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Tim Read

@timothyread.bsky.social
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Professor, Emory University Schools of Medicine, Atlanta. Microbiology, genomics, genetics, bioinformatics. scholar.google.com/citations?user=X…

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Shaun Brinsmade (he/him) @shaunbrinsmade.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Interested in host-pathogen interactions? Bacterial physiology? Looking to earn a PhD in Washington, DC, with ties to the NIH and NSF? Check out the PhD Program in Biology at Georgetown and the Brinsmade lab. We're recruiting for Fall 2027! @gubiology.bsky.social biology.georgetown.edu/phd-program/
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Biology Ph.D. Program | Georgetown University
Pursue your Ph.D. in Biology at Georgetown—where cutting-edge research, expert mentorship, and a supportive community prepare you for scientific leadership.
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pre-2023: Make sure you have no typos in your CV!!! Post-2023: Make sure you have typos in your CV!!!
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Adrian Woolfson @adrianwoolfson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Anthropic’s phage enzyme discovery using Claude www-cdn.anthropic.com/22573675ada5...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I made this summary for myself to avoid toggling between the 2011 staph aureus IDSA guidelines and part 1 of the latest IDSA/ESCMID consensus statements. FYI I used an AI tool to compare both documents then proofed it by reviewing the relevant sections flagged as different to make this table.
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Daniel Moser @dmoser.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
Map showing Lower Pollution levels in London after 10 years of advancing sustainable transport.
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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A bicycle kick goal in a full blown blizzard. Forge FC vs Cavalry FC in the 2023 Canadian Premier League final was the most Canadian moment soccer has ever produced.
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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · 30/08/2026
Apparently Lake America is now closed due to a tear in its lining and fungal growth
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Michael Warburton @michaelwarburton.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
DYLAN THOMAS converted the garage of his house in Laugharne - Carmarthenshire into his writing shed, and it’s been kept the way it was when he worked in there.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
This is a really good paper on the mechanics of pandemics. Really timely as I am writing a talk on this topic. The authors do a phenomenal job providing complementary multidisciplinary insights on the topic. Immediate save as go to reference :). www.thelancet.com/journals/ecl...
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Mechanics of pandemics
COVID-19 and previous pandemics have shown how diseases can disrupt, threaten, and transform daily life. Since pathogens and societies are continuously evolving, every pandemic is different. However, ...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
New from 404 Media: we solved which AI company is buying massive shipments of rare books, scanning and destroying them to train AI. We put an Apple AirTag in a rare book, followed it. It ended up at an Amazon facility. Its logo is a dinosaur ripping through a book www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
We placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Get your vaccine advice from trained healthcare professionals not from politicians. Expertise still matters.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 07/08/2026
Rebecca Hendin on the ‘vertical drinking’ row – cartoon
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Rebecca Hendin on the ‘vertical drinking’ row – cartoon
No 10 has vowed to stop councils trying to limit standing in pubs after Westminster council’s attempt to restrict ‘vertical drinking’
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Lukasz Olejnik @lukaszolejnik.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Scientists in the US have for the first time used AI to create complete, viable virus genomes unlike any known in nature. AI is writing genomes. Potential impact? Programmable phage therapies, faster responses to antibiotic. It also raises urgent biosecurity questions www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Adam Phillippy @aphillippy.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
For the past 30 years, “whole-genome sequencing” has been a misnomer. Today the T2T Consortium publishes a dozen papers heralding a future of truly complete genomes for humans and nearly any vertebrate 👨‍🔬🐒🐦🐀🦒🐎🫏🐹🐟 (sorry, no salamanders): www.cell.com/consortium/t... 🧵[1/15]
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Important @nejm.org correspondence today. Investigators found that licensed Ebola vaccines generate cross-reactive binding antibody responses against Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV) in humans. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Amy Lawrence @amylawrence.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
So far the best Arsenal performance v France since 1989
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 13/07/2026
There is still time to submit your comment and tell the government that you don't want US research to be completely destroyed by politicians meddling in individual grants. You can submit your comments here: www.regulations.gov/commenton/OM...
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Ashley Alexander @peachypotato.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Hot off the presses! S. aureus populations hold a surprising amount of diversity that can be observed by selecting a handful of colonies from a clinical sample. @huiqiloo.bsky.social @vishnu-raghuram.bsky.social @timothyread.bsky.social doi.org/10.1128/spec...
