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Charlotte L Oxley

@lotox.bsky.social

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#TeamPlasmid | Mobile Genetic Element Mischief & Mayhem Curator 🧬🧫 🦠 Powered by #AuDHD | Weaponised Zero Self-Regulation & Hyperfocus 💊🌌🧠 #Mother of | Overachiever, Maximum Volume & Yapper💡🤡🗣️

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Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · May 1

🧬 Thrilled to announce that I'll be speaking at the 3rd Annual MGE Workshop. If molecular mayhem is your jam, join me and explore "From Stability to Chaos: The Role of MGEs in an Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Outbreak”

#MGEWorkshop2025 #MGE #UKScience #PhDLife #MolMicro
#FirstYearPhD

MGE Workshop

www.ukmgeworkshop.org

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Zamin Iqbal @zaminiqbal.bsky.social · 15d

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · 12d

Heading back to Southampton in a few weeks, only this time, it’s with my eldest daughter for the Open Day - looking forward to seeing the campus from a different perspective to the #MGEworkshop !

Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · 18d

Back on my Elvanse mood #ADHD #ADHDinWomen #WomeninSTEM and my #PhD won’t know what’s hit it

Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · Sep 1

Daily reminder as I go into the second year of my PhD

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Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · Aug 11

Going back into the lab after 2 weeks off got me like

a man with a beard and a hat is saying `` i have no memory of this place . ''

ALT: a man with a beard and a hat is saying `` i have no memory of this place . ''

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Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · Aug 3

There are approx 30 seconds per day during which I am brilliant; they are not consecutive and I have no control over them, but here I am, heading towards the end of my first year of #PhD because of [taps sign] #ADHD #garyjohnbishop #STEM #MolMicro

Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · Jul 31

My childminder is on holiday for 2 weeks, so I’m (trying) to WFH… But damn, I’m starting to regret my jokes about Schrodingers PCR at the start of my PhD.

Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · Jun 17

Starting the long journey home from #mgeworkshop - really interesting work happening in labs across the country, told in various formats by a great bunch. Thank you again to @fnobrega.bsky.social 🥳 It’s been awesome!

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MGE Workshop @mgeworkshop.bsky.social · Jun 15

The 3rd UK MGE Workshop is nearly upon us! 🧬

For those travelling to Southampton today, join us for a drink at Dancing Man Brewery (SO14 2AR) from 5pm.

Registration for the workshop opens at 9am on Monday 16th. We look forward to meeting you all then!

#MGE #MGEWorkshop #Southampton

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Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · Jun 7

Almost ready for #MGEworkshop - my first time presenting, not just at an event but 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 as I'm barely 9 months into my #PhD But I'm reminding myself of the words of my favourite fictional scientist #WalterBishop #Fringe #ADHD #WomeninSTEM #MolMicro

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Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · May 22

Last year I was white-knuckling my way through final exams after losing my step-father and trying to co-ordinate the small crowd who attended my graduation. Today, I'm working on my first presentation for #MGEworkshop2025 #PhD #nontraditionalstudents

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Jonathan Coxhead @4130chromo.bsky.social · May 20

🚨🧬 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE - 23rd MAY 🧬🚨

🧑‍💻 Get that abstract in - we'd love to hear about your amazing work in genome science this summer 🌞

www.genomescience.org.uk

Genome Science UK 2025

Newcastle University

www.genomescience.org.uk

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Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · May 12

One of the best book series I’ve ever read, and now a Skasgard is playing the lead in the TV show #marthawells #womeninscifi

MurderBotBot @murderbotbot.bsky.social · May 12

So they made us smarter. The anxiety and depression were side effects.

Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · May 11

Also, listening to #hardlandings #greenrampdisaster podcast, I’m a long time Patreon member, check them out if you like aviation disasters www.hardlandingspodcast.com/hard-landing...

The Green Ramp Disaster — Hard Landings Podcast

On March 23, 1994, the U.S. military is doing a series of training exercises out of Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina then something unthinkable happens. What caused two aircraft to collide and ca...

www.hardlandingspodcast.com

Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · May 11

Spending Sunday like I have every weekend since I started my #PhD, wondering what my autostereogram-ception of a strain has in store for me this week #molmicro #MGEs #forbiddenspaghetti #ecoli #EAEC

Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · May 11

<in Palpatine> Do it

Franklin Nobrega @fnobrega.bsky.social · May 11

One week to register your talk! We have 20 confirmed speakers but still have room for a few more. Why attend? Excellent panel of colleagues participating, talent recruiting event (see website) at no cost! Sharing appreciated

MGE Workshop @mgeworkshop.bsky.social · May 7

Registration for the 3rd MGE Workshop is live! 🧬

Join us on Mon 16th and Tue 17th June, to learn about the latest MGE research.

Deadline to register for a talk - Fri 16th May

General registration deadline - Fri 30th May

We look forward to seeing you all there!

www.ukmgeworkshop.org

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · May 6

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

650 5.3K 34K

Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · May 1

MGE Workshop

www.ukmgeworkshop.org

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Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · Apr 24

Anyone else? #ADHD

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Reluctant Antagonist (KJ Colt) @moistenedtart.bsky.social · Apr 13

Invisible Strings
@M_Kelter
In the last few decades, we have detected thousands of planets outside of our solar system. They did not suddenly appear at the time we found them. No one calls it an "exoplanet epidemic". The planets were always there, just previously undiscovered.
This is a tweet about autism.

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Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · Apr 12

Oh I don’t doubt that; it’s rather that my circumstances are a tad trickier than average 😬 Fortunately I have incredibly supportive friends who are happy to facilitate. Happy to chat about it though!

Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · Apr 12

Yasssss

Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · Apr 12

At a close friends last night, mentioned I couldn't attend this. I got a tut and an eye roll as she jotted down in her diary that my youngest would be having a school night sleepover at hers. #SciMom #FirstYearPhD #WomeninSTEM #MGEs

Franklin Nobrega @fnobrega.bsky.social · Mar 30

3rd UK MGE Workshop – June 16-17, Southampton

Low-cost, science-focused, and full of fresh faces! Tea, biscuits, dinner, and… karaoke!

Call for talks– No abstract needed! Just send your title by the end of April.

Spread the word!

#MGE #UKscience

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Antimicrobial Resistance, Omics & Microbiota (AROM) @ NTU @arom-ntu.bsky.social · Mar 28

Congratulations to PhD students Rachel and Lottie, and MRes student Martyna on their publication with @mcvickermicro.bsky.social! #microsky

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Genetic and phenotypic analysis of the virulence plasmid of a non-Shigatoxigenic enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak strain

Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O104:H4 is best known for causing a worldwide outbreak in 2011 due to the acquisition of a Shiga-like toxin alongside traditional enteroaggregative virulence traits;...

www.microbiologyresearch.org

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Charlotte L Oxley @lotox.bsky.social · Apr 2

Where it started in 2016 with a small #OpenUni Bio module to see if my brain still worked, followed by #AccessScience at #WestNotts in 2017, Microbiology at #NTU in 2019 and where I’m at now #FirstYearPhD #ThirdAuthor #MolMicro #transposons #EAEC

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