We are recruiting for an Editor to join JMM! We’re looking for Editors with some previous editorial experience to support our Disease, Diagnosis and Diagnostics section. Apply by 30 November 2025: microb.io/4oykaAo

A message from the Treasurer and Chair and Chair-elect of the Scientific Conferences Panel regarding Annual Conference 2026. Read the full article on our website – microb.io/425T0Yc #Microbio26

Patients in hospital with confirmed bacterial airway infection are significantly more likely to have a respiratory virus co-infection. Find out more in JMM: doi.org/10.1099/jmm.... #JMM

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The @microbiologysociety.org ‪Journal of Medical Microbiology is looking for a new Editor for One Health - Emerging, Zoonotic and Environmental Diseases. Come join us!

A #COVID19 infection study published in Nature found that only 5% develop natural immunity to reinfections.

While vaccination may not provide any immunity, it reduces the impact of reinfections as they impair immune systems.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I planted the hardy geranium and the buttercup planted itself

SAVE THE DATE!
The 2025 Influenza Update Meeting will be held ‪@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social on the 15th and 16th December - ‪@nicolerobb.bsky.social‬ is leading the organisation for this year's event.
We hope you'll join us there - please repost!
www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/...

There's an effort afoot to try to save #GMRLN (pronounced Gremlin), the global #measles & #rubella lab surveillance network that was reliant on US funding that has disappeared. It costs a pittance, in global health terms, to run. Its loss would be huge. www.statnews.com/2025/06/09/t...

Microbiologists – just three weeks left to submit your paper to any of our journals for a chance to win your registration to our 2026 Annual Conference in Belfast! Don’t miss out – explore our titles: microb.io/Journals #Microbio26 #AcademicPublishing

Our new issue is out! It includes a paper describing four severe coxsackievirus-linked neonatal infections in Northern Ireland, one of which was fatal.

Read it here 🗞️ www.eurosurveillance.org/content/euro...

I love running in the early morning heat of Qatar - 34C anois.

This is how we need to start thinking about the microbiome #microbio25

Metagenomic estimation of absolute bacterial biomass in the mammalian gut through host-derived read normalization. https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.07.631807v1