Today marks 20 years since I started at the University of Birmingham @unibirmingham.bsky.social as an absolutely terrified PhD student. At that point I assumed I'd be here for the three years and then leave but I've not quite got around to that yet....

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Excited to see our review on bifidobacterial adaptation to the gut ecosystem published in Nature Reviews Microbiology 🎉 Congratulations to all co-authors, including Grace and @charliejones17.bsky.social from our team.

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neissflow: Streamlining Genomic Epidemiology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae with Nextflow https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.07.22.740120v1

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Polypolish v0.7.1 is out! github.com/rrwick/Polyp... Main new feature is better handling of read name suffixes, which makes it easier to use Polypolish with aligners other than BWA-MEM. I've been using it with minibwa, which seems pretty great: github.com/lh3/minibwa

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Peer review as it should be. From an ASM journal. Fine maybe the decision makes you go “ugh” but brilliantly inciteful and constructive review comments that undoubtedly make the paper better.

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