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Want to vote in the general election taking place on 4 July? ❗ You must register to vote by 11:59pm tomorrow (18 June). ❗ Register now 🔽 gov.uk/register-to-vo…

More than 4 million people under 25 aren’t registered to vote. If you’re fed up of being ignored by national politics do something about it: gov.uk/register-to-vo…

Unfortunately, a tabloid newspaper has got hold of a music video I recorded in Islington North with an iconic grime artist I've admired for years. They are planning to publish a heavily edited clip, so I'm releasing the full version myself. Watch here: tinyurl.com/yeymfb96

It has been a pleasure collaborating with LiverpoolClinLabs to bring Oxford Nanopore into routine clinical use, and to represent Faculty of Health and Life Sciences / CGR Uni of Liverpool in receiving this RC of Pathologists award. Huge thanks to Dr Anna Smielewska and @acdarby for their leadership, and @hprugi for funding me

The ATCC Genome Portal keeps growing! We had our Q2 release and now have 4,750 authenticated reference genomes for ATCC microbes! Sequenced + assembled in-house, direct from the collection, using both Illumina and Oxford Nanopore platforms, all under ISO😊. We now have genomes for

🚨 BREAKING: Nigel Farage's Clacton campaign has been exposed to have evidence of racism and homophobia One canvasser about Rishi Sunak: "That f**king p*** we got in - what good is he?" About small boats arrivals: "Just f**king shoot them"

New analysis from the The Royal Society shows just how high UK visa costs for researchers are compared to upfront costs for similar visa routes in 13 other countries. Here, we take a look at how the UK compares to countries in the G7 included in the analysis 🔍⤵️ 1/5

An actual scientist for Minister of Science?! It feels as though our nation has just gone up an evolutionary jump. 🙌

Group photos from Genome Science conference in Bristol - I'm in the last one! 👍 Jordi Paps #genomescience #gsuk24 3,2,1, woo science! 📸

Future PhD students, please be careful. A PhD is long and intense, you don't need to make it harder. If you end up in such situations, leave asap. You can always find another PhD. Trust me it's the best decisions you can take for yourself. Ty Sophien Kamoun kamounlab.medium.com/whats-a-toxic-…

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NEW! In collaboration, Nature Communications, Nature Microbiology, Nature Medicine, & Communications Medicine have launched a Collection + call for papers, inviting submissions of papers that advance understanding of all aspects of #AMR. Learn more and submit by Sep. 12. 👇 nature.com/collections/ib…

Excellent article by Sharon Brookes 🦠 🔬🇦🇺🇬🇧 🌈 for Microbiology Society on navigating academia with a disability, written for #DisabilityPride month 2024 microbiologysociety.org/blog/disabilit…

This time last week, I had the pleasure of speaking at Genome Science 2024 about my ongoing work using #metatranscriptomics with @acdarby and CGR Uni of Liverpool Thank you to Nick Loman for excellent chairing, and to the organising committee for inviting me #gsuk24

Absolutely, #PublishingForTheCommunity is massively important with society publishers, and with all profits being pushed back in to supporting science! We have been pushing this message from Microbiology Society for several years now! Society Journals are massively valuable!

🧵1/ Thread on the #Southport anti-migrant and anti-Muslim disinformation and propaganda. In this thread I highlight key spreaders of disinformation, the chronology, and some points about some of the inauthentic activity evident. I will focus on X.

This: "Within 24 hours Dr Jones was able to assemble and publish a map of the key accounts which had spread disinformation. If Musk cared, his team could have done the same. We are entitled to think he doesn’t care." prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/67…

It was a pleasure to involved in pioneering 16S rRNA sequencing in an NHS setting. Looking forward to working with you again! LiverpoolClinLabs