Anthony Wilson

Okay I loved this piece but didn't immediately check the artist's orher work and it's all amazing; go look!
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The infected pollinator

Painted in watercolor and acrylics

Okay, I'm going to answer my own question:
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Okay I gather there is ✨️drama✨️ with the Bluesky people, and I see a lot of posts about Blacksky and Northsky. Can anyone point me to an explainer of what these are and if/how they're going to avoid similar issues?

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I'm scared to ask

Hey this is exactly the cutting edge content* some of us are here for

*pun intended

To be fair science journalists are usually pretty good in my experience, but front-page stuff gets covered by different people. And while organisations like the Science Media Centre and Sense About Science do excellent work there's plenty more to do!

Portrait of Jesse Lazear, photo of an Aedes aegypti mosquito, image of Jesse Lazear’s fever chart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_William_Lazear CDC Public Health Image Library ID#9257 Fever chart for Jesse W. Lazear, September 19, 1900, Box-folder 3:47, Philip S. Hench Walter Reed Yellow Fever Collection 1806-1995, Historical Collections, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia

Jesse Lazear died of yellow fever Sept. 25, 1900. Along with other research by the Yellow Fever Commission, his demonstration that yellow fever is transmitted by mosquitoes provided the basis for efforts to control this devastating disease.
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NEW opportunity to return to a research career!

Applications are invited for a three-year Daphne Jackson Fellowship funded by @alzheimerssoc.bsky.social.

Word of mouth works wonders for us, do you know anyone who may be interested?
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Ben Pascoe @benizao.bsky.social @sheppardlab.bsky.social shining a light on C. coli - although less common than C. jejuni, it has higher levels of AMR. His work in Peru highlights the importance of this pathogen in LMICs due constant exposure with backyard livestock and antibiotic use 🇵🇪 #CampyUK2025

A warm welcome from the head of @biology.ox.ac.uk Prof Martin Maiden and a thank you to our sponsors @microbiologysociety.org, Don Whitley Scientific and @genewiz.bsky.social

Philanthropies Strike a Promising Deal to Turn Back H.I.V.

This is huge: “A drug that provides near-perfect protection against H.I.V. with shots just twice a year will be made available at $40 per patient annually in low- and middle-income countries, offering new hope… making lenacapavir a realistic choice in countries with constrained resources.”

Really fascinating talk - very excited to hear more about the anti-N-glycan vaccine approach but it sounds very promising!

Wait what?!

Tom Quad, Christchurch College Oxford

View into Tom Quad from the passage to Peckwater Quad

Tom Tower at dusk

Back in Oxford for #CampyUK this week! The schedule looks amazing - looking forward to some great talks.

Exciting to see this launch today! This research is an excellent example of using plant science to improve human health, and highlights the value of BBSRC’s long-term investment in plant and nutritional science🍅🔬

The even more unbelievable crime fact (which I learned relatively recently) is that burglary has fallen by more than 90% since the 1990s.

Did anyone notice? Nope. Does anyone believe it? Nope. But is is true? It is!

let me share a little story about a remarkable wasp that I encountered yesterday in our local deserts

I stumbled across her, and scrambled to get a few crappy photos .... but then realized that she had a burrow, perhaps a better photo op was possible ??

here she is at her burrow entrance.

Warmly recommend the Substack of @hcrichardson.bsky.social for following what is happening in US.

Each post is headed by just a date and provides a daily detailed - and not sensationalised - account and evaluation of the day's political events.

heathercoxrichardson.substack.com

(Psst, it's "nopales")

YouTube video by Farm to Taber "Everyone Drank Raw Milk!" No They Didn't

When people say "We used to drink raw milk from our own cow and it was fine,"

That's... usually not the case!

In families w their own cow, the mom usually boiled it before using.

We just forgot bc that's a boring chore that mom did. And who pays attention to that?

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Screenshot of an announcement from SESAME WORKSHOP. The Sesame Street library is coming to YouTube! Beginning in January 2026, YouTube will have the largest digital library of Sesame Street content, with hundreds of full episodes coming to the Sesame Street channels. Join us as we help children everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder, one episode at a time.

Oh HELL yes

(Although I had successfully forgotten the kimono detail)

Ohhh I do remember that

I'm scared to ask...

Just checked the entire thread and inexplicably nobody has suggested Jolyon yet!

Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics at University of Birmingham Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Assistant Professor (Research and Education) in Bacterial Genomics on jobs.ac.uk!

Assistant Prof post in bacterial genomics @unibirmingham.bsky.social Come and join us!!

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Intra-vector infection dynamics challenge how to model the extrinsic incubation period for major arboviruses: dengue, Zika, and chikungunya - PubMed Arboviruses represent a significant threat to the health of humans, animals, and plants worldwide. Mechanistic modeling has proven useful for elucidating the transmission, anticipating the spread, and...

Great piece by Léa LOISEL and colleagues from Bioepar, Nantes, Fr with a little help from our lab :)
Better modeling intra-vector viral dynamics is necessary to better understand vector competence 🦟 #mosquito #arbovirus
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40853981/

Watching Patience on @channel4tv.bsky.social and not best pleased to see that in the episode where they investigate mistreatment of animals in a slaughterhouse in York, they contact the APHA!

Come on, that's Food Standards Agency territory & our head office is in York...

Just jealous, obviously 😉