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Ph.D., history. Hist. of sci. & med.; Paracelsus; c16 Germany. Husband & father. đť•Ź-pat. Hobby: learning about & not catching brain-eating bat viruses. In public indoor spaces, wear a high-quality mask (N95 or better). Clean the air! đź“ŤMelbourne, VIC
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Here is the previously unreported tally of terminated Harvard grants, by agency: HUD: 3 USDA: 3 CDC: 11 Dept. of Education: 15 DOE: 18 DoD: 54 NSF: 198 NIH: 617 Total: 937 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

It’s a reason I wrote @nejm.org article, when asked what virus epidemic threat frightens me more than any other my ANS: Yellow Fever: historically YF decimated cities/towns in Texas (Galveston, Huntsville, La Grange) and Southern U.S. New Orleans, Vicksburg, Memphis and could return. We’re not ready

submitted 5 days ago • 10 comments

Thanks, 102-virus.bsky.social for sharing this important research article: SARS-Cov-2 infection in newborns: cord blood IgA/IgM suggest in utero infection is more common than previously thought communities.springernature.com/posts/sars-c... Why pregnant women should be vaccinated against COVID-19.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

New preprint from #TeamClots: “The increase in smaller microclots post-exercise suggests microclots do not behave as static entities but can undergo structural changes in response to physical exertion. This has critical implications for…exercise-based rehabilitation strategies in #LongCovid”

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

#Gleichschaltung

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Looks like I should help promote this book!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

@davidallengreen.bsky.social Even more so if you know even a little of the history of the empire of Byzantium / East Rome / New Rome.

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

@worldbollardassoc.bsky.social

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

Sanofi has a stellar reputation, a global marketing deal w Novavax, & invested $1.5 B in new vaccine manufacturing facilities in Canada 🇨🇦 Novavax has a superior Covid vaccine, a great adjuvant, & plans for new Flu vaccines. Let's hope it all comes together 🤞 ir.novavax.com/press-releas...

submitted 15 days ago • 2 comments

Meet "Nimbus", aka SARS-CoV-2 variant NB.1.8.1. (Thread) 1/

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Martha asked an interesting question, so I thought I’d try to answer it. Essentially, the question is how long to wait before one is 95% certain that the room is Covid free, given a certain set of conditions.

submitted 8 days ago • 11 comments

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

submitted 8 days ago • 141 comments

"This is what we were voting for!" From a friend in academia: >>I was with a public health professor from [major university] last weekend and he said that NIH is now euthanizing whole cohorts of animals from animal studies because there is nobody around to feed them<< Great work.

submitted 9 days ago • 313 comments

so i can’t go through metal detectors because of a device on my heart, and a security guard at a museum just tried to say it was fine to go through one because “it’s not a normal metal detector. it uses artificial intelligence” oh okay cool man

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

Ballroom Blitz is the only song where the singer checks if the other band members are ready before the song starts. He makes every other singer look like a thoughtless pig

submitted 10 days ago • 133 comments

Covid is airborne @wesstreeting.bsky.social

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Another big FU from Harvard… free online courses on the US government, the US constitution, civic engagement, and more. pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

submitted 10 days ago • 196 comments

I refuse to believe that "IDF shoots at Canadian diplomats after confusing them with innocent Palestinians" isn't a fucking Beaverton headline

submitted 12 days ago • 9 comments

Your regular reminder that the entire global economy is subject to the whipsaw whims of a person who doesn’t understand how the global economy works

submitted 11 days ago • 416 comments

Ontario:

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Here we go again.

submitted 11 days ago • 10 comments

There's a fascinating discussion up this thread (with some actual experts in the subject) on why NZ is tracking so much better than Australia (or anywhere else) with COVID-19. The excess death comparisons I dropped on this post (Australa vs NZ) will probably surprise most people in both countries.

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments