Eva Wooding

No parent should have to choose between going to work and being at their sick newborn baby’s side.

This weekend, new rules came into force, giving parents of ill newborns up to 12 weeks of paid leave.

A compassionate, long-overdue step.

We only rate dogs. This is clearly a Christmas tree. Yes there is another Christmas tree behind it, that's called having friends. Please only send dogs. Thank you… 14/10

Linzer Cookies In its wildest dreams, a jammy dodger could never aspire to the melting tenderness and celestial lightness of the Linzer cookie. The idea is the same: two biscuits, sandwiched together with jam, a hol...

Linzer Cookies, in all their festive beauty and buttery tenderness, are #RecipeOfTheDay! I wouldn’t want to attempt them in the Southern Hemisphere (sorry over there) but in our cold, Northern Hemisphere kitchens, the soft, rich dough is helpfully biddable www.nigella.com/recipes/linz...

Resident capybara with attending capybara

“My attending wants to talk to you”

Opt-opt #HIV & #Hepatitis Emergency Department testing identifies an older cohort , more woman, more Black African, & more socially deprived people than classic testing routes

Most importantly 80% of people diagnosed had NO other contact with services where testing occurs
#HIVSky #IDSky

Watch as deer gallop through Plymouth Hospital corridors DERRIFORD HOSPITAL was left not knowing what to doe, after two deer were spotted wandering through the corridors of the hospital last night. The remarkable sight captured them casually strolling down ...

Reminds me of the deer we had in Plymouth, UK!

www.middevonadvertiser.co.uk/news/watch-a...

#IDSky

Never give up hope that, one day, you will pull a book from a bookshelf and that secret door will finally open for you.

Initial thoughts…

Wipe clean (probably) ✅
Festive ✅
Bright and fun ✅

#paedsky #pedsky #idsky #medsky off the back of infection control tearing down most of the NICU Christmas decorations & suggesting we keep our Elf On The Shelf suffocated in a plastic bag (sounds fun for the visiting siblings) hit me with your infection control-friendly Xmas day accessories to wear

This was waiting for me outside my hospital accommodation pre-night shift. Irresistible to my inner paediatrician #stormdarragh 🍁 #teamnightshift

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

Other people rave about it so I must be missing something!

#londonsky locals. What’s your favourite cinema? I’ve got some spare hours in the city coming up and want to watch Wicked somewhere nice anywhere north/central or south (I’ll be travelling between Bloomsbury and South London) so pretty flexible.

I’m generally confused by linked in. Do you use it much?

A blueprint for broadly effective bacteriophage-antibiotic cocktails against bacterial infections - Nature Communications The application of phage therapy for multidrug-resistant infections is mainly limited to personalized therapy due to the narrow host range of individual phages. Here, Kim et al. identify groups of pha...

Bravo to Paul Bollyky @pbollyky.bsky.social at Stanford for his lab's paper showing that complementary groups of phage can be mixed to provide broad and effective antimicrobial therapy against Pseudomonas and Staph infections. Brilliant work!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Christmas tree update
It’s too big. Around 8 foot in fact 😂

It’s getting a hair cut

A very warm welcome to @bashhuk.bsky.social and @hivta.bsky.social who've joined BlueSky.

Collaboration 🤝 Education

NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Investigating the biological and chemical factors that contribute to the emergence of pathogenic Vibrio species at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - NERC RED-ALERT CDT: Investigating the biological and chemical factors that contribute to the emergence of pathogenic Vibrio species at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com

Red-ALERT CDT #PhDPosition to work on bacterial dormancy in the environment with me at University of Exeter.

Suitable for National & International candidates with Microbiology backgrounds

Deadline: 7th January 2025
More details 👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Please repost. #microsky

The tree I ordered might be a little bit on the large side. Can’t wait to not help my husband get it into the living room 😅

Predictive gene expression signature diagnoses neonatal sepsis before clinical presentation Despite appearing healthy at birth, neonates who later developed EOS already had distinct whole blood gene expression changes at birth, which enabled the development of a 4-gene predictive signature f...

Every year, >200K newborns die from sepsis.
Our team used machine learning to develop a set of genes that can predict neonatal sepsis risk using at birth blood samples.
www.thelancet.com/journals/ebi...

Call me an old traditionalist, but it just isn’t Christmas until you can buy Churros in a German market in Birmingham.

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

He doesn’t look sorry

Is it good?

☀️ 96 solar panels are now powering Kaffin Madaki paediatric hospital in #Nigeria.

These solar panels cover the energy demands for the entire hospital, replacing generators that used around 200 litres of fuel per day. #ClimateSolutions

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

📣 Last chance! Calling all early-career investigator working on #paediatric &/or adolescent #HIV!

🗓️ Today at 18:00 CET is the deadline to apply to our CIPHER Growing the Leaders of Tomorrow Fellowship Programme!

✅ Apply now: www.iasociety.org/fellowships/...

We're excited to share our fungal artworks, commissioned for the Hidden World of Killer Fungi exhibit! These captivating visuals bring ground-breaking research to life. Now available online shorturl.at/N090i Thanks to @darrenthomson.bsky.social #MedicalMycology #Fungi #MycoSky #FungalFriday