Alan Huett
@ahuett.bsky.social
Lecturer, fish-keeper, amateur metalworker.
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Mycobacterium smegmatis Expands Across Surfaces by Hydraulic Sliding - Environmental Microbiology Reports enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - Our new paper is out!
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October 30, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Mycobacterium smegmatis Expands Across Surfaces by Hydraulic Sliding - Environmental Microbiology Reports enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... - Our new paper is out!
My alarm didn't go off. Have I missed the rapture?
September 24, 2025 at 6:56 AM
My alarm didn't go off. Have I missed the rapture?
The way the US is going, saying anything against the king will be punished. But shooting someone will be protected speech.
September 11, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The way the US is going, saying anything against the king will be punished. But shooting someone will be protected speech.
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In my talks to Biology depts since 2015, my recommendation of a several month career shadowing requirement for all PhD students has never been warmly received.
6 years and y’all can’t find 3 months for a non tenure track career exploration that ~85% of PhDs will end up in.
6 years and y’all can’t find 3 months for a non tenure track career exploration that ~85% of PhDs will end up in.
How I've adjusted my mentoring to do better for grad students whose careers will take them beyond academia. That is, for most of them! scientistseessquirre...
Mentoring beyond the academic career
I started training grad students about three decades ago. You won’t be surprised to learn that at the time, I had very little idea how the heck to do that. One particular misapprehension I had real…
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July 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
In my talks to Biology depts since 2015, my recommendation of a several month career shadowing requirement for all PhD students has never been warmly received.
6 years and y’all can’t find 3 months for a non tenure track career exploration that ~85% of PhDs will end up in.
6 years and y’all can’t find 3 months for a non tenure track career exploration that ~85% of PhDs will end up in.
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What a cool idea for a paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Mapping the adaptive landscape of Batesian mimicry using 3D-printed stimuli - Nature
Birds have an excellent ability to learn to discriminate harmless insects from those that they mimic on the basis of subtle differences in appearance.
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July 2, 2025 at 9:30 PM
What a cool idea for a paper www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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In 2023, 87 cyclists were killed on the roads. As far as I know, not one of the drivers responsible received a life sentence. At a minimum every single one should have lost their drivers licence and a prison sentence. www.gov.uk/government/s...
Reported road casualties in Great Britain: pedal cycle factsheet, 2023
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April 25, 2025 at 6:35 AM
In 2023, 87 cyclists were killed on the roads. As far as I know, not one of the drivers responsible received a life sentence. At a minimum every single one should have lost their drivers licence and a prison sentence. www.gov.uk/government/s...
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The power of vaccines!
For even better global outcomes, scientists developed a more stable oral vaccine for where injected vaccines are too expensive & poor sanitation+low vaccine coverage can lead to circulating vaccine-derived polio eg. a child recently paralysed in Gaza
youtu.be/cyquCUQV3XE?...
For even better global outcomes, scientists developed a more stable oral vaccine for where injected vaccines are too expensive & poor sanitation+low vaccine coverage can lead to circulating vaccine-derived polio eg. a child recently paralysed in Gaza
youtu.be/cyquCUQV3XE?...
April 8, 2025 at 9:19 AM
The power of vaccines!
For even better global outcomes, scientists developed a more stable oral vaccine for where injected vaccines are too expensive & poor sanitation+low vaccine coverage can lead to circulating vaccine-derived polio eg. a child recently paralysed in Gaza
youtu.be/cyquCUQV3XE?...
For even better global outcomes, scientists developed a more stable oral vaccine for where injected vaccines are too expensive & poor sanitation+low vaccine coverage can lead to circulating vaccine-derived polio eg. a child recently paralysed in Gaza
youtu.be/cyquCUQV3XE?...
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Cash as medicine: How Brazil slashed TB by tackling poverty www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
Cash as medicine: How Brazil slashed TB by tackling poverty
The scheme was launched to reduce poverty, but experts never anticipated the remarkable effects it would have on the country’s health
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February 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Cash as medicine: How Brazil slashed TB by tackling poverty www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...
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This is a disaster.
I have worked with icddr,b and their staff is excellent and incredibly successful in saving and improving lives in Bangladesh and across the region.
I have worked with icddr,b and their staff is excellent and incredibly successful in saving and improving lives in Bangladesh and across the region.
January 31, 2025 at 10:54 PM
This is a disaster.
I have worked with icddr,b and their staff is excellent and incredibly successful in saving and improving lives in Bangladesh and across the region.
I have worked with icddr,b and their staff is excellent and incredibly successful in saving and improving lives in Bangladesh and across the region.
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Totally! I have found so much great experimental functional characterisation via paperblast papers.genomics.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/litS... which was not reflected in databases yet... It would be great if that could be automated.
PaperBLAST
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January 29, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Totally! I have found so much great experimental functional characterisation via paperblast papers.genomics.lbl.gov/cgi-bin/litS... which was not reflected in databases yet... It would be great if that could be automated.
Exciting - up to 30 funded PhD opportunities in the Nottingham BBSRC DTP. Open to Home and International applicants, CASE and standard programmes.
Deadline: 31 January 2025
More details: nottingham.ac.uk/bbdtp/
Deadline: 31 January 2025
More details: nottingham.ac.uk/bbdtp/
December 18, 2024 at 4:32 PM
Exciting - up to 30 funded PhD opportunities in the Nottingham BBSRC DTP. Open to Home and International applicants, CASE and standard programmes.
Deadline: 31 January 2025
More details: nottingham.ac.uk/bbdtp/
Deadline: 31 January 2025
More details: nottingham.ac.uk/bbdtp/
I don't get all this JD Vance sofa stuff. No-one should mock his sectional preference.
July 27, 2024 at 11:56 AM
I don't get all this JD Vance sofa stuff. No-one should mock his sectional preference.
Latest earworm - Peaches' "F*** the pain away", to the tune of "Fraggle Rock Theme".
May 12, 2024 at 2:26 PM
Latest earworm - Peaches' "F*** the pain away", to the tune of "Fraggle Rock Theme".
Just had a "where are my glasses?" moment, but with a small cat. Her sister couldn't tell me, but she was on my lap the whole time.
April 17, 2024 at 6:18 PM
Just had a "where are my glasses?" moment, but with a small cat. Her sister couldn't tell me, but she was on my lap the whole time.