Róisín Boggan
@roisinboggan.bsky.social
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Host-pathogen genetics 🧬🧫 @sangerinstitute.bsky.social and University of Cambridge she/her🏳️‍🌈
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roisinboggan.bsky.social
Hi bluesky👋 I'm Róisín, a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. I'm interested in the human genetics of infection, at the moment I'm looking at S. aureus nasal carriage 🦠
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aluckmann.bsky.social
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
roisinboggan.bsky.social
Great piece about some of the issues within the health research field atm ⬇️
chrischirp.bsky.social
New comment piece by me & colleagues in @bmj.com on the using health data for research in UK

Processes are so complex and so slow now that less research is happening and we are wasting the enormous potential of the NHS to drive innovation

www.bmj.com/content/390/...
Health research in England is grinding to a halt
Wes Streeting, the UK health and social care secretary, announced in 2024 that “the NHS is broken” against a background of ballooning waiting lists, delays in disease detection, and reduced staff prod...
www.bmj.com
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engagewcs.bsky.social
📣 We have a #WorkExperience opportunity for six Year 12 students to join our Human Genetics team at the
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social!

This will be an immersive opportunity to join both our wet- and dry-lab teams.

📅 21- 25 July 2025
⏰ Apply by 9am on 10 July
🔗 cstu.io/0d184e

#EduSky #SciTeachUK
Work experience opportunity with the Human Genetics team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Apply by 15 July 2025.
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loiclnlg.bsky.social
📣 Interested in the environmental (un)sustainability of AI (and how to support positive change)? Or know someone who is? I have an open position for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group in Cambridge, UK 🌱

🚨Closing June 5th

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51255/

Topics below 👇

#AcademicSky #GreenSky
Photo of Cambridge River and view over King's College with a group of people punting. Photo of the Heart and Lungs Research Institute on Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The building is bronze-colour and in front of a pond.
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sangerinstitute.bsky.social
Interested in infectious diseases, climate, health, and international collaborations? 🧬

We spoke with Nick Thomson, Head of our Parasites and Microbes programme to cover all those topics and more.

Learn more about Nick and his research vision here ⤵️

sangerinstitute.blog/2025/03/21/a...
Visualisation of Nick's strategy, drawn by PhD student in his research group, Lia Bote. Illustration shows concepts of Setting, Predictive Biology, and Intervention in scientific research with related sketches including a tap, medicine, DNA, viruses, person in PPE, and a globe.
roisinboggan.bsky.social
#AcademicSky #metagenomics #bacteria #virus #genomics #bioinformatics
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chrischirp.bsky.social
US Science has been under sustained attack for the last month. I've been thinking about the vulnerabilities in UK science.

In a new post, I've imagined a dystopian but *possible* future for UK science - as a way for prompting discussions on how we can protect it.

open.substack.com/pub/christin...
A dystopian but possible future: the Fall of British Science 2028-2033
In which I think about how a UK populist government could undermine science as a way of prompting discussions about how to protect it.
open.substack.com
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jim.londoncentric.media
1) This feels like really good, bold public interest journalism by the BBC!

2) If you were around social media / online publishing circa 2014 and followed The Social Chain, it was soooo baffling to watch his reinvention as a business guru.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Steven Bartlett sharing harmful health misinformation on Diary of CEO podcast
Disproven health claims are accepted with little challenge by host on number one podcast, BBC investigation finds.
www.bbc.co.uk
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bugsinyourguts.bsky.social
Excellent.
mjpallen.bsky.social
Letter sent in to the Editor of the Guardian on brain microbiome nonsense.
roisinboggan.bsky.social
Excited to be at #SEGEG2024 today @kcl.ac.uk; already some super interesting presentations!
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theo.io
My app for finding 🦋 accounts you may want to follow has had a make-over: it now displays names and bios, and allows adding an "app password" for direct follow buttons in the listing

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Bluesky Network Analyzer
Find accounts that you don't follow (yet) but are followed by lots of accounts that you do follow.
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cosmicrami.com
PhDs and PostDocs!

Circulate to your cohorts and departments.

This could be really beneficial to future PhD students that follow in the paths we walk in today.

🧪
martinezgonixs.bsky.social
📢Calling all researchers! We are studying what makes a great (or not-so-great) supervisor from the perspective of PhD students and postdocs. Our goal? To improve academic mentorship and research environments. Got 5-10 minutes? Take the survey!✍️
forms.gle/WT9GoiaHxypX...
Labelling my scientific supervisor: A genuine leader or just a big jerk?
Thank you for taking part in this survey. The aim of this survey is to understand which characteristics make a scientific supervisor supportive and constructive or, conversely, detrimental to the grow...
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roisinboggan.bsky.social
Hi bluesky👋 I'm Róisín, a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. I'm interested in the human genetics of infection, at the moment I'm looking at S. aureus nasal carriage 🦠