Professor Andrew J Roe
@drandyjroe.bsky.social
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Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool
April 19, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Academia is cool because if you're doing it right, every paper you published in the last 3 years feels inadequate now that you understand the topic better, but it'll take 3 years to get out the version where you get it more right, and you get to do that until one day you die! Isn't that cool
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UK’s BBSRC has awarded £9M to support 19 early-career researchers tackling major challenges in health, agriculture, and technology. Projects include innovative approaches to #AMR, gut microbiome therapies, crop resilience, and nature-inspired engineering solutions.
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£9 million investment fuels groundbreaking bioscience research | Innovate UK
From unlocking the secrets of animal movement to tackling antimicrobial resistance, UK’s brightest bioscience minds are pushing the boundaries of innovation.
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April 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
UK’s BBSRC has awarded £9M to support 19 early-career researchers tackling major challenges in health, agriculture, and technology. Projects include innovative approaches to #AMR, gut microbiome therapies, crop resilience, and nature-inspired engineering solutions.
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🚨WE’RE HIRING!🚨 A Research Technician (2y) to join our team & work on exciting projects in bacterial evolution & gene regulation. Come join our growing, supportive Bacteriology Dept @uofglasgow.bsky.social ! 🏴 #MicroBio25 #microsky @microbiologysociety.org Apply by 30th April: tinyurl.com/2z9z9kse
April 4, 2025 at 1:18 PM
🚨WE’RE HIRING!🚨 A Research Technician (2y) to join our team & work on exciting projects in bacterial evolution & gene regulation. Come join our growing, supportive Bacteriology Dept @uofglasgow.bsky.social ! 🏴 #MicroBio25 #microsky @microbiologysociety.org Apply by 30th April: tinyurl.com/2z9z9kse
New paper from the group - here we show that aurodox prevents shiga toxin mediated damage in a murine model. Interesting changes to the microbiota too. Amazing work by @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social and the group.
Paper here- rdcu.be/efW0K
Paper here- rdcu.be/efW0K
April 1, 2025 at 11:31 AM
New paper from the group - here we show that aurodox prevents shiga toxin mediated damage in a murine model. Interesting changes to the microbiota too. Amazing work by @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social and the group.
Paper here- rdcu.be/efW0K
Paper here- rdcu.be/efW0K
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Please spread the word! We have an opening in the Atkinson lab for a post-doc with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of microbial immune systems. Can be a fully computational or experimental or hybrid project.
Read more and apply here:
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#phage #bioinformatics
Read more and apply here:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
#phage #bioinformatics
Postdoctoral research fellow with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of bacteriophage-host interactions
Description of the Workplace In the Atkinson lab we are interested in making discoveries about protein function and structure, with a focus on bacterial immune system components that protect against b
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March 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Please spread the word! We have an opening in the Atkinson lab for a post-doc with a focus on the molecular mechanisms of microbial immune systems. Can be a fully computational or experimental or hybrid project.
Read more and apply here:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
#phage #bioinformatics
Read more and apply here:
lu.varbi.com/en/what:job/...
#phage #bioinformatics
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‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
www.nature.com
January 24, 2025 at 6:36 AM
‘Never seen anything like this’: Trump’s team halts NIH meetings and travel
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
In an unprecedented move, research-grant reviews have been suspended indefinitely at the world’s largest public funder of biomedical research.
#AcademicSky
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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“a well-organized, financed, politically motivated, and steadily globalizing campaign of disinformation & attacks against science that makes it difficult to mount an effective global response to the climate & pandemic threats”
@michaelemann.bsky.social & Hotez
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@michaelemann.bsky.social & Hotez
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A Triple Threat to Humanity: Climate Change, Pandemics, and Anti-Science | Skeptical Inquirer
Over the past decade, many of us in the scientific community have come to appreciate the existential threat we face today—a threat unlike any we’ve witnesse ...
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January 2, 2025 at 6:11 AM
“a well-organized, financed, politically motivated, and steadily globalizing campaign of disinformation & attacks against science that makes it difficult to mount an effective global response to the climate & pandemic threats”
@michaelemann.bsky.social & Hotez
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@michaelemann.bsky.social & Hotez
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Here’s Newhaven harbour, on a less windy/rainy night !
