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This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

Respondemos al peor brote de cólera en cinco años en Sangé, en Kivu Sur, República Democrática del Congo En Sange, Kivu Sur, en República Democrática del Congo, respondemos al peor brote de cólera en cinco años. Nuestros equipos refuerzan el tratamiento, el acceso a agua segura y las medidas de prevención para frenar la propagación.

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Scaling the 11th Century Start-up, or, Why Universities Break People 53% of academics show signs of depression. This is a role design failure, not a resilience issue: we are managing 21st-century experts with medieval guild structures. To fix the crisis, we must abando...

Interesting reflections on academia, its deficit in psychological safety, unrealistic performance expectations, and the need for transformational leadership to protect focus, interpret external chaos, and foster that missing psychological safety.

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Every child deserves to protected from preventable diseases - it is their right to health

People’s Pharmacy | Price of Paxlovid for COVID is shocking Q. My husband got COVID last fall. He has had great success from Paxlovid in the past, when he got it for free during the pandemic. This time he was charged $800 on his Medicare Drug Plan. That seems outrageous.

Q. My husband got COVID last fall. He has had great success from Paxlovid in the past, when he got it for free during the pandemic. This time he was charged $800 on his Medicare Drug Plan. That seems outrageous.

The Burmeister Lab: Studying Microbial Evolution and Extinction ​Our research integrates evolutionary biology and microbiology, using bacteria and phage as study systems to address fundamental questions in both fields. ​ ​We study microbial evolution, a...

Alita Burmeister (@aburmeister.bsky.social) is looking to hire a postdoc (or potentially a PhD student) for projects on phage resistance and evolution. The position description is posted to the Eco-Evo Jobs wiki and also available on her lab's website (arburmeister.weebly.com).

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study.

The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

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Student in Quakertown, PA held a peaceful protest yesterday until the police chief showed up in plain clothes and assaulted two students.

#FuckICE #Quakertown #ProudBlue

Wildflower Superbloom Sweeps Death Valley for First Time in 10 Years A once-a-decade wildflower bloom is sweeping the American West.

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Superbloom is coming!

Double-reverse: FDA now says it will review Moderna’s mRNA flu vaccine

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Vaccines are critical to protecting pregnant women and their infants. ACOG’s newly updated guidance urges ob-gyns to review patients’ immunization status, recommend needed vaccines, and address barriers such as misinformation. Read the full press release for more: https://bit.ly/4ro56GZ

Koonin's lab in NIH is looking for postdocs. If you know someone who is interested, please spread the word. The details about the position are below: www.training.nih.gov/jobs/pdf-ecb...

Troop 6000

It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️

#medsky you need to know that HHS released a Medicaid dataset today, with your NPI in it, linked to procedure codes and volume

By my count, this is the third CDC outbreak notice in the past three months involving Moringa leaf and various Salmonella strains. What's with that?

Jan. 6 rioter pardoned by Trump is convicted of child molestation Andrew Johnson tried to bribe a child victim with the promise of a Jan. 6-related payout, prosecutors say. Trump has discussed the possibility of compensating rioters, but no one has received any paym...

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I am truly grateful.

For @jennifer.j.quinn . @twisteddoodles.bsky.social is brilliant.

Exclusive: Key US infectious-diseases centre to drop pandemic preparation Staff members have been instructed to scrub this topic and ‘biodefense’ from the agency’s website.

Sure sure let’s order the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease (NIAID) to end all pandemic preparedness and biodefense work.

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Join for our exciting meeting in Spain!
Deadline for abstracts today!

Today I learned that being Italian is a subculture of Scotch-Irish military culture.

I am seeking a postdoc to join my group at UCLA -- ideally the candidate would have some experience in either population genetics or microbes/microbiome (computational background needed). We have a range of projects and are happy to tailer to your interests. Please dm/email me if interested.

My quote of the day

Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.

Charles Darwin

China turns the tables in biotech For at least a century, major scientific research initiatives have reliably occurred in the United States, usually in response to geopolitical competition. This helped establish the country’s status a...

“Success in US science has come from sustained funding and welcoming the best talent from around the world, yet both of these advantages are in decline”

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NIH just lighting money on fire now

Let's learn about the coquí frog 🐸 (Eleutherodactylus coqui), native to Puerto Rico where it is a beloved national symbol.

I want to focus on their call: two tones described as co- and -quí.

(SOUND ON) Take a listen 👂 & see if you spot the pattern.

Then I'll tell you something amazing about it.

Circular diagram depicting maximum-likelihood core genome SNP phylogeny of Vibrio genomes from Morgado et al. (2025).

🔍Have you ever had a doppelganger? Recent research finds 190 genomes, originally categorised as Vibrio cholerae actually belonged to a close relative, Vibrio paracholerae.

Sergio Morgado takes us behind the scenes of their recent publication in Microbial Genomics here🔗https://microb.io/3Nm5fM1

#IDSky I always email residents rotating with me survival tips for their time of the ID consult service. I like to keep this short and high yield but I am constantly editing and improving the tip sheet. What would you add or remove. It cannot be longer that one page 😊.

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