If my daughter is any proxy of the future of the monarchy, this will be the last coronation of any significance…she could care less.
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RT @oxonandrew
The moment I can tune out…

“Man with hat sits on chair”
https://twitter.com/OxonAndrew/status/1654805496472256515

The moment I can tune out…

“Man with hat sits on chair”

Elections have been SOOO &£!?ed up for SOOO long that we must celebrate when your neighbours finally vote with you🫶

WHO announces an end to the global health emergency for #COVID19. This is not a declaration that the pandemic is over. "The emergency phase ... is over, but Covid is here to stay," said Maria Van Kerkhove, WHO's Covid technical lead. https://www.statnews.com/2023/05/05/who-declares-end-to-covid-global-health-emergency/

Timely and thoroughly frightening read by the chronically-awesome @marynmck :

"three out of five patients who contract azole-resistant Aspergillus die from it"

Determining the drivers of azole-resistance in the UK is the focus of @MARAf_UK

https://www.wired.com/story/a-critical-new-drug-is-coming-unless-agriculture-gets-there-first/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=onsite-share&utm_brand=wired&utm_social-type=earned via @WIRED

Love the humour…

Full marks for creativity:

"Quantification of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in clouds"

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969722083681

RT @RobCullup
@hannahtomes_ Brilliant 😂

Good news!

FDA Approves First Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Vaccine

“the vaccine significantly reduced the risk of developing RSV-associated LRTD by 82.6% and reduced the risk of developing severe RSV-associated LRTD by 94.1%.” https://www.fda.gov/news-events/press-announcements/fda-approves-first-respiratory-syncytial-virus-rsv-vaccine

Best part of thread was the need for snacks 😂
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RT @AnjaliEnjeti
My flight leaving Houston is delayed because bees have congregated on the tip of one of the wings. They won’t let us board until they remove the bees. But how on earth will this happen? Won’t they leave the wing when we take off?
https://twitter.com/AnjaliEnjeti/status/1653813099932135449

Fascinating article:

“Scientists need self-discipline to avoid conducting studies that cannot answer the question that they ask. They can only exercise that discipline if academic institutions reward the “slow science” of such research,..”
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RT @statnews
Opinion: Do masks work? Randomized controlled trials are the worst way to answer the question. https://trib.al/7mRdoou
https://twitter.com/statnews/status/1653598964099211268

Look who came to pay me a visit. 🥰

“Infectious disease is the only field of medicine where things keep getting worse.”

Written by a someone who doesn’t do pollution reporting…where stopping the metaphorical haemorrhaging is a life’s goal, let alone making things better. https://magazine.jhsph.edu/2023/threat-of-infectious-diseases

Amazing to see how times have changed; back in 2018-21 this was a controversial issue with zero political support!

“River pollution becomes key issue in English local elections” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/01/river-pollution-becomes-key-issue-in-english-local-elections?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

😂 yikes!
I hope there’s bunting on the other side of that sign, but I fear it might be douches. The people have spoken 🤭
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RT @lorrainemking
Are Tesco trolling Charles and Camilla?
https://twitter.com/lorrainemking/status/1649492513152028680

New from the EC:

"Proposal for a COUNCIL RECOMMENDATION on stepping up EU actions to combat antimicrobial resistance in a One Health approach"
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=COM:2023:191:FIN

"(Judge) Matson said “incidents of pollution will no longer be tolerated by these courts” and fined South West Water £2.15m. The company, which had pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing, was also ordered to pay costs of £280,000 & a £170 victim surcharge" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/27/south-west-water-fined-215m-for-dumping-sewage-in-sea-and-rivers?CMP=share_btn_tw

RT @isobelcstanton
Really excited to get going on this project and get back in the lab after a year and a half of desk-based science (and not only because my audiobook listening will increase)!
Please go give this page a follow to get updates on our citizen scientist recruitment! https://twitter.com/MARAf_UK/status/1651143934964269057

@bonifartius Fair point.

@bonifartius You seem to err on the side of living with past mistakes instead of working towards correcting them. if we know that we have been giving away our publicly funded research for free--would it not be better to start a path of reclaiming our ownership of these discoveries/innovations instead of letting the past lie in the past?