Links for you. Science:

Quick Naps Are Good for Your Brain
No evidence that selection on synonymous codon usage affects patterns of protein evolution in bacteria
Hiding Above Our Heads: Rare Ant Species Found in North Carolina Treetops
Vaccination Shapes Within-Host SARS-CoV-2 Diversity of Omicron BA.2.2 Breakthrough Infection
Integrating climate change induced flood risk into future population projections
Characterization of an ST38 carbapenem-resistant and highly virulent Escherichia coli carrying conjugatively transferable ColV virulence–resistance and blaNDM-5-positive resistance plasmids (old enough to remember when ColV plasmids were viewed as a good model for understanding plasmid dynamics without AMR genes; now they all seem to have AMR genes…)

Other:

The U.S. is facing the biggest COVID wave since Omicron. Why are we still playing make-believe?
After Section 3 Comes Section 2: The election lawsuit about the 14th Amendment that you might not know about
Gorsuch’s writings borrow from other authors (from 2017; I fail to see how this differs from what Gay did)
Optimizing COVID-19 testing strategies on college campuses: Evaluation of the health and economic costs
Trump paid me to find voter fraud. Then he lied after I found 2020 election wasn’t stolen.
Analysis of economic and educational spillover effects in PEPFAR countries
It’s Time to Start Taking the 14th Amendment Very Seriously
There’s Nothing Undemocratic About Barring Trump From the Ballot
The On-Going Adventures of Cool Mom Clarice
State Capitols evacuated after bomb threats
Crypto hedge fund CEO may not exist; probe finds no record of identity: HyperVerse’s collapse caused an estimated $1.3 billion in customer losses. (maybe the CEO is George Santos?)
Biden’s January 6 speech is bigger than the ‘horserace’. Can the media say that?
Fear of MAGA “backlash” is no reason to let Donald Trump make an illegal run for president: Giving into MAGA threats by keeping Trump on the ballot just emboldens fascists to get even more violent
Jewish-owned grocery store in Toronto hit by suspected antisemitic arson attack: International Delicatessen Foods was hit by smashed windows, a suspicious fire and graffiti reading ‘Free Palestine’ (International Delicatessen Foods logo has IDF; this is not helping)
Punch A Nazi For Academia!
Did Refusing The COVID-19 Vaccine Cost The GOP Any Elections?
Could the Supreme Court actually disqualify Trump?
On border policies, GOP’s Nehls says the quiet part loud (again)
Trump lawyers’ doozy of a filing on voter fraud
Biden’s Other Formidable Opponent in 2024: Fox News has never been more nakedly partisan. Can Biden fend off the network as he battles Trump for reelection?
The high cost of DeSantis’s presidential bid? Vaccine misinformation.
34 years later, a 13-year-old hits the NES Tetris “kill screen”: BlueScuti forces the game to crash after 40 minutes and 1,511 lines.
In reversal, Bowser administration will implement temporary SNAP boost
The Woman Who Saved Israel’s Fragile Democracy – for Now. Ex-Supreme Court President Esther Hayut did Israeli society a huge favor on Monday by presiding over the ruling to effectively kill off the government’s judicial overhaul. But Israel remains as divided as ever, and will still be when the war ends
An iron-fisted war on crime in Latin America will fail
Out of Ink: Washington Post Buyouts Hit the Metro Section the Hardest As Local Columnists Sign Off