Links 1/29/23 | Mike the Mad Biologist

Links 1/29/23

Posted on January 29, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science:

First cases of gonorrhea resistant to several classes of antibiotics identified in the U.S.
Two-Years Follow-Up of Symptoms and Return to Work in Complex Post-COVID-19 Patients (it’s not good. Again, you are not the weirdo if you’re trying to avoid (re)-infection)
A New Report Outlines a Vision for National Wastewater Surveillance
When scientists tagged a curious seal, he led them to signs of a potential climate disaster
What zombie show ‘The Last of Us’ gets right about fungus in a warming world
Abstracts written by ChatGPT fool scientists (pre-print here)

Other:

WaPo Feeds Denial With False Claims About Overcounting Covid Deaths
The Right Wing Grift
World Economic Forum: Here Are All The Covid-19 Precautions At Davos 2023
Utah plastic surgeon injected kids with saline instead of COVID vaccine as part of anti-vaxxer scam (read to the end on this one)
Remember MOOCs?
Puck’s Official Streaming Service Hierarchy
Never Forget
The Crime Wave That Wasn’t
We Need To Get Junk Science Out of Courtrooms
The Eternal Sunshine of S.B.F.
What Italy’s Failures to Stop Berlusconi Teach Us About Preventing a Trump Comeback
The 5 Creepiest Moments at Davos
The Biden administration moves to end noncompete agreements and the exploitation of workers
Nick Bostrom, Longtermism, and the Eternal Return of Eugenics
The antivaxers’ ghoulish exploitation of dead celebrities
The S.B.F. Chronicles, Part 5: The Mysteries of Stanford
Long Island Publisher Recounts Disturbing Early Meeting With ‘Pure Evil’ George Santos
The Republican con on the debt ceiling
The lasting legacy of Boston’s busing crisis
What more education on racial issues taught me
Why ‘how downtown Boston is recovering’ depends on which downtown you’re talking about
How Nevada Picks Millions From California’s Pocket
The NYT’s trans ‘debate’ isn’t actually a debate
How to change your iPhone’s text size for a specific app: In iOS 15, you can have a different text size for each app
‘We need new antivirals’: Australia’s ‘Omicron soup’ is blunting our best COVID treatments

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