Monthly Archives: December 2023

Links 12/31/23

Posted on December 31, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Remdesivir Reduced Mortality in Immunocompromised Patients Hospitalized for COVID-19 Across Variant Waves: Findings From Routine Clinical Practice Time to rethink academic publishing: the peer reviewer crisis SARS-CoV-2 Rebound With and Without Use of COVID-19 Oral Antivirals … Continue reading →

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Year of Posts in Review, January to April

Posted on December 31, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Here are some posts that either were popular with readers or worth revisiting again: NIH Funding, Collaborative Mechanisms, and (Politically) Risky Research* (what I think the real story regarding ‘gain of function’ research is) More from the Green Eye Shade … Continue reading →

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Links 12/30/23

Posted on December 30, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Everyone in California seems to be sick with respiratory illness. Here’s why Thanks, Neanderthals: How our ancient relatives could help find new antibiotics Natural Born Killers: Arson, acid, and the deadly war against abortion rights New … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on December 30, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist posts: USBG Trains 2023 The State of COVID in D.C.*: We’re Back to the January 2023 Peak No, It Is Not “Undemocratic” to Remove Trump from the Ballot Donald Trump Is Bad for Vibes

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Links 12/29/23

Posted on December 29, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Healthcare utilisation in people with long COVID: an OpenSAFELY cohort study Human behavior and disease dynamics What to Know About COVID’s Connection to Heart Problems The Human Body Is Bags, Bags and More Bags: Your brain … Continue reading →

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Links 12/28/23

Posted on December 28, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The link between climate change and a spate of rare disease outbreaks in 2023 Digital measurement of SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk from 7 million contacts Unusual boxes and 7,000-year-old trove found locked in ice The sea cucumber … Continue reading →

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Donald Trump Is Bad for Vibes

Posted on December 28, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Not surprising, because he’s bad for everything, but I digress. I think it’s stupid to argue if negative sentiment about the economy reflects reality: it’s a big country, and some people are correctly angry about the economy, if not inflation … Continue reading →

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Links 12/27/23

Posted on December 27, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: A new study reports 309 lab acquired infections and 16 pathogen lab escapes between 2000 and 2021 What Grok’s recent OpenAI snafu teaches us about LLM model collapse How a thumb-sized climate migrant with a giant … Continue reading →

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No, It Is Not “Undemocratic” to Remove Trump from the Ballot

Posted on December 27, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Last week, Ross Douthat scribbled something about how removing Trump through the 14th Amendment, section 3 is undemocratic. Needless to say, his op-ed piece is stupid. But it does get at a fundamental confusion about how U.S. democracy works (and … Continue reading →

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Links 12/26/23

Posted on December 26, 2023 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Extinct woolly dog was carefully bred for weaving, ancient DNA confirms (gift link) Octopuses help solve a long-standing mystery of West Antarctica demise Genetic engineering was meant to save chestnut trees. Then there was a mistake. … Continue reading →

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