Mike Cox
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Exclusive: Police given access to Test and Trace data on those told to self-isolate
Health Service Journal 92d 13 tweets
The contact details of those who have been instructed to self-isolate by NHS Test and Trace are to be passed to the police on request, in a move that has alarmed senior health figures who are concerned it will undermine confidence in and...
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Mike Cox Well, this is how to make things even worse. Why would you get a test? Think of some of the people most affected, most at risk and think of their relationship with the police. 92d
Coinfections in COVID-19
Coinfections in COVID-19 273d 4 tweets
A place to discuss findings relating to co-infections and secondary infections in COVID-19
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Mike Cox Reminder that the coinfection forum still up and running. thanks to some free support from 117d
Johnson: We could have done things differently
BBC News 177d 7 tweets
Boris Johnson says there are “open questions” about whether the coronavirus lockdown came too late.
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Mike Cox To me 100% clear that this signals who will be blamed by Johnson and that it's scientific advisers. 177d
Why cisgender individuals should put their pronouns in their bio
Medium 179d 1 tweets
by James Tinkler
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Mike Cox I have my preferred pronouns in my bio, it's one of two changes I've made to my twitter bio in the last 13 years. I consider it a very small kindness to colleagues, friends and students and this article encapsulates the reasoning 179d
Respiratory Disease following Viral Lung Infection Alters the Murine Gut Microbiota
Frontiers 1034d 6 tweets
Alterations in the composition of the gut microbiota have profound effects on human health. Consequently there is great interest in identifying, characterising and understanding factors which initiate these changes. Despite their high prevalence,...
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Mike Cox Respiratory tract infections can directly influence the gut microbiota and the mechanism in the mouse model used was due to the mice eating less Your diet changes when you're sick, so your gut bugs change. 248d
Respiratory Viral Infection Alters the Gut Microbiota by Inducing Inappetence
mBio 333d 2 tweets
Respiratory viral infections are extremely common, but their impacts on the composition and function of the gut microbiota are poorly understood. We previously observed a significant change in the gut microbiota after viral lung infection. Here, we...
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Mike Cox Respiratory tract infections can directly influence the gut microbiota and the mechanism in the mouse model used was due to the mice eating less Your diet changes when you're sick, so your gut bugs change. 248d
Fungi in COVID-19
Coinfections in COVID-19 256d 1 tweets
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Mike Cox Fungal co-infections in COVID-19. If you're neglecting bacterial secondary infections you're probably doubly neglecting the fungal! 256d
Viral Co-infections
Coinfections in COVID-19 263d 1 tweets
Two interesting things that have cropped up via twitter. Viral panel screening of COVID-19 patients out in JAMA Relatively small and viral focused panel ( influenza A/B, respiratory syncytial virus, non–SARS-CoV-2 Coronaviridae, adenovirus,...
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Mike Cox Viral Co-infections in COVID-19 rate from a large Californian study and reminder of herpesvirus reactivation in ITU from 263d
Jobs | Job Search | Job Vacancies on jobs.ac.uk
Jobs.ac.uk 1310d 62 tweets
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Mike Cox Birmingham fellowships announced (and each of the college's has announcements if you look at all Birmingham's ads on ) They seem like juicy fellowships that set you up well! 438d
Birmingham Fellow - Medical and Dental Sciences at University of Birmingham
Jobs.ac.uk 438d 2 tweets
Start your UK & international job search for academic jobs, research jobs, science jobs and managerial jobs in leading universities and top...
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Mike Cox Birmingham fellowships announced (and each of the college's has announcements if you look at all Birmingham's ads on ) They seem like juicy fellowships that set you up well! 438d
New! Lung Microbiome Monograph - available now
Erspublications.blogspot.com 677d 1 tweets
Studying the lung microbiome requires a specialist approach to sampling, laboratory techniques and statistical analysis. The latest ERS Mono...
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Mike Cox So this is now available an enormous effort from our authors and reviewers and an attempt to gather together the strands of lung microbiome research, particularly for ERS members. 677d
Ben Britton - Wikipedia
En.wikipedia.org 691d 1 tweets
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Mike Cox Dr Excellent Trousers with AVP for equality, diversity and inclusion prepping for his talk. Ben is Senior Lecturer in materials science, RAEng Research Fellow and a trustee of 691d
Do gut bacteria make a second home in our brains?
Science | AAAS 800d 27 tweets
Preliminary finding turns heads at neuroscience meeting
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Mike Cox Do bacteria make a second home in our brains? No. Sorted that for you 798d
New human gene tally reignites debate
Nature.com 943d 32 tweets
Some fifteen years after the human genome was sequenced, researchers still can’t agree on how many genes it contains.
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Mike Cox This keeps getting tweeted and I can't read the article because I just see the alignment and want to get in there and tidy it up. I mean, just look! It's a terrible mess. 941d
protocols.io - Life Sciences Protocol Repository
Protocols.io 1330d 241 tweets
Open access repository of science methods and collaborative research platform. Discover corrections and optimizations of the protocols you use.
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Mike Cox Doing a grant application and trying to max out reproducibility and openness: full on Truman Show. So: ENA for sequence, MetaboLights metabolomics, Biostudies for extended data, Culture collections for strains, Github for code, , bioRxiv. What’s missing? 964d
The blood DNA virome in 8,000 humans
Journals.plos.org 1331d 2 tweets
Author summary Novel sequencing technologies offer insight into the virome in human samples. Here, we identify the viral DNA sequences in blood of over 8,000 individuals undergoing whole genome sequencing. This approach serves to identify 94...
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Mike Cox The important info in that paper () is supporting info table S1. It is a who's who of known kit contaminant phages. There is no proof of the existence of a healthy blood microbiome in this publication. 999d
Our list | SheNote Speaker
Shenotespeaker.org 1006d 1 tweets
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Mike Cox Here goes then, SheNote Speaker is now live first 100 experts (and more to come!) available in Respiratory, Cardiology and Vascular science For your speaking, reviewing, grant writing, collaborating, and generally excellently sciencing needs. 1006d
Skills needed to win support - Skills & careers - Medical Research Council
Mrc.ac.uk 1027d 1 tweets
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Mike Cox UK Medical Research Council has fixed this with job descriptions - career trajectory, not age or time since phd 1027d
Out Thinkers - Brick Lane Theatre Festival
Facebook.com 1314d 2 tweets
Hello peeps, We have teamed up with LGBT+ Physics to bring you an extra special Out Thinkers during Pride Month. We will be taking over the Brick...
Changing Expectations - Building the conversation
Eventbrite 1307d 2 tweets
Changing Expectations - Building the conversation The Royal Society is launching programme of work to change expectations about research culture in the UK and how it may develop in the future. Changing Expectations explores the future research...