New preprint! The first first-author work of my postdoc at the Baker! So, babies' airways are colonised from birth, and our group has shown that early colonisers shape respiratory health. 1/7
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
the FT has two pieces on the slow-motion collapse of UK higher ed. 4/5ths of unis are doing voluntary layoffs; 38% are doing compulsory. Meanwhile Britain and its flatlined productivity growth sleepwalks through its unprecedented loss of advanced capabilities www.ft.com/content/8097...
45 = senior?!? 😭
Rapid release of multiplex PCR amplicon scheme for Andes hantavirus whole genome sequencing validated on control material: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @scalene.bsky.social @stevepullan.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social output from HPRU in Public Health Genomics
Useful article: How to deal with disappointment – by an expert in this misunderstood emotion theconversation.com/how-to-deal-...
Question: anyone struggle with Streptococcus pneumoniae growth in plasticware? Eliminated almost every other variable and it's lovely in glass but terrible in polystyrene plates. Anyone observed, got a mechanism or a fix? Driving us potty!
A little write up of Uzal's (Lecturer and Research Associate at University of Jos Plateau State in Nigeria) @bactivac.bsky.social supported visit to learn pneumococcal genomics with me and biofilms with @allan-lab.bsky.social www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/sp...
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Boom!! Finally. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...
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Respiratory Microbiomes
In our professional and personal lives, disappointment is an emotional signal worth learning to read.
