Links 2/5/24

Links for you. Science:

Beav: A bacterial genome and mobile element annotation pipeline
It’s time to stop making postdocs move for just two years
Making every researcher seek grants is a broken model: Funding should go to larger labs with many researchers, not to “principal investigators”
Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Inpatient Antibiotic Use in the United States, January 2019 Through July 2022
Identifying genomic data use with the Data Citation Explorer
Syphilis Is Soaring in the U.S. Cases have risen by 80 percent since 2018, the C.D.C. reported. But chlamydia remains by far the most common sexually transmitted infection.

Other:

Distance to vaccine sites is tied to decreased COVID-19 vaccine uptake (inconvenient vaccination sites is a policy decision)
Biden’s Smart Strategy for Outmaneuvering Bibi: Netanyahu has deftly navigated multiple Democratic presidents. Biden is trying to change that.
What Should We Have Learned from the Collapse of the New Economy (1998-2000)? History doesn’t repeat itself, but oh boy does this one rhyme.
Biden imposes sanctions on Israeli West Bank settlers
What we talk about when we talk about The Future: A few thoughts on four genres of futurism
Elon Musk bashed by heavy metal drummer who cost him $56 billion (hopefully, the drummer doesn’t spontaneously combust)
Everyone’s a sellout now
Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
Biden issues executive order targeting Israeli settlers who attack Palestinians (order is here)
Doom Runs on E. Coli Bacteria Now
Most Republican Senators Barred From Re-election in Oregon After Walkouts: The Oregon Supreme Court ruled they could not seek re-election after they repeatedly boycotted legislative sessions.
‘Abortion Trafficking’ Would Be A Crime in Mississippi Under Republican Bill
Republicans’ plotting to block a Democratic president goes public
Israeli peace group Standing Together says calls to boycott its work are ‘infuriating’
Why MAGA fears Taylor Swift at the Super Bowl: The Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce conspiracy illustrates how the MAGA cult controls its followers
Labor market grew 353,000 in January, soaring past expectations
Taylor Swift, Stanley cups and a brewing backlash to MAGA’s sexist snobbery
MC5’s Wayne Kramer Dies at 75
The school bus is disappearing. Welcome to the parental pickup era.
While COVID-19 surges, California guts mitigation efforts in schools
Half of RFK Jr.’s Massive Fundraising Haul Came From Two People
What if It’s Not the Economy (Stupid)?
The Real Problem With American Universities. It isn’t DEI.
Republicans aren’t spending money at Trump’s DC hotel now that he’s sold it
We’ve found it folks: Mcmansion heaven
What I Found in San Francisco: The city wants to shake its reputation as a “zombie-apocalypse wasteland.” How it achieves that goal is another story.

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