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Intraspecific diversity of Staphylococcus aureus populations isolated from cystic fibrosis respiratory infections | Microbiology Spectrum
When obtaining bacterial isolates from infections, it is important to consider the ecological biases introduced by methods used for collection and processing. In this study, we demonstrate how reducti...
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Duncan Jones @manmademoon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Well… it wouldn’t be an England game if it wasn’t batshit and dramatic! 😅
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Oh, The Drama - Lion King Meme
ALT: Oh, The Drama - Lion King Meme
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Climate.us @climate.us · 23/06/2026
Climate.us is live. Built by members of the team behind Climate.gov, this new independent nonprofit website keeps trusted climate information easy to find, easy to use, and harder to erase. #ClimateForUs #ClimateUS
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 18/06/2026
Stephen Colbert wore a tan suit to the Obama Presidential Center opening ceremony 😂 REUTERS/Octavio Jones
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Senator Jeff Merkley @merkley.senate.gov · 18/06/2026
Huge win!! In partnership with Senator Lisa Murkowski, we protected the Ocean Observatories Initiative—critical sensors that are essential for managing our fisheries, forecasting weather, and understanding climate change.
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Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring
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James Benge @jamesbenge.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Omar Artan is to referee the Super Cup between PSG and Aston Villa, UEFA have announced. "UEFA wants to show its respect to Omar and his outstanding officiating skills," says Aleksander Ceferin.
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Tim Read @timothyread.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Congratulations Shaun!
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
In public health, you learn an awful lot about people willing to profit off of harms to children. But my jaw is on the floor. It never occurred to me that the sentence “I’ve put a couple kids in the hospital” would ever be followed by the phrase: “But here’s the thing.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social
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C. Brandon Ogbunu @cbo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
✅ Yes, more articles like this, PLEASE. Not (only) the specific take (which I like), but the honest attempt to clarify a disastrously dubious concept, using history, technical details, clear writing, rhetoric. 'Actually, what is a gain-of-function mutation?' academic.oup.com/genetics/art...
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Actually, what is a gain-of-function mutation?
Abstract. For more than a century, scientists have worked to characterize, understand, and predict the consequences of mutations. For almost as long, scien
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Kees van der Leun @sustainable2050.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The May average of atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa (based on daily values) was around 432.3 ppm, that's 1.8 ppm higher than last year, and probably the highest in at least 15 million years.
Graph showing 13 months of daily, weekly and monthly concentrations, ending at a higher level than last year.
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Lee Katz @lskatz.github.io · 26/05/2026
🦑 Kalamari v5.9 adds new outbreak‑relevant viral genomes to the curated set. This includes topical organisms related to ongoing outbreaks: measles, hantavirus, and ebola. 🔗 github.com/lskatz/Kalam...
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Release v5.9 now with ebola, hentavirus, and measles (oh my!) · lskatz/Kalamari
What's Changed Fix build-sketch CI failure due to slash in github.ref_name for PRs by @Copilot in #72 Add Bundibugyo ebolavirus reference genome to Kalamari chromosome catalog by @Copilot in #80 F...
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
The Proximal Origin of the MV Hondius Andes virus outbreak. virological.org/t/potential-...
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Potential geographical and ecological origin of the MV Hondius Andes virus outbreak
The recent outbreak aboard the MV Hondius caused by Andes virus raises two key questions [1]: (i) where do the outbreak genomes cluster geographically, and (ii) how can the phylogenetic signal be reco...
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Tami Lieberman @contaminatedsci.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Missed this very cool protocol for amplicon sequencing using nanopore
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
🧵 1/15 The WHO Emergency Committee just met on Ebola Bundibugyo. This is the first time a WHO Director-General declared a PHEIC before convening the committee a signal of how urgent this is. I listened in and made a few notes which I share here. www.youtube.com/live/vLlbTW5...
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LIVE: Media briefing on the Ebola outbreak in the DRC and Uganda with Dr Tedros
YouTube video by World Health Organization (WHO)
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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Rapid genomic data release and analysis from DRC and Uganda public health teams on Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak confirms new spillover: virological.org/t/initial-ge... - sequences shared via @pathoplexus.org
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Initial genomes from May 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda
Initial genomes from May 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease Outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda, reveal a new spillover event Context On 15 May 2026, the Ministry of Public Health, ...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Sharing a short piece I co-authored with @drsyramadad.bsky.social www.belfercenter.org/research-ana...
