Sarah Alexander
@sarah1alexander.bsky.social
Mum, Scientist, STI microbiologist, European and Slow runner. All views are my own!
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Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
November 21, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!
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In our new issue, @ukhsa.bsky.social authors describe the early start to this year's #flu season in England with dominating #influenza A(H3N2) subclade K
Conclusion: #vaccination is effective against clinical disease caused by A(H3N2) viruses
🗞️ bit.ly/EUS3046
#IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #PedSky 🛟🧪🦠
Conclusion: #vaccination is effective against clinical disease caused by A(H3N2) viruses
🗞️ bit.ly/EUS3046
#IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #PedSky 🛟🧪🦠
November 21, 2025 at 9:44 AM
In our new issue, @ukhsa.bsky.social authors describe the early start to this year's #flu season in England with dominating #influenza A(H3N2) subclade K
Conclusion: #vaccination is effective against clinical disease caused by A(H3N2) viruses
🗞️ bit.ly/EUS3046
#IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #PedSky 🛟🧪🦠
Conclusion: #vaccination is effective against clinical disease caused by A(H3N2) viruses
🗞️ bit.ly/EUS3046
#IDSky #EpiSky #MedSky #PedSky 🛟🧪🦠
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Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Here are my top 10 Labrador Retrievers of all time!
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This #WAAW Don’t forget to get your awesome AMR abstracts submitted to join us in Hinxton to discuss AMR genomics, innovations in diagnostics,
therapeutics, and data analytics, and novel mechanisms of antimicrobial survival! #AMR2026
therapeutics, and data analytics, and novel mechanisms of antimicrobial survival! #AMR2026
Present your #AMR work at our dedicated forum for global researchers and practitioners! 🧫
🗓️ 23-25 March 2026
Submit abstract by 1 December 📩
Share #genomics and big data approaches for navigating the growing complexities in the AMR field.
📎bit.ly/3SWzJUm
#MicroSky #AMR2026
🗓️ 23-25 March 2026
Submit abstract by 1 December 📩
Share #genomics and big data approaches for navigating the growing complexities in the AMR field.
📎bit.ly/3SWzJUm
#MicroSky #AMR2026
November 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
great news - congratulations!
Honoured and quite blown-over to receive this award. I have been, and continue to be, very lucky - first with great mentors, and then really prodigious students, postdocs and collaborators. Working with them has been a joy.
Congratulations to @zaminiqbal.bsky.social from @milnerevolution.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Mary Lyon Medal!
November 14, 2025 at 5:44 PM
great news - congratulations!
Happy 137 Birthday to the Pasteur institute
137 years ago today 🎂 Institut Pasteur opened in Paris (Nov 14, 1888 🏛️)
Funded by 100K+ donors after the rabies vaccine success, it launched a scientific legacy:
🔬 10 Nobel Prizes
🌍 32 Pasteur Network Institutes
💉 Countless lives saved
From rabies to COVID-19, the mission continues.
Funded by 100K+ donors after the rabies vaccine success, it launched a scientific legacy:
🔬 10 Nobel Prizes
🌍 32 Pasteur Network Institutes
💉 Countless lives saved
From rabies to COVID-19, the mission continues.
November 14, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Happy 137 Birthday to the Pasteur institute
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Lizzie Dale, the STASHH BSIG Representative, has given an insightful run-down of BSIG's new competencies assessment tool for microscopy in a newly published blog. 🔬
Read Lizzie's full blog via our LinkedIn page: bit.ly/47wsf2t to find out more about the new tool and how to access it.
Read Lizzie's full blog via our LinkedIn page: bit.ly/47wsf2t to find out more about the new tool and how to access it.
November 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Lizzie Dale, the STASHH BSIG Representative, has given an insightful run-down of BSIG's new competencies assessment tool for microscopy in a newly published blog. 🔬
Read Lizzie's full blog via our LinkedIn page: bit.ly/47wsf2t to find out more about the new tool and how to access it.
Read Lizzie's full blog via our LinkedIn page: bit.ly/47wsf2t to find out more about the new tool and how to access it.
