DVC @LSTMnews | Hon. Prof @UniofNottingham | Prof of #Virology working on #EmergingViruses. Ex-@BritSciAssoc #MediaFellowship @BBCNews | Occasional Sci Comms
Liverpool | Nottingham, UK
Joined May 2012
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So what is it with #reform councillors? This guy's priority is grass verges. I assume he thinks we should cut them more and ignore their importance in habitat creation? Looks neat though doesn't it. I despair. We have one who has an MSc in ecology!!!
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Obvious to those of us who are privileged to walk past this icon regularly - but still sad to have it confirmed.
#MajorOak
#RobinHood
#SherwoodForest
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Given the status of the current #Bundibugyo #Ebolavirus outbreak in the #DRC, yet again, this piece I penned some time ago seems sadly prescient:
bbc.co.uk/news/health-249623…
If I'm not here, but my wife, daughter and son are, it becomes a less certain, as they all take him reasonably frequently, but my wife probably more.
So it's she, who gets the stare, and more often than not he's right.
Based on his prior knowledge, he knows that there is high probability I will be taking him his morning walk.
Folk are understandably concerned/interested in #Hantavirus. Here's a nice introduction to this fascinating collection of viruses:
mdpi.com/1999-4915/15/8/1705
Whilst uncommon - human to human transmission of #hantavirus has been reported previously:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
There's probably more hantavirus infections out there than we realise, especially in those regularly exposed to UK rodents...
And more recently @Thechappell, @PostdocPat and I published on the first full genome sequence of a novel UK hantavirus
microbiologyresearch.org/con…
My former colleagues Prof Will Irving and #nephrologist Prof Alan Watson, both of @UniofNottingham reported the youngest case of UK hantavirus
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What a night at the Reach Plc awards!
@nottslive is brand of the year 🎉. So chuffed after a tough year - what a team of reporters. So proud.
@DylanHayward is the rising star of the year 🎉
@PJLynchjourno is LDR of the year
And @MattLeeJourno highly commended for regional journalist of the year
Amazing work goes on every single day in all our newsrooms and it was such an honour for all of us to win.
