Monthly Archives: February 2025

Links 2/20/25

Posted on February 20, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Flu is surging nationwide, with 24 million cases so far Michele Banks: The Pulse of Life in Ink and Color Quantifying the impact of antibiotic use and genetic determinants of resistance on bacterial lineage dynamics Ban … Continue reading →

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Links 2/19/25

Posted on February 19, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Evolution and mutational landscape of highly pathogenic avian influenza strain A(H5N1) in the current outbreak in the USA and global landscape Flu season in the US is the most intense it’s been in at least 15 … Continue reading →

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We Need to Stop Saying Scientists Can’t Communicate: A Few Quick Thoughts on Indirect Rates

Posted on February 19, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

One claim I see on the internetz is the claim scientists are bad at communication. Yet, in the last few weeks, scientists–not their universities*, or Democrats who purport to support scientists–managed to make NIH indirect grant costs part of the … Continue reading →

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Links 2/18/25

Posted on February 18, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: DOGE vs. the NIH: Say goodbye to the greatest engine of biomedical research ever created Facilities & Administrative (F&A) Costs of Research Commercial Saccharomyces cerevisiae baker’s yeasts: strain redundancy, genome plasticity, and colonization of the sourdough … Continue reading →

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Links 2/17/25

Posted on February 17, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Pricey Dam Project 7 Years In The Making Finished By Beavers For Free Trump officials exerting unprecedented control over CDC scientific journal Scientists globally are racing to save vital health databases taken down amid Trump chaos … Continue reading →

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Links 2/16/25

Posted on February 16, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: How New York’s Decentralized Public Health System is a Firewall Against Data Chaos Letter to the US President and Congress on the Scientific Understanding of Sex and Gender US sees no let-up in rising flu activity … Continue