Lucy Weinert
@lucyweinert.bsky.social
Evolutionary genomics of bacteria
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Lucy Weinert
@lucyweinert.bsky.social
· Dec 13
Save the Vet School - join 1000s of voices standing with the Vet School
A vital institution. A community in action. A future worth protecting. Stand with us to save the vet school.
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savethevetschool.co.uk Colleagues, please lend us your support. The University wants to close down the vet school despite being ranked educationally above school average and smashing the REF because they want our land and vet education is too expensive.
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Official Statement:
Cambridge University, Department of Veterinary Medicine, 12/12/2025
"The decision to recommend the closure of what the Times Higher Education Supplement ranks as the best undergraduate veterinary course in the world has come as a bolt from the blue."
[1]
#SaveTheVetSchool
Cambridge University, Department of Veterinary Medicine, 12/12/2025
"The decision to recommend the closure of what the Times Higher Education Supplement ranks as the best undergraduate veterinary course in the world has come as a bolt from the blue."
[1]
#SaveTheVetSchool
December 12, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Official Statement:
Cambridge University, Department of Veterinary Medicine, 12/12/2025
"The decision to recommend the closure of what the Times Higher Education Supplement ranks as the best undergraduate veterinary course in the world has come as a bolt from the blue."
[1]
#SaveTheVetSchool
Cambridge University, Department of Veterinary Medicine, 12/12/2025
"The decision to recommend the closure of what the Times Higher Education Supplement ranks as the best undergraduate veterinary course in the world has come as a bolt from the blue."
[1]
#SaveTheVetSchool
savethevetschool.co.uk Colleagues, please lend us your support. The University wants to close down the vet school despite being ranked educationally above school average and smashing the REF because they want our land and vet education is too expensive.
Save the Vet School - join 1000s of voices standing with the Vet School
A vital institution. A community in action. A future worth protecting. Stand with us to save the vet school.
savethevetschool.co.uk
December 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
savethevetschool.co.uk Colleagues, please lend us your support. The University wants to close down the vet school despite being ranked educationally above school average and smashing the REF because they want our land and vet education is too expensive.
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Now peer-reviewed, improved and published in @microbiologysociety.org Microbiology - thanks to editor and reviewers!
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
September 26, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Now peer-reviewed, improved and published in @microbiologysociety.org Microbiology - thanks to editor and reviewers!
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...
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By linking their shifts in the phenotypic map above with the amino acid changes in PBP protein, we could pinpoint particular substitutions and its impact on resistance.
September 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
By linking their shifts in the phenotypic map above with the amino acid changes in PBP protein, we could pinpoint particular substitutions and its impact on resistance.
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Terrific new feature presented by @theo.io on @pathoplexus.org called SeqSets for generating DOIs for sequence subsets used in publications, that can then be tracked for impact via CrossRef that will allow data generators to track impact! #IMMEMXiV
September 19, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Terrific new feature presented by @theo.io on @pathoplexus.org called SeqSets for generating DOIs for sequence subsets used in publications, that can then be tracked for impact via CrossRef that will allow data generators to track impact! #IMMEMXiV
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New preprint: Antimicrobial Resistance Cartography — a simple way to map multivariate drug-resistance phenotypes, using data from @CDCgov.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
September 17, 2025 at 5:54 PM
New preprint: Antimicrobial Resistance Cartography — a simple way to map multivariate drug-resistance phenotypes, using data from @CDCgov.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026):
www.embl.org/about/info/e...
We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them
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We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them
EMBL International PhD Programme – Unique in the world and waiting for you!
www.embl.org
September 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The EMBL PhD programme is open until 13th October (entry ~Sep 2026):
www.embl.org/about/info/e...
We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them
www.embl.org/about/info/e...
We have three positions in microbial genomics at EMBL-EBI, including one in my group. Please do apply, or if you know anyone that would be interested pass on to them
Introducing AMR cartography - work by Andrew Balmer
Antimicrobial Resistance Cartography: A Generalisable Framework for Studying Multivariate Drug Resistance https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.12.675231v1
September 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
Introducing AMR cartography - work by Andrew Balmer
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The Streptococcus Great Britain & Ireland 2026 meeting will bring together ECRs and experts to highlight cutting-edge research focused on crucial aspects of Streptococcal biology, in Durham on March 30th/31st 2026. More information strepgbi.wixsite.com/strep-gbi. Registration opening soon.
September 8, 2025 at 10:19 AM
The Streptococcus Great Britain & Ireland 2026 meeting will bring together ECRs and experts to highlight cutting-edge research focused on crucial aspects of Streptococcal biology, in Durham on March 30th/31st 2026. More information strepgbi.wixsite.com/strep-gbi. Registration opening soon.
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The UK university sector is not beaten yet: UK is awarded the highest number of ERC Advanced Grants (56; Germany has next- highest with 35).
Other stats: 11% success rate; grants will create approximately 2,700 jobs in the teams of grantees.
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Other stats: 11% success rate; grants will create approximately 2,700 jobs in the teams of grantees.
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
ERC backs cutting-edge research with €721 million in funding
The European Research Council (ERC) today announced the winners of its latest Advanced Grant competition. The funding, worth in total €721 million, will go to 281 leading researchers across Europe. Th...
erc.europa.eu
June 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The UK university sector is not beaten yet: UK is awarded the highest number of ERC Advanced Grants (56; Germany has next- highest with 35).
Other stats: 11% success rate; grants will create approximately 2,700 jobs in the teams of grantees.
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
Other stats: 11% success rate; grants will create approximately 2,700 jobs in the teams of grantees.
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...
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Hey, Miles' @milesroberts.bsky.social beautiful paper showing that sequence diversity missed by standard methods contributes to Lewontin's paradox is officially published in @evolletters.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
k-mer-based diversity scales with population size proxies more than nucleotide diversity in a meta-analysis of 98 plant species
Abstract. A key prediction of neutral theory is that the level of genetic diversity in a population should scale with population size. However, as was note
academic.oup.com
June 12, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Hey, Miles' @milesroberts.bsky.social beautiful paper showing that sequence diversity missed by standard methods contributes to Lewontin's paradox is officially published in @evolletters.bsky.social. academic.oup.com/evlett/advan...
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The abstract submission deadline for Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics 2025 is soon approaching! Make sure to submit by 23:59 BST on 7 July 2025. microb.io/Abstracts #MicroEvo25
June 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The abstract submission deadline for Understanding and predicting microbial evolutionary dynamics 2025 is soon approaching! Make sure to submit by 23:59 BST on 7 July 2025. microb.io/Abstracts #MicroEvo25
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📣💥Thrilled to share this preprint from our PhD student Yao Shi on the identification of a conserved motif in Strep suis cell wall glycan for possible vaccine protection. 👏 to team of dedicated international collaborators immunogenicity.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.02.656523v1
June 4, 2025 at 4:46 AM
📣💥Thrilled to share this preprint from our PhD student Yao Shi on the identification of a conserved motif in Strep suis cell wall glycan for possible vaccine protection. 👏 to team of dedicated international collaborators immunogenicity.https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.06.02.656523v1