Football is a potentially good game, ruined by the people who play it and the people who watch it
Alan McNally
@alanmcn1.bsky.social
Head of the School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @ Uni Birmingham. Proud Scot. Oversaw a few Covid PCR tests
The boy just came to talk to me and had no t shirt on. And I have now realised that if I really had to take him to task I am fuckin toast.
Maybe we could reduce the problem of overcrowded prisons by not sending people to jail for things like throwing soup at paintings.
Music FACT: For security reasons, Kenny Loggins changes his name every 28 days.
it’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
Has anyone run NanoCaller on ONT microbial genome reads? Experiences?
If you see this, quote the energy you bring to Bluesky
Douglas Cheape@douglascheape.bsky.social · yesterdayIf you see this, quote the energy you bring to BlueSky...
A stool transplant delivers billions of microbes into a sick gut. Almost none move in for good. We followed donor-recipient pairs from whole communities down to single nucleotides, and found the gut runs a ruthless strain-level filter. Out now in Cell Reports 🧵 www.cell.com/cell-reports...
Strain-level ecological filtering governs microbial colonization of the human gut
Baertschi et al. demonstrate that microbiota transplantation functions as a selective ecological filter. Although donor species frequently appear, only specific lineages achieve stable strain integrat...
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Universität Bern@unibe.ch · 2d agoA strict “gatekeeper” decides whether a #fecaltransplant is effective: sohub.io/wruy. This is shown by a new study led by @bahtiyil.bsky.social from #unibern & @inselgruppe.bsky.social @dbmr-unibe.bsky.social
Classic rage-baiting framing. "Labour paid £6.5m to foreign criminals" leaves out the key facts: it’s the Facilitated Return Scheme, run by Tories for 14 yrs & Blair before that. Saves £45k/yr per inmate. #MediaBias #FactCheck #UKPolitics #JournalismMatters www.dailymail.com/news/article...
Labour paid foreign criminals £6.5m of taxpayer cash to leave UK
Some £6.5million has been paid out to foreign criminals from when Labour came to power in July 2024 until October 2025, including £500 to convicted sex offender Hadush Kebatu (pictured).
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Beautiful work (Petrungaro, Bollenbach lab) on evo trajectories toward abx resistance (E. coli). Goes beyond many other studies in its attention to the experimental setup (identical selective pressure across all lines). I strongly recommend reading the entire paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Function-specific epistasis shapes evolutionary trajectories towards antibiotic resistance - Nature Communications
Antibiotic resistance can evolve through the combination of factors but the predictability of this is unclear. Here, the authors used high-throughput evolution experiments to reveal that antibiotic re...
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Incredibly exciting news to be welcoming @mahimaswamy.bsky.social to Manchester. Looking forward to discussions, collaborations and hearing more about all the exciting work coming out of the Swamy lab!!!
Lydia Becker Institute @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social · 5d ago📢 We are excited to announce Professor Mahima Swamy is joining the Becker! Mahima brings exceptional expertise in mucosal barrier immunity, focusing on how intraepithelial lymphocytes protect against infection and inflammatory bowel diseases. Find out more 👇 www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/l...
Someone start a party called Rebrand. The policies are basically Reform's, but without the window dressing. "We at Rebrand believe firmly in asset stripping the NHS, removing taxes on the super-rich, and destroying the environment."
One of the few positives of having your kitchen renovated. Guilt free midweek Domino’s
We need to take a moment to salute Gianni Infantino for being the first person in history to get 55 European countries to unanimously agree on anything.
I've said this before; anyone in a political leadership position who isn't making climate change their primary focus is delinquent in their job, and ensuring deaths. There cannot be any clearer signs we need to take urgent, immediate, drastic action. The planet is literally on fire.
RESEARCH: @ineosoxford.bsky.social study shows the expansion of industrial poultry farming has increased the movement of Campylobacter more than 100-fold. The findings show how bacteria can spread and evolve in commercial flocks, with implications for AMR. ➡️ Read more: https://tinyurl.com/32enfhck
I have had my laptop open for 30 minutes and I have had 4 peer review requests
When I do the skipping rope part of my morning exercises I can't be arsed buying a rope so I just pretend I have one and jump and twirl my arms like a cheerleader. That way I can't trip over.
Farage: I’ll get me coat. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Revealed: George Cottrell transferred $2m to his mother days before her donations to Reform UK
Exclusive: Sources say Fiona Cottrell told bankers the transfers, received 24-72 hours before her donations to Reform, came from her son
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