April Hayes

it feels somehow deceitful and deeply disturbing that one of the last acts given in service to another person are now removed of all human touch

It’s really important for EDI that ECRs and PIs can have open, empathetic discussions about feedback and behaviour, without intimidation.

Respect from lab members comes from being able to challenge negative behaviour, and being listened to without discussions becoming a competition.

UK has got ‘fat’ on decades of free labour by women, says MP Jess Phillips Minister points to ‘sexist’ practice of country relying on women to provide services so government did not have to

I see this every time I work with community groups. Women stepping in to fill gaps left by LAs and government, only to find the more they step in, the more gaps appear, as government sees this free labour as a solution that their funding crises. It is not. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations | PNAS Disparities continue to pose major challenges in various aspects of science. One such aspect is editorial board composition, which has been shown t...

"Non-White scientists appear on fewer editorial boards, spend more time under review, and receive fewer citations"

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

There's this trope that you have to be so into your PhD topic that you live and breathe it and can't possibly stop thinking about it, so here's your regular reminder that passion is good, but burnout isn't. It's okay and recommended to take breaks, enjoy the weekend, and treat a PhD like a job.

A new version of gcplyr (1.12.0) has just been released and is available now from CRAN and github. This update fixes a handful of bugs along with some improvements to the documentation

mikeblazanin.github.io/gcplyr/

really interesting (and useful!) use of ai to assist the identification of bacterial pathogens

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

‘short paper with sense of foreboding’ really hits hard

Systematic screen uncovers regulator contributions to chemical cues in Escherichia coli Transport machineries are crucial for antibiotic resistance, but their regulation by external cues is poorly understood. This study identifies environmental chemicals that regulate transporter transcr...

Finally out! A small screen helps understand a little more about how E. coli regulates major transporters, and reveals how caffeine induces phenotypical antibiotic resistance. Huge thanks to collab @andrenmateus.bsky.social (Umeå) and Christian L. Müller (Munich)!
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#MicroSky job alert: Senior Research Technician in the Mausz Lab at Warwick, on responses of marine microbes to nutrient limitation & environmental changes. warwick-careers.tal.net/vx/appcentre...

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🖥🧬 Some really useful tips, mainly regarding managing dependencies and reproducibility in #R from @weare.rladies.org

alllso pretty cool (all the cool microbiome stuff rn!)

went along to this at lunchtime today (also had the immense pleasure of being a contributor to their research conversations). what a great opportunity for two researchers from different disciplines to collaborate on a project, and the end goal *be* the conversation

A comment I wrote for you is now online at @natcomms.nature.com:

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

Oh, oh, it says "time travel will likely remain forever off the table in our universe" with a citation, so read it maybe? (am I doing the click-bait thing right? 🥲).

Identification of medication–microbiome interactions that affect gut infection - Nature An analysis of prescription medications shows that several non-antibiotic drugs, such as the heart medication digoxin, can reduce the immune response to pathogens and increase the risk of gastrointest...

Interesting paper from the Goodman Lab:

Identification of medication–microbiome interactions that affect gut infection www.nature.com/articles/s41...

blood bag, ultrasound picture, chart up all in black and red tones.

Striking. After Texas banned abortion, ER visits for early miscarriage rose 25% and blood transfusions surged 54%.

Doctors delayed care like D&Cs out of fear of prosecution. More women nearly bled to death. buff.ly/egXhmm7

#medsky #ObGynsky 🛟🧪

more and more evidence that non-antibiotics are likely causing widespread affects in microbiomes (!!) - super super cool work

well this is kinda cool 🦠✨

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Out in @natbiotech.nature.com: Metagenome taxonomy profilers usually ignore unknown species. SingleM is an accurate profiler which doesn't, even detecting phyla with no MAGs. Profiles of 700,000 metagenomes at sandpiper.qut.edu.au. A 🧵

There's actually no such thing as a natural disaster When hazards like Harvey and Maria strike, we tend to call them natural disasters. Here's why there's nothing natural about disaster—and why it matters.

I also wrote a story about why many disaster experts think we should stop saying natural disaster.

Even if you put aside climate change, a disaster is when an extreme event hits a human population. Otherwise it's just weather. But there are policy decisions that affect ones exposure.

Participate in research on attraction and intimate relationships at this link: https://psicologiagenerale.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bpB9TH0e925IddY

Recruitment is still open!

Help us by participating in a survey about attraction and intimate relationships.

All are welcome, but we’re especially low on heterosexual responses.

Please share widely!

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🚨 SWIMMERS & NON-SWIMMERS WANTED!

Take part in a survey about the health risks of freshwater bathing and help inform public health research🏊‍♀️

Take part: bit.ly/freshwater-s...
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a patch of ground with a shed behind it. The ground is filled with plant growth - lots of Green with different plants, including lots of wildflowers in pink, orange, yellow and red.

no mow may on our campus really let the flowers spring up. it’s so nice to see them left out behind - so pretty! and great for the insects @uniofexeteresi.bsky.social

A set of nine unevenly shaped biscuits arranged in a glass-lidded box. Each biscuit is curved and made to look like a fragent of ancient pottery. The base icing is in shades of orange, peach, and cream. Figures, swirls, repeating leaf patterns, and horses are painted onto the icing surface in black. The biscuits are aged with scratch marks and cracks.

Things are about to get a bit ancient.

I baked these biscuity sherds on a hemisphere cake tin in an attempt to recreate Ancient Greek pottery fragments in all three dimensions. The originals, dating from c.1600-435 BCE, can be found in the collections of the Ashmolean Museum.

rayyanR v0.2 is out - now able to read in the full text stage of a Rayyan review, rounding off the work we did at @eshackathon.bsky.social’s ESHLondon hackathon a couple of weeks back github.com/befriendabac...
#medlibs #evsynth #evidencesynthesis #systematicreview @ecehh.org

Excited to announce our paper on ancient Borrelia genomes is finally out! 🦠💀We document the evolutionary history of louse-borne relapsing fever, published today in @science.org‬ with @lucyvandorp.bsky.social and @pontus-skoglund.bsky.social #aDNA 🏺🧪🧬
Main findings and paper below: 🧵⬇️

WHO report on nature-based solutions launched | ECEHH We’ve worked with the World Health Organization to review interventions that can benefit both people and planet.

NOW LIVE: Our new @who.int report on nature-based solutions and health.

From promoting air quality to building liveable cities, learn how to maximise the "roll out of nature-based solutions in tangible, real-world policies."

ecehh.org/news/who-nature-based-solutions

Microbial communities can harbor many species that do not coexist in pairs, yet can coexist in the full community. Here we provide the mathematical foundations of emergent coexistence, and explain why it can't be predicted from pairwise tests www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...