👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼 to the extent that when trying to get a feel for a potential emerging variant, I’d look for such reversions as a proxy for a lot of attempts to sequence a lot of infections caused by an emerging variant with a divergent sequence

Off all places to come across Bill Hanage @BillHanage.bsky.social , a FC Barcelona home game!

Watching S Sriskandan talking about group A strep and scarlet fever at #ESCMIDGlobal2024 and having *lots* of study ideas

This was a great experience!

Just arrived in the lovely city of Barcelona where I will be one of the many speakers at #ESCMIDGlobal . I will be chairing a session tomorrow and speaking at an event on Sunday. So come and say hi!

Wouldn’t it be nice to have decent serosurveillance of cattle herds to detect the scale of H5N1 transmission, instead of… milk? nytimes.com/2024/04/25/hea…

It is wild to me that after fifteen years in this field you go to talks and meetings and the standard is still 'let's just find another antibiotic and hope it lasts longer until evolution mysteriously overcomes it' with no sense that it might be an understandable process

I’m in a restaurant listening to a muzak saxophone version of Driver’s License. This is how I know time is accelerating. That sort of metabolism in popular culture used to take a decade

Tying a medical intervention to an ideology (in particular political ideology) has to be one of the most destructive and harmful things you can do

It is the ultimate enemy of evidence based healthcare

Truly excited to see our latest article, in which we were surprised how phages that target conjugative plasmids are both so common and diverse, published!

A real tour de force from Natalia Quinones-Olvera and Siân Owen

nature.com/articles/s4146…

To me, the definitive take on DIY anti-aging was Roy Kishony asking “do you live longer, or does it just feel longer?”

Safe to say this total eclipse beats the last one I was lucky enough to see

Prepubescent ninja turtles?

An incredible piece by Health Nerd. Walking a challenging line that I’ve yet to see someone attempt and, on top of it, do it so well with empathy and science.

“And herein lies the problem with long Covid discussions. There are two separate conversations going on at the same time”

Yes 💯

The fact that others use a term in a different way should not stop you from using it, provided you are clear what you mean when you are using it

Four years on... We should not forget how a pandemic like covid starts, nor that it's a marathon not a sprint

wgbh.org/news/health/20…

Very interesting study. Using a huge cohort and an impressively rigorous design, the authors found that COVID-19 vaccines likely reduced the risk of cardiovascular events by 70-90% for people who caught COVID-19

In short, it depends on who you are...

news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/…)

Yes, distances between points in a UMAP are routinely used to infer biology, even though the distances are meaningless.

Even Leland McInnes, the author of UMAP, doesn't 'put much stock in the exact distances'.

I’d only add the importance of data structure