMBO Workshop Shigella: from biology to prevention

📅 April 20-24, 2026
📍 Institut Pasteur, Paris

Register now ➡️ www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home

@embo.org @shigellameeting.bsky.social
Shigella was the leading cause of diarrheal disease during World War One; and more than 100 years later, it continues to cause approximately 200 million cases and 216,000 deaths per year around the globe. Shigella is a leading cause of moderate to severe diarrhea in children less than five years of age in low- and middle-income nations, and significant disease occurs throughout Europe and North America due to sexual transmission, food borne and water borne outbreaks, and high incidence in homeless populations. The lack of a licensed vaccine, coupled with alarming increases in antimicrobial resistance, has led the World Health Organization to declare Shigella a priority pathogen for which research into new therapeutics are urgently needed.
December 10, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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aldertzomer.bsky.social
MetaPointFinder:
A new approach for detecting mutation-driven antimicrobial resistance directly from metagenomic reads.
Fills a major gap in current resistome profiling by capturing chromosomal AMR mutations that metagenome tools miss.

github.com/aldertzomer/...
December 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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sylvainbrisse.bsky.social
Opening of a Group Leader position in AI in genomics at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr , Paris research.pasteur.fr/en/call/mid-...
Mid-career Group Leader position in AI in genomics at Institut Pasteur, Paris - Research
Institut Pasteur and the CNRS are launching a call for a mid-career group leader position in AI in genomics. We are looking for an experienced researcher (typically with > 8 years of research experien...
research.pasteur.fr
December 6, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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target-amr.bsky.social
🚨 Registration is now OPEN!
🎉Join us for the TARGetAMR Annual Conference 2026 on Thursday 14 & Friday 15 May at The Studio, Birmingham
🦠Connect, collaborate & tackle antimicrobial resistance
✨Secure your spot today!
👉 Register now: www.targetamr.org.uk/hdrevents/ta...
#TARGetAMR26
December 5, 2025 at 4:31 PM
ksbakes.bsky.social
These two things aren’t mutually exclusive: open.spotify.com/track/5NS0ip...
December 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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contaminatedsci.bsky.social
Poster deadline for the Keystone Microbiome Meeting in Banff is December 30th www.keystonesymposia.org/conferences/...

Will be a great meeting focused on human microbiomes, spanning basic, mechanistic, and applied. Organized by myself, @amibhatt.bsky.social , and Harry Sokol. Join us!
Human Microbiome: From Models and Mechanism to Medicine | Keystone Symposia
Join us at the Keystone Symposia on Human Microbiome: From Models and Mechanism to Medicine, January 2026, in Banff, with field leaders!
www.keystonesymposia.org
December 1, 2025 at 6:35 PM
ksbakes.bsky.social
These are gold
emilymyers.bsky.social Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · Dec 1
{Mariah Carey voice}:

🎶All I want for Christmas...
...Is yooooooooooooouuuuuuuu...

...r review of this manuscript submission even though I know you are burnt out and ready for break 🎶
emilymyers.bsky.social Emily Myers @emilymyers.bsky.social · Aug 11
Hey, I just met you...
And this is crazy...
Do me a favor???
Review this paper?
December 1, 2025 at 7:45 PM
ksbakes.bsky.social
Twitching was like Pokémon Go before there was Pokémon Go … minus the battles I guess 🦅 🦢 🐦
alexjholt.bsky.social Alex Holt @alexjholt.bsky.social · Nov 16
Time to begin my promised/threatened thread of lifers I see while I'm in Costa Rica!

Won't necessarily be the best shots, just the best record shot between when I'm at the hotels.

1. Scarlet Macaw
A scarlet macaw perched in a tree - it is a very large red parrot with yelloe and blue wings and a white face.
November 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
ksbakes.bsky.social
Okay, it's the start of the academic year and there have been further funny (and some frustrating) mix ups ... just a gentle reminder that there are two of us - try to make sure you have the right one ...
November 26, 2025 at 7:21 AM
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edwardross.bsky.social
Encourage creativity and storytelling for young folk 9+ with a copy of Graphic Novel Builder: the illustrated guide to making your own comics! With an intro by Alice Oseman! ✏️

www.edwardross.co.uk/shop/p/graph...
Graphic Novel Builder: The illustrated guide to making your own comics — Edward Ross
A comic book…about making comic books! The perfect gift for budding artists and aspiring storytellers. Written and illustrated by comic artist Edward Ross with an introduction by Alice Oseman, creat...
www.edwardross.co.uk
November 25, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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josiebryant.bsky.social
Really pleased to share the first paper to come out of the lab.
We found that hospital patients were frequently colonised with P. aeruginosa and that the same clone was shared between the gut and the lung.
The phylogenies indicate that the clones moved from lung->gut

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High frequency body site translocation of nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Nature Communications
Here, the authors report within-host diversity and body site translocation dynamics in hospital samples of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and reveal that body site sharing was likely due to within-patient tra...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM