No. 10 spokesperson responding to a far right idea: "lol how will you pay for Dachau?" No. 10 spokesperson three days later: "On reflection, Dachau is bad"

We're just one week away from our very first TB Ed Talk! Submit your questions for Chloe here: tbfighters.org/tb-ed... #TBSky #MedSky #HealthJustice

Do you know someone who does outstanding work on avian pop modelling & forecasting? Or who works at interface of avian conservation and decision making given uncertain futures? Submit a keynote nomination for the BOU conference Avian Futures here: bou.org.uk/event/avian-... . Deadline is next week!

I have to keep this deliberately vague, but this is a total disaster for academic research. And imposing it so suddenly is just cruel. I’ve got friends scrambling to get back to the US before midnight tonight. Do you know how hard that is to do on 36 hours of notice?

had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

One for you @brockhurstlab.bsky.social ! Functional phages, and cocktails that work (caveat - have only looked at abstract) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Does anyone have access to Appendix 1 of the Global Burden of Bacterial Disease survey in @lancetmicrobe.bsky.social ? Seems the link on the paper does not work. I just want to get the actual numbers (bar heights) in Figure 4A (num.deaths in each geo region) www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Exclusion systems, far from slowing down plasmid spread, are in fact essential to preserve host cell viability and thereby ensure the successful dissemination of conjugative plasmids and antibiotic resistance genes. @nfrk92.bsky.social @narjournal.bsky.social academic.oup.com/nar/article/...

Pretty much the prefect video for our times. They insist their tech is about to reach the level of self-awareness but it still autocorrects were for we're.

Super paper from the mighty Mia Winkler, @genomarit.bsky.social and Iren Lohr. "We have previously shown that there were relatively few strain-sharing events across ecological niches...plasmid-sharing is considerably more common across niches than strain-sharing. " www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

"We show that, despite this compression factor, SSEs can be used as a highly effective tertiary structure comparison tool, with accuracy that approaches that of Foldseek, while offering a 200-fold speedup. " www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

I want to align these plots with patchwork, but geom_sf keeps them from aligning correctly. There HAS to be an easy solution to this that I'm just missing. Does anyone know?

John is one of the best PhD supervisors you could hope for, recommended highly!!

If there were a collection of E. coli with every combination of a bunch of resistance markers fluorophores on the chromosome, would this be something people would be interested in using?

🐦 GW4 MRC funded PhD position on Modelling and communicating Avian Influenza spillover at the human-wild bird interface 🐦 Interdisciplinary One Health project! Infection histories, contacts and behavioural science. @neeltjeboogert.bsky.social @3113n.bsky.social @mtwhite.bsky.social, Louise Smith

First good thing on the Internet since the cretaceous, or as far as I can remember

If you cook jerk chicken in borosilicate glass, it’s the Pyrex of the Caribbean.

RSC begins voluntary redundancy scheme impacting most staff www.thestage.co.uk/news/royal-s...

Yes, all of this

Fantastic column by @stephenkb.bsky.social "Racism in the UK remains the preserve of an extreme minority — but one that is emboldened and growing louder. It is the result of a year in which neither the government nor the opposition have been willing to draw red lines." www.ft.com/content/fbbd...

So...what would happen to the global TB epidemic if we hypothetically "eliminated" undernutrition? In this preprint, we combined estimates from our new review (doi.org/10.1093/ije/...) with population-specific BMI distributions to find out...(doi.org/10.1101/2025...)

I don't think Peter Mandelson is PM's biggest problem. The biggest problem is not standing up to the literal violent racism on our streets, supercharged by the richest man in the world, and threatening the very fabric of our society. If he and so many commentators can't see this, we're truly lost.

When speaking to Tommy Robinson at the far right demonstration in London today, Elon Musk wore a t-shirt saying "What would Orwell think?" So let's dive in - what would George Orwell think about Tommy Robinson and Elon Musk? 🧵

Eagerly awaiting the day when at least one politician in power realises that striking doctors/nurses are actually fighting for the future of the NHS - not somehow trying to undermine it. Rocket science, it is not. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

ICE claimed the father tried to hit them with his car or that he "dragged" one of the agents. Then bystander video was released showing this was completely false. ICE executed a man on the street in broad daylight.