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And now for something completely different: #EntSoc25 Entomologists! Please contribute to the iNaturalist collection of pubic lice! It's mostly from the EU at the moment. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/395978-...
Crab Louse (Pthirus pubis)
The crab louse or pubic louse (Pthirus pubis) is an insect that is an obligate ectoparasite of humans, feeding exclusively on blood. The crab louse usually is found in the person's pubic hair. Althoug...
www.inaturalist.org
November 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
And now for something completely different: #EntSoc25 Entomologists! Please contribute to the iNaturalist collection of pubic lice! It's mostly from the EU at the moment. www.inaturalist.org/taxa/395978-...
Surely every case of congenital syphilis could be prevented with tests and treatment but important message never the less....
🧵 Here’s something most parents don’t know: Nearly 9 out of 10 cases of congenital syphilis in the US could have been prevented with timely testing and treatment. 1/7
October 28, 2025 at 6:53 AM
Surely every case of congenital syphilis could be prevented with tests and treatment but important message never the less....
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Podcast with me and @turiking.bsky.social for the @milnerevolution.bsky.social series, on plasmid evolution over the last 100 years, talking about our ( @cazares-adr.bsky.social , Nick Thomson, @sarah1alexander.bsky.social & co) recent paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
youtu.be/Mzr3TD4ijs0?...
youtu.be/Mzr3TD4ijs0?...
How the Vectors of Antibiotic Resistance Have Evolved - Professor Zamin Iqbal
YouTube video by Milner Centre for Evolution
youtu.be
October 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Podcast with me and @turiking.bsky.social for the @milnerevolution.bsky.social series, on plasmid evolution over the last 100 years, talking about our ( @cazares-adr.bsky.social , Nick Thomson, @sarah1alexander.bsky.social & co) recent paper www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
youtu.be/Mzr3TD4ijs0?...
youtu.be/Mzr3TD4ijs0?...
100% of Penile cancer is preventable!
October 11, 2025 at 8:52 AM
100% of Penile cancer is preventable!
Next up - interesctionality and inequalities. IUSTI2025
October 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
Next up - interesctionality and inequalities. IUSTI2025
Fabulous presentation by Dr. Janet Wilson at IUSTI2025. We should treat BV as a neglected condition
October 11, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Fabulous presentation by Dr. Janet Wilson at IUSTI2025. We should treat BV as a neglected condition
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Good night, friends.
Tonight was deeply painful.
We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.
Tonight was deeply painful.
We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.
October 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Good night, friends.
Tonight was deeply painful.
We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.
Tonight was deeply painful.
We at CDC do this work because we care.
It’s long hours, often feeling overworked and not enough pay, but we do it because we want to make the world a better place.
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BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
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Great to be in Athens for the 38th Annual IUSTI Europe Congress (International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infection).
I’m presenting our work on Awareness, Attitudes and early Use of DoxyPEP in Ireland!
I’m presenting our work on Awareness, Attitudes and early Use of DoxyPEP in Ireland!
October 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Great to be in Athens for the 38th Annual IUSTI Europe Congress (International Union Against Sexually Transmitted Infection).
I’m presenting our work on Awareness, Attitudes and early Use of DoxyPEP in Ireland!
I’m presenting our work on Awareness, Attitudes and early Use of DoxyPEP in Ireland!
Regulatory barriers prevent good quality tests getting to market! The system needs to be reformed #IUSTI2025
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Regulatory barriers prevent good quality tests getting to market! The system needs to be reformed #IUSTI2025
We need to reduce the incidence of GC why we have drugs that work: in MGEN we need to reduce testing, and preserve the drugs that we have. IUSTI25 - amazing presentation by David Lewis
October 10, 2025 at 6:36 AM
We need to reduce the incidence of GC why we have drugs that work: in MGEN we need to reduce testing, and preserve the drugs that we have. IUSTI25 - amazing presentation by David Lewis
We need regulatory reform for tests! IUSTI25
October 10, 2025 at 6:20 AM
We need regulatory reform for tests! IUSTI25