Kate Baker
@ksbakes.bsky.social
Prof @cambridgebiosci.bsky.social Genomic epidemiologist 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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If you’re at @astmh.bsky.social #ASTMH2025 check out our session today on Enteric Pathogen Genomics & Evolution (room 717, 16:30) featuring @ksbakes.bsky.social on Shigella, plus 2 other great talks on V. cholerae phages, and Salmonella!
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
If you’re at @astmh.bsky.social #ASTMH2025 check out our session today on Enteric Pathogen Genomics & Evolution (room 717, 16:30) featuring @ksbakes.bsky.social on Shigella, plus 2 other great talks on V. cholerae phages, and Salmonella!
For anyone else whose Mac Outlook 365 has started making regular, massive faux pas through Autocorrect recently: Start typing new email > Edit > Spelling and Grammar > uncheck 'Correct Spelling Automatically'. Literally just called a new collaborator Baby because of this ... 🙄
November 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
For anyone else whose Mac Outlook 365 has started making regular, massive faux pas through Autocorrect recently: Start typing new email > Edit > Spelling and Grammar > uncheck 'Correct Spelling Automatically'. Literally just called a new collaborator Baby because of this ... 🙄
Are you hungry for some Shigella news? Why not come to the 1st International Shigella meeting www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home 20-24 April 2026 Paris
October 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Are you hungry for some Shigella news? Why not come to the 1st International Shigella meeting www.shigella2026.conferences-pasteur.org/home 20-24 April 2026 Paris
This 👇 👇 👇
Why attend the @shigellameeting.bsky.social in 6 months you ask? (🧵) 🦠 🧫 🔬 #Microsky #IDsky
What a question and a grand request,
To muse on why scientists should travel for a pest!
Forget lonely lab benches and the pipette's cold song,
There are better pursuits for which researchers long.
What a question and a grand request,
To muse on why scientists should travel for a pest!
Forget lonely lab benches and the pipette's cold song,
There are better pursuits for which researchers long.
October 21, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Funded PhD position available in @langridgelab.bsky.social! Excellent project in a very supportive, driven & knowledgable group 🧬
🚨 Funded PhD alert 🚨
We are recruiting for a PhD student to join the @langridgelab.bsky.social in October 2026 - please share!
If you like bacteria, genomics and puzzles, this could be the project for you 🦠🧬🧩
Apply by 2 Dec 🗓️
#PhDposition
Find out more ⬇️
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We are recruiting for a PhD student to join the @langridgelab.bsky.social in October 2026 - please share!
If you like bacteria, genomics and puzzles, this could be the project for you 🦠🧬🧩
Apply by 2 Dec 🗓️
#PhDposition
Find out more ⬇️
www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-d...
October 17, 2025 at 7:26 AM
Funded PhD position available in @langridgelab.bsky.social! Excellent project in a very supportive, driven & knowledgable group 🧬
Can we stop calling it a slow pandemic yet?
Between 2018–2023, antibiotic resistance increased in over 40% of the pathogen–antibiotic combinations monitored, with an average annual rise of 5–15%.
Resistance is highest in the WHO South-East Asian & Eastern Mediterranean Regions, where 1 in 3 reported infections were resistant 👉 bit.ly/438Ta1u
Resistance is highest in the WHO South-East Asian & Eastern Mediterranean Regions, where 1 in 3 reported infections were resistant 👉 bit.ly/438Ta1u
October 15, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Can we stop calling it a slow pandemic yet?
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We are running a hackathon at EBI in Feb: biomics.bacpop.org
If you are at EMBL, ETH Zurich, GRC or GIMM working on a biological problem in data science or programming, consider putting a project forwards!
If you are at EMBL, ETH Zurich, GRC or GIMM working on a biological problem in data science or programming, consider putting a project forwards!
BIOMICS hackathon at EMBL-EBI
Hackathon held in Hinxton 2026
biomics.bacpop.org
October 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
We are running a hackathon at EBI in Feb: biomics.bacpop.org
If you are at EMBL, ETH Zurich, GRC or GIMM working on a biological problem in data science or programming, consider putting a project forwards!
If you are at EMBL, ETH Zurich, GRC or GIMM working on a biological problem in data science or programming, consider putting a project forwards!
