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This is Massospora cicadina, the zombifying fungus that infects periodical cicadas. 🔈

It does not kill or slow down it’s host. Instead, the infected cicada is coerced into actively dispersing the spores through repeated failed mating attempts. The genitalia have been consumed

We will soon have open positions for PhD/postdocs with computational and/or experimental training to work on topics related with social interactions from an eco-evo perspective.
Early and spontaneous applications are encouraged Klebsiella Club #AMR

Petition to put £50/year into every grant application to support Wikipedia. If you think world-leading scientists aren't speedreading 3-5 wiki articles 1 hour before their lectures, you're wrong.

Our paper on 'The impact of phage and phage resistance on microbial community dynamics' is finally out in PLOS Biology! What a journey it's been, and I couldn't have done it without my fab co-authors edze westra Sam Brown + others not on twitter journals.plos.org/plosbiology/ar…

going into this mode so I can calculate c1v1 = c2v2

‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method bit.ly/4b3yWrG

What is cooperation, and how is it studied in bacteria? Super short primer: microbiologyresearch.org/content/journa… Ashleigh Griffin

The final piece of my PhD is out. I am grateful to Tobi and Rolf Kümmerli for seeing this through. We found that phenotypic heterogeneity is driven by spatial and genealogical components, and siderophore sharing influences fitness of cell lineages. Department of Quantitative Biomedicine UZH Science University of Zurich

POV you're in a Zoom meeting with me

my cat doesn't understand how computers work so when I'm doing 8h of home office this is what she sees

me and the squad at the cross-disciplinary seminar and we have no idea what's going on

Woohoo, our paper on the discovery of 65 new phages dependent on conjugative plasmids is published in it's final form today in Nature Communications ! Here follows a thread (1/ ) link.springer.com/article/10.103…

I’m seeing some “free market” simps defending Nature’s 12k open access fees. Guess it’s time to bring this back around.

A few months after I started my first academic lab, I told my postdoc PI Wallace Marshall about how great it was he never did this kind of territorial nonsense. He said simply: “I’m not worried I’ll run out of ideas”

And that, my friends, is the dictionary definition of a mic drop

Hey #microbio24 ! If you're interested in 🦠 that do ⚔️, check out my talk about 🛡️!

All will be revealed tomorrow - in the Fintry Room, Level 3 10:45am (Prokaryotic Stress Responses) ❤️

Talking tomorrow afternoon in the infection forum at #microbio24 on our recent work looking at how antibiotic resistance alters the outcomes of microbial interactions: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

My first ✨ senior author ✨ preprint!

A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. “We were surprised by how brazenly the male researchers described their priorities, for example that they actively didn’t respond to emails”

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Strategies for developing phages into novel antimicrobial tailocins

Trends in Microbiology by Cedric Woudstra et al from lone brøndsted

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ok mr. veterinarian, if my cat is 'not feral at all, in fact you've had her for years and she's completely docile' how do u explain this ???