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Veterinarian, Virologist, Australian/British (with side-forays into the German speaking world)

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Well if it can make any sense out of the universities ordering system it’s welcome to it .

20.10.2025 05:59 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I’d use it, not having to go into London would be fantastic

19.10.2025 08:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Vets should be made to publish prices, competition watchdog says Vet prices have risen at nearly twice the rate of inflation, the Competition and Markets Authority found.

hmm some of these proposals are unworkable - having spent many years working emergency it isn't always possible to give an immediate accurate cost estimate of final treatment (and there is no refund if it dies)

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

15.10.2025 11:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Grim indeed …

15.10.2025 07:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Ulcers… bloody autocorrect

13.10.2025 07:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I remember that one, it sucked, the mouth university are so painful!

13.10.2025 07:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Where do I get an import permit for ( insert high consequence pathogen) ?

12.10.2025 14:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Its across the board , friends who work in other parts of the US federal government are getting them too housing , health, education … anything that’s not military basically , this is a government that has abandoned its people

11.10.2025 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That’s interesting- on average makes of many species produce a less robust vaccine response than females but that obesity effect is pretty wild and of course menopause in humans is a huge confounder…

07.10.2025 14:16 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

explains why growing stem cells is such a fiddly business...

07.10.2025 08:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This one will eventually cross the Med into Europe - at which point there will be a giant panic and we might finally get our act together for what is a readily vaccine preventable disaster

07.10.2025 08:32 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

but then again their editors have usually had a basic quality check beforehand.....

06.10.2025 14:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

As a reviewer who sometimes has to reject papers because they are wrong or fraudulent I'm not sure I want to be exposed to a public doxing for pointing it out. However I have done it for some pre-print server type places (access micro) and it was a generally civilised experience all round

06.10.2025 14:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Deeply weird , looks like a cross between a gonk and a Guinea pig

03.10.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

God it’s horrible to watch the country collapsing like this

03.10.2025 07:03 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah I have around 20 ( 5 years of students) so is is group but it’s timetabled, compulsory and we do have a very good welfare and senior tutor team. So there is always a contact route and failing students are always checked on

01.10.2025 13:42 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There has to be a commercial market for these native fruits (I would love to try them even if just for the novelty value)

01.10.2025 09:39 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

No - I also can't find any of my xxxx files or transfer them in or out of it to somewhere I can use them (like my actual computer). Really, really hate it - slow, clunky, won't integrate with most of the other software I need (like reference managers, image or sequence processing....)

01.10.2025 09:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Really, really should have been flagged on multiple levels and at the very least he should have been given the information on how to appeal (which would have been successful by the looks of it)

01.10.2025 09:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Can you actually get them privately now? last time I looked about 2 years ago you couldn't even pay for one

30.09.2025 10:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Here’s a disease we can and should eliminate ( it wouldn’t even cost a lot)

29.09.2025 12:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The important thing with this one is that the btv vaccines are strain specific, if you are seeing clinical signs in a btv3 vaccinated animal it might be this one. There are btv 8 vaccines in production but not ( currently) available in the uk … sonething to prepare for next season

27.09.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bluetongue: latest situation Overview of current bluetongue cases, risk level, vaccinations and restrictions.

And right on que we have btv8 now too www.gov.uk/government/n...

27.09.2025 10:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

the guys at the vet hospital at liverpool swabbed everything in the hospital - the dirtiest spot (in terms of bacterial load and AMR) was the staff room.... (pretty much the only bit of the place that wasn't regularly scrubbed in disinfectant)

26.09.2025 14:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s hard to imagine anyone actually believing it but the human mind is strange

25.09.2025 06:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Vet colleagues out there.. if you have some itchy camelids or equids these guys want them (or at least their lice). Note they are in the USA though so shipping could be an issue...

24.09.2025 09:23 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

interesting - much easier to do IM than IV... (guess it just all ends up in the lymphoid system any which way)

24.09.2025 09:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Well left to themselves cows often end up a "brindle" (stripy yellow/black) colour - the preference for solid colours is a human one we've bred in. there is a lot of bias from buyers based on coat colour and perception of breed - I spent a lot of time in cattle auction yards as a teen....

23.09.2025 10:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Oooh I want to know what happened with the blue soup ( that sort of thing is what the internet should be for)

22.09.2025 20:20 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It’s a hard one and I’m not sure I would do it for my cats ….. whatever you choose I hope your vet can support you

22.09.2025 20:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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