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Lab Mice Appear to Offer ‘First Aid’ Care to Their Unconscious Companions, Even Pulling on Their Tongues A new study finds that mice will sniff, lick and pull the tongue of other mice that are under anesthesia, serving to open their airways www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/l...

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📣 TWO WEEKS UNTIL WE STAND UP FOR SCIENCE! 📣 On March 7th, we’re Standing Up for Science in DC & ALL 50 STATES to make our voices heard. We hope you’ll join us! ☀️ #sciencenotsilence #scienceforall #standupforscience2025

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Among the federal workers fired were those responsible for helping to ensure food safety. You may want to consider cooking your food until well done or becoming a vegetarian for a few years. #VetMedSky #foodsafety

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Love it!

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Saw the pre-print and excited to see the validation data in the final paper!

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Here’s some positive H5N1 news for a change: conditional approval for poultry vaccines made by Zoetis for chickens. Why didn’t we do this sooner? The answer is more complex than you might think. www.science.org/content/arti...

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This excellent interactive tutorial on misleading data visualizations explores the idea of a "counter chart" — the graph you draw in response to refute a misleading claims flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

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The Oregon Trail generation speaks

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We typically think of food and diet when we think about the GI microbiome. Did you know your sleep cycle and circadian rhythm also play an important role in maintaining your "gut" microbiome? www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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👋Good Wednesday Morning Bluesky Friends🦋 I'm not able to go to my Capitol in Lansing, Michigan today, so I'm wearing Blue and for an Exclamation Point, I will wear my Pink Pussy Hat at Noon🩷👊 Please be safe out there and let’s continue fighting the Good Fight💙✊🫶🤗

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It turns out, pasteurization works - helping to keep us (and our pets) safe from diseases like H5N1 bird flu since 1862! #VetMedSky #betterdatasavespets #cats www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Aluminum adjuvants in vaccines. Finally an NYT article that doesn’t try to spin a “both sides” narrative. This is one of the most studied ingredients in vaccines, and they have a terrific safety record in all species (except cats). Great #OneHealth trivia—adjuvants were invented by a vet! 1/7

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Agree! Know your lab animal model and what good information it gives you, but also what it doesn’t tell you. A common one is that mice are nocturnal while humans are diurnal, so most mice are dosed the equivalent of the middle of the night- different physiology. #chronobiology #betterdatasaveslives

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The price of eggs in the US is spiking, mostly due to #H5N1 bird flu. Solving the problem requires urgent, important communications from the CDC & FDA* and rapid development of research by the NIH** * Currently paused by Executive Order ** Grant reviews now all canceled www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...

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Cool study from @hutlab.bsky.social showing that dog microbiomes also have strong fiber-microbiome-host interactions. This study has implications for how different diets can impact canine 🐕 health #betterdatasavespets #vetmed #dogs

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Really great summary of the H5N1 (“high path” bird flu) hopping species around the globe so far!

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Great thread about organizations helping #pets affected by the LA fires #vetmed #LAfires

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Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

submitted 48 days ago • 430 comments

Thankfully, no one tried to “cure” my left-handedness! #lefties #southpaws

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Really cool paper that expands our knowledge of combinatorial antibiotic interactions. Bacteria can become resistant to multiple antibiotics at the same time, but they ALSO can become sensitive to other antibiotics (trade-offs). #Microsky #vetmed #betterdatasavespets www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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My friend sent me this photo of her cat yesterday because she thought it was neat/cute. I had to let her know that when cats have differently sized pupils, it can be serious - even a veterinary emergency.... This is a condition called anisocoria. Luckily her cat seems to be okay.

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So happy our paper made the list!

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Curated list of #Python resources for data science 🧪🧬🖥️ github.com/r0f1/datasci...

