Ian Goodhead

Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. In the past several weeks, the U.S. leadership has demonstrate...

"Editorial: A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky"

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Scientists probe gulls' 'weird and wonderful' eating habits Photographs of gulls eating anything from chips to starfish will help solve a scientific puzzle.

From pilfering chips to swallowing whole starfish, gulls are known for their voracious appetites.

University of Salford ecologist @alice-risely.bsky.social wants people to upload their snaps of hungry gulls to the project's website: citsci.org/projects/gul...

#seabirds

Trump signs order sanctioning International Criminal Court The Hague-based body has created a "shameful moral equivalency" between Hamas and Israel, the White House says.

"Shameful moral equivalency" ... Whilst handing Trump a golden pager, in reference to the Lebanon attacks that killed at least 37 people, including some children, and injured nearly 3,000.

Never been more right.

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Gaza death trap: MSF report exposes Israel’s campaign of total destruction  | Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF ... Repeated Israeli military attacks on Palestinian civilians over the last 14 months, the dismantling of the health care system and other essential infrastructure, the suffocating siege, and the systema...

Let's breathe a sigh of relief. But let's also take a deep breath and get to work on the monumental task of rebuilding #Gaza. The staggering number of war-wounded. The mental trauma. The loss of family & homes. The living conditions. The repeated displacement. Let's not look away now. @msf.ca

Keir Starmer must slap Elon Musk down - before someone gets killed This deranged, disgusting attack on Jess Phillips deserves a public rebuke, not just behind-the-scenes diplomacy

This deranged, disgusting attack on Jess Phillips deserves a public rebuke, not just behind-the-scenes diplomacy

Finland Publication Forum will downgrade hundreds of Frontiers and MDPI journals A committee of scholars in Finland has decided to downgrade 271 journals from Frontiers and MDPI in their quality rating system, in a move that may discourage researchers from submitting manuscript…

This is the right move and others should follow the lead. Many of these journals favor article fees over peer review. “A committee of scholars in Finland has decided to downgrade 271 journals from Frontiers and MDPI in their quality rating system” retractionwatch.com/2024/12/24/f...

Word of the day (of course) is ‘scurryfunging’, from US dialect: the frantic attempt to tidy the house just before guests arrive.

The Mystery Illness That Never Was Poverty and Healthcare Inequities as Modern Outbreaks

The mystery illness in the #DRC was revealed to be #Malaria. The world will move on and the epidemics of poverty and inequity to healthcare access will persist. We cannot address the threat of pandemics by ignoring poverty.
Check out my latest #substack on this
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We are recruiting an associate or full Professor of Infection and/or Immunity to the school biological sciences in Cambridge. Full details here: www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49381/
#immunology #virology

A version of the kermit vs darth kermit meme where good kermit tells the online academic that they should grade, while darth kermit tells them they should eat more pie.

Every academic right now

Antibiotic-recalcitrant Salmonella during infection - Nature Reviews Microbiology In this Review, Giorgio and Helaine provide an overview of the physiology of antibiotic-recalcitrant Salmonella enterica during infection, discuss recent insights into the clinical implications of ant...

New Salmonella Persister cells Review is just out❗️

Rachel Giorgio & Sophie Helaine overview the physiology & clinical implications of antibiotic-recalcitrant Salmonella during infection

- highlighting important knowledge gaps that need to be addressed…

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

The Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at the University of California Davis, School of Medicine, invites applications for a full-time faculty position in Microbiome Sciences. Apply by December 11th at:

recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06847

Genome dynamics across the evolutionary transition to endosymbiosis Endosymbiosis—where a microbe lives and replicates within a host—is an important contributor to organismal function that has accelerated evolutionary …

Fun new paper led by @greghurst.bsky.social &co using genomics to show that facultative symbiont genomes get bigger as they adapt to life inside a host (through HGT & loss of CRISPR) before undergoing genome reduction as they become obligate #symbiosky #microsky
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Excited to see many in the bacterial pathogenesis community joining here in the last few weeks, so here's a Starter Pack to help make connections. Reply/DM to be added to this or future Packs. #Microsky go.bsky.app/VH64BaY