A Cabbage White #butterfly enjoying nectar from my Virginia stocks on such a perfect English #summer day #Bloomscrolling
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Prof Jenny Rohn
Профиль VivelyCellular microbiologist, #UTI host/pathogen interactions, lab head at University College London, novelist, broadcaster, writer, pundit, sci comm, musician, gardener, Editor of LabLit.com, all things geek-chic. M7HZT on ham radio. More at jennyrohn.com
Benign classroom strain P. shigelloides swapped accidentally for Neisseria sicca - which was then mistaken for deadly N. meningitidis…all caused by misidentification from atypical carbohydrate fermentation. Not as scary but something similar happened in my undergrad micro lab —> 🧵1/3 #MicroSky
Dr. Katharine DicksonThis may be the biggest mistake I’ve ever heard of anyone making in an undergraduate microbiology laboratory - and it wasn’t the students’ fault. arstechnica.com/health/2026/...
This looks like an amazing resource
Nature MicrobiologyOut Now! Cell-autonomous immunity as an integrated immune network against bacterial and viral pathogens #MicroSky
“Virtual screening of over 1.4 billion synthetically accessible compounds identifies potential candidates, of which 82 exhibit antibacterial activity on the same strain, illustrating a 90-fold improved hit rate…” Interesting approach to find new #antibiotics #AMR #MicroSky
Nature BiotechnologyAntibacterial compounds are discovered by combining phenotypic screening with deep learning www.nature.com/articles/s41... rdcu.be/fuZXX
My institute 'wins'! 😱 But UCL is absolutely massive - per researcher head might be more illustrative? Not sure. #OpenAccess #AcademicSky
Caroline BallOverall data for the UK, by institutional spend. Eye-opening!
I am absolutely here for high-quality content like this!
Matthew CobbMy kids had nightmares after they made dolls out of spuds - putting clothes on them and everything – then forgot about them and discovered them in a drawer a few weeks later when they had sprouted all sorts of Lovecraftian appendages.
Our lab has just had a major paper accepted and, while I can't say more at this time, I'll just leave you with... #UTISky #AcademicSky
Great News! Let's Go CelebrationAlt: This is the classic meme from Seinfeld with everyone jumping up and down. Caption says Let's Go!!static.klipy.com"Can you look the panel in the eye and persuade them that the ideas in the grant are yours? It’s like a Turing test, except now we poor humans are the subjects." ICYMI over the weekend, my latest blog post on the perils of #LLM #AI in science #AcademicSky tinyurl.com/bdnxn7ca
In which human scientists are losing the battle | Mind the Gaptinyurl.comA ribosomal “crash and reboot” strategy for bacterial response to antibiotics Super interesting work about the battling selection pressures of #antibiotics vs #immunity in vivo #AMR #IDSky #MIcroSKy
Vaughn CooperIn 2014, Jason Rosch and I met at a GRC in Tuscany and sketched an idea on a cocktail napkin: what if we evolved S.pneumo in mice, treated them with antibiotics, varied their immune systems and watched what won? 11 years and a huge team effort later, it's out in @cp-cellhostmicrobe.bsky.social 🧵
"Can you look the panel in the eye and persuade them that the ideas in the grant are yours, and can you extrapolate further into the future without AI prompts? It’s like a Turing test, except now we poor humans are the subjects." On the perils of #AI in science #AcademicSky tinyurl.com/bdnxn7ca
In which human scientists are losing the battle | Mind the Gaptinyurl.comlol - remember, kids, always remove your prompts before you give your heartfelt speech
Robert KomanieckiThis utter muppet of a conservative Canadian politician in New Brunswick forgot to remove the LLM text from his floor speech and read it out loud.