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alegione.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in Veterinary Microbiology and Public Health at the University of Melbourne. Interested in genomics of bacteria and viruses in wildlife and domestic animals
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So much for applying for a DECRA in a few years time after gaining some intl research experience + networks Seems like getting back into the research community in AUS will be harder… Curious to know if current schemes view intl experience as a negative… Also… 2 YEARS IS WAY TOO SHORT!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Pet peeve: I hate how often ppl claim “all the researchers will just move to Europe/Canada!” You vastly under-estimate how little money there is there vs the USA- and unless that changes ASAP this loss is just going to decimate global science, full stop. 🧪🔭

submitted 2 days ago • 70 comments

This is my "show someone next time they bitch about 17% interest rates" graph www.theguardian.com/business/gro...

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

imagine for one second that almost any other demographic of person other than young Australian male was responsible for the vast majority of cases of allegedly planning terrorist attacks. Do you think we'd be hearing about it a bit more?

submitted 12 days ago • 8 comments

Something deeply odd about the Avalon hijacking — a significant level of planning, preparation, potentially devastating consequences but because it’s a white kid it’s being treated as a middle-tier story and there’s zero political discussion.

submitted 12 days ago • 16 comments

🦘✂️ Thanks to @cziscience.bsky.social , @wytamma.bsky.social and I are writing the next version of the Snippy bacterial variant calling pipeline. We want your input on what features s it will have. Please fill out this (longish) survey to help make Snippy great again! forms.gle/YJP6WQjsk8KK...

submitted 14 days ago • 3 comments

Managed to see 9/10 Best Picture nominees this year. My rankings, worst to best: 9. A Complete Unknown - good tunes, didn’t realise Bob Dylan was a bit of a jerk 8. Wicked - can’t believe it was only act 1 7. Conclave - went places I wasn’t expecting for a movie about the Pope

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Active or passive surveillance? What is best? Here, flow chart and comparison between high and low AIV risk years, and different phases of outbreak response. 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Between 2019 and 2023, researchers paid $8.968 billion to make papers open access. Imagine what else could be done with this money if it wasnt paid to for profit publishing companies... 👉 arxiv.org/abs/2407.16551

submitted 51 days ago • 17 comments

Bovine HPAI still favors avian receptors, but slight human receptor affinity, strongly bind to both bovine + human conjunctival, traceal, mammary tissues = indicating a risk for human transmission 👉 www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

submitted 51 days ago • 3 comments

Recently reviewed a brief report (two pager reporting negative results, but a good contribution to the field), reviews came back and they had FIVE people review it!?!

submitted 123 days ago • 1 comment

>4500 codes distributed! Please spread the word amongst clinicians, scientists, researchers, technicians, academics, and other scholars who would like to join: forms.gle/f3k65vC1JwgY... 🩺 🧪

submitted 535 days ago • 18 comments

her: did you spend all afternoon editing kevin james into that norman rockwell painting? me:

submitted 532 days ago • 64 comments