New comment Genotype-based antimicrobial resistance tests need a new regulatory framework www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA

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None of these trees are published by the way, but I do have a paper with another explanation that doesn't require frequency dependence. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Here is the case like you describe with a well-defined resistant clone. It is Gyrase 83L in ST 131. Red = resistant.

Cattle vaccination should replace badger culls to end bovine TB, expert panel recommends www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

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YES!!!!!! www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Cue the BRC chaos!!!!!!!!

A cheeky wee paper accepted in Nature Comms

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Great to have @carokobras.bsky.social presenting her work on #bacterial strategies against #beta-lactams part of @cbcb-newcastle.bsky.social celebration day!

Brief light on Cùl Mòr #Assynt #Scotland #Sutherland #Highlands www.damianshields.com

When EMI pulled funding on LIFE OF BRIAN days before shooting, the Pythons turned to a fan. George Harrison put up around £3 million of his own money to make the film, simply because he wanted to see it. Eric Idle called it "the world's most expensive cinema ticket."

"The REF was initiated as a way of distributing research funding most productively but morphed into a hugely expensive attention-engrossing status marker. Few things would improve the intellectual culture of universities more quickly than the complete abolition of this" www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It’s comin hame!!!!!!

Ok Fantasy football friends. I’ve created this league for us to join. Please retweet if interested. play.fifa.com/fantasy/join...

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It's OK everyone - no need to feel pure cold rage at this one. www.itv.com/news/anglia/...

Watching Seven. Got to be in top 10 crime movies

Morning Kitten

Across China, a marked rise in people driving electric vehicles has led to a drop in air pollution in many cities. s a result, fewer people are dying from pollution-related diseases. go.nature.com/4ofIY0K

I don't mind being grumpy and old 🤣 How is this a first? I do remember when reverse vaccinology was all the rage a couple years ago... Anyway, article made me laugh: "The findings [...] said the impact on the immune system was "modest", but they are still generating excitement".

I don’t want to be grumpy old man. But Surely it’s only a vaccine if it offers some protection. The actual headline should be “researchers create an AI designed antigen” 'World-first' vaccine designed by artificial intelligence www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Lord’s groundsman

It's out! The LIN code approach for genomic taxonomy of microbial strains and its applications in genomic epidemiology journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

Police have gone from institutionally racist to anti-white in the time it took me to change my duvet cover? Don’t think so.

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ARTIC network has published Bundibugyo (BDBV) sequencing resources as the 2026 outbreak continues in DRC & Uganda. We have compiled guidance for labs wishing to sequence, assemble and analyse BDBV genomes: artic.network/viruses/bdbv/bdbv-sequencing-guide.html

The ARTIC Primer Foundry is now live and will soon begin shipping BDBV primers on request primalscheme.com/orders

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Not convinced arsenal deserved that

Feel for anyone who misses a big penalty in a shootout. Except for John Terry, because that was and always will be hilarious.

Not looking forward to facing Achraf Hakimi in the World Cup.

I remember the good old days when the final was at 19:30 on a Wednesday night……….

The titan submarine obviously had many very serious flaws, but the people who criticised it's use of an Xbox controller for navigation were completely wrong. It's a perfectly functional control devise with 2x360 input control and it's cheap. The military regularly use it too

New pre-print from our group: NDM transmission over 5-years at our hospital ➡️ 6 clusters NDM transmission (2-28 plasmids) ➡️ *Multi-species* transmission seen (up to 9 in 1 cluster) ➡️ Strong unit-level exposures Shows us what current IP practice misses! #IDSky 📃: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

St Bees, Cumbria. Weather changeable.

This is very cool: a simple statistical test of dysbiosis, or really any microbiome composition data relative to a reference. Outperforms Bray-Curtis and every other metric, while simultaneously being very simple to compute. Probably would work on RNAseq data too.

"If the United States believes transporting potentially exposed Americans back to U.S. soil is too risky, why is transporting them into Kenya considered acceptable?" Indeed.

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Bravo Palace!

LLMs could never.

Thrilled to announce that the Department of Microbiology at the University of Washington, School of Medicine is hiring at the Assistant Professor level (tenure-track)! The Pacific Northwest is an awesome place to live and do science 🧪🦠. Join us! apply.interfolio.com/185622 Applications due 8/1.

Genomic epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Malawi: using global phylogeography to understand the impact of geographically focused interventions. Open Access and fee-free in MGen using a Publish and Read agreement: https://doi.org/10.1099/mgen.0.001674 #MGen #PublishandRead

Goodfellas. Yes please.

Bit of fat boy slim. Oh go on then.

UKRI are recruiting for a new Exec Chair for Research England (£160k-£170k). It is a crucial role including QR funding and the REF. I hope they get a great field. But I worry a bit. It's hard to find on their website (see link below) fa-evzn-saasfaukgovprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Widely used clinical metagenomics protocols exhibit low sensitivity for RNA viruses. In this preprint we show why this happens and how to fix it. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6... @dominikaanna.bsky.social @scalene.bsky.social @pathogenomenick.bsky.social