Philip Bejon

The @kemriwellcome.bsky.social Vaccine Workforce Development Programme, funded by the Gates Foundation, has partnered with BioGeneric Pharma in Cairo, Egypt, with support from the Egyptian Drug Authority to deliver a 12-week programme for apprentices selected from across Africa.

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com 🎉

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

With Gillian Rodger, @nstoesser.bsky.social, @samlipworth.bsky.social, @stat-sarah.bsky.social, and many others!

Photo of the Modernising Medical Microbiology Green Team wearing protective clothing, helmets, and safety goggles at the Ardley Energy Recovery Centre during their field trip to see first hand how Oxfordshire waste is burned, instead of ending up in landfill, to generate electricity.

🧪 ♻️ Want to make lab and computational research more sustainable? Check out our Oxford Climate Society blog post:
oxfordclimatesociety.com/blog/from-pi...
Shout out to Green Team colleagues @modmedmicro.bsky.social for helping! #LEAFAward #GreenDiSC #GreenImpact #SustainableScience

From Pipettes to Pipelines — Oxford Climate Society Dorottya Nagy writes about the experiences from the Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) Unit research group on engaging wet lab, computer lab, and office teams on the sustainability agenda.

From Pipettes to Pipelines: Greening a Multidisciplinary Research Lab.

@dotnagy.bsky.social writes about the experiences from the Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) research group on engaging wet lab, computer lab, and office teams on the #sustainability agenda.

#GreenLab #SustainableScience

From Pipettes to Pipelines — Oxford Climate Society Dorottya Nagy writes about the experiences from the Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) Unit research group on engaging wet lab, computer lab, and office teams on the sustainability agenda.

From Pipettes to Pipelines: Greening a Multidisciplinary Research Lab.

@dotnagy.bsky.social writes about the experiences from the Modernising Medical Microbiology (MMM) research group on engaging wet lab, computer lab, and office teams on the #sustainability agenda.

#GreenLab #SustainableScience

Pleased to see this pre-printed, highlighting the completeness/accuracy of @nanoporetech.com long-read genome assembly for clinical Enterobacterales: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Thanks to colleagues @modmedmicro.bsky.social, @ukhsa.bsky.social, @genewiz.bsky.social and @oxfordbrc.bsky.social!

🩸 Every year, 400,000 children are born with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) — most in Africa.
🇰🇪 In Kenya, 1 in 100 babies (~4,000 annually) is born with SCD.
💡Research is improving survival, with more reaching adulthood. #SickleCellAwarenessMonth
📚 Read more here : shorturl.at/86mTt

Photo of Dorcas and Louise with first prize certificate

Photo of members of the Matthews group for hepatitis elimination at COLDA in Accra, Ghana 🇬🇭

Shout out to @lou-downs.bsky.social & Dorcas Okanda for a prize at #COLDA. Their #HBV work in #Kenya expands insights in a neglected space, using #virus #genomics to influence healthcare.
#MedSky #NoHep
@crick.ac.uk @ndm.ox.ac.uk @ucl.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social
@kemriwellcome.bsky.social
🧪🇰🇪🌍

Job opportunity for microbial genomicists interested in E. coli and Klebsiella infections and AMR 👀⬇️ - do get in touch if you might be interested! Closing date 7th Oct.

Sounds great that a journal wants to train peer reviewers. But it looks like this is an option for those of us who already do the reviewing for free to add the task of inviting trainees that we select, and supervise their peer review, again for free.

We are excited for the Oxford Tropical Network Meeting #OTN2025! A space for collaboration, innovation, and advancing global health.
📌 Theme : Networking for science discovery and impact
🗓️ Dates : Sept 16th – 18th, 2025
@ox.ac.uk @wellcometrust.bsky.social @ndm.ox.ac.uk @tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk

Join us as Head of Data Engineering & Informatics and help shape the future of infectious disease research.
Apply today 🔗 www.iddo.org/about-us/jobs
Deadline Sep 17 at noon

@tropicalmedicine.ox.ac.uk @ox.ac.uk

📢 New research from Oxford AMR/HCAI HPRU:

We applied an EHR-wide association study to uncover risk factors for E. coli bloodstream infections over 6 years

🧠 Frailty-related factors (renal/UTI, cancer, GI) drive risk
🛠️ Highlights need for multifaceted prevention strategies

doi.org/10.1016/j.ji...

