Went through undergraduate in maths eating large quantities of Leibniz cookies, full size, dark Chocolate. Cirque 30 e dieci 30 e lode su quindici esami Correlation not causation and yet

Dopo un'ardua indagine, si è scoperto che "i pazzi del computer" sono i Gremlins, di cui le ho fatto vedere mesi fa cinque minuti di video (perché quando Aliena è capricciosa/lagnosa/pazzoide la chiamiamo "il Gremlins")

📣 New preprint from us at phagefoundry.org 📣 A solid machine learning framework & to predict strain-level phage-host interactions across diverse bacterial genera from genome sequences alone. Avery Noonan from the Arkin Lab led this massive effort www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Non riesco ad aprire il link, ma il fatto che una margherita costi 15 pounds potrebbe forse avere qualcosa a che vedere con la crisi delle pizze... www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/...

I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge. Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots. A thread 🧵 1/8 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

You say this as if it isn't the main way to set up strategies that actually work for you. Stop trying to willpower these things. Just make it more inconvenient to impulse buy things and you will do it less. Seriously. That's the trick. Works for doomscrolling, impulsive eating, and such too

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You know that thing they say about journalists, that if there are two people arguing whether it is raining or not they should open the window and check if it is raining instead of writing both "opinions"?? www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561806...

Honoured and quite blown-over to receive this award. I have been, and continue to be, very lucky - first with great mentors, and then really prodigious students, postdocs and collaborators. Working with them has been a joy.

137 years ago today 🎂 Institut Pasteur opened in Paris (Nov 14, 1888 🏛️) Funded by 100K+ donors after the rabies vaccine success, it launched a scientific legacy: 🔬 10 Nobel Prizes 🌍 32 Pasteur Network Institutes 💉 Countless lives saved From rabies to COVID-19, the mission continues.

This morning I saw a student on the bus to università di Trieste. He got down one stop before me, walks faster, and was surprised to see me there when he arrived at the lecture room. I explained that I had used a shortcut he wasn't aware of. Not a bad analogy for how I do mathematics.

Definitely my bluesky network is very biased in the direction of science and public health...

New PhD position in my lab at @uniofbath.bsky.social (with both @tweethinking.bsky.social & Dr Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun)! We're looking for someone keen on bioinformatics and microbiome evolution. Important info below on eligibility & URSA competition funding👇 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Introduction to Python for Biologists 26–29 Jan | Online A hands-on 4-day course for life scientists new to coding. Learn to build reproducible workflows using Python. prstats.org/course/introduction-to-python-for-biologists-ipyb01 #Python #Bioinformatics #LifeSciences #DataAnalysis #Programming

On this day in 1994, R.E.M. appeared on Saturday Night Live, hosted by Sarah Jessica Parker. The three songs performed -- ‘What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?’, ‘Bang and Blame’ and ‘I Don’t Sleep, I Dream’ -- were live debuts.

Hey @giuliofirenze.bsky.social ci puoi dire chi (geograficamente parlando) si può organizzare per cercare di vedere l'aurora boreale stanotte e chi e' coperto da nubi? Ti vogliamo bene!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

This beautiful chrysanthemum has just flowered in our little village (abandoned 55 years ago). We think it must be an escapee from the tiny cemetery. It's associated with All Saints Day, apparently. I love these manifests from a past long-gone and yet still so present. 🌼🌱 #catalanpyrenees

New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 -producing Klebsiella oxytoca sequence type 2 from toilets as the likely source of nosocomial transmission to patients – a root cause analysis www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Every time the window cleaner arrives I feel like lady Grantham! (In Italy you normally do not hire a different person to clean the outside of your windows...)

