James McInerney @jomcinerney Twitter profile

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

3 years

Stunning summary of the last year of living with covid.

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1 year

Being an academic mostly involves saying “it will all calm down next week and I’ll get some proper work done”.

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4 years

Wow. Did not know this.

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7 years

Sorry I don't know who made this, but this be funny.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

6 years

To Nature reviewers: NEVER, EVER THREATEN TO REJECT MY PAPERS AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A LAB THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF REJECTION. BE CAUTIOUS!

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James McInerney

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3 years

Little bit of a laugh.

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James McInerney

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5 years

Laura Brennan died today. She spent the last months of her life raising awareness of vaccination & how it saves lives. HPV vaccination rates in Ireland have gone from 50% to 70% thanks in large part to her. She may have lost her own life, but she’s certainly saved others. RIP.

HSE Ireland

@HSELive

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"I wish the vaccine had been available to me, of course I do. Don’t get swayed by rumours about the vaccine’s safety – get the vaccine" Watch Laura Brennan's story. #ProtectOurFuture

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James McInerney

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3 years

Fabulous front page. The man is the president of Ireland. The lady is Denise Chaila, singer and rapper from Limerick.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

1 year

Did I have amazing success in 2022? No. But did I get up every morning and go out and do my very, very best to improve myself? Again No.

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James McInerney

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2 years

I'm reviewing a paper on my laptop. The submission is a pdf. The figures are approximately 25 pages away from where they are being referenced in the text. This makes reviewing much harder. For 1st review, figures need to be inline, near the text where they are referenced

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James McInerney

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1 year

If you are an evolutionary biologist, then I recommend you read this paper. Apart from the brilliant science and perspective, the writing is just sublime. Thank you @RELenski @JLosos and Zachary Blount.

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James McInerney

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5 years

Am I the best research supervisor of all time? Of course not. Do I have the best ideas? Again no. But, do I wake up every single morning determined to be my best self? Nope, that’s a no too. #FridayMotivation

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James McInerney

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6 years

Scientific fields ranked: 10. You 9. Cannot 8. Rank 7. Them 6. They 5. Are 4. All 3. Equally 2. Important 1. Evolutionary biology

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3 years

For years afterwards Boris cursed that they didn’t just read his CV, with its mesmerising Latin quotes, but unfortunately they asked him to demonstrate his skill set.

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James McInerney

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2 years

This is how to deal with the arrant nonsense from this ambassador. Well done David McCullagh

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

5 years

Me, a professor with 32 years of experience studying genetics, proclaim this quoted tweet to be 100% nonsense.

Charlotte Gill

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5 years

If you scrapped private schools it wouldn't make as much difference as the Left thinks. That's because educational performance has high genetic component, meaning it can only be socially engineered so much. Private schools facilitate genetic potential better than state, that's it

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James McInerney

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3 years

Listen to every word of this. It’s time to take stock.

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3 years

This is one of the biggest vaccine news stories of all time. A *highly* effective vaccine against Malaria. Malaria kills a lot of babies. If we now have a vaccine, this is amazing Oxford Malaria vaccine proves highly effective in Burkina Faso trial

Oxford malaria vaccine proves highly effective in Burkina Faso trial

Vaccine developed by scientists at Jenner Institute, Oxford, shows up to 77% efficacy in trial over 12 months

www.theguardian.com

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James McInerney

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4 years

This is an absolute shit of an article. Reject all this rubbish. I don’t have childcare and anybody that wants to speak with me can bloody well accommodate my family life! THE END!! I didn’t cause this virus and you are invading my house.

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James McInerney

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3 years

If you are finding this lockdown to be difficult, maybe this poem can be some help. This is Irish poet, John O’Donohoe. This is the time to be slow.

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James McInerney

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5 years

Queen Elizabeth sure goes thru PMs 1 Winston Churchill 2. Anthony Eden 3. Harold Macmillan 4. Alec Douglas-Home 5. Harold Wilson 6. Edward Heath 7. James Callaghan 8. Margaret Thatcher 9. John Major 10 Tony Blair 11. Gordon Brown 12. David Cameron 13. Theresa May 14. ———————

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James McInerney

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4 years

Apparently somebody said “your Ma makes phylogenetic trees using parsimony”

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James McInerney

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3 years

Mike Tyson called it right.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

4 years

This is a bit intense but that doesn’t make it less true. I had somebody visit me about ten years ago and panel 3 is a synopsis of what she said to me.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

4 years

I have to say, the speed of the science in the last three months is BREATHTAKING. Never in my life have i seen so many scientists do so much great work in such a short length of time and then share it freely with the rest of the world. I'm buying you all a pint!

