Monthly Archives: April 2024

Links 4/30/24

Posted on April 30, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Antibody titers and the risk of infection during the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron phase in Bizen City, Japan Detection of OXA-181 Carbapenemase in Shigella flexneri Researchers have found an amphibian that makes milk for its babies There’s never … Continue reading →

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The Second Thing I Like about Bluesky

Posted on April 30, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s the absence of the algorithm. On Xitter, to the extent possible, I never used the algorithm. When shitbird Elon Musk decided to switch people back to the algorithm feed, I could always figure out that I needed to switch … Continue reading →

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Links 4/29/24

Posted on April 29, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Why we shouldn’t panic if bird flu becomes the next pandemic As bird flu spreads in cows, fractured U.S. response has echoes of early covid Global warming threatens Antarctica’s meteorites Frontier myth vilified the California grizzly. … Continue reading →

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One of the Two Things I Like about Bluesky

Posted on April 29, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

It’s the ‘hard’ blocking (boldface mine): I want to talk about one other technical aspect of Bluesky which I think is a real differentiator, and also helped me evolve my thinking about how I want to be online generally, which … Continue reading →

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Links 4/28/24

Posted on April 28, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Review: the new Peabody Museum Viral predation pressure on coral reefs Evidence from whole genome sequencing of aerosol transmission of SARS-CoV-2 almost 5 hours after hospital room turnover Science Australian lizards have evolved resistance to deadly venom, … Continue reading →

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Links 4/27/24

Posted on April 27, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Substantial transmission of SARS-CoV-2 through casual contact in retail stores: Evidence from matched administrative microdata on card payments and testing A Bird Flu H5N1 Status Report: Updates from a joint USDA, CDC, FDA Joint Briefing Session … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on April 27, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist posts: I’m Old Enough to Remember When He Was a ‘Republican Moderate’ Gut Yontif Urban Governance: It’s the Executive Branch, Stupid Fascism Without a Head Fascist

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Links 4/26/24

Posted on April 26, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Hibernating bumblebee queens have a superpower: Surviving for days underwater Man dies after 613-day COVID-19 infection that underwent 50 mutations F.D.A. Approves Antibiotic for Increasingly Hard-to-Treat Urinary Tract Infections (Pivmecillinam, a penam derivative; effective against some … Continue reading →

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Links 4/25/24

Posted on April 25, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: 14,280 Black patients moved up transplant waitlist after race scrubbed from criteria Genome-wide association studies have problems due to confounding: Are family-based designs the answer? Common antibiotic may be helpful in fighting respiratory viral infections (paper … Continue reading →

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Fascism Without a Head Fascist

Posted on April 25, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Aka the Republican Party in 2024, Year of Our Gritty (boldface mine): There are two main reasons MAGA continues to ignore Trump’s cries for crowds to mob the courthouse on his behalf. First of all, they don’t think it would … Continue reading →

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