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The Women In Science Archive @wisarchive.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Today we celebrate the 150th anniversary of physicist Harriet Brooks's birth. Before marriage compelled her to give up her career, she was one of the world's most significant nuclear physicists, discovering the phenomenon of nuclear recoil, credit for which was stolen from her. tinyurl.com/mvcd3ape

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Wither: The Many Triumphs and Long Fall of Nuclear Physicist Harriet Brooks.

Reading the life of Harriet Brooks is like watching the gradual, inevitable unfolding of a horror movie. There's that same idyllic, promising beginning that suddenly gives way as the heroine puts her...

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The nuclear physicist Harriet Brooks, who was probably the first person to notice the recoil of an atomic nucleus due to emissions during nuclear decay, was born #OTD in 1876. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Credit: Notman Archives/Musée McCord

Black and white photo of Harriet Brooks. She has on a black dress with a high column collar, and she is looking to the right of the photographer.

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 02/07/2026

This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)

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Robert "The Bobby Yaga" McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Back from a long trip and in a weird state as far as dates go. But yesterday, June 28, I would have posted that physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer was born #OTD in 1906. She developed the nuclear shell model of the nucleus for which she was awarded the 1963 Nobel Prize in Physics. 🧪 ⚛️ 👩‍🔬 Image: APS

A black and white photo of Maria Goeppert Mayer. She is looking at the camera, wearing a white scarf around her neck. She has a short haircut in the photo.

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Culture Collections @culturecollections.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We have a job vacancy for a Lead Product and Distribution Manager at UKHSA. Lead product strategy, oversee global distribution, and provide scientific and technical support across our Culture Collections. Learn more and apply today: bit.ly/4xuxBWS #UKHSA #Vacancy

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@Loudmouthkid62 @loudmouthkid62.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

#BarbaraMcClintock American geneticist who won the 1983 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for her groundbreaking discovery of mobile genetic elements, popularly known as "jumping genes". She is the only woman in history to receive an unshared Nobel Prize in this category. #WomeninSTEM #SheShed

Barbara McClintock photo, 1947
Born: June 16, 1902, Hartford, Connecticut, U.S.
Died: September 2, 1992, Huntington, New York (aged 90)

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I love this charity- micro-loans to support local businesses and small enterprises in LMIC. Its lovely to see them suceed lendwithcare.org/referral/KFT...

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Microfinance from CARE International UK

CARE International's microfinance lending initiative

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Culture Collections @culturecollections.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

New at ECACC: DOS16 cell line from CellBank Australia. Adherent sarcoma line from a Li‑Fraumeni syndrome patient. ALT+ status makes it a robust model for telomere maintenance, genomic instability, and sarcoma research. bit.ly/4t0IqMY #ECACC #CultureCollections #UKHSA

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

Top 5 papers in GUM - EAGLE-1! Gepotidcin Works...... #BHIVABASHH26

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British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) @bashhuk.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🔍 #BHIVABASHH26 Session Spotlight! "From Healing to Control: Listening, Power and HIV Care" will be delivered by Pank Sethi from Positive East London, a charity offering HIV testing and wellbeing services for those living with HIV. Full programme ➡️ bit.ly/3PpnqBb

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Liz Highleyman @lizhighleyman.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Jeanne Marrazzo: “We want a magic pill for women, but no pill can provide the freedom and power that most cisgender men have to pursue the sex they want. Until we consider this power imbalance, the potential for this [doxyPEP] or any intervention will be limited.” #CROI2026

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

📣 UKHSA is asking sexual health clinics and labs across England to help build a clearer picture of gonorrhoea testing. Take part in this survey and help contribute to future improvements in GC culture! 🔗 surveys.ukhsa.gov.uk/s/sg01bo

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Michael Marks @drmichaelmarks.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Still time to apply and come and do modelling PhD on STI transmission and partner notification with me! UK fees & stipend covered. Get in touch to discuss before the application deadline of 14th January. @tah-sci.com @rozeggo.bsky.social @adamjkucharski.bsky.social @drlouisedyson.bsky.social

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Saganism @sagan.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” ― Margaret Mead

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

what a fabulous choice!!! Cream always rise to the top......

