The best shot I could get of Lewis Hamilton driving a kart made of LEGO bricks in the #F1 Driver’s Parade at #BritishGP. How bonkers was it? Let’s just say that many of the drivers didn’t pay attention to the safety car…

Barreling around Becketts into Chapel #BritishGP #F2

Fun watching Alisha Palmowski 🇬🇧 win the #F1Academy feature race at #BritishGP - looking forward to an exciting rest of day! Up now #F2 feature race…under some lovely overcast skies keeping temps down #F1

On our 250th birthday, celebrating the contribution of immigrants and international collaboration —46% of people with doctoral-level degrees working in US science and engineering fields are foreign-born

So funny - an example of something we’ve known for so long but not known exactly *how*. Really elegant work. #penicillin #antibiotics #microsky

You can make more money from a swear jar by putting the lid on really tight.

This is bonkers but par for the course - the more I learn about host/pathogen interactions, the stranger it gets #MicroSky

Read this. “Believing a patient is not the same as agreeing with what she has been told. The cruelest thing I could do is nod along with a wrong diagnosis because it is the kind thing to say, and let her spend the next several years, and her health, chasing a cure for a disease she does not have.”

Monarda (Bee Balm) variety Pink Supreme - one of my favourite perennials #flowers #gardening

9.11 million new TB cases and 1.22 million deaths in 2023 -- this is not good enough. MDR-TB and TB+HIV eroding progress. Latest GBD TB data 👇

We are recruiting a lab manager for my group in Oxford. This is a lovely team doing great things, and you could be an important part of it! See here: www.path.ox.ac.uk/vacancy/lab-... Please spread the word!

So it’s 18 degrees this morning and @serailway.bsky.social is *still* operating trains on speed restriction for high temperatures….a full three days after the heatwave broke. 🤔 And I’m going to be late again 😭

Good morning, Bluesky friends

is anything less professionally dignified than the squeaky sound of flip flops in a heat wave in the archives ?

As someone who has personally suffered (in every sense of that word) from miscarriage, this is long overdue

Anyone else finally starting to get to their long-neglected research-related list now that the students have dispersed? There are items that have been composting at the bottom for so long that I’d forgotten they existed. All except for one… ICYMI, my latest blog #AcademicSky tinyurl.com/4jhuk7nz

It’s only 17 degrees now, went down to 12 overnight - so why does @serailway.bsky.social have speed restrictions in place for “temperature”?

Has anyone ever seen a headline like this where the word “men” is swapped with “women”?

Good evening, Bluesky

I argue with commas. Since I do many editorial passes, I reread my prose. Comma chasing is ongoing. I add them. I subtract them. I swear at them. Some become semi-colons. The little bastards are alive and mocking me. That little curl is a curved dagger... #writingcommunity #booksky #commas #write

“Teaching noise subsides to low-level signal: in this new-found quiet, other priorities can finally be heard.” An ode to the humble academic list, and how, this time of year, you finally get (near) the bottom of it. A bit of research, anyone? My latest blog. #AcademicSky tinyurl.com/4jhuk7nz

That’s tonight’s veg sides sorted #gardening #growyourown

Intriguing and disruptive piece. Nice job, Craig and Raphael! #MicroSky #AMR #tolerance #persistence #antibiotics #UTISky

Note for the science folks: You will soon be seeing a lot of posts referencing R32. Do not panic. This is not a new NIH program you weren't aware of; it is a reference to a current sporting event.

If you’re in England, go out now and look north - lots of sightings of noctilucent clouds. My snap not great because they are low and there are too many trees…but really beautiful.

I am looking for a free alternative to Endnote as a reference manager - thoughts? Ideally one that can convert the Endnote library I’ve been accumulating over the past two decades… #AcademicSky

Of course I love courgettes, but I think I grow them as much for their flowers as their fruit. (Sage is also lovely when deep-fried in beer batter…) #GrowYourOwn #gardening

Good morning, Bluesky. The garden is even more of a steamy jungle after last night’s rain. I think the grapevines are extending tendrils in real time. #gardening

I am passionate about sleeping and there is nothing worse than being woken up in the night ...except by thunder. I love #thunderstorms, and wish they weren't so rare in the UK. But two in one week! Last night was a banger - more please.

A lovely summer evening at Leybourne Lake - bumble bee on a thistle

One pavlova to rule them all (featuring fruit, mint and eggs from our own garden)

SHAKESPEAREAN HAIKU Shall I compare thee To a summer’s day? Alright – Thou art very hot.

It’s got to the point that I’m grateful that at least some countries are still funding science!

An absolutely fabulous opportunity to work with one of the best in the business (right round the corner from my lab 😉)! #MicroSky #Klebsiella #Gut

Having a library card increases a person's attractiveness by at least 63%

Just saw someone post a very long thread about the Docklands Light Railway, but I couldn’t be bothered so I replied TDLR.

Good morning, Bluesky #LookUp

Just got paid for our excess #solar power to the Grid over the last quarter. Not massive (west facing array) but still makes me feel good. Of course the real win is all the money we saved - including operating our EV for free. ☀️ 🍃

My main lesson from this week is that menopausal women are basically heatwave queens. Too hot to sleep at night? Irritated all day as a result? Yeah already doing that 365 days a year, way ahead of you. Crucially, tend to already own those little handheld fans plus selection of wafty dresses.

Why do burns always sound so much better in a foreign language? Laughing at this one I just saw, describing a certain president: "Sempre più megalomane, sempre più fuori come un poggiolo" ("Increasingly megalomaniacal, increasingly outside like a balcony"...i.e. completely off his rocker) 🇮🇹

Oh, this is wonderful (I mean, it's horrific, but wonderfully useful). I lecture my medical students each year about scientific fraud and serial fraudsters - this is some great new data to fold in #AcademicSky

In a new blog post, Dr. Paul Sax (@paulsaxmd.bsky.social) writes that a year after the SNAP trial results were presented at a scientific meeting, the peer-reviewed publications confirm the practice-changing findings. Learn more: voices.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

This is so true. I suffer from extreme claustrophobia and when I needed a cardiac MRI, the registrar was dismissive of my fears and passed me over to a kindly nurse who gave me a tissue, explained everything and took me to the machine to show me the set up. Still nerve-wracking but did help.

A painted lady #butterfly resting on one of our tomato plants

Latest from the lab and a fantastic collaboration with Eric Brown's team at @mcmasteriidr.bsky.social. Screening for new antibiotics from actinomycete extracts under nutrient-deprived conditions identifies a megacluster of synergistic antibiotics that target biotin biosynthesis. rdcu.be/fqejG

Meanwhile the paper on the benefits of the COVID vaccine that Bhattacharya censored as Interim Director of the CDC is now out in JAMA Network Open. This is a paper he really didn't want people to view and download. You know what to do.

Single-cell metabolomics in BCG-infected macrophages - pretty amazing #TBSky #Microsky

The European Association of Urology guidelines recommend consideration of #UTI #vaccines. This vaccine has been available worldwide for over a decade. #IDSky #UTISky