DefinitelyNotAlice
@alicele.bsky.social
Evolutionary scientists, curious epidemiologist, plasmid enthusiast, old school social!
Sardinian, Italian and European in the Uk.
Briton in training, loves BCN.
Mum. Baker. Birdwatcher. Gardener.
Very opinionated & opinions are my own.
Sardinian, Italian and European in the Uk.
Briton in training, loves BCN.
Mum. Baker. Birdwatcher. Gardener.
Very opinionated & opinions are my own.
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Take 20 mins out of your day and listen to this brilliant presentation by Liam Shaw for @target-amr.bsky.social on his recent book 'Dangerous Miracle: a brief history of antibiotics'
youtu.be/yoFIRcVR-r0?...
youtu.be/yoFIRcVR-r0?...
Dangerous Miracle: a brief history of antibiotics
YouTube video by TARGetAMR
youtu.be
November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Take 20 mins out of your day and listen to this brilliant presentation by Liam Shaw for @target-amr.bsky.social on his recent book 'Dangerous Miracle: a brief history of antibiotics'
youtu.be/yoFIRcVR-r0?...
youtu.be/yoFIRcVR-r0?...
Spotify, what makes you think that if haven't joined premium when it was 1 month for free, I am going to join for 2 months at 6.5 pounds?
Tbh I did join once but it did not change much on the control I had on the music my mobile would play, so, no thanks!
Maybe I was not able to make it work 🤨
Tbh I did join once but it did not change much on the control I had on the music my mobile would play, so, no thanks!
Maybe I was not able to make it work 🤨
November 19, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Spotify, what makes you think that if haven't joined premium when it was 1 month for free, I am going to join for 2 months at 6.5 pounds?
Tbh I did join once but it did not change much on the control I had on the music my mobile would play, so, no thanks!
Maybe I was not able to make it work 🤨
Tbh I did join once but it did not change much on the control I had on the music my mobile would play, so, no thanks!
Maybe I was not able to make it work 🤨
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Viral coinfections aren’t additive, order matters. Flu often blocks COVID via strong IFN responses, RSV can boost later flu, and each pairing triggers unique cell programs. Timing shapes outcomes for care and modeling.
📖 shorturl.at/KH8cf
✍️ @olivierterrier.bsky.social & coll. @ciri-lyon.bsky.social
📖 shorturl.at/KH8cf
✍️ @olivierterrier.bsky.social & coll. @ciri-lyon.bsky.social
November 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Viral coinfections aren’t additive, order matters. Flu often blocks COVID via strong IFN responses, RSV can boost later flu, and each pairing triggers unique cell programs. Timing shapes outcomes for care and modeling.
📖 shorturl.at/KH8cf
✍️ @olivierterrier.bsky.social & coll. @ciri-lyon.bsky.social
📖 shorturl.at/KH8cf
✍️ @olivierterrier.bsky.social & coll. @ciri-lyon.bsky.social
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🚨Job claxon 🚨
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork Vacancies
my.corehr.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:55 PM
🚨Job claxon 🚨
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
University College Cork is looking to appoint a lecturer in Medical Microbiology into a permanent, non-clinical post
A great opportunity in a microbiology powerhouse
For details go to my.corehr.com/pls/uccrecru... and enter reference number 092153
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Reflection as we begin #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek #WAAW
🔴 #AMR is a growing global emergency
🔴 Solutions must go beyond prescribing #diagnostics #access #prevention
🔴 No one is safe until everyone is safe, solutions must reach all
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#episky #microsky @msf.ca
🔴 #AMR is a growing global emergency
🔴 Solutions must go beyond prescribing #diagnostics #access #prevention
🔴 No one is safe until everyone is safe, solutions must reach all
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#episky #microsky @msf.ca
Antimicrobial resistance: a concise update
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a serious threat to global public health, with approximately
5 million deaths associated with bacterial AMR in 2019. Tackling AMR requires a multifaceted
and cohesive...
www.thelancet.com
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 AM
Reflection as we begin #WorldAntimicrobialAwarenessWeek #WAAW
🔴 #AMR is a growing global emergency
🔴 Solutions must go beyond prescribing #diagnostics #access #prevention
🔴 No one is safe until everyone is safe, solutions must reach all
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#episky #microsky @msf.ca
🔴 #AMR is a growing global emergency
🔴 Solutions must go beyond prescribing #diagnostics #access #prevention
🔴 No one is safe until everyone is safe, solutions must reach all
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#episky #microsky @msf.ca
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Went through undergraduate in maths eating large quantities of Leibniz cookies, full size, dark Chocolate.
