Manuel Banzhaf

The Banzhaf laboratory is moving back home. Thank you Birmingham for incredible 6 year!

Just a reminder what happened to UK higher education today is the result of a major funding cut ten years ago "student fees rising from £3k to £9k under Cameron's coali gov. The purpose was to compensate for an 80% cut to higher education teaching budgets, enacting austerity"

Saying £770k in bonuses are needed to attract 'talent' while calling for a 59% hike in customer bills to cover debts caused by mismanagement is like a captain demanding a bonus for "steering the ship" after ramming it into an iceberg. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

This is only the half of it. Today in Parliament we were told how Panorama was forced by Severn Water lawyers to drop details of how they also game sewage/water contamination reporting. We deserve better. We deserve publicly owned water 💦

🚨Funded PhD opportunity🚨 Deadline-10th Jan 2025 Interested in bacterial genetics, microscopy, mass-spec and structural biology for antibiotic discovery and characterisation? Join me, at @UoNLifeSci and work with @ChristianJenul @kim_hardie Andy Lovering more.bham.ac.uk/mrc-aim/phd-op…

I am begging people to stop adding “Nature” to the front of Scientific Reports and the Communications Biology/Chemistry etc or other Springer Nature journals. It doesn’t make your CV look better.

Young employee’s death puts workplace culture in spotlight at publisher @MDPIOpenAccess retractionwatch.com/2024/10/22/you…

Academic publisher Elsevier's profit margin compared to Apple, Google, and Microsoft Apple: 28% Google: 25% Microsoft: 34% Elsevier: 37% with a revenue of $3.9 billion. Elsevier's payment to academic authors and reviewers: $0

Breaking News! On July 21, 2024, the global mean surface temperature set a new modern record high of 17.09°C, beating the record of 17.07°C, set on July 6, 2023. This record is "preliminary" for the next 24 hours. This may mark the planet's warmest day in over 100k years.

It’s likely our society will have collapsed by the time our kids are the age we are now. That’s all.

Karachi is one giant oven. It's near 50C temperatures stretch the limits of human survivability daily. The ambulance service delivers 30 to 40 bodies to the #Karachi city morgue daily. In the last six days, they have collected 568 bodies, including 141 on Tuesday alone. #Climate

Please get in contact if you are interested in this technician role in my lab! We use multidisciplinary approaches (with an emphasis on protein and molecular biology) to study how neglected tick-borne bacteria (Anaplasma, mostly) interface with host cells

I am running in the Microbiology Society Prokaryotic Division elections for "Any Microbiologist", "Genetics and Genomics" or "Molecular Microbiologist". I would love to give back to the society, please consider voting for me using the link you were emailed (members). closes 11/06

🚨 job alert 🚨 Research technician role available working at University of Bristol with @ICadby !!! Ian is a fantastic scientist working on some very cool bacteria. Deadline is 11/06/2024 jobs.ac.uk/job/DHU247/res…

Latest analysis suggests that the UK REF exercise (and RAE before it) is a colossal waste of time and money, which achieves... literally nothing. Colour me shocked. researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-vie…

"It's Elisabeth Bik and her AI tools again, pointing out some minor errors". Some serious concerns about this @NatureNeuro paper from a @Stanford Nobel-Prize-winner in pubpeer.com/publications/9…

We are looking for a PhD student to work on characterizing protein glycosylation of a major species group in the human gut microbiome. Apply until 31/May! umu.se/en/work-with-u…

Looking for a great place for your 👩🏻‍💻🧑🏻‍💻 postdoc? Here it is!! 👇🏼👇🏼@IMSB_ETH

The summer of 2023 was the warmest in the Northern Hemisphere extra-tropical regions in the past 2,000 years, according to a study published in @Nature. go.nature.com/4aASD9L