I am an ex-research microbiologist, science writer of sorts, and friend to all bacteria. Here, I post stories from the wonderful world of scientific research,
focusing on microbiology and infectious disease. When I'm not doing science, I write
found adult novels about totalitarian regimes, impossible sea-monsters, and
deadly plagues.
I have a popular science book out with Bloomsbury Sigma - it's called 'Catching Breath - The Making and Unmaking of Tuberculosis'.
I am currently working on a teen horror set on a haunted pier. If you want to find out more about my fiction writing endeavours, come and say hello on Hidden Universes - https://scientistsonbooks.blogspot.co.uk
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Hitting an Invisible Target in TB Vaccine Design
I have a troubled relationship with Twitter. It’s an unredeemable hate sort of thing. I’m generally an inane mix of angry opinion and low self-esteem so, in theory, we’re perfect for each other. I just don’t feel it, though. I had a quick look for online videos in the same vein of the YouTube...
Lab on a Chip Technology to Investigate how Bacteria Move
Awaking in the middle of the night, every tiny sound—a creaking floorboard, the drip of a tap, the quiet breathing of the murderer hiding in the wardrobe—can appear magnified. Yet, during the day, when background noise is higher, we don’t notice these same sounds. It’s not that they aren’t there,...
Wasted Time Isn’t Always Wasted Time
The other day I commented to the father of my child that having a baby is a little bit like going to prison. Not the ‘nice’ sort of prison where they let you do Open University courses and try to make you a better person. A Victorian-style prison where the inmates are forced to turn a crank...
Scientific Stockholm Syndrome
Science embodied as a person would be a rubbish date. You’d be so dazzled by Science's awesome that you’d not only end up paying for dinner, but you’d find yourself promising them your undying loyalty. Then, before you know it, you're feeling guilty for not spending all of your time with Science...
Survivorship Bias in Science
Let’s imagine for a moment that uncertain job prospects and too much caffeine pushes me over the edge and I gather up every monkey in the world and shut them in a room with a bunch of computers. Sometime later, I return to a lot of flung poo and, among all the random strings of letters typed by...
Dirty water in the time of cholera
I have a slight obsession with the sewers, which I don’t think is entirely normal or healthy. It’s the architecture more than the sewage itself but, as it happens, this post concerns the latter. Our tour of interesting things poo-related starts in London of 1858 and a period of history known as...
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2 comments:
Hi Germblog,
I hope it is OK that I have pinned one of your cartoons on Pinterest from a blog with credit to your blog. Here's the pin and if there is a problem, I will happily change it. http://pinterest.com/pin/139470919679981810/
Hi Kathryn. I am working on a new treatment for TB and would like to be in contact with you. Can you give me a contact email address? please email me at judywele@aol.com
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