Monthly Archives: March 2024

Links 3/25/24

Posted on March 25, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Annotating microbial functions with ProkFunFind Effectiveness of BNT162b2 BA.4/5 Bivalent mRNA Vaccine Against Symptomatic COVID-19 Among Immunocompetent Individuals Testing at a Large US Retail Pharmacy Association Between Social Vulnerability and Streptococcus pneumoniae Antimicrobial Resistance in US … Continue reading →

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It’s Not Just Grief, It’s Also Guilt

Posted on March 25, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

A couple of weeks ago, the Atlantic pushed a piece arguing that the Great Crankiness is due to unprocessed grief over COVID. That might be, but I think there’s something else involved too: guilt. Put simply, as this study lays … Continue reading →

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Links 3/24/24

Posted on March 24, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Scientists discover fossilized remnants of earliest known forest Want a more sustainable meat for the grill? Try a 13-foot python steak. “This Would Translate to About 10,000 Deaths” Reflections From the Start of the Pandemic ‘Lab-leak’ … Continue reading →

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Links 3/23/24

Posted on March 23, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Covid, 4 years on: A quick update on some important new data Everything is Crabs: How many crabs do you need to land on the moon? An Interview With The Bee Hero Who Humanely Vacuumed Thousands … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on March 23, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist posts: Why Was Biden Doing So Poorly? D.C. Homicides: It’s the Guns The State of COVID in D.C.*: More Declining!

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Links 3/22/24

Posted on March 22, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Giant redwoods thriving in the UK: experts A critical reexamination of recovered SARS-CoV-2 sequencing data (a blow to various COVID coverup conspiracy tales) Secondary structure of the SARS-CoV-2 genome is predictive of nucleotide substitution frequency Why … Continue reading →

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Links 3/21/24

Posted on March 21, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: This company intends to be the first to mine the moon. Founded by former Blue Origin executives and an Apollo astronaut, Interlune says it intends to extract Helium-3 and return it to Earth NASA says spending … Continue reading →

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Links 3/20/24

Posted on March 20, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Benchmarking of long-read assemblers for prokaryote whole genome sequencing How low can you go? Short-read polishing of Oxford Nanopore bacterial genome assemblies Tracing the origin of SARS-CoV-2 omicron-like spike sequences detected in an urban sewershed: a … Continue reading →

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The State of COVID in D.C.*: More Declining!

Posted on March 20, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

*And by D.C., I mean Alexandria, VA, because the publicly available Biobot D.C. data don’t seem to be collected anymore. More good news: With a decrease from 378 copies/ml to 272 copies/ml, we’re still three times higher than the mid-June … Continue reading →

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Links 3/19/24

Posted on March 19, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Magpies swoop bald men more often, eight-year-old’s viral survey finds Iron dysregulation and inflammatory stress erythropoiesis associates with long-term outcome of COVID-19 Scientists will not “just”: Individual scientists can’t solve systemic problems Unifying fluidic excretion across … Continue reading →

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