Senior Research Technician - School of Biosciences - 107150 - 8975 This role sits within the ARTIC network project (https://artic.network/), a global initiative that develops and supports genomic surveillance for outbreak response. Based in the School of Biosciences,...

Thanks for the great response to last week’s job post. We have another opportunity to share. This one is a Senior Research Technician role at the University of Birmingham, helping us build the ARTIC primer foundry facility: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

The traditional sign Spring has started in Birmingham. @pathogenomenick.bsky.social and his group are having pizzas outside

An image of a birthday cake with scientific doodles around it, 9 colourful candles, and the Pathoplexus logo in the middle, with the words 'Happy 1 year'

🗓 Pathoplexus turns ONE! 🎂🎉

In the past year we’ve grown from 4 pathogens to a truly global, community-driven platform for transparent, equitable & impactful pathogen sequence sharing.
📰 Read the full update: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-08...

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Ambitious project to develop low-cost genome sequencing for pathogens known and unknown - University of Birmingham Project will build on research that helped diagnostic labs to adopt sequencing capacity for COVID-19 and permit characterisation of future infectious threats

Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

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.

It's great to see the proper announcement of something we have been working on for so long!
@pathogenomenick.bsky.social @meerac.bsky.social @rmcolq.bsky.social @arambaut.bsky.social and many others 😁

Sometimes you see absolute lunatics saying bizarre things and that's fun

Don't know who to follow for the best in microbial bioinformatics?

This is the Starter Pack you need!

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Right let's try that again: Amyl and the Sniffers are fucking outstanding. Just outstanding.

Fieldbioinformatics Updates > Fieldbioinformatics updated to 1.6.0 Fieldbioinformatics has been the first line recommendation by the artic network for generation of consensus sequences from Nanopore viral amplicon sequencing d...

I've written a quick post about the recent changes to the @articnetwork.bsky.social fieldbioinformatics pipeline

virological.org/t/fieldbioin...

ARTIC #mpox resources! Guides to setup #sequencing #bioinformatics and #analysis

artic.network/mpxv/resources

#wellcometrust #nanopore #illumina
#molecularepidemiology #pathogen #pathogensurviellance #bioinformatics #epidemiology #virus #outbreak #clinicalvirology

The COVID inquiry is getting SPICY, domcum burning everything down because they scorned him is too fun

The discrepancy between the party isn't as large as one would hope either, more than a third of democrats believing that demons exist explains a lot about US politics.