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PSA for cat owners in the US: cats have been contracting H5N1 (bird flu). They are very susceptible to it and the fatality rate for cats is 67%. To avoid it: -keep your cats indoors. They can catch it from infected birds and mice. -do not feed them raw dairy -do not feed them raw meat

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Updated PPE guidance for veterinary staff handling cats with suspected H5N1. #VetMedSky #VetSky

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A longer read that really nicely covers so many angles of the H5N1 Bird Flu crisis and what is and isn't being done by industry, public health, and government to stop it... Kudos to @amymaxmen.bsky.social 🛟🧭🧪📈😷 health policy sociology lawsky

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Finally, our paper, "A Conserved Bacterial Genetic Basis for Commensal-Host Specificity," has been officially published in Science. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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MIT researchers introduce Boltz-1, a fully open-source model for predicting biomolecular structures With models like AlphaFold3 limited to academic research, the team built an equivalent alternative, to encourage innovation more broadly www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

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It also makes it harder for them to ban books.

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The exometabolome as a hidden driver of bacterial virulence and pathogenesis @cp-trendsmicrobiol.bsky.social from @oneyrolles.bsky.social www.cell.com/trends/micro...

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

Do 👏🏻 not 👏🏻 get 👏🏻 pets 👏🏻 as 👏🏻 gifts 👏🏻 unless 👏🏻 the 👏🏻 recipient 👏🏻 wants 👏🏻 one 👏🏻 and 👏🏻 exactly 👏🏻 that 👏🏻 one 👏🏻. For the next two months animal rescue folks are going to face an onslaught of "we need to rehome our [pet] because... [avoidable excuse]." Pets are not commodities.

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If you have longitudinal microbiome data (data with sparsity and compositionality), I have found this method to be really useful to better understand my data with repeated sampling. Highly recommended!

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A really great thread summarizing and adding context to the ISAPP recommendation! In both human and veterinary medicine there is this perception that probiotics will fix detrimental effects of antibiotics on the microbiome, when there is no evidence to support that. (Help with symptoms potentially)

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There are two fatal cases of H5N1 in cats in California. Both cats had been fed raw milk from the recalled lot in the ongoing outbreak associated with Raw Farms. The milk wasn’t tested. But an astute veterinarian tested the cats for flu based on clinical suspicion. #VetMedsky #IDsky #OneHealth

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A new study looked at the relationship between cats' social behavior toward humans and their ability to solve a puzzle feeder! Read about what the researchers found on my blog!! Link in bio/linktree or whatyourcatwants.com/do-social-ca...

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Moths can hear plants "screaming" to avoid predators! New research shows moths pick up sound waves plants emit when under attack, helping them escape danger. Nature's amazing and always surprising and fascinating! www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/s...

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Congrats to @KnightLabNews and @pieterdorrestein.bsky.social ! @ucsandiego.bsky.social #academicsky #research

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Same! From going to vet school to leaving practice and staring a PhD to pursue a different type of career, people told me I couldn’t do it. #microbes It wasn’t easy, but well worth it! #persistence

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@binningsingletons.com is a great program that benefits everyone from grad students that didn’t come with their lab to visiting international PIs who may not know anyone. If you can, donate! Recognized by @asm.org

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

Quite a comprehensive piece of work: "Gut physiology and environment explain variations in human gut microbiome composition and metabolism." www.nature.com/articles/s41... Definitely worth checking out if you work on animal microbiomes, especially in the gut

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

And remember to spay and neuter.

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The holidays often include cold weather, travel and a change of routine for #pets. This could lead to a case of canine infectious respiratory disease complex, otherwise known as kennel cough. Here's the signs to look for and tips on how to avoid: #vetmed #dogs agrilifetoday.tamu.edu/2024/11/21/a...

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Last wastewater readings found H5 bird flu in Davis, Los Angeles, Marina, Napa, Novato, San Francisco, Ontario, Paso Robles, Riverside, Sacramento, San Diego, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Santa Rosa, Sunnyvale and Turlock.

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Had a lot of fun with flower hikes & camping trips with the kids this year; usually with them running away at high speed while I try to take bad nature pics. I enjoy popping these up on inaturalist as a way to keep track of what/when I've seen on walks. www.inaturalist.org/observations...

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Diabetes in pets is more manageable if it is detected early and managed with the help of your veterinarian. During #NationalPetDiabetesMonth, learn how with proper monitoring, treatment, and diet and exercise, diabetic pets can lead long and happy lives: www.avma.org/resources-to...

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Fake quote, but still amusing #antibiotics #Microsky

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