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

3 years

Today I was offered and I took the AstraZeneca vaccine. There was absolutely no reason for me to decline this safe and effective vaccine. I hope that administration of this vaccine resumes soon in those countries where it is stopped.

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James McInerney

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4 years

Today in my lab, somebody used bioRxiv as a verb, as in "I'm going to bioRxiv it [a paper]". Do we now go bioRxiving? like we go googling, hoovering, handbagging, inboxing, tasking and actioning? It's a young person's game, isn't it? Is it Friday yet? I need chocolate.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

1 year

@NoContextBrits Oh look, the neighbours got a new car.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

3 years

I have a 22 month post doc position that is going to be advertised soon in my lab. It is bioinformatics and working on large prokaryote genome datasets. Needs to be a good programmer. Please RT. I’ll post the job ad as soon as it goes live. Start immediately.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

2 years

I see a bit of anxiety in early career researchers these days - trying to be expert in genome assembly, Python, R, omics this, omics that. I think you should focus on being good at one or a few things, collaborate for the rest.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

4 months

shite time to announce a new paper but if ur online…we just published this. So if u like evolutionary biology, microbiology or science, this one’s for you, baby Contingency, repeatability, and predictability in the evolution of a prokaryotic pangenome

Contingency, repeatability, and predictability in the evolution of a prokaryotic pangenome |...

Pangenomes exhibit remarkable variability in many prokaryotic species, much of which is maintained through the processes of horizontal gene transfe...

www.pnas.org

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

4 years

What’s the best method for building a phylogenetic tree? Wrong answers only.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

5 years

Anti-vaccine nut invents vaccination concept.

Jim Corr

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What if we were actually meant to get mild childhood illnesses like Measles so as to help prime our immune systems into fighting much greater diseases in later life? 🤔

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10 months

Ecologist turns up at a medical conference.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

8 months

Microbiome studies are new? Nope. You have more microbe cells than human cells? Not true. Lederberg invented the term “microbiome”? Again….well, you get the gist of it. Human microbiome myths and misconceptions | Nature Microbiology

Human microbiome myths and misconceptions

Nature Microbiology - Walker and Hoyles highlight selected myths and misconceptions in the human microbiota literature.

www.nature.com

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

2 years

Question: if you have a list of genes of interest and you want to get *information* (function, localisation etc) about these genes (on command line), what is your favourite way of doing this?

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

4 years

@Rubberbandits Complex question. It’s easily spread. More easily than other SARS or even Ebola. On average, it’s not as deadly as either of these, but the ease of transmission makes it a bigger outbreak. We don’t know how many mild cases there are, but they are the vast majority 1/n

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4 years

I feel nothing but RAGE with this headline. The science has NOT shifted. We have been saying the same thing for weeks and weeks. RAGE!

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

4 years

"Suppression is the only viable strategy at the current time" The science has shifted dramatically which is why people in the UK are now facing huge changes to their daily lives

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James McInerney

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1 year

I made a short video to help early-career researchers understand the steps - and some of the pitfalls - when writing a research proposal. I give three top tips at the end. Pls share if you find it useful.

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James McInerney

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5 years

Who else out there is “Sanger sequencing with radioactive nucleotides” years old?

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

4 years

My school (School of Life Sciences @UoNLifeSci ) have given two PCR machines to the army to help ramp up testing for #Convid19uk The fight back has started at last. Army plans on being able to do 300K tests/day.

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James McInerney

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3 years

Amazing photo from @WildAtlanticBae These are the three sisters in Kerry.

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James McInerney

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3 years

I locked down my children for 16 months so that now they can be at highest risk for getting the disease because we cannot wait any more for a vaccine rollout and the added kick of herd immunity by vaccination?

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James McInerney

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3 years

Mike Ryan takes no hostages. Speaking about the new U.K. strategy.

