Monthly Archives: April 2023

Links 4/24/23

Posted on April 24, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Lightning Bolt Deposits a Strange Mineral Never Seen on Earth Before Immunogenicity of the BA.1 and BA.4/BA.5 SARS-CoV-2 Bivalent Boosts: Preliminary Results from the COVAIL Randomized Clinical Trial Genome size distributions in bacteria and archaea are … Continue reading →

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What the Blue Check Fiasco Tells Us about Elongated Muskrat’s Conspiracism

Posted on April 24, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Arguably, the most important lesson regarding Elongated Muskrat’s forcing of blue checks onto high traffic Twitter accounts is to never pick a fight with dril. But it also tells us something about Muskrat’s redpilling and how so much of his … Continue reading →

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Links 4/23/23

Posted on April 23, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Grateful Med: Direct access to MEDLINE for health professionals with personal computers (blast from the past…) Vaccines Alone Cannot Slow the Evolution of SARS-CoV-2 High risk of autoimmune diseases after COVID-19 Point Prevalence Estimates of Activity-Limiting … Continue reading →

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Links 4/22/23

Posted on April 22, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Feral hogs are the invasive menace you’ve never thought about Virginia Norwood, ‘Mother’ of Satellite Imaging Systems, Dies at 96. A pioneer in aerospace, she invented a technology that has enabled scientists to map and study … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on April 22, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist posts: #BidenSafe The Potential Politics of COVID It’s Time for Sen. Feinstein to Go Going Manhattan Project on Long COVID’s Ass If Elongated Muskrat (or George Santos) Ran GenBank

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Links 4/21/23

Posted on April 21, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: ‘Arcturus,’ a COVID variant sweeping India, is now in the U.S., the CDC says—and it’s coming in hot. What it means for the future of the pandemic You’re less likely to get long COVID after a … Continue reading →

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If Elongated Muskrat (or George Santos) Ran GenBank

Posted on April 21, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

This article on the founder and driving force behind GISAID, which has risen to fame in no small part due to its role as a data repository during the COVID pandemic, is bugshit crazy and worth the read–it’s as if … Continue reading →

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Links 4/20/23

Posted on April 20, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Mucosal vaccines for SARS-CoV-2: scientific gaps and opportunities—workshop report Fungal infection outbreak affects 90+ workers at Escanaba paper mill Enhanced inhibition of MHC-I expression by SARS-CoV-2 Omicron subvariants Improved interpretability of bacterial genome-wide associations using gene … Continue reading →

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Going Manhattan Project on Long COVID’s Ass

Posted on April 20, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Some asshole with a blog vaguely remembers using the phrase “Going Manhattan Project on [X]’s ass”, by which said asshole meant that there are certain kinds of science and research objective that need far more top down direction from NIH … Continue reading →

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Links 4/19/23

Posted on April 19, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Bacteria Are Eating the Titanic New Support for Some Extinct Tasmanian Tiger Sightings ‘Arcturus,’ a highly transmissible COVID variant eyed by the WHO, appears to have a new symptom. Here’s what you need to know Improved … Continue reading →

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