First "six foot social distancing" was early pandemic-era canon, and now it's accused of being theater. It's neither. The military has used 6 foot bed spacing to prevent disease transmission since Florence Nightingale's time during the Crimean War, and continues to do so today.

Multiple Postdoc (West, Singapore) Dengue and arbovirus epidemiology and modelling with Angkana T. Huang at National University of Singapore (NUS) More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2499

The first large-scale genetic study of E. coli’s protective armour has found 5 capsule types that account for 70% of multidrug-resistant bloodstream infections in Europe. Creating a blueprint of E. coli’s armour can help design new ways to tackle the strains that cause infections. bit.ly/41wdOY4

Are you interested in how your genomics work can meaningfully feed into addressing the UK National Action Plan on AMR? 🧬🧫 🦠💊 Then check out our handy personal view out today in Lancet Microbe … 🧵1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Launch of the Global Society of Infectious Disease Dynamics. 🎉 2 online webinars on Thursday 26th. Do join to see what it's all about, and get involved in the community as it kicks off! www.gsidd.org/post/join-us...

It's a bit last minute, but we have an RA/junior postdoc position available in my lab (closing Sunday). Please reach out if you're interested in developing and applying methods to analyse microbial genomes and metagenomes! careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURN...

A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our paper, led by @martibartfast.bsky.social a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny b) improving representation of the Global South in public data www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread 1/n)

Almost 4000 people have done this quiz so far, although younger groups still under-represented in case you know anyone who'd like to give it a go and see how they compare to others! probability.kucharski.io

New preprint reveals bacteria can't just collect all resistance genes like Pokemon cards. We found mutually exclusive evolutionary pathways to multidrug resistance in E. coli & P. aeruginosa - some resistance mechanisms actively prevent others from coexisting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Very pleased to share this newly published work with Aishani Aatresh, part of her exceptional Harvard undergrad thesis. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/... .

New preprint: we used k-mer matching with suffix match length information to create an assembly-to-assembly alignment algorithm + software, kbo. We wanted to create a reference-based aligner and variant caller that scales to at least 10-100k bacterial queries. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

New paper: long-term trends in antibiotic resistance show signs of stabilisation (thread). journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

We are excited to announce our 2025 Schmidt Science Fellows! 32 early career researchers, nominated by the world’s leading research universities, who will take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing discovery schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/2025-fe...

Very interesting opportunity for a female African microbiologist. @tuliodna.bsky.social @ckyobutungi.bsky.social Please promote

Interested in pursing a PhD in infectious disease dynamics, artificial intelligence, and behavioural science? Come and join myself and Professor Stefan Flasche at the Charité Center for Global Health in Berlin: karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan...

A must read opinion piece.

Goodnight friends. We end today with this quote for ourselves and for our new secretary of HHS.

I’m racing a Half Ironman triathlon this June. 2km swim, 90km cycle, 20km run and raising money for the Meningitis Research Foundation. Meningitis has ~2.5 million cases and 250,000 deaths annually predominantly among children. Any donation would be great! gofund.me/a958252f

Our mSCAPE project has been formally announced to the world by @smhopkins.bsky.social at #FOG2025 today: www.gov.uk/government/n... - a really exciting academic-public health collaboration to build a surveillance platform leveraging NHS metagenomic diagnostic data. @meerac.bsky.social

Incredibly excited to share that our manuscript was just published in @nature.com ! What a way to start the new year! 🎉 https://buff.ly/4gyYCzx We present phylowave, a framework that enables to learn the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies. 🧵 A thread... 1/n #IDSky #IDModelling

New MRC-funded postdoc with me on comparative bacterial genomics/phylodynamics @roslininstitute.bsky.social university of Edinburgh. Great multidisciplinary team and collaboration with partners at Shanghai Jao Tong University. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Had a great whirlwind of a trip to Tokyo for #SMBE workshop on pangenomics with an inspiring community of people. Fun to present preliminary results on the environment and the pneumococcus! Thanks to #isppd and #schmidtsciencefellows for my funding and the organizers for my registration bursary.

A Portable and Scalable Genomic Analysis Pipeline for Streptococcus pneumoniae Surveillance: GPS Pipeline https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.11.27.625679v1

There are four (that's right four!) academic posts open at the School of Biological sciences at Cambridge University. Check them out here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?categor... Gr10/11 (AssocProf/Reader; now Prof) Closing 26/1/25. Looking for excellent, collaborative people. Spread the word!

How invasive are different E .coli capsules and how many are there? Find out here and use the group 2 and 3 database to type your own! medrxiv.org/cgi/content/...

🚨In our new Lancet Planetary Health 📰 #COP29 we discuss the climate-health-gender nexus by 🔎 reviewing gendered health impacts of #climatechange ⌛️ summarising gender & health in UNFCCC processes 📉 assessing the gender gap in delegations at COP1-28 Full ➡️ 👀 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...