Alan McNally

@alanmcn1.bsky.social

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Head of the School of Infection, Inflammation & Immunology @ Uni Birmingham. Proud Scot. Oversaw a few Covid PCR tests

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Alan McNally is a professor of microbial genomics at the University of Birmingham, UK. He works on the evolutionary genomics and antimicrobial resistance in bacterial pathogens.

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Biology 75%

Medicine 8%

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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 10h

Imposter syndrome relies on circular logic: if you're a fraud then you must have outsmarted everyone.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 20h

If you're traveling by train, buy some fucking headphones. I don't want to listen to your shitty music, hear a crappy American comedy, or listen to a conversation with your significant other who's a bigger twat than you.

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 1d

Tomorrow is the final day to submit your work for presentation at #Microbio26 in Belfast!
Abstract submissions close at 23:59 GMT on Tuesday 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 1d

Pick your new Director-General of the BBC

Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 1d

Gotta love NFL terminology. Possesses the ball against his helmet.

Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 1d

LA rams are a team

Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 1d

Mike Vrabel is a coach!!!

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 1d

NEWS! BBC appoints Big Sam to shore things up until the end of the season newsthump.com/2025/11/09/b...

BBC appoints Big Sam to shore things up until the end of the season

Sam Allardyce has been spotted outside BBC headquarters, as rumours swirl that he’ll be brought in to steady the ship until the end of the season.

newsthump.com

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Adam Kucharski @adamjkucharski.bsky.social · 1d

To back up their (incorrect) argument that COVID vaccines didn't affect transmission of the early variants, someone just sent me a paper showing that vaccines 'only' prevented infection...

The thing is, it's pretty hard to transmit COVID if you don't get infected in the first place.

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Moose Allain @mooseallain.bsky.social · 1d

It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.

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CatWoman @catwomanresists.bsky.social · 2d

❤️🤣❤️🤣❤️

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 2d

Delighted that our review on resistance to last-resort antibiotics in Enterococci has been published in FEMS Microbiology Reviews

academic.oup.com/femsre/advan... (accepted manuscript version)

TL;DR: the Enterococci are really good at evolving resistance to antibiotics in new and creative ways.

Resistance to last-resort antibiotics in enterococci

Abstract. The genus Enterococcus comprises a diverse group of species, many of which are commensal members of the gut microbiota of humans and animals. The

academic.oup.com

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 2d

AI to AMR, engineering biology to education and outreach, microbiome to molecular biology, pangenomics to parasites… There is a home for all microbiology at #Microbio26 in Belfast!

Abstract submissions close soon on 11 November: microb.io/AC26Abstracts

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James Wood @jw132.bsky.social · 2d

Silence over Sudan 🇸🇩 : why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?

www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Silence over Sudan: why do Manchester City’s owners get away with so much?

Two midweek matches in England had a backdrop of war and geopolitics, but only one drew large protests

www.theguardian.com

Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d

As my dear old mum has taught me. If you don’t have anything good to say……….

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Jesse Shapiro @bjesseshapiro.bsky.social · 3d

Shout out to people routinely working in their 2nd or 3rd language.

Yesterday I gave a 1-hour research seminar in French. Afterwards, my brain was pretty much done for the day.

Respect to the loads of scientists who do this daily (and usually a lot more effectively than me!)

Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d

This is not just US science suicide. The UK MoD this week decided I could not share data with my collaborators in China (and vice versa) on hospital transmission of AMR. On an already funded MRC grant.

The decision is horribly under informed but will not be reversed.

Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 4d

Conferees on Defense bill asked to jettison House language that would end US collaborations with Chinese scientists and former students back in China www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations

Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students

www.science.org

Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d

I would have accepted!

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 3d

"The fact that we're having to put signs on the rooms that he uses every single day in no way adds weight to the scurrilous dementia rumours"

Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3d

Lovely to see this displacement and colonisation by MDR Ec being taken on and characterised

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Ricardo Leon-Sampedro @rleonsampedro.bsky.social · 3d

🚨 Excited to share our new paper is out! 🎉
We show how interactions within gut microbiomes allow certain antibiotic-resistant E. coli strains to persist even without antibiotics, helping explain how resistance is maintained in the human gut.

Now published in @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eOf63

Multi-layered ecological interactions determine growth of clinical antibiotic-resistant strains within human microbiomes

Nature Communications - The role of ecological factors in modulating the spread of antibiotic-resistance bacteria in the gut remains unclear. Here, the authors use anaerobic microcosms to study the...

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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 4d

Conferees on Defense bill asked to jettison House language that would end US collaborations with Chinese scientists and former students back in China www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. Congress considers sweeping ban on Chinese collaborations

Researchers speak out against proposal that would bar funding for U.S. scientists working with Chinese partners or training Chinese students

www.science.org

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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 4d

Absolutely delighted (and proud) that @freyaallen.bsky.social passed her viva with minor corrections today.

Thanks very much @jessicamablair.bsky.social @robfagan.bsky.social for examining!

From left to right: Willem, Freya, Jess and Rob.

We are standing in front of a wall with a congratulations banner and some left-over Halloween decorations.

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Nature @nature.com · 4d

Nature research paper: Assessing phylogenetic confidence at pandemic scales

go.nature.com/3WZMsaV

Assessing phylogenetic confidence at pandemic scales - Nature

A method using subtree pruning and regrafting-based tree assessment (SPRTA), which considers evolutionary relationships between lineages, enhances interpretability of phylogenetic analyses such as those of SARS-CoV-2 variants.

go.nature.com

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Antonio Camargo @apcamargo.bsky.social · 4d

🚨New preprint out!
We present a foundational genomic resource of human gut microbiome viruses. It delivers high-quality, deeply curated data spanning taxonomy, predicted hosts, structures, and functions, providing a reference for gut virome research. (1/8)
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Róisín Boggan @roisinboggan.bsky.social · 4d

Worried about identification of human samples from microbial sequencing? We were too- this is what we've done about it! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Benchmarking of human read removal strategies for viral and microbial metagenomics

Human reads are a key contaminant in microbial metagenomics and enrichment-based studies, requiring removal for computational efficiency, biological a…

www.sciencedirect.com

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 4d

The Spectator are confused.

It's not going to be cost free.

Billionaires are going to pay more.

Join.greenparty.org.uk

Like Zohran, Zack offers the thrill of cost free rebellion.

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Microbiology Society @microbiologysociety.org · 5d

In 2019, a mysterious contaminant lead to the start of Contamination Club, an online club dedicated to weird and wonderful intruders.

🎧In this month's Microbe Talk, two of the team, Rob Moran and Greg McCallum, join us to talk about their journey and the online community that they've built.

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Julie Irwin @jdirwinbooks.bsky.social · 5d

Wants me to do his hoovering.

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Unofficial BBCNews (UK) Bot @bbcnews-uk-rss.bsky.social · 5d

Mone-linked firm PPE Medpro owes £39m in tax

Administrator's report shows firm owes £39m to HMRC on top of £148m owed to Department of Health

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