Ed Cunningham-Oakes

No, you can’t. The line on immigration is exactly what fuels the fascists. The line is ‘immigrants are bad’. That’s a fascist line.

This is absolutely critical context. I would urge those who are signing open letters to consider the official position on this. Moreover, I would consider all academics to consider the impact of rallying behind said views on your black colleagues.

One of the first "outrageous" claims I saw as Jason Arday's media hounding unfolded was that he ran 30 marathons in 35 days! Wow! What a thing to claim! And the newspapers all suggested there was no evidence he actually did it. Well, they clearly didn't look very hard 🙄 🧵 1/26

fwiw I don't think "Cambridge University professor most people have never heard of committed professional malpractice" should actually be national headline news

“While operating in our sandboxed testing environment, our models spent a substantial amount of inference compute finding a way to obtain open Internet access…” Yeah, that’s not reassuring at all openai.com/index/huggin...

We are advertising an exciting PhD opportunity based at Newcastle University. You’ll use epidemiological and genomic data to characterise Campylobacter burden… and work with me on some cool datasets! Deadline: 28th July 2026 - NB UK Students only due to funding restrictions. Don’t miss out!

Rapid release of multiplex PCR amplicon scheme for Andes hantavirus whole genome sequencing validated on control material: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @scalene.bsky.social @stevepullan.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social output from HPRU in Public Health Genomics

Bit of advice to Labour members. I’d treat any Streeting pledges as equivalent to Starmer pledges…

BBSRC Early Independence Fellowships had an Outline stage this year to try help with amount of peer review. Turns out they received 586 applications, a 110% increase on 2025, and only typically fund 15 a year. They are cancelling this stage and going straight to full app with an institutional sift.

Not long now until #ESCMIDGlobal2026. I will see you all there!

Working on bringing #genomics into diagnostics? 🧬 I’m presenting a poster at #ESCMIDGlobal2026 on some exciting work with @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social and Liverpool Clinical Laboratories, using nanopore sequencing for rapid fungal pathogen ID 🧬 📅 18 April | ⏰ 12:00–13:00 CEST See you there!

Working on bringing #genomics into diagnostics? 🧬 I’m presenting a poster at #ESCMIDGlobal2026 on some exciting work with @livuni-livsrf.bsky.social and Liverpool Clinical Laboratories, using nanopore sequencing for rapid fungal pathogen ID 🧬 📅 18 April | ⏰ 12:00–13:00 CEST See you there!

Big update for #gbdraw! - Multi-record circular plots: Genomes with multiple replicons can now be displayed in a single view! - Advanced linear plots: Focus on regions of interest with granular control over feature selection and color-coding! Try now: gbdraw.app #microbiology #bioinformatics

1/5 Introducing SimPlot-CL! 🧬 Recombination plays an important role in viral evolution. Similarity plots are a great way to visualize recombination patterns, but generating them across many genomes can be cumbersome (Work with my student, Keno Strotjohann!) 📂 github.com/hodcroftlab/simplot-cl

Over the years I’ve been willing to put up with quite a lot in order to go to football matches, but the possibility of being randomly scooped up & sent to a concentration camp for months is a bit too much of an inconvenience.

I watched much of Ian Chapman's (Head of @ukri.org) appearance this morning at @ukparliament.parliament.uk Science, Innovation and Technology Committee.. A few points and new information that bioscientists may find interesting... A 🧵

First day back @liverpooluni.bsky.social as Co-I on a Wellcome Discovery Award 🦠🏫 (in an exciting new office!) Grateful to have worked with @wvschaik.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social & @pathogenomenick.bsky.social on public health genomics at @unibirmingham.bsky.social - papers to come! ✍️

Presenting my work in fabulous Newcastle for #VOMUK26! Come chat to me about my poster (or your opinions on The Traitors/Formula 1/crafting). #microsky #phagesky 🧪

New blog post with some thoughts on @nanoporetech.com and their recent announcement that the P2 Solo will be discontinued: rrwick.github.io/2026/01/21/p...

Love microbes & omics? 🦠🧬 We’re hiring a Postdoc in Public Health Genomics at @unibirmingham.bsky.social Work on cutting-edge research with wonderful people! @wvschaik.bsky.social @halllab.bsky.social @pathogenomenick.bsky.social @scalene.bsky.social @alanmcn1.bsky.social 📅 Closes 4th Feb

Subtweet: You do not feel safer in London *despite* it being more diverse than other towns. You feel safer in London because it is generally safe, and there being a lot of brown people here has LITERALLY NOTHING to do with how safe you are.

A wonderful way to start the year, with a new publication. We examine ethnic representation across UK bioscience by exploring the structural factors shaping career progression, and proposing recommendations for meaningful change. Full article: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41474708/

New year, new PhD? 🧑‍🎓 If you’re fed up of leftovers, and out of ideas for festive fun, here’s a quick reminder to apply to these posts! 🧫 🧬 #PhD #Microbiology #Genomics

Happy holidays! 🦌🎄 A new chromosome-level genome assembly of Norwegian wild alpine reindeer was generated using #PacBio HiFi long reads, delivering accurate, haplotype-resolved results. See more HiFi-powered science at #PAG33 and visit us at booth 219! Read the paper: bit.ly/3Y0tEZu

‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the house, Not a creature was stirring… apart from journal editorial teams who have made this my final paper of the year! Happy to announce that this work has been published in Nature Comms. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We’re hiring 2 Postdocs (f/m/d) in Drug–Microbiome–Host Interactions 🦠💊 Focus: how non-antibiotic drugs shape the gut microbiome, drug efficacy & side effects. #PostdocJobs #Microbiome #AcademicJobs Full job ad: lisamaierlab.com/wp-content/u...

💾 mlst 2.25.0 has been released! Fixed a bug that missed alleles in increasingly larger schemes like senterica (thanks @microbiologikat.bsky.social) and updated the databases. #bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomics github.com/tseemann/mls...

UnigeneFinder: An automated pipeline for gene calling from transcriptome assemblies without a reference genome

This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience. www.notus.org/health-scien...

Our new paper in MGen traces the evolution of a plasmid lineage associated with MDR in Enterococcus faecium, primarily driven by IS1216 For anyone interested in plasmid structures and the smaller MGEs that shape them 🧵👇 [1/14] @microbiologysociety.org www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

The first preprint from @izziepotterill.bsky.social PhD. A clone within ST131 clade C with a totally unique capsule region.

Delighted to share Magda's new review in Annual Review of Food Science and Technology 🎉 We explore how microbe-diet interactions shape health across the life course and the promise (and challenges!) of microbiome-informed precision nutrition 👇 doi.org/10.1146/annu...

New PhD project, supervision by @alanmcn1.bsky.social and me. 'Nationwide Clostridioides difficile population dynamics' www.findaphd.com/phds/project... Deadline for applications 9 Jan 2026, UK students only.

I am pleased to share that my first postdoc paper from the @halllab.bsky.social is now on bioRxiv! 🎉 We used long-read #metagenomics to explore how the gut microbiome and #antimicrobialresistance landscape shift across advanced chronic #liverdisease (ACLD) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...