December 31, 2024 at 11:24 PM
Here’s Newhaven harbour, on a less windy/rainy night !
More time to think is the key parameter every researcher seems to crave for.
Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
December 21, 2024 at 1:04 PM
More time to think is the key parameter every researcher seems to crave for.
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This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.
Over 100 German Universities Partner with #MDPI in New National Agreement
Over 100 German Universities Partner with MDPI in New National Agreement
More than 100 German universities and research institutions have entered into a national agreement with MDPI. The publication agreement negotiated...
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December 21, 2024 at 12:25 AM
This is a catastrophe. While Finland has downgraded the MDPI and Frontiers journals to level 0 (meaning these publications are not recognized for research evaluation purposes), Germany has signed an agreement to promote publications in MDPI journals.
This is just “wow”! Blown away by this paper. 🤯
Researchers engineered Escherichia coli bacteria to express an enzyme derived from sea sponges, which polymerizes bioglass from silica, allowing the bacteria to self-assemble lenses that focus light into narrow, intense beams. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/full/10....
December 19, 2024 at 10:08 PM
This is just “wow”! Blown away by this paper. 🤯
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This was the simple and, IMHO, brilliant, solution. Mandated immediate open access, no need for the ridiculous surcharges imposed by the "elite" journals! Thank you NIH!
• Author accepted manuscripts (peer reviewed articles) must be made available in Pubmed Central WITHOUT EMBARGO upon the official date of publication.
• Policy effective date is Dec 31, 2025 (no end date).
• Policy effective date is Dec 31, 2025 (no end date).
December 18, 2024 at 12:15 PM
This was the simple and, IMHO, brilliant, solution. Mandated immediate open access, no need for the ridiculous surcharges imposed by the "elite" journals! Thank you NIH!
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IT'S OFFICIAL! From today, @plos.org and its journals are no longer posting on Twitter/X. If you want to carry on hearing about great science in our journal, follow @plosbiology.org on Bluesky here: bsky.app/profile/plos...
December 16, 2024 at 6:59 PM
IT'S OFFICIAL! From today, @plos.org and its journals are no longer posting on Twitter/X. If you want to carry on hearing about great science in our journal, follow @plosbiology.org on Bluesky here: bsky.app/profile/plos...
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Hi everyone! For my new followers, I'm a Bioinformatics PhD student (UK) who also runs a science art shop where I make stickers and jewellery!
My most recent creation is festive microbial cards ❄️
pinkpetri.etsy.com
My most recent creation is festive microbial cards ❄️
pinkpetri.etsy.com
December 5, 2024 at 11:00 AM
Hi everyone! For my new followers, I'm a Bioinformatics PhD student (UK) who also runs a science art shop where I make stickers and jewellery!
My most recent creation is festive microbial cards ❄️
pinkpetri.etsy.com
My most recent creation is festive microbial cards ❄️
pinkpetri.etsy.com
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Last week I showed to MSc students this iconic movie of a #leukocyte chasing a #bacteria, just wait...
Version taken from a 16 mm video made by David Elliot Rogers @VanderbiltU in the 1950s !
(as @mag2art.bsky.social says "the Citizen Kane of #Microscopy)
#CellMigration @focalplane.bsky.social
Version taken from a 16 mm video made by David Elliot Rogers @VanderbiltU in the 1950s !
(as @mag2art.bsky.social says "the Citizen Kane of #Microscopy)
#CellMigration @focalplane.bsky.social
December 1, 2024 at 1:24 PM
Last week I showed to MSc students this iconic movie of a #leukocyte chasing a #bacteria, just wait...
Version taken from a 16 mm video made by David Elliot Rogers @VanderbiltU in the 1950s !
(as @mag2art.bsky.social says "the Citizen Kane of #Microscopy)
#CellMigration @focalplane.bsky.social
Version taken from a 16 mm video made by David Elliot Rogers @VanderbiltU in the 1950s !
(as @mag2art.bsky.social says "the Citizen Kane of #Microscopy)
#CellMigration @focalplane.bsky.social
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There is no brain microbiome 🧪
Excellent letter by @mjpallen.bsky.social @pathogenomenick.bsky.social @faecalmatters.bsky.social
Excellent letter by @mjpallen.bsky.social @pathogenomenick.bsky.social @faecalmatters.bsky.social
Letter sent in to the Editor of the Guardian on brain microbiome nonsense.
