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It never made sense that some people appear to be religious about politics, political about science, and scientific about religion. I mean, it makes sense to match them up or use one for everything. But fully mismatching these doesn't seem to ever help.

There must be a market for long-haul international flights (or even just sections of flights) that involve *some* effort to help people adjust to new timezones. Right now it's like they're run by a pro-jetlag conspiracy - random mealtimes, unpredictable lighting decisions etc.

Chuffed to announce that I've started a new job with David Aanensen at Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance in Oxford, supporting the uptake of genomics for AMR in global health!

Interested in bacterial genomes? Hundreds of thousands, even millions? All annotated, taxonomically classified, integrated with metadata. Easily searchable, viewable, downloadable, in sync with #AllTheBacteria. Then BakRep is for you! Poster P-CM-102 VAAM - Vereinigung f. Allg. u. Ang. Mikrobiologie #VAAM2025

We are so back. How Thomas Tuchel Has Already Fixed England's Biggest Problem. 🎥: youtu.be/VVgnC6_UsgU

Finally. Today. 3pm. Sorry it took me so long. How Newcastle Won The Carabao Cup Final #NUFC

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As I meet people from aid agencies around the world this week I will be making the case for a radical simplification in how we do aid: fewer countries, fewer projects, radically simpler programs. It was key takeaway from my time in govt. Read why. cgdev.org/blog/radical-s…

Our latest preprint is out describing amr.watch – a platform for monitoring AMR trends from global genomics data. Supporting all WHO priority pathogens (2017), amr.watch summarises the geographic and temporal distribution of genotypic variants (e.g.

It’s a bad time to have a funeral in a couple of weeks and only having a blue suit…

It seems that parental burdens expand to fill all available time. I was recently invited to a “progress meeting” with the nursery about my one-year old son. I heard recently about a weekend away trip organised by all the mothers of a class of older kids (without their kids!).

I got hit by some rather sudden and extreme financial hardship so if anyone is in need of remote wetlab contract research, strictly BSL1, do let me know. Currently scrambling for gigs. Plant, Bacterial, Archaeal Bioeng Custom Lab Hardware Turn Key Genetic Design Please RT 💚

Great post from Works in Progress on recent scientific findings "For over 50 years, the USDA has airdropped millions of sterilized male screwworm flies weekly along the Panama–Colombia border." worksinprogress.news/p/reporter-gen…

The greatest feeling you can have as a scientist is realizing you’ve discovered something that no one else in the world knows yet When this happens, put your pencil down, take a deep breath and savor those three minutes before someone points out it was published fifty yrs ago

8 companies that you didn't know were yc companies: 1. buy me a coffee (W19) 2. docker (S10) 3. substack (W18) 4. GOAT (W11) 5. our world in data (W19) 6. product hunt (S14) 7. classdojo (S12) 8. apollo (W16)

We’re pleased to share two new preprints with results from a structured survey of carbapenem- and/or colistin-resistant Enterobacterales (CCRE), conducted in 37 European countries in 2019. E. coli: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… K. pneumoniae: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… ECDC

👀Using an autonomous agent based on o3-mini and GPT-4.1, a team from Harvard, MIT & other institutions reproduced and updated an entire issue of Cochrane Reviews in two days… saving 12 person-years of work! The AI reviews captured more papers & were more accurate than humans.

2 - Adam Lallana is one of only two players to make an England appearance whose surname contains two letters that appear three times (L & A), along with Steve McManaman (M & A). Alphabet.

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