Alan McNally
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Alan McNally
@alanmcn1.bsky.social

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.

Source: Wikipedia
Biology 75%
Medicine 8%

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!!!!

No but there is a big fuck off building tied to his donation

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.

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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Billboard in Dundee. Pic: Alistair Heather

Over to you University of Oxford………?
'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.
news.sky.com
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

As good as the 85 Bears. Just an incredible defensive display

Finally

Kenneth Walker winning the superbowl

If this guy was in the back garden I would shut the blinds.

Not a classic for the ages

Pregame celebrating America being 250 years old

The church in our village is 980 years old…………

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work

“Oh for fucks sake”
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"Always wash your hands before you leave the lab"
"What's the method variability?"

Nailing my colours to the mast now. Go Seahawks!!!!

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Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

"Always wash your hands before you leave the lab"
"What's the method variability?"
Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work.

“Have you read the SOP?”

Watched enough of this shite. Newcastle game it is

Christ this is dreadful. It’s like U18s versus U12s!!!!!

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He should have gone 2 world cups ago. This is reminiscent of his final days as Glasgow coach; over coaching everything and trying to knock a square peg in a round hole. Did no one in Scotland check what the weather forecast was?!

I think we can all agree that Graham, Kinghorn and Van der Merwe start for Scotland

This is a diabolical, ill disciplined shambles of a performance