1/ Excited to announce our latest contribution to understanding genomic epidemiology of Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 #iNTS Analysis of genomes of Salmonella bloodstream isolates from Blantyre, Malawi 1996-2018 identified two new ST313 sub-lineages: L2.2 & L2.3 microLife

Crowd-sourced ideas for increasing housing supply. Public health/medical orgs should organise something similar, crowd-sourcing ideas for dealing with the next pandemic. Public health has so much trust to re-gain! fas.org/accelerator/ho…

Very pleased to say that our preprint investigating CRISPR-Cas9 enrichment of Enterobacterales pathogens is now public! We enriched for tRNA, MLST, AMR and integron genes and sequenced on Oxford Nanopore platforms (1/8). biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Starmer may well have a 200 plus seat majority by Friday but you’re guaranteed to hear from Corbynites that this compares unfavourably to their performance in 2017. Just remember that’s because they are fucking mental.

These concession speeches by Sunak and Hunt are so dignified and powerful. Compared to the binfire across the Atlantic- it makes me proud to be British.

Has anyone set up a webserver for this new structural search? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Talking about vote share when someone has a huge majority is like talking about percentage possession in a football match when someone’s won 5-0. Lads, that’s not how we decide who wins.

Delighted to see this excellent piece of work from brilliant colleagues Zoe Anne Dyson, Phil Ashton, Kat Holt using surveillance data from three #Typhoid endemic sites to interrogate pathogen diversity, transmission and #AMR. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…… Take on Typhoid

After 6 games where they've faced deserved criticism, England faced their biggest test of the Euros - and arguably one of their biggest-ever tests under Southgate - and passed. Deservedly. Lads, it might *actually* been coming home... 🔴🎥: youtu.be/W2ETNKhGbc8 #EURO2024

I spent all week dreaming about getting to make the video that showed how England proved everyone wrong. But that's not how this story ended. And there were a lot of reasons why. Why England Lost The Euro 2024 Final 🔴🎥 youtu.be/nXm0ECu6xfo #EURO2024

Been thinking about Simpsons phrases that have entered the popular lexicon. Things like "land of contrasts" and "saying the quiet part loud," what else is there (not thinking of neologisms/solecisms like "cromulent" or "embiggen")

📢 We're excited to introduce Pathoplexus, a specialized sequence database for human viral pathogens! 🌍 🧬 Launching with 4 viruses, Pathoplexus.org combines modern open-source software with transparent governance to improve global pathogen sequence sharing. 1/14

It took me SEVEN years to figure out that you can save a ggplot as a vectorized .svg file ggsave("file.svg"). The svg file can be opened on powerpoint and it will be completely vectorized, even text are still recognized as text boxes! No more recreating plots on illustrator!!!!!

In a prospective study of >17,000 people, having higher levels of butyrate producing bacteria in the gut was associated with lower risk of hospitalisation for infections! Very cool! sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I love the little sparkly thing my Apple Watch does when I close all my rings - should be able to get it to do that on demand any day I've closed all my rings.

Well, I was actually just drinking a coffee anyway! Multi-tasking.

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