Mark van der Giezen

Norwegian public health institute's name on one of it's outer walls.

Graph showing effect of introduction of vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae in Norway in 1992 on childhood disease (going down).

Great example of the effectiveness of vaccination. In 1992, Norway introduced vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae and the next year under seven disease burden dropped massively.

Yesterday at the Norwegian public health institute annual microbial genomics meeting.

Talk by Dagfinn Skaare.

Where?

Just do it!

Last few days to apply for a PhD studentship in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social

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Or a covid-like event strikes the salmon industry at a time the Saudis open the taps....

Interesting. Can you replace 'oil' with 'salmon'? I have some concerns about the future of our adopted homeland.

I thought you can get Stentor and Blepharisma from teaching suppliers? At least, I've ordered them for class in England.

View over a lake through the trees with a rising sun in the distance. It's autumn but we had the first frost of the season so it looks chilly. Golden brown colours.

First frost of the season and didn't really fancy doing my usual run. The views were worth it though.

Where's that?

Quite expensive for plants that look rather dead? You think there's a future in a dead plant shop? Weird isn't it?

Stormy sea water spray over a breaker at the coast in Norway. Houses and trees at the distance.

Photo of a 1968 Volvo Felt, also called Välp or Laplander, with a ferry at the background.

No, it's not a midlife crisis, I've had that already.

'In space no one can hear you scream' says Alien. It seems that this also applies to Mastodon and BlueSky? Unlike the old Twitter, there is very little interaction with messages. Maybe it's better to write to (local) newspapers and/or contact MPs if you want to make a difference?

I agree, it's not what it set out to be. I'm no longer interested in paying 'open access' charges but plan to put manuscripts in open archives and publish old school, behind a paywall if the case. I cannot justify spending community money on a financial profit model for private enterprise.

Absoluut ongelooflijk tot het niveau dat ik er geen bal van geloof. Dankzij de top 2000 vind ik het onderhand een onverdraaglijk nummer.

I put my money on the ciliate. Microbial eukaryotes rule!

Scientists paid large publishers over $1 billion in four years to have their studies published with ... A study reveals that academic megajournals ‘Scientific Reports’ and ‘Nature Communications’ have cornered the market

Explain this to the taxpayers and convince politicians about the obscenity that is the open access publishing business model:

"The scientific community of the US, China, UK, France, Netherlands, and Norway pays over $2 billion each year to a dozen publishers to publish their work with open access"

Green northern lights above houses across a bay

Red and green northern lights above the sea with some lights of houses at the horizon.

Unexpected but always impressive, northern lights in southern Norway.

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Jawel. Mijn stem zit nog in de 100,000 buitenlandse stemmen, maar dat zijn maar 2 zetels? Wordt m niet.

Wat hebben jullie met mijn land gedaan?

I think it is crucial we tell policy makers (ministers, politicians, heads of institutes, etc) and even librarians that open access has been hijacked by commercial parties pretending to offer open access. Let's all do BioRxiv and not spend taxpayer money on commercial open access charges!

Super excited after a 2-day kickoff event where 70 people from academia, industry, and the clinic set out on a journey to identify people at risk of Alzheimer's earlier.

Proud to be involved as Stavanger University Hospital partner to look into the intestinal microbiome part

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Cool (really cool!) PhD position on the diversity and ecology of anaerobic protists and fungi in polar freshwaters!

A joint project with two of my previous colleagues at the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Exeter.

See below for more information:
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View over a calm sea from a slightly high position with a small harbour on the left and nearly clear blue sky above.

View over the sea after a half marathon that didn't go too well. Nice and relaxing to see the sea like this.

Yes, I'm wondering if we put our papers on BioRxiv (or another freely available depository) but the published paper is behind a paywall if that violates funding rules? (I'm aware rules differ between funders/countries). This would satisfy genuine open access, right?

A mitochondrial carrier transports glycolytic intermediates to link cytosolic and mitochondrial glyc... bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

A new mitochondrial carrier links cytosolic and mitochondrial glycolysis in the intestinal parasite Blastocystis (and many more stramenopiles and oomycetes).

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Did I miss something by leaving Britain? Now I need to see it!

Pretty generous then with 3 stars?