Mark van der Giezen

Great example of the effectiveness of vaccination. In 1992, Norway introduced vaccination against Haemophilus influenzae and the next year under seven disease burden dropped massively. Yesterday at the Norwegian public health institute annual microbial genomics meeting. Talk by Dagfinn Skaare.

Last few days to apply for a PhD studentship in my group @thesainsburylab.bsky.social biodtp.norwichresearchpark.ac.uk/projects/ide...

First frost of the season and didn't really fancy doing my usual run. The views were worth it though.

No, it's not a midlife crisis, I've had that already.

'In space no one can hear you scream' says Alien. It seems that this also applies to Mastodon and BlueSky? Unlike the old Twitter, there is very little interaction with messages. Maybe it's better to write to (local) newspapers and/or contact MPs if you want to make a difference?

Explain this to the taxpayers and convince politicians about the obscenity that is the open access publishing business model: "The scientific community of the US, China, UK, France, Netherlands, and Norway pays over $2 billion each year to a dozen publishers to publish their work with open access"

Unexpected but always impressive, northern lights in southern Norway.

Wat hebben jullie met mijn land gedaan?

Super excited after a 2-day kickoff event where 70 people from academia, industry, and the clinic set out on a journey to identify people at risk of Alzheimer's earlier. Proud to be involved as Stavanger University Hospital partner to look into the intestinal microbiome part tinyurl.com/yc493yzm

Cool (really cool!) PhD position on the diversity and ecology of anaerobic protists and fungi in polar freshwaters! A joint project with two of my previous colleagues at the Natural History Museum in London and the University of Exeter. See below for more information: www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/...

View over the sea after a half marathon that didn't go too well. Nice and relaxing to see the sea like this.

A new mitochondrial carrier links cytosolic and mitochondrial glycolysis in the intestinal parasite Blastocystis (and many more stramenopiles and oomycetes). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A first for me, AI-generated audio summary of a paper we just submitted to @biorxiv-evobio.bsky.social. Quite good, one mistake but not too bad overall: sciencecast.org/casts/2ci64j... Link to the manuscript: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

My continued frustration with this DuoLingo language app. Trying to learn Norwegian but criticising my English. It is possible of course that my English is poor but is 'You first have to dial six' or 'You have to dial six first ' incorrect? The suggested 'You have to first dial six' seems ugly?

A windy but sunny day at the coast near Eigerøy lighthouse in Norway.

The "What's up?" default when reposting seems a good question I think. Not about your post or your brother's but about the non existing word.

Visited my collaborators at the Statens Serum Institut in beautiful Copenhagen. Obviously I need to check out Nyhavn. The colours in the morning sun have a kind of Turner-esque feel.

Evening sunset over the sea in Norway.

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now: - warehouse worker, - sewage plant worker, - department store sales, - postman (I really enjoyed that to be honest).

Keywords from the abstracts of all my papers, seems to sum it up but the more recent microbiome work is still hidden Used this site to generate it: shiny.rcg.sfu.ca/u/r... by @morinryan.bsky.social 🧬🖥️🦠

View over the beach somewhere in Norway.

Presence of the causative agent of #syphilis in Europe eight centuries before #Columbus set sail to the #Americas? academic.oup.com/jid/article-...

Just back in time from my morning run, more rain on the way.

The weather's changing, autumn's in the air. #Norway

I was just checking the FAQ section and for those wondering what you call posts here, the official term is post. Took a screenshot of that section.

Last week we organised the Norwegian Society for Microbiology annual meeting at the University of Stavanger. Honoured to have been elected #president of the society. I will do my best to further the field of #microbiology in #Norway and beyond.