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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬
@biolucy.bsky.social
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Microbiology PhD student @ Uni of Birmingham, specialising in bacteriophage, AMR and the gut microbiome. Award winning disability campaigner 🏳️‍🌈 #ActuallyAutistic, #ADHD, she/her.
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · Nov 17
Hello bluesky gang, I've been here for years but never actually posted- I'm a PhD student in Microbiology at the University of Birmingham, mainly looking at bacteriophage and AMR, especially in the gut microbiome!

#PhDChat #MicroSky #PhD #BMSSky #AcademicChatter
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · 5d
20 min incubations plus office and lab being so far apart - in the past two weeks I've made a list of lab consumables with their product codes for ordering, and a list of all the enzymes we have kicking around…
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · 5d
The only benefits of the lab and office being on opposite sides of the bulding are that 1. I get my steps in when I do go from one to another and 2. I end up doing random lab chores when I have a 20 minute incubation or something rather than going back to the office…
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Emmanuele Severi @emmseveri.bsky.social · 7d
#phagesky #phage
Truly an occasion NOT TO BE MISSED!! Students, if you want a ground-breaking PhD project in top notch labs with inspiring and attentive PIs: THIS IS IT! I’d apply myself, if I were (decades) younger 😉
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Giusy Mariano @giusym1990.bsky.social · 7d
🚨PhD Opportunity Alert🚨 Join me, @suzieh.bsky.social and @walllabuoglasgow.bsky.social to investigate how environment shapes anti-phage defences & prophage–prophage conflict in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
Apply here:
www.gla.ac.uk/postgraduate...
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · 8d
this may seem silly, but honestly life becomes so much nicer when you take *every opportunity you can* to celebrate, no matter how small.
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Dr. Kiki @drkiki.bsky.social · 8d
Well, this is cool 🧪
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EMBL-EBI @ebi.embl.org · 8d
There are millions of openly available microbial genomes, but searching them can be slow.

Until now 🥁

Introducing LexicMap, a new alignment tool that lets scientists search these data in minutes, helping track antibiotic resistance, trace outbreaks, and more.

www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/r...
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How to rapidly search the world’s microbial DNA
By making the world’s microbial DNA easier to explore, LexicMap helps researchers track outbreaks, study antibiotic resistance, and understand microbial diversity.
www.ebi.ac.uk
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · 8d
Celebrating 1 full year of being a PhD student, what a crazy and fulfilling year. #PhDSky #AcademicSky
A chocolate snack cake with a lit silver candle stuck into it. The caption says ‘Happy 1st PhD-iversary 🎉’
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · 11d
I feel like HR might have an issue with our new group member's boundaries... 🐶
Me with a brown Australian Kelpie dog, who's jumped up onto my chest. I've got a smiling emoji covering my face, and the caption says 'New lab member decided to say hello...'
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · 13d
Tfw I've had unusually long days at work so the one day I don't need to be in until 10-11 I wake up early to do crafts...
Handspun yarn on a Lucy made drop spindle (I made the spindle and spun the yarn today)
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · 14d
It was much fun last year 😎
Me (very red faced because I ran there) and Joe Lycett smiling. I've captioned it 'Reinduction as a Brummie complete✅'
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · 15d
My mum is also the most ADHD person I've ever met so it's pretty clear where that came from too.
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · 15d
Honestly though, MMR or paracetamol didn't cause me to be autistic, having a dad who would hide from us in his office, eat the exact same breakfast every day that I could remember, and physically recoil at physical touch probably did.
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · 15d
They do realise that if you eliminate autism you eliminate most scientists, right?

Maybe that was the plan all along.. #actuallyautistic
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Sarah Boon - Author @saraheboon.bsky.social · 16d
I’m honestly so tired of the BS around autism and ‘cause’.

I’m yet to see a single case where their motive behind ‘finding the cause of autism’ wasn’t embedded in eugenics.

If somebody goes on about finding the cause of autism, always ask why they are seeking it.
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · 17d
A Williams back on the podium, feels good #AzerbaijanGP
a drawing of a hamster wearing a hat and holding a william racing flag
ALT: a drawing of a hamster wearing a hat and holding a william racing flag
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · 23d
Sometimes I have to remember disability is, ya know, disabling, and slowing down is a good thing lol
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · Aug 31
fwiw his fiance is literally one of my favourite humans I am so so grateful he brought her into our family innit
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · Aug 31
tfw my brother got engaged on friday, meanwhile I had my first properly good first date but am likely getting ghosted, and my closest friend I've made while I've lived in Birmingham moved over 150 miles away
an older man with a beard and mustache is smiling and says `` smile through the pain '' .
ALT: an older man with a beard and mustache is smiling and says `` smile through the pain '' .
media.tenor.com
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · Aug 26
Did I buy yet more cheap bubble wands today so our lab can do this?
Yes.
#AcademicSky #MicroSky 🧪
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · Aug 14
I worked my arse off- did a foundation year then integrated masters, 2 summer lab projects, lots of volunteering and relevant work... I basically had no life but that was more a chronic fatigue thing and prioritising work.
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · Aug 14
They made my life so much more liveable. I can actually have interests outside of work/school and not be so exhausted...
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Matthew B @matthewbroome.bsky.social · Aug 14
ADHD drugs have wider life benefits, study suggests www.bbc.com/news/article...
ADHD drugs have wider life benefits, study suggests
A study has linked ADHD drugs to reduced substance misuse, suicide, transport accidents and criminality.
www.bbc.com
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · Aug 14
Annual Jeremy Clarkson post but more realistic innit featuring me in the lift at work
Me in the lift at work carrying lab supplies
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · Aug 14
If your A level results are disappointing, don’t worry. I got a C and two Ds (in 2019) and here I am today, living my dream as a fully funded PhD student in Microbiology getting to work on one of the biggest global threats with an amazing team around me #ALevelResultsDay #MicroSky 🧪
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · Aug 12
Enterococcus is an ovoid diplococcus...
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Lucy Evans 🧫🦠👩🏻‍🔬 @biolucy.bsky.social · Aug 12
Stressful week thanks to silly landlord things, so made another little Enterococcus friend #microsky 🧪
A teal crochet Enterococcus keychain with a smiley face
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