Zannah Salter
@zannahdu.bsky.social
Pathogen genomics, Ornithobacterium hominis, microbiome (and contamination of course!) at University of Cambridge
Many years ago me and my husband went to a gig, and when we arrived the support act was already on. This support act was, honestly and literally, a dude with a keyboard screaming into a toilet. Eventually the music stopped and the screaming stopped and some people started tentatively clapping,
Wow! A fourth class of transmissible cancers. CONTAGIOUS FISH MELANOMA, discovered in Lake Memphremagog (Vermont / Quebec) 🎣 🧬 😷 www.nature.com/articles/s41... @uvmvermont.bsky.social
Brown bullhead catfish melanoma represents a novel transmissible cancer - Nature
Whole-genome sequencing analysis of tumour and matched non-tumour host tissues of the brown bullhead catfish reveals a type of naturally occurring transmissible cancer.
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By Julia Marshall as first author and led by Professors Kate Baker and Henrik Salje as co-leading authors (@hsalje.bsky.social @ksbakes.bsky.social), please see our new article about the genomic epidemiology of the spread of sexually transmitted #Shigella: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 🛟🧪🧬🖥️🦠💉🧫😷
The spread of sexually transmissible drug-resistant shigellosis in England: a genomic epidemiology study
Our study shows the distinct and intensifying sexual transmission of shigellosis, highlighting the urgent need to address sexually transmissible shigellosis as a distinct health threat. Traditional in...
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Very proud of this preprint out of my lab, our first (of hopefully many) host-microbe spatial transcriptomics paper. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... Amazing insights into P. aeruginosa biology and chronic airway disease @cysticfibrosis.org.uk @sangerinstitute.bsky.social @asthmaandlung.org.uk
Do not use AI generated images to guide you in packaging your biohazard shipments 😱 This UN3373 diagram was on a british hazardous goods logistics company's website. It's not good.
I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇
The Thermo Fisher situation keeps getting worse. We've now collected 450+ problematic images presented as verification data in TF's antibody catalog. This includes: 🖌️ Dozens more images with duplications or painting 🖨️ Hundreds of blots that all share the same background (behold slideshow below)
Ignoring the rest of my life to post my eldritch Garfield poem, specifically its Garfield-as-Eldritch-Sea-God-of-Late-Capitalism with all of us unknowingly partaking of his microplastic communion. Originally published in Broken Sleep Book's 'Footprints: An Anthology of New Ecopoetry' 2022
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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️@napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 3mo agoQuote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap
New preprint! The first first-author work of my postdoc at the Baker! So, babies' airways are colonised from birth, and our group has shown that early colonisers shape respiratory health. 1/7 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Penny found in soil above air raid shelter. Archaeological evidence that WW2 took place sometime before 1946. But when exactly? We’ll have to keep digging to find out.
When I was little I heard the phrase "rainy day fund" or "saving for a rainy day" and deduced that the rainy day in question was a time when you were really bored and needed a little treat, like being stuck inside because it's raining. Rainy day fund = little treat fund.
My super department @warwicklifesci.bsky.social is hiring 6 assistant profs in the wake of recent retirements. We're looking for people in microbiology/infection, cellular disease / immunity; environmental biology; and plant/crop science. #MicroSky warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/lang-en-G...
Assistant Professor x6 (111522-0426) - University of Warwick
Title: Assistant Professor x6 (111522-0426). Application Deadline: . Position Type: Permanent
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Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
Hi! I'm a scientist studying artificial stuff in animal nests, and I'm looking for a #Pokémon expert. 🌍 Yup, I found some Pokémon in a nest!! 😲 Specifically, the question concerns dating pieces of packaging, which might be tricky. Who knows EVERYTHING about Pokémon? Who can I send a DM to? 😅
a cartoon pikachu with a surprised look on his face .
Alt: a cartoon pikachu with a surprised look on his face .
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Commuting on a bike across the city of Cambridge involves more cows than you might think 🐄
Huzzah! Tomorrow's Sewage Spill Day when the full stats are released on how much was discharged into rivers, lakes and coasts last year. To whet your appetites I’ve mapped the 2025 spills at outfalls affecting bathing waters. Here are the top 10 worst offenders in reverse order:
Department of Veterinary Medicine is open for the #CambridgeFestival West Campus open day! Come and explore our activities and talks! @camvetschool.bsky.social @cambridgefestival.bsky.social
#Microbiology question for the masses! Why might a bug grow on Columbia w blood, but barely survive on Columbia chocolate format? The base medium is almost identical, just slightly less peptone I think. No abx in either. 🧐
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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Interactive exploration of large phylogenetic trees
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The destruction of short courses and continuing education departments in UK universities did enormous harm to the ability of these three realms of archaeology - amateur, academic, professional - to overlap and interact, and destroyed longstanding alternative career paths.
Statement from the University on the future of the vet school. www.cam.ac.uk/notices/news...
General Board meeting about veterinary education at the University of Cambridge
Statement on veterinary education at the University of Cambridge
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Cambridge University has just announced that the proposal to close its undergraduate course in veterinary medicine, which would have led to the end of its Vet School and Hospital, has been dropped. The vets will carry on with the reforms they had already launched and the course continues. Victory!!
I don't think that the reviewers asking me for higher animal numbers really understand how many 40 goats are. Do you know the CHAOS that comes with dealing with 40 GOATS in an experimental setting! Mice people cannot comprehend. 3 goats alone ate a tarp, a clock, and 2 expensive accelerometers!
a group of goats standing in a grassy field looking at the camera
Alt: a group of goats running towards the camera
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[Lindisfarne] Me: (chanting) teeth, teeth- Other fossil hunters: teeth, TEETH British Geological Society: [pounding its clipboard] TEETH, TEETH, TEETH!
'Smiling' fossil discovered in Northumberland
The unusual looking fossil is estimated to be a few hundred million years old dating to the Carboniferous period.
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Bit different from our usual work A PhD applying metagenomics to identify microbial plastic degradation and metabolism, fully funded studentship (UK students only). www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
A metagenomics approach to discover novel plastic degrading microbial pathways at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - A metagenomics approach to discover novel plastic degrading microbial pathways at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
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My brother draws and prints custom cards and they're always amazing. This one apparently honours my taste in books
