Duncan MacCannell
Molecular #epidemiology & #publichealth. Pathogen #genomics, #microbiology, #emerginginfections, #AMR, (bio)tech and #opendata.
Personal account. Opinions/dad jokes are my own.
https://duncan.bio
🦅 Low productivity public sector employee.
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- “The truth is that we are all in this together. In public health, there is no ‘them’, there is only “us”. — Dr. William H. Foege
- Reposted by Duncan MacCannellIf you've ever wondered about the infrastructure behind the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, check out this teardown ➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...
- I want to do this for my next job. At one point in my career, I almost did.
- Reposted by Duncan MacCannellNPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.
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- Reposted by Duncan MacCannellSequencing Instrumrnt Outlook 2026 My observations & predictions on sequencing instrument companies 🧬🖥️ omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/sequ...
- A minor cartographical change.
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- The energy I’m going into 2026 with.
- Reposted by Duncan MacCannellEXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43
- Reposted by Duncan MacCannellFormer U.S. senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado, the first Native American chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and a leader of the effort to build the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, died Dec. 30. He was 92.
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- This seems fine.
- Reposted by Duncan MacCannell💾 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...
- Reposted by Duncan MacCannellThe U.S. will very likely lose its measles-elimination status next month, and Americans will have to confront how difficult this virus can be to control, @katherinejwu.com reports:
- The end of an era; a passing of the baton in bacterial annotation. Prokka was one of the first apps that opened my eyes to the potential of well-designed microbial bfx on a local machine. I have pestered the brilliant @torstenseemann.bsky.social ever since. Prokka est mort. Vive le bakta.
- 💾 Prokka 1.15.6 is released! This is the last major release of Prokka. But don't be sad, because @oschwengers.bsky.social already has an excellent replacement called Bakta you can migrate to. #bioinformatics #microbiology #genomics github.com/tseemann/pro...
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- Continued excellence. An absolutely indispensable piece of open source software.
- 💾 Shovill 1.4.1 has been released! The best way to de novo assemble microbial genomes from Illumina FASTQ. Major fixes to the SKESA module, plasmid mode for the Spades module, and more error checking. #bioinformatiocs #genomics #microbiology github.com/tseemann/sho...
- This is how we ride.
- Excellent.
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- Good night, sweet prince.
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- The Pledge to the American People was a foundation for Walter Dowdle’s Mountin lecture in 1990, and it used to be as prominent on our website as this 20ft mural in the lobby of one of our buildings. I used to walk past these words every day, proud that we could rise together with these principles.
- I miss hiking the dish.
- Reposted by Duncan MacCannell1/ 🚀 Pathoplexus now supports Marburg virus (MARV) and Ravn virus (RAVN) (sister viruses in the same genus). MARV has two main clades and causes severe disease with reported fatality rates of 24–88%. You can read more detail about adding Marburg here: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-11...
- Reposted by Duncan MacCannellAs you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.
- This is really cool!
- They will take the Biscoff from my cold, dead hands.
- As a science major, my favorite course was the Shakespeare elective I took in the drama department.
- Yikes.
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- Reposted by Duncan MacCannell🚨🚨 🧵1/6 #FedFam, reporters - urgent help needed 🚨CDC Museum (a Smithsonian affiliate) is being shuttered🚨 Staff are being “un-RIFed” just to close the museum permanently — then RIFed again in Jan This is bureaucratic cruelty & cultural vandalism CDC Library is a national treasure #SaveCDCLibrary
- Reposted by Duncan MacCannellOur lab's paper describing the North American H5N1 epizootic is out now in Nature! So thrilled to have this out, and congratulations to @lambod50.bsky.social for all the fantastic work on this: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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- Reposted by Duncan MacCannellOne analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
- Reposted by Duncan MacCannellOn Oct 1, 2025, GISAID informed us that they had ended updates to the flat file of SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequences and associated metadata that we had used to update Nextstrain analyses since Feb 2020. GISAID's stated rationale was that their "resources are limited". 1/5
- Twenty-nine sailors drowned when the Edmund Fitzgerald went down in the Great Lakes' icy waters on Nov. 10, 1975. The ship was immortalized in a surprise hit 1976 folk ballad by Gordon Lightfoot. n.pr/3JKj19D
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- Hellman hollow just won’t be the same.
- Today’s visit to the MFA.
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