Tiny Brazilian frogs’ inner ear canals are too small to help them balance well, finds a recent study in Science Advances, explaining why they are clumsy jumpers. fcld.ly/qfqjdbh

Let me know when you see the person howling in pain

Hey microbiology Twitter - What tips would you give if you were to hold a non-specialist talk about the broad topic of microbiology? Pitfalls, good analogies, visual spectacle? Kinda curious, please spread this question around.

Our community effort to study AlphaFold2 applications is now published. Beyond the science what I want to highlight was that this was possible because scientists were sharing early results on twitter and this was the result of putting that together. nature.com/articles/s4159…

It's nice to be home for Christmas so I finally have time to pick this up. Now where to hang it... Parents, office or my new beer coaster? #AU #MBG #Prize

Oh yeah, going on a holiday makes the brain dump seemingly random information. Luckily it chose to discard hotkeys for Blender, and not my protein purification protocol #BackToWork #Blender3d

Any tips for chairing a session of speakers? Other than... You know... Remembering the name? #ScienceTwitter

‘Disruptive’ science has declined — and no one knows why go.nature.com/3VIPv3Z

Done with a scientifically packed day at the departmental symposium Dunn_School (now @DunnSchool.bsky.social) where I got to chair my first session! All got their applauses and there were plenty of questions, so no silence #phew

Wait, antibiotic perseverance? New way for bacteria to develop antibiotic resistance? Across the spectrum of bacterial pathogens, two unrelated antibiotics AND shown in single cells? Cool stuff and also WHAT #pnas pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36595701/

Presenting my work today Microbiology Society #microbio23 conference! Come and find me at P299😊

Currently on Scotland, joining in for the #ETOX conference, and ready to be intoxicated with talks and cool science for the next couple of days

René Bærentsen / Rene Baerentsen presenting his work on T6SS #ETOX in beautiful Crieff. Thanks to organisers for putting together such a great meeting