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Alan McNally
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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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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 3h
Oh my life what a time to be a bears fan

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 4h
Bears OL is for real

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 8h
Hear me out here. Houston move on from Stroud this off season

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 9h
What has happened to CJ Stroud

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 10h
Aw man. Joe Buck. Troy Aickman. Snow. This is perfect playoffs

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 15h
Phenomenal predictions so far

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 1d
What a start to divisional weekend

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 1d
That makes no sense. The Rans are good………

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 1d
Am going Bills Texans 49ers and (sadly) Rams

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 1d
My favourite month of the year. And my beloved bears finish it all off tomorrow night

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 1d
Nectarine Nazi

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Balderdash @balderdash.bsky.social · 1d
Re Trump threatening Europe with extra tariffs, Europe should collectively threaten to boycott the World Cup.

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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 1d
As a German, I used to wonder quite how a whole country could come to accept fascism, but looking at the news in America it's now a lot easier to understand how these things are normalised. One thing to thank Trump for I guess

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 1d
Lovely picture of Alec Baldwin

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Steven Salzberg @stevensalzberg.bsky.social · 2d
very sad news. Peer Bork was one of the leaders of our field, a wonderful scientist, and he's much too young to be gone. www.embl.org/news/embl-an...
In remembrance of Peer Bork  | EMBL
EMBL and its community are deeply saddened by the death of Peer Bork, the organisation’s Interim Director General.
www.embl.org

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 2d
Science - like magic, but real. Get yours with free UK delivery here >>> buff.ly/72Qf6Dw

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 2d
NEWS! Keir Starmer flies to US to give Donald Trump his cycling proficiency badge
Keir Starmer flies to US to give Donald Trump his cycling proficiency badge
Sir Keir Starmer has flown to Washington on an overnight transatlantic mission to present Donald Trump with the highest honour he currently has available: a cycling proficiency badge he earned in t…
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 2d
Yes. As a microbiologist my pet peeve is that “segmented filamentous bacteria” means diddly jack shit!!!

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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 2d
#NatMicroPicks

Asgard archaea and the origin of eukaryotes! 🦠

Eukaryotic cellular complexity evolved largely within the Asgard lineage before mitochondrial endosymbiosis and later bacterial gene acquisitions

#MicroSky

www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis - Nature
A survey of the reconstructed gene set of the last eukaryotic common ancestor shows a consistent link between Asgard archaea and the origin of numerous, functionally diverse eukaryotic genes, dem...
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Nature Microbiology @natmicrobiol.nature.com · 2d
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gut microbes protect from pneumonia! 🦠🫁

SFB colonization reprograms alveolar macrophages to resist influenza‑induced depletion and enhances their antibacterial function protecting mice from secondary bacterial pneumonia

#MicroSky

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Segmented filamentous bacteria reprogramming of alveolar macrophages limits postinfluenza bacterial pneumonia
SFB colonization phenotypically alters alveolar macrophages, maintaining their antibacterial functions in inflamed interferon-rich lungs.
www.science.org

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 2d
NEWS! Conservatives used ‘mind-ray’ to make me help them break the country, insists Jenrick newsthump.com/2026/01/16/c...
Conservatives used ‘mind-ray’ to make me help them break the country, insists Jenrick
Robert Jenrick has dramatically accused the Conservative Party of using a brain-altering ‘mind-ray’ on him to make him help with their mission of breaking the country.
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Edyth Parker @edythparker.bsky.social · 2d
Global solidarity in genomic surveillance improves early detection of acute respiratory virus threats. "Importantly, these benefits cannot be attained by siloed expansion in countries that already possess strong capacity." Well done to the team! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Global solidarity in genomic surveillance improves early detection of acute respiratory virus threats - Nature Communications
Respiratory virus genomic surveillance output is unevenly distributed globally. Here, the authors show that addressing this imbalance could substantially reduce the time to first detection o...
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Willem van Schaik @wvschaik.bsky.social · 2d
Do you know who else was gifted a Nobel Prize medal?

Joseph Goebbels.

Seriously.

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By contrast, in Growth of the Soil the main character, Izak, encapsulates the nobility of the working man, exuding the sweat and toil reminiscent of the Nazi slogan Blut und Boden (“Blood and Soil”) and so impressed the Nazis that the book was distributed to the soldiers fighting in Norway. Joseph Goebbels admired the book so much he invited Hamsun and his wife Marie to Berlin in May 1943 and in return for such agreeable hospitality Hamsun gave Goebbels his Nobel medal

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Mr Roger Quimbly @rogerquimbly.bsky.social · 3d
Just farted so hard I defected to Reform.

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Dan Rebellato @danrebellato.bsky.social · 3d
Am enjoying the juxtaposition of the Guardian's coverage of Nigel Farage bringing Robert Jenrick into his party and an advert for 'Adopt a Donkey.

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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 3d
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage

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NewsThump @newsthump.com · 3d
Don't feel sorry for Robert Jenrick. Imagine all the free time he'll have now to dedicate to his favourite hobbies, like painting over children's murals at asylum centres.

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Dr. Keith R. Brunt @profbrunt.bsky.social · 4d
Epstein-Barr Virus #EBV was linked to #MultipleSclerosis - now a plausible cause has been found, misidentification by longterm memory T-cells that pick on the wrong protein, ANO2, instead of the EBV-antigen. Massive inflection towards the elimination of MS!!!
🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Anoctamin-2-specific T cells link Epstein-Barr virus to multiple sclerosis
Researchers identified anoctamin-2 (ANO2) as a frequent autoimmune target in multiple sclerosis, with T cell responses against ANO2 occurring in over half of patients. These ANO2-specific T cells shar...
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Anon Opin @anonopin.bsky.social · 4d
Those On The Beach adverts are a covert operation by UK airports to reduce overcrowding in lounges by convincing us that they're full of arseholes.

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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 4d
As no reflection at all on the excellent organisers or the excellence of this meeting. There is not a force in nature that would make me travel to the USA for a scientific meeting right now.
drhhnz.bsky.social Heather Hendrickson @drhhnz.bsky.social · Dec 10
It’s officially happening folks! The Microbial Population Biology Gordon Research Conference is back in Andover, New Hampshire starting June 27th of 2027!
See you there!!

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#microsky #mevosky
Screenshot from GRC portal confirming microbial population biology meeting June 27, 2027 in Andover, New Hampshire.