Some fun science today, sequencing a clinical legionella sample directly (no culturing step). Here is the gridion selectively spitting out host reads so we get more bacteria in our data

Still lots of travel grants and chance at speaker slots for this conference, abstract deadline fast approaching!

On leave. First school holidays for us to wrangle

Back one day and have so far resisted reinstalling...

- In the tea room at lunch time, notice my watch has stopped running. - Wind it, carefully set it to the time on microwave: 17:30 - Don't think twice about it until I get a calendar notification for a meeting at 2pm Might not be a day for work needing attention to detail...

Early bird registration is now open #OHA2024 The 10th #OneHealth Aotearoa Symposium 📅3-4 December 2024 📍University of Otago Wellington 💻In-person and online Key speakers & themes on #AntimicrobialResistance, climate change, Te Ao Māori & more! Link: otago.ac.nz/conference/one…

First result from this project on the viruses our migratory birds carry to and from New Zealand and the subantartics. Detection of a low path. flu not closely related to previously sequenced genomes.

A privilege to attend my 3rd CDGN Annual F2F Meeting!

My first in person CDGN meeting. The connection to the Australian state and territory labs using genomics for public health is so immensely valuable for @ESRNewZealand , amazing to be able to discuss this face to face today!

In Canberra. Went out of my way to see the light rail even though 5yo train fan is not with me. He's actually made me a trainspotter

Next three days, hope to catch some of y'all if you're here

Not really on here any more because... everything. However, I'm looking for someone to take over maintenance of rentrez, a widely used #rstats rOpenSci package for getting data from ncbi. Would be great to see this maintained abs improved. GH Issue: github.com/ropensci/rentr…