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James McInerney

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2 years

Just to be clear - this is not just increasing the antibiotic resistance threat to the people of the UK, but the entire world. Have we not learned that bugs don’t respect borders?

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James McInerney

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4 years

FLATTEN THE CURVE!!

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

4 years

3 things I’ve learned since lockdown 1. Somebody has the job of putting packaging inside packaging inside packaging. For everything 2. £2 for a coffee was/is nuts 3. Half the days I commuted to work, I shouldn’t have What’ve you learned? Answers on the back of an electron pls

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

4 years

All my life I have struggled for a way of saying this. I love this tweet.

Peter🌲Brannen

@PeterBrannen1

4 years

You: This one untested supplement will restore balance to my body Your body:

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James McInerney

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8 years

Guess who has a h-index of 333 and is cited 2,414,149 times. She is the most cited of all time!!

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The academic superstar everybody wants to be co-author with. See Homepage for my back story. - Cited by 4,019,064

scholar.google.nl

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James McInerney

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6 years

From February 1st, 2018, I will be the head of the School of Life Sciences at the University of Nottingham, based in the Queens Medical Centre. Made some great friends in Manchester, but I’m excited to start leading the school in Nottingham. @UoNLifeSci

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James McInerney

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4 years

I just want to say thank you to those kind people that voted for me. I’m very excited to take up the office of @OfficialSMBE President-elect next January and President the following year. #thankyou

OfficialSMBE

@OfficialSMBE

4 years

Congratulations to our new Council Members, whose terms will begin January 2021! Soon to be President Elect James McInerney @jomcinerney , Treasurer John McCutcheon @mcsymbiont , Councilor Josefa Gonzalez @GonzalezLab_BCN , and Councilor Katerina Guschanski @kguschan .

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James McInerney

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3 years

On this week 11 years ago, this classic bit of tv happened. Happy Friday folks.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

3 years

This is the part of the world that I’m from. These are the Cliffs of Moher in west Clare on the Atlantic coast. Maybe soon I can go back and remind myself what it looks like in real life.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

4 years

Well said Emanuelle Charpentier.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

2 years

Funny story: To get Clustal, you emailed EMBL server with the email body containing the words: Get Clustal It then sent you the program via return email. Now, I was a newbie and had no idea how to get PHYLIP. So, I emailed Joe Felsenstein with an email that said: Get PHYLIP 1/2

James McInerney

@jomcinerney

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@bffo I emailed EMBL with a formatted email in order for them to send me a binhexed version of Clustal, which came in three emails, that I concatenation together before de-binhexing them. It took almost a week.

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I think this paper is awesome. I highly recommend it. Machine learning enables prediction of metabolic system evolution in bacteria

Machine learning enables prediction of metabolic system evolution in bacteria

Long-term evolution of metabolic systems by gene gains and losses is generally predictable by machine learning.

www.science.org

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James McInerney

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3 years

I know I post this on this day every year. Doesn’t make it any less funny.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

4 years

I did my PhD viva in 1995. My PI brought the lab out for dinner. I gave a speech. I said “if I knew how hard it was going to be, I would never have done it”. Today I hold a chair in a Russell group university. I remember that speech every day when I walk into my lab. #phdchat

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

5 years

Yes. DNA is actually made of unicorns.

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James McInerney

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We were awarded a grant to use machine learning & synth biology to predict how to make successful synthetic genomes. We’ll use pangenomes to train ML models then make the predicted constructs BBSRC injects £12m into pioneering frontier bioscience research

BBSRC injects £12m into pioneering frontier bioscience research

www.ukri.org

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

2 years

Here is a short tweetorial on "Where do maximum likelihood numbers for phylogenetics come from?" I show the calcs for DNA, and provide some python code. I'm just using python as a calculator, but if you want, type it into a python file as we go along. PLS RT (E&OE) 1/24

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1 year

My dear English friends. I've just watched Prince Charles speech and MY GOD, if any Irish political leader pulled that shite on us we would be livid. But there you are all proud and patronised. Brexit is a disaster. Foodbanks are everywhere. You're in recession. The NHS is broken

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4 years

1. R is not the rate of infection. 2. The number of infections is >200,000, so this "alert level" cannot be between 1 and 5. 3. WHY ARE YOU SO BAD AT YOUR JOB?

