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Ajay Oza
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Biologist - infect disease epidemiologist #rstat. Good design, machine music.
August 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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"we thought only the poor people would suffer"
July 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Cool videos from our new paper applying Diversity Search to Flow-Lenia to explore a vast space of eco-evolutionary dynamics. Preprint paper, dataset and online visualization tool soon available, stay tuned!
I'll present this and other Lenia experiments on May 27 at www.dem.eco
#ALife #Open-endedness
May 14, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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Interested in phages ?
Want to work as team that will isolate, genome sequence and charachterise 1000s of phage to build a biobank .
Come work with me and Martha Clokie at Leicester

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May 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Times before vibe coding...
April 21, 2025 at 1:31 PM
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The March issue of Epi Insight is out now and features a variety of interesting articles like:

🦠Five years of COVID-19 in Ireland
👥Increase in scabies outbreaks
🧠Increase in cases of Invasive meningococcal disease (IMD)
✈️Mpox Clade I imported case detected

Read the full issue here👉 bit.ly/4ksPOO8
March 6, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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🧵 🙌🏾 Congratulations #Guinea for eliminating sleeping sickness (gambiense form) as a public health problem in the country!
bit.ly/3Cgp0zq

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January 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Human case of avian flu detected in England as virus spreads among birds
Human case of avian flu detected in England as virus spreads among birds
Second human case of H5N1 bird flu caught on farm in West Midlands but risk to public remains very low, says UKHSA A human case of highly pathogenic bird flu has been detected in England, authorities have said, as bird flu cases escalate across the…
www.theguardian.com
January 27, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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What do bacterial cells do when they run out of nutrients? Although most bacterial studies focus on cells in exponentially growing states, in the wild bacteria likely spend most of their time slowly starving to death. 1/n
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
E. coli prepares for starvation by dramatically remodeling its proteome in the first hours after loss of nutrients
It is widely believed that due to nutrient limitations in natural environments, bacteria spend most of their life in non-growing states. However, very little is known about how bacteria change their p...
www.biorxiv.org
January 15, 2025 at 11:12 AM
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Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
January 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
~healthy~ person looks on as fuss made around mystery illness victims.
December 13, 2024 at 12:32 PM
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Lovely night. Great gig
December 7, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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@UKHSA latest respiratory surveillance released.

1.flu positivity and hospitalisations rising fast - earlier than last year and exponential growth

2. RSV remains high but looks like it is close to peak - highest rates in children under 5.

3. COVID at low levels and stable.
December 5, 2024 at 2:12 PM
Old one from the collection for the new place!
November 17, 2024 at 3:12 PM