Onisillos
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Editor-in-Chief of a very good microbial journal.
(Illustration by David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-028)
(Illustration by David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-028)
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Time to dive in!
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Whether it's Zohran Mamdani or Claudia Sheinbaum, progressives are finding their voice around the world 🌍
November 13, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Whether it's Zohran Mamdani or Claudia Sheinbaum, progressives are finding their voice around the world 🌍
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Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
November 12, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.
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Why won't someone think about the poor billionaires????
And the newspapers they own!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
And the newspapers they own!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Why won't someone think about the poor billionaires????
And the newspapers they own!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
And the newspapers they own!
Join.greenparty.org.uk
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This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 PM
This is Oakley. He has an injury that requires physical therapy and at-home massages. Luckily, his cat sibling River has been training his whole life for this. 14/10 for both
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Agar plate magnets! Blood agar (alpha hemolysis), MacConkey agar (lactose fermenter), chocolate agar, and MacConkey agar (non-fermenter).
Find them here: microbecharmer.etsy.com
#IDsky #ClinMicro
Find them here: microbecharmer.etsy.com
#IDsky #ClinMicro
November 11, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Agar plate magnets! Blood agar (alpha hemolysis), MacConkey agar (lactose fermenter), chocolate agar, and MacConkey agar (non-fermenter).
Find them here: microbecharmer.etsy.com
#IDsky #ClinMicro
Find them here: microbecharmer.etsy.com
#IDsky #ClinMicro
Imposter syndrome relies on circular logic: if you're a fraud then you must have outsmarted everyone.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Imposter syndrome relies on circular logic: if you're a fraud then you must have outsmarted everyone.
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EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’ https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’ https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/
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Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The right can mock my teeth all it wants – it shows the Greens have struck a nerve | Zack Polanski
As a politician, I expect opposition and debate. But when it centres on personal insults, not policies, something else is going on, says the leader of the Green party, Zack Polanski
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Every personal attack.
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Every attempt to distract or to divide.
It energises, strengthens and empowers our movement.
Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Join us.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Poverty affects almost a third of children in the UK.
Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by fully scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Remember: child poverty is a political choice.
Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by fully scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Remember: child poverty is a political choice.
November 10, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Poverty affects almost a third of children in the UK.
Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by fully scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Remember: child poverty is a political choice.
Labour could choose to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty immediately by fully scrapping the two-child benefit cap.
Remember: child poverty is a political choice.
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Cheers!
We don't have to agree on absolutely everything.
But want lower bills? Think billionaires should pay more tax?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We don't have to agree on absolutely everything.
But want lower bills? Think billionaires should pay more tax?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
November 9, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Cheers!
We don't have to agree on absolutely everything.
But want lower bills? Think billionaires should pay more tax?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
We don't have to agree on absolutely everything.
But want lower bills? Think billionaires should pay more tax?
Join.greenparty.org.uk
An important reminder that the ostensibly “liberal” media are not on your side. And this applies beyond the US. Yes, I do mean The Guardian.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 8, 2025 at 9:59 PM
An important reminder that the ostensibly “liberal” media are not on your side. And this applies beyond the US. Yes, I do mean The Guardian.
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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I'm delighted to share our latest publication in The Lancet Microbe on the development of a predictive biomarker for Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) an aggressive malignancy induced by human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-1).
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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November 8, 2025 at 8:38 PM
I'm delighted to share our latest publication in The Lancet Microbe on the development of a predictive biomarker for Adult T-cell leukemia (ATL) an aggressive malignancy induced by human T-cell leukemia virus (HTLV-1).
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social
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Exciting @thelancet.com podcast: Genomic surveillance of #Mpox in Central African Republic. With Dr Christian Noël Malaka, Dr Livia Patrono & Rebecca Barksby (@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social).
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
Article: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
Article: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 8, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Exciting @thelancet.com podcast: Genomic surveillance of #Mpox in Central African Republic. With Dr Christian Noël Malaka, Dr Livia Patrono & Rebecca Barksby (@lancetmicrobe.bsky.social).