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

It’s that magical time of year 🥳 when we delete all work apps from our phones 🙌 Happy holidays everyone, and catch you in 2026! Oh, and don’t forget to register for the @shigellameeting.bsky.social

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

📣 UKHSA survey on gonorrhoea testing practices in England UKHSA is inviting sexual health services & diagnostic labs to take part in a national survey on current gonorrhoea testing practices across England. ⏱️ 15 minutes 🗓️ Deadline: 14 Jan 2026 🔗 Take part here: surveys.ukhsa.gov.uk/s/sg01bo

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 18/12/2025

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 21/11/2025

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

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Eurosurveillance journal @eurosurveillance.org · 21/11/2025

In our new issue, @ukhsa.bsky.social authors describe the early start to this year's #flu season in England with dominating #influenza A(H3N2) subclade K Conclusion: #vaccination is effective against clinical disease caused by A(H3N2) viruses 🗞️ bit.ly/EUS3046 #IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #PedSky 🛟🧪🦠

Table of content issue 46 in 2025

Rapid communication
Early influenza virus characterisation and vaccine effectiveness in England in autumn 2025, a period dominated by influenza A(H3N2) subclade K

Tracking the evolution of an extensively drug-resistant cross-border Mycobacterium tuberculosis cluster, Europe, January 2016 up to August 2025: implications for European surveillance

Global distribution of Xpert CT/NG assay Neisseria gonorrhoeae escape variants indicates sporadic emergence with limited clonality between 2016 and 2025

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Investigation of a measles outbreak in a highly vaccinated middle school, France, 2023

Concurrent outbreaks of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and O157:H39 with high asymptomatic carriage of other Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in nursery children, south-east Scotland, United Kingdom, July to October 2022

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WeRateDogs @weratedogs.com · 19/11/2025

Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

This #WAAW Don’t forget to get your awesome AMR abstracts submitted to join us in Hinxton to discuss AMR genomics, innovations in diagnostics, therapeutics, and data analytics, and novel mechanisms of antimicrobial survival! #AMR2026

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Happy 137 Birthday to the Pasteur institute

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British Association for Sexual Health and HIV (BASHH) @bashhuk.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

Lizzie Dale, the STASHH BSIG Representative, has given an insightful run-down of BSIG's new competencies assessment tool for microscopy in a newly published blog. 🔬 Read Lizzie's full blog via our LinkedIn page: bit.ly/47wsf2t to find out more about the new tool and how to access it.

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Gwen Pearson @bug-gwen.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

And now for something completely different: #EntSoc25 Entomologists! Please contribute to the iNaturalist collection of pubic lice! It's mostly from the EU at the moment. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/395978-...

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Crab Louse (Pthirus pubis)

The crab louse or pubic louse (Pthirus pubis) is an insect that is an obligate ectoparasite of humans, feeding exclusively on blood. The crab louse usually is found in the person's pubic hair. Althoug...

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 28/10/2025

Surely every case of congenital syphilis could be prevented with tests and treatment but important message never the less....

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Podcast with me and @turiking.bsky.social for the @milnerevolution.bsky.social series, on plasmid evolution over the last 100 years, talking about our ( @cazares-adr.bsky.social , Nick Thomson, @sarah1alexander.bsky.social & co) recent paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... youtu.be/Mzr3TD4ijs0?...

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How the Vectors of Antibiotic Resistance Have Evolved - Professor Zamin Iqbal

YouTube video by Milner Centre for Evolution

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

100% of Penile cancer is preventable!

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Next up - interesctionality and inequalities. IUSTI2025

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Very informative presentation by Kate Nambiar - common presentations in trans men accessing sexual health services #IUSTI

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Fabulous presentation by Dr. Janet Wilson at IUSTI2025. We should treat BV as a neglected condition

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Why does BV not resolve? Because of biofilms! #IUSTI

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Partner treatment for BV works and is well tolerated #IUSTI25

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

With regards to BV there is correlation between male and female microbiomes. #IUSTI25

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Serious adverse events associated with BV. However treatment has not changed or improved for 30 years. #IUSTI25

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 11/10/2025

Good night, friends. Tonight was deeply painful. We at CDC do this work because we care. It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.

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Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dr John Gilmore @gilmorejnurse.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Great to be in Athens for the 38th Annual IUSTI Europe Congress (International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infection). I’m presenting our work on Awareness, Attitudes and early Use of DoxyPEP in Ireland!

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Regulatory barriers prevent good quality tests getting to market! The system needs to be reformed #IUSTI2025

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Sarah Alexander @sarah1alexander.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

We need to reduce the incidence of GC why we have drugs that work: in MGEN we need to reduce testing, and preserve the drugs that we have. IUSTI25 - amazing presentation by David Lewis