Marco Galardini
@mgalactus.bsky.social
Computational biologist with a taste for microbiology. Associate professor at Twincore, MHH and the RESIST excellence cluster
Wikipedia wanderer
Lab website: https://www.microbial-pangenomes-lab.org/
Wikipedia wanderer
Lab website: https://www.microbial-pangenomes-lab.org/
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Today Thorsten Ball said he's the bottleneck. I too am the bottleneck and it made me think. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/2/13/th...
The Final Bottleneck
AI speeds up writing code, but accountability and review capacity still impose hard limits.
lucumr.pocoo.org
February 13, 2026 at 6:29 PM
Today Thorsten Ball said he's the bottleneck. I too am the bottleneck and it made me think. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/2/13/th...
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1610 Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship awarded out of 17066 applications.
Over 50,000 reviewers… Can you fathom the amount of work involved? And sadly the level of waste?
Over 50,000 reviewers… Can you fathom the amount of work involved? And sadly the level of waste?
Let's look at some numbers
2022: 7 044 applications submitted. 17.9 % success rate
2023: 8 039 applications submitted. 15.8 % success rate
2024: 10 360 applications submitted. 16.6 % success rate
2025: 17 058 applications submitted (record high). 9.7% success rate (preliminary numbers).
2022: 7 044 applications submitted. 17.9 % success rate
2023: 8 039 applications submitted. 15.8 % success rate
2024: 10 360 applications submitted. 16.6 % success rate
2025: 17 058 applications submitted (record high). 9.7% success rate (preliminary numbers).
February 11, 2026 at 9:55 PM
1610 Marie Curie postdoctoral fellowship awarded out of 17066 applications.
Over 50,000 reviewers… Can you fathom the amount of work involved? And sadly the level of waste?
Over 50,000 reviewers… Can you fathom the amount of work involved? And sadly the level of waste?
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what a time to be alive
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it [Discussion]
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it
github.com
February 12, 2026 at 2:25 PM
what a time to be alive
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Thrilled to announce that I’ve just opened my research lab at @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social !
A huge thank you to my mentor Roi Avraham (and lab members!) for the incredible training and support that made this possible.
A huge thank you to my mentor Roi Avraham (and lab members!) for the incredible training and support that made this possible.
February 6, 2026 at 12:35 PM
Thrilled to announce that I’ve just opened my research lab at @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social !
A huge thank you to my mentor Roi Avraham (and lab members!) for the incredible training and support that made this possible.
A huge thank you to my mentor Roi Avraham (and lab members!) for the incredible training and support that made this possible.
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Exciting new PhD programme CODE-M Control and Design of Engineered Microbial Systems @officialuom.bsky.social Projects now advertised!
Ours is on division of labour & horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities @biotechdixon.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Ours is on division of labour & horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities @biotechdixon.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
(CODE M) How do Division of Labour and Gene Mobility Impact Microbial Bioremediation? at The University of Manchester on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - (CODE M) How do Division of Labour and Gene Mobility Impact Microbial Bioremediation? at The University of Manchester, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
February 6, 2026 at 2:04 PM
Exciting new PhD programme CODE-M Control and Design of Engineered Microbial Systems @officialuom.bsky.social Projects now advertised!
Ours is on division of labour & horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities @biotechdixon.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Ours is on division of labour & horizontal gene transfer in microbial communities @biotechdixon.bsky.social @coytelab.bsky.social
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Excited to announce my upcoming @snsf.ch Ambizione research group at EPFL on bacteria-host interactions, combining systems approaches and microphysiological models.
🚨 We have an open PhD position! More info on projects and how to apply here: elisabettacacace.github.io/BHI-Lab/
🧪
🚨 We have an open PhD position! More info on projects and how to apply here: elisabettacacace.github.io/BHI-Lab/
🧪
February 6, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Excited to announce my upcoming @snsf.ch Ambizione research group at EPFL on bacteria-host interactions, combining systems approaches and microphysiological models.
