Zamin Iqbal
@zaminiqbal.bsky.social
Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility
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Congratulations to @zaminiqbal.bsky.social from @milnerevolution.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Mary Lyon Medal!
Honoured and quite blown-over to receive this award. I have been, and continue to be, very lucky - first with great mentors, and then really prodigious students, postdocs and collaborators. Working with them has been a joy.
Shai-hulud escapes pool of water, Melbourne
December 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Shai-hulud escapes pool of water, Melbourne
God only knows (Charles Lloyd, Jason Moran)
youtu.be/LgtufWmkdCk?...
youtu.be/LgtufWmkdCk?...
God Only Knows
YouTube video by Charles Lloyd - Topic
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December 4, 2025 at 12:18 PM
God only knows (Charles Lloyd, Jason Moran)
youtu.be/LgtufWmkdCk?...
youtu.be/LgtufWmkdCk?...
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A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Crypto Investor Donates £9 Million to Reform UK After Nigel Farage Plugs His Company and Tells Industry 'I Am Your Champion'
The Reform leader recently used media interviews to back Christopher Harborne's company while promising to cut taxes and regulations on crypto firms
bylinetimes.com
December 4, 2025 at 10:19 AM
A Thailand-based crypto investor has handed a record-breaking £9 million to Reform UK, shortly before Nigel Farage used media interviews to plug his crypto firm and promise lower taxes and deregulation on the industry
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
bylinetimes.com/2025/12/04/c...
Fantastic opportunity to work with a great supervisor
We’re recruiting a PhD student as part of the AI-Intervene DTP to join FlightPath, an exciting project combining viral genomics, bird migration data, and AI-powered phylodynamics to forecast how avian influenza evolves and spreads.
Project Details 🦠🧬🦅🦆🌎: tinyurl.com/2v4xaxmx.
Project Details 🦠🧬🦅🦆🌎: tinyurl.com/2v4xaxmx.
FlightPath: Predicting Avian Influenza Evolution through AI-Powered Phylodynamics and Bird Migration Modelling at University of Reading on FindAPhD.com
PhD Project - FlightPath: Predicting Avian Influenza Evolution through AI-Powered Phylodynamics and Bird Migration Modelling at University of Reading, listed on FindAPhD.com
www.findaphd.com
December 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Fantastic opportunity to work with a great supervisor
AC/DC lane, Melbourne
December 4, 2025 at 11:45 AM
AC/DC lane, Melbourne
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2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
December 3, 2025 at 11:03 PM
2 in 3 of Nigel Farage’s current and former partners do not speak English as their first language.
Great to visit Melbourne & speak at the Doherty Institute yesterday, hosted by the newly crowned King Professor @torstenseemann.bsky.social . So many great microbial genomics folk out here; today at Monash, seeing @yekwah.bsky.social @kelwyres.bsky.social and co. So much great science+great students
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
Great to visit Melbourne & speak at the Doherty Institute yesterday, hosted by the newly crowned King Professor @torstenseemann.bsky.social . So many great microbial genomics folk out here; today at Monash, seeing @yekwah.bsky.social @kelwyres.bsky.social and co. So much great science+great students
You can't do polls on Bsky, but to journal editors, a thought experiment. I wonder what % of the unique value of your journal is in: choice of who to send to review, obtaining reviewers, mediating reviews, nice looking font/layout, your taste in papers (so your journal publishes papers that... 1/n
December 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
You can't do polls on Bsky, but to journal editors, a thought experiment. I wonder what % of the unique value of your journal is in: choice of who to send to review, obtaining reviewers, mediating reviews, nice looking font/layout, your taste in papers (so your journal publishes papers that... 1/n
How many things in my life am I only going to appreciate when the author/creator dies :-(
1. I remember friends raving about Arcadia when it came out; have not see it, but will.
2. I can't really listen to much now, but I only discovered Queen when FM died, and I listed obsessively for a while.
1. I remember friends raving about Arcadia when it came out; have not see it, but will.
2. I can't really listen to much now, but I only discovered Queen when FM died, and I listed obsessively for a while.
December 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
How many things in my life am I only going to appreciate when the author/creator dies :-(
1. I remember friends raving about Arcadia when it came out; have not see it, but will.
2. I can't really listen to much now, but I only discovered Queen when FM died, and I listed obsessively for a while.
1. I remember friends raving about Arcadia when it came out; have not see it, but will.
2. I can't really listen to much now, but I only discovered Queen when FM died, and I listed obsessively for a while.
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Does anyone else think they are seeing post-acceptance editorial changes at proof stage which are error-prone and probably due to adoption of AI?
December 2, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Does anyone else think they are seeing post-acceptance editorial changes at proof stage which are error-prone and probably due to adoption of AI?
Tedious typesetting preference/question. When we refer to 5x depth, what x do you use in Latex? I've just seen someone correct 5X (upper-case X) to 5\times (Latex multiplication sign).
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Tedious typesetting preference/question. When we refer to 5x depth, what x do you use in Latex? I've just seen someone correct 5X (upper-case X) to 5\times (Latex multiplication sign).
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Developed in Rust for speed and efficiency, bedder is designed to overcome the analytical limitations of traditional interval-based tools by putting analytical flexibility directly into your hands.
Please read our detailed 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁: quinlanlab.org/blogposts/be...
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Please read our detailed 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁: quinlanlab.org/blogposts/be...
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Intro to Bedder – The Quinlan Lab
quinlanlab.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Developed in Rust for speed and efficiency, bedder is designed to overcome the analytical limitations of traditional interval-based tools by putting analytical flexibility directly into your hands.
