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The trick is to show them what they can do with it ( because let’s face it, coding itself is boring and frustrating)

This is pretty much how they do it in highschool courses ( it’s how my so sons gcse course is taught)

True… massively useful for disease and population research, if the resource is there to run a post mortem programme much of my work couldn’t happen without programmes like the Cardiff otter project

The plastic pinny was also pointless ( as is an fp3 mask if the face fit hasn’t been checked that it seals) but for reasons unknown that was nhs policy at the time and the uni followed that

Growing up in rural Aus you were indeed taught to kick any branches over before you picked them up ( the habit has never left me)

I remember the condensation dripping off the inside of the face shield, shouting through a mask and a face shield at 25 kids in a cow shed while wearing a plastic pinny over the usual waterproofs... one way system through the building, all support services, shops, gym etc shut.

Tested them all before they came in, if they got it the whole household was quarantined. Weekly testing, could only have 1/4 of the class in any space at one time (which meant the entire practical curriculum was taught 4x over plus the rest online). The animals spooked at the PPE.

We closed before the official shutdown as parents were pulling the kids out and taking them home anyway. We were the actually the first ones back (as we run a summer cohort) - took us two months of arguing about risk assessments and testing to get them back on site at all

Avian influenza: how well is relevant biosecurity information communicated via online resources? Click on the article title to read more.

I'm especially happy I managed to sneak an 1802 satirical cartoon from my son's GCSE history course into an editorial on Avian Influenza communications
bvajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

I certainly got rather drunk when mine came through (though it was a few years ago now). In my case it was probably just sheer relief at not to have to deal with the home office again...

I'm sure it works.. think I'm just getting old and cynical about the very large gap between what is possible and what the large vaccine manufacturers think is marketable....

Though the problem with the alphavirus vectors will be convincing various regulatory bodies that they aren't terrorism agents..... (that risk assessment will attract a horrific amount of scrutiny) . I mean half the vet vaccines are still inactivated whole virus - we've got a way to go....

Once upon a time in another life I worked on oral contraceptives for possums … we didn’t have cinnamon Oreo’s to tempt them though

Oh God... problem number one "transparency" conflicts directly with most of the bloody anti-terrorism legislation... problem number 2. Regulating tens of thousands of microorganisms that are in our everyday environment and we are constantly exposed to is in practical reality impossible...

Its also not safe if you get the dose rate wrong. Or you have a genetic problem with MDR1. Ask your veterinarian why they don't self medicate with it...

I just went and looked at my old x account - its basically increasingly desperate conspiracy theory clickbait as there is no-one real left to talk to and the rest of the world is about as interested as they are in "who shot JFK?"

They actually don’t have much fear of people and will walk right up and sticky beak, some colonies are pretty heavily studied and while expensive it would be possible to vaccinate at least a portion of

They are damn cute though...

Its hard to overstate just how urgent this is, we need to get vaccinating BEFORE we have lots of sad wildlife documentaries of mass deaths in penguin colonies...

Unsurprisingly, as this is largely a work account, my connections look like a re-iteration of the BBSRC panel A remit...

All your breath will certainly smell for a while afterwards …

When in Hamburg one must do a “ hafen rundfahrt”. It’s seriously more interesting than it sounds, the city has always lived from the harbour and the scale of the container ships up close is very impressive

That will indeed be interesting

“ let’s attract researchers but give them no money to do research with and charge them a fortune for a visa and not let them bring their families” it’s not a winner …

More seriously this is one of the primary reasons why fertilisation and embryo development is so exquisitely species specific (the exact retroviral/TE complement is very, very species specific). Its a lot more about the regulatory network than the proteins!

you are more retrovirus than anything else...

One must have a sense of morals to feel shame...

We are closing campuses and courses too, without young people a towns sense of the future collapses pretty quickly

Ooh excellent ( should be a good one this year… tosh is coming too and I’m bringing the whole group…)?

Done, see you all there… some real science discussion from people who know stuff ( the novelty! )