Great to share the latest work from our group and collaborators. First CARRIAGE study paper led by @drdaggarwal.bsky.social and the heroic efforts of Katie Bellis and Beth Blane in the lab plus all the team at @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social Huge thanks goes to the 22,000 participants of the study
Read 'Large-scale characterization of the nasal microbiome redefines Staphylococcus aureus colonization status' from @sangerinstitute.bsky.social, @cam.ac.uk, @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social and their collaborators in @natcomms.nature.com here ⬇️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
People who persistently carry the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus have a much less diverse community of bacteria in their nose, while certain species may help keep it out. 🦠
These findings offer insight into who may be at higher risk of infection. 👇
www.sanger.ac.uk/news_item/la...
#AcademicSky #metagenomics #bacteria #virus #genomics #bioinformatics
Worried about identification of human samples from microbial sequencing? We were too- this is what we've done about it! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Academia may not give you job security, flexibility, or wealth, but it will let you unexpectedly connect to eduroam in foreign cities
Great piece about some of the issues within the health research field atm ⬇️
Work experience opportunity with the Human Genetics team at the Wellcome Sanger Institute. Apply by 15 July 2025.
📣 We have a #WorkExperience opportunity for six Year 12 students to join our Human Genetics team at the
@sangerinstitute.bsky.social!
This will be an immersive opportunity to join both our wet- and dry-lab teams.
📅 21- 25 July 2025
⏰ Apply by 9am on 10 July
🔗 cstu.io/0d184e
#EduSky #SciTeachUK
Photo of Cambridge River and view over King's College with a group of people punting.
Photo of the Heart and Lungs Research Institute on Cambridge Biomedical Campus. The building is bronze-colour and in front of a pond.
📣 Interested in the environmental (un)sustainability of AI (and how to support positive change)? Or know someone who is? I have an open position for a postdoctoral researcher to join my group in Cambridge, UK 🌱
🚨Closing June 5th
www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/51255/
Topics below 👇
#AcademicSky #GreenSky
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One more re-up for my hissy fit about wolves.
arutherford.substack.com/p/dire-wolve...
Visualisation of Nick's strategy, drawn by PhD student in his research group, Lia Bote. Illustration shows concepts of Setting, Predictive Biology, and Intervention in scientific research with related sketches including a tap, medicine, DNA, viruses, person in PPE, and a globe.
Interested in infectious diseases, climate, health, and international collaborations? 🧬
We spoke with Nick Thomson, Head of our Parasites and Microbes programme to cover all those topics and more.
Learn more about Nick and his research vision here ⤵️
sangerinstitute.blog/2025/03/21/a...
#AcademicSky #metagenomics #bacteria #virus #genomics #bioinformatics
First paper from my new job 🎉
Removing human reads from viral and microbial metagenomics data. Usually, I want all the human reads I can get, but this was a really interesting project to work on! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
US Science has been under sustained attack for the last month. I've been thinking about the vulnerabilities in UK science.
In a new post, I've imagined a dystopian but *possible* future for UK science - as a way for prompting discussions on how we can protect it.
open.substack.com/pub/christin...
1) This feels like really good, bold public interest journalism by the BBC!
2) If you were around social media / online publishing circa 2014 and followed The Social Chain, it was soooo baffling to watch his reinvention as a business guru.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Excellent.
Amazing talk from Anna Furtjes outlining the key findings from her paper- I'm not a brain gal but this was incredibly interesting! #segeg2024 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Excited to be at #SEGEG2024 today @kcl.ac.uk; already some super interesting presentations!
My app for finding 🦋 accounts you may want to follow has had a make-over: it now displays names and bios, and allows adding an "app password" for direct follow buttons in the listing
bsky-follow-finder.theo.io
PhDs and PostDocs!
Circulate to your cohorts and departments.
This could be really beneficial to future PhD students that follow in the paths we walk in today.
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Hi bluesky👋 I'm Róisín, a post-doctoral research associate at the University of Cambridge and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. I'm interested in the human genetics of infection, at the moment I'm looking at S. aureus nasal carriage 🦠