Please read our detailed 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁: quinlanlab.org/blogposts/be...
2/n
Please read our detailed 𝗯𝗹𝗼𝗴 𝗽𝗼𝘀𝘁: quinlanlab.org/blogposts/be...
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We are thrilled to announce the first official release (v0.1.8) of #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝗱𝗲𝗿, the successor to one of our flagship tool, #𝗯𝗲𝗱𝘁𝗼𝗼𝗹𝘀! Based on ideas we conceived of long ago (!), this was achieved thanks to the dedication of Brent Pedersen.
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Intro to Bedder – The Quinlan Lab
quinlanlab.org
December 2, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Excited to share work from my postdoc with @docedge.bsky.social and collaborators Matt Pennell and @jgschraiber.bsky.social, newly out over the weekend: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)
Observational epidemiological studies can mitigate genetic confounding with the genetic relatedness matrix
Observational studies are commonly used in psychology and epidemiology to identify risk factors correlated with health outcomes. However, these studies are vulnerable to confounding when shared geneti...
www.biorxiv.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Excited to share work from my postdoc with @docedge.bsky.social and collaborators Matt Pennell and @jgschraiber.bsky.social, newly out over the weekend: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... (1/6)
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Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
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Huge preprint if you are interested in bacterial strain taxonomy! The why and how of cgMLST LIN codes: An extensively revised and expanded version doi.org/10.1101/2024... I will summarize it for you in this thread 👇
Life Identification Numbers: A bacterial strain nomenclature approach
Unified strain taxonomies are needed for the epidemiological surveillance of bacterial pathogens and international communication in microbiological research. Core genome multilocus sequence typing (cg...
doi.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Huge preprint if you are interested in bacterial strain taxonomy! The why and how of cgMLST LIN codes: An extensively revised and expanded version doi.org/10.1101/2024... I will summarize it for you in this thread 👇
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This is a wonderful, even spectacular, thread.
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
December 1, 2025 at 7:09 AM
This is a wonderful, even spectacular, thread.
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incredible that VCs have collectively strategised on the threat of the far-right and democratic backsliding, and somehow the lesson from Columbia, Harvard, UCSF etc is that appeasement works
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 10:21 AM
incredible that VCs have collectively strategised on the threat of the far-right and democratic backsliding, and somehow the lesson from Columbia, Harvard, UCSF etc is that appeasement works
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Another addition to the 2nd Plague Pandemic bibliography. Why, when this relates to the 3rd Pandemic, instead of the 2nd? B/c the science about plague we've acquired from the unfortunate experience of Madagascar informs everything we can do in #medhist. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Evaluating the early diversification of Yersinia pestis and its phylogeographic expansion over 96 years of evolution in Madagascar - Communications Biology
A comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of Yersinia pestis, the causative agent of plague, provides insight into the diversity and evolution of this pathogen in Madagascar. This study provides valuable ...
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Another addition to the 2nd Plague Pandemic bibliography. Why, when this relates to the 3rd Pandemic, instead of the 2nd? B/c the science about plague we've acquired from the unfortunate experience of Madagascar informs everything we can do in #medhist. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Explicit description of viral capsid subunit shapes by unfolding dihedrons by Ryuya Toyooka et al. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Explicit description of viral capsid subunit shapes by unfolding dihedrons - Communications Biology
A proposed geometric framework describes and classifies all possible protein subunit shapes in viral capsids through spherical tiling theory, revealing different interaction patterns based on subunit ...
www.nature.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Explicit description of viral capsid subunit shapes by unfolding dihedrons by Ryuya Toyooka et al. www.nature.com/articles/s42...
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Now free to read in Genetics (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social): "Preventing evolutionary rescue in cancer using two-strike therapy" #mathonco study by @srishtipatil.bsky.social, @armaanahmed.bsky.social, Yannick Viossat and me, determining the optimal time to switch treatments. doi.org/10.1093/gene...
Preventing evolutionary rescue in cancer using two-strike therapy
Abstract. First-line cancer treatment frequently fails due to initially rare therapeutic resistance. An important clinical question is then how to schedule
doi.org
November 29, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Now free to read in Genetics (@genetics-gsa.bsky.social): "Preventing evolutionary rescue in cancer using two-strike therapy" #mathonco study by @srishtipatil.bsky.social, @armaanahmed.bsky.social, Yannick Viossat and me, determining the optimal time to switch treatments. doi.org/10.1093/gene...
November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
November 27, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Nigel Farage has spent £1m taking out adverts in the papers to distract from the Nathan Gill Russian bribe scandal.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
We can't let him buy himself out of this. We need an investigation into Russian influence in our politics.
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Really pleased to share the first paper to come out of the lab.
We found that hospital patients were frequently colonised with P. aeruginosa and that the same clone was shared between the gut and the lung.
The phylogenies indicate that the clones moved from lung->gut
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We found that hospital patients were frequently colonised with P. aeruginosa and that the same clone was shared between the gut and the lung.
The phylogenies indicate that the clones moved from lung->gut
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High frequency body site translocation of nosocomial Pseudomonas aeruginosa - Nature Communications
Here, the authors report within-host diversity and body site translocation dynamics in hospital samples of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and reveal that body site sharing was likely due to within-patient tra...
www.nature.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Really pleased to share the first paper to come out of the lab.
We found that hospital patients were frequently colonised with P. aeruginosa and that the same clone was shared between the gut and the lung.
The phylogenies indicate that the clones moved from lung->gut
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We found that hospital patients were frequently colonised with P. aeruginosa and that the same clone was shared between the gut and the lung.
The phylogenies indicate that the clones moved from lung->gut
www.nature.com/articles/s41...