Completely agree, one often doesn't want to take the chance. Refusing to cite a paper or two does not seem like the right hill to die on.

If the journalist really thinks the answer is "yes" then they would make the headline declarative. The question is when they know it is nonsense but want the clickbait of "raising the question".

I have sometimes felt "coerced" to include citations with a "major revision" hanging over me. The argument that one's own papers are important and need citing needs evaluating against the purpose of a background section - it is not a systematic literature review but a minimal introduction.

It's that law of headline questions - when a question is asked in a headline the answer is almost always "No".

New analysis from Kevin Chau @modmedmicro.bsky.social for the SinkBug Consortium (a collaboration with teams across 29 UK hospitals, NITCAR, UKHSA): Pathogen and AMR gene burden in 287 hospital sink-trap metagenomes and factors associated with high burdens.

I work in the NHS: the government cannot accept doctors’ pay demands Junior doctor careers have been turned from a competition into a lottery with too few tickets

I don't find a lot in the Spectator that I like to read, but found this thought provoking and moving: www.spectator.co.uk/article/i-wo...

A new study by KEMRI Wellcome, @isglobal.org and the Manhiça Health Research Centre has highlighted that alongside bed nets, ivermectin reduced #malaria infection by 26% in children. Their findings show that it's a valuable tool for tackling the spread of malaria 🦟💊

Read more 👉 buff.ly/0OU6UhJ

Fewer papers = someone has to decide which papers don't see the light of day; i.e. which papers become "secret".

Job advert to come and work with me on tuberculosis closes tomorrow (Friday) at noon!

Part of #OxCOD4TB

bit.ly/4ndKOhF

@ndm.ox.ac.uk @modmedmicro.bsky.social
@oxfordbrc.bsky.social

Come and work with us!

Senior Biostatistical Researcher bit.ly/4kRfZxI
Senior Bioinformatic Engineer bit.ly/4ecl0hF
both Grade 8 or 7, closing noon Tue 8 Jul

Computational Mycobacteriologist
Grade 7, closing noon Fri 4 Jul bit.ly/4ndKOhF

@medsci.ox.ac.uk
@oxfordbrc.bsky.social
@ndm.ox.ac.uk

Nice data. To me the coolest, tho also most alarming, is slope of antibiotic resistance declining over time - gradient is shallow!

So that means if UTIs recur frequently, you can see how you burn through antibiotic options quickly!

#UTISky #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR
academic.oup.com/jac/advance-...

Come and work with me and use the 53,897 samples of M. tuberculosis we have collated to help tackle this important disease!

We are part of the OxCoD4TB consortium that is developing new therapeutics for tuberculosis.

Grade 7, funding until 28 Feb 2028, deadline noon Fri 4 July

bit.ly/4ndKOhF

Job Opportunity at LSHTM: Research Assistant The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

Come & work with me @benvyle.bsky.social @lshtm.bsky.social & @thelovetankcic.bsky.social Research Assistant with funded PhD within multidisciplinary project on Syphilis & STI control in the UK. Working with us to understand stakeholder & community perspectives on novel STI control strategies

The relaunch of crypticproject.info at #ESMyco by @philipwfowler.bsky.social

53,897 clinical tuberculosis samples with genetics and drug susceptibility testing data!

@vbrunner.bsky.social doing her pitch for her poster at #ESMyco!

@modmedmicro.bsky.social

Come and help us develop and validate genetic pipelines for processing pathogens in collaboration with
@eitoxford.bsky.social

Senior Bioinformatic Engineer
bit.ly/4ecl0hF

Senior Biostatistical Researcher
bit.ly/4kRfZxI

Grade 8 or 7, depending on experience
closing date: noon Wednesday 2 July

Just like buses, here is a third role we are advertising for!

Come and help @philipwfowler.bsky.social use the large TB datasets we hold to help the OxCoD4TB consortium develop new therapeutics for tuberculosis.

Grade 7, funding until 28 Feb 2028, deadline noon Fri 4 July

bit.ly/4ndKOhF