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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

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

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BEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

RFI: Undiagnosed febrile illnesses among Grand Canyon river rafters, Arizona, USA. RFI on diagnostic test results and any additional cases spr.ly/63320BE6NJY

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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 02/06/2026

PhD position (Cambridge, UK) Evaluating the UK Vaccine Programme Holistically with Caroline Trotter at University of Cambridge More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2549

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

There hasn't previously been a treatment vs pancreatic cancer this successful. Striking improved (a doubling) survival results @nejm.org and @ascocancer.bsky.social published today with daraxonrasib, which also became available via an FDA-approved early access program nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

It's striking. Both the under- and over-use of AI in medicine, by patients and doctors, for where there's evidence and where it doesn't exist erictopol.substack.com/p/the-parado...

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The Paradox of Medical AI Implementation

From Missed Opportunities to Missing Evidence

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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" “This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation” @qasimrashid.com’s piece is something all men need to sit with www.qasimrashid.com/p/men-we-nee...

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Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy"

This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation

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Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

First "six foot social distancing" was early pandemic-era canon, and now it's accused of being theater. It's neither. The military has used 6 foot bed spacing to prevent disease transmission since Florence Nightingale's time during the Crimean War, and continues to do so today.

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IDDjobs @iddjobs.org · 25/03/2026

Multiple Postdoc (West, Singapore) Dengue and arbovirus epidemiology and modelling with Angkana T. Huang at National University of Singapore (NUS) More details: iddjobs.org/jobs/2499

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Wellcome Sanger Institute @sangerinstitute.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

The first large-scale genetic study of E. coli’s protective armour has found 5 capsule types that account for 70% of multidrug-resistant bloodstream infections in Europe. Creating a blueprint of E. coli’s armour can help design new ways to tackle the strains that cause infections. bit.ly/41wdOY4

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Tracking bacteria’s protective armour could help find targeted vaccine targets

Using genomic sequencing to map E. coli’s protective capsule, experts have created a database of 90 different capsule types, highlighting those that are most likely to cause infections.

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Are you interested in how your genomics work can meaningfully feed into addressing the UK National Action Plan on AMR? 🧬🧫 🦠💊 Then check out our handy personal view out today in Lancet Microbe … 🧵1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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The role of microbial genomics in delivering the UK’s national action plan for confronting antimicrobial resistance 2024–29

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human and animal health, in addition to environmental resilience. Countries set the agenda on thei…

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Dr Roz Eggo @rozeggo.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Launch of the Global Society of Infectious Disease Dynamics. 🎉 2 online webinars on Thursday 26th. Do join to see what it's all about, and get involved in the community as it kicks off! www.gsidd.org/post/join-us...

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Join us for the launch event!

We are excited to invite you to the official launch of the Global Society for Infectious Disease Dynamics (GSIDD) on February 26th, 2026.This launch marks an important milestone for our global communi...

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Gerry Tonkin-Hill @gerrythill.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

It's a bit last minute, but we have an RA/junior postdoc position available in my lab (closing Sunday). Please reach out if you're interested in developing and applying methods to analyse microbial genomes and metagenomes! careers.petermac.org/job/MELBOURN...

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Research Assistant - Tonkin-Hill Lab

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

A long time ago in a galaxy far away, there was a SARS-CoV-2 pandemic. Our paper, led by @martibartfast.bsky.social a) correcting errors in 4.5 million genomes & their phylogeny b) improving representation of the Global South in public data www.nature.com/articles/s41... (thread 1/n)

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Addressing pandemic-wide systematic errors in the SARS-CoV-2 phylogeny - Nature Methods

This Resource paper presents a global SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree of 4,471,579 high-quality genomes consistently constructed by Viridian, an efficient amplicon-aware assembler.

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Almost 4000 people have done this quiz so far, although younger groups still under-represented in case you know anyone who'd like to give it a go and see how they compare to others! probability.kucharski.io

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James McInerney @jomcinerney.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

New preprint reveals bacteria can't just collect all resistance genes like Pokemon cards. We found mutually exclusive evolutionary pathways to multidrug resistance in E. coli & P. aeruginosa - some resistance mechanisms actively prevent others from coexisting www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Genomic constraints shape the evolution of alternative routes to drug resistance in prokaryotes

Background Variation within the prokaryotic pangenome is not random, and natural selection that favours particular combinations of genes appears to dominate over random drift. What is less clear is wh...

