Yoga bunny. Cake guru. Scientist by day. Assistant Professor at @unibirmingham.bsky.social
Interested in fungal ‘omics and One Health, evolutionary biology and popgen, epidemiology and promoting women in STEM
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Still no UK passport for my daughter because HMPO today requested a HANDWRITTEN letter confirming my mothers details….
She’s British enough to be denied entry into the U.K. but not British enough with a British parent and grandparent.
Make it make sense.
My quote of the day
Rosalind Franklin
Metadata as Infrastructure.
I finally created a Substack! My first post is on a topic that I probably spend entirely too much time worrying about. 😊
please reshare with your #genomics and #bioinformatics peeps! 🙏 🧬🦠🔬📊🧫🚀 substack.com/home/post/p-...
#ASMicrobe #digitalbiology #biotech #biopharma
We have an open-rank professorship position open @unileiden.bsky.social Institute of Biology: careers.universiteitleiden.nl/job/Assistan... welcome to apply!
due: 7 June
This is bad. The parasitic New World screwworm has been found inside the United States, in a calf in Texas. Announced by the USDA one day after the USDA Secretary publicly rebuked a Texas state rep for saying the parasite had advanced close to the border.
www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...
jobs.surrey.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...
Our School of Veterinary Medicine is recruiting a (senior) lecturer in #Microbiome Sciences, deadline is 16th of June 2026. We want to expand our capabilities in the microbiome field, quite flexible on what will be investigated within #OneHealth #MicrobiomeSky 1/n
"communicating microbiology beyond the research bubble is important" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
My dad today getting the news he’s cancer-free is the best. How wonderful that he had access to treatment *free at point of care*
I love finding new Substacks to read! @bioinformer.bsky.social has a new one: bioinformer.substack.com/p/metadata-a...
Metadata is essential infrastructure, and critical if we want to uphold FAIR data standards.
Also add the paper Jonathan wrote to your reading list: zenodo.org/records/2056...
An important Nature Outlook article from Nic Fleming on antifungal resistance:
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
USDA APHIS confirms New World screwworm in a Texas calf; immediate containment, surveillance, and sterile fly release are underway to protect livestock.
The University of Surrey is an international University with a world class teaching and research profile that is innovative, forward thinking and achieving notable results. Our research seeks to addre...