Freya Harrison

Looking for a microbiology PhD at the interface between microbial community ecology and clinical micro? Interested in biofilms, medical devices, microscopy and/or antibiotic tolerance? I am advertising two projects that may interest you! warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky

No money to keep c.600 lecturers & technicians but plenty of money to recruit PVCs on unspecified salaries to 'navigate difficult conversations with staff'. www.timeshighereducation.com/unijobs/list...

Roman dichroic glass recreated: www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Do you know any excellent young microbiologists who'd like to do a PhD on biofilms, microbial community assembly and antimicrobial resistance/tolerance? I'm advertising two projects to start in autumn 2027 warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa... #MicroSky

Interest in #AntimicrobialResistance? Looking for a conference to attend? Look no further! The annual deadline for submitting an abstract to MUAMRC26 is fast approaching (23 OCT 26, 5 PM IST). Registrations remain open until 26 NOV 26. For more details: www.maynoothuniversity.ie/news-events/...

Fantastic to see this out - lovely work, @schluk.bsky.social! #MicroSky

One Christmas at uni I worked in a high street clothes shop. The work was fine, but they played exactly five songs on the PA in constant rotation. It was torture. I lasted three days.

Here's Katie Noble, the winner of 2026's Early Career Microbiologist of the Year prize, talking after her win on Tuesday🏆 We agree with Katie that all the finalists' talks were exceptional and a massive well done to everyone involved!

Do You Really Need to Finish That Course of Antibiotics? microbialmenagerie.com/antibiotic-c... #MicroSky #AntibioticResistance

Thank you so much @jtsangwrites.bsky.social for this lovely article on our #Ancientbiotics research 💜 #MicroSky

Antibiotic resistance mutations with fitness costs in rich medium can have no cost, or even a fitness benefit, in synthetic urine. Lovely preprint from @rachelmwheatley.bsky.social's lab, with data linking the growth advantage to the presence of oxaloacetate www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... #MIcroSky

Bumblebees can carry phage to flowers during pollination, potentially providing a new delivery route for phage-based control of crop disease. Cool work from @mojganrabiey.bsky.social & colleagues at @warwicklifesci.bsky.social www.agnavigator.com/Article/2026...

#Pseudomonas quorum sensing people - has anyone found a replacement for Sigma's elastin-Congo red for elastase assays, now that it's been discontinued? #MicroSky

Want to know more about vaccines? Rachel Tanner appeared on the ImmunoTea podcast to chat all about the vaccine development pipeline and vaccinating against Mycobacteria tuberculosis 👇

I never realised that people with sickle cell were prone to getting non-healing infected ulcers. #AMR #Biofilm amrnarrative.org/sickle-cell-...

Our Education and Outreach Network Winter Conference is back. Join us virtually on 21 October 2026 for innovation, collaboration and connectivity shaping the future of microbiology. It's free for members and £26 for non-members. Secure your spot: https://microb.io/EON2026 #EON2026

OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/

How do Burkholderia multivorans bacteria adaptively evolve during infections of the cystic fibrosis airway? A longtime collab and intensive study of 8 patients links bacterial adaptations to disease progression. Our findings also unite prior studies. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Bird nerds, can red kites have a colour morph with a pale belly? Saw a large, kite-shaped raptor riding thermals very high up today but it had a whitish underside. Definitely not a buzzard. (Or had something interesting wandered from a falconry display at Warwick/Kenilworth Castle?)

Für jeder die Deutsch sprecht, und interessiert sich für #Ancientbiotics. @tosinorababa.bsky.social war der Kopf hinter dieser Forschung! #MIcroSky

Is anyone else unable to upload files to NCBI SRA via the web or FTP right now, or is it just me?

Thank you to the Dermasphere podcast for discussing some of our work on the antibacterial activity of Bald's eyesalve #Ancientbiotics #MicroSky #biofilm podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1...

This will be a brilliant post with a super team #MicroSky

We have an open Assistant/Associate Professor position in Pathogen Biology at the Department of Genetics - come and join us! 🦠 🧫 🧬https://www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/assistantassociate-professor-in-pathogen-genetics-pc51175

What‘s the biggest, most exciting or nagging unanswered question in biology? What do you really, really wish we knew the answer to? I’m crowdsourcing responses to these Qs for my welcome talk to new Biology undergrads next week. I’d love to know your thoughts - thank you in advance!

I helped a little with this cool study of molecules inspired by hipposudoric acid - one of the components of the red "sweat" that hippos secrete from their skin. Part of Munib Uddin's PhD with @moleculesunlimited.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #MicroSky

I was wondering this - 15ish years ago I was asked to give out awards at my old school, and there were kids doing HNCs alongside GCSES. What’s better/different about the new GCSEs? Is this GNVQs again, or something sustainable?

MScRes bursary of £2000 available at Bangor University to study Bacteriophages as natural biocontrols for plant pathogens. Deadline is 19th October. Please contact me for more details #PhageSky #MicroSky

Excellent lab news - congratulations to @kadeayomikun.bsky.social, who has won a Warwick PATHWAY fellowship to stay on for several months after handing in his PhD and develop publications & funding applications 🥳

“Universities have managed staff costs significantly below inflation,[between 2016-17 and 2023-24] increasing only 14% compared to the 41.2% increase in RPIX [measure of inflation]” Substantial real terms pay cut, which continues a trend existing years before that…

This is why I think it's so important to push back against the personification of LLMs. If a person shoots someone while wearing a hand puppet, they can't claim the hand puppet did the murder.

“The #phage space is developing very rapidly in the UK, and it’s an exciting time to be a part of it.” #MicroSky

1/17 Submissions are now open for the 2027 Microbial Population Biology GRC! We expect this meeting to be extraordinarily oversubscribed. If you want to come, time is of the essence--apply ASAP! June 27–July 2 • Andover, NH www.grc.org/microbial-po...

god, i was born in the wrong era. imagine being around in the Cambrian period. you could just evolve something simple like shell or legs that nobody had thought of before and coast on that your whole life

There’s still time to join us at our Publishing Fundamentals webinar—An Introduction to Peer Review on 16 September! Register now to secure your spot: https://microb.io/4wJUeEY

Ten years ago Tami, Roy, and I released a movie we made of antibiotic resistance evolving in real time. I thought maybe a couple thousand people tops would see it. I couldn't have imagined it would be seen millions of times, and be taught from middle school through the graduate level worldwide

Join us during #PeerReviewWeek for a Publishing Fundamentals webinar dedicated to the peer review process. This event will take place on 16 September and is free for members; for non-members: £10. Register here: https://microb.io/4wJUeEY

Please share! We are looking for a PhD student excited about gene transfer, and tackling Antimicrobial Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae. 🧬 More details & applications on funder website by 21st Oct 👇🏻 gw4biomed.ac.uk/developing-c...

So (if I understand this correctly), the way AI (companies) will "solve" all the major problems in maths, biology, and medicine in the next 5 years will be by stealing and building on the ideas of researchers naive enough to think their chats with AI companies would be private.

🧬 Postdoc ad is now live: evolutionary genomics of Klebsiella pneumoniae phages. How do prophage depolymerases vs SGNH-esterases shape phage host range? Krakow, Poland. Deadline 21 Sept: mostowylab.com/job-postdoc-...

Thrilled our latest paper out @natureportfolio.nature.com Nature Comms, lead author @microberamon.bsky.social, who developed P-FLO, a urine-flowing human micro-bladder model in collab with Oxford & Leicester to understand #UTI biology & treatment failure 1/4 #UTISky www.nature.com/articles/s41...

At this point, it might be easier to make a list of Dan Ariely papers that do not use suspect data