Late to the game, but it's time to find out what Heated Rivalry is all about!

First evidence that healthy donor fecal microbiota transplant, added to immunotherapy, can enhance efficacy vs cancer 3 clinical trial reports (renal, small cell lung, melanoma) nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s41... nature.com/articles/s41... Holy 💩!

Tonight/tomorrow morning! Using the zebrafish to explore host genetic susceptibility and live image our model of post TB Mycobacterium abscessus Preview some of the videos bsky.app/profile/oehl...

still tens across the board after all these years

Here's a taste of something we're cooking up in Bath - a computational and experimental microbiomics workshop that includes hands on training using fish to study host-microbe interactions. Sign up to be notified when the website is launched.

I love working in an environment where I am never misgendered, but it does kinda make me wonder about those three from my old world that aaaalways got it wrong 🤔

Quickly telling someone you’ve liked something they’ve done (e.g. telling a writer you like their writing, or a researcher you like their research, or a teacher you like their teaching) has a phenomenally high effort-to-impact ratio.

One of my favourite poems is from The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney, and this verse seems extra valuable today: History says, Don’t hope on this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime the longed for tidal wave of justice can rise up, and hope and history rhyme.

I miss this mischief basket!

I wait all year for this

OK, I am a Galway girl, but my God, Britain, can we please ease up on the rain a little bit!

I love a good #FluorscenceFriday, so here's a little offering from Tori McCabe showing 2F11+ secretory cells in the intestines of adult fish 🤩

This destructively good Rocky Road to Dublin is enough reason to give Sinners all the awards

While I was away, one really important things fell into place. I got my first ever piece of official ID with the correct gender. I have no words for how meaningful and impactful that moment was.

'By analyzing all articles indexed in the PubMed database (>36.5 million articles published in >36,000 biomedical and life sciences journals), we show that the median amount of time spent under review is 7.4%–14.6% longer for female-authored articles than for male-authored articles'

“Traditional constraints” “usual practices” “historical norms”. You mean laws and common decency

When you get that email with reviewer comments...

First post from the Foley lab, celebrating our relocation to the University of Bath.