How it feels like mentoring students for the first time

🚨CONTAM CALENDAR🚨 Featuring some of the best submissions from the ContamClub community 🧫🦠 Make 2022 a contaminant filled year with the #ContamCalendar 🗓️ Available very soon - stay tuned!!

1/ I just hit "publish" on my second book. it's a dark fantasy-inspired story set centuries after floodwaters have swept much of civilisation from the earth: rainmakerwritings.com because here's something you may not know about me: I'm obsessed with the end of the world

Story of my academic writing life. #AcWri #AmWriting #GetYourManuscriptOut

Congratulations Sophia and everyone involved!!!

Can’t quite believe I’m saying this - but just woke up & checked my fundraising page to see we've reached a massive £30,000 for Mind Best Christmas EVER 😭😭😭

The final version of tatajubá, for exploring the distribution of homopolymer tracts (HTs), is online at doi.org/10.1093/nargab… . With Emily Stoakes Andrew Page @andrewjpage.bsky.social Alison Mather Samuel Bloomfield and Andrew J Grant (not on twitter yet?) 1/n

For #IWD I’m delighted to be supporting an all-morning Intellectual Forum Jesus College event on real lives in science - a celebration of the experiences and motivations that can shape a scientist’s career. Details and free registration at eventbrite.co.uk/e/real-lives-i…

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PhD defended and done! Celebrated by spraying myself in the face with Prosecco 🍾 It was a wonderful time working in the Grant lab at Cambridge Vet School with the best people 🧡

From cereus to anthrax and back again: The role of the PlcR regulator in the cross-over strain Bacillus cereus G9241 biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_micrbio

Eeee! Our Campylobacter metabolic modelling paper is out! Trying to work out how it survives on different substrates, so pleased I complained to Dipali Singh about not understanding some results and from that, this project started! 🧫 🧬

“You have a doctorate” I whisper to myself as I hold up my hands to see which one makes an L so I can figure out left from right.

SHORT THREAD: Was just on BBC News (UK) responding to the comments made by Sunak & backed by Truss saying scientists had too much power, lockdowns were a mistake etc 1. They are rewriting what happened - the situation pre vaccine was very very scary with 150K dying pre wide vax. 1/7

The first 18 mths of Covid were very dark, very scary & 150,000 people died of Covid. The NHS was battered to within an inch of its life and its current crisis would be nowhere near as bad if we'd responded better. Govt ministes are trying to rewrite history. Don't let them. 7/7

🚨 Job Alert 🚨 This is a fantastig lab and a really exciting opportunity. One month left to apply!

An extremely useful tool for the field of Campylobacter created by Ruby Costigan during her PhD. She made a CRISPRi system for repressing genes of interest in Campylobacter and it has just been published, Congrats Ruby!!!!

Our study on the genomic assembly of clinical Candida glabrata, with ecological & clinical implications, is out in Microbiology Spectrum! Thanks to all the amazing co-authors C Constantinidou, Emily Stoakes, Chris Dowson,John Moat, Miruna David,Houdini Wu,Abid Hussain & al.! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/sp…

I am super excited and nervous at the same time: I will run the 2023 Paris marathon in a little more than two weeks! But I am not just doing it for “fun”, I am running to raise awareness for pulmonary hypertension: gofund.me/1716504b