Michaela Schwaiger-Haber

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

How a discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR - Richmond Scientific A discovery in Yellowstone National Park led to the development of PCR, the gold-standard COVID-19 tests used to fight the global pandemic.

Reminder: Nobel-prize winning PCR (1983), used in basically all genetic tech today, was only possible because of extremophile bacterium discovered in 1964 in Yellowstone funded by a small ~$80k NSF grant with no obvious application at the time. #science 🧪
www.richmondscientific.com/how-a-discov...

Roll-out of RSV vaccine and antibody treatment leads to massive drop in US hospitalisations Data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggests that the roll-out of preventive approaches has had an immediate impact on RSV rates.

Roll-out of RSV vaccine and antibody treatment leads to massive drop in US hospitalisations
www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

First Patient Treated with Personalized CRISPR Therapy, Developed in Just Six Months The first on-demand CRISPR therapy for an infant with a rare metabolic disease developed by the IGI and collaborators around the world.

This is what can be achieved today due to longstanding federal support of academic basic science alongside close partnership of universities, private industry and NIH intramural initiatives. An ecosystem worth not just saving but doubling down on!

innovativegenomics.org/news/first-p...

Technology Development - Technological Innovation We interrogate the metabolome with unprecedented depth, confidence, and quantitative accuracy by exploiting an armamentarium of advanced analytical approaches. Research in the...

Responding here as well since nobody else can see the information I shared via email. It seems that after updating our lab website, the link we provided in the paper, does not work anymore (we'll look into that). You can find the link on our new lab website or click here: github.com/pattilab/HRM...

Nobel laureate: I owe America my success. Today, its scientific future is in danger | CNN Dr. Ardem Patapoutian says he watches “with deep sadness as the United States’ remarkable scientific enterprise, which took generations of hard work and national investment to build, faces a concerted...

Great article by @nobelprize.bsky.social laureate @ardemp.bskyverified.social outlining the health, economic and national security benefits of US biomedical research, and the devastation of government efforts to destroy our leading edge.

www.cnn.com/2025/04/09/h...

Among the most striking things I saw today were passing drivers who didn't simply give a polite honk in support, but pumped a fist out the window with their whole body, visibly excited to see people out there.

Because a protest shows there is something to be done, and people to do it with you.

I am in awe of Senator Booker for what he did over the last two days.

Fascinating article from 2017:

"'Hubris syndrome,' Owen writes, 'is a disorder of the possession of power.' ... Its 14 clinical features include: manifest contempt for others, loss of contact with reality, restless or reckless actions, and displays of incompetence."

What Happens When a Plastic City Burns Most modern couches are basically blocks of gasoline.

Our modern houses full of plastic burn faster, hotter, and release more toxic smoke. Your couch is like a block of gasoline. The gases from these can be toxic, and can't be filtered by an N95 like particulate matter can. Gift link: www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

More than 60 German-speaking universities and research institutes have just jointly announced they will cease activities on X because “the current orientation of the platform is not compatible with their core values” incl. scientific integrity, transparency and democratic discourse” 🧪

'Energy independent' Uruguay runs on 100% renewables for 10 straight months Uruguay's rapid energy transformation has shielded electricity users from global shocks.

‘Energy independent’ Uruguay runs on 100% renewable electricity for 10 straight months

Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth indirectly via interorgan lipid transfer - Nature Dietary fructose enhances tumour growth in animal models of melanoma, breast cancer and cervical cancer indirectly via metabolite transfer.

Delighted for my first Bluesky post to be in celebration of the work of Ronnie (@nightscientist.bsky.social) — can’t say enough about his talent & creativity! If you’re interested in the link between dietary fructose and cancer, check out his paper.
#metabolomics

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

I took biochem in 2001, and for nearly 20 years read amino acid sequences daily… and I never knew Dayhoff named them or even the logic behind things like Q until last Friday (h/t Mike Janech). Also, this is another big Dayhoff moment for me. She was incredible!

#proteomics #bioinformatics

A friend of mine and also Dave Coulier were recently diagnosed with non-hodgkin lymphoma...the kind of lymphoma I didn't have.

The fact that I had Hodgkin's was very good news but everyone I asked about WHY HL was so much less dangerous than NHL just kinda shrugged...

So I figured it out!

Did you know ASMS offers a FREE Mock Interview Program? Sign up by Nov 15 to be an interviewee or interviewer (any career sector & stage). If you are a student or postdoc going on the job market, this is for you!

Info & sign-up:
www.asms.org/member-center/mock-interviews-for-students-postdocs

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An infographic. There are six panels. 1. "Slow internet. Alt text is shown in place of unloaded images." a drawing shows a phone with poor signal, and alt text is visible where the image should have loaded. 2. "Findabillity. Alt text helps to search content." A drawing shows someone searching 'dog with banana' and a post is shown underneath without the words 'dog' or 'banana'. It is implied to be part of the alt text. 3. "Screen readers. Alt is read out to people using text-to-speech software". There is a drawing of the output a screen-reader would show when viewing an image with alt text on bluesky. 4. "Translation. Alt text can be translated". A drawing shows a post being translated. The alt text is also translated into german. 5. "Readability. Text in images can be made legible" There is a drawing of some truly awful handwriting inside a speech bubble. The alt text clarifies what the text is supposed to say. 6. "Disambiguation. Description helps clarify intent." There is a drawing of a post with a picture of a creature. This is styled after the famous optical illusion of a rabbit and a duck. The alt text clarifies that the animal is a rabbit. It definitely looks more like a duck.

Generally we think of alt-text as the domain of those with accessibility needs.

However alt-text is useful for many reasons, which benefit your viewers, as well as you, the creator!

New preprint up! We sequenced hundreds of samples from across one of Earth's oldest living organisms - the Pando aspen clone - to understand how mutations accumulate and spread in long-lived clonal organisms. Our results were…surprising. 1/30

Brilliant @sciam.bsky.social piece by @tarahaelle.bsky.social on the incredible impact vaccines have made to global health

www.scientificamerican.com/article/see-...

The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth We are on the brink of an irreversible climate disaster. This is a global emergency beyond any doubt. Much of the very fabric of life on Earth is imperiled

Honored to be a co-author on the latest state of the climate report in BioScience with Dr. William Ripple and colleagues “The 2024 state of the climate report: Perilous times on planet Earth”: academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

Opinion | Many Patients Don’t Survive End-Stage Poverty If health care is interpreted in the truest sense of caring for people’s health, it must extend well beyond the boundaries of hospitals and clinics.

“A death certificate would say he died of sepsis from a bone infection, but my friend and I have a term for the illness that killed him: end-stage poverty.”

An important piece on what healthcare really means, from Lindsay Ryan, one of my fav people.

www.nytimes.com/2024/04/11/o...

COVID.gov - Free at-home COVID-19 tests Every U.S. household is eligible to order 4 free at-home COVID-19 tests.

Starting 11/20 (today), US Postal Service will be mailing out four more COVID tests per household! Sign up here: www.covid.gov/tests 🩺 🛟 🧪

I got mine a week ago, but I've remained a Pfizer girl.