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Tommi Mäklin @themaklin.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

New preprint: we used k-mer matching with suffix match length information to create an assembly-to-assembly alignment algorithm + software, kbo. We wanted to create a reference-based aligner and variant caller that scales to at least 10-100k bacterial queries. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Sequence alignment with k-bounded matching statistics

Finding high-quality local alignments between a query sequence and sequences contained in a large genomic database is a fundamental problem in computational genomics, at the core of thousands of biolo...

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Schmidt Science Fellows @schmidtfellows.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

We are excited to announce our 2025 Schmidt Science Fellows! 32 early career researchers, nominated by the world’s leading research universities, who will take an interdisciplinary approach to advancing discovery schmidtsciencefellows.org/news/2025-fe...

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Nonia Pariente @npariente.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Very interesting opportunity for a female African microbiologist. @tuliodna.bsky.social @ckyobutungi.bsky.social Please promote

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Billy Quilty @bquilty.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Interested in pursing a PhD in infectious disease dynamics, artificial intelligence, and behavioural science? Come and join myself and Professor Stefan Flasche at the Charité Center for Global Health in Berlin: karriere.charite.de/en/job-vacan...

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Alt CDC (they/them) @altcdc.altgov.info · 14/02/2025

Goodnight friends. We end today with this quote for ourselves and for our new secretary of HHS.

But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four.
― Albert Camus, The Plague

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Sophie Belman @sophiebelman.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I’m racing a Half Ironman triathlon this June. 2km swim, 90km cycle, 20km run and raising money for the Meningitis Research Foundation. Meningitis has ~2.5 million cases and 250,000 deaths annually predominantly among children. Any donation would be great! gofund.me/a958252f

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Donate to Half Iron(wo)man for Meningitis Research, organized by Sophie Belman

I will be racing my first Half Ironman triathlon in Zurich this June. It includ… Sophie Belman needs your support for Half Iron(wo)man for Meningitis Research

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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Our mSCAPE project has been formally announced to the world by @smhopkins.bsky.social at #FOG2025 today: www.gov.uk/government/n... - a really exciting academic-public health collaboration to build a surveillance platform leveraging NHS metagenomic diagnostic data. @meerac.bsky.social

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UKHSA launches new metagenomic surveillance for health security

The UK launches mSCAPE, a world-first metagenomics initiative by UKHSA to enhance health security through rapid pathogen detection and surveillance.

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Noémie Lefrancq @noemielefrancq.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

Incredibly excited to share that our manuscript was just published in @nature.com ! What a way to start the new year! 🎉 buff.ly/4gyYCzx We present phylowave, a framework that enables to learn the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies. 🧵 A thread... 1/n #IDSky #IDModelling

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Learning the fitness dynamics of pathogens from phylogenies - Nature

Phylowave, an innovative phylogenetic approach, can identify the main circulating pathogen lineages with increased fitness and the associated genetic changes, enabling the timely identification of…

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Ross Fitzgerald @jrossfitz.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

New MRC-funded postdoc with me on comparative bacterial genomics/phylodynamics @roslininstitute.bsky.social university of Edinburgh. Great multidisciplinary team and collaboration with partners at Shanghai Jao Tong University. elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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PDRA in Bacterial Genomics

We are looking for a Post-Doctoral Research Associate in Bacterial Genomics at the Laboratory for Bacterial Evolution and Pathogenesis (www.ed.ac.uk/roslin/research/divisions/bacteriology/lbep) at The...

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Sophie Belman @sophiebelman.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Had a great whirlwind of a trip to Tokyo for #SMBE workshop on pangenomics with an inspiring community of people. Fun to present preliminary results on the environment and the pneumococcus! Thanks to #isppd and #schmidtsciencefellows for my funding and the organizers for my registration bursary.

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Kate Baker @ksbakes.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

There are four (that's right four!) academic posts open at the School of Biological sciences at Cambridge University. Check them out here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/?categor... Gr10/11 (AssocProf/Reader; now Prof) Closing 26/1/25. Looking for excellent, collaborative people. Spread the word!

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Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge

Current Academic jobs at the University of Cambridge.

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Kim R. van Daalen @daalenkim.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🚨In our new Lancet Planetary Health 📰 #COP29 we discuss the climate-health-gender nexus by 🔎 reviewing gendered health impacts of #climatechange ⌛️ summarising gender & health in UNFCCC processes 📉 assessing the gender gap in delegations at COP1-28 Full ➡️ 👀 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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