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Sign up for tomorrow's hybrid Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Danny Dorling of @ox.ac.uk. He'll be discussing the politics of epidemiology & public health in the UK
📅 Wed 15 October, 1 PM (UK)
Register - buff.ly/wblZfOx
@dphpc.bsky.social @mrc-bsu.bsky.social @phgfoundation.bsky.social
📅 Wed 15 October, 1 PM (UK)
Register - buff.ly/wblZfOx
@dphpc.bsky.social @mrc-bsu.bsky.social @phgfoundation.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Sign up for tomorrow's hybrid Bradford Hill Seminar with Professor Danny Dorling of @ox.ac.uk. He'll be discussing the politics of epidemiology & public health in the UK
📅 Wed 15 October, 1 PM (UK)
Register - buff.ly/wblZfOx
@dphpc.bsky.social @mrc-bsu.bsky.social @phgfoundation.bsky.social
📅 Wed 15 October, 1 PM (UK)
Register - buff.ly/wblZfOx
@dphpc.bsky.social @mrc-bsu.bsky.social @phgfoundation.bsky.social
Abstracts you're thinking about for this conference might also be suitable for our Nature AMR collection in the genomics of resistance - open until March 24 2026! www.nature.com/collections/...
October 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Abstracts you're thinking about for this conference might also be suitable for our Nature AMR collection in the genomics of resistance - open until March 24 2026! www.nature.com/collections/...
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Enhanced virulence and stress tolerance are signatures of epidemiologically successful Shigella sonnei
@sydneylmiles.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social
🙏to transformative collaborative effort
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@sydneylmiles.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social
🙏to transformative collaborative effort
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
October 13, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Enhanced virulence and stress tolerance are signatures of epidemiologically successful Shigella sonnei
@sydneylmiles.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social
🙏to transformative collaborative effort
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@sydneylmiles.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social
🙏to transformative collaborative effort
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Present your #AMR work at our dedicated forum for global researchers and practitioners! 🧫
🗓️ 23-25 March 2026
Submit abstract by 1 December 📩
Share #genomics and big data approaches for navigating the growing complexities in the AMR field.
📎bit.ly/3SWzJUm
#MicroSky #AMR2026
🗓️ 23-25 March 2026
Submit abstract by 1 December 📩
Share #genomics and big data approaches for navigating the growing complexities in the AMR field.
📎bit.ly/3SWzJUm
#MicroSky #AMR2026
October 14, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Present your #AMR work at our dedicated forum for global researchers and practitioners! 🧫
🗓️ 23-25 March 2026
Submit abstract by 1 December 📩
Share #genomics and big data approaches for navigating the growing complexities in the AMR field.
📎bit.ly/3SWzJUm
#MicroSky #AMR2026
🗓️ 23-25 March 2026
Submit abstract by 1 December 📩
Share #genomics and big data approaches for navigating the growing complexities in the AMR field.
📎bit.ly/3SWzJUm
#MicroSky #AMR2026
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We had the in-person meeting of the @target-amr.bsky.social leadership team today.
We have some great plans for AMR genomics for the next year (and beyond), so follow us for updates!
We have some great plans for AMR genomics for the next year (and beyond), so follow us for updates!
October 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
We had the in-person meeting of the @target-amr.bsky.social leadership team today.
We have some great plans for AMR genomics for the next year (and beyond), so follow us for updates!
We have some great plans for AMR genomics for the next year (and beyond), so follow us for updates!
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new preprint from our group & Antoine Hocher: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.
A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.
Versatile NTP recognition and domain fusions expand the functional repertoire of the ParB-CTPase fold beyond chromosome segregation
Nucleotide triphosphate (NTP)-dependent molecular switches regulate essential cellular processes by cycling between active and inactive states through nucleotide binding and hydrolysis. These mechanis...
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October 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
new preprint from our group & Antoine Hocher: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.
A fantastic collaboration with Antoine, with Jovana Kaljevic' initiated the collaboration and drives the project.
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New respiratory 🫁 infection and microbiomes conference in Hinxton with stellar line up of speakers.
