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Screwworm returns to the Americas. Larvae can devour a full-grown steer in a week. Eliminated in the US in 1966—but outbreaks hit Texas (90k cases in 1972) & Florida Keys deer in 2016. New cases in Mexico now demand the US and Mexico cooperate and new agreement signed www.usda.gov/about-usda/n...

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The world’s not all awful. Yesterday I spent some time with alpacas.

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Happy Star Wars Day to Lumpy in particular.

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FIVE PENCILS, KID. FIVE

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Killing off the university sector once and for all for a politcal battleground which Labour will never win… instead of reclassifying the immigration statistics as we always should have to reflect the fact the vast majority of foreign students leave the UK. Stupid. Unserious. Utterly self-defeating.

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It’s Star Wars Day, you say? Then it’s time once more for one of my favourite things ever. Written by @quantick.bsky.social

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@vicderbyshire.bsky.social @chadbourn.bsky.social Winning reform candidates in emotional meltdown post count in #rugby #warwickshire

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from today's post, dealing with hateful fucking screech-monkey Nancy Mace's inability to ever shut her vile, attention-seeking mouth. please read the whole thing, thanks! link is here: bit.ly/3Z3MsI3 (and as always, there's a longer excerpt in the alt text)

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Mystique is here! When I started my position at @cmdi.bsky.social there were no readily available phage against my A. baumannii focal strain. The solution? Finding my own phage ofc. Mystique is a broad host range Acinetobacter phage, and I'm thrilled to see this work out today #PhageSky 🧪🦠

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To be clear, Germany is cracking down on a Neo-Nazi party, and the US government is defending the Neo-Nazi party

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I started my scientific career in snake venom toxins. This is fascinating and just a bit weird. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/h...

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Nice blog post by @charlottetolonen.bsky.social from a couple of weeks ago about how to use conda for #bioinformatics without running afoul of anaconda licensing: blog.fulcrumgenomics.com/p/anaconda-l... 🧬 🖥️

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With just one week to go until Dundead 2025, we asked festival programmer Michael Coull to share more about what’s coming up. Watch our full video here: youtu.be/EnGJy-6hgto Find out even more about the festival and book your tickets or pass here: tinyurl.com/3jurjmsc

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Doug's great to work with - if you've got any alignment with this area and are looking for a post, this is a great opportunity. #plantscience #plantscijobs Even better, it's in Lancashire!

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Just over a week left to apply for a 3yr postdoc with me at Lancaster @lancasterplantbio.bsky.social looking at Rubisco engineering in vitro and in vivo to improve plant #photosynthesis #plantscijobs wp.lancs.ac.uk/lancsphotosy...

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Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.

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🦠Happy to share that our paper studying >3000 Klebsiella pneumoniae genomes in a #OneHealth perspective is now published in Genome Medicine! #MicroSky 🎉 @irenlohr.bsky.social @katholt.bsky.social genomemedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

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Excited to share new research led by our very own @lingdong-shi.bsky.social showing that many archaeal 23S rRNAs are circularized in active ribosomes. Check out the preprint below.

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Just in case you thought your line manager’s threats meant anything.

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This is a new image from #JWST. The bright points with spikes are stars in the Milky Way. Everything else is a galaxy. Everything. Else. Is. A. Galaxy.

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"When you mix politics and science, you just get politics." The former NIH director Francis Collins talks about the effects of polarization and misinformation on public health: bit.ly/4iFKe8K

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100 DAYS...of lying, grifting, lawbreaking, division, incompetence, ignorance, illegal deportations, self-aggrandizement, vulgarity, self-pity, cruelty, ignoring the Supreme Court & due process while attacking: the Media, Universities, Law Firms, the Courts & Journalists. 1362 Days to go...

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We've been working behind-the-scenes to add even more horror fun to Dundead! We're delighted to be welcoming some special guests and we've added a programme of exciting (and terrifying!) short films to the line-up. Find out more: tinyurl.com/3juwed7u

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As I might have said 27 years ago if there was social media: ANNOUNCING GCUA: General Codon Usage Analysis. I published first version in 1999 & I wrote it in C. The current version is written in python and has a few more bells and whistles, particularly plotly visualizations github.com/mol-evol/gcua

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Super excited to share a new preprint from our lab on design of small-molecule binding proteins using neural networks! The paper has a bit of everything. A new graph neural network, new design algorithms, and experimental validation. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 🧵🧪

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We happily present: “Bakta Web – rapid and standardized genome annotation on scalable infrastructures” @OxUniPress NAR’s Web Server issue doi.org/10.1093/nar/... Easy to use, no registration, fast, scalable, various visualizations, in sync with Bakta CLI: bakta.computational.bio (1/5)

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Attention long read metagenomists! This feels like an important read. Misassemblies stitching together bacteria, archaea, and euks all into the same contigs, yikes! Reports of circularisation isn’t robust. There’s a lot in here to ponder.

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There's an open call for editors (5-year terms) at Applied and Environmental Microbiology, for those of you who might be interested: journals.asm.org/journal/aem/...

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Never thought I would see this mashup... #retrogaming #microbiology #policy

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If you think research is expensive check how much diseases cost

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Not a single international cargo ship at the Port of Seattle. The port is dead. The last ship from China will dock at a West coast port on the 29th, and the last Chinese ship will dock on the East coast around May 10th. After that, there will be no more shipments arriving from China. We’re screwed.

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If you kidnap and disappear a 4-year-old with stage 4 cancer, you should at a minimum spend the rest of your life behind bars. If you do it as part of an ethnic cleansing program, you should do your hard time at the Hague.

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1/ Matrix algebra felt abstract—until I applied it to biology. Now it's everywhere in my code, from RNAseq to proteomics. Let me show you.

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Tracking different serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae can be tricky. GNASTy is a scalable analysis method for use with portable Nanopore Adaptive Sampling for real-time detection of S. pneumoniae, helping track vaccine performance. Find out more 👇 genome.cshlp.org/content/earl... 🧬🖥️

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Dr. Eric Rubin, editor in chief of the New England Journal of Medicine describes the letter he received from a Trump-loving federal prosecutor as “vaguely threatening.” The publication is considered the world’s most prestigious medical journal. Without evidence it's being accused as biased 👇

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ChatGPT's values, according to ChatGPT:

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🚨New publication🚨 We show that K. Pneumoniae bacteriophages can be incorporated into alginate to create an antibiofilm matrix effective against clinical K. pneumoniae strains academic.oup.com/jambio/artic...

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Not really my announcement to make--I am but a lesser co-author--but IQ-TREE 3 has just been released! (Most credit to Minh Bui and @roblanfear.bsky.social and their labs) ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v...

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oh guys, you're going to love this - over the past three years, a mysterious thief has been going around the French town of Pau and specifically stealing the Us from shop signs, no-one knows why:

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