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drm.bsky.social
Molecular #epidemiology & #publichealth. Pathogen #genomics, #microbiology, #emerginginfections, #AMR, (bio)tech and #opendata. Personal account. Opinions/dad jokes are my own. https://duncan.bio 🦅 “Low productivity” public sector. 🔬🦠🧬🖥️💉🌻🍩
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By far the greatest British tradition. www.bbc.com/news/live/cd...

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A long thread about mpox and the context specific nature of outbreaks prompted by the large outbreak of MPXV Clade IIb happening at the moment in Sierra Leone:

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Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...

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The Empire Strikes Back was released 45 years ago today.

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It has always been bananas in the summer. Cars parked along the roadway for miles, and oblivious folks wandering out into traffic.

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The May 2025 supplemental issue of Emerging Infectious Diseases journal is now live: “Advances in Pathogen Genomics for Infectious Disease Surveillance, Control, and Prevention.” wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/articles...

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www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

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I take back all the things I said about LLMs being a bit overhyped. huggingface.co/spaces/cmu-g...

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I have a quick question about this. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/10/b...

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If I eat enough wine gums, can I fix the global economy?

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The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

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#MayThe4th

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I normally never ask celebrities for a selfie. May the fourth be with you. Always.

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Seeing a lot more ads for methylene blue as a health supplement.

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The average American has three friends.

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I not only grew up with fluoridated water, but my parents added fluoride drops to my juice.

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All the news about measles can be scary and overwhelming, so we put together answers to some of the most common questions. 👇

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Our paper out in @cidjournal.bsky.social 2-years of real-time genomic surveillance + intervention - 172 outbreaks, 476 transmissions - 95% of interventions halted transmission - 62 infxs prevented - $695,000 net savings, 3.2 ROI Should this be standard? #IDSky 📄: academic.oup.com/cid/advance-...

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How did you two meet?

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Google how to enroll at Yale send.

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Check out this great @washingtonpost.com cover of our new study! by Lena Sun

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Pathogen genomics and metagenomics have been transformative to public health (outbreaks, AMR, vaccines). Challenges: data, funding, ethics, access. We need to stay committed to open science, collaboration & integration. Summary of a great workshop. nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2910...

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Great cover of our new study!

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www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

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I feel underdressed…

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Yo, dawg: I hear you like security cameras…

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The Boston Marathon is officially underway. Follow live updates throughout the day.

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I used to do this kind of thing pretty regularly for work. These days, I think I would organize a con that involved classic video game consoles and exotic flavors of chips from all over the world. And golden retrievers.

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See images as Massachusetts commemorated the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution and thousands of people turned out to watch. trib.al/ozV9DC6

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Anyone know anything about homing pigeons? This one appears to have had a bit of a close encounter with my front window. Seems shaken but unpreturbed.

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Paper in Emerging Infectious Diseases (a CDC journal) showing that raw milk is a potential source of bird flu. I’m impressed that this got published at all, although the “p word” (pasteurization) notably does not appear. #IDSky

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I think I may buy a few dozen copies of this book and just hand them out to strangers. bookshop.org/p/books/who-...

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BREAKING: A second child has died from a measles-related illness in a growing Texas outbreak, a hospital spokesman says.

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Time to test some circuit breakers.

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All of the overseas locations mentioned in the Beach Boys’ song ‘Kokomo’ will be tariffed at the baseline 10%. This may include Kokomo itself, which despite having several locations that share its name, was completely made up.

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