Monthly Archives: June 2022

It’s Not Hypocrisy, It’s Transactionalism

Posted on June 21, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

And I just made up ‘transactionalism’ (I think?). Georgia Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign has focused on out-of-wedlock children as a major campaign issue. Over the last few weeks, in a Fibonacci sequence of scandals, one story broke, identifying … Continue reading →

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Links 6/20/22

Posted on June 20, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Curation of the AMRFinderPlus databases: applications, functionality and impact A Secret Polar Bear Population Has Been Found in an ‘Impossible’ Location Exercising before or after a flu vaccine may make it work better Epidemiological characterization of … Continue reading →

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Links 6/19/22

Posted on June 19, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Modelling long-term COVID-19 hospital admission dynamics using immune protection waning data The defence island repertoire of the Escherichia coli pan-genome Synonymous mutations in representative yeast genes are mostly strongly non-neutral The largest ever series of phage … Continue reading →

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Purple

Posted on June 19, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Observed on S Street NW, between 17th and 18th, Dupont Circle, D.C.:

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Links 6/18/22

Posted on June 18, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Immunity to SARS-CoV-2: What Do We Know and Should We Be Testing for It? People who caught Covid in first wave get ‘no immune boost’ from Omicron (paper here) Datasets for benchmarking antimicrobial resistance genes in … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on June 18, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist posts: White Star Heartland Values and the Rural Crime Wave Still a Failure to Communicate It’s Time to Unleash a New Greek Letter Some Personal Thoughts on Scientific Meetings in a Time of COVID It’s … Continue reading →

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Links 6/17/22

Posted on June 17, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Are these Cocoa Krispies-loving hamsters a key to cracking long Covid? Monkeypox dilemma: How to warn gay men about risk without fueling hate Mild respiratory COVID can cause multi-lineage neural cell and myelin dysregulation How Animals … Continue reading →

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It’s Not the Jumping, It’s the Landing

Posted on June 17, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Over the last couple of days, there has been a spate of articles about tiny little frogs (smol!) that don’t jump like normal frogs because their small size means that the structures in the ear aren’t well developed and therefore … Continue reading →

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Links 6/16/22

Posted on June 16, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Legendary bacterial evolution experiment enters new era: A laboratory has been growing 12 populations of E. coli since 1988 — this year the cultures will get a new custodian. UCSF’s Wachter says his wife now likely … Continue reading →

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Some Personal Thoughts on Scientific Meetings in a Time of COVID

Posted on June 16, 2022 by mikethemadbiologist

Last week, I attended the ASM Microbe meeting held in D.C. Since I could walk or take the Metro there, I felt very safe–arguably, the safest public gathering I’ve attended since the pandemic. Mask compliance was extraordinarily high (>99%), and … Continue reading →

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