Barry Margulies

Latest improv adventure last night

Tomorrow I'll be performing as part of Improv Jeoparty! www.eventbrite.com/e/game-night...

Next Saturday, ditto with Team 19. www.eventbrite.com/e/community-...

7-8 June, 24 Hour Game Shown Marathon, streaming live noon to noon. Proceeds benefit Child's Play. Should be fun! gameshowmarathon.com

My next show. Come one, come all!
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Sky Follower Bridge Bridge your Twitter/X followers to Bluesky. Detected Users: 85

I've discovered 85 Bluesky users from my social network using the Sky Follower Bridge.✨

Check it out: share.sky-follower-bridge.dev?q=85

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Almost all pediatric flu deaths are in unvaccinated children. Flu shots aren't perfect but they make the symptoms milder, reduce transmission, & reduce the risk of hospitalizations. Concerning that vaccination rates still haven't bounced back to pre-pandemic levels.

Welcome aboard!

Goodnight all, rest up 🌙

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Testing and Masking Policies and Hospital-Onset Respiratory Viral Infections This cohort study examines the ratio between hospital- and community-onset respiratory viral infections at different levels of testing and masking from 2020 to 2024.

New: Universal masking&testing reduce hospital infections, so does staff masking

Stopping universal masking&testing led to 25% increase in respiratory viral infections
Restarting staff masking led to 33% decrease

8 out of 100 (random sample) died in the hospital
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Saturday, not Friday. Yes, I can count.

Come watch my friends and me try to make people laugh this Friday night!

Notre Dame Cathedral unveils its new interior 5 years after devastating fire After more than five years of frenetic reconstruction work, Notre Dame Cathedral has showed its new self to the world Friday.

Stunning.

Robert Dixon, Last Surviving Buffalo Soldier, Dies at 103 (Gift Article) A member of one of the U.S. Army’s all-Black regiments, formed after the Civil War, he trained West Point cadets in horsemanship during World War II.

The last Buffalo Soldier has just passed away.

Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) image of Neptune, taken on 12 July 2022, brings the planet’s rings into full focus for the first time in more than three decades. The most prominent features of Neptune’s atmosphere in this image are a series of bright patches in the planet’s southern hemisphere that represent high-altitude methane-ice clouds. More subtly, a thin line of brightness circling the planet’s equator could be a visual signature of global atmospheric circulation that powers Neptune’s winds and storms. Additionally, for the first time, Webb has teased out a continuous band of high-latitude clouds surrounding a previously-known vortex at Neptune’s southern pole.

Neptune by JWST.
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I’m sorta herpes emeritus

We 😍😍 herpesviruses plaques

Our Big Fantastic Virus Database (BFVD) is now published NAR! It contains protein structure predictions of major viral clades, enhanced by petabase-scale homology search and it's explorable on the web.
🌐 bfvd.foldseek.com
💾 bfvd.steineggerlab.workers.dev
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Gene Expression Shifts as Shrews Shrink and Regrow Their Brains Transcriptomic studies of the shrew’s remarkably plastic brain could provide new insights into neurodegenerative diseases.

www.the-scientist.com/gene-express...

Sending good, good, good good vibrations!

Incredible graphic - the myriad of ways that bacteria defend themselves against antibiotics.

14 resistance mechanisms, summarised by Idan Yelin & Roy Kishony in Cell

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Feeling this appointment hit home in a very direct way

Development of learning objectives to support undergraduate virology curriculum guidelines | Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education The discipline of microbiology is extremely broad as it encompasses the study of microscopic organisms and entities. The field of virology is a specialized area of study within the field of microbiology. Due to the complexity of virology as a field, herein we describe the development of curriculum guidelines and associated example learning objectives to help educators teach virology.

A great group of folks has developed learning objectives to help you with undergrad virology education. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Glad to see so many connecting here :-)

Graphic text: repost this if trans people are welcome and safe with you. Graphic image: trans flags and trans people with different skin tones/colors.

Trans rights are human rights.