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Positions are based at SciLifeLab sites across Sweden’s leading universities.

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It is hard to break the loop of 1) selecting excellent researchers using traditional indicators of excellence (=prestige); and 2) expecting these beneficiaries of old-school prestige to lead on more inclusive, forward-looking indicators.
But current data shows it is only all bark, no bite.

I'm trying to reconcile REF's expressed need for NTOs and their described priority for "EDI and broader diversity" (e.g. 2029.ref.ac.uk/wp-content/u... (PDF)), with their selection, in practice, of established Professors (in the case of UoL all are Professors news.liverpool.ac.uk/2025/09/04/s...).

The number of deaths caused by antimicrobial resistance is predicted to rise from 1 millio to 2 million death per year by 2050. Reasons:
- Too few new drugs
- Excessive use of antibiotics in agriculture
- Antibiotics overuse in medical practice
- Lack of awareness
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Many days I pass in front of a plant-based meals restaurant. And here I was, naively thinking how good the expression "plant-based" is. It's inviting, avoids moral arguments, and it does what it says on the tin.

I'm mostly a carnivore, but I also eat a lot of plant-based food!

The most important paper in evolutionary biology I'd never heard of:

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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Brassica oleracea / Brassica oleracea / Brassica oleracea

Men in balaclavas set fire to a mosque in East Sussex last night. It's only appearing on the BBC's local coverage, rather than its main national headlines, despite coming just a week after the (also under-reported) firebombing of an asylum hotel in London last week
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

New blog post! 🚨

Reflections on my first year as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in Denmark — the science, the challenges, and the journey toward independence. 🌱

nasmillelarkemejia.com/one-year-as-...

#uArctic_project

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

Start independent research at the JIC with us 👇.

Really interested in finding those with an interest in structural biology and biochemistry of plants and microbes.

Please do get in touch by email if you'd like to know more 👍

Invasive mosquito vector species detected in surveillance traps in United Kingdom

because the stakes are so low, it's easier to burn the royal society to the ground than to admit a mistake.

I can’t promise this will be the last time I talk about inequity — or equity washing — in science. But after the multitude of responses to my Nature piece, I know something has shifted. Many came from the Global North. That alone feels like a small win. 👉 rdcu.be/eGEun

In fact: in more cases than not, immigration is actually at least part of the answer to address the real issue. So basically: anti-immigration policies constitute a *double negative* - they prevent addressing the real issues by providing the wrong focus and they likely make the real issue worse.

Voluntary work, notwithstanding unpaid labour implications, isn’t a requirement for people who already live here, native or not and many (most) don’t do any at all. So charities etc will soon rely on immigrants as already happens in the NHS.

This week, we lost a leading scientist. Prof Amilcar Tanuri, who died with 67 years after leading the scientific response to Zika, HIV, COVID-19 and multiple other epidemics in Brazil. I was so fortunate to have Prof Tanuri as a mentor and friend for over 3 decades. Rest in peace my friend.

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide!

It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers.

It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

This is getting a bit awkward. Anyone else feels like chipping in?

OK, here it is. Come work with me at the University of Liverpool making ALL THE AI models from ALL THE prokaryote pangenome data. Heck, we will make models from ALL the pangenomes, even eukaryotes!!! (link below👇) 1/4

After another announcement of Elsevier's embrace of AI (e.g. sciencebusiness.net/network-upda...), I remember that time when someone from Elsevier wanted me to work for them. For free. Scanning an open literature database. The hackathon organisers put them in charge.
mstdn.science/@leomrtns/11...

Autism is a natural divergence from neurotypicality. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Transness is a natural divergence from cisnormativity. It's normal & not the tragedy these clowns are making it out to be.

Just deal with people being different than you.

When we build the greatest stereotype engine the world has ever seen we should not be surprised when it reproduces bias

Honoured + super grateful to give an oral talk on efforts by #PulseNETAfrica to enhance capacity of public health labs across Africa for cholera mgt + a poster describing investigation of a neonatal kleb pneumoniae ST39 outbreak in a rural hospital in the Gambia at #IMMEM XIV in beautiful Porto 🇵🇹