🚨 We have an open PhD position! More info on projects and how to apply here: elisabettacacace.github.io/BHI-Lab/
🧪
🚨 We have an open PhD position! More info on projects and how to apply here: elisabettacacace.github.io/BHI-Lab/
🧪
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Only 2 more days to apply for this post as Research Fellow in the Health Protection Research Unit - Public Health Genomics at the University of Birmingham.
Come and join us to exciting, cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics work to deliver public health benefits
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE112/r...
Come and join us to exciting, cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics work to deliver public health benefits
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE112/r...
Research Fellow at University of Birmingham
Discover Research Fellow jobs and more in higher education on jobs.ac.uk. Apply for further details on the top job board.
www.jobs.ac.uk
February 2, 2026 at 4:08 PM
Only 2 more days to apply for this post as Research Fellow in the Health Protection Research Unit - Public Health Genomics at the University of Birmingham.
Come and join us to exciting, cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics work to deliver public health benefits
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE112/r...
Come and join us to exciting, cutting-edge genomics and metagenomics work to deliver public health benefits
www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQE112/r...
Just in: AI agents are about to start their own antimemetics division @qntm.org
www.moltbook.com/post/4be7013...
www.moltbook.com/post/4be7013...
January 31, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Just in: AI agents are about to start their own antimemetics division @qntm.org
www.moltbook.com/post/4be7013...
www.moltbook.com/post/4be7013...
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Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
January 28, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Join us at the Evolutionary Biology Centre at Uppsala University. We’re searching for an Assistant Professor in Biology. www.uu.se/en/about-uu/...
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We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group!
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
Research Group Leader
Do you want to lead groundbreaking research in computational biology? Join us at EMBL-EBI! EMBL's European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) is seeking talented and highly-motivated scientists to jo...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:02 AM
We are hiring for group leaders again — EBI is a great place to start your research group!
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/EMBL/job/Hin...
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Hear me out: A dystopia where a good fraction of Humanity is kept prisoner in an Internet-free environment, and permanently monitored to produce future training data that is free of AI-slop contamination.
January 28, 2026 at 10:30 AM
Hear me out: A dystopia where a good fraction of Humanity is kept prisoner in an Internet-free environment, and permanently monitored to produce future training data that is free of AI-slop contamination.
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We are looking for a motivated Technical Assistant (m/f/d) with expertise in imaging and laboratory management to join the Bacterial Infection Ecology Lab @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social.
Apply here (deadline: 12 February 2026): jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunsch...
Apply here (deadline: 12 February 2026): jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunsch...
January 28, 2026 at 10:46 AM
We are looking for a motivated Technical Assistant (m/f/d) with expertise in imaging and laboratory management to join the Bacterial Infection Ecology Lab @helmholtzhzi.bsky.social.
Apply here (deadline: 12 February 2026): jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunsch...
Apply here (deadline: 12 February 2026): jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunsch...
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🚨 Group Leader Opportunity Alert! 🚀
Apply by February 15 and join us in Würzburg. ⬇️
Apply by February 15 and join us in Würzburg. ⬇️
We are looking for a junior group leader in RNA biology to join us in Würzburg at the @helmholtz-hiri.bsky.social !
A generous funding package, a great collaborative environment, and a beautiful city are all included :)
Deadline for application is Feb 15; more information below 👇
A generous funding package, a great collaborative environment, and a beautiful city are all included :)
Deadline for application is Feb 15; more information below 👇
January 28, 2026 at 11:52 AM
🚨 Group Leader Opportunity Alert! 🚀
Apply by February 15 and join us in Würzburg. ⬇️
Apply by February 15 and join us in Würzburg. ⬇️
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Think outside the box and address the most pressing challenges in infection research with us!🧑🔬 We're offering 10 PhD positions at five HZI sites across Germany.
