Eberl Lab 👨🏻‍🔬👩🏽‍💻🔬🧫

A large-scale event to increase public understanding of infection and health, raising awareness of antimicrobial resistance, and showing that science can be fun. Running daily over 4 weeks, made possibly by an army of volunteers and supporters, and attracting almost 5,000 visitors. 1/

Trying to find interesting resources to learn about infections, hygiene and health? Look no further! Explore our educational adventure trail, check out our reading corner, read what it's like to be a scientist, and play our multilingual science wordle! www.superbugs.online

It's that time of the year again. #SpookyScience #AgarArt

A new #Ukrainian resource for anyone interested in the microbial world in, on and around us. Learn about #infections, #pandemics, #vaccines, #AMR, #science and #health! @femsmicro.org @efis-immunology.bsky.social @microbiologysociety.org @britsocimm.bsky.social 🦠🧫🔬💊🇺🇦

It's a privilege to have been invited to present our work at this year's 'Mechnikov Readings' online conference organised by the Kharkiv National Medical University. Even more so because I was literally born 200 metres away from the place where Mechnikov had made his first discoveries.

Absolute genius, sums up perfectly the current state of academia in the UK. 👉🏼 www.linkedin.com/feed/update/... #AcademicLife #HigherEducation #Research h/t Andy Sewell

It's a privilege to have been invited to present our work at this year's 'Mechnikov Readings' online conference organised by the Kharkiv National Medical University. Even more so because I was literally born 200 metres away from the place where Mechnikov had made his first discoveries.

Excited to be part of this special series on "Rebuilding Community: Restoring Trust through STEM Education" in the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education. Submissions are open now! @asm.org

Excited to be part of this special series on "Rebuilding Community: Restoring Trust through STEM Education" in the Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education. Submissions are open now! @asm.org

Meanwhile our web traffic over the past 72 hours. 👉 www.superbugs.online/timeline-ukrainian 🦠🧫🔬💊🇺🇦

Yet another vaccine that is smaller than a Coca-Cola bottle.

Exciting news! We are proud to be able to launch a Ukrainian version of our interactive timeline of devastating infections through history, alongside key scientific and medical advances to help control them. www.superbugs.online/timeline 🦠🧫🔬💊🇺🇦 1/2

We are grateful to the fabulous Liubov Nikiforova for translating this resource and making it available to everyone interested in the microbial world in, on and around us. www.superbugs.online/timeline 🦠🧫🔬💊🇺🇦 2/2

For all teachers looking for new content to spice up their science classes after the summer break. 👇🏼

It's good to be back. It's only been 26 years.

"Institutions must avoid a dangerous and emerging misconception: that academic research should be financially self-sustaining. Historically, society has not expected classical music to justify its existence through commercial profitability, and neither should it expect fundamental science to do so."

There are only few certainties in my life. One of them is that I'm extremely unlikely to die of tetanus, diphtheria, polio, rabies, typhoid, cholera, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, measles, mumps, rubella or pertussis. And definitely not of smallpox. #VaccinesSaveLives

The results are in! 🦠🧫 Thanks to everyone coming to Y Storfa last week and participating in our activities. #ScienceIsFun #AMR #Swansea

A great couple of days at the #BIGEvent26! The BSI team has been exploring new ideas in public engagement and science communication, while connecting with communicators from across the STEM community. Lots of inspiration to take forward! 🧬 @big-stem-network.bsky.social

SUPERBUGS IS BACK IN TOWN. #SummerTakeOver #Swansea

Looking forward to attending the BIG Event 2026 in York this week @big-stem-network.bsky.social and co-chairing a session on pop-up shops with @acescicomm.bsky.social ! #STEM #SciComm #PublicEngagement Here's a summary of the pop-up shop we ran last summer:

Please join us for our July #GDTcellclub webinar with talks by Dr. Favour Obuseh and Prof. Jeroen Said on Thursday, July 16 at 12pm EDT. Zoom link: nyulangone.zoom.us/j/9589051706... Zoom ID: 958 9051 7066 Passcode: 369081 @eberlmat.bsky.social @payalyokota.bsky.social @clairemci.bsky.social

