"I really appreciate your support. You're all doing a fab job and it's been a life saver for us since losing my job. We are very grateful". . If you can help us provide this support in #Oxford please donate at www.oxfordmutualaid.org/donate

@oxfordclarion.bsky.social I assume #ORFOL is pronounced like "awful"

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I had an interesting trip to the Ashmolean Museum recently for the launch of a new exhibition on plants. 'In Bloom' looks at how our world has changed thanks to the plants we've discovered. A fascinating visit - you can read about it on the blog: https://bit.ly/4lQ7swc
#plants #gardens #exhibition #PressTrip #flowers #Oxford #museum

Alan Hollinghurst - Our Evenings

First-person story of life in England, in snapshot chapters from maybe the 1950s till the early 2020s. Top quality writing. If you didn't know it was a novel, it could be real.

#fiction #England #Oxford #BoardingSchool #theatre #gay #lesbian #Brexit

#Oxford #music ppl: come along and #PlayForFun with #Cowley #orchestra #tomorrow! No auditions, no performances, no commitment required. https://cowleyorchestra.weebly.com/dates.html All #OrchestralInstruments welcome. #violin #viola #cello #DoubleBass #flute #clarinet #oboe #bassoon #trumpet #cornet #horn #trombone #tuba why not try #conducting taking turns with others? Also, feel free to suggest a piece from our vast #MusicLibrary (>350 sets). #JoinIn #PlaySomeMusic #ClassicalMusic #Baroque thru to #FilmMusic
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Rehearsals run on Wednesday evenings. Unless otherwise stated, rehearsals are at 7pm-9pm  in the β€œLeadership Room” at The Oxford Academy. ​ 7th January 14th January (Beecroft Theatre, The...

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23 Mar 1621: Carew Ralegh, third son of Walter Ralegh, matriculates #otd at the recently founded Wadham College [1610] #Oxford (Andrew Shiva / Wikipedia)

Sure does help to have a very well educated #PrimeMinister who is an #Oxford #Scholar in #Economics with a #PhD from #Harvard also in Economics!! Thank you PM Mark Carney for the facts, and for leading us calmly and steadfastly into a brighter future with #democratic #alliances around the world championing peace and prosperity for all!!! #CanadaStrong #CanPoli πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦πŸ™πŸΌπŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘

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78K views Β· 4.3K reactions | When middle powers work together, we can do even more than protect ourselves and our sovereignty β€” we can build something better, more prosperous, and more just than what came before. | Mark Carney

When middle powers work together, we can do even more than protect ourselves and our sovereignty β€” we can build something better, more prosperous, and more just than what came before.

Hi everyone πŸ––

If you are thinkging about using #nanopore for genomic surveillance in #hospitals, but don't have the #bioinformatics nor command-line skills, don't let that put you off.

'Modernising Medical Microbiology', at @NDMOxford in #Oxford, has developed `OxBreaker': a graphical tool that can help identify budding #outbreaks by #healthcare professionals without having to upload your data to external servers and compromise patient privacy. Worth a read πŸ‘‡

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.18.709804

OxBreaker: species-agnostic pipeline for the analysis of outbreaks using nanopore sequencing

Real-time genomic surveillance may mitigate the spread of health-care-associated infections, but whole-genome sequencing costs and the need for specialised expertise constrain its wide implementation in public health. Here we present β€˜ OxBreaker ’, an automated and species-agnostic pipeline optimised for the high-resolution analysis of bacterial and plasmid genomes sequenced via Oxford Nanopore Technologies (ONT). β€˜ OxBreaker ’ streamlines the transition from raw reads to phylogenetic inference through automated reference selection and high-accuracy variant calling. It is accessible via a graphical user interface (GUI) that can be easily installed locally and operated by non-specialists. Benchmarking against technical and biological replicates of high-priority pathogens demonstrates high accuracy, with false positive variant rates reduced to 0–4 single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) for common species. We further validated the pipeline by accurately characterising previously published clonal and plasmid-mediated outbreaks, reproducing established phylogenies with improved accessibility. By providing a stable, scalable, open-source offline-compatible solution that matches the resolution of short-read platforms while maintaining the speed of long-read technology, β€˜ OxBreaker ’ is designed to facilitate the adoption of local, real-time genomic surveillance for frontline infection prevention and control. ### Competing Interest Statement The authors have declared no competing interest. NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Healthcare Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, NIHR207397 NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Oxford, GB

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New from Oxford: Waterproof First aid Kit: whether you’re riding through winding roads or setting up camp under the stars, safety should always ride with you.

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