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
Article: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Listen: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
Article: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Our November issue is now online:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Our journal is #OpenAccess, so you are free to explore all of our content. But these hashtags offer a flavour: #HTLV-1 #AMR #Lassa #Neisseria #gonorrhoea #tuberculosis #TB #influenza
#IDSky #ClinMicro #OA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Our journal is #OpenAccess, so you are free to explore all of our content. But these hashtags offer a flavour: #HTLV-1 #AMR #Lassa #Neisseria #gonorrhoea #tuberculosis #TB #influenza
#IDSky #ClinMicro #OA
November 8, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Our November issue is now online:
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Our journal is #OpenAccess, so you are free to explore all of our content. But these hashtags offer a flavour: #HTLV-1 #AMR #Lassa #Neisseria #gonorrhoea #tuberculosis #TB #influenza
#IDSky #ClinMicro #OA
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Our journal is #OpenAccess, so you are free to explore all of our content. But these hashtags offer a flavour: #HTLV-1 #AMR #Lassa #Neisseria #gonorrhoea #tuberculosis #TB #influenza
#IDSky #ClinMicro #OA
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Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved.
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...
ChatGPT encouraged college graduate to commit suicide, family claims in lawsuit against OpenAI | CNN
A 23-year-old man killed himself in Texas after ChatGPT ‘goaded’ him to commit suicide, his family says in a lawsuit.
www.cnn.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.
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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.
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
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November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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.
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.
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Here's the video by the bat rescue that took her in, got her vet care, and after 6 weeks of rehab (and endless fruit treats!), released her back into the wild, hopefully to give birth to a healthy baby bat.
Usual disclaimer: do not handle downed bats, seek professional help if you suspect contact.
Usual disclaimer: do not handle downed bats, seek professional help if you suspect contact.
Rescue of a flying-fox in a playground: this is Sully
YouTube video by Megabattie
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January 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Here's the video by the bat rescue that took her in, got her vet care, and after 6 weeks of rehab (and endless fruit treats!), released her back into the wild, hopefully to give birth to a healthy baby bat.
Usual disclaimer: do not handle downed bats, seek professional help if you suspect contact.
Usual disclaimer: do not handle downed bats, seek professional help if you suspect contact.
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I love this GIF of a grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) munching away on a red grape, cheeks stuffed full of goodness.
But I managed to track down the story, and it's even sweeter. This is Sully, who was found comatose in a Sydney park in 2015, 2 months pregnant, possibly concussed.
But I managed to track down the story, and it's even sweeter. This is Sully, who was found comatose in a Sydney park in 2015, 2 months pregnant, possibly concussed.
a bat with its tongue out is eating a piece of meat .
Alt: Sully, a grey-headed flying-fox, is wrapped in a towel, and is munching on a red grape, messily eating it, with wet-looking eyes and little puppy ears twitching out of joy. It's a very happy image.
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January 30, 2025 at 2:07 AM
I love this GIF of a grey-headed flying fox (Pteropus poliocephalus) munching away on a red grape, cheeks stuffed full of goodness.
But I managed to track down the story, and it's even sweeter. This is Sully, who was found comatose in a Sydney park in 2015, 2 months pregnant, possibly concussed.
But I managed to track down the story, and it's even sweeter. This is Sully, who was found comatose in a Sydney park in 2015, 2 months pregnant, possibly concussed.
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Sharing this, quite relevant this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Remembering my sister Rosalind Franklin
Rosalind Franklin died of ovarian cancer in 1958 aged 37 years. Sympathy and feminism
have combined to give us her familiar image as a downtrodden woman scientist, brilliant
but neglected, a heroine t...
www.thelancet.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Sharing this, quite relevant this week. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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thanks women for destroying the west
free hummus and tabbouleh on me to every woman who lives rent free in David French‘s mind - or what’s left of it
free hummus and tabbouleh on me to every woman who lives rent free in David French‘s mind - or what’s left of it
November 8, 2025 at 2:33 PM
thanks women for destroying the west
free hummus and tabbouleh on me to every woman who lives rent free in David French‘s mind - or what’s left of it
free hummus and tabbouleh on me to every woman who lives rent free in David French‘s mind - or what’s left of it
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I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear:
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
On Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5
November 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
I want to spell this out in case the implications aren't clear:
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
This means all public tools/webapps of GISAID data (all the ones you've been used to seeing thru the pandemic, as far as we can tell) are prohibited.
The file allowed this. Cut that - cut off all tools the public & others were using.
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When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
November 7, 2025 at 11:43 PM
When people celebrate the individual genius of folks in science, they should also
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
mourn the collective loss of genius of folks who were actively discouraged or disadvantaged from a career in science because of the same person(s)
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This HDD clock I found while cleaning out my office today goes so hard. I think I got it via a crowdfunding campaign, but now this Instructables article is all I can find: www.instructables.com/Recycled-Har...
November 8, 2025 at 3:38 AM
This HDD clock I found while cleaning out my office today goes so hard. I think I got it via a crowdfunding campaign, but now this Instructables article is all I can find: www.instructables.com/Recycled-Har...