Thanks to everyone involved @ryanmimrie.bsky.social, @blongdon.bsky.social, and Angus Buckling. This work was funded by @swbiodtp.bsky.social. Find the paper here: doi.org/10.1093/isme... 🧵 4/4

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Pleased that the second paper from my PhD is now out at ISME Comms @isme-microbes.bsky.social 🦠🧫 We looked at how bacteria-phage interactions are obscured by the host environment by injecting 4,608 Galleria mellonella larvae with 64 diverse Staphylococcaceae isolates +/- the phage ISP... 🧵 1/4

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People are doing what now?? I thought belittling and harassing grad students was one of the few joys left to some academics…but they’ll even outsource that.

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a short history of me, in crayon. 400 million years of insects, a rocket in 1947, a white-eyed fly in a milk bottle, and now every one of my neurons, mapped and running in a jar. #SciArt #SciComm #drosophila

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baltic v1.0.0 is live! Get it via pip or clone from Github repo. Now with documentation (baltic.readthedocs.io) & a gallery of tutorials & examples (phylo-baltic.github.io/baltic-gallery, still WIP). Huge thanks to @barney-potter.bsky.social for all the initiative & help along the way. #ViroSky

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