Cirque 30 e dieci 30 e lode
su quindici esami
Correlation not causation
and yet
Cirque 30 e dieci 30 e lode
su quindici esami
Correlation not causation
and yet
Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.
November 16, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Went through undergraduate in maths eating large quantities of Leibniz cookies, full size, dark Chocolate.
Cirque 30 e dieci 30 e lode
su quindici esami
Correlation not causation
and yet
Cirque 30 e dieci 30 e lode
su quindici esami
Correlation not causation
and yet
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Dopo un'ardua indagine, si è scoperto che "i pazzi del computer" sono i Gremlins, di cui le ho fatto vedere mesi fa cinque minuti di video (perché quando Aliena è capricciosa/lagnosa/pazzoide la chiamiamo "il Gremlins")
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Dopo un'ardua indagine, si è scoperto che "i pazzi del computer" sono i Gremlins, di cui le ho fatto vedere mesi fa cinque minuti di video (perché quando Aliena è capricciosa/lagnosa/pazzoide la chiamiamo "il Gremlins")
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📣 New preprint from us at phagefoundry.org 📣
A solid machine learning framework & to predict strain-level phage-host interactions across diverse bacterial genera from genome sequences alone. Avery Noonan from the Arkin Lab led this massive effort
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A solid machine learning framework & to predict strain-level phage-host interactions across diverse bacterial genera from genome sequences alone. Avery Noonan from the Arkin Lab led this massive effort
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Phage Foundry
phagefoundry.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:58 PM
📣 New preprint from us at phagefoundry.org 📣
A solid machine learning framework & to predict strain-level phage-host interactions across diverse bacterial genera from genome sequences alone. Avery Noonan from the Arkin Lab led this massive effort
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
A solid machine learning framework & to predict strain-level phage-host interactions across diverse bacterial genera from genome sequences alone. Avery Noonan from the Arkin Lab led this massive effort
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Non riesco ad aprire il link, ma il fatto che una margherita costi 15 pounds potrebbe forse avere qualcosa a che vedere con la crisi delle pizze...
www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/...
www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/...
La crisi della pizza nel Regno Unito, c’è troppa offerta: ora i ristoranti puntano sul pollo
Raggiunta la saturazione sul mercato britannico, scrive il “Financial Times”. E le statistiche dicono che i gusti alimentari prendono nuove direzioni e molti l…
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November 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Non riesco ad aprire il link, ma il fatto che una margherita costi 15 pounds potrebbe forse avere qualcosa a che vedere con la crisi delle pizze...
www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/...
www.repubblica.it/esteri/2025/...
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I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
UK set to limit refugees to temporary stays
Shabana Mahmood is expected to say the era of permanent protection for refugees is over, in major changes to the UK's asylum and immigration system.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 15, 2025 at 10:29 AM
I came to this country as a child refugee. No English, no certainty, no idea what my life could become. Britain gave me refuge.
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Not on a timer, not with conditions attached, but with a chance to grow roots.
A thread 🧵 1/8
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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You say this as if it isn't the main way to set up strategies that actually work for you.
Stop trying to willpower these things. Just make it more inconvenient to impulse buy things and you will do it less. Seriously. That's the trick.
Works for doomscrolling, impulsive eating, and such too
Stop trying to willpower these things. Just make it more inconvenient to impulse buy things and you will do it less. Seriously. That's the trick.
Works for doomscrolling, impulsive eating, and such too
One thing about having unmitigated ADHD and being fat and lazy as hell is that I can avoid impulse buying games merchandise bc my wallet is downstairs and I'm not Spheal rolling my ass downstairs to get my credit cards.
November 14, 2025 at 9:47 PM
You say this as if it isn't the main way to set up strategies that actually work for you.
Stop trying to willpower these things. Just make it more inconvenient to impulse buy things and you will do it less. Seriously. That's the trick.
Works for doomscrolling, impulsive eating, and such too
Stop trying to willpower these things. Just make it more inconvenient to impulse buy things and you will do it less. Seriously. That's the trick.
Works for doomscrolling, impulsive eating, and such too
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🎯. No notes.
November 14, 2025 at 4:12 PM
🎯. No notes.
