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Super interesting historical #AMR forensics! #IDSKy
New academic year, new Highspeed meltdown. Haven’t missed this on my hols…
Plot twist: we also have pears
Great opportunity here
No surer sign of autumn: the blooming of snowdrop anemones (Anemone sylvestris)
treat yourself to a new pencil case
📝 Like Wordle but wish it involved plagues? It's not quite the same -- there's no spelling just a series of clues in a similar feedback loop as Wordle -- but it's pretty cool! Complements of an anonymous med student on Reddit. #IDSky #MedSky www.plagdle.com
George cross flag popped up yesterday on a random roundabout in my town. 😢
Thank you so much. Still in denial in this last sliver of summer….
Many of them are on the ground prematurely!
How interesting!
No butter or oil? What witchcraft is this?
Johnagold apples ripening on the last day of August. Such a lovely autumnal morning here in Kent. Back to work tomorrow for me - and the first day of secondary school for my son 💔
#IDSky
I am familiar with the genre!
Despite living in Kent, we had a late start with our tomatoes and most of them are still green – but soon it’s gonna go ballistic
My aspiration is to one day be knowledgeable enough to understand at least one 10th of a post like this
Unfortunately I’m still bumbling around like an idiot!
cc @gpollara.bsky.social
Not personally but amplifying
Makes me wonder if I shouldn’t talk more about my adventures as a newbie ham radio operator, just as a public service. 😂
I love your posts like these where I have absolutely no idea what you’re talking about, but I still find it strangely soothing
Me, getting increasingly creative with my grant aims and objectives
More garden fruit and veg today
Ours are just coming in now too
Sorry, scratch that. I thought you were talking about chicken pox! But I wouldn’t imagine MMR would be much different.
It was a ways back so it’s probably more expensive now – but at least you have a rough idea
I got it for my son a while back. I think it was £75 including private GP consult. IIRC you need two in total.
I didn’t think measles immunity was lifelong - in the US there are multiple MMRV boosters on the schedule, IIRC. But I could be remembering incorrectly. I think I had my last one at 18 (in the States).
Thanks for the great tips. x
Argh. I didn’t think of that.
I was thinking of the Mac mini/screen route. Probably will still do that, though yes = faff!
Totally!! But it will help ours not to get virally super-infected later if the rest of the herd is vaccinated.
You’re on the right side of history. Sadly replacing my perfectly functioning 6yr old iMac because it can’t support the latest Teams (obligatory for work). Pity they no longer make the bigger screens.
Excellent - NHS *finally* catches up with the rest of the world to offer varicella vax to children. I had my first jab in the 1970s in USA…a safe, highly effective jab for a nasty disease that can —> severe complications (to say nothing of shingles in later life) #IDSky www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Or my brain, even! Good god….
I was just back from holiday so I’m not sure my brown was firing on all cylinders at 7 am….
The drug targets both bacterial topo IV and DNA gyrase, inhibiting replication and transcription. In the lab, it’s shown broad-spectrum efficacy for both Gram-positive and -negative organisms. In the EAGLE2/3 trials it was non-inferior to nitrofurantoin with only mild AEs (diarrhoea, nausea).
I’ve just been on the Today programme talking about MHRA approval for gepotidacin, a first-in-class new antibiotic for uncomplicated UTI. Needs two separate mutations to become resistant, making it a useful addition to the arsenal #AMR #UTISky #IDSky
Wonderful. That’s around our way! Chapel Down and Biddenden are particularly nice but there are lots more!
Many congratulations!
Not many yet, mind. We’ve had a horrible drought. Everything is crispy.
I’ll check tomorrow when it’s light! Remind me.
The acid-green foliage you can see in this photo are the hops (bog-standard Goldings IIRC) invading our greengage plum tree
First sweep of the garden after a fortnight away…cucumbers doing a lot of the heavy lifting here.
Love locks in Levici, Liguria
On the boat to Portovenere!
New comment A layered strategy for tackling antimicrobial resistance: the Swiss cheese model for policy, prevention, and engagement www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA
The KSR book is one of those that stays with you long after you’ve finished. Not necessarily the plot, but the feeling of it. One of the most hopeful books I’ve ever read. It’s hard to describe. Like a blueprint for what could happen, if only there was the will.
Sorry, I meant it should be on that Guardian list of hopeful climate novels, not the lablit list…indeed it’s a bit futuristic.
