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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%
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3h
And we will take it every year……………..

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 4h
Ya Dancer!!!!!!

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 4h
Nope. It’s magic!

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 5h
And the ref didn’t make Genge look a proper tit for White’s try.

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 5h
The TMO would have come in if Sione hadn’t. Two wrongs don’t make a right. The second one was horrible

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 5h
Clear daylight innit

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 5h
You on something

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 5h
what do you mean. Missed final kick of the game stopped us doing five in a row on them last year!

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 6h
Think Italy are hard done by here

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 12h
Respectfully rebutt the reviewer as a know nothing tool.

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 22h
Out Now! Realizing phage therapy in the UK #MicroSky
Realizing phage therapy in the UK
Nature Microbiology, Published online: 13 February 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02280-zOn 25 November 2025, the international phage therapy research and biotechnology communities gathered in Liverpool, UK, to discuss progress in implementing clinical phage therapies and the latest technological breakthroughs in phage biology and engineering, while UK regulators and health agencies provided the latest guidance.
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 1d
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The UK actually has top tier weather. Four distinct seasons. Never too hot or too cold. No extreme weather disaster stuff either. Not many places have it better.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 1d
The UK actually has top tier weather. Four distinct seasons. Never too hot or too cold. No extreme weather disaster stuff either. Not many places have it better.

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 1d
Spurs fans right now
People holding a sign saying ‘End Unnecessary Suffering.’ Big Ben is in the background.

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 2d
That’s a long way from Fergie/Wenger inspirational half time talks……….

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Michael Baym @baym.lol · 2d
I should never have made that brexit joke a decade ago, I had no idea how much further we'd go

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 2d
It just doesn’t work for me so I have decided to revoke the scientific finding that the structure of DNA is a double helix

Thank you for your attention on this matter

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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 2d
Literally cannot stress enough that if I, a climate scientist, were running a scam it would be a lot more fun than this

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David Cake @davecakes.bsky.social · 2d
Seriously though what the fuck are you wearing?

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Billy Bragg @billybragg.bsky.social · 2d
Just going to leave this here

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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 2d
‘I’m sorry if you feel your child was eaten by a shark’
The mayor in jaws

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Christophe 🔬 L @christlet.bsky.social · 2d
Gotta love Nature's opinion pieces

"Science funding needs fixing - but not like that"

"Academic publishing is broken - but publishing less is not the solution"

"AI will kill science - how can researchers use it to be more efficient?"

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
Yaaayy The Wilderness in Birmingham finally got their Michelin star. About bloody time!!!!

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
No but there is a big fuck off building tied to his donation

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
Before you accept your £100M donation. Ask yourself. What will it look like in the press when this rambling old man goes full scale Rowley Birkin QC.

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
Over to you Oxford Uni

PM tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants' www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
PM tells Sir Jim Ratcliffe to apologise for saying UK 'colonised by immigrants'
Sir Keir Starmer said comments by the businessman and Manchester United co-owner were
www.bbc.co.uk

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Picture This Scotland @74frankfurt.bsky.social · 3d
Billboard in Dundee. Pic: Alistair Heather

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d
Over to you University of Oxford………?

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Sky News @news.sky.com · 3d
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
'The UK has been colonised by immigrants', says INEOS boss and Man Utd co-owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe
Britain has been "colonised" by immigrants, who are draining resources from the state, Sir Jim Ratcliffe, one of the country's richest and most influential men, has told Sky News.
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John Lees @johnlees.bacpop.org · 5d
How do bacterial pangenomes evolve, what controls their dynamics, why do they exist?
Fitting a mechanistic model to 450 species from allthebacteria.org suggesting fast vs slow gene exchange (i.e. amount of MGEs) is a major differentiating factor, correlated with phylogeny rather than lifestyle
Proportion of fast genes, as a trait mapped on the bacteria-wide phylogeny