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RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 2d

Ulcers… bloody autocorrect

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 2d

I remember that one, it sucked, the mouth university are so painful!

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RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 3d

Where do I get an import permit for ( insert high consequence pathogen) ?

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 4d

Its across the board , friends who work in other parts of the US federal government are getting them too housing , health, education … anything that’s not military basically , this is a government that has abandoned its people

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 8d

That’s interesting- on average makes of many species produce a less robust vaccine response than females but that obesity effect is pretty wild and of course menopause in humans is a huge confounder…

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 8d

explains why growing stem cells is such a fiddly business...

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 8d

This one will eventually cross the Med into Europe - at which point there will be a giant panic and we might finally get our act together for what is a readily vaccine preventable disaster

BEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social · 8d

Rift Valley fever outbreak Senegal: geographic expansion beyond the Saint Louis region, increase in human cases and deaths
https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=89e6c048-0731-4a2a-929c-8b9ad22507a5&eventid=af4e981f-8dec-4cef-899f-06995b647b0a&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 9d

but then again their editors have usually had a basic quality check beforehand.....

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 9d

As a reviewer who sometimes has to reject papers because they are wrong or fraudulent I'm not sure I want to be exposed to a public doxing for pointing it out. However I have done it for some pre-print server type places (access micro) and it was a generally civilised experience all round

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RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 12d

Deeply weird , looks like a cross between a gonk and a Guinea pig

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 12d

God it’s horrible to watch the country collapsing like this

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 14d

Yeah I have around 20 ( 5 years of students) so is is group but it’s timetabled, compulsory and we do have a very good welfare and senior tutor team. So there is always a contact route and failing students are always checked on

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 14d

There has to be a commercial market for these native fruits (I would love to try them even if just for the novelty value)

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 14d

No - I also can't find any of my xxxx files or transfer them in or out of it to somewhere I can use them (like my actual computer). Really, really hate it - slow, clunky, won't integrate with most of the other software I need (like reference managers, image or sequence processing....)

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 14d

Really, really should have been flagged on multiple levels and at the very least he should have been given the information on how to appeal (which would have been successful by the looks of it)

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RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 15d

Can you actually get them privately now? last time I looked about 2 years ago you couldn't even pay for one

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 16d

Here’s a disease we can and should eliminate ( it wouldn’t even cost a lot)

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control @ecdc.europa.eu · 16d

🐾 #WorldRabiesDay reminder:
#rabies is almost always fatal once symptoms appear - but 100% preventable.

𝗜𝗳 𝗯𝗶𝘁𝘁𝗲𝗻/𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗮 𝗺𝗮𝗺𝗺𝗮𝗹:
❗ Wash the wound with soap & water immediately.
❗ Seek medical advice without delay. A doctor will assess your risk & if needed, start post-exposure vaccination.

Bluetongue: latest situation

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 18d

The important thing with this one is that the btv vaccines are strain specific, if you are seeing clinical signs in a btv3 vaccinated animal it might be this one. There are btv 8 vaccines in production but not ( currently) available in the uk … sonething to prepare for next season

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 18d

And right on que we have btv8 now too www.gov.uk/government/n...

Overview of current bluetongue cases, risk level, vaccinations and restrictions.

www.gov.uk

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 19d

the guys at the vet hospital at liverpool swabbed everything in the hospital - the dirtiest spot (in terms of bacterial load and AMR) was the staff room.... (pretty much the only bit of the place that wasn't regularly scrubbed in disinfectant)

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RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 20d

It’s hard to imagine anyone actually believing it but the human mind is strange

We are interested in understanding what drives host-parasite relationships. We are using the Anoplura (sucking lice) parasite and mammalian host system to generate a comprehensive sucking louse phylog...

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 21d

Vet colleagues out there.. if you have some itchy camelids or equids these guys want them (or at least their lice). Note they are in the USA though so shipping could be an issue...

Kayce Bell @kaycebell.bsky.social · 22d

Hi! We need lice for our diversity and adaptation project. Specifically, we need lice from zebras, camelids (camels, llamas, alpacas, vicuñas, guanacos) & aardvarks. If you or someone you know might have lice, I'm happy to discuss our inclusive collaboration plans!
sites.google.com/nhm.org/anop...

Mammals & Lice

sites.google.com

RTarlinton.bsky.social @rtarlinton.bsky.social · 21d

interesting - much easier to do IM than IV... (guess it just all ends up in the lymphoid system any which way)