We've published our 2019 STI and chlamydia screening in England report. Diagnoses increased by 5% from 2018, including a 26% increase in gonorrhoea cases. Consistent and correct condom use with new sexual partners is the best defence against STIs. gov.uk/government/new…

🔥🔥🔥Where do antibiotics go in #mtb infected cells? Very proud of the work from Pierre SANTUCCI The Francis Crick Institute in collaboration with Tony Fearns of our lab and Haibo Jiang The University of Hong Kong just out in Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…

Brilliant fun to work with the Ahel lab and fab to use M.tuberculosis to demo a new piece of DNA biology/cell signalling. rdcu.be/cuVFP

Acutely intelligent, sensitive to Russia as much as to Ukraine, clear about the horror of war - quietly immensely courageous - @zelenskyyUa is an extraordinary man. This is one of the most remarkable speeches ever made - in dignified contrast to Putin’s hysterical megalomania.

Great work Wellington Owusu!

WHO declares global Ebola emergency. The people of Margate don't miss a trick.

Potential TB skin test protein is a leukocidin! Caramba!! Thanks to Wellcome and Rosetrees Trust for support. nature.com/cddis/journal/…

Shigella #bacteria cause severe #FoodPoisoning by manipulating cells' waste disposal processes bpod.mrc.ac.uk/archive/2014/1…

No ear tags in sight! However, good progress at the inaugural meeting of our Bbsrc UK/India bovine Tb vaccine project

2013 #badgercull cost £3,350 per badger BEFORE the extra cost of policing westernmorningnews.co.uk/Badger-cull-So…

Darwin's "On the Origin of Species...", published this day 155 years ago. That's not that long ago!!!!!!

Expensive research isn't only compulsory Imperial College London Read insane criteria used by University of Warwick dcscience.net/WMS-selection-… No deaths (yet)

£9000 Tuition Fees are not just morally wrong they also cost the UK Taxpayer twice as much in unpaid fees say the IFS

My employer has published a new Ethical Conduct policy. It looks like every single academic must be up to no good.

NEWS! Donald Trump suffers 3rd degree posterior burns in unexplained pants fire bit.ly/1RA9lIR

Much less worried about pathogens from Mars after Arturo Casadevall talk at #Microbio16 . Cancelled my holiday to Venus though!

The use of terms like 'pathogen', 'commensal', 'opportunist' may be hindering progress by promoting inexact thoughts x.com/NatureMicrobio…

It never fails to amaze me. Space station over my garden. Just a maze ing!!!!!!

A new view of the tree of life (OA) nature.com/articles/nmicr… #scishare ^HB

Intriguing hypothesis proposed by Graham Stewart on badger-soil-cattle TB transmission via Dictyostelium #OneHealthTB #tuberculosis #OneHealth