Genomic data is powerful only when reliable. The 6Cs of quality—completeness, continuity, collinearity, correctness, contamination, concordance—show where things go wrong and how errors ripple downstream. Check out our latest blog post to learn more:

I’ve got something exciting to share. After years of working with labs around the world, I’m starting something new! I’ve seen how many labs want to do more with genomics, but the path forward isn’t always clear. The process is complex, and without the right guidance, it’s easy to get stuck.

Since it is that time of year: One of the most rewarding parts of being faculty is paying forward mentorship with students, residents+ fellows for their research projects. So far, as 4th year faculty, I’ve mentored ~40 trainee projects (17 completed). Here are what I talk about at 1st meeting:

Answer: Countries that are high on the Welcoming Countries Rankings and where logistics would be great for hosting conferences. 🙏

My Canadian university, Queen's, is offering TWENTY 4-year funded PhDs (40k CAD/yr) for a student of ANY citizenship who has been accepted at a top 100 US university but have had offer rescinded OR are reconsidering offer due to US policy. Details found here👇 www.queensu.ca/grad-postdoc...

Amazing work from our colleagues in Sierra Leone, Nigeria, and elsewhere, making the first sequences available from the ongoing Mpox epidemic in Sierra Leone. More to come - for now, head over to @pathoplexus.org: pathoplexus.org/seqsets/PP_S...

The spread of Mpox in Sierra Leone is unlike anything we have ever seen - and we have been keeping an eye on this bug in the region for >15 years. Given geographical spread, 50/50 men vs women, this is no "sexual network". This could be the next one. clt.npha.gov.sl/outbreak.aspx

Really pleased to see this! Helps to address such a critical question for genomic interpretation Well done, @katholt.bsky.social et al!

It's official: the #PandemicAccord is officially adopted by the World Health Assembly! My warmest congratulations to @who.int Member States for their commitment to keeping their people and the world safer. What a moment in global health history. Together!

Have said before that conference organisers when deciding on a host country should consider how easy it is for people to get visas (particularly for those from the Global South). For example, applying for a Canadian visa from the UK takes 344 days (www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...).

Hello, I'm always trying to spread the word about the Academic Editing Circle, which organizes professional editors to volunteer time for Black and/or Indigenous scholars. I can't promise that a volunteer can donate time for a whole book-length dissertation, but maybe we can help.

A must-read for anyone doing Global North-South work: Ways to level the highly unequal playing field "the African academic is spending their precious time contributing to your success. How are you contributing to theirs?"

As more Global North countries swing towards the far right & openly become anti-immigrant, global health is even more a field for those with visa privilege www.forbes.com/sites/madhuk...

Trump's actions seem to be having a knock-on effect all over the place www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Another is to support getting journals into local, high quality networks like @scielo.org. Resources like Redalyc (Mexico), TCC Africa, etc. We shouldn't force non-English communities to index in "our" indices. #r2rconf

Landmark paper claxon! 'Evaluating the economic and health impact of proactive genomic epidemiology in a hospital setting' www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... Significant savings associated with proactive genomic epidemiology.

I've worked on cholera and its fascinating (two chromosome) genome, but beyond the data are very real human stories and public health need. This article gets at it well. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Take away: Bacterial vaccines could reduce use of antibiotics, not only to treat bacterial infections, but all diseases. Decreasing the likelihood that an unknown disease has bacterial cause means prescribers are less likely to use antibiotics across all disease. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

We're not being replaced by AI yet! AI can be immensely useful, but its "knowledge" is only as good as the algorithms and underlying data, and even asking chatbots to undertake processes is subject to weird error. A useful tool, like many others, rather than a replacement for us

I can't even begin to explain how bad this for science and for America www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/s...

What a great start to #HIVTestingWeek! BHIVA is delighted to see Sir Keir Starmer continue his commitment to getting the UK to zero new #HIV transmissions by taking an HIV test. This makes him the first PM ever to do so publicly, which we hope will encourage others to do the same. #HIVSky #IDSky

#USA: "We urge the US government to immediately resume funding of critical humanitarian and health aid, either through rescinding relevant orders freezing funding or expanding the current narrow humanitarian waiver to cover all necessary health and humanitarian programs." - @avrilbenoit.bsky.social

The overview of AMR that you always wanted (someone else to write) - amazing! Truly brilliant paper with great figures! @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Feeling very late to the party! Glad to see lots of scientists from Twitter in this friendlier environment! ❤️