Boris Johnson

@BorisJohnson

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⬇️ THREAD ⬇️ To chart our progress and to avoid going back to square one, we are establishing a new COVID Alert System run by a new Joint Biosecurity Centre. That COVID Alert Level will be determined primarily by R and the number of coronavirus cases. #StayAlert

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I have had the pleasure today of taking over the presidency of SMBE from Harmit Malik @HarmitMalik Harmit has been an excellent president - kind, innovative and full of energy. I can only hope to accomplish a fraction of what he achieved in a very difficult year 1/n

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Been working on this since 2015. Martin started programming & ⁦ @whelanfj ⁩ parallelised it & tested it & gave it cool output format. Now you can read all about it: Coinfinder: Detecting Significant Associations and Dissociations in Pangenomes

Coinfinder: Detecting Significant Associations and Dissociations in Pangenomes

The accessory genes of prokaryote and eukaryote pangenomes accumulate by horizontal gene transfer, differential gene loss, and the effects of selection and drift. We have developed Coinfinder, a...

www.biorxiv.org

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

2 years

By return email a few hours later, I received this text from Joe: That Not Way Get PHYLIP I remember it in mortification to this day.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

4 years

I HATE when they leave aeroplane flying to the expert pilots. I’d much prefer if they gave us all a go.

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@jomcinerney

7 years

I love this letter from Pauling to Crick. Polite but firm. "A man giving a seminar..."

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@jomcinerney

6 years

We are looking for fellows!! Come to Nottingham. Do your best research, and there are permanent jobs at the end. Please RT.

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1 year

Finally, after years of thinking about this and working towards it, the preprint is out. Please take a look - feedback is gratefully received. Contingency, Repeatability and Predictability in the Evolution of a Prokaryotic Pangenome.

Contingency, Repeatability and Predictability in the Evolution of a Prokaryotic Pangenome

Pangenomes exhibit remarkable variability in many prokaryotic species. This variation is maintained through the processes of horizontal gene transfer and gene loss. Repeated acquisitions of near-id...

www.biorxiv.org

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

4 years

This diagram explains everything we are talking about.

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3 years

I got the AstraZeneca vaccine on Monday and I had no adverse reaction to it. Nothing at all. Not even a sore arm. I think it’s important to say this.

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James McInerney

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5 years

While I’m happy to make jokes on twitter, please remember that the planet is on fire, climate change is real, species extinctions are accelerating and this crisis needs to be tackled. Hassle your politicians about this. Thank you.

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James McInerney

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5 years

The childcare here at #SMBE2019 is just awesome. My daughter stayed with them for six hours today, came out smiling from ear to ear. Lovey staff, loads of toys, little walk to a playground. This is how to do conference childcare. 🙏 @lovelllab @ddelneri

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4 years

Some nice people nominated me for President of @OfficialSMBE . Obviously, I'd be honoured to be elected & I ask you for your vote. Please read my blurb & give me a vote. I will promote equality, environmentally aware activities & more "society". Check your email for a ballot link

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4 years

About 12 years ago I invited a v senior scientist to speak at an SMBE symposium. He declined because he felt that HGT was irrelevant and those of us who were interested in it were making it all up. I wonder what he thinks of this?

Tracking microbial evolution in the human gut using Hi-C reveals extensive horizontal gene transf...

Nature Microbiology - High-throughput chromosomal conformation capture identified changes in the gut microbiome over 10 years, including substantial exchange of accessory elements and adaptive...

www.nature.com

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James McInerney

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2 years

I have a paper under review and during that time it has seen two monarchs, two prime ministers, four chancellors of the exchequer and four home secretaries. It hasn't been published yet, so there are several records on the line right now.

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I have spent the last few months writing a simple transformer program that can be used easily on pangenome data. 1/n GitHub - mol-evol/panGPT: A Transformer for Pangenome data

GitHub - mol-evol/panGPT: A Generative Pre-Trained Transformer Package for Pangenomes

A Generative Pre-Trained Transformer Package for Pangenomes - mol-evol/panGPT

github.com

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@jomcinerney

4 years

This is racist. We experience outbreaks that start literally anywhere. MERS: Middle East; Zika: Central/South America; Drug resistant bacteria: everywhere. Selective finger pointing is just racist. The microbes don’t know geography.

Nigel Farage

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4 years

It really is about time we all said it. China caused this nightmare. Period.

