Looks like we’ll have a superb number of delegates for this! So looking forward to welcome colleagues to the great city of Liverpool.

Microbiology Society@microbiologysociety.org · last wk.

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The UK has existed as a state since 1801. The current borders of the UK have been in place since 1922. Do Reform UK politicians NOT know the basics of UK history?

Another of this clown’s predictions and timelines. And how much robotics seen in top US hospitals is currently being used across LMIC countries.

Taylor Noakes@taylornoakes.com · 3w ago

Words cannot describe how much I despise this person’s contempt for how hard real scientists work It’s the kind of attitude you can only get from inheriting a fortune from an Apartheid era emerald mine finance.yahoo.com/sectors/heal...

I'm sorry. Avocados do what now?

Jeff Groh@jeffgroh.bsky.social · 3w ago

Avocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Cannot be allowed to happen. If players whose wages I support through my season ticket take part in this, I’m done with the game. Corruption at a breathtaking scale.

Gerry Hassan@gerryhassan.bsky.social · 3w ago

The death of 'the People's Game' confirmed. Causes of death: many but culpable are the kleptocratic, corrupt people who run the game in the interests of the rich & powerful lining their own pockets.

Many European governments think this isn’t their problem. Perhaps think beyond next years’s budget and decades ahead. Or is prevention just a buzzword that sounds great next to AI.

Microbiology Society@microbiologysociety.org · 3w ago

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Catfish melanomas are the first example of a transmissible cancer in fish, new genetic studies reveal. https://scim.ag/4bE0fvg

Contagious fish cancer overruns New England lake

Catfish melanomas are the first example of a transmissible cancer in fish, genetic studies reveal

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Not a physicist but read the news about other facilities today- shocking. It’s not just a physics issue either. In virology old and young are giving up- and with the US in a dreadful state, just moving away is more difficult. Policy by buzzword. Why are we accepting this in the UK.

Conor Fitzpatrick@fitzparticle.bsky.social · 3w ago

"the best scientists will go wherever the best science can be done. And on this the signs are ominous. A recent survey found that nearly 80% of early-career physicists were considering leaving the UK after the funding crisis." @iansample.bsky.social for the Guardian:

No offence but 4 million isn’t going to get us very far. Perhaps on an isolated issue, great, but really, this shows how far we are falling behind fast.

European Commission@ec.europa.eu · 3w ago

Early and accurate detection of public health threats is vital in order to minimise damage, protect people and save lives. Together with the WHO, we are stepping up cooperation on global pandemic preparedness, monitoring and response. link.europa.eu/DgTyjc

I guess Open AIs rogue agent hacking Hugging Face is a “lab leak” of sorts and we will see US conservatives all worried about the damage it could do….or does money win, as always?

Why don't Farage, Tice & Jenrick just come clean on their finances? They don't want to because until February 2025 Reform was a private company owned 53% by Farage & 33% by Tice. Reform was made & run with secretive, opaque finances which has come home to roost. Graph: FT

One shot of lenacapavir, a new HIV prevention drug, can protect for 6 months—but aid cuts and uncertain demand mean little drug has reached the countries that most need it. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4hvA6m6

When will these self-obsessed fanatical Brexiteers ever stop? Not content with inflicting one destructive 10 year plan on the UK no one voted for they are off with their self-assuredness & arrogance proposing another. Nearly as bad as Soviet 5 year plans.

Bought our first electric car. European brand. Musk’s latest interview is worth listening to for anyone considering buying products involving him.

Like asking alphafold the structure of something it hasn’t seen before. The dumbification continues.

David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 4w ago

This is the kind of idiocy you get on Threads. I think the main purpose of pursuing a PhD is to develop your thinking, research, and communication skills, which you can't do in 45 minutes on Claude.

The genuine collective joy of the Spanish national team. And in the corner Infantino leading Trump off the podium: two corrupt, amoral men who have diminished and tarnished the World Cup.

Embarrassing half time stuff at the final. This is everything football shouldn’t be. Add to this a crowd that is asleep.

Infantino really needs to stop embarrassing the world of football. We get it. You’ll sell out to anyone.

From 'stop the boats' to 'stop the bungs' in Clacton with Farage.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... Same is happening in the UK and Europe- just in different ways.

Is the US trying to make scientists’ work so difficult that they simply give up? | Daniel Malinsky

New Trump administration rules would undermine longstanding research practices. It’s death by a thousand cuts

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Many years ago the Institute of Economic Affairs was a serious think-tank of the intellectual right. You could disagree but it had earned respect. Now it is a pseudo-think-tank & corporate lobbying agency led by the ridiculous Daniel Hannan. Who of course is in a lather abt Count Binface.

Standing up against the establishment on behalf of *checks notes* "a very successful aristocratic family".

It is indeed tricky to keep up. Perhaps Le Pen can advise…oh wait.

Sarah Murphy@13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · last mo.

The current stack of charges against Farage and Reform. Just in case you’d lost count. Spoilt-brat richboy, Tice, calls it all “a politically motivated smear” rather than the frenziedly greedy and corrupt piss-taking that it is. “Reform and Farage have repeatedly denied any wrongdoing” (iPaper)

A bin would do a better job. And be useful.

PoliticsJOE@politicsjoe.bsky.social · last mo.

Polling done by Ipsos in the UK has Count Binface MILES ahead of Nigel Farage. 33% of Brits would prefer the Count wins the Clacton by-election than the Reform leader, who is on a meagre 21%.

It’s not too late to register for the International Meeting on Arboviruses and their Vectors, September 1 & 2, Liverpool. You’re not supporting some commercial entity. This is a Microbiology Society focused meeting. From the community, for the community. By the community.

139 genomes now sequenced from the ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo virus disease outbreak in DRC, spanning 16 Health Zones. Led by INRB with support from the ARTIC network (Wellcome Trust and Gates Foundation). Full analysis: virological.org/t/genomic-ep...

Genomic epidemiology of the ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Genomic epidemiology of the ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB), Kinshasa – DRC and partners Conte...

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Ever since King Henry III rolled out the Communist Manifesto at Westminster in 1226.

I understand the need for diplomacy but European leaders need to be firm in face of threats by a guy who is as mad as he is dangerous. Rutte in particular is a joke.

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · last mo.

I have shocking news to report: An hour in to the NATO summit and Trump has already make a complete ass of himself on the world stage again, trashing our closest allies for decades while praising Putin and Erdogan and ranting one lie after another.

🇫🇷 🇵🇾 ⚽ France to probe Paraguayan lawmaker's racist Mbappe remarks Paris' public prosecutor has opened an investigation into a Paraguayan lawmaker's comments about France football captain Kylian Mbappe. Celeste Amarilla called Mbappe a "colonised Cameroonian who has really pretended to be French"

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