Duncan Ng

@duncan-ng.bsky.social

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Bioinformatician (he/him) 👨🏽‍💻 @ Wellcome Sanger Institute 🇬🇧 PhD on nasal microbiome 👃🏼 @ KU & SSI 🇩🇰 Study S. aureus carriage in nasal microbiome 🦠 | Microbial ecology & genomics 📊🧬 Enjoys 🏃🏽‍♂️📸🐕 https://linktr.ee/duncan_ng

A pigeon with a very pathetic nest filled with small twits and an egg in the middle.

The butterfly meme where the butterfly is tagged as “hallucination” and the academic is asking “is this a reference?”

A photo of a great tit

A selfie of me (in running gear) with the salmon of knowledge. There’s running stats on my shirt stating distance 22.01km, pace 5:13min/km, and a time of 1h 54m.

A steel statue of a seal

Two guys standing in front of the Belfast Victoria parkrun sign. Above it, there’s a Strava stat with a distance of 5.08km, pace 3:52min/km, and time of 19m 38s.

A blind chow chow dog with a pink bow

Two guys right next to a parkrun sign for Heslington. The Strava stats show the run was 5.1km of a pace with 3:59min/km with a time of 20m 22s.

Two photos are presented. One is a photo of the anemone and another of an electron microscopy of staphylococcus aureus. Both are purple and grape like. The caption states “corporate needs you to find the differences between this picture and this picture”. The next strip contains a woman saying “they’re the same picture”.

Two really fluffy photos of a Pomeranian’s front paw.

A Pomeranian tucked into the pillow. Asleep.

A Pomeranian named Yuki sat at the top of the cushion bit of a sofa.

Yuki the Pomeranian looking all excited on top of a sofa

A compass with a plane in the middle. The plane is facing east with an arrow on top right pointing to Mecca 4807km. At the bottom, there’s an arrow that points to Slough. Yes, Slough. 10km.

An emotional support dumpster fire with a sign that says “it’s fine. I’m fine. Everything is fine!”. It is right next to a duck dressed as a plague doctor.

Me holding a rhubarb crumble with the smallest scoop of ice cream.

A red flag that says “we do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy”.

A photo of clear blue sky with frosty grass. There’s tracks leading out to the start line of a XC race.

An old man leans over saying “call the ambulance” as a guy tries to rob him with a knife. In the next panel, he pulls a knife saying “but not for me”.

A photo of 2 kingfisher chilling on a tree by a canal

Photo of a digestive tract with a map like a tube stop. The stops are stomach, St Pancreas, Liverpool St., small intestine, large intestine and anal sphincter

A phylogenetic tree right next to a sign that says “invisible you - the human microbiome”

A selfie of two men right next to a sign that says “park run Newport”

A ragdoll cat approaching my hand

Gooseberry with his very long fluffy tail

A black and white cat called goose posing in front of a Christmas tree

A screenshot of a tweet by pixelated boat.
Centrist: politics is all about compromise
Me: so compromise with the left
Centrist: oh god no, I meant compromise with racists

Yes, West Brom’s mascot is a boiler

A photo of grumpy cat with a Santa hat with a caption “dashing through the” and no printed on grumpy cat.

A cat sat politely outside of Tesco

A hand draw picture of a robin with some mistletoes. It’s not a good drawing and is clearly aimed at children. Instead, a 32 year old man made it.

Me holding a sticker with an insect staring out into the sea with the caption “I am cringe but I am free”

Me (wearing a stowmarket strider top) running behind a Hadleigh hares runner. To my right there’s a very big puddle which is why we are both running on a trail next to it. To my left, there is a lot of brambles.

The Strava add on says I ran 8.3km at 4:40min/km with a total time of 38 minutes 46 seconds.

Me holding an award that states “stowmarket strider club championship senior male 2024 Duncan Ng”

A screen shot of an section on Firefox. The title says "thought-provoking stories". In it, there's a preview of an article by CNN titled "how to keep cats out of Christmas tree". There is an image of a cat staring at the photographer in a Christmas tree.

An electron microscope of Staphylococcus aureus which shows purple bunches of circlulaf blobs like grapes. That’s why they’re called staphylococcus.

A Strava map of me doing 16.4km at 5:00min/km with an overall time of 1h 22m

A very cute dog called Ernie being petted by me.

Drake saying no to coal mines but nods approvingly to salt mine

An orange cat looking through the gaps of the top of the stairs. Unimpressed.

A woman looking out in the dark, panicking, screaming “it’s pitch black out. What time is it? Is it midnight?! IT FEELS LIKE MIDNIGHT!”. A guy completely unfazed by the women replied “it’s 5:27pm”.

A cat standing on top of a wooden fence looking cautiously