Professor for Mucosal Immunology, ETH Zürich, Switzerland, and Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, Oxford, UK. We work on novel oral vaccines, AMR, and microbiome function. Making science fairer, kinder and more equitable 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️. Views are my own.
Emma Slack
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One city. 9 million people. All of us Londoners. We will never be divided.
Breaking: Trump orders the dismantling of the US Forest Service.
All regional offices are being shut down and the research program destroyed.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan
Brian Tyler Cohen
Without statistics regulation we get the 600% nonsense practiced in the US.
Newborn meningitis is one of the most dangerous childhood infections.
@mucosalimmunology.bsky.social & colleagues developed an approach that stops harmful bacteria before transmission, combining an oral vaccine, harmless competitor bacteria, and bacteriophages.
www.path.ox.ac.uk/news-article...
Malawi, 2004. I came home from the hospital & drew a picture of siblings with #measles. It was striking; I hadn’t seen it in the UK. Now #vaccination rates are slipping, it’s back. It’s highly infectious & risks deadly complications both during acute infection & long term. #VaccinesWork. #IDSky 🧪
Emma Slack and collaborators have developed a preventive approach that stops harmful bacteria in their tracks before transmission even occurs.
www.path.ox.ac.uk
Dr Duncan Robertson
If you are a UCL student you can register for the hopeful Sustainability Leadership Conference next week. I'll be there but dont let that put you off 🤓 studentsunionucl.org/sustainabili...
What a shock that the Prasad/Hoeg claim about child deaths from the COVID vaccine was a big fat lie.
Philippa Matthews
Check out our work on E. coli capsules! Including a 3x extended catalog of capsule loci from >37K genomes, a scalable tool to type them in silico (kTYPr) and new associations with ecology and disease!
A joint effort from @microbiomeresearch.bsky.social @mucosalimmunology.bsky.social at @ethz.ch.
🧪 #AcademicSky 🇬🇧 30% staff cut in Chemistry at Nottingham. Two years ago, the Department received the RSC Prize in Excellence for Higher Education.
Resources and talent going to waste. UKG doing nothing to preserve strategic know-how for the country.
www.chemistryworld.com/news/notting...
tough to overstate how quickly science funding in New Zealand has been blown to pieces - on Friday the NZ govt straight up disbanded the Marsden fund (our version of the NSF)
it'll be replaced by a 'transition fund' with less money and zero information, as of yet, about what it will support
#nzpol
The Dunn School, Oxford
The department's technicians and support staff are also at risk
The climate and biodiversity crisis affects us all. Our planet faces unsustainable rising temperatures and the destruction of natural habitats. But there is hope.
Also been over 9 months since we’ve had a permanent chair to the UK Statistics Authority, and no plan to recruit one till a National Statistician is in place.
Respect to those holding the fort, but it’s not great for the statistics of the nation…
uksa.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/news/update-...
Out Now! In silico typing maps the natural diversity of Escherichia coli transporter-dependent capsules #MicroSky
Nature Microbiology, Published online: 23 April 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02323-5Escherichia coli ABC transporter-dependent capsule gene analysis alongside the development and application of the kTYPr in silico capsule typing tool uncovers E. coli capsule diversity across environments.
“According to the FDA email from Prasad…they determined 10 children died "after and because of" the COVID vaccine. But Prasad said the true number was likely higher”.
What the report ACTUALLY said:
“No cases [of pediatric deaths] were classified as certain in relation to COVID-19 vaccination”.