So we have just received a small grant to develop an educational escape room, in partnership with Cardiff University, Swansea University, Public Health Wales and several secondary schools across South Wales. Watch this space!! 🦠🧫🔬🧩💷

🚀Day 1 of our Work Experience Programme is underway! We welcomed an enthusiastic group of students eager to explore science. 🧬 #LifeScienceChallenge Mae Diwrnod 1 ein Rhaglen Profiad Gwaith wedi dechrau! Heddiw, croesawon ni grŵp brwdfrydig o fyfyrwyr eiddgar i ddysgu am fyd gwyddoniaeth.

🎉That's a wrap on our Work Experience Programme! Thank you to all our students and staff for an inspiring week of discovery, learning and science. We hope to see you again! #LabWorkExperience Dyna ddiwedd ein Rhaglen Profiad Gwaith! Diolch i’n myfyrwyr, staff am wythnos ysbrydoledig. 🚀

I work on an obscure aspect of a very rare immune cell in the human body that most scientists and textbooks safely ignore, and I have had more people show up at a seminar I was once invited to give as a junior researcher for which my host had completely forgotten to send out announcements.

"Improving COVID-19 Vaccine Uptake Among Ethnic Minority Communities in Wales: A Community-Based Approach" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

If you're a science teacher at a secondary school in Wales and would like to help us create an educational escape room please drop us an email or DM us. It will just take 5 minutes of your time to complete a short survey.

Just saying.

"Bridging Science and Society: Public Engagement as a Catalyst for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention" Editorial @immunolcellbiol.bsky.social written together with the amazing María Teresa Pérez Gracia.

So the lyrics of which song are hidden in this article?

So the lyrics of which song are hidden in this article?

When your closest collaborator, trusted mentor and longtime office mate for the past 20 years all retire at the same time.

The first official announcement is out! The 12th International γδ T Cell Conference will take place in Wrocław, 18-21 May 2027. Please share widely across your networks. #gd2027

"Bridging Science and Society: Public Engagement as a Catalyst for Infectious Disease Control and Prevention" Editorial @immunolcellbiol.bsky.social written together with the amazing María Teresa Pérez Gracia.

If you had one suggestion for next year's meeting what would it be? #gd2027

So there is a venue and a date confirmed for next year's conference. Stay tuned for the official announcement. #gd2027

Our latest preprint is out now - beautiful work led by Kate Davies in James McLaren's lab in collaboration with Bristol and Dublin. "Superantigen-driven polyfunctional CD4+ T follicular regulatory cells impair tonsillar plasmablast function and class-switched antibody production"

Our latest preprint is out now - beautiful work led by Kate Davies in James McLaren's lab in collaboration with Bristol and Dublin. "Superantigen-driven polyfunctional CD4+ T follicular regulatory cells impair tonsillar plasmablast function and class-switched antibody production"

Data manipulation at a breathtaking scale by commercial providers of crucial research reagents. As if the few remaining lab scientists didn't face enough obstacles already.

Thoroughly recommended reading. @ottoenglish.bsky.social

Flattery indeed. Thank you very much.

Supporting meaningful public involvement and engagement in health research: a call for feedback on unsuccessful grant proposals "This article is in the 90th percentile (ranked 3rd) of the 32 tracked articles of a similar age in Research Involvement and Engagement." 😎

Supporting meaningful public involvement and engagement in health research: a call for feedback on unsuccessful grant proposals "This article is in the 90th percentile (ranked 3rd) of the 32 tracked articles of a similar age in Research Involvement and Engagement." 😎

With hantavirus, Ebola and meningitis making recent headlines, here's an interactive timeline to explore devastating infections throughout history and the scientific and medical advances to fight and prevent them. www.superbugs.online/timeline 🦠 🧫 🔬 💊 🏥

At the heart of Superbugs is the aim of improving public knowledge on the microbial world in, on and around us. Through various projects we have tried to achieve this using a variety of different strategies. In April 2026, the latest journey began: a Superbugs Escape Room! 🦠🧫🔬🧩🎲