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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

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

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

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.

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 🦠🧫🔬💊🇺🇦

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

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 🦠🧫🔬💊🇺🇦

Чудові новини! Ми з гордістю оголошуємо про запуск української версії нашої інтерактивної хронології найнебезпечніших інфекцій в історії людства, а також ключових наукових і медичних відкриттів, які допомогли взяти їх під контроль. www.superbugs.online/timeline-ukrainian 🦠🧫🔬💊🇺🇦

Ми щиро вдячні неймовірній докторці Любові Нікіфоровій (Dr. Liubov Nikiforova) за переклад цього ресурсу та його адаптацію для всіх, хто цікавиться дивовижним світом мікроорганізмів всередині нас та навколо нас. www.superbugs.online/timeline-ukrainian 🦠🧫🔬💊🇺🇦

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

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 🦠🧫🔬💊🇺🇦

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!! 🦠🧫🔬🧩💷

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

What a legend. “I just want to say to all of you cowards out there – don’t be such a chicken squat. Get out there and get your shot.”

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

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

While we read about outbreaks of foodborne illnesses in the US on a regular basis here are some educational resources to learn more about the importance of personal and food hygiene to prevent the spread of microbes. #Salmonella #Ecoli #Shiga #Listeria #Cyclospora #screwworm

While we read about outbreaks of foodborne illnesses in the US on a regular basis here are some educational resources to learn more about the importance of personal and food hygiene to prevent the spread of microbes. #Salmonella #Ecoli #Shiga #Listeria #Cyclospora #screwworm

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

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

Martha Ann Lillard has died, having spent more than 70 years living in an iron lung after contracting polio on her fifth birthday. She is believed to have been the last American polio survivor in an iron lung.

SUPERBUGS IS BACK IN TOWN. #SummerTakeOver #Swansea

SUPERBUGS IS BACK IN TOWN. #SummerTakeOver #Swansea

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

Martha Ann Lillard has died, having spent more than 70 years living in an iron lung after contracting polio on her fifth birthday. She is believed to have been the last American polio survivor in an iron lung.

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:

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!! 🦠🧫🔬🧩💷

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.

Here is a bit more background on our plans.

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! 🦠🧫🔬🧩🎲

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.

Your reminder that fairy tales are full of stepmothers because women once routinely died in childbirth, from postpartum sepsis, or from other infectious diseases and left behind housefuls of motherless children. Stable nuclear families are made possible by vaccines, antibiotics, and safe abortions.

"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.

For everyone interested in learning more about deadly pandemics throughout history please visit our interactive and multilingual timeline. 👇🏻

Just posted the latest addition to our growing list of recommended books for everyone interested in the microbial world in, on and around us. @ottoenglish.bsky.social's "Notorious", featuring an excellent account of the history of the Spanish flu and parallels with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Looking for learning materials and interesting and fun content for your next science classes? Look no further! 🦠🧫🔬👨🏻‍🏫📖

Have you tried out our science and health-inspired Wordle? The only one that can be played in English, Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic. 🦠🧫🔬🧩🔠

Just posted the latest addition to our growing list of recommended books for everyone interested in the microbial world in, on and around us. @ottoenglish.bsky.social's "Notorious", featuring an excellent account of the history of the Spanish flu and parallels with the Covid-19 pandemic.

Thoroughly recommended reading. @ottoenglish.bsky.social