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Alan McNally
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Head of the School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @ Uni Birmingham. Proud Scot. Oversaw a few Covid PCR tests

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Alan McNally is a professor of microbial genomics at the University of Birmingham, UK. He works on the evolutionary genomics and antimicrobial resistance in bacterial pathogens.

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Biology 75%
Medicine 8%
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Josie Bryant @josiebryant.bsky.social · 1d
Really pleased to share the first paper to come out of the lab.
We found that hospital patients were frequently colonised with P. aeruginosa and that the same clone was shared between the gut and the lung.
The phylogenies indicate that the clones moved from lung->gut

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High frequency body site translocation of nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Nature Communications
Here, the authors report within-host diversity and body site translocation dynamics in hospital samples of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and reveal that body site sharing was likely due to within-patient tra...
www.nature.com

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 2d
Eagles in Kelly Green is a sight

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 2d
For

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 2d
Conferencing this week. Very rare for me now and very selective. Can’t wait fur two days of microbial evolution

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 2d
Even if they do it won’t be as bad as the early season melt of everyone else!

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 2d
Arsenal are champions elect

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Alan Allport @alanallport.bsky.social · 2d
Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.
jackiantonovich.bsky.social Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 2d
One of the bragging rights that the US ed system had in the 20th century is that we didn't have education tracks. Essentially, any kid could go to a CC or state school & major in whatever they wanted to (obviously an oversimplification). I fear this aspect of the American dream is dying.

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fairfaxlab @bpfairfax.bsky.social · 2d
If you have meningitis you are too unwell to have tumours resected.

It would be surprising if there was an undetected burden of subacute/chronic gram negative bacterial meningitis that was presumably asymptomatic.

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
Can’t see anyone stopping South Africa doing a rugby World Cup hat trick. Hands down dominant team in the game

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Geoff Barton @gjbarton.bsky.social · 3d
One of those November sunsets at Dundee Scotland today 😀

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
Our field is disappearing in a mist

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 4d
Bingo. And then some

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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 4d
I wonder if it’s already time to update this editorial www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 4d
FFS

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 4d
How does this stuff pass peer review…….
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The findings of a study in Nature Medicine introduce microbial elements as a component of the brain tumor microenvironment and lay the foundation for future mechanistic and translational studies. go.nature.com/44bO314 #medsky #microbiome 🧪
This is figure 6, which shows intratumoral bacterial 16S signal correlates with the oral and gut microbiota of patients with brain tumor.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 4d
The findings of a study in Nature Medicine introduce microbial elements as a component of the brain tumor microenvironment and lay the foundation for future mechanistic and translational studies. go.nature.com/44bO314 #medsky #microbiome 🧪
This is figure 6, which shows intratumoral bacterial 16S signal correlates with the oral and gut microbiota of patients with brain tumor.

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fesshole 🧻 @fesshole.bsky.social · 4d
I work in telephone sales for an insurance company. The next two customers I had to call were Mrs Cockburn and then Mr Woodhead. In a moment of confusion I asked to speak to Mr Cockhead, immediately hung up and marked them both as Do No Contact in the CRM.

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 4d
I look forward to it, my friend

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 4d
I can give you the blunt Scottish version next time we meet. But seriously this is a Science paper that deserves to be a Science paper. It is elegant genius.

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 4d
It is

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 4d
No one loves Christmas more than me……….in December

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 4d
I don’t use this lightly. It is genius Michael

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 4d
The fact it is still weeks until Xmas

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Viz Comic @vizcomic.bsky.social · 4d
subscriptions >>> shop.viz.co.uk/viz350bs
They say that plastic takes millions of years to decompose, but I bought a cheap nylon canopy for my garden swing off Amazon last summer and the thing has already fallen to bits. Come on, boffins, which is it? Odd Skodheim, Nottingham

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Sarah Dempster @dempster2000.bsky.social · 4d
Stop putting Christmas decorations up before December you maniacs

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 4d
Nando's is only being kept open by teenagers going there for a first date.

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Pedro Beltrao @pedrobeltrao.bsky.social · 4d
I tried an even harder example on Gemini Pro image generation and this is quite scary/amazing. I asked for a microscopy image of around 20 HeLa cells, GFP tagged 20% nuclear, 10% membrane, +1 nuclear staining, + overlap. Image below and prompt in the following post.

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 5d
NEWS! If you ignore all the convictions for beating women and taking bribes from Russia, we are still the patriotic party of women's safety, insists Farage
If you ignore all the convictions for beating women and taking bribes from Russia, we are still the patriotic party of women’s safety, insists Farage
Nigel Farage has today reiterated that Reform UK are the party of patriotism, and the only party trying to protect women, especially if you ignore any Reform politicians with convictions for beatin…
buff.ly

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 5d
Proper dream team!

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 5d
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