RT IFLScience: In 2012, scientists swabbed 60 human belly buttons and identified a total of 2,368 bacterial species, 1,458 of which were new to science.

RT Microbiology Society: Today marks #InternationalBeerDay! Learn more about the microbes involved in producing our food and drink today. microb.io/3rGZPMn

RT Microbiology Society: #OnThisDay the Founding Member of the Microbiology Society and our first President, Sir Alexander Fleming, was born. Known for his discovery of #penicillin, you can explore more of Fleming's work in our digital archive collection. microb.io/36P0e5x

RT Science Magazine: "Imagine a...routine surgery...is considered too dangerous because there are no drugs to prevent or treat bacterial infections. Unless researchers develop new antibiotics...the decimation of modern medicine will soon become a reality." fcld.ly/nnl0nq7

RT Science Friday: On #ScienceDiction, revisit the story of a cook named Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary." In the early 1900s, Mary spent nearly 30 years quarantined in a cottage on a small island in New York's East River, all to prevent her from infecting others. sciencefriday.com/articles/scien…

Around 400,000 people die of malaria each year, the majority are children. This vaccine could be a game-changer. edition.cnn.com/2021/10/06/hea…

RT The Lancet: NEW—An estimated 1.2 million people died in 2019 from antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections, more deaths than HIV/AIDS or malaria. #AMR, now a leading cause of death worldwide: hubs.li/Q012sG-t0 #AMRSOS

RT James Weiss: This is a Lepidotrachelophyllum, a gorgeous single-celled with a long name! #science #biology

RT Dr Jonathan Cox: My thoughts on the The Lancet #GRAMPaper #AMR #AntimicrobialResistance #AMRSOS paper published in The Conversation 1.27m AMR deaths in 2019 and 4.95m associated. Time to #wakeuptoAMR #nextpandemic 🧫💊🔬Aston University Health and Life Sciences at Aston University theconversation.com/antimicrobial-…

RT mt: Combining antibiotics allows to inhibit and disrupt Staphylococcus aureus #biofilms at lower concentrations than single antibiotics and has an effect on stationary phase persister cell populations. sciencedirect.com/science/articl… pic.x.com/eyQ9EzDQ3N

I am looking to hire a microbiology research assistant. The fulltime position is for two years with the possibility of continued employment depending on funding. Competitive salary, and travel support for conferences. hamptonu.edu/hr/jobdetail.c…

Humans evolved with their microbiomes – like genes, your gut microbes pass from one generation to the next theconversation.com/humans-evolved…

Antimicrobial drug derived from tree sap could treat chronic wounds | New Scientist newscientist.com/article/233807…

RT Uli Klümper: Our new paper fresh of the press in Microbiome: Non-antibiotic pharmaceuticals promote conjugative #plasmid transfer at a community-wide level led by Yue Wang & Jianhua Guo with @WillHGaze & Aimee Murray microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11………

I saw this on LinkedIn and thought it was a handy guide for people like me who have trouble remembering the antibiotic compendium (credit: Atul Kumar).

RT NYT Science: A measles outbreak has killed more than 700 children and infected thousands of others across Zimbabwe, highlighting the risks of faltering childhood immunization campaigns around the world. nyti.ms/3fh0Ad2

RT bioRxiv Microbiology: Mechanical stimuli activate gene expression via a cell envelope stress sensing pathway biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio

RT bioRxiv Microbiology: Cryo-EM structure of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens type IV secretion system-associated T-pilus reveals stoichiometric phospholipid biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #biorxiv_micrbio

RT Niko McCarty.: Holy grail of growth media cookbooks. 🏆 MediaDive curates "recipes, instructions and molecular compositions of & 3,200 standardized cultivation media for & 40,000 microbial strains from all domains of life." Cc by #OpenScience mediadive.dsmz.de

How crazy is that? Not science fiction anymore! nature.com/articles/s4156…