Oh wow thanks!

Software development is 99% planning and 9,999% finding out what's wrong with your plan.

Identification of hot spring Obelisk-like RNA replicons and expanded diversity of the Obelisk superfamily

#MicroSky

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...

This👇🏼. AOC is the only one stating it clearly and plainly. Do I have any faith that the American people will ever elect a woman president someday? No. I hope I’m proven wrong.

Really proud of @ale-campa.bsky.social for his amazing contributions to the Fulgor ⚡ index! I'm very excited for what's next 🙂 CC @robp.bsky.social @zaminiqbal.bsky.social

Congratulations!!

So, the microbiome of various animals contains an AMR payload just waiting to be triggered. If we rely on phenotypic surveillance they’re largely invisible

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.

Our stunning home galaxy I’ve a frozen loch.

An oldie, but probably my favourite Milky Way shot that I’ve taken.

This is our beautiful home galaxy over a frozen loch.

Anyone recommend any rust implementations of consensus generation via partial order alignment?

Last month, the UK head of Palantir attacked the company's critics as "ideological groups." This month, the company's global CEO has published a call for US tech companies to recognise a moral responsibility to support American fascism.

Changes in antimicrobial resistance profiles of Escherichia coli and the metagenome on Dutch pig farms after antimicrobial usage interventions - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Changes in antimicrobial resistance profiles of Escherichia coli and the metagenome on Dutch pig farms after antimicrobial usage interventions

So yes—stewardship works. But biology (and ecology) doesn’t move at policy speed.

Full paper: www.nature.com/articles/s44...

#AMR #OneHealth #microbiome #veterinary #metagenomics

Key finding:
Lower AMU → clear drop in resistome abundance (especially tetracyclines & aminoglycosides), but phenotypic E. coli resistance responds slower and is more variable.

Changes in antimicrobial resistance profiles of Escherichia coli and the metagenome on Dutch pig farms after antimicrobial usage interventions - npj Antimicrobials and Resistance npj Antimicrobials and Resistance - Changes in antimicrobial resistance profiles of Escherichia coli and the metagenome on Dutch pig farms after antimicrobial usage interventions

Just out in npj Antimicrobials & Resistance @natureportfolio.nature.com

www.nature.com/articles/s44...

We looked at what actually happens to AMR on pig farms when you reduce antimicrobial use through real-world, coaching-based interventions.

Jenny Urquhart - Bluebell Wood.
Acrylic on canvas.

Open mouthed shark with head out of the water looking like it's gasping in pain

A rare image of a shark that just stood on a piece of Lego

Dog imitating Penguins 🤣

"Grendel saw the knot of sleeping warriors and his eyes shone with an unearthly light."

-Kevin Crossley-Holland's translation of Beowulf.

A groundbreaking expedition off Chile has filmed the elusive Type D orcas for the first time, revealing their unique features and confirming a potential new species.

Except we're all looking all the time

States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies [Lazar, Nomi Claire] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies

Guys! It's Cambridge UniPress royalties day!

Hands down funniest payday of the year

Thanks to all y'all for buying "States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies"

If it's just one FanGuy, buying 'em all, for God's sake don't stop now!

But no thx to the politicians who keep on keeping it relevant

Golden rays. Another one from this morning, taken from Wearyall Hill in Glastonbury, about an hour after sunrise.

"Extending..to between 300k and 1 mya reveals two deeply diverged ancestral lineages. ...both Neanderthals and ancestral modern humans are formed through a mixture of these two lineages, with no evidence of gene flow from the PRDM9-A-carrying group into Denisovans."

"Extending..to between 300k and 1 mya reveals two deeply diverged ancestral lineages. ...both Neanderthals and ancestral modern humans are formed through a mixture of these two lineages, with no evidence of gene flow from the PRDM9-A-carrying group into Denisovans."

"We identify at least three waves of "back-to-Africa" migrations starting ~14,000 years ago. Applying GhostBuster to deeper timescales..."

V interesting new paper on human history

The fact that Mamdani just seems like a cheerful normal guy who's policies are things like "we're going to tax second homes to fund pothole repairs" or whatever and yet this generates panicked responses like "This is basically Stalin's great purge turned up to eleven" is... telling. It tells things.

How Female Anglerfish Evolved to Have It All

TIL that there are 400 species of anglerfish, many are seriously weird, and their lures are highly variable. Mechanical lures evolved twice, bioluminescent lures evolved once.
Gift 🔗 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/s...
Paper "Investigating Nature's Tackle Box" bioone.org/journals/ich...