Live from New York, it's Saturday night.

#Trump promises no violence, yet on social media #Giphy is reccommending V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes mask gifs suggesting this is a trending gif... this is going to be awful.

Here is the promised update! Now the EPA has released their statement we can reveal all the disgusting details of the ‘tar balls’.... ...which are actually human-generated waste of fat and grease! Here’s what UNSW Science and MWAC found… thread below! 🧵

I just downloaded Bluesky and now I have a sinking feeling Twitter will disappear and that my one iconic moment in Australian History will become a thing of the internet past I will never be able to prove. #grangegate my moment in history.

TFW asking for coauthors OrcID

We are excited to share 71,700 new #Chlamy mutants from the CLiP2 collection pre-publication! Nearly-saturating genome coverage. Please note: new background strain, mating type, and antibiotic resistance. Read: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Search and order: chlamylibrary.org

The first of many novel Antarctic fungi to be described by the #Ferrarilab in collab with Brett Summerell and Botanic Gardens of Sydney Alinta Furnell 🌱 Xabier Vázquez-Campos Jordan Vink marcwilkins Penicillium psychrofluorescens sp. nov., a naturally autofluorescent Antarc fungus tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

First day back at work and my annual citations are already at 3% of last year! Go me! #AcademicPublishing

Welcome to #SynXVI. In the 90s if you heard about #genome sequencing you would have scratched your head. We think finishing the last chromosome of Sc2.0 will be a similar moment in biological history! Humankind's first #synthetic #eukaryote is here. nature.com/articles/s4146…

Super excited that our paper demonstrating that animals can be engineered for methylmercury bioremediation is out. Congrats to Kate Tepper for an amazing job! nature.com/articles/s4146…

#Soil! #Canola! #Yeast! What is the connection? onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pc… Well, using yeast we can demonstrate the function of genes identified through QTL analysis of resilient Canola cultivars. Congrats to Harsh Raman and his team, and many thanks for including me in this!

JAMS monthly seminars are back 😁 Join us next Tuesday for a night of science, food & good company. It's a great way for students & researchers to share their work & connect with fellow microbiologists 🦠🔬 📍Keg & Brew, Surry Hills 📅 25th Feb, 6 pm Free & open to all - see

Congratulations to Associate Professor Amy Cain A/Prof Amy Cain of our Macquarie University node on being awarded The Australian Academy of Science (AAS) Australian Academy of Science 2025 #GottschalkMedal — in recognition of her pioneering work in the fight against #antibioticresistance 🦠💊

New postdoc opening UNSW in RNA biology and T cell immunity 🥼🧬🧫. Use molecular biology, nanopore sequencing, and in vivo models to uncover the regulatory drivers of adaptive immunity. Apply 👉 tinyurl.com/422n7hr6

I remember the turmoil for students, PhDs and postdocs in 2020/21 when the US Embassies in Europe weren’t taking visa appointments due to covid. This is going to be 10x worse. America is closing its door to the brightest and most upwardly mobile. Idiotic.

New #preprint. CO2 stimulates Galdieria to eat organic carbon, even in the dark. Stable isotope applied to algal biotech & 🍫chocolate conversion to algal biomass 🦠 1st auth Mauricio LPM, Bárbara Freitas Mike Fox KAUST Core Labs KAUST BESE AzCATI biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Huge thanks to the Royal Society of Biology for the fabulous interview in The Biologist! Synthetic genomes will accelerate future genetics research into #agriculture the #environment & #medicine thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-feat… #SyntheticBiology #Biotechnology #SyntheticGenomics

I anecdotally noticed this when I was annotating essential genes of Bacillus subtilis and Ecoli back in the day. There were definitely essential gene clusters at different positions depending on function. Turns out that’s not just with essential genes

Rewriting the genetic code with synthetic genomes nytimes.com/2025/07/31/sci…

Come join our lab! 🧬Katie Galloway