Phil Ashton
Genomic epidemiologist at the Centre for Genomic Pathogen Surveillance at Oxford. How can microbial genomics improve health in high infectious disease settings?
- 📣 New pre-print alert! 🦠 We sequenced S. Typhi from a vaccine trial in Malawi 🇲🇼 📊 No genomic differences between vaccine and control arms 💡 But with short follow-up, that’s exactly why ongoing genomic surveillance after vaccination is essential to detect escape. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...
- Delighted to (belatedly) announce that this work is now published in Microbiome! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- 📢 Thrilled to share our latest research! Certain gut bacteria may protect against typhoid fever by producing short-chain fatty acids www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Would now be delighted to read a 3000 word exploration of how terrible Liverpool are.
- Is there anything better in the world than a 3000 word exploration of how terrible Man U are? www.theguardian.com/football/202...
- Art galleries should provide good signal/free WiFi so that we can ask AI about the art work, rather than seemingly deliberately blocking it to stop people dicking about on their phones.
- ChatGPT o3 is just mind blowing!
- I'm sure that being a medieval peasant and growing all your own food must have been satisfying in its own way, but they'll never know the satisfaction of having a fully charged battery pack will they?
- Great post from Works in Progress mag on recent scientific findings: "For over 50 years, the USDA has airdropped millions of sterilized male screwworm flies weekly along the Panama–Colombia border." www.worksinprogress.news/p/reporter-g...
- Reposted by Phil AshtonSpeakers include @flashton.bsky.social @dralhubb.bsky.social @danybeste.bsky.social @jodywinter.bsky.social @dannagifford.bsky.social and more! Plus, lots of time to interact with other researchers and industry people in the field (including dinner!). Maybe see you there?
- Reposted by Phil Ashton@friendlymicrobe.bsky.social and I invite you to the @bsacandjac.bsky.social antibiotic resistance and mechanisms conference Nov 27-28 in Birmingham! We have great talks on global AMR healthcare, mechanisms, vaccines/immunotherapy, antimicrobial interactions and outreach. bsac.org.uk/antibiotic-r...
- Chuffed to announce that I've started a new job with @daanensen.bsky.social at the @thecgps.bsky.social, supporting the uptake of genomics for AMR in global health!
- Is it acceptable to respond to a reviewers comment by saying "yes, that's a lovely idea, but we already have 27 supplementary tables, so i'm not going to do it"?
- Reposted by Phil AshtonHi Bluesky! We’re looking forward to engaging with the community and our users on here. Follow this account for updates on the Pathogenwatch platform (pathogen.watch), as well as our sister tools @microreact.bsky.social and @amrwatch.bsky.social developed by @thecgps.bsky.social
- Reposted by Phil AshtonToday in @worksinprogress.bsky.social, I reflect on Donald Shoup's legacy. Perhaps the most interesting question: how did the most unlikely professor kick off an international parking reform movement? substack.com/home/post/p-...
- I'm very interested in the idea to think about microbiome/metagenome datasets in terms of ecological guilds presented in this paper www.nature.com/articles/s41... Is there any ontology, or other organised database, of microbial ecological guilds, with example species?
- Reposted by Phil AshtonI've been maintaining a job board at www.genomicepi.com/jobs for a couple of years. I started this with several goals in mind
- What kind of psycopath has Sunday as the first day of the week on their calendar?
- Reposted by Phil AshtonRegistration for #IMMEM14 is now open! Don't forget it is limited to 350 participants so secure your spot. @escmid.bsky.social @esgem.bsky.social escmid.org/congress-eve...
- It would be nice if Google Scholar gave citation metrics excluding self-citations.
- I'm seeing this box on biorxiv pre-prints. Anyone know how to post a community review?
- Strong petting zoo vibes from National Institute of Communicable Diseases in Joburg!
- If your journal sets my postal address field as required information as part of reviewer sign up, you'd better be prepped for some expletive laden address info!
- Gah, can anyone help me find the paper that showed the association between various professions and different mental health conditions that was circulating a while back? Google and chatgpt failing.
- The substack subscription process is such a pain in the ass.
- This Steve Albini quote on goals vs process inspired me to create the goal-process ouroboros.
- Came across the quote on Austin Kleon’s excellent substack
- Reposted by Phil AshtonWe developed a simple, inexpensive, colorimetric assay based on detection of S. Typhi-specific phages, which are more abundant and easily detectable. Our latest preprint describes this assay & application in 4 countries. Happy to share reagents & make this accessible. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Some days you wake up and the sun is shining and the birds are singing. Other days, you wake up and there’s no power, no water, and a decomposing rat in the garage.
- Need a website that shows me outfits menswear guy has assessed and lets me guess his opinion and then compares my judgement with his.
- Is there anything better in the world than a 3000 word exploration of how terrible Man U are? www.theguardian.com/football/202...
- Just watched Phantom Thread, what an interesting movie! Odd balls! I’d watch Daniel Day Lewis watching paint dry.
- Anyone know of a hospital that sequences all of their invasive carbapenem resistant Kleb pneumo?
- All the books I read in 2024 medium.com/@flashton/bo...
- Very thought provoking article on the Pelicot case www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
- 2.2 million Nigerians were kidnapped in the last year! allafrica.com/stories/2024...
- I want a podcast that does for classical music what Great Art Explained does for artists. youtube.com/@greatartexp...
- Step 1: Tell authors you have a "come as you are" submissions policy. Step 2: Return manuscript to authors so they can re-arrange information under your preferred headers 1/2
- Step 3: Automatically withdraw manuscript because changes not made before your deadline (Merry Xmas! The deadline is to reduce our turn around time metric) Step 4: Make authors re-submit, entering all the author email addresses again (we don't let you submit these as an Excel) 2/2
