ID 🦠 & genetic 🧬 epidemiologist, nature nerd 🐝, owner @jenfleurscrafts ⚒️, D&D/board games 🐉🎲 & tryathlete! 🏊🏻♀️🚴🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️
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I’m excited to share that I recently started at the Ellison Institute of Technology Oxford @eit_cx as Scientific Research Associate in the @EITPathogena team! 🦠🧬
It’s been a brilliant fortnight so far and I’m excited for what lies ahead. 🤩 eit-pathogena.com/
I feel this clip is analogous to working in academia. 😂
Criminal Penguins - Frozen Planet - BBC youtu.be/MlbxRBfGAr0?si=7Qyu… via @YouTube
I’ve just spent an emotional hour watching this. Such a beautiful concept that is heartbreaking and inspiring in equal measure. 🙏🏻 Please, please make time in your schedule to watch this because everyone needs to hear Jane’s message to us. 🌏 netflix.com/gb/title/8205319…
Ground-nesting bees with a view! 🌊 Appreciate my camera work needs some work (new phone incoming!) but I would say Ivy mining bee. 🐝 Can anyone confirm? 🤞🏻 #NaturePhotography #NatureLovers #SpeciesID
Next weekend me and a team of adventurers from @eit_cx will be tackling the 3 Peaks Challenge! 🏴🗻🏴🗻🏴🗻
Together we are aiming to raise £30,000 for three amazing charities. Go big or go home, right?! justgiving.com/crowdfunding/…
It makes me so sad to see these little babies 🐰 for sale in @PetsatHome when a) anyone can take them home and b) @rspcaoxon bunnery is full of vaccinated, neutered buns looking for homes & will help people get setup properly.
Please stop selling baby rabbits @PetsatHome. 🙏🏻
An interesting breakdown of the calculation behind the much-quoted "10 million AMR deaths by 2050". 🦠💊It's important to have these estimates but also important to understand who came up with them and how. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…
Do books remind you of holidays? 📚
My fave combo was reading @KMFollett’s Pillars of the Earth whilst on honeymoon in Britanny visiting beautiful cathedrals. 🏛️
I think this combo also works though - reading @VicHislop’s sequel to The Island (amazing book) whilst in Malta. 🤩
So unbelievably excited to have seen my first Swallowtail today. 🤩 In Mdina, #Malta. So beautiful!! 🦋 #butterfly #NatureNerd
I’ve just finished reading War Doctor and it’s catapulted to no. 1 spot of non-fiction books I think we all need to read. 🙏🏻 Eye-opening and inspiring - that is what heroism looks like. davidnottfoundation.com/
(Nos 2-4 also included here for your interest!)
So. Much. Plastic.
Currently staying in a beautiful port in Malta surrounded by heavy industry and there is plastic everywhere. 👀
What are we doing?!?
Jennifer Shelton retweeted
#FungalFact 30:
The largest organism on #Earth isn’t a whale or a tree — it’s a #fungus.
In #Oregon, the honey fungus (#Armillaria ostoyae) stretches over 9 km², may weigh 35,000 tons, and could be up to 8,000 years old.
A true underground giant!
#mycology #nature #Mushroom #PhD
Can any #gardeners settle this for me? I think calendula, mother-in-law reckons marigold, phone AI reckons it could be either. 😂
In case anyone would like to try Wild Deodorant! mention-me.com/m/ol/zn5ii-je…
Jennifer Shelton retweeted
Thank you to all our speakers and attendees who make #MycoTalks such a vibrant and inspiring series. Season 6 begins on 25 September.
If you missed any sessions or would like to revisit your favourites, all previous #MycoTalks are available here: youtube.com/@themrccentrefor…
Got hubs wearing a respirator while sorting out the compost bin because I am now ultra paranoid about fungal spores. 🦠😷 #Aspergillus #aspergillosis
Update: looks like Aspergillus to me!
Have since been reassured by an audiologist that it’s a cotton wool bud stuck in my ear that’ll work its way out. 🤨 V concerned to have received 2 x misdiagnoses & that I only got antifungal drops bc I suspected #otomycosis & persisted! xitter.cf/jenmgshe/status/195566…
When you culture your ear fungus and it actually works. 😂 Would everyone agree #Aspergillus? 🤞🏻I’m going to give it another 24 hours to see if it pigments. #otomycosis
(Jokes aside, I’m reassured to have a culture for ID & MIC testing. 🙏🏻)
@NormanRhijn @MycologyRefManc @MRCcmm
Jennifer Shelton retweeted
Science doesn’t need to go according to plan; it just needs to lead to a discovery. If doesn’t have to be done alone or together with a buddy; there just needs to be a discovery. It doesn’t need to happen fast or slow; just as long as there’s a discovery, then everybody is happy.
When you culture your ear fungus and it actually works. 😂 Would everyone agree #Aspergillus? 🤞🏻I’m going to give it another 24 hours to see if it pigments. #otomycosis
(Jokes aside, I’m reassured to have a culture for ID & MIC testing. 🙏🏻)
@NormanRhijn @MycologyRefManc @MRCcmm
Ok #mycology peeps! Clinical Q. I’ve been deaf in my right ear this week so went to get ear wax removed today - audiologist saw something unusual so referred me to GP. Prescribing nurse says it’s otitis media & has prescribed steroid drops. Doesn’t that look like #otomycosis? 🍄
