Back to parkrun UK at FulhamPalace parkrun for the first time in a while! Great to see so many people out for some laps on a Saturday morning

3 weeks of half mara training done! Fun 18k with a push towards the end in Running Punks top, listening to floating points to get through it.

As part of her fundraising for the TCS London Marathon, Sarah will be providing bespoke book recommendations following your donation! Believe me when I say she will suggest fantastic books for you, just maybe not straight after her long runs!

Oh just wear a mask you melts, it's not virtue signalling, if it's the most oppressive thing happening to you then you're doing really well tbh

Chamber psych in the top five again. Still no idea what it is

Windy sunday run today Running Punks, tailwind definitely helped going out though! New album TAO by shadkmusic was great to run to, may have gone too speedy running to Work

A sketch to explain how a new variant may appear milder even with no change in underlying virulence. This can occur because, when calculating the fraction of cases that are severe, the denominator now includes many re-infections that had previously been averted. A thread. 1/8

People are often surprised that transport plays such a small role in the carbon footprint of food (just 5% of food's emissions globally). This is because: 1. Very little is transported by air. Most comes by boat (1st chart) 2. Boats are pretty carbon-efficient (2nd chart)

Characters from various kids TV shows dancing to Firestarter by The Prodigy.

Great few days at World One Health Congress attending a range of #OneHealth talks and discussions. International collaboration is vital for future research and policy, so until next time Singapore!

Keynote lecture of digitalisation in medicine at @ECCMID #ECCMID2023

What a start to Saturday morning Huey, Death Grips, Hannah Williams & The Affirmations, DJ Shadow and RTJ!

What do we need to do to get genomic surveillance working for AMR? 🦠🧬💊Our series in The Lancet Microbe reports 9 recommendations from the SEDRIC working group. Check out the papers: thelancet.com/series/amr-gen… and the 🧵below for more 1/13

Next week is World AMR Awareness Week, this blog highlights some of the work we do at APHA detecting AMR bacteria around the world and building the capacity of our colleagues. AMR is a global challenge requiring international solutions #WAAW

It was an honour to meet Dr Allegye-Cudjoe yesterday and discuss plans to build the capacity of NFSL. Further collaborative projects will be discussed this week between National Food Safety Laboratory and APHA for food safety and AMR surveillance