Note to government funding bodies … technology that’s is ready to commercialise is not “ research” it is a business loan

I do indeed believe it .. even fewer for Asian elephants … people are more interested in resurrecting an extinct species than keeping a living one

I have so I’m going with yes

I just arrived! Will try and find you tomorrow

The songs of the servant ( that bit of Isaiah) are read in Catholic Churches during lent. They are seen as a prophesy of the suffering of Christ in the torture before his death. A rather different vision of the purpose of leadership than trumps…

With old blokes like this I probably wouldn’t bother with trying to convince them of the why the weather is changing and just focus on the preparedness bit … ( they can see that it is changing they just wont accept why)

Policy that works would indeed be novel …

Polymerised toll like receptors … the mind boggles

One of the academics in our English dept has been looking at narrative interview data on vaccine uptake in the uk ( from parents) access is a way bigger issue than anything else ….

The basic problem is that it removes the thinking and judgement out of the process. Clinical notes are to help you work out what is going on and decide what to do next and so someone else can see what you were thinking , not ( just) a record of what happened

I tend to think of anatomy as a 3d manual skill… it takes a lot of practice to be able to co-ordinate what you are seeing and feeling with the 3d model in your head …

Well that’ll be fun … lots of abscesses from poor injection practice first then weird tumours at the injection site several years down the line …

If you are engaged in UK sheep farming please consider filing in the annual lambing survey. Plan is to use the data to set up benchmarking indicators for farms to see how they are going compared to others

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Transitions like this need celebrating

That’s mosquitoes…

Don't get too excited - the catholic church deals in time frames of centuries.... (took them 400 years to rescind Galileo's excommunication)

That’s usually actually the hardest bit … getting everything installed in the correct versions to work together …

He’d like that I think

About bloody time …

Love it (I remember the pain) , same phenomenon in any other species when it’s group housed too… ( calves, kittens… )

And sick leave please…. And not having it count as a “ bad mark” for supervision if someone takes longer than 4 years to finish. Our ukri grants finally do this and it’s making it so much easier to manage long term health problems

New pre-print - this one was a really fun collaboration with colleagues in Italy with a neat finding a lot of coronaviruses reported as "recombinants" might not be (there are an awful lot of species and parts of the world not in the databases)

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As an author it also saves me having to reformat or in some cases go through review again which is also a good thing

Viruses, they do what they want…

Regulatory inertia is a powerful thing …

I mean if they have got any sort of continuous cell line from Asian elephants I’d like to try and see if eehv grows in it … but having personally watched my students fail at many, many attempts at even getting primary fibroblast to grow this is best described as truly ambitious

Oh lord … I can’t even… assisted reproduction in Asian elephants has only gotten as far as semen collection for artificial insemination and even then there is literally one bloke in the world who does it partly as it’s really fxxxxx dangerous

New avian influenza vaccine trials begin in UK New targeted trial in turkeys will test vaccine efficacy as part of fight to protect wild and captive birds

About time .. note this is not actually new or even research, but its the first time anyone’s been stubborn enough to push it through the uk regulatory processes

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Not a good thing if we are basing control, monitoring and modelling predictions around the wrong species...

Really sad to hear this, Robin was a a huge influence on so many of us, both his work and for me personally being kind enough to be interested in a bewildered new PIs work