December 3, 2024 at 10:28 AM
There is no brain microbiome 🧪
Excellent letter by @mjpallen.bsky.social @pathogenomenick.bsky.social @faecalmatters.bsky.social
Excellent letter by @mjpallen.bsky.social @pathogenomenick.bsky.social @faecalmatters.bsky.social
New paper from the group. Very proud to share our recent work for the first time here on Bluesky- give me 50 likes and it’s a permanent move!🤣.
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November 29, 2024 at 9:15 PM
New paper from the group. Very proud to share our recent work for the first time here on Bluesky- give me 50 likes and it’s a permanent move!🤣.
doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
doi.org/10.1098/rsob...
Fully funded PhD available to work with me and the fab @paulhoskisson.bsky.social and @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social on the aurodox story- www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... 💊🦠🧫
University of Glasgow - Postgraduate study - Centres for Doctoral Training - NorthWest Biosciences - Our Projects - Understanding Pathogens, from Molecules to Phenotypes - Ins and outs of disarming ...
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November 23, 2024 at 10:25 AM
Fully funded PhD available to work with me and the fab @paulhoskisson.bsky.social and @rebeccamchugh.bsky.social on the aurodox story- www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate... 💊🦠🧫
Already feels like twitter v2 here and the chance for a better community.
November 19, 2024 at 9:33 PM
Already feels like twitter v2 here and the chance for a better community.
Latest paper from the group - Current understandings of colibactin regulation | Microbiology Society
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February 6, 2024 at 9:11 PM
Latest paper from the group - Current understandings of colibactin regulation | Microbiology Society
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I wrote a short blog post for the Microbiology Society regarding our recent colibactin regulation review. Available here. @sofiasandalli.bsky.social @drandyjroe.bsky.social
Regulation of a carcinogenic genotoxin
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February 6, 2024 at 3:09 PM
I wrote a short blog post for the Microbiology Society regarding our recent colibactin regulation review. Available here. @sofiasandalli.bsky.social @drandyjroe.bsky.social
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Really pleased to share Curtis Cottam’s first paper from his PhD, where he discovered a new Arabinose transporter in pathogenic E.coli and investigated the impact of Arabinose utilisation on virulence gene regulation.
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Metabolism of ʟ -arabinose converges with virulence regulation to promote enteric pathogen fitness
bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution
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December 23, 2023 at 11:22 AM
Really pleased to share Curtis Cottam’s first paper from his PhD, where he discovered a new Arabinose transporter in pathogenic E.coli and investigated the impact of Arabinose utilisation on virulence gene regulation.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Come do a PhD with me at University of Glasgow.
3-year fully funded PhD for UK students.
Friend to Foe: Colonisation as an Entry Point for S. aureus Infectionhttps://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/fully-funded-friend-to-foe-colonisation-as-an-entry-point-for-staphylococcus-aureus-infection/?p166823
3-year fully funded PhD for UK students.
Friend to Foe: Colonisation as an Entry Point for S. aureus Infectionhttps://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/fully-funded-friend-to-foe-colonisation-as-an-entry-point-for-staphylococcus-aureus-infection/?p166823
December 11, 2023 at 3:13 PM
Come do a PhD with me at University of Glasgow.
3-year fully funded PhD for UK students.
Friend to Foe: Colonisation as an Entry Point for S. aureus Infectionhttps://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/fully-funded-friend-to-foe-colonisation-as-an-entry-point-for-staphylococcus-aureus-infection/?p166823
3-year fully funded PhD for UK students.
Friend to Foe: Colonisation as an Entry Point for S. aureus Infectionhttps://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/fully-funded-friend-to-foe-colonisation-as-an-entry-point-for-staphylococcus-aureus-infection/?p166823
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📢 I have a funded PhD position available in Glasgow.
Functional genomics project with vaginal Lactobacillus. Please share
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Functional genomics project with vaginal Lactobacillus. Please share
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December 20, 2023 at 4:28 PM
📢 I have a funded PhD position available in Glasgow.
Functional genomics project with vaginal Lactobacillus. Please share
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Functional genomics project with vaginal Lactobacillus. Please share
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...