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

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Alan McNally is a professor of microbial genomics at the University of Birmingham, UK. He works on the evolutionary genomics and antimicrobial resistance in bacterial pathogens.

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Biology 75%
Medicine 8%
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 19h
Christmas is go

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 21h
AI and Machine Learning are transforming how we understand microbial systems, integrating omics workflows to predict and guide the future in research. Don’t miss the AI-enabled Microbiology session at Annual Conference 2026. Register now: microb.io/AC26Register #Microbio26
Annual Conference 2026
Industry opportunities
microb.io

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Vivek Mutalik @vivekmutalik.bsky.social · 1d
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Reversible phenotypic resistance to phage infection via capsule downregulation in Klebsiella pneumoniae
#phage #phageky

www.cell.com/iscience/ful...
Reversible phenotypic resistance to phage infection via capsule downregulation in Klebsiella pneumoniae
Molecular biology; Microbiology; Cell biology
www.cell.com

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Torsten Seemann @torstenseemann.bsky.social · 1d
💾 ABRicate 1.2.0 has been released!

This 'oversight' lasted 6 years, but with help from @finlaym.bsky.social we got CI working and updated all the databases. #bioconda #conda #bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics

github.com/tseemann/abr...
Releases · tseemann/abricate
:mag_right: :pill: Mass screening of contigs for antimicrobial and virulence genes - tseemann/abricate
github.com

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 1d
Receiving a peace prize from FIFA reminds me of the time the Good Food Guide awarded a star to Jeffrey Dahmer for his innovative approach to food preservation and culinary exploration.

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Marjon de Vos @lizscurious.bsky.social · 1d
New preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Pyocyanin produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa Creates Legacy Effects That Boost Antibiotic Resistance Evolution in Enterococci
Polymicrobial infections are small communities of multiple interacting bacterial species. Interactions among constituent species may modify the growth of community members in the presence of antibioti...
www.biorxiv.org

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Andrew Curry @andrewcurry.com · 2d
The Black Death was history's worst documented demographic disaster. New research shows it was also a bizarre anomaly, the unlikely result of volcanic eruptions, multiple consecutive poor harvests in Italy, a war between Genoa, Venice and the Mongols, AND a Black Sea plague outbreak. @science.org
Medieval volcano may have indirectly sparked Europe’s Black Death
Crop failures caused by eruptions possibly forced grain imports from plague-ridden regions
www.science.org

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Roland Faure @rfaure.bsky.social · 3d
Preprint out! Check out our new long-read metagenomic SNP-caller, SNooPy 😀. Work with Chris Quince. Thread 🧵
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

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Wiep Klaas Smits (ExpBac/CMAT) @smitslab.bsky.social · 3d
Gut mucin fucosylation dictates the entry of botulinum toxin complexes www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Gut mucin fucosylation dictates the entry of botulinum toxin complexes - Nature Communications
Botulinum toxins vary in oral toxicity, but the reasons are unclear. Here, the authors show that the differences can be due to variations in one of the toxin’s components, the hemagglutinin complex, w...
www.nature.com

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
Is UoB email down. I haven’t had an email this morning 🤯

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
Yes it would lead to ruin. As there isn’t a uni council in the land wouldnt demand huge cuts and restructuring to right the ship.
timeshighered.bsky.social Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 3d
Dark tales abound of various UK universities being at risk of breaching agreements with their banks. But what are covenants and why do they play a prominent role in the conversation about sector health? And would breaking one really lead to ruin? Helen Packer reports
https://ow.ly/pjkK50XBoPN

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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 3d
Dark tales abound of various UK universities being at risk of breaching agreements with their banks. But what are covenants and why do they play a prominent role in the conversation about sector health? And would breaking one really lead to ruin? Helen Packer reports
https://ow.ly/pjkK50XBoPN

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 3d
2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
A gentle jest. I was in the new building week before last. Can’t fail to be impressed

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
Every time you have to pay for something…………

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
Meanwhile Ekitike who does nothing but perform sits on the bench

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
Ditto MacAllster. Too slow

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
Lots of talk about Salah being Liverpool problem this season. Well am sorry but VVD is playing league 1 level and no one wants to accept it.

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Sophien Kamoun @kamounlab.bsky.social · 4d
I just published: ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia?

My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re building.

medium.com/p/erc-plus-j...
ERC-Plus: jackpot science or missed chance to fix academia?
My reflections on ERC-Plus, Europe’s newest ultra-competitive research grant and what it tells us about the academic culture we’re…
medium.com

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 4d
NEWS! 'Die Hard is NOT a Christmas film' insists man who doesn't appear to know what an office Christmas party is
‘Die Hard is NOT a Christmas film’ insists man who doesn’t appear to know what an office Christmas party is
Die Hard is definitely not a Christmas film it has been claimed today, by a man who appears to have no idea whatsoever what an office Christmas party is, or what a Christmas song sounds like.
buff.ly

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Olaf Falafel @ofalafel.bsky.social · 4d
Who did your guttering mate?

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Ian Power @ihpower.bsky.social · 4d
A mute button, but on people's foreheads.

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 4d
Kolo-Muani playing for spurs this evening

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Lucy Crouch @lucyicm.bsky.social · 4d
💎MRC AIM PhD advert💎 Uncharted territory - the Akkermansia muciniphila import system.

Liang Wu, David Tourigny, and I are looking for someone to work on how A. muciniphila imports mucin.

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
Uncharted territory - the Akkermansia muciniphila import system at University of Birmingham on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - Uncharted territory - the Akkermansia muciniphila import system at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 5d
📣🦠Check out our new Editor’s Spotlight! Senior MGEN editor Jesse Shapiro tells us about a recently published paper on the bystander effect on the evolution of Bordetella parapertussis, a non-target species of the pertussis vaccine #MGEN

Read the full blog here: microb.io/48zfOlJ

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 5d
Obviously editors read this post and had the last laugh by desk rejecting one this morning………..
alanmcn1.bsky.social Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 8d
Right. Two papers submitted. If anyone needs me I will be in the weekend

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Damian Shields @damianshields.bsky.social · 6d
A very happy St Andrew's Day to ye all! Awa for a dram.. Slainte! Winter on Loch Affric, Glen Affric #Scotland #StAndrewsDay #GlenAffric damianshields.photoshelter.com/p/2026-calendar

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 6d
For viewers in Scotland, Your Party will of course be known by its full title: “Oor Party, Your Party, A’body’s Party!”

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Nigella Lawson @nigella.bsky.social · 7d
I never really need an excuse to make my Black Pudding Meatballs – a deep love of mine – #RecipeOfTheDay, but since it does happen to be St Andrew’s Day, it felt like a particularly opportune moment! www.nigella.com/recipes/blac...
Black Pudding Meatballs
When I included these black pudding meatballs in Cook, Eat, Repeat, I thought they would be a niche choice, but I have been gratifyingly overwhelmed by the number of people who have made and loved the...
www.nigella.com

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Graeme Swanson @swansonian.bsky.social · 7d
Happy St Andrew’s Day fellow Scotch.
My picture “Visit Scotland” shows a highland cow standing on two legs with a Highland valley behind him