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Andes Virus: Neither “Just a Rodent Virus” Nor the Next Pandemic Virus
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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 16/05/2026
Rapid release of multiplex PCR amplicon scheme for Andes hantavirus whole genome sequencing validated on control material: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @scalene.bsky.social @stevepullan.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social output from HPRU in Public Health Genomics
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Baric, who is among the most-cited coronavirus researchers in the world, says his lab’s work played pivotal roles in helping companies bring COVID drugs and vaccines to market, saving millions of lives. “My payment for this is to be debarred?” he asks. “I’m being strung out for being a scientist.“ 🧪
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Virologist accused of starting COVID-19 will fight U.S. ban on funding
HHS memo says Ralph Baric had a “pattern of deception” in describing virus studies long before pandemic
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Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Incredibly proud of the @pathoplexus.org team for getting this up so quickly. In an outbreak like this, it's critical to share data quickly & openly - so scientists can do public health analyses (like the @nextstrain.org builds) - while still protecting the right to publish on generated sequences.
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Nick Loman @pathogenomenick.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
First genome sequence from Andes hantavirus strain from ongoing ship outbreak posted on Virological: virological.org/t/complete-s... courtesy Swiss National Reference Centre for Emerging Viral Infections, Geneva University Hospitals, University of Zurich
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Complete sequence of Orthohantavirus andesense virus: Swiss resident 2026
Posted on behalf of the Swiss National Reference Center for Emerging Viral Infections, Geneva University Hospitals and the Institute of Medical Virology, University of Zurich (Partner Laboratory Natio...
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Robert Petit @rpetit3.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Howdy! If you're at #APHL, stop by poster P1012 to learn more about Bactopia and the fun things we're doing at WPHL. Happy to chat about Bactopia v4, my experience with Nextflow v26.04, or just binf in general! P.S. there's stickers and a "poster to go" in postcard form!
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Robert Petit @rpetit3.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Howdy! Happy to announce that Bactopia v4 is finally out! 🥳 This release supports the latest from @seqera.io Nextflow v26 (strict syntax, static types, and records! oh my!) It also open's the doors to start doing some fun things with Bactopia. To learn more, check out: bactopia.io/blog/bactopi...
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Bactopia v4 Updates and Improvements | Bactopia
Learn about the new features and improvements in Bactopia version 4.
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 30/04/2026
The FBI arrested scientist David Morens today, prosecuting the Trump administration's batshit conspiracy theories about COVID-19. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Guns and bulletproof vests: How federal agents arrested Fauci aide
David Morens, 78, was stripped and handcuffed for email violations
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ASM @asm.org · 17/04/2026
General abstract submissions are open for ASM BIG 2026! Submit by June 17 (2 p.m. ET) to present your work in bioinformatics, genomics and big data and connect with a global community advancing microbial science. asm.social/2TP
Abstracts open for ASM BIG. Submit now.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
Now would be a great time to reconsider that 46% cut to NASA’s science budget for FY2027.
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
If you are working on staphylococci you might want to travel to Banff this September banff.isssi2026.com/event/ISSSI/...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 08/04/2026
“It really just bent your mind. It was an extraordinary human experience.” Learn more: scim.ag/4vhyUay
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Joseph D. Ortiz @earthsciinfo.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
This is the way... 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 cleantechnica.com/2026/03/26/u...
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UK Mandates Rooftop Solar & Heat Pumps For New Homes Beginning In 2028 - CleanTechnica
The UK Future Homes Program will require rooftop solar and heat pumps in new homes beginning in April of 2028.
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Leonid Schneider @forbetterscience.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Oh nothing, just a peer reviewed paper my colleagues found... doi.org/10.1016/j.ma... "1 mL of the mass killing of an ethnic group was opposed to 20 mL of the skin sample and unprotected to light for 7 min." Even AI knows what's wrong here, but @elsevierconnect.bsky.social doesn't.
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ᐯIᑕTOᖇ ᑎIᘔET, ᗰᗪ @nizet.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Please Repost 🔄 Global Staphylococcus research community is heading to the Canadian Rockies! Join the 20th International Symposium on Staphylococci and Staphylococcal Infections 📅 September 20–24, 2026 📍 Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Banff, Canada #ISSSI2026 #Staphylococcus
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Sheyda Azimi @sazimi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Our work shows how different bacterial cell surface properties alter microbiogeography and social interactions! Fun collaboration with @digglelab.bsky.social
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