Masking

PathogenSurveillance: an automated pipeline for population genomic analyses and pathogen identification. #PathogenSurveillance #Nextflow #Bioinformatics #WGS #PathogenIdentification @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Eurasian Wren (Troglodytes troglodytes) perched in the reed bed #birds #ukwildlife #birdlovers #birdfaves #birdphotos

One of the things that amazes me after all this time in the UK is that I see the different shades of grey sky... In Sardinia there is only grey and blue. Here there is dark grey, light grey, shiny grey, foggy grey, not-that-bad grey, cloudy grey, grey where you can see shadows of blue...

This is interesting and sounds to me much more realistic than many other accounts... www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I almost missed the 5th anniversary of the greatest moment in political history. Happy Four Seasons Total Landscaping Day!

Halloween ✔️ Guy Fawkes ✔️ ... Well, still ongoing! Let the Christmas Season begin!!! (Daughter and friends decorating, me drinking mulled cider with mums)

#ISMEJournal paper from Simon Heilbronner Competitive fitness of Staphylococcus aureus against nasal commensals depends on biotin biosynthesis and acquisition academic.oup.com/ismej/advanc...

"New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant." In the richest city, in the richest country in the world, on a platform of Democratic Socialism. 👏🏽

I would love to study the evolution of food in time and space... And this article confirms A. That genoise and pan di spagna are one and the same B. That in pan di spagna there is no yeast, the rising comes from the eggs elpais.com/gastronomia/...

Two papers accepted and Liverpool beat Real Madrid - am I dreaming? This week is delivering

Microbial genomics for antimicrobial resistance ecology and action www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧬🖥️🧪🦠 rdcu.be/eOcFc

"For older people whose brains have begun to show molecular signs of the disease, but who have yet to display any cognitive symptoms, taking as few as 3,000 to 5,000 steps per day can help to stave off mental decline, a study finds1." www.nature.com/articles/d41...

One never ceases to learn! New word learned today: Despondent Meaning: in low spirits from loss of hope or courage (see gif). More depressed and flat than despair... Just in case you needed it!

Rare Diseases Masked by Common Diagnoses: Genome Sequencing Uncovers Hidden Variants Impacting Treatment Outcomes by Rahimov F, Jacobs BM (...) Smaoui N et 12 al. in N Engl J Med #MedSky 👉 get more here 📖 read the article: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2405459

Detecting Introgression in Shallow Phylogenies: How Minor Molecular Clock Deviations Lead to Major Inference Errors academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

2024-2025 Covid-19 vaccine cut risks of emergency visits, hospitalizations, and deaths among U.S. veterans, showing significant protective effects. by Cai M, Xie Y and Al-Aly Z in N Engl J Med #MedSky 👉 get more here 📖 read the article: https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa2510226

Our new paper: Science for Pandemic Preparedness: A precautionary framework dx.doi.org/10.1111/jep....

PathogenSurveillance: an automated pipeline for population genomic analyses and pathogen identification www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... Code: github.com/nf-core/path... Nextflow nf-core pipeline: nf-co.re/pathogensurv...

Increasingly seeing a strange false logic in political discourse around science, which goes something like: 1. No observational evidence can be trusted 2. The only reliable evidence is an RCT 3. RCTs involving pharma can't be trusted 4. Public funds shouldn't cover RCTs, so pharma must do them

#nyc marathon day. Ran straight into this crowd coming back from work!

Does anyone want to organize a discussion on this article (academia edition)? I am having a lot of feelings about it! www.theguardian.com/money/2025/n...

As I was dressing up the young lady of the house as a black cat yesterday night, I remembered that there is a technical reason why black cats are believed to bring bad luck: because horses did not see them until they were too close, got scared and bolted the carriage... (Not fact checked)

Traffic deaths are a societal choice We decide we’re OK with such deaths or we’re not OK In 1975, Oslo had 44 traffic deaths—now they have zero deaths per year Oslo made a choice. It had a vision of zero deaths, & chose to take the steps needed to end deaths (www.wired.com/story/oslo-p...)

Soooo... Google put up a packman doodle! Thank you google for this opportunity of intergenerational bonding over the school holidays!