Watching some folks desperately pitch $M “fully automated” labs to national labs and universities struggling to support their students, RAs and postdocs. 🙄

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If I were accused of plagiarism, I can guarantee that no-one outside of my department, and maybe a very narrow slice of the microbiology community, would know or care. I wonder what the difference is?

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Wow. In a previously unknown toxin-antitoxin system (RelS-RelI) the RelS toxin halts bacterial growth by cleaving 16S rRNA at a unique site in the anti-Shine-Dalgarno region. Beautiful use of comparative genomics at the species level, powerful. @oneyrolles.bsky.social Makarova & Genevaux.

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Some personal news! After 14 fantastic years at the University of Sheffield, I will be taking up a new role as a professor in @warwicklifesci.bsky.social early in the new year. I'm really excited to get to know more of the brilliant scientists in Warwick and to grow our research in a new home

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Nice walk and discussions with two evolutionary biologists, @sfelena.bsky.social and Arjan de Visser, also new fellows of European Academy of Microbiology, at La Granja de San Ildefonso 🇪🇸 #EAMsummit2026

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