Amee Manges

@hcrichardson.bsky.social fyi on universal Healthcare

American Medical Association Introduces New Highly Effective Placebo Doctors

American Medical Association Introduces New Highly Effective Placebo Doctors https://theonion.com/american-medical-association-introduces-new-highly-effe-1819576542/

Checked in on them this morning - can confirm, still bloody beautiful.
#tawnyfrogmouth #ausbirds #birds #wildoz

Speaking of Abraham Lincoln, bathroom decor aside, where is our Lincoln?

Yeah, perfect owl for today.

My quote of the day

Nobody ever thanks you for saving them from the disease they didn't know they were going to get.

William Foege

For more information about the Friday night massacre at CDC, I wrote up an analysis of who got terminated and what that means for public health.

Grateful to @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social for supporting and amplifying. We are in really terrible trouble.

rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

Sometimes, if you're lucky, you can capture much of their goofiness in one photo. 🪶

Here's an owlet showing off his flexibility last week.🪶

“Objects in mirror are closer than they appear” … never was this warning more appropriate than right here! 😉

I just snorted laughing 💀

The Bay Area Reporter front page, 13 August 1998. The headline ‘No obits’ is written in red above the lead story.

27 years ago, two years after the introduction of effective HIV treatment, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s lesbian and gay community newspaper, ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.

These are the most challenging times for early-career scientists and engineers.

My team is doing its bit to help by maintaining and even expanding our database of funding opportunities for early-career researchers.

We found 437 of them.

Download it freely here: research.jhu.edu/rdt/funding-...

harry potter is surrounded by a bunch of letters falling on the floor . ALT: harry potter is surrounded by a bunch of letters falling on the floor .

Some sweet people have been sending physical cards and letters to the Bethesda Declaration signers. This is so kind and meaningful.

It would be GREAT if they received more. Cards can be sent to

Ian Morgan
NIGMS
45 Center Dr, MSC 6200
Bethesda, MD 20892-6200

Ian will share them with the signers.

Unexpected side-effect: how common medications clear the way for pathogens

CMFI's @lisamaierlab.bsky.social @unituebingen.bsky.social show in @nature.com: many non-antibiotics weaken the natural protective function of the intestine.

Press release: www.cmfi.uni-tuebingen.de/en/news-even...

Canada has recorded the highest number of measles cases since achieving measles elimination status in 1998.

Burrowing owlet standing on a slab of concrete appearing to be screaming (just coughing up a pellet, probably) while his two siblings stand below him, oblivious.

Screaming into the void 🪶

PBEEE/Quebec Merit Scholarship for Foreign Postdocs and Visiting Research Student and Visiting Researchers **Note that the FRQ is in the process of revamping their webpages. We will update links soon as we can with the current 2025 year's information. Be sure to check back to see if any eligibility or docu...

Are you a recent PhD (or soon to be PhD) from outside Canada looking to do a postdoc in Quebec?

Get in touch if you are excited about microbes, evolution, ecology, genomics (or all of the above!) and I'd be happy to help develop a project together!

www.mcgill.ca/gps/funding/...

A Burrowing Owl in mid-flight, wings arched in a dramatic curve, staring directly at the camera with piercing yellow eyes, against a blurred green and golden field background during golden hour.

Caught in a perfect moment – the intensity and beauty of this creature in flight. Simply breathtaking. Photo by ©markian.b
ID: Burrowing owl.
More owl: ohmywild.com

Text of https://www.hhs.gov/press-room/hhs-nih-announces-generation-gold-standard.html

I am often challenged to provide an example of a vaccine that could not have been developed without doing gain-of-function virology research.

Thanks to HHS Secretary Kennedy and former BiosafetyNow! board member/NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, I now have an answer:

Generation Gold Standard

Bespoke plant glycoconjugates for gut microbiota-mediated drug targeting The gut microbiota of mammals possess unique metabolic pathways with untapped therapeutic potential. Using molecular insights into dietary fiber metabolism by the human gut microbiota, we designed a t...

Fabulous work by this BC and AB Team! Bespoke plant glycoconjugates for gut microbiota-mediated drug targeting | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Modeling Reemergence of Vaccine-Eliminated Infectious Diseases Under Declining Vaccination in the US This study estimates the number of cases and complications in the US under scenarios of declining childhood vaccination for measles, rubella, poliomyelitis, and diphtheria.

Alarming new study in JAMA modeling measles in the US:

If we stay at CURRENT vaccination rates, measles will become endemic again over roughly 20 years.

If rates drop by even 10 percent (and they're sliding), there would be 11 MILLION cases over the next 25 years. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

To wit, I am borrowing this from‬ ‪@theferrarilab.bsky.social‬

Rule 2. If you ever find yourself in a bar fight and someone wants to join in on your side, don't bring up old s**t until the fight is over.

Rule 1. Know when you are in a bar fight.

Can we all agree that political parties are not serving us well at the moment. How about this, if you believe in democracy you are in one group, and if you do not, you are in the autocracy group.

If the Marshals Go Rogue, Courts Have Other Ways to Enforce their Orders Opinion | Even a rogue marshal’s service is not an insurmountable obstacle to courts enforcing the rule of law.

I suggest everyone become very, very familiar with this piece by law Professor @david.noll.org. I suspect you will be referring to it often. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...

The Prime Minister of the Heard / McDonald Islands Speaks on Trump’s Tariffs

We need a new word for euphoric optimism in the face of the usurpation of power and despair...a 'Bookerism'. Be Bookerish!

What a bright light for today.

Warren Winkelstein found her first! Regardless, thank you for highlighting this great scientist!

Putting the Arctic Ocean closer to the center, this brings the Greenland Canada gambit into focus. It is a grab for power, money, water, and resources, also giving the US complete control over the Northwest Passage. Fentanyl and the border are a smokescreen for a much bigger project: theft.