Inspection time! A Chaffinch has dropped by your feed to keep an eye on things... 👀
📷 @kiransimpson.bsky.social
Well, well, well.
It seems you've been paid a visit by the inspector Robin.
I do hope for your sake nothing is amiss...
Incredible time at #AIR2026 covering breadth of respiratory infection, microbiomes and immunology with some really beautiful biology. Thanks to fellow committee members @resp-micro.bsky.social @drclairesmith.bsky.social @ewanharrison.bsky.social , Alex Kayongo and organisers @eventswcs.bsky.social
Performing GPSC/lineage-specific analysis?
We have made assemblies and annotations for 73 common GPSCs more accessible than ever:
github.com/GlobalPneumo...
Annotations were generated using Bakta v1.11.4 with the v6.0 full database.
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Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Caturdays are for sleeping, preferably in the sun ☀️
#caturday #cats
Our Genomewatch on genomics to monitor emerging zoonotic threats is in the first Nature Reviews Microbiology of 2026! 🖥️🧬🦠 It's so exciting to see it in print, surrounded by so many other interesting papers!
Find our article: rdcu.be/e0TS1
Read the full issue: www.nature.com/nrmicro/volu...
Completed my first half marathon! 🏆
The big question is... Will it also be my last half marathon, given how fun it ended up being? 👀
Josie Bryant
You can now view a tree of 2,399,238 bacterial genomes we made from AllTheBacteria (on the great Taxonium):
taxonium.org/atb
That's a big tree!
(unless you're used to SC2 trees)
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Video
Global Pneumococcal Sequencing Project
Alannah King
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Alannah King
The reference genomes for common Global Pneumococcal Sequence Clusters (GPSCs) - GlobalPneumoSeq/gpsc-reference-genomes
