Monthly Archives: April 2023

In Case You Missed It…

Posted on April 8, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist posts: If D.C.’s Schools Are Inmate Factories, Then What Are Alabama’s? Always Be Crimeing On Wisconsin! (and Chicago) Justice in the Mainland Colony Tennessee and Patriarchy

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Links 4/7/23

Posted on April 7, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: From individual behaviors to collective outcomes: fruiting body formation in Dictyostelium as a group-level phenotype A novel pan-sarbecovirus vaccine candidate neutralizes Omicron BQ.1.1 and XBB subvariants Indoor air surveillance and factors associated with respiratory pathogen detection … Continue reading →

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Tennessee and Patriarchy

Posted on April 7, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

When I blog, I typically try to avoid using certain words because all those words would do is, ahem, trigger people (trigger is often another one of those words…). But what happened in Tennessee with the expulsion of two Black … Continue reading →

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Links 4/6/23

Posted on April 6, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: World’s Largest Organism Is Slowly Being Eaten One Head, 1,000 Rear Ends: The Tale of a Deeply Weird Worm The genetic and ecological landscape of plasmids in the human gut S:D614G and S:H655Y are gateway mutations … Continue reading →

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Justice in the Mainland Colony

Posted on April 6, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

It bears repeating–a significant problem D.C.–not official Wor-Shing-Tun, but D.C.–faces when it comes to stopping crime is the subjects of the mainland colony don’t have control over our justice system (boldface mine): Charging documents released Monday chronicle the brutal killing … Continue reading →

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Links 4/5/23

Posted on April 5, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: SARS-CoV-2 ORF8: A Rapidly Evolving Immune and Viral Modulator in COVID-19 DNA Confirms Oral History of Swahili People Can COVID Lead to Diabetes? Early work suggests a connection, but experts say more investigation is needed We … Continue reading →

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On Wisconsin! (and Chicago)

Posted on April 5, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

So last night was a good night for the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party: Brandon Johnson won his election in Chicago (Let’s Go Brandon?) and Janet Protasiewicz won her Wisconsin Supreme Court race, meaning gerrymandering and other anti-democratic measures … Continue reading →

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Links 4/4/23

Posted on April 4, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: COVID-origins report sparks debate over major genome hub GISAID. GISAID revoked researchers’ access following the report, sparking discussion about findings based on data found in online repositories. The Myth of the Alpha Wolf Sugar-powered teabag-like implant … Continue reading →

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Always Be Crimeing

Posted on April 4, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

We’ll have to see what the ‘indicatement’ of Trump contains, but this is important context (boldface mine): The Republican and right-wing reaction is just insane. Trump’s been in legal jeopardy his entire life. Read the Wikipedia entry “Legal Affairs of … Continue reading →

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Links 4/3/23

Posted on April 3, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Antibody-mediated protection against symptomatic COVID-19 can be achieved at low serum neutralizing titers (unfortunately, the Biden administration has decided the pandemic is over, so this won’t be pushed/accelerated etc. New Dems gonna New Dem) How Long … Continue reading →

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