Jonathan Ball

DVC @LSTMnews | Hon. Prof @UniofNottingham | Prof of #Virology working on #EmergingViruses. Ex-@BritSciAssoc #MediaFellowship @BBCNews | Occasional Sci Comms

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

Calling on my twitter friends. We are a small community under threat. We have 30 days to persuade the new Nottinghamshire County Council Reform administration to shelve plans to reopen the Rufford Ford circus https://t.co/IhryNF8lx5. Please write to object. We need your help. 🙏

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

So what is it with #reform councillors? This guy's priority is grass verges. I assume he thinks we should cut them more and ignore their importance in habitat creation? Looks neat though doesn't it. I despair. We have one who has an MSc in ecology!!!
https://t.co/afMiEE9IbJ

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

@hbarrow1 Ollerton Pit Wood

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How pit tips have changed...

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

@hbarrow1 sure

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

An easy topical #WheresBilly

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

Obvious to those of us who are privileged to walk past this icon regularly - but still sad to have it confirmed.
#MajorOak
#RobinHood
#SherwoodForest
https://t.co/dv14NyZtAu

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

@JaquelinMo34160 and a fake website ;)

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

Given the status of the current #Bundibugyo #Ebolavirus outbreak in the #DRC, yet again, this piece I penned some time ago seems sadly prescient:
https://t.co/LG1bsj1AMb

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

If I'm not here, but my wife, daughter and son are, it becomes a less certain, as they all take him reasonably frequently, but my wife probably more.
So it's she, who gets the stare, and more often than not he's right.

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

Having a little knowledge really helps....
#Bayes

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

Based on his prior knowledge, he knows that there is high probability I will be taking him his morning walk.

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

Folk are understandably concerned/interested in #Hantavirus. Here's a nice introduction to this fascinating collection of viruses:
https://t.co/TInh40njWq

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

Whilst uncommon - human to human transmission of #hantavirus has been reported previously:
https://t.co/LNRkrmIQUj

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

@pae931 Thank you kind sire. Hope all's well

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

There's probably more hantavirus infections out there than we realise, especially in those regularly exposed to UK rodents...

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

And more recently @Thechappell, @PostdocPat and I published on the first full genome sequence of a novel UK hantavirus
https://t.co/yUJGfvx3C4

[Natalie Fahy @nat_fahy]

What a night at the Reach Plc awards!
@nottslive is brand of the year 🎉. So chuffed after a tough year - what a team of reporters. So proud.

@DylanHayward is the rising star of the year 🎉

@PJLynchjourno is LDR of the year

And @MattLeeJourno highly commended for regional journalist of the year

Amazing work goes on every single day in all our newsrooms and it was such an honour for all of us to win.

[Dr Charlotte Houldcroft @DrCJ_Houldcroft]

The strain from this outbreak has now been confirmed as meningitis B. This isn't in the current UK teenage vaccine schedule (perhaps that will now change...) https://t.co/Sr9BsMsBJr

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

@jimwaterson - I flag merely because the council are advocating £40M of 'savings' (aka 'cuts'} whilst planning to spend more than a quarter of a million on reopening a ford so the local golfers can get to the first tee 5 minutes quicker, maybe one of the councillors plays there?

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

@jimwaterson - you've covered Rufford Ford previously -ot sure if this might be of interest?

[Jonathan Ball @JonathanKBall]

Calling on my twitter friends. We are a small community under threat. We have 30 days to persuade the new Nottinghamshire County Council Reform administration to shelve plans to reopen the Rufford Ford circus https://t.co/IhryNF8lx5. Please write to object. We need your help. 🙏