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PhD candidate at the Atlantic Veterinary College working on measuring antimicrobial use on dairy farms and how that shapes the microbiome. I also love curling to no end. 🐮🥌

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New: Last night, hundreds of CDC post-doc fellows were fired, including all in the group who call themselves the "disease detectors," and are the future of public health lab leaders. One senior official told me, "It is going to cripple public health for decades." www.nbcnews.com/politics/dog...

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They finally released the data on H5N1 infections of cow vets. My main take away is that this is good news (low virulence and contagiousness, though influenzas change quickly) so why did it have to be delayed a month? What would have happened if it was scary? www.npr.org/sections/sho...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

“This, too, shall pass” is as much a warning as a consolation. Society does best when people plant trees they will never sit in the shade of. As terrible as a moment may feel, plan for a better tomorrow.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

All cases of bird flu in dairy cows had seemed to come from one transmission event… until now. I still think this is just an issue for dairy farms, but it’d be nice if the US had a functional CDC. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

I haven’t had an update on H5N1 in dairy vets, but, seeing as all the data sets from the CDC are down, I doubt they will be talking anytime soon. The difference is people outside the organization do know the results, but aren’t talking. I think it’s been long enough that decorum can be put aside.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I was supposed to sit in on a webinar about veterinarians getting exposed to H5N1 on dairy farms with the first data, but it got cancelled because the CDC isn’t allowed to communicate findings. People on the call that saw the data said it’s interesting but none of us at risk get to know about it.

submitted 35 days ago • 4 comments

I read “3 Body Problem” and thought it was interesting that aliens would neuter our science to make us vulnerable, then I realized that the COVID blowback did that specifically for epidemiology. If a biological weapon gets deployed, we’re done.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Trust is one of the most undervalued resources in many fields, but especially agriculture

submitted 44 days ago • 0 comments

Blinding white with shades of pain described me similarly to many others this morning for very different reasons, but comforting nonetheless

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I realized I haven’t posted my own science, so here is my favourite. It’s open access. www.frontiersin.org/journals/vet...

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

There is concern about Bovaer in cattle feed which reduces methane emissions and improves efficiency but people are concerned about it passing through in the milk. I think this concern is overblown, but I will always be for increasing the scale of bromoform-containing seaweed supplementation.

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Money in science can certainly cause problems, but the issues people are scared of I think are overblown. The biggest issue I see is the lack of funding for replication studies and the hesitancy to publish negative results

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

I’m only somewhat worried about the imminent relaxation of laws around retail raw milk. People are going to get sick and worse, but I see enough people complain about pasteurized milk spoiling early that I’m pretty sure all those health rebels are going to give up when the poop bacteria takes over.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

If someone is emotionally attached to a view of their’s, an attack on their view is seen as an attack on the person. This is not a feature of dumb people or illogical people. It is a feature of people. Remember that you are more than your beliefs.

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

I read this paper a few weeks ago about the anthropology of Albertan dairy farmers. Seeing an outside perspective is like realizing that water is wet. It’s rare to feel truly edified from a paper. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

The variation in human intelligence is smaller than you think

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

I find it interesting that in livestock antibiotic use research, studies that look for an effect on human outcomes tend to find a relationship, but studies that look for a mechanism can’t find anything. I’m assuming that it is because of several weak effects, but there also might be a white whale

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

Nature has no obligation to fit into human-intelligible categories

submitted 84 days ago • 0 comments

I know Bluesky is quite a pro-science platform, but, for anyone who is skeptical about science due to the influence of funders: What proportion of studies do you think are entirely fake? What proportion of studies do you think are more subtly altered? What fields do you think are most affected?

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