You know that thing they say about journalists, that if there are two people arguing whether it is raining or not they should open the window and check if it is raining instead of writing both "opinions"??
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561806...
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561806...
Northern Lights to be visible in Oxfordshire after alert issued
The Northern Lights may be visible across Oxfordshire tonight after a new alert was issued.
www.oxfordmail.co.uk
November 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
You know that thing they say about journalists, that if there are two people arguing whether it is raining or not they should open the window and check if it is raining instead of writing both "opinions"??
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561806...
www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2561806...
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Honoured and quite blown-over to receive this award. I have been, and continue to be, very lucky - first with great mentors, and then really prodigious students, postdocs and collaborators. Working with them has been a joy.
Congratulations to @zaminiqbal.bsky.social from @milnerevolution.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Mary Lyon Medal!
November 14, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Honoured and quite blown-over to receive this award. I have been, and continue to be, very lucky - first with great mentors, and then really prodigious students, postdocs and collaborators. Working with them has been a joy.
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137 years ago today 🎂 Institut Pasteur opened in Paris (Nov 14, 1888 🏛️)
Funded by 100K+ donors after the rabies vaccine success, it launched a scientific legacy:
🔬 10 Nobel Prizes
🌍 32 Pasteur Network Institutes
💉 Countless lives saved
From rabies to COVID-19, the mission continues.
Funded by 100K+ donors after the rabies vaccine success, it launched a scientific legacy:
🔬 10 Nobel Prizes
🌍 32 Pasteur Network Institutes
💉 Countless lives saved
From rabies to COVID-19, the mission continues.
November 14, 2025 at 8:23 AM
137 years ago today 🎂 Institut Pasteur opened in Paris (Nov 14, 1888 🏛️)
Funded by 100K+ donors after the rabies vaccine success, it launched a scientific legacy:
🔬 10 Nobel Prizes
🌍 32 Pasteur Network Institutes
💉 Countless lives saved
From rabies to COVID-19, the mission continues.
Funded by 100K+ donors after the rabies vaccine success, it launched a scientific legacy:
🔬 10 Nobel Prizes
🌍 32 Pasteur Network Institutes
💉 Countless lives saved
From rabies to COVID-19, the mission continues.
November 14, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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This morning I saw a student on the bus to università di Trieste. He got down one stop before me, walks faster, and was surprised to see me there when he arrived at the lecture room.
I explained that I had used a shortcut he wasn't aware of.
Not a bad analogy for how I do mathematics.
I explained that I had used a shortcut he wasn't aware of.
Not a bad analogy for how I do mathematics.
November 13, 2025 at 10:07 AM
This morning I saw a student on the bus to università di Trieste. He got down one stop before me, walks faster, and was surprised to see me there when he arrived at the lecture room.
I explained that I had used a shortcut he wasn't aware of.
Not a bad analogy for how I do mathematics.
I explained that I had used a shortcut he wasn't aware of.
Not a bad analogy for how I do mathematics.
Definitely my bluesky network is very biased in the direction of science and public health...
Ma voi, il vaccino Covid ve lo fate?
November 13, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Definitely my bluesky network is very biased in the direction of science and public health...
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New PhD position in my lab at @uniofbath.bsky.social (with both @tweethinking.bsky.social & Dr Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun)!
We're looking for someone keen on bioinformatics and microbiome evolution.
Important info below on eligibility & URSA competition funding👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
We're looking for someone keen on bioinformatics and microbiome evolution.
Important info below on eligibility & URSA competition funding👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
The overlapping microbiome: ecology, function and resilience beyond species boundaries at University of Bath on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - The overlapping microbiome: ecology, function and resilience beyond species boundaries at University of Bath, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:20 PM
New PhD position in my lab at @uniofbath.bsky.social (with both @tweethinking.bsky.social & Dr Bethan Littleford-Colquhoun)!
We're looking for someone keen on bioinformatics and microbiome evolution.
Important info below on eligibility & URSA competition funding👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
We're looking for someone keen on bioinformatics and microbiome evolution.
Important info below on eligibility & URSA competition funding👇
www.findaphd.com/phds/project...
