Plasmids, a molecular cornerstone of antimicrobial resistance in the One Health era - www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Hello February 🌹 ‘Rose Rouge’ designed by Yves Saint Laurent for Dior, silk, 1958. Via The Met here: www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

I refuse to queue in a pub as I would at the post office! I mean, that amazing feeling when the bartender asks you and you feel for a sec like you just won the lottery!! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

The world is so complex that these small posts cannot even convey the headlines of what I would like to say. Synthesis is obviously not one of my many gifts 😇, but also we do not live in easy times...

How AI Impacts Skill Formation arxiv.org/abs/2601.20245 Studied by challenging mostly university-educated Python programmers to use async Python (Trio), so likely quite conceptually challenging. LLM users were barely faster but with a large deficit in skill acquisition. Ouch.

#buongiorno da me 💙 Il cuore pulsante di Roma non è certo il marmo del Senato, ma la sabbia del Colosseo. (Sen. Gracco, il Gladiatore)

British response to the film about Melania Trump: If they were screening it for free at the bottom of my garden I'd shut the curtains.

"Become the person who attracts the results you want, rather than chasing results as who you are now."

There we go again! Vaccinated in Christmas, I feel quite the train wreck (imagine with no vaccine!)

Preprint measuring immune response to the A/H3N2 K influenza virus using human sera from May 2025. Some immune escape but vaccine was protective. Not really a super-flu. @cvrinfo.bsky.social @prmurcia.bsky.social www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

Coming soon! My article on Queen Anne’s wardrobe has been accepted into the Journal for #18thC studies. In it I provide a qualitative & quantitative overview of her extensive wardrobe accounts (including makers & suppliers) & the ways that fashion influenced her representational strategies!

Tomb of Ramses VI (KV9) in the Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt 🇪🇬 TRAVEL Archeology #MondayMorning

New paper out in @pnas.org, and it made the cover! 👁️ We represent plasmids as circles and mutations as dots, resembling an eye, because in this paper we literally 𝑤𝑎𝑡𝑐ℎ plasmids evolve. ‼️Check Paula’s 🧵 and the paper👇 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘀𝗺𝗶𝗱 𝗺𝘂𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗼𝗽𝘆 𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Pleased to see our research team's work on the @erc.europa.eu funded PALVIREVOL project feature on this ERC report into frontier research for one health @biology.ox.ac.uk. erc.europa.eu/sites/defaul...

“…the reality is that there are many who simply need better support and easier access to appointments.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

UK loses WHO status as measles-free after rise in deaths and fall in jab uptake www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

I love trains!!!

snow day today yall know what that means (watching all three lord of the rings extended edition movies in a row)

Mamdani made a 90 sec. video discussing when and how the roads would be plowed, crediting the workforce that makes it possible, reminding owners they must shovel, reminding trash may be delayed, saying there’d be a decision about school by noon, and telling kids it’s fine to hit him with snowballs.

One of the things I like more about living in Britain: the big garden birdwatch!! Of course, as soon as we submitted the resident blackbird and a bunch of goldfinches made their appearance!! 😂

Le piazze affollate producono effetti politici?

There’s a rattlesnake that lives under a food container in my chicken coop…and it’s been there for months/years The chickens and snake all get along Feels like children’s book potential

Weekly respiratory viruses update: - #influenza circulation HIGH, but has peaked - #RSV circulation ELEVATED and increasing and increasing - #SARSCoV2 circulation remains at LOW levels. More info: erviss.org #ERVISS #RespiratoryViruses #IDsky #EpiSky #COVID19

Aurora Coolness xkcd.com/3196/

Zuppa piccante di ceci di campo interi e passati con olio, acqua e soia, bietole selvatiche e cipolla su pane carasau. Frittata di uovo e asparagi (del giardino) con uovo sopra. #santamoglie invernale con classe.

Our new paper on Insertion Sequences (IS) in #Klebsiella - Lineages have vastly different IS loads and profiles - An inverse relationship between IS load and metabolic capacity, in particular phosphorus use, consistent with early reductive evolution. www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Greetings from Astoria. ✨

Keep screens out of schools! (I admit to being really radicalized against screens for younger kids) www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Finally someone did this!! I wanted to write this grant so badly in the first months of nursery!! (I wanted to study also the parents, my husband used to get whatever the toddler had!!)

Pumps https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/95657

It's happening Jim.

This was what I used to think in the middle of the pandemic!

Stops for coffee Opens social media Reads the news Immediately the dreadful task of working on a messed up draft appears to be the best thing to do at this exact moment of my life. Closes social media Silences the phone Working music on This is going to be a very productive season in my life!

Beavers are back in London 🦫 Here's how (and why) we did it ⬇️

I for one welcome our window cleaning AI overlords

As the world hurtles towards geopolitical crisis, my marine biologist son sends photo of an underwater leaf slug from Fiji to wish us calm.

I was interviewed about my work by Science News Explores @snexplores.bsky.social, a publication "for curious minds age 9 and up!" You can read the interview here: www.snexplores.org/article/cosm...

Handling the total horror show of everything by buying copious amounts of seeds for the garden.

I want the world to listen. What russia is doing now by attacking Ukraine’s energy and heating infrastructure in the middle of winter is an attempt to break us, to make us give up and to erase us as a nation. But no. We stand. It’s cold. It’s dark. We are not heroes. We stand.

Ancora sei mesi e la controffensiva delle foche groenlandesi arriverà fino a Washington senza trovare resistenza.

Can confirm.

When you visit Trieste, Italy, you and you go and buy tickets for bus, in the buss station ticket office you can find this beautiful two projection section of Cretaceous rudist bivalve mollusk from the Radiolitidae family, which converged in their for with corrals! 🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio

I am looking for free trainings in functional genomics, including proteomics, metagenomics, and microbiome-focused studies. I’d greatly appreciate any courses, lecture series, or other training resources you could recommend. Thank you in advance! #FunctionalGenomics #OpenScience #EvoBio

We are excited to announce that as of January 1st @yhgrad.bsky.social is the new Director of @ccdd-hsph.bsky.social, joining him is @jeff-imai-eaton.bsky.social, as Associate Director. Join us in congratulating Yonatan and Jeff in their new roles! ➡️ Learn about CCDD: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9URu...