Matt Hutchings
@matthutchings.bsky.social
Group Leader at JIC. Natural product biosynthesis. Streptomyces interactions with plants & insects. Drummer, dad, Norwich City FC.
www.jic.ac.uk/people/matt-hutchings
http://streptomyces.org.uk for strains & resources
Engagement @sawtrust.bsky.social
www.jic.ac.uk/people/matt-hutchings
http://streptomyces.org.uk for strains & resources
Engagement @sawtrust.bsky.social
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
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@jcv.bsky.social penned an obituary for Ham Smith in @nature.com. Since the early 90s, Ham has been a key figure at the Institute for his invaluable contributions and mentorship. "Ham was the best colleague that one could ever have in science and a great friend."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Hamilton Smith obituary: molecular biologist who co-discovered precise molecular scissors for cutting DNA
Nobel laureate who helped to sequence the first bacterial and human genomes.
www.nature.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:32 PM
@jcv.bsky.social penned an obituary for Ham Smith in @nature.com. Since the early 90s, Ham has been a key figure at the Institute for his invaluable contributions and mentorship. "Ham was the best colleague that one could ever have in science and a great friend."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What kind of dumb clowns would think it’s a good idea to add plastic pellets to a wastewater treatment process, when the company releases raw sewage all the time straight into the sea! Classic UK! 💩
Southern Water apologises for catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads in Sussex
Southern Water apologises for catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads in Sussex
Resulting pollution on Camber Sands beach poses threat to wildlife including dolphins and seals
Southern Water has taken responsibility for the catastrophic spill of plastic biobeads that polluted the Sussex coastline.
Local charities reported a huge spill of millions of biobeads over the weekend, washing up on beaches including Camber Sands. Andy Dinsdale, the founder of the plastic pollution campaign group Strandliners, said it was the worst pollution event he had seen. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
What kind of dumb clowns would think it’s a good idea to add plastic pellets to a wastewater treatment process, when the company releases raw sewage all the time straight into the sea! Classic UK! 💩
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Considering the LMB for your PhD?
We’ve got over 25 projects available, covering a wide array of topics. Check them out here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int...
Apply by 2nd DEC for Autumn 2026 admission.
We’ve got over 25 projects available, covering a wide array of topics. Check them out here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int...
Apply by 2nd DEC for Autumn 2026 admission.
November 10, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Considering the LMB for your PhD?
We’ve got over 25 projects available, covering a wide array of topics. Check them out here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int...
Apply by 2nd DEC for Autumn 2026 admission.
We’ve got over 25 projects available, covering a wide array of topics. Check them out here: www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/students/int...
Apply by 2nd DEC for Autumn 2026 admission.
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Conserved effectors underpin the virulence of liverwort-isolated Pseudomonas in divergent plants
Very happy to share the published version of our work on natural Marchantia-Pseudomonas interactions.
Out now in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Very happy to share the published version of our work on natural Marchantia-Pseudomonas interactions.
Out now in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Conserved effectors underpin the virulence of liverwort-isolated Pseudomonas in divergent plants
Robinson et al. identify pathogenic Pseudomonas viridiflava in wild Marchantia polymorpha
liverworts and interrogate the mechanisms enabling virulence in non-flowering and
flowering plants. Their resu...
www.cell.com
April 1, 2025 at 7:12 PM
Conserved effectors underpin the virulence of liverwort-isolated Pseudomonas in divergent plants
Very happy to share the published version of our work on natural Marchantia-Pseudomonas interactions.
Out now in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
Very happy to share the published version of our work on natural Marchantia-Pseudomonas interactions.
Out now in Current Biology: www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Super excited to be part of this beautiful effort led by @zhuyt0515.bsky.social and Hanna Anderson!
A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Characterization of Phytoplankton-Excreted Metabolites Mediating Carbon Flux through the Surface Ocean
The marine labile dissolved organic carbon (DOC) pool is a dynamic reservoir of thousands of molecules that cycles approximately one-quarter of Earth primary production within days to weeks. After exc...
www.biorxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Super excited to be part of this beautiful effort led by @zhuyt0515.bsky.social and Hanna Anderson!
A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A true team effort to characterize diversity in phytoplankton-excreted metabolites and identify key chemical currencies within the ocean ecosystem and carbon cycle
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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🟢🟡 The First Domino Falls, but Dark Clouds Still Hover Over NR1.
🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social
▪️For 70 mins, a thunderous Carrow Road
▪️In the end, same old
▪️Knapper must be allowed *nowhere near* the recruitment process for new coach
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/09/t...
#ncfc
🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social
▪️For 70 mins, a thunderous Carrow Road
▪️In the end, same old
▪️Knapper must be allowed *nowhere near* the recruitment process for new coach
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/09/t...
#ncfc
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
🟢🟡 The First Domino Falls, but Dark Clouds Still Hover Over NR1.
🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social
▪️For 70 mins, a thunderous Carrow Road
▪️In the end, same old
▪️Knapper must be allowed *nowhere near* the recruitment process for new coach
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/09/t...
#ncfc
🗣️ @garygowers.bsky.social
▪️For 70 mins, a thunderous Carrow Road
▪️In the end, same old
▪️Knapper must be allowed *nowhere near* the recruitment process for new coach
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/09/t...