🚨 Submit your abstracts now! 🚨
Please RT
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🚨 Submit your abstracts now! 🚨
Please RT
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AIR 2026: Genomic and Systems Approaches to Respiratory Infection, Microbiomes and Immunity — 20260211
Course exploring how genomics, microbiome profiling, and systems biology reshape our understanding of respiratory infections and immune dynamics.
coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org
October 8, 2025 at 2:48 PM
New respiratory 🫁 infection and microbiomes conference in Hinxton with stellar line up of speakers.
🚨 Submit your abstracts now! 🚨
Please RT
coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/air-20...
🚨 Submit your abstracts now! 🚨
Please RT
coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/air-20...
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This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.
interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
interestingengineering.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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The @embo.org self-leadership for women scientists course focuses on 4 pillars of experience as a human being + researcher: self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-management + self-growth. Places still available on 14-16 October online course: www.embolableadership.org/course/self-... #SelfLeadership
September 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
The @embo.org self-leadership for women scientists course focuses on 4 pillars of experience as a human being + researcher: self-awareness, self-acceptance, self-management + self-growth. Places still available on 14-16 October online course: www.embolableadership.org/course/self-... #SelfLeadership
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I can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun
Equity in science is a beautiful lie — and I’m done pretending | Nature
Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system. Science isn’t really moving towards equity; institutions are just perfecting the appearance of equity. We need to build an alternative system.
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September 29, 2025 at 7:13 AM
I can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
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Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco
Job Title: Assistant Professor, Tenure-Track, Department of Biology, University of San Francisco Job Summary: The Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco invites applications for a fu...
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September 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Bioinformatics in the Department of Biology at the University of San Francisco
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Microsoft Outlook just told me some of my attachments are "pretty large" and asked if I wanted to upload to OneDrive instead. How come you're allowed to use superfluous adverbs Outlook while all my "really"s and "very"s get your snooty little blue line?!
September 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Microsoft Outlook just told me some of my attachments are "pretty large" and asked if I wanted to upload to OneDrive instead. How come you're allowed to use superfluous adverbs Outlook while all my "really"s and "very"s get your snooty little blue line?!
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A great opportunity to attend the #Shigella meeting April 20-24, 2026! Abstract submissions are open! @shigellameeting.bsky.social #Microsky
External Event Grant awards of up to £750 are available for eligible members as a contribution towards the costs of registration, travel, and accommodation to attend an event beginning 01 Jan – 30 April 2026. Apply now before the deadline 01 Nov at 23:59: microb.io/ExternalEven...
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September 27, 2025 at 12:03 PM
A great opportunity to attend the #Shigella meeting April 20-24, 2026! Abstract submissions are open! @shigellameeting.bsky.social #Microsky
Why not apply for a Microbiology Society grant to support your attendance at @shigellameeting.bsky.social?
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September 26, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Why not apply for a Microbiology Society grant to support your attendance at @shigellameeting.bsky.social?
microbiologysociety.org/grants/all-g...
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Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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September 25, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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Newly expanded version of my guide to scientific writing -- known as the “15 steps” -- published in PLOS Computational Biology. Special thanks to Éric Marty for creating a fantastic visualization.
Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology
Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology
September 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Newly expanded version of my guide to scientific writing -- known as the “15 steps” -- published in PLOS Computational Biology. Special thanks to Éric Marty for creating a fantastic visualization.
Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology
Check it out: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
#ScientificWriting #PLOSComputationalBiology
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🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...
Faculty Professor Associate - Full-Time | Vaughn Cooper
We are recruiting Faculty microbiologists in three (3) different, complementary, and collaborative areas at the University of Pittsburgh associated with the School of Medicine.
1) Fundamental researc...
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September 23, 2025 at 10:31 PM
🚨 Microbiologists! We are recruiting Assistant / Associate Professors in 3 collaborative areas of our U. Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...
1) MMG (my dept): fundamental research in med micro
2) Peds ID / I4Kids institute
3) Center for Vaccine Research
🔗 to all 3 w/info: www.linkedin.com/posts/vaughn...
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Come and work with Nicole Stoesser and I in Oxford with the fantastic team @modmedmicro.bsky.social - great opportunity for a postdoc in microbial genomics to do some creative research with great datasets as part of our HPRU.
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September 23, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Come and work with Nicole Stoesser and I in Oxford with the fantastic team @modmedmicro.bsky.social - great opportunity for a postdoc in microbial genomics to do some creative research with great datasets as part of our HPRU.
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
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