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Alan McNally

@alanmcn1.bsky.social

Head of the School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @ Uni Birmingham. Proud Scot. Oversaw a few Covid PCR tests

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As good as the 85 Bears. Just an incredible defensive display

09.02.2026 03:00 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Finally

09.02.2026 02:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Kenneth Walker winning the superbowl

09.02.2026 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If this guy was in the back garden I would shut the blinds.

09.02.2026 01:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not a classic for the ages

09.02.2026 00:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pregame celebrating America being 250 years old

The church in our village is 980 years old…………

08.02.2026 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work

β€œOh for fucks sake”

08.02.2026 19:45 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Nailing my colours to the mast now. Go Seahawks!!!!

08.02.2026 18:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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He looks like the notepad next to the landline.

06.02.2026 09:21 β€” πŸ‘ 250    πŸ” 56    πŸ’¬ 15    πŸ“Œ 9

Watched enough of this shite. Newcastle game it is

07.02.2026 17:33 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Christ this is dreadful. It’s like U18s versus U12s!!!!!

07.02.2026 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

He should have gone 2 world cups ago. This is reminiscent of his final days as Glasgow coach; over coaching everything and trying to knock a square peg in a round hole. Did no one in Scotland check what the weather forecast was?!

07.02.2026 16:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I think we can all agree that Graham, Kinghorn and Van der Merwe start for Scotland

07.02.2026 15:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is a diabolical, ill disciplined shambles of a performance

07.02.2026 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh FFS

07.02.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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BLAZING SADDLES was released 52 years ago today. Acclaimed as one of the great comedies of the 1970s, and among the most popular of director Mel Brooks, the story of how it was made is a cascading waterfall of creative alternatives...

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Registration fee is only 175€, some of the invited speakers: Charles Rice, Yasmine Belkaid, Bonnie Bassler, Daniel Mucida, Joy Bergelson, Matthew Chang, Carolina Lucas, Jeff Barrick, Carolina Tropini, Roy Kishony and more... Save the date now!

06.02.2026 18:51 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sometimes I'm late because I sit like this for too long instead of getting ready.

05.02.2026 21:42 β€” πŸ‘ 323    πŸ” 37    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 6
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"No I'm fine, you just make sure you get your fucking video first"

05.02.2026 13:09 β€” πŸ‘ 487    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 13

Relax. Just the rugby lol

05.02.2026 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Paris. Now.

05.02.2026 20:47 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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MRC funding update An update on MRC funding during UKRI’s transition, what’s changing, and the next steps for paused opportunities and reopening timelines.

Finally an official update from #MRC regarding grant application funding and severe cuts to funded research in rounds currently under review:
www.ukri.org/blog/mrc-fun...

Not that it gives any reassurance or details beyond a comprehensive list of what is suspended.

#UKsciencefunding

05.02.2026 16:08 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2

Interested in eco-evolutionary feedbacks? Microbial experimental evolution? Pleiotropy? Filamentous phages??

Check out our latest preprint, now up on BioRxiv!

biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

For a quick summary, peep the thread below...🧡 (1/10)

23.01.2026 18:03 β€” πŸ‘ 42    πŸ” 15    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 2
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Just sayin’.

04.02.2026 23:28 β€” πŸ‘ 4412    πŸ” 1697    πŸ’¬ 145    πŸ“Œ 75
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Accurate plasmid reconstruction from metagenomics data using assembly–alignment graphs and contrastive learning - Nature Biotechnology PlasMAAG uses cross-sample information to improve plasmid reconstruction from metagenomic samples.

Accurate plasmid reconstruction from metagenomics data using assembly–alignment graphs and contrastive learning www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs

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WHAT A con these so-called
"notebooks" are. They're
just books without any words, and
yet most of them cost much more
than best-selling novels. If I was an
author, I'd just be sending blank
pages to my publisher and going
down the pub.
lan Shakespeare,
Funtingdon-on-the-Funt

WHAT A con these so-called "notebooks" are. They're just books without any words, and yet most of them cost much more than best-selling novels. If I was an author, I'd just be sending blank pages to my publisher and going down the pub. lan Shakespeare, Funtingdon-on-the-Funt

subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz353bs

04.02.2026 18:39 β€” πŸ‘ 109    πŸ” 21    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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AI is not a peer, so it can’t do peer review If we still believe thatΒ science is a vocationΒ grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, saysΒ Akhil Bhardwaj

'to treat peer review as a throughput problem is to misunderstand what is at stake. Review is not simply a production stage in the research pipeline; it is one of the few remaining spaces where the scientific community talks to itself.' 1/3

03.02.2026 08:17 β€” πŸ‘ 359    πŸ” 153    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 21
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Independent, ongoing clade-specific expansions of IS5 elements in Pseudomonas syringae Insertion sequence (IS) elements are transposable regions of DNA present in a majority of bacterial genomes. It is hypothesized that differences in distributions of IS elements across bacterial strain...

Hey y’all,

New paper out from the lab in Microbial Genomics, starting down the rabbit hole of IS elements in Paeudomonas syringae

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

03.02.2026 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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