Bacteria are so badass
Nice to see some #lablit fiction on this list @lablit.bsky.social. But I think Kim Stanley Robinson’s “The Ministry for the Future” should have been included…
Canadair CL-415 “Super Scooper” ferrying seawater to put out a nearby Tuscan fire
Farm dog spotted from inside the vineyard cellar after a thunderstorm
Have they got it tangled in their hair yet? Successful removal thereof being the next parental milestone.
Looks like the Romans may have been the first to discover and document T4 bacteriophages! (Of course the tail fibres suffered the same fate as the Venus de Milo’s arms…) Disclaimer: this is a joke
I will certainly check it out once I find my feet a bit better
Oh, that is clever. Thanks for the explanation. Thus far I’ve been avoiding software. Feels somehow more authentic…
Sorry for my ignorance (as a newbie M7), but how can you tell if you were heard but nothing back if they didn’t reply?
Nah. We love our home.
Sunset over the vineyard
Good morning
Tuscan lunch
Wallpaper in the bathroom of a local place here in Pittsburgh.
#ByTheSea late for #WildflowerHour Friday on Pett beach - beautiful colours of sea & stormy skies. Thunder audible over the Channel, rumbling towards France. Vipers Bugloss Sea Kale 🪸🌩️🐚
Was just at one in Heathrow can can confirm
Very true.
Very sorry I will miss this month because I’m on holiday. I hope you all enjoy yourselves!
Great thread. I teach the so-called reproduceability crisis in my undergraduate lectures and it’s important that people know that it’s hard to repeat stuff due the baked-in variability of science and we build up a picture with time. A small fraction may be fraud though. Just hard to know how much.
Hilarious - but surely not the same Richard Smyth!
Much obliged
Oh my, yes. A complete lack of awareness of the LabLit revolution. But there might be some interesting titles in there to mine – Dom, we should make sure we have them on our list lablit.com/the-lablit-l... @lablit.bsky.social
Makes sense! Very interesting.
That is really kind, thank you. Very interesting. But...so...I collect pretty rocks from all over and bring them home. It could be human nature to do so. Is it possible that this was just someone's "oo pretty" that was slipped into a pocket after a journey? How do we know its intent was violent?
- guys under the age of 30 named Derek
Though would be quite amusing if you shuffled off your mortal coil to the ba-bloop of the hang-up tone
Noooooo
Courses without written transcripts for their videos are the worst.
This is on top of the delays if you haven’t remembered to fire up Teams a good 15 minutes before your meeting – as sometimes you have to do two-factor identification multiple times just for the privilege of viewing your calendar…
Next time have the camera person point at it! None the wiser here. But v cool.
My son on his paddleboard might be next…
Your post spurred a pleasant conversation with @rpgrant.bsky.social about other nouns that lose the British u when given a suffix…rigour, valour…
Not sure how great a marketing spin it is anyway these days, at least in the US, given the general disdain for expertise... PhDs being about the least listened-to sector of society currently
Imagine you are a developer upgrading Teams, an *online meeting app*. Imagine it was you who decided that for the new radio button, "online" was *NOT the default setting* and had to be toggled on to create a link/join button. Let's just say that most of my meetings this week have started late.
Belated leaving do for @microberamon.bsky.social at the Dusty Knuckle. We are all still in denial!
😘
I feel like I might be too old to be drinking orange wine in Dalston
This is fantastic
Scientists! What is the most "science-y" font, your go-to for writing all your papers and grants? I always choose Arial but have never stopped to wonder why...🤔
really interesting. I cannot wait to read the book!!
Kind of viscerally shocking to see Franklin pencilled in as an afterthought (just one of "his co-workers"), even if the photo itself wasn't useful and even if it was a team effort.
This comes from engagement work with teenage girls in a park in York. And you see all those things with two dots by them. Those make up 90%+ of what we currently provide for young people in public space. Whereas the things that girls want - they just aren't there. Let's do better.
Not many about
Apparently we have a *third* variety in the back hedgerow - “normal” hazelnuts. 🤷♀️ The problem is that Richard and I have a tree problem. We can’t seem to stop planting them!
Nuts! Making a nice change from too much fruit…may I present the back garden’s latest: red filberts and Kentish cobnuts (harvested by @rpgrant.bsky.social). Last year we had so many we lost a lot to rot, but this year we may find the energy to roast them!
onion getting a bit too real today. 🔭🧪 theonion.com/seek-funding...
