Dr 'Mysterious and Important' Stip 😷 🎃

I think this is a record. We have twenty-two pies for eighteen people.

Here's the latest variant picture for Europe (excluding the UK), to early November.

BA.3.* (mostly BA.3.2.2) is showing continued signs of growth. Recent samples have been reported from Ireland.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #EUR #BA_3_2 #XFG #Stratus
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Bird flu’s surprising heat tolerance has scientists worried Researchers discovered why bird flu can survive temperatures that stop human flu in its tracks. A key gene, PB1, gives avian viruses the ability to replicate even at fever-level heat. Mice experiments...

Researchers discovered how bird flu can survive temperatures that stop human flu in its tracks. A key gene gives avian viruses the ability to replicate even at fever-level heat which highlights how this gene and others could fuel future pandemics. #RSNA25
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

My cats dont dance like snoopy does

The Supremes

#TeaTime

‘They don’t have symptoms’: CAR-T therapies send autoimmune diseases into remission Engineered T cells that have been used to treat ulcerative colitis, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus show promising results.

Developed initially to target and kill tumors, they are now being engineered to target cells that are contributing to autoimmune diseases, like antibody-producing B cells.
#Science 🧪

orange cat under the tree with glowing lights

christmas card photo

Grey torbie cat is curled up on her favorite wool throw in the shrimp position while she rests her head on a pillow.

Cat shrimp #catsky

Split image: Main photo — black-and-white portrait of young Jocelyn Bell Burnell in the 1960s, smiling broadly in front of the large lattice structure at Mullard Radio Astronomy Observatory (SW of Cambridge in the UK). Inset (left) — color portrait of Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell today, short graying hair, glasses, and a warm smile, wearing a blue jacket.

#OTD in 1967, Jocelyn Bell discovered pulsars & changed our view of the universe. 𝘉𝘶𝘵...

The #Nobel Prize in #Physics for their discovery went to to her thesis supervisor Antony Hewish & to astronomer Martin Ryle.

theconversation.com/fifty-years-...

#WomenInSTEM #astrophysics #MatildaEffect

It's late, but it's never too late for Mouse's #FridaysBitsAndPieces from #CleeveAbbey #Somerset. The bits and pieces Mouse didn't get to share in the week: The panel widows of the fratery with cusped #Ogee lights, bar tracery and quatrefoil piercings. Absolute #PerpyPerfection

This result remains consistent with the COVID-19 wastewater concentration for Perth, which also hit an all-time low of 53 copies per 50mL.
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Australian COVID-19 weekly stats update:

The risk estimate fell again, to 0.1% “Currently Infectious”, or 1-in-1,625. This is a fresh “all time” low (since this analysis started in late 2022).

That implies a 2% chance that someone is infectious in a group of 30.

#COVID19 #SARSCoV2 #Australia
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Australia just recorded zero cervical cancer cases in women under 25 for the first time since records began in 1982. The amazing result of HPV vaccination.

An orange and white cat laying between his scratching nest and the heating vent.

Sweetie next to the heat vent. He absolutely lives up to the orange cat sweet potato reputation.

Day 1247 of my Nature Photo Challenge and here's the grumpy neighbour at the next picnic table across from us
This one is titled "Bad hair and attitude day" 🤗 #inspiringnature #wildlife #naturephotography #MentalHealthMatters
#365DaysWild

Meme of a Lady and a King. The lady has a book open on front of her and the King has his head in his hand. The text reads: Me explains the spicy scene I want to recreate my partner who does not possess a single tentacle

I feel seen

screenshot from the NES game Castlevania featuring Simon Belmont next to a plate of meat found inside of a wall

thanksgiving reminder: after your turkey comes out of the oven it is important to let it rest inside a wall or floor for 1 to 2 hours

“The year is 2035. The first astronauts have landed on Mars. They find a cave with a human skeleton and 4 words written on the wall. What are the words?”

“Bob Heinlein, you ASSHOLE!”

orange cat face down in a gray fleece blanket

literally face down in the blanket. lost in the sauce

A Tabby cat get the side of their head scratched

A Tabby cat getting there head and neck scratched

Izzy needed some time on her human

Black-and-white portrait of Helen Magill White. The pioneering American scholar—who in 1877 became the first woman in the United States to earn a Ph.D.—appears as a young woman with dark hair styled in an elegant updo secured with a decorative comb. She wears a high-necked Victorian dress with a lace collar and striped bodice, with a serious gaze.

DYK: Women have earned the majority of doctoral degrees awarded by American universities each year since 2009.

First women to earn a PhD in the US?

Helen Magill White. Her PhD was in Greek from Boston University, 1877. She was born #OTD in 1853. @bostonu.bsky.social

#education #highered #academia

The point of thanksgiving is to have leftovers and eat turkey for at least 2 days later. I am only limited by my tiny Aussie oven and kitchen. But living in NYC for 15 years has me used to cooking in a small space

I have a 4kg/9lb turkey. The package trying to tell me that feeds 10 people. Um

Caps Lock the orange cat lies down peacefully on a blanket on my lap

Can't grade if it means disturbing the cat.

Two vintage postcards side by side. On the left a color illustration of black cat with a bandage around its head grimaces, “You ought to see the other fellow”. On the right a black and white illustration of a black cat with bandaged head, limbs and tail says “Stung! But you should have seen the other fellow”.

Two unrelated postcards in my collection that tell a story together. 🤕

Sautéd apples in a pan

Baked apple pie

I tried cooling the apple pie on my windowsill yesterday and a hobo stole it.

a woman is holding a dead chicken over a cutting board Alt: Julia Child holding an uncooked Turkey over a cutting board

Thanksgiving Down Under has begun. Turkey is in the oven.

#BlueSkyArtShow #Warmth

Morning.