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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

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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Applications for Vacation Studentship Grant are now open. The Society offers a limited number of awards to enable undergraduates to work on microbiological research projects during their summer vacation. The deadline for applications is 15 March 2026: https://microb.io/4kFjubf
Vacation Studentships
The Society offers a limited number of awards to enable undergraduates to work on microbiological research projects during their summer vacation. The scheme also gives early- and mid-career scientists the opportunity to gain supervision experience.
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Yes, Jim Ratcliffe might come across as a man easily confused by numbers, and inclined to say things that sound racist. But that's the problem with powerful, busy billionaires. They're just a bit overwhelmed: www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...
Give Jim Ratcliffe a break. He’s just a billionaire
While everyone was angry about the INEOS owner sounding racist, I worry about him having too much on his plate. These superwealthy white men are spread wafer thin
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🧵 New preprint! Our 4-lab team evolved Streptococcus pneumoniae in antibiotic-treated mice of varying immune states and discovered something surprising: bacteria rarely evolved resistance. Instead, they found a different way to survive — by rewiring RNA turnover.
🔗 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
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Please spread the word: the Structural Studies Division @mrclmb.bsky.social is looking for a new tenure-track, independent group leader with an exciting plan in any area of Structural (Molecular & Cell) biology, in discovery biology and/or methods development. 🥳

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Research Group Leader Tenure Track - Structural Studies - LMB 2775 - Medical Research Council
Location: Cambridge. Vacancy: Research Group Leader Tenure Track - Structural Studies - LMB 2775. Closing Date: 16/03/2026, 23:55
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Loch Loyne and the hills of Glen Quoich. Not a whisper of wind over the waters and some low cloud drifting over the peaks, thought it rude not to pull over here on my way back from a couple of nights on Skye #Scotland #LochLoyne #GlenQuoich www.damianshields.com

University email traffic sure does down at half term

And we will take it every year……………..

Ya Dancer!!!!!!

Nope. It’s magic!

And the ref didn’t make Genge look a proper tit for White’s try.

The TMO would have come in if Sione hadn’t. Two wrongs don’t make a right. The second one was horrible

Clear daylight innit

You on something

what do you mean. Missed final kick of the game stopped us doing five in a row on them last year!

Think Italy are hard done by here

Respectfully rebutt the reviewer as a know nothing tool.

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Russian bot claxon
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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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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Spurs fans right now

That’s a long way from Fergie/Wenger inspirational half time talks……….

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I should never have made that brexit joke a decade ago, I had no idea how much further we'd go

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
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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Seriously though what the fuck are you wearing?
Just going to leave this here

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‘I’m sorry if you feel your child was eaten by a shark’

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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?"

Yaaayy The Wilderness in Birmingham finally got their Michelin star. About bloody time!!!!