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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Today’s poem is called ‘The Good Old Days’.

The Good Old Days

Pity the poor children
of today, with their calendars
stuffed with chocolates,

never to know the thrill
of opening a small cardboard door
and discovering behind it

a picture of a bell.

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Billy Quilty @bquilty.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Very happy to share our new study out today in the New England Journal of Medicine, showing fewer PCV doses are non-inferior to standard schedules in maintaining control of vaccine-type carriage in Vietnam. This could make vacc programmes much more affordable for LMICs. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Effect of a Reduced PCV10 Dose Schedule on Pneumococcal Carriage in Vietnam | NEJM

After pneumococcal disease and colonization have been controlled through vaccination campaigns, a reduced pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV) schedule may be sufficient to sustain that control at ...

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Milot Mirdita @milot.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

MMseqs2 Release 16 Highlights: GPU-accelerated search📄, ORF or new 6-frame translated search modes, contig taxonomy always keeps the longest ORF, bug fixes (reduced memory and higher sensitivity) and relicensed as MIT 📄 biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 💾 mmseqs.com and 🐍Bioconda 🖥️🧬🧶

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Closing date 2 Dec, so get your applications in!

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Oliver Schwengers @oschwengers.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Info: We updated our Bakta WEB version: - MUCH faster annotations via optimized Kubernetes nodes and locally-attached databases - Software-Update to v1.10.1 - Database-Update to v5.1 Publicly available at: bakta.computational.bio

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🧬Jacob L Steenwyk @jlsteenwyk.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

NEW Publication!😄 Here, we show how #PhyKIT — a broadly applicable toolkit for #phylogenomics — can be used to construct phylogenomic data matrices (& quantify biases therein), detect anomalies in predicted orthology, calculate gene-gene coevolution, & more! 🔗: tinyurl.com/yc5ja4xz

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 21/11/2024

The first review article from my lab, helmed by @celiasouque.bsky.social, "From Petri Dishes to Patients to Populations: Scales and Evolutionary Mechanisms Driving Antibiotic Resistance" is now online and open access at Annual Reviews Microbiology: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

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Langridge Lab @langridgelab.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

HERE's our paper revealing phylogenomic variations in #Salmonella Agona that lead toward persistent infection dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1012679 Great job to our @Emmabeansworth.bsky.social, @gemma-langridge.bsky.social, @winnielee.bsky.social & UKHSA's Marie Chattaway & Amina Ismail Ahmed

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Duncan MacCannell @drm.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

I thought it might be worthwhile to do a quick primer on CDC.gov datasets and public data resources. 1. DATA.CDC.GOV (data.cdc.gov/browse) Datasets from across the agency, in browsable, machine readable format (Socrata system). Other/older collections are on: 2. WONDER.CDC.GOV (wonder.cdc.gov)

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Data | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Data published by CDC public health programs to help save lives and protect people from health, safety, and security threats.

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Kat Holt @katholt.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Kaptive v3 is out! It’s much faster than the old version, with improved typeability of K and O loci from low quality draft genomes. Go see Tom’s poster at #KLEBS24!

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Sam Horsfield @samuelhorsfield.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

We have a paid internship opportunity in our group at EMBL-EBI (Cambridge) starting in February 2025, working on pneumococcal serotyping using deep learning. (1/3)

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Simon Harris @simonrharris.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

What’s Michael Palin done to upset the Metro? “A Gumby was a recurring character featured throughout Monty Python’s works, usually played by Michael Palin, who was simple-minded.” metro.co.uk/2024/11/07/m...

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Monty Python collaborator claims Life of Brian was 'more accurate than Bible'

It was 'completely misunderstood'.

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Simon Harris @simonrharris.bsky.social · 28/11/2023

My first time in Zambia, attending the 3rd Conference on Public Health in Africa. Privileged to witness Tedros being awarded a lifetime achievement award. And I’ve never had lunch at a hotel with weaver birds and crocodiles next to me before.

Tedros being awarded a lifetime achievement award by the DG of Africa CDC

A masked weaver bird hanging from its nest

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Josh Quick @scalene.bsky.social · 06/11/2023

I'm happy to announce we received BMGF support to develop amplicon sequencing for wastewater surveillance! www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2023/1-... @pathogenomenick.bsky.social @simonrharris.bsky.social

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Simon Harris @simonrharris.bsky.social · 13/11/2023

Illumina have announce a new access program to help support global access to genomics www.illumina.com/company/news...

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Thom Sanger @thomsanger.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Please share widely. The Department of Biology at Loyola University Chicago is searching for a new assistant professor in genetics, genomics, or bioinformatics. I am chairing the search and will happily answer any questions about the position. www.careers.luc.edu/postings/26656

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Biology, Assistant Professor in Genetics/Genomics, Tenure-Track

Loyola University Chicago (LUC), College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Biology seeks qualified candidates for an appointment as Assistant Professor, beginning Fall 2024. The Department of Biolog...

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Leo Martins (he/him) @leomrtns.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

Come work with us! The Quadram is in search of a Head of Bioinformatics to lead and cultivate a specialised bioinformatics core support team. Applications Close 04 December 2023 quadram.ac.uk/vacancies/he...

Head of Bioinformatics to lead and cultivate a specialised bioinformatics core support team.
Salary: Competitive
Contract Length: Permanent
Apply by 4 December 2023

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Simon Harris @simonrharris.bsky.social · 21/10/2023

A week to go until the 2023 PHA4GE conference seems like a good time to encourage all genomic epi bioinformaticians to get involved and help develop standards and methods for open source, reproducible bioinformatics for global public health. pha4ge.org

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Alison Mather @alisonmather.bsky.social · 19/10/2023

PhD opportunity with me and Mark Webber! Some microbial genomics, some molecular biology, all fun. Apply here: buff.ly/3FjzrzS

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

PhD studentship with myself and Ed Feil at the University of Bath looking at the evolution and epidemiology of plasmids - in particular looking at plasmid fusions/hybrids/recombinants. Lots of fun bioinformatics! Open to UK or international students. #microsky www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

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Simon Harris @simonrharris.bsky.social · 07/10/2023

En route to Dakar for the Grand Challenges Annual meeting. Looking forward to our sessions on integrating genomics with epidemiology and modelling in LMICs and to experience everything else that’s planned.

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 06/10/2023

ACF opportunities in Infectious Disease at University of Birmingham www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/act...

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Simon Harris @simonrharris.bsky.social · 05/10/2023

This new paper from the Africa PGI discusses the future needs for pathogen genomics workforce development in Africa based on lessons learned from the last three years of the PGI www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 29/09/2023

👩‍🔬New **PostDoc** Opportunity!👨‍🔬 My new Epidemiology & Virus Evolution (EVE) group at SwissTPH is looking for a PostDoc in evolution & phylogenetics of respiratory viruses 🦠🌳 Interested? See here for more details & to apply! jobs.swisstph.ch/Vacancies/92... Please share!😁

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

I'm recruiting PhD students for Oct 24 start at University of Bath. Fully funded for UK students only. If interested in developing data structures/algorithms for bacterial genomics, or exploring plasmid epidemiology, or ML/AI on bacterial/phage geno/pheno data, give me a call!

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Yonatan Grad @yhgrad.bsky.social · 04/10/2023

Registration now open for this conference--Antimicrobial Resistance: Genomes, Big Data, and Emerging Technologies. Check out the amazing line-up of speakers, submit an abstract, and join us for an exciting meeting! coursesandconferences.wellcomeconnectingscience.org/event/antimi...

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