This is a correction to: Sarah Wettstadt, Living a bacterial lifestyle as an academic researcher, microLife, Volume 3, 2022, uqac012, https://doi.org/10.1093/femsml/uqac012

The originally published version of this manuscript contained an incorrect reference to Seitz et al. 2014.

The correct reference is as follows:

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This error has been corrected.

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