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Rachael Graham
@fritillaria3.bsky.social
Bioinformatician @ukhsa.bsky.social
Former PhD researcher @nhm-london.bsky.social and @unisouthampton.bsky.social
Scientist 👩🏻‍🔬🧬 ~ Plant fanatic 🌺🌿 ~ Island enthusiast 🏝️🌋
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Great article from Ewen Callaway in @nature.com about how #SARSCoV2 has helped us better understand viruses - including the areas where we still have much to learn.

“This was one of the first times where evolutionary biology became an applied science” says @jbloomlab.bsky.social
Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time
After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what has science taught us about SARS-CoV-2?
www.nature.com
March 12, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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Mpox clade Ib case counts are now up on the UKHSA data dashboard!

No fancy visualisations here as case counts are low, so that's actually a good thing

ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/outbreaks/mp...
February 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Our mSCAPE project has been formally announced to the world by @smhopkins.bsky.social at #FOG2025 today: www.gov.uk/government/n... - a really exciting academic-public health collaboration to build a surveillance platform leveraging NHS metagenomic diagnostic data. @meerac.bsky.social
UKHSA launches new metagenomic surveillance for health security
The UK launches mSCAPE, a world-first metagenomics initiative by UKHSA to enhance health security through rapid pathogen detection and surveillance.
www.gov.uk
January 30, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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👋 It's 15 days until Christmas but our first day on Bluesky!
Our festive animatronic T. rex says hello!
December 10, 2024 at 11:23 AM
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A new eruption has begun in Iceland 👀
www.youtube.com/watch?v=faH3...
🔴 Live Now: 24/7 Iceland Volcanic Eruption Watch (Multi-cam)
YouTube video by afarTV
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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hello bluesky! here's a longer version of the foxes playing around in the snow at my college in oxford.

the video has gone viral and i think it's one of those moments where i feel like 'humans are so cute' — we just appreciate watching foxes in the snow!

wishing you all a wonderful week :)
November 20, 2024 at 11:41 AM
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How to take part in Wildflower Hour which is EVERY Sunday 8-9pm. During the week find an open flower (wild or naturalised, not planted) from anywhere across Britain & Ireland & share on Sunday evening using #wildflowerhour! Fancy an extra challenge? See if you can find ten blooms for #thewinter10!
November 15, 2024 at 4:26 PM
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Hello @bsky.app we have joined the family! 👋
Watch this space....

In the meantime, how about we continue the blue theme with photographs of British Algae: cyanotype impressions by Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871). View all of them via our #DigitisedCollections

nhm.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/co...
November 13, 2024 at 2:57 PM
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My friend @hollybrocks.bsky.social does amazing work taking in and caring for the mankiest of moggies, rehabilitating them and finding them homes. Do chuck her a few quid if you can, please www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-sa...
Donate to Help us save cats & kittens from the cold this winter, organized by Holly Brockwell
Thank you for considering our winter appeal. I'm Holly Brockwell… Holly Brockwell needs your support for Help us save cats & kittens from the cold this winter
www.gofundme.com
November 7, 2024 at 6:20 PM