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Just your regular update that the reason 1.5 million Irish people starved to death, while 2 million emigrated was not due to an Oomycete. It was due to political decisions of the London government. Ireland always produced enough food to feed its people.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

4 years

Here’s a tweet that will age like milk in the sun.

Professor Karol Sikora

@ProfKarolSikora

4 years

Families & friends are being reunited, the high street is reopening, sport is back on soon. I always thought summer would feel a lot more like normal than people feared. It was never going to happen overnight, but the worst of this pandemic is far behind us.

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Cumulative daily cases of #COVID19 in the UK. Nothing to worry about. It’s only exponential. #sarcasm

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James McInerney

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6 years

On the left is how I approached the first half of my PhD. On the right is how I approached the second half.

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James McInerney

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11 months

Today I begin a 2-year personal research fellowship thanks to funding from @LeverhulmeTrust The fellowship is to develop machine learning approaches to understanding prokaryotic pangenomes. I want to collaborate with everybody that is interested. Let me know if you want to talk

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This is great. Also: Lecture notes going to be rewritten. Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer - BBC News

Base editing: Revolutionary therapy clears girl's incurable cancer

New way of altering DNA is used to engineer an "exciting", experimental therapy for a 13-year-old girl.

www.bbc.co.uk

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@jomcinerney

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New #pangenome preprint from the lab. With ⁦ @RebeccaJHall13 ⁩ ⁦ @whelanfj ⁩ ⁦ @LillyCummins_ ⁩ ⁦ @alanmcn1 ⁩ and Christopher Connor Gene-gene relationships in an Escherichia coli accessory genome are linked to function and mobility

Gene-gene relationships in an Escherichia coli accessory genome are linked to function and mobility

The pangenome contains all genes encoded by a species, with the core genome present in all strains and the accessory genome in only a subset. Coincident gene relationships are expected within the...

www.biorxiv.org

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

11 months

OK, so I did another video. I'm being a bit forthright in this one. But, hey...if it's what you think, it's what you think, right? It's entitled: "Why Your Enthusiasm Isn't Getting You Anywhere!" Clicky linky here 👇

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

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Probably the last video I’ll make on this theme. A few pointers for those frustrated with getting a “No” from funding agencies. I hope it’s useful & if so, please give it a like and a follow. Top 5 Reasons Your Research Grant Proposals Don't Get Funded

Top 5 Reasons Your Research Grant Proposals Don't Get Funded

In today's competitive academic and research landscape, securing funding is paramount for driving innovation and advancing knowledge. 00:00 Introduction00:44...

www.youtube.com

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

6 years

First day in my new school. Start as you mean to go on, they say. I’m opening a brand new staff common area this morning. That’s a good start. 🤓

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@jomcinerney

4 years

This might be the most stunning, complex and thought-provoking cover of the New Yorker I have ever seen.

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James McInerney

@jomcinerney

3 years

It’s 11pm and I’m too tired to make it to midnight. In the morning I wake up and I’ll be President-Elect of SMBE (thanks again to everybody that gave me a vote). So g’night folks, stay safe and stay brave.

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James McInerney

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If Boris did anything today, it was that he made Leo Varadkar, the Irish PM look like an absolute political giant. Leo isn't popular in Ireland, but he's head and shoulders a better leader than Boris Johnson: decisive, informed, clever and in touch.

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James McInerney

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This thread is extraordinary. Speaking as somebody that wanted a covid booster this autumn and couldn’t get one, and then subsequently I contracted a pretty filthy dose of covid, I am livid.

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COVID VACCINE: COST EFFECTIVENESS ASSESSMENT For the first time ever, the UK government used a ‘bespoke non-standard cost-effectiveness assessment’ to decide who would be eligible for the Covid booster this Autumn. In this 🧵, I explore how this assessment was undertaken…

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James McInerney

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Was teaching Maximum Likelihood phylogenetics this week. I took a new approach to teaching where the calculations come from and I think it is a better approach. I plan on writing up a text on this and making slides, text and code available. Probably a video too. In 2022.

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James McInerney

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Well, wasn’t this a grand thing to see happening of a Saturday evening. Sterling work by Rebecca and Fiona ( @whelanfj @RebeccaJHall13 ). Open access and we are happy to take questions if you have any.