Charlotte L Oxley

When I became a #mother, my Grandmother told me that “The nights feel endless, but the days are short“ and I didn’t appreciate what she meant until today, at the Uni of Southampton #OpenDay. It’s almost the end of #coparenting our eldest; I think it’s safe to say I #brokethecycle

Delighted to see our paper studying the evolution of plasmids over the last 100 years, now out! Years of work by Adrian Cazares, also Nick Thomson @sangerinstitute.bsky.social - this version much improved over the preprint. Final version should be open access, apols.
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Heading back to Southampton in a few weeks, only this time, it’s with my eldest daughter for the Open Day - looking forward to seeing the campus from a different perspective to the #MGEworkshop !

Back on my Elvanse mood #ADHD #ADHDinWomen #WomeninSTEM and my #PhD won’t know what’s hit it

Daily reminder as I go into the second year of my PhD

a man with a beard and a hat is saying `` i have no memory of this place . '' ALT: a man with a beard and a hat is saying `` i have no memory of this place . ''

Going back into the lab after 2 weeks off got me like

There are approx 30 seconds per day during which I am brilliant; they are not consecutive and I have no control over them, but here I am, heading towards the end of my first year of #PhD because of [taps sign] #ADHD #garyjohnbishop #STEM #MolMicro

My childminder is on holiday for 2 weeks, so I’m (trying) to WFH… But damn, I’m starting to regret my jokes about Schrodingers PCR at the start of my PhD.

Starting the long journey home from #mgeworkshop - really interesting work happening in labs across the country, told in various formats by a great bunch. Thank you again to @fnobrega.bsky.social 🥳 It’s been awesome!

The 3rd UK MGE Workshop is nearly upon us! 🧬

For those travelling to Southampton today, join us for a drink at Dancing Man Brewery (SO14 2AR) from 5pm.

Registration for the workshop opens at 9am on Monday 16th. We look forward to meeting you all then!

#MGE #MGEWorkshop #Southampton

Almost ready for #MGEworkshop - my first time presenting, not just at an event but 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 as I'm barely 9 months into my #PhD But I'm reminding myself of the words of my favourite fictional scientist #WalterBishop #Fringe #ADHD #WomeninSTEM #MolMicro

Last year I was white-knuckling my way through final exams after losing my step-father and trying to co-ordinate the small crowd who attended my graduation. Today, I'm working on my first presentation for #MGEworkshop2025 #PhD #nontraditionalstudents

Genome Science UK 2025 Newcastle University

🚨🧬 ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE - 23rd MAY 🧬🚨

🧑‍💻 Get that abstract in - we'd love to hear about your amazing work in genome science this summer 🌞

www.genomescience.org.uk

One of the best book series I’ve ever read, and now a Skasgard is playing the lead in the TV show #marthawells #womeninscifi

The Green Ramp Disaster — Hard Landings Podcast On March 23, 1994, the U.S. military is doing a series of training exercises out of Pope Air Force Base in North Carolina then something unthinkable happens. What caused two aircraft to collide and ca...

Also, listening to #hardlandings #greenrampdisaster podcast, I’m a long time Patreon member, check them out if you like aviation disasters www.hardlandingspodcast.com/hard-landing...

Spending Sunday like I have every weekend since I started my #PhD, wondering what my autostereogram-ception of a strain has in store for me this week #molmicro #MGEs #forbiddenspaghetti #ecoli #EAEC

<in Palpatine> Do it

eight leatherbound books all titled "FERNS" volumes 1 through 8

Everyone in the past was neurotypical, which is how we got things like this single-author, eight-volume encyclopedia of ferns

MGE Workshop

🧬 Thrilled to announce that I'll be speaking at the 3rd Annual MGE Workshop. If molecular mayhem is your jam, join me and explore "From Stability to Chaos: The Role of MGEs in an Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli Outbreak”

#MGEWorkshop2025 #MGE #UKScience #PhDLife #MolMicro
#FirstYearPhD

Anyone else? #ADHD

Invisible Strings @M_Kelter In the last few decades, we have detected thousands of planets outside of our solar system. They did not suddenly appear at the time we found them. No one calls it an "exoplanet epidemic". The planets were always there, just previously undiscovered. This is a tweet about autism.

Oh I don’t doubt that; it’s rather that my circumstances are a tad trickier than average 😬 Fortunately I have incredibly supportive friends who are happy to facilitate. Happy to chat about it though!

Yasssss

At a close friends last night, mentioned I couldn't attend this. I got a tut and an eye roll as she jotted down in her diary that my youngest would be having a school night sleepover at hers. #SciMom #FirstYearPhD #WomeninSTEM #MGEs

Genetic and phenotypic analysis of the virulence plasmid of a non-Shigatoxigenic enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak strain Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O104:H4 is best known for causing a worldwide outbreak in 2011 due to the acquisition of a Shiga-like toxin alongside traditional enteroaggregative virulence traits;...

Congratulations to PhD students Rachel and Lottie, and MRes student Martyna on their publication with @mcvickermicro.bsky.social! #microsky

www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour...

Where it started in 2016 with a small #OpenUni Bio module to see if my brain still worked, followed by #AccessScience at #WestNotts in 2017, Microbiology at #NTU in 2019 and where I’m at now #FirstYearPhD #ThirdAuthor #MolMicro #transposons #EAEC

Really cool to have given a talk at #microbio25, I can cross it off the list! If anyone want to chat about looking into the urobiome as a reservoir of AMR and replicating AMR acquisition in a 3D bladder model, give me a shout!! #microsky #utisky

Final year of undergrad followed by straight into a #PhD… Bloodied and bruised but grinning like a lunatic because I’m having the time of my life 🧬🦠 Life doesn’t always give you a clear path, but I’ve always been a hack at the thorny bushes with my bare hands type anyway #ADHD #SPN

Note I'm always aware I'm going on a wild tangent in a thread but I think people enjoy it more than neutering my thought process so I do it anyway

Lecture Videos | Quantum Physics I | Physics | MIT OpenCourseWare MIT OpenCourseWare is a web based publication of virtually all MIT course content. OCW is open and available to the world and is a permanent MIT activity

#MITOpenCourseWare #OCW is an incredible resource if you want to (unofficially) Learn A Thing outside of your specialty. Or if you’re my type of #ADHD and couldn’t absorb enough knowledge to satiate you in a hundred lifetimes. Also, dude is amazing.

ocw.mit.edu/courses/8-04...