RTarlinton.bsky.social

The problem is that reform voters engagement and experience of society is so low that they are willing to be ripped off by this man because that's how they think everything works.

Virology group's are challenged to beat our christmas tree effort

That is always super disappointing. You open it thinking "this will be fun and wont' take long" and 6 hours later you are still writing a response as to why it needs to be totally redone while trying to keep your temper (and responses) within civil bounds

Control mechanism for one disease (immune response damage to mink parvovirus) leading to a lot of unintended consequences here.... Genetic selection needs to be done with some care....

Strong selection signatures for Aleutian disease tolerance acting on novel candidate genes linked to immune and cellular responses in American mink (Neogale vison) - Scientific Reports Scientific Reports - Strong selection signatures for Aleutian disease tolerance acting on novel candidate genes linked to immune and cellular responses in American mink (Neogale vison)

I mean not that I think Mink farming is an excellent idea but if we are going to do it selecting animals that are incapable of mounting an antiviral response doesn't seem like a good idea...

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

It’s terrible but as the supermarket shelves are still stocked there is little awareness of how bad this is

Also with eppendorf tinsel and scientific catalogue origami ( I think the post docs might have a bit too much time on their hands)

The onevirology Christmas tree, complete with llama antibodies, giant microbes and virus snowflakes.

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A vaccine would be soooo good ( really frustrating disease to deal with)

Beak and feather disease ( presume that’s what they’ve got) is usually lethal if you aren’t a lorikeet … it’s a nasty disease and a disaster for the reintroduction programme

Oh can I play...
Tasmanian Devil: Australia
Koala: Australia
Humpback Whale: Australia
Greater Crested Newts: UK (I love newts we don't have them in Aus !)
European Storks: Poland

These are the ones that were the most special to me to see in the wild

The new FVE position statement on preferentially promoting vaccination over culling policies in emerging disease outbreaks is one that I wholeheartedly support. If we are going to maintain public support for disease control in animal populations we need to do this.

fve.org/publications...

Yep ….

Craft and science ( my typing is terrible this morning )

Unsurprising but still depressing …

You could use an LLM to summarise the themes for you and be very cutti big edge

Ohh …will have to have a look

Sneak them into Christmas dismays … see how many people notice! They are fun ( and beautiful) craft and together what’s not to like ?

Not surprising ( at least if you are a vet) dogs aren’t people , their nutrition needs are quite different

I’m taking 6 x 12 year old boys … wish me luck

Some work on vaccine communications to farmers produced with a final year student last year on a policy internship. No point having a vaccine if they don't use it.... www.nottingham.ac.uk/science/scho...

A steam session, the old fashioned tea towel head tent over a bowl of hot water and a drop of sonething with menthol in it does help clear mucous …

It is a terrible idea… pretty much only used in the USA and even then not all states allow it.

A grand attempt to make it someone else’s fault from Gove there. Rather than acknowledging it was their own dithering that lead to the biggest disasters.

That gender split is also apparent in misconduct cases to medical regulators…

Thinking about my own experiences with serious misconduct they weren’t all men but the ratio was disproportionally so…

Women seem to retract fewer papers than men — but why? In an analysis of nearly 900 retracted medical research studies, the number of female authors is disproportionately low.

So ladies ( and gents) of science what do we think of this? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

precisely the complaint....

It is still necessary to actually have live isolates to be able to test stuff like drug resistance and growth rates... but using it as the gold standard diagnostic causes problems (in the UK farms refuse to believe their cows have TB because the lab culture failed... )

Culture of difficult to culture organisms is maybe not so useful as the “ gold standard” test , reference labs can be very old fashioned in some ways