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Pleased to expand my range into parasites with some work on malaria amplicon sequencing - congratulations to PhD student Chanon for leading this nature.com/articles/s4159…

As scientists working in infectious diseases, the first thing that we do when a virus reemerges is to read the scientific literature. Ten MonkeyPox scientific publications that I read yesterday, thanks Richard Lessells for the list! Fine et al. 1998 pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2850277/

A quick survey for GISAID users. 1. Are you aware of the possibility to request access to a JSON datastream with metadata and/or FASTA sequence data?

Earlier this year I had the opportunity to take a sabbatical. I did something a little different - an industrial sabbatical at Amazon Web Services. This was super fun and a great energizer for my own research! (note that all opinions here are my own) 1/

We are on strike for fair pay and conditions and the restoration of our guaranteed pension income tomorrow and Friday. Find your nearest picket for Thursday 24th here: google.com/maps/d/viewer?… More picket locations may be added so check back later!

We are looking for #Oxfordshire #scientists to run a stand at ATOM Festival on Saturday 11th March in Abingdon! 🧑‍🔬🧑‍💻 It would involve running a family-friendly activity and/or talking about what you do. 🧫🔭🔬🧬🥼🧪 Please DM if interested! #scicomm #outreach #STEM #ScienceTwitter

The malaria parasite adapts--the rapid emergence of a new drug-resistant malaria parasite in Laos. More reason why the global #malaria community needs to pull together. telegraph.co.uk/global-health/…

We are so ready to welcome all the science lovers to our upcoming Pint of Science Thailand event on 26th Jan 2023 at the Clazy Café, Season Mall. Doors open at 6 pm. Talks start at 7-9 pm. register at forms.gle/WypzpXFUNsF1jM… More info at pintofscienceth.com

Interested in #Postgraduate education in #GlobalHealth, online or in Oxford? Join our webinar on Tropical Medicine Oxford Diploma and Master’s courses, 31 March 9:30BST Ox IHTM The Global Health Network ndm.ac/tropmed-events Register zoom.us/webinar/regist…

So there's a great Thai restaurant in my neighborhood called Kiin. Yesterday, I searched for their website to order some takeout. Here's the Google result.

Many years after I attended a Wellcome advanced course I get to train the next generation! A fun week and I hope the trainees all love the command line now.

3-year #postdoc position in my lab, come work with me and @alanmcn1 on #AMR in E. coli Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research Oxford Biology University of Oxford Looking for microbial genomics/bioinformatics expertise 🧬 please RT my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

There's still time! Anyone interested in doing a #PhD with us in Virology on #EarlyWarning and endemic and emerging viruses? Interested in field-forward work at the animal-human-environment interface a plus. pasteur.fr/en/education/f…

New blog post: rrwick.github.io/2023/05/05/ont… How accurate is an ONT-R10.4.1-only bacterial genome assembly? Short answer: ~Q50, but it depends! (1/5)

Good to see ONT working on supply chains! Next, an African hub?

The Wellcome #DiscoveryResearch team is hosting a series of funding webinars for researchers in different parts of the world. 🗓️ Researchers in Latin America, 18 July 🗓️ Researchers in Africa, 26 July 🗓️ Researchers in Asia, 2 August Register here ⤵️ wellcome.org/what-we-do/our…

So happy to see this paper finally out journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/a… (wonderful collaborative work with Mo Yin, Mathupanee Oonsivilai, Cherry Lim and Rene Niehus that started life as an away day team-building exercise in a Bangkok cafe)

Three exciting research associate positions in Math/Stats/CompSci at Warwick, as part of the new Centre for Applications of Mathematical and Computing Sciences atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/…