'Collectively, these data suggest that the phsABC and asrABC operons of Salmonella serovars provide a benefit during competition with closely related bacteria, such as E. coli, by inhibiting cytochrome bd oxidase-mediated aerobic respiration of the commensal.' www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I covered an early Ebola vaccine trial in 2016. I recall my headline was "safe but efficacy unclear" because the Sierra Leone outbreak was contained before the vaccine’s effectiveness could be determined. Great to see it rolled out & saving lives.

I am sooooo tired of Why Is Child Care So Tough to Afford/Find/Staff/Operate stories that center anything other than this fact.

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

A rally organised by Tommy Robinson should be a slam dunk for a Labour government. Most people will recognise it as being led by the far right (and will not identify themselves as such). Violence is predictable too. The PMs and ministers should have been ready to respond immediately.

Encountering the fascists outside Waterloo iandunt.substack.com/p/encounteri...

But tell me more about how threatening the pro Palestine marches have been.

I just discovered London's No-Go Zone - the one that the far right is always on about. It is wherever THEY are. See bio. I have been cycling around for five years, at all times of day and night, searching in vain for a no-go zone. Turns out I only needed to find a band of English patriots.

Want to be clear that the predictable violence against the police wasn't the only problem with yesterday's march It's that 100,000 angry racists gathered in London for the biggest racist march in 50 years, and anyone not white had to steer clear The govt can't see that because they are inadequate.

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

This must be a watershed moment. The government's continued use of X is no longer simply negligent. It is an act of conscious assistance to violent extremism.

The actual group moving most strongly to Reform are male Gen X-ers. We need more articles on how to deal with them.

Shot, chaser Young men more likely to vote Green than Reform. Young men second most progressive group of any demographic. Combined right-wing vote barely bigger than Green vote alone for young men

The typeset version of our article, "Reconstruction of the human amylase locus reveals ancient duplications seeding modern-day variation", is now online. This thread will provide an overview of how gene duplications have shaped modern variation in the amylase locus. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Loath though he is to alienate floating racists, perhaps Starmer could rouse himself to condemn a violent fascist rally teeming with people who want him overthrown and/or killed

New research estimates that as many as 2.2 million more people could die of tuberculosis if U.S. cuts to foreign aid become permanent.

Some Tord Gustavsen for a Friday! youtu.be/zQ2eZUIQY8c?...

Some Tord Gustavsen for a Friday! youtu.be/zQ2eZUIQY8c?...

The fall of Mandelson is first cross-party celebration since the vaccine. Remain, Leave, right, left: united at last.

I've written a short blog post introducing "The Art of Visualization with ggplot2"! This book is all about the end-to-end process of creating charts with #ggplot2 📊 including data wrangling, sketching, and styling your plots! nrennie.rbind.io/blog/art-of-... #RStats #DataViz #TidyTuesday

Moderna are hiring a summer intern for 2026 to work on their latent viruses programme. I'm totally jealous of anyone who gets this post. 😆 www.linkedin.com/posts/jdiazd...

How do loci for bacterial capsules (Klebsiella) manage to get swapped around despite their outstanding phenotypes? They just plug and play, having little impact on the rest of the genome. Kudos to @julielebris.bsky.social , check her thread below

Is anyone aware of supposed plasmids getting swallowed up by the chromosome during continued lab propagation? Going through new #Archaea data with 500x ONT asm suggests two of its plasmids in NCBI refseq (pub 2010) are gone, they show up as part of the chromosome. Were they ever real? 🧫🦠🧪

NEW PAPER! Some kinds of genetic mutations are more likely to arise than others. Such "biases" in mutation vary between species. Analyzing data from 14 species, we show that this variation explains species differences in the genetics of adaptation! (1/3) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...