#ncfc
The discovery of DNA and the triplet code inspired me to be a molecular biologist and for that I’m grateful. Forget James Watson. Franklin, Crick, Brenner and Sanger are the heroes in this story.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:49 PM
The discovery of DNA and the triplet code inspired me to be a molecular biologist and for that I’m grateful. Forget James Watson. Franklin, Crick, Brenner and Sanger are the heroes in this story.
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A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
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Same! 🥺 This book so revealing www.powells.com/book/rosalin...
Rosalind Franklin The Dark Lady of DNA | Powell's Books
In 1962, Maurice Wilkins, Francis Crick, and James Watson received the Nobel Prize, but it was Rosalind Franklin's data and photographs of DNA that led to their discovery.Brenda Maddox tells a powerfu...
www.powells.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Same! 🥺 This book so revealing www.powells.com/book/rosalin...
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Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Her sister wrote my favorite essay about her. She points out that RF would have been famous even if she'd never looked at DNA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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A view from Norwich Castle of the wonderful Church of St. Peter Mancroft. The Church was built in one phase between 1430 and 1455. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #StPeterMancroft #Norwich
November 8, 2025 at 7:41 AM
A view from Norwich Castle of the wonderful Church of St. Peter Mancroft. The Church was built in one phase between 1430 and 1455. 📸 My own. #SteepleSaturday #StPeterMancroft #Norwich
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Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
Rosalind Franklin and the damage of gender harassment
Spurred by a recent report on sexual harassment in academia, our columnist revisits a historical case and reflects on what has changed—and what hasn’t
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).
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An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
An Asgard archaeon with internal membrane compartments
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Brilliant study led by @fmacleod.bsky.social and Andriko von Kügelgen. Tight collaboration with @buzzbaum.bsky.social and lab. Congrats to all authors!
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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NEWS - Dr Myriam Charpentier awarded Adam Kondorosi prize
Dr @charpentiermyriam.bsky.social has received a prestigious international award from the Academia Europaea for her groundbreaking research into plant-microbe interactions.
www.jic.ac.uk/news/dr-myri...
Dr @charpentiermyriam.bsky.social has received a prestigious international award from the Academia Europaea for her groundbreaking research into plant-microbe interactions.
www.jic.ac.uk/news/dr-myri...
Dr Myriam Charpentier awarded Adam Kondorosi prize | John Innes Centre
Dr Myriam Charpentier has received a prestigious international award from the Academia Europaea for her groundbreaking research into plant-microbe interactions…
www.jic.ac.uk
November 6, 2025 at 3:44 PM
NEWS - Dr Myriam Charpentier awarded Adam Kondorosi prize
Dr @charpentiermyriam.bsky.social has received a prestigious international award from the Academia Europaea for her groundbreaking research into plant-microbe interactions.
www.jic.ac.uk/news/dr-myri...
Dr @charpentiermyriam.bsky.social has received a prestigious international award from the Academia Europaea for her groundbreaking research into plant-microbe interactions.
www.jic.ac.uk/news/dr-myri...
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🟢🟡 Some NCFC Home Truths … Amid Some Old-Fashioned Anglo-Saxon.
🗣️ @stevocook.bsky.social
** If you read one thing this evening...
⬇️⬇️⬇️
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/06/s...
#ncfc
🗣️ @stevocook.bsky.social
** If you read one thing this evening...
⬇️⬇️⬇️
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/06/s...
#ncfc
November 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
🟢🟡 Some NCFC Home Truths … Amid Some Old-Fashioned Anglo-Saxon.
🗣️ @stevocook.bsky.social
** If you read one thing this evening...
⬇️⬇️⬇️
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/06/s...
#ncfc
🗣️ @stevocook.bsky.social
** If you read one thing this evening...
⬇️⬇️⬇️
LINK: norwichcity.myfootballwriter.com/2025/11/06/s...
#ncfc
Useful bot if you listen to a lot of 6Music (BBC radio) @6music.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Useful bot if you listen to a lot of 6Music (BBC radio) @6music.bsky.social
Praying for a miracle
November 5, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Praying for a miracle
6Music is smashing it this morning #cloudbusting
November 5, 2025 at 7:43 AM
6Music is smashing it this morning #cloudbusting
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Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
November 4, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Please RT. Post-doc opportunity alert! 💥 closing 10th December.. Come join our team (www.thelowlab.org) at Imperial, London, working on the structure and mechanism of bacterial secretion systems.
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
For more details and to apply please see
www.imperial.ac.uk/jobs/search-...
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📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria
in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.
More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)
🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Please repost. #Postdoc
in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.
More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)
🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Please repost. #Postdoc
November 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
📢 Postdoc position: Cell Biology of Cyanobacteria
in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.
More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)
🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Please repost. #Postdoc
in my group, as part of the Excellence Cluster "Microbes for Climate" (M4C) in Marburg, Germany.
More information at shorturl.at/wNnDT (see Project 2)
🔗Apply at shorturl.at/VsEDl
📅Deadline: Nov 16, 2025
Please repost. #Postdoc
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OTD in 1977 Carl Woese and George Fox redrew the tree of life. They proposed a third “urkingdom”—the “archaebacteria”—in addition to eukaryotes and bacteria. Woese later called this taxon “Archea.”
AFAIK, he didn’t publish his famous tree diagram until the late 80s.
🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM 🗃️🧠 #evobio 🐡
AFAIK, he didn’t publish his famous tree diagram until the late 80s.
🐋🌱🧪 #HistSTM 🗃️🧠 #evobio 🐡
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM