the speed of sequencing these days….

well worth reading

excellent advice!

of many projects Craig Venter led, of personal significance was the fly genome, a unique and i think unexpected collaboration of his company Celera Genomics and the BDGP, led by my pd advisor Gerry Rubin. the power of a shotgun sequenced metazoan, benchmarked to a physical map, transformed genomics.

Some vaccines are only as good as the fridge or cool-boxes they’re kept in. In the world’s most remote regions, the “cold chain” relies on both functional hardware and knowledgeable technicians who keep it all running. Learn more about these backbones of public health: bit.ly/4uUOw3C via JSI

Great weekend read: Pandemics and the Gothic by @juliamwright.bsky.social mh.bmj.com/content/51/4...

For the day that’s in it.. theconversation.com/saint-patric...

Sound familiar to any academics? www.irishtimes.com/ireland/educ...

G’on Siobhàn.. ‘I don’t want to shatter glass ceilings. I am already shattered,’ www.irishtimes.com/health/your-...

interesting work…

A reminder that measles cannot be treated, it can only be prevented. It is one of the most contagious diseases in the world and can cause blindness, deafness and life-threatening lung and brain infections.

Very powerful!!

"Exploiting scarcity is not ethical." WHO director @drtedros.who.int puts out a statement explaining basic research ethics to RFK. www.who.int/news/item/13...

US science after a year of Trump A series of graphics reveals how the Trump administration has sought historic cuts to science and the research workforce. www.nature.com/immer... 1/4

Just to remind you that the livestream of the solstice sunrise from Newgrange starts 12 hours from now. heritageireland.ie/visit/newgra...

This is an excellent piece with a historical perspective on the dangers of the catastrophic attacks on public health in the U.S.

@johncreedon.bsky.social fab DJ’ing…Sultans homage to bathroom “furniture”!!

GPs urge public to get flu vaccine now as severe H3N2 variant arrives early, with seven deaths already recorded and hospital admissions up 50% in recent weeks. csalert.ie/4pH0mei

v. interesting for the authors of this: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

Why scientists have to become better communicators and learn how to engage different audiences.

Landmark portraits of Munster women unveiled as part of Accenture's Women on Walls at University College Cork Read more: www.ucc.ie/en/news/2025...

Time in Cork is always relative. #AboutNine

Irish winter modelling meetings have commenced and flu has indeed kicked off strongly. Got my flu jab last week at local pharmacy. No appointment needed and no charge. www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/news-even...

“Franklin did not succeed, partly because she was working on her own without a peer with whom to swap ideas. She was also excluded from the world of informal exchanges in which Watson and Crick were immersed” Excellent read here: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thinking only of Rosalind Franklin today, and what was stolen from her (and so many other female scientists alongside her).

James Watson, accredited with discovering the structure of DNA… dies…

Good overview of the battles ahead for AMR, food and medicine. If only we had effective vet vaccines that reduced AMR in food-producing animals… hmmm… Beef, pork, chicken: the world loves cheap meat. If people knew what really goes in it, that love affair would be over | Devi Sridhar

Economic importance of investing in innovation, research & development wins Nobel prize… if only we converted theory into practice!

A trip to the ‘90s with @johncreedon.bsky.social tonight… Ted Hawkins & A House…. with some more First Aid Kit in case of any injuries while jolted back to more recent days!!! Most excellent!

great to combine music and statistics… musicistics? @statsepi.bsky.social might enjoy this…

The sun sets on a fine Sunday, with tomorrow marking the Autumn Equinox. By Thursday, daylight will dip below 12 hours for the first time since spring.

“All of the 21 top earners in our analysis for 2024 were men”!

Today is St Swithun’s Day and it’s raining but…

An eternal truth I stumbled across watching a stand-up clip from @danagould.bsky.social, which explains so much of the nonsense I see on social media: “Everything looks like a conspiracy if you don’t know how anything works.”

Up the rebels!

very cool!

Delighted to be one of these folks! Really looking forward to getting going on EVADERE!

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

Reactogenicity. A scientific term to describe the strength of the immune response to a vaccine. This is not the same as adverse effects and is very important to understand. Reactogenicity is the physiological response to being vaccinated; your immune response is responding to the vaccine. 1/5

Current and new vaccines could avert over half a million deaths associated with antimicrobial resistance annually and reduce antibiotic use by 2.5 billion doses each year. Here are 6 things you need to know about how #VaccinesWork to tackle #AMR: bit.ly/4l7LKm2

A big first for nextgen Covid vax! A manufacturer is accelerating a "universal coronavirus vaccine." It's set to be the first pancoronavirus vax going into phase 2 trial – a mucosal form might be developed too. More in my latest Covid vax update @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/06/30/a...

The news that do not make it into English: Spain's socialist government will increase its contribution to the Vaccine Alliance @gavi.org by 30% to €130 million gacetamedica.com/politica/esp...

Proud that our Taoiseach of @gov.ie was there! Vaccines effectively allow people to live healthy lives. GAVI levelled the playing field of equitable access, saving millions of lives. Uncertain global health security now will haunt us all for decades to come, socially, economically and medically.

Always ‘one atom away’: The long, rocky journey to an HIV prevention breakthrough | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

@aivrt.bsky.social would be of interest….

“The project, Manufacturing in Africa for Disease Immunization and Building Autonomy, known as MADIBA, aims to produce 300 million to one billion doses of high-quality vaccines annually against the most common diseases affecting Africans, including Ebola and measles.” cc @sarahruncie.bsky.social

"Attending a seminar"