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LaraVB
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👩‍🔬 PhD student in MedMicro at UKB and UniBonn | working on antibiotics, cell wall, Wolbachia, NTDs
📝 Section editor at Student Network for Open Science e.V.

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LaraVB @laravb.bsky.social · Sep 5
🎓 PhD milestone – on my birthday! 🎉
Two weeks ago, I defended my PhD in Pharmacy on my 28th birthday (coincidence, but unforgettable!). A full lecture hall, friends & colleagues from abroad joining online, and afterwards a big celebration at our institute. (1/4)

#PhDone #BirthdayDefense #PhDSky
I am wearing a big smile, white T-shirt and my self-made doctoral hat. I am standing in front of a bookshelf in the institute's seminar room. In Germany, it is a tradition that colleagues craft a unique doctoral hat for the PhD graduate. The hat has lots of details on top, prominently including small cell culture flasks. On the front, it reads "Dr. Lara". Collage consisting of 6 pictures. Upper row: 1. My supervisor hands me a gift bag for children which reads "Schulende" (end of school). It is a self-made bag and usually reads "Schulstart" (beginning of school). 2. The lecture hall with green chairs and a green ceiling wall. 3. Me and others laughing and holding glasses of champagne. Lower row: 4. The room with some of the people who were there standing and sitting. 5. Picture taking directly after they placed the doctoral hat on me. My arms are close to the hat - it was heavy and I was afraid that it would fall. 6. Gift table with flowers, the doctoral hat and a big box with lots of different snacks and a photo book about my time as a PhD student. In the middle is a lab-themed card which was drawn by another PhD student.
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schauflerlab.org
While a week #WAAW of focusing on #AMR has come to an end, the fight against the silent pandemic continues.
100 faces against AMR! (by DNAMR)
#WAAW2025 #AMR #OneHealth #HealthForAll
@helmholtzhzi.bsky.social

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November 24, 2025 at 10:16 AM
laravb.bsky.social
While facing deadlines, writing grants, revising a paper and wondering whether I'll still have a job in 2026 #IchbinHanna, it was such a welcome change to officially open the Christmas market in #Bonn with our orchestra yesterday. #LifeOutsideTheLab #PostdocLife 1/2
Collage of two photos: on the left, the Bonn Christmas market at Sterntor with the orchestra stage in view; on the right, me playing the euphonium.
November 22, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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catherinefeore.bsky.social
The EU/EEA is off track in meeting four of its five antimicrobial resistance targets.
#WAAW #AntimicrobialResistance #AntimicrobialResistanceAwarenessWeek
www.vitalsigns.news/europe-is-cu...
Europe not on track to meet four of five AMR targets
New data from the ECDC shows the threat of antimicrobial resistance, known as ‘the silent killer’, continues to rise across the EU
www.vitalsigns.news
November 18, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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ineosoxford.bsky.social
💙It’s #WorldAMRAwarenessWeek!

80 years ago, penicillin changed modern medicine - but how does it work? And how do bacteria resist?

👉Read more to learn how the IOI protects our life-saving antibiotics: ineosoxford.shorthandstories.com/80-years-of-...

#WAAW #KeepAntibioticsWorking
November 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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uniblonder.bsky.social
Jane Goodall has died. What a wonderful, inspiring life. RIP, Dr. Jane Goodall.

#RIPJaneGoodall
October 1, 2025 at 5:51 PM
laravb.bsky.social
Greetings from the #GreatWallSymposium in beautiful Sicily! 🌊☀️ Inspiring talks, great people, and the perfect backdrop of sunshine and sea - science is even more fun with this view!
Check out poster 15 to learn about the cell wall mystery of #Wolbachia.

#GWS2025 #antibiotics #ScienceByTheSea
View of the blue sea under a blue sky. View of the Sicilian coast with clear blue sea, dark volcanic rocks, and a terrace with white lounge chairs and umbrellas.
September 16, 2025 at 9:26 AM
laravb.bsky.social
🎓 PhD milestone – on my birthday! 🎉
Two weeks ago, I defended my PhD in Pharmacy on my 28th birthday (coincidence, but unforgettable!). A full lecture hall, friends & colleagues from abroad joining online, and afterwards a big celebration at our institute. (1/4)

#PhDone #BirthdayDefense #PhDSky
I am wearing a big smile, white T-shirt and my self-made doctoral hat. I am standing in front of a bookshelf in the institute's seminar room. In Germany, it is a tradition that colleagues craft a unique doctoral hat for the PhD graduate. The hat has lots of details on top, prominently including small cell culture flasks. On the front, it reads "Dr. Lara". Collage consisting of 6 pictures. Upper row: 1. My supervisor hands me a gift bag for children which reads "Schulende" (end of school). It is a self-made bag and usually reads "Schulstart" (beginning of school). 2. The lecture hall with green chairs and a green ceiling wall. 3. Me and others laughing and holding glasses of champagne. Lower row: 4. The room with some of the people who were there standing and sitting. 5. Picture taking directly after they placed the doctoral hat on me. My arms are close to the hat - it was heavy and I was afraid that it would fall. 6. Gift table with flowers, the doctoral hat and a big box with lots of different snacks and a photo book about my time as a PhD student. In the middle is a lab-themed card which was drawn by another PhD student.
September 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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asapbio.bsky.social
📣 We are pleased to announce that recruitment for 2025-26 Crowd Preprint Reviewers & Leads is open!