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Introduction to Python for Biologists
26–29 Jan | Online
A hands-on 4-day course for life scientists new to coding. Learn to build reproducible workflows using Python.
prstats.org/course/introduction-to-python-for-biologists-ipyb01
#Python #Bioinformatics #LifeSciences #DataAnalysis #Programming
26–29 Jan | Online
A hands-on 4-day course for life scientists new to coding. Learn to build reproducible workflows using Python.
prstats.org/course/introduction-to-python-for-biologists-ipyb01
#Python #Bioinformatics #LifeSciences #DataAnalysis #Programming
Introduction to Python for Ecologists and Evolutionary Biologists - PR Stats
Introduction to Python for Biologists (IPYB01) is a beginner-friendly course that equips researchers with essential programming skills for bioinformatics. Using biological examples, the course teaches...
prstats.org
November 12, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Introduction to Python for Biologists
26–29 Jan | Online
A hands-on 4-day course for life scientists new to coding. Learn to build reproducible workflows using Python.
prstats.org/course/introduction-to-python-for-biologists-ipyb01
#Python #Bioinformatics #LifeSciences #DataAnalysis #Programming
26–29 Jan | Online
A hands-on 4-day course for life scientists new to coding. Learn to build reproducible workflows using Python.
prstats.org/course/introduction-to-python-for-biologists-ipyb01
#Python #Bioinformatics #LifeSciences #DataAnalysis #Programming
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On this day in 1994, R.E.M. appeared on Saturday Night Live, hosted by Sarah Jessica Parker. The three songs performed -- ‘What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?’, ‘Bang and Blame’ and ‘I Don’t Sleep, I Dream’ -- were live debuts.
R.E.M. 1994-11-12 Saturday Night Live [What's The Frequency, Kenneth?, Bang & Blame & I Don't Sleep, I Dream]
This is "R.E.M. 1994-11-12 Saturday Night Live [What's The Frequency, Kenneth?, Bang & Blame & I Don't Sleep, I Dream]" by remvideoarchive…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:39 PM
On this day in 1994, R.E.M. appeared on Saturday Night Live, hosted by Sarah Jessica Parker. The three songs performed -- ‘What’s the Frequency, Kenneth?’, ‘Bang and Blame’ and ‘I Don’t Sleep, I Dream’ -- were live debuts.
Hey @giuliofirenze.bsky.social ci puoi dire chi (geograficamente parlando) si può organizzare per cercare di vedere l'aurora boreale stanotte e chi e' coperto da nubi?
Ti vogliamo bene!!
🥰🥰🥰🥰
Ti vogliamo bene!!
🥰🥰🥰🥰
La notte scorsa c'è stata una tempesta magnetica molto intensa e soprattutto negli Stati Uniti si sono viste aurore spettacolari. Tra poche ore ci dotrebbe essere l'impatto di un'altra emissione coronale lanciata dal Sole nei giorni scorsi. Quindi occhi puntati verso nord dopo il tramonto!
Intense pink aurora shortly after sunset tonight driving south out of Fairbanks, Alaska. Some of the most stunning color in the aurora I have ever seen!
November 12, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Hey @giuliofirenze.bsky.social ci puoi dire chi (geograficamente parlando) si può organizzare per cercare di vedere l'aurora boreale stanotte e chi e' coperto da nubi?
Ti vogliamo bene!!
🥰🥰🥰🥰
Ti vogliamo bene!!
🥰🥰🥰🥰
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This beautiful chrysanthemum has just flowered in our little village (abandoned 55 years ago). We think it must be an escapee from the tiny cemetery. It's associated with All Saints Day, apparently. I love these manifests from a past long-gone and yet still so present. 🌼🌱 #catalanpyrenees
November 12, 2025 at 8:27 AM
This beautiful chrysanthemum has just flowered in our little village (abandoned 55 years ago). We think it must be an escapee from the tiny cemetery. It's associated with All Saints Day, apparently. I love these manifests from a past long-gone and yet still so present. 🌼🌱 #catalanpyrenees
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New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 -producing Klebsiella oxytoca sequence type 2 from toilets as the likely source of nosocomial transmission to patients – a root cause analysis
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 -producing Klebsiella oxytoca sequence type 2 from toilets as the likely source of nosocomial transmission to patients – a root cause analysis
The hospital environment is a known reservoir for nosocomial infections, with bathroom plumbing increasingly implicated in the spread of carbapenemase…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 11, 2025 at 4:52 PM
New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 -producing Klebsiella oxytoca sequence type 2 from toilets as the likely source of nosocomial transmission to patients – a root cause analysis
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...