Everyone is like this. Everyone at 25 looks like some celestial being, impossibly beautiful and alive. And only old people know this. If only we KNEW we were godlike at the time. Anyway, it was very moving to see an ordinary life glorified, as all lives are in death. Sunny afternoon here, love, Ian.

Hey a thing I really don’t want to get lost here is that while Tylenol doesn’t cause autism, IT’S FINE TO BE AUTISTIC. Let’s not grant them the premise that autism should be eradicated in our way to correct the science, okay? Okay.

My mum took paracetamol and all I got was Olympic-level pattern recognition. Get your new T-shirt with free UK delivery here >>> buff.ly/HVBzSFb

NEWS! Nation capable of spotting spurious link between paracetamol and autism still baffled by obvious link between guns and mass shootings

Vaccine-related fevers?…

'Tylenol' is known in the civilised world as Paracetamol 2.4 million children born in Sweden between 1995 and 2019. Studied 186,000 children whose mothers were treated with paracetamol during pregnancy. news.ki.se/no-link-betw...

Call me cynical. But it’s impossible to imagine a scenario where the current US administration advises that MEN must not take paracetamol

We found that #TB epidemics are rapidly urbanising, with profound implications for care and prevention programmes. There are big differences between countries and global regions in the timing of urbanisation of TB epidemics, likely driven by demographic changes.

Are there more people with #TB in cities or rural areas? In a 🚨new🚨 preprint (NOT PEER REVIEWED) we modelled urban-rural TB trends from 2000-2023 in 26 countries with 4.6 billion people. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

Nuno at West Ham by the end of the week

The outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria blocks many antibiotics. Our latest work reveals that L-type pyocins bypass this barrier by inactivating the BAM complex, killing Pseudomonas aeruginosa without entering the cell, providing a new blueprint for beating antibiotic resistance.

No one loves a show off, mate.

An actual quote from the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Too often people go to university to ‘explore research and knowledge’ Look forward to Wes S saying 'too often people go to hospital to have operations' or Heidi Alexander saying 'too often people go to the station to catch a train'

‘Are you the Your Party Party? ‘The Your Party Party? Fuck off. We’re the Our Party Party. Pfft. Your Party Party. Wankers.

Prediction: Sticking AI on end the name of your startup is going to age about as well as all those companies called things like Micro 2000 in the 90s.

The Yersiniabactin HPI is also present in Y. pseudotb strains and an entire lineage of Y. entero. Given shared ecology it is just as plausible transfer happened from them rather than Y. pestis……….

🦠 Mycobacteria aren't just tough, they're interior designers! 🦠 Check out our latest #preprint 🚨, led by our PhD student @camimille.bsky.social , where we show that #Mycobacterium tuberculosis builds secret cytoplasmic membranes to adapt its metabolism and sneak past immunity 🤫 Thread coming soon!

Yuk! It’s an acronym that takes the coolest subfield of evolutionary biology and turns it into a CAMRA regional subcommittee

Bangor University staff in vice chancellor vote of no confidence

Chris Mason, Nick Eardley and Laura Kuenssberg are probably very busy, which is why they haven't yet launched their relentless pursuit of Farage's tax affairs and financial arrangements. But they will. At some point. I'm certain.

‘See that decrepit, crumbling old wreck over there? …. That’s you that is.’

Umm…not Greece, Portugal, South Africa- all places where talented Nigerian students who’ve garnered abstract acceptances & competitive bursaries are denied visas for no clear reason, after we have registered, made travel expenses etc. consider Nigeria, Ghana,Kenya as we have no trouble getting there

AMR is a global threat. Vaccines can help curb it but they’re often overlooked. Find out more about how to integrate vaccines into AMR strategies in our new report here: microb.io/VaccinesAMR #VaccinesWork #AMR

Delighted to share that I’ve been awarded a Future Leaders Fellowship to investigate the impact of microbial interactions on antimicrobial resistance evolution 🎉 🧫 really grateful for this investment in my lab and excited to start my fellowship in Jan’26! www.ukri.org/news/ukri-an...

Metabolic signatures of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli Using a pangenome-based approach and metabolic pathway predictions, we investigated metabolic features associated with both lifestyle and phylogenetic background www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @vallenet.bsky.social @iame-umr1137.bsky.social

🎉 Delighted to share the first pre-print from my lab where we demonstrate that intergenic DNA repeats mediate phase variation of the mucoid phenotype in hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... #klebclub

All this Whitehall shitchat about Starmer getting the heave-ho innit. Who'd make a better prime minister? Who SHOULD our next PM be, oh yes I forgot how politically fucking brilliant you are, it should be you, shouldn't it?

Look out for our Editor in Chief at “The Human Microbiome” symposium @embl.org this week! We are keen to provide those of you working with human-associated microbes a home for your research, so do reach out to @npariente.bsky.social for a chat

Starting the final leg of my journey to the @embl.org symposium “The Human Microbiome” It’s been a surprisingly long travel day! I am really looking forward to seeing everyone there, and to Heidelberg itself, where I lived 9yrs. It’s always a pleasure to visit Come say hello this week!

NEWS! MP nobody has heard of leaves party nobody cares about for party nobody likes newsthump.com/2025/09/15/m...

Have you noticed how your gym gear shrinks if you don't use it for a while?

On this week, 40 years ago, my friend Ralph Isberg, then a postdoc with Stan Falkow, reported the discovery of the 1st invasin gene in @nature.com "We report here the identification of a single genetic locus from this organism (Y. pseudotuberculosis) that is sufficient to convert the innocuous

NEWS! Brave patriots highlight their desire to unite the kingdom by hurling glass bottles at policemen newsthump.com/2025/09/14/b...

Over the past 15 odd years we've had party and national leaders from the left, centre, and right, and they have all been disappointing. Could it be, then, that the source of our malaise lies outside of our politicians' influence, in the wider global context?

I'm not usually an advocate of bloodshed, but I am publicly urging Elon Musk to accidentally catch his bellend in his zip

You join us live from Danny Dyer’s birthday drinks.

The 3 stages of grief: denial, anger, ballroom

And on this. Gutted I didn’t get Radiohead tickets. Spent 90 minutes in a queue and when I got in the only tickets left were £340 each.

This on the back of MSD walking away from £1B project in London and an almost completed building is pretty disastrous for UK Biomedical science.

The @ukhsa.bsky.social STI Reference Lab has identified a strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae which evades detection on the Cepheid Xpert CT/GC Assay. Read more in our eurosurveillance article www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2...

Mmmmm. Who doesn’t love a good schmear

Excited to share our @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social led by Magda showing how Bif has co-evolved with different animal hosts 🐒🐭🐷🐦 Key takeaways: 🔹 Host ancestry + diet shape Bif evolution 🔹 Mammals enriched for carb-busting enzymes 🔹 Untapped diversity in non-human hosts = new probiotic potential

NEWS! ‘Banksy should be jailed for defacing public property’ insists man who painted flags on roundabouts

The #cancer #microbiome: the facts, the myth, and our take on it- with @abdohlman.bsky.social , Xiangyu Pan and Laurence Zitvogel. Out now @natmicrobiol.nature.com just in time for the start of the academic year @wcm-imp.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s41...