👉Don’t miss out—apply by February 28, 2026 and contribute to shaping the future of infection research
jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunsch...
👉Don’t miss out—apply by February 28, 2026 and contribute to shaping the future of infection research
jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunsch...
January 20, 2026 at 1:46 PM
Think outside the box and address the most pressing challenges in infection research with us!🧑🔬 We're offering 10 PhD positions at five HZI sites across Germany.
👉Don’t miss out—apply by February 28, 2026 and contribute to shaping the future of infection research
jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunsch...
👉Don’t miss out—apply by February 28, 2026 and contribute to shaping the future of infection research
jobs.helmholtz-hzi.de/job/Braunsch...
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My time in @martinsteinegger.bsky.social's group is ending, but I’m staying in Korea to build a lab at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine. If you or someone you know is interested in molecular machine learning and open-source bioinformatics, please reach out. I am hiring!
mirdita.org
mirdita.org
Mirdita Lab - Laboratory for Computational Biology & Molecular Machine Learning
Mirdita Lab builds scalable bioinformatics methods.
mirdita.org
January 20, 2026 at 11:07 AM
My time in @martinsteinegger.bsky.social's group is ending, but I’m staying in Korea to build a lab at Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine. If you or someone you know is interested in molecular machine learning and open-source bioinformatics, please reach out. I am hiring!
mirdita.org
mirdita.org
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Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
Agent Psychosis: Are We Going Insane?
What’s going on with the AI builder community right now?
lucumr.pocoo.org
January 18, 2026 at 10:38 AM
Weekend thoughts on Gas Town, Beads, slop AI browsers, and AI-generated PRs flooding overwhelmed maintainers. I don't think we're ready for our new powers we're wielding. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
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This is very sad news
'It is with great sadness that EMBL announces that Interim Director General Professor Peer Bork passed away from natural causes on 16 January 2026.'
www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
'It is with great sadness that EMBL announces that Interim Director General Professor Peer Bork passed away from natural causes on 16 January 2026.'
www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
In remembrance of Peer Bork | EMBL
EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.
www.embl.org
January 16, 2026 at 6:06 PM
This is very sad news
'It is with great sadness that EMBL announces that Interim Director General Professor Peer Bork passed away from natural causes on 16 January 2026.'
www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
'It is with great sadness that EMBL announces that Interim Director General Professor Peer Bork passed away from natural causes on 16 January 2026.'
www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
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Proud to announce SimPhyNI, a new tool for bacterial GWAS with higher precision and scalability than existing tools. Try it out and let us know what you think!!
High Precision Binary Trait Association on Phylogenetic Trees https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2025.12.24.696407v1
January 5, 2026 at 2:55 PM
Proud to announce SimPhyNI, a new tool for bacterial GWAS with higher precision and scalability than existing tools. Try it out and let us know what you think!!
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Looking to start your lab in generative biology / AI?
Come join us at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Sanger is core-funded so you can generate data at scale to train the next generation of models and understanding. Design/Engineering/Chemistry/Proteins/Pathways!
pls RT
tinyurl.com/GenGenFaculty
Come join us at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Sanger is core-funded so you can generate data at scale to train the next generation of models and understanding. Design/Engineering/Chemistry/Proteins/Pathways!
pls RT
tinyurl.com/GenGenFaculty
Group Leader - Generative Biology and AI
Do you want to help us improve human health and understand life on Earth? Make your mark by shaping the future to enable or deliver life-changing science to solve some of humanity’s greatest challenge...
tinyurl.com
January 1, 2026 at 12:08 PM
Looking to start your lab in generative biology / AI?
Come join us at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Sanger is core-funded so you can generate data at scale to train the next generation of models and understanding. Design/Engineering/Chemistry/Proteins/Pathways!
pls RT
tinyurl.com/GenGenFaculty
Come join us at the @sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Sanger is core-funded so you can generate data at scale to train the next generation of models and understanding. Design/Engineering/Chemistry/Proteins/Pathways!
pls RT
tinyurl.com/GenGenFaculty
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Available Postdoc position in my lab to advance ASO technology for biotechnology, food production, infectious diseases, environmental microbiology & more. Looking for specialists in these areas with an interest in RNA applications. Involves numerous national & international collaborations.
December 30, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Available Postdoc position in my lab to advance ASO technology for biotechnology, food production, infectious diseases, environmental microbiology & more. Looking for specialists in these areas with an interest in RNA applications. Involves numerous national & international collaborations.
The ebook reader battery went down ~20%, and so I must assume I read the book again. Still can't remember what it is about, but I think the title is "█████ ██ ██ ███████████ ████████"
Something very weird happened these last three days; multiple lines of evidence point to the fact that I have read a book, yet I can't remember anything about it, nor find it in my ebook reader
December 28, 2025 at 11:00 AM
The ebook reader battery went down ~20%, and so I must assume I read the book again. Still can't remember what it is about, but I think the title is "█████ ██ ██ ███████████ ████████"
Something very weird happened these last three days; multiple lines of evidence point to the fact that I have read a book, yet I can't remember anything about it, nor find it in my ebook reader
December 24, 2025 at 9:32 PM
Something very weird happened these last three days; multiple lines of evidence point to the fact that I have read a book, yet I can't remember anything about it, nor find it in my ebook reader
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We’re hiring 2 Postdocs (f/m/d) in Drug–Microbiome–Host Interactions 🦠💊
Focus: how non-antibiotic drugs shape the gut microbiome, drug efficacy & side effects.
#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs
Full job ad:
lisamaierlab.com/wp-content/u...
Focus: how non-antibiotic drugs shape the gut microbiome, drug efficacy & side effects.
#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs
Full job ad:
lisamaierlab.com/wp-content/u...
lisamaierlab.com
December 22, 2025 at 2:08 PM
We’re hiring 2 Postdocs (f/m/d) in Drug–Microbiome–Host Interactions 🦠💊
Focus: how non-antibiotic drugs shape the gut microbiome, drug efficacy & side effects.
#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs
Full job ad:
lisamaierlab.com/wp-content/u...
Focus: how non-antibiotic drugs shape the gut microbiome, drug efficacy & side effects.
#PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs
Full job ad:
lisamaierlab.com/wp-content/u...
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Manchester Institute of Biotechnology is looking for a new Professor. There are a few priority areas including microbial engineering (broadly defined, from pathways to cells to microbiomes). Closing 12 Jan.
Join us in the best city in the UK 😜
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Join us in the best city in the UK 😜
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Professorial Appointment within the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology:Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
Applications are invited for a professorial appointment to be based in the Manchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB) at the University of Manchester (UoM). The successful candidate will join a dynamic research environment at an exciting time and will help shape the institute research priorities and national/international profile. We are open to high quality applications from across the broad engineering biology and biotechnology landscape. Specific areas of interest include but are not limited to chemical biology of disease related proteins, natural product biosynthesis and enzyme discovery; structural biology and mechanistic enzymology; and microbial engineering.
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk
December 20, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Manchester Institute of Biotechnology is looking for a new Professor. There are a few priority areas including microbial engineering (broadly defined, from pathways to cells to microbiomes). Closing 12 Jan.
Join us in the best city in the UK 😜
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
Join us in the best city in the UK 😜
www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Looking for a POSTDOC to work on jumbo phages (those with large genomes and fascinating cell biology), using our latest ASO technology (Gerovac M et al. 2025 Nature) to define RNA export mechanisms as well as to help to advance phage therapy. Here's the job ad.
December 19, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Looking for a POSTDOC to work on jumbo phages (those with large genomes and fascinating cell biology), using our latest ASO technology (Gerovac M et al. 2025 Nature) to define RNA export mechanisms as well as to help to advance phage therapy. Here's the job ad.