Monthly Archives: April 2024

Links 4/12/24

Posted on April 12, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Communication barriers for a Deaf PhD student meant risking burnout Up to a Trillion Cicadas Are About to Emerge in the U.S. (gift link) New Law Allowing Religion into Science Classrooms Is Dangerous for Everyone: It … Continue reading →

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Professional Democrats Suck at Their Jobs: The Biden Mental Acuity Edition

Posted on April 12, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

While extrapolating from a single person is a mug’s game, the erroneous belief that Biden is too elderly to be president does seem to be widespread, if not so much anymore among the chattering class (boldface mine): And Wallace Welch, … Continue reading →

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Links 4/11/24

Posted on April 11, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Tests confirm avian flu on New Mexico dairy farm; probe finds cats positive Bradford pear trees are banned in a few states. More are looking to replace, eradicate them. The Weirdest Eyes in The Animal Kingdom … Continue reading →

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Links 4/10/24

Posted on April 10, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Largest U.S. egg producer detects bird flu at Texas plant As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice. General Mills warns of ‘food shaming’; dietitian influencers promote junk foods and discourage weight loss efforts … Continue reading →

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How a Trump Administration Would Effectively Ban Abortion–Even in Pro-Safe and Legal Abortion States

Posted on April 10, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Summarizing Jessica Valenti, here’s how they would do it: Replace the head of the FDA with a Christian nationalist apparatchik and reverse approval of abortion medication. That ends over sixty percent of abortions. A Trump Attorney General will interpret the … Continue reading →

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Links 4/9/24

Posted on April 9, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Deeper Learning in Astronomy (pdf; good science humor is hilarious) MIDASim: a fast and simple simulator for realistic microbiome data Persistence of immune responses of a self-amplifying RNA COVID-19 vaccine (ARCT-154) versus BNT162b2 MiFoDB, a workflow … Continue reading →

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We Need More Than Just Saving Social Security

Posted on April 9, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

We need to expand it. Many, many moons ago (2013!), some asshole with a blog wrote this: If we had wanted to guarantee good retirement plans for most workers, we could have simply allowed workers and employers to increase their … Continue reading →

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Links 4/8/24

Posted on April 8, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Analysis of Antimicrobial Resistance in Bacterial Pathogens Recovered from Food and Human Sources: Insights from 639,087 Bacterial Whole-Genome Sequences in the NCBI Pathogen Detection Database Just-departed head of DOE science wing discusses successes and barriers Stonehenge’s … Continue reading →

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Resentment: It Matters What You Do with It

Posted on April 8, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

In response to Tom Schaller’s and Paul Waldman’s recent book, White Rural Rage, there has been a lot of pushback*. Rural resentment (which is nebulously defined and which ignores how people develop these attitudes–the role of second-hand intermediation by various … Continue reading →

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Links 4/7/24

Posted on April 7, 2024 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Wait, does America suddenly have a record number of bees? Shifting Views of Frameshifting Epidemiology, clinical features and outcomes of hospitalized patients with COVID-19 by vaccination status: a multicenter historical cohort study Bird flu detected in … Continue reading →

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