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He's the world's most notorious, extreme anti-vaxxer with a body count that is growing by the day I know that his 3 MAHA bro buddies, docs Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, & Vinay Prasad, are his biggest boosters & supporters, but he NEEDS TO RESIGN NOW www.medpagetoday.com/washington-w...

submitted 11 hours ago • 23 comments

Y’all. Who put Karen on the #hurricane name list? The south would like a word with your manager. 😒

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Also does no one realize the energy costs of these things?!

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

An executive order by Donald Trump would install political appointees at the apex of the scientific process, with a mandate to edit or discard science that did not meet the administration’s criteria and potentially discipline scientists, critics have warned www.bmj.com/content/389/...

submitted 4 days ago • 6 comments

AIR FORCE NONE? 🥴 Trump’s Air Force One deal with Qatar isn’t final. Turns out he asked for the jet—they didn’t offer. And now Qatar wants a memo of understanding signed with DC first.

submitted 7 days ago • 252 comments

Estimated deaths caused by Funding Discontinuation in the U.S. (until now) 90.377 Adult Deaths 188.584 Child Deaths Deaths Per Hour 103 1/2

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

“.. these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year. That is what Musk’s foray into politics accomplished.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

submitted 7 days ago • 214 comments

In this day and age, only one of the major news outlets in the United States seems capable of actual journalism and describing things exactly the way they are - @theatlantic.com. Example: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Two distinct host-specialized fungal species cause white-nose disease in bats www.nature.com/articles/s41... This study shows that there are two distinct lineages responsible for white-nose disease. They co-occur throughout Europe in sympatry but show different host specialisation.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

OMG! I can finally share my joy to see my SFTSV work published in @natcomms.nature.com! This adventure started by the award of my MSCA grant and my move to the Kohl and @brennanlab.bsky.social at @cvrinfo.bsky.social. Let's chat about how we discovered novel tick anti-viral effectors!

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

It's always wonderful to see the grad students shine. This year was exceptional! Congrats to all of our students - especially Samantha Clark for representing the Christofferson Lab with her work on Batai virus in Culex mosquitoes.

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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...

submitted 15 days ago • 7 comments

Read our June issue! Featuring effectiveness of RSV vaccination in older people in the US, malaria prevention in children with sickle-cell anaemia, and testing new serological tools for arboviral infections www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Buckle up buttercups...

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

A great interview with @gregkoblentz.bsky.social on the critical work of enhancing biosafety/biosecurity, but also the new EO and what it means. A functional policy requires engagement with a range of experts, balancing safety and innovation, and tackling big implementation hurdles.

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So our turtle shells are now in our mouths?! Super cool.

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🚨 A new rule would let career scientists like NSF/NIH program officers be replaced by political appointees Already 14,000+ public comments, deadline is Friday 📣 Comments can be short. Courts consider them—and scientists with NSF/NIH experience are especially impactful Speak up! shorturl.at/WKuBj

submitted 16 days ago • 27 comments

🆕 Today, UKHSA and the Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA) have confirmed the first detection of West Nile virus in mosquitoes collected in the UK. There is currently no evidence of wider circulation in birds or mosquitoes, and the risk to the public remains very low. 📰🔗 www.gov.uk/government/n...

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This paper was a long labor but I met new people and made new colleagues and friends. #COVID19 We synthesized what was available re: long term shedding of SARS-CoV-2 in immunocompromised patients. TL;DR - it can be a long, long time. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Humble brag: I went through and matched all the orphaned socks today

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📢 Deadline today - Apply now 🦋 We're looking for 3 new Editors-in-Chiefs to cover medical, veterinary & forensic entomology, committed to building the profile of the journal & handling manuscripts with integrity. 📅 Deadline: 11 May Apply 🔽 buff.ly/ENZ4PTy @MedVet_Ent #RESMedVetEnt

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After the Trump regime pulled funding from Cornell University, one of the programs that was halted was decades long research on the development of a heart pump for babies and children with heart defects, which was at the point to begin testing on sheep. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/05...

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

Paper accepted!

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Happy Mother’s Day! youtu.be/RO6JiFztJdg?...

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Just a spring Saturday in Louisiana

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Pope Leo

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Been a huge day for everyone passionate about reminding people that gulls nest on urban roofs

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

OPINION by @stevebenen.com: “This is a Senate-confirmed position. I’m going to go out on a limb and say that her confirmation hearings will inevitably be the most contentious of any surgeon general nominee ever.” READ MORE: www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

I am very excited to participate in a keynote lecture by Ray Huey, one of the fathers of thermal and physiological ecology, today during Evo Day here at Cornell. His work is the foundation of our work, and it is awesome to see it presented live today 😊.

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🕷️" #Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever ( #CCHF): Seven dead, 53 infected with #CCHF across #Iraq 🇮🇶" via @rudawmedia.bsky.social www.rudaw.net/english/midd...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The “brain drain” will be a primarily domestic phenomenon, w/ STEM-trained people moving into non-STEM occupations. There are not remotely enough STEM jobs abroad for our millions scientists, and even if there were, moving is hard, expensive & dependent on multiple intersecting privileges.

submitted 33 days ago • 34 comments

🎶It’s that time of year

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NIH ends so-called foreign subawards. "I’m struggling to convey the enormous consequences of what this would mean, including the inability to work meaningfully on some of the world’s biggest killers." www.science.org/content/arti...

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Recently published - Oropouche in humans in Colombia further back than previously thought. While we only show three new cases, it's still important to understand the sporadic distribution of pathogens to understand when patterns deviate from norm. ajtmh.org/view/journal...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

May the 4th be with you!

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Took a lab field trip for science and found skeeball.

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Every time I post about LLMs and higher ed, I see disgruntled tech people/AI pushers whine. I honestly don't care, watching students imbibe the idea that they don't have to learn to read, think, write or imagine anything because the "AI will do it for them" has been the scariest thing.

submitted 35 days ago • 8 comments

"Aborted foetal material" is usually an anti-vaccination code for a much simpler reality. Cells. Mostly, cell lines WI-38 and MRC-5 were derived from aborted foetal material that would otherwise have been discarded. Why use this when you could use animal cell lines?

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Find happiness where you can ;)

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

There’s a measles outbreak in the Canadian province of Ontario that’s twice the size of the one in Texas. Over 1000 people are sick. Why isn’t this getting more media attention? People need to be informed of the risk & how to protect themselves. Vaccinate, wear a respirator, isolate when sick.

submitted 36 days ago • 60 comments

The Senate on Wednesday rejected an effort to undo President Trump’s sweeping tariffs on most U.S. trading partners, even as a small group of Republicans joined Democrats in delivering a rebuke to a trade policy that many lawmakers fear is causing economic harm.

submitted 36 days ago • 55 comments

I will be participating in a webinar discussing the state of #chikungunya and vaccines on May 7th. Virtual and all are welcome - see y'all there! vaccinesbeat.org/webinar-chik...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

buy American, they said

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting initiative. May be the public alternative for vaccine information and recomendations if RFK jr meddles with the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP). twin-cities.umn.edu/news-events/...

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