A native promoter and inclusion of an intron is necessary for efficient expression of GFP or mRFP in 🍄 nature.com/articles/srep2…

Do you know that Europe is working to become the first-ever continent having a legislative framework to protect soils and their life🇪🇺🤎🍄? How will that happen? A summary 🧵on what we have on the table so far.

Sometimes innovation in biotech is creating the newest and most advanced genetic synbio toolset Sometimes it's realising that you can use a caulking gun to more reliably and safely load the Akta superloop without cramping your hands or potentially breaking off the luer lock port

We need BBC News (UK), Sky News and ITV News to stop calling violent, organised, extremist rioters 'protestors'. Stop legitimising hate crime. RT if you agree.

Graffiti on the streets of Stavanger.

For all @SwanseaMedicine & Swansea University interested in parasitology - don't miss this chance to hear Trop Doc in ILS1 on 3rd Sept! Details 👇 Please share Geertje van Keulen Claire Price Dr Aidan Seeley 🥼💊

Elisabeth Bik For anyone wondering why fake AI images are a problem for science, THIS is why... even without AI images, we're struggling under fraudulent research and it costs lives! AI images make this kind of deception even easier :( x.com/AlecStapp/stat…

Delighted to share that the @swanseamedicine infection and AMS CPD course is running again this year! Still open for applications - details below 👇

Register now for this new ⁦Microbiology Society⁩ organised online symposium focused on “innovative in vitro infection models”. Fantastic line up of speakers and super accessible on-lime format. Should be a great session, so get involved! Please RT microbiologysociety.org/event/society-…

📌Join UK Parliament on 11 September 2024 for their online ‘Parliament for Researchers’ training session, where Lord Krebs will share insights on the value of academic #research in #Parliament, informed by his background in #BiologicalSciences. 🔎 tinyurl.com/2fcuprne

A call from Food and Agriculture Organization NETSOB to help catalogue the best practices for promoting, preserving, and protecting soil biodiversity. If you have been involved in projects that study the impact of management practices on soil biodiversity, please contribute here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

This is another piece of evidence of how societal and economic burden of COVID, flu and other infections can be substantially reduced ❤️‍🩹💰😊. We must reject the narrative of these as an inevitable part of life. Let's clean the air, like we once learned to clean the water 💪.

As the Draghi report makes waves in Europe it's clear we need much more than money to regain competitiveness. In terms of innovation funding, Draghi points to SPRIND, Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation Challenges as a role model for new funding approaches. Read about our experiences with Challenges here 👇

From June 15-19, 2025, we will organise the 20th International Symposium on the Biology of Actinomycetes (ISBA XX in the Netherlands, at the beach of Egmond. See here for the website: universiteitleiden.nl/isba2025 Registration will open later this year.

Full scholarship available for a curious PhD student to take on one of the most interesting topics in virology: how do capsid proteins assemble into particles with different geometries? Use native MS and cryo-EM with Michael Landsberg ❄️⚛️🔬 at UQ to find out! 🔗griffith.edu.au/research-study…

And the Grand Prize Winner is... 🏆 Congratulations to @eliza_coli - see campsite bio for other socials for their outstanding artwork in the #MicrobeArt2024 Contest! Your artwork creatively highlights the fight against AMR with cyclopeptides. 🦠

Re fundraising efforts, interesting advice 👇on QR codes I was not aware of Microbiology Society Peter Cotgreave bsky.app/profile/axbom.…

to put that in context, our brilliant QMUL UNISON 🌵 comrades have churned the numbers alongside the 'cost' of Grade 2 staff. x.com/QM_UNISON/stat…

Calling all Soapboxers Soapbox Science! 👇👇👇 Past SoapboxSwansea speaker/co-organiser Dr Youmna seeking donations for her home island of Mayotte, which has been decimated by cyclone Chido Please donate if you can via the French Red Cross for #Mayotte: macagnotte.croix-rouge.fr/donner-dt-mayo…

OUTSTANDING service by Scienceposters this week. Really pleased with their professionalism and flexibility. If I could give more than 5 stars, I would. Heck I will! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️10/5 stars Many thanks Pete!