Shiny-headed microbiologist - bacterial gene regulation, vaccines, host-pathogen interactions. Passed on his genes twice. Fond of dark ale.
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The best way to teach varies by subject once you reach undergraduate level (possibly sooner), and it’s the disciplinary experts - not educationalists or pedagogues - who are also the experts in how to teach that subject.
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If California billionaires can scrape together $340 MILLION to fight a tax on billionaires, I think we've officially settled whether they can afford to pay the fucking tax.
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The thing is, I don’t care.
I don’t care that a single mom bought her kid a cookie, I don’t care that a person working 40 hours a week bought a Sprite with SNAP, I don’t care that a person less fortunate than me was able to buy beef instead of chicken.
I DO care, that we are supplementing trillion dollar corporations. Why are we funding private businesses? Why can’t they use their own money?
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They want to leave the ECHR because it will allow them to abolish the State Pension, the Minimum Wage, and paid holiday and sick leave.
It would make them tens of billions a year.
But of course they say immigration, because they can't tell you the real reason.
#BBCBreakfast
Farage: "We are not sovereign until we leave the ECHR."
The only European countries outside the ECHR are Russia and Belarus.
For the UK to quit the ECHR would be to hand a huge victory to Putin in his war against human rights and international law.
Farage continues his treasonous collaboration in Putin's war against democracy, freedom, and human rights. He is a traitor, and that is the biggest issue by far in today's British politics.
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New preprint from the MultiDefence consortium - continuing to expand the restriction-modification landscape with MANTIS. Full info here: biorxiv.org/content/10.64898… . Well done team!
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We caught the moment Restore activist @lewisrholmes was "scalded by boiling liquid" yesterday while being confronted about his relationship with neo-Nazi Patrick McGinnis. As you can see, he spilt the coffee on his hand while putting it in a bin. He refused to answer our question
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A reminder:
There is not a single reputable study linking vaccines to autism.
There are dozens, including examinations of *entire populations*, that show no relation. None. Nada. Zilch.
The rest is just antivaxx noise.
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511 studies showed that COVID-19, RSV, and influenza vaccines are safe and effective in people of all ages.
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A great overview for anyone interested in Salmonella, this Microbe Profile on Salmonella Typhimurium explores its properties, genome, virulence and the emergence of multidrug-resistance.
Read the Open Access profile in MIC:
doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.001521
#MIC #Microbiology
ALT Diagram illustrating Salmonella Typhimurium's infection sites, transmission, cell types infected, and genetic factors influencing its pathogenicity.
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How to avoid entrapment with this one trick - undercover journalists hate it!
Just remember to say this simple phrase: "I want nothing to do with what you are suggesting, it is improper and this conversation is at an end."
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Covid infection might activate an immune program that closely resembles those involved in established autoimmune disorders such as SLE, helping explain why some individuals experience autoimmune complications following infection.
cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/covi…
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Clonal does not mean uniform. Our new review explores how genetically identical bacteria adopt different cell states, and how that diversity shapes survival, cooperation, antibiotic responses and gene transfer. annualreviews.org/content/jo…
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Great to see an independent validation of our 2017 PNAS work on MapZ. Less great to not see it even mentioned nor cited..
pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pn…
febs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com…
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In vitro peptidoglycan degradation assay using fluorescein-5-isothiocyanate-labelled sacculi. Published Open Access and fee-free in AcMi using a Publish and Read agreement: doi.org/10.1099/acmi.0.00117… #AcMi #PublishAndRead
ALT Schematic representation of the microtitre plate assembly used to ensure optimal centrifugation during the peptidoglycan degradation assay. From top to bottom, the assembly comprises a lid covering the GV 96-well filter plate, the GV 96-well filter plate, and a 96-well black flat-bottom microplate.
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🚨🚨💥NEW VACCINE AND AUTISM PAPER OUT 💥🚨🚨
Its one of the BIGGEST EVER
2.5 MILLION KIDS STUDIED
And it's AMERICAN 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It shows....NO LINK BETWEEN MMR VACCINE AND AUTISM
Like every other study this size
So MMR doesn't cause autism
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One of the largest U.S. studies ever conducted on the MMR vaccine and autism has just been published, analyzing more than 2.5 million children.
Once again researchers found no association between receiving the first MMR vaccine before age 2 and childhood autism.
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