Links for you. Science:

Drivers of arthropod biodiversity in an urban ecosystem
We Got Lucky With the Mystery Dog Illness. A new, deadly canine disease could have the U.S. scrambling to respond.
Highly-resolved within-species dynamics in the human facial skin microbiome
Is It Dangerous to Keep Getting COVID-19?
Post-pandemic memory T cell response to SARS-CoV-2 is durable, broadly targeted, and cross-reactive to the hypermutated BA.2.86 variant
A 39.8kb flavi-like virus uses a novel strategy for overcoming the RNA virus error threshold

Other:

The Optimist’s Case for a 2024 Comeback: What factors could lead to a safer 2024
Why are 1,500 Americans still dying from COVID every week? Experts say some Americans aren’t accessing available vaccines and treatments.
There’s a Huge Covid Surge Right Now and Nobody Is Talking About It
Confusing government COVID reporting requirements led to disparities in hospital data sharing (paper here; this one reason why I say Biden’s COVID policy could have been better)
Plagiarism Is the Next ‘Fake News’: Something much simpler than generative AI is driving the new culture war.
Neri Oxman dissertation review
Free Rent? Half of DC-Area Rental Listings Offering a Concession
Beijing Won’t Allow Taiwan’s Democracy to Survive: The very prospect of a free election is a threat.
FCC starts shutting down affordable internet program as GOP refuses to fund it
The REAL AI automation threat to workers (meet the new boss, worse than the old boss…)
Florida has a solution to education issues: It’s called child labor
We Love a Hot Mic, Don’t We, Folks? And just like that, Chris Christie is out of the race.
Moms for Liberty moralist resigns from school board after shoplifting arrest
During Storm, New Tunnel Kept 233 Million Gallons Of Sewage Out Of Anacostia River
DC passed a crime bill. What should we do now?
Maryland Board Of Elections Member Arrested For Alleged Jan. 6 Crimes
Statement from President Joe Biden on Early Student Debt Cancellation for Borrowers Enrolled in SAVE
How Kristen Stewart Became a Queer Trailblazer
Philadelphia measles outbreak has hospitals on alert after child was sent to day care despite quarantine instructions: Eight people have been diagnosed since last month. None was immune to measles — meaning they either never got vaccinated or contracted measles before.
IRS has already collected more than $500 million in back taxes from delinquent millionaires (BuT tHeRe’s No DiFfErEnCe BeTwEeN tHe PaRtIeS)
The Feeling of Losing Snow
Constitutional Courage: How our fears endanger our future
What Is Nikki Haley Even Talking About?
Democrats™ Awaken To The Consequences Of Conflict Avoidance: Biden is struggling, Trump is recovering, and now it’s almost too late
Kyrsten Sinema finds a new way to vote against Democrats
Israel’s Man in Black (this is written from a rightwing Israeli security hawk perspective, but people should read it to understand where many Israelis are coming from)