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sophielarsen.bsky.social
Host heterogeneity and infectious disease dynamics @ University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Can’t stop obsessing about how much the Covid-19 signature on the LAB (TRUMP) LEAK website looks like something Joanna Gaines would stencil on a farmhouse kitchen wall.

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Online NOAA climate data hubs serving 27 states — from Colorado and the Dakotas to Louisiana and Texas — have gone dark after a lapse in funding. The cause: expired contracts. This is becoming a pattern at NOAA 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

submitted 2 days ago • 17 comments

Hard to take seriously a website that looks like the 1999 promo for Blair Witch Project, but here we are, I guess

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

After 8 months of peer review, our manuscript was published today @nature.com showing that bovine H5N1 viruses bind poorly to human-type sialic acid receptors. We now know that the virus is only 1 HA substitution away from efficiently binding human receptors. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

submitted 4 days ago • 14 comments

SCOOP: Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi went into an interview today hoping he would come out a U.S. citizen. Instead, ICE arrested him. theintercept.com/2025/04/14/i...

submitted 6 days ago • 65 comments

NEW: Entire scientific fields have been wiped out by the nearly 800 grants cancelled at NIH, finds a @nature.com analysis of the unprecedented cuts. About half of all 2024 NIH projects related to LGBT+ health or vaccine hesitancy — gone. See the other topics and US states hardest hit here:

submitted 10 days ago • 34 comments

Are you struggling with post-PhD plans? Unsure about academia vs. industry positions amidst changes in science funding? Join the @midas-network.bsky.social Trainee Network on Tues 4/8 at 4PM ET to hear from others who have navigated this transition! 🔗 Register at umd.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The CDC has literally been gutted today. There’s no need for “April Fools” when reality is a nightmare for every human on this planet. Thousand of scientists fired. Entire departments erased. 1/

submitted 19 days ago • 522 comments

Some very bad news: New modelling predicts up to 10 million additional HIV infections following aid cuts www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

There’s a lot going on right now & it can be hard to get work done! We’re offering a virtual space for @midas-network.bsky.social trainees to make some writing progress on Monday, Feb 10, at 2pm ET. Join us for an hour to write alongside supportive peers! Register: notredame.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments