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I found this profoundly difficult to read, also because I have a 7-year-old daughter, and I would gladly spend eternity in hell to prevent this happening to her.

That's amazing!

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The best Kate Bush 😉:

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Cool graph, particularly from the point of view of the physics of accelerating / regenerative braking.

One question though: what's the basis of the (regression) lines through the data points? Especially for ICE-petrol it looks really weird, with most of the data points below the line.

Fun fact: the first draft of this paper was written November 2019, but somehow, something came in between.

As part of the NeWIS project, we wrote a commentary in @cmijournal.bsky.social on the need for hospital network reconstruction for the control of antimicrobial resistance.

"Towards a Europe-wide reconstruction and analysis of hospital networks"

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Nouvelle publication, avec la participation de Laura Temime, directrice du laboratoire MESuRS, sur les réseaux de soins et la prévention de la propagation des bactéries multirésistantes (RAM).

The Met Office seems to grasp the gravity of the situation.

Hang the DJ - Wikipedia

This is *literally* a Black Mirror episode.

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Dave Grohl, throughout the years.

I don't think I've ever talked on Bluesky about why I hate the Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl.

Don't read any further unless you're prepared for uncomfortable truths about the "Nicest Guy in Rock", and his very substantial body count & subsequent cover-up.

Years ago, my mother had the chance to join one of his workshops. Together, we prepared by going through the available "scientific literature".

So, immediately she started asking the right questions...

After 10 minutes, she was kicked out because "this was clearly not for her"

So proud of her

This motherfracker wants us to prove a negative. In science, you can prove a negative about causation by showing the causal pathway does not exist.

“Vaccines do not cause autism” has been proven in every scientifically meaningful sense. Read on.

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CDC disinformation about the link between autism and vaccines

The CDC updated its vaccine page to claim "vaccines do not cause autism" is "not evidence-based" and studies were "ignored." This is an outrage. Decades of research have found no link. This isn't science, it's RFK Jr. using the CDC as propaganda. Children will die because of this.

figure showing estimated proportion of cases in clusters, for each site. range from 0.04 to 0.93, mean estimate in random effects model is 0.57 [0.46,0.68]

#AMR #Klebsiella cause >100,000 neonatal deaths globally each year.

Our new preprint shows more than half of #Klebsiella pneumoniae neonatal sepsis cases in African and South Asian are nosocomial, acquired through transmission in neonatal units. #WAAW

doi.org/10.1101/2025...

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Exciting news from the Future Forests Cluster of Excellence at the University of Freiburg (@uni-freiburg.de)! 🌲🌳

Applications are invited for two (7-year) positions in the Socio-Ecological Systems Modeling Lab of the Cluster:

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“Basically, no matter what anyone tells you, a plug in hybrid is just a more complex petrol car. You are always either hauling a useless engine around or hauling a useless battery around. It will require the same amount of servicing as any petrol or diesel vehicle, it has 1000s more components…

Sounds plausible.

And looks beautiful, btw.

Both my plantnet app and Google lens say it's a tobacco species... Weird. I'd love to hear from someone with proper botanical knowledge indeed.

Or see what this turns into.

Open position at the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics:
We are looking for a Director of the Center of Pathogen Bioinformatics
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I am in the Center's steering board together with fantastic colleagues (Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66.bsky.social, Richard Neher @neher.io, and

Herr Blume sorgt dafür, dass alle Porsche-Fahrer in 35 Jahre ein H-Kennzeichen führen können.

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Tom Lehrer said some wise words about that
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Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

"The possibility of prompt injection" was not on my list of the dangers of using LLMs for peer review" ( www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... ).

Then again, I didn't actually include a list, because I didn't use AI to write the bloody text.

To be fair, it's Orange for the same reason.

PhD position (Rennes, France)
Model hospital preparedness for infectious disease crises (PReViX project)
with @pascalcrepey.bsky.social @Nicolas @Sirven @mtsofonea.bsky.social
at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Santé Publique (EHESP)
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2330

Yes, that would also be my guess

Nothing could be more flattering, thank you so much @gmknght.bsky.social for highlighting our paper!
We found that for some #bacteria 🧫 , connectivity between hospital wards is as / more important for explaining #AMR as antibiotic consumption, especially for highly resistant 🏥 endemics

My pleasure, Julie. Honestly, it was quite a positive experience from a reviewer's perspective. A genuine discussion between reviewer and authors to improve the paper.

Although I can imagine that from your side, it was a slightly more frustrating process.