📝 The goal of the Crowd Preprint Review initiative is to provide an engaging environment for researchers to participate in giving feedback on preprints and support public reviews of preprints.
July 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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hansonmark.bsky.social
New from The Strain Team:
🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊

Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗).

Gross! 😀 1/n

#ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky
Spinger Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 10, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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simonhammann.bsky.social
Es ist alles sehr bizarr
June 5, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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who.int
Did you know❓ Cycle lanes account for just 0.2% of the current road infrastructure.

It’s time to demand safer streets that put the health & safety of pedestrians & cyclists first 👉 bit.ly/4jPzXsa #RoadSafety #StreetsforLife
A poster shows a cyclist riding in a bike lane separated from car traffic. The text reads: “The world would be better with more cycling lanes that PROTECT CYCLISTS. Yet very few roads have them!”
May 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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pintsworld.bsky.social
3 weeks to go before #pint25!!

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🗺️ 27 countries
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🫂👩‍🔬🎉Thousands of scientists and volunteers celebrating science around the globe!!

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All the details here. Join the party! pintofscience.com
April 28, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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marianneroca.bsky.social
🧠🍻 Pint of Science #Pint25DE is coming to Bonn!

Join us 19–21 May to grab a drink and listen to fascinating talks (english or german) on neuroscience, astronomy,...!
Check the program 👉 pintofscience.de/events/bonn

Not in Bonn? #Pint25 is happening around the world, look for the one close to you!
Bonn
Explore Pint of Science Deutschland events in Bonn
pintofscience.de
May 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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deniswirtz.bsky.social
We have updated our database of funding opportunities for Early-Career Researchers (private foundations, federal, international)

We have 456 entries, for which we provide $ amount, deadline, eligibility criteria, etc.

Download this massive database here for free: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...
May 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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hannaengelmeier.bsky.social
Warum stand dieses Geld denn nicht vorher zur Verfügung für all die Forschenden, die schon hier sind? Warum kommt es erst jetzt darauf an, attraktive Jobs (mit längeren Vertragslaufzeiten) zu schaffen? Wer sind "the best and the brightest"? Bitte nicht antworten, ich muss im Bad die Wand anbrüllen.
vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu · May 5
We will put forward a 500 million package for 2025-2027 to make Europe a magnet for researchers.

As well as ambitious proposals for R&I in the next EU budget.

We will also offer the best and brightest the right incentives to come to Europe ↓
May 5, 2025 at 2:50 PM
laravb.bsky.social
So excited to be on my way to Okinawa for the #WolbachiaConference2025! Looking forward to great science and (re)connecting with old and new #Wolbachia peers. 🌸
April 12, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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christiantagsold.bsky.social
Bis ich heut gecheckt hab, woher die ganzen Raumfahrtwitze kommen, hatten andere schon die ersten Anträge eingereicht 🤪
April 9, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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drtedros.who.int
It’s incredible to think that just 30 years ago there were 3.5 million cases of #GuineaWorm disease globally every year.

In each of the last four years, there have been 15 cases or less. We are on the brink of an historic achievement.
April 9, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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helmholtzhzi.bsky.social
🔬The application deadline in our program "CURIOSITY IS INFECTIOUS" is less than a month away!
👉 Apply by April 20 for one of 16 exciting PhD projects - from host-pathogen interactions and novel antiinfectives to molecular mechanisms of infection and immunity.
www.helmholtz-hzi.de/en/career/jo...
April 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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superbugs.bsky.social
Check out our interactive timeline of some of the most devastating infectious diseases in history, alongside major advances in science and medicine that have helped control and prevent them.

In English, Welsh, Gaelic, Irish, German and Spanish.

🦠🧫🔬💉

#CelebrateVaccines
Timeline 'R' Us — Superbugs - The microbial world in, on and around us
Of superbugs and superheroes. Timeline 'R' Us – Explore devastating infections through the ages, alongside crucial scientific discoveries to help control them.
www.superbugs.online
March 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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pinholab.bsky.social
We have 3 positions for students who want to start a PhD in the next 12 months. If you like advanced fluorescence microscopy techniques and S. aureus cell biology, check links and apply(April 4)

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/325394

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/325395

euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/325396
March 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
laravb.bsky.social
Already Day 3 of the #MosbacherKolloquium! Yesterday, Florestan introduced our relatively new group of #GBMPostdocs. Join us today at 7 pm if you’re interested (open to final-stage PhDs). No GBM membership required - however, the first year is free if you register before March 31. @gbmev.bsky.social
Florestan (spokesperson of the GBM Postdocs) introduces our group on stage. The board with its 4 members (including myself) is shown on the slide. The "Alte Mälzerei" in Mosbach, where the conference is taking place. The building’s windows reflect the bright blue sky.
March 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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tirscienceblog.bsky.social
#PubMed now back for me, but the damage is done. When you suddenly realise you maybe can’t rely on something you absolutely need to rely on, that’s when you start to look for alternatives. And that’s happening over & over again with anything USA-related right now 😢
March 2, 2025 at 7:44 PM
laravb.bsky.social
🚨 Yesterday a bit after 4 pm CET (#PhDlife), I lost access to #PubMed & #PMC, and at first found no other posts on here (no wonder on a Saturday…). But, turns out: I wasn’t alone – users worldwide had the same issue. #NIH #OpenScience #AcademicSky
March 2, 2025 at 2:09 PM
laravb.bsky.social
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Antibiotics fight bacteria,
Not the seasonal flu.
💊🚫🤧

#AntibioticStewardship #AntibioticResistance #AMR #FluSeason #AcademicSky #IDSky
February 14, 2025 at 8:13 AM