Juneteenth in STEMM and the barriers to equitable science cell.com/cell/fulltext/…

I’m 12 years behind the bus, but if you haven’t tried FastCloning yet, you should. No more ligations. No more Gibson master mix. Hell, no more PCR/gel purifications. I’ve wasted so much time 🥲 bmcbiotechnol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

Two years ago BioIcons was launched and the database has grown by almost 800 icons thanks to many scientists contributing illustrations ☺️ Now we're looking to grow more and need your feedback and support... 1/2

Have you seen 👀 the BMA Job Board lately? If you are on the job market, visit to learn about employers that are currently hiring: blackinmicrobiology.org/resources/find…

Our manuscript on FAST is now out (with a few new results and analyses) at PLOS Computational Biology! It's been a joint effort with Mack Durham - co-author and mentor par excellence - to get this over the finishing line: journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/a…

New pre-print! My first research project with Sara Mitri is now live. Interactions underpin our understanding of ecosystems, but can change in hard-to-explain ways. Here, we show that many of these variations can be predicted from underlying mechanisms: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Fabulous work by my colleagues Sean Booth, William P J Smith, Kevin Foster - Stick'em with the pointy end ... UNLESS ... ?!?! "The evolution of short- and long-range weapons for bacterial competition" nature.com/articles/s4155…

1/ Thrilled to share my final PhD project out as a preprint! A simple regulatory network coordinates a bacterial stress response in space and time. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Some tips on open source scientific illustration. Centred around Inkscape. Including a big list of high quality free biology clipart, and also how to cite it appropriately holdenlab.github.io/blog/2024/scie…

I am thrilled to start my lab Infektionsforschung this fall. I will continue my research in Bacterial Infection Ecology.

(1/6) Really jazzed to have this out - my first Wellcome fellowship paper! biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Can bacteria evolve resistance to competitors' T6SS weaponry? We find that the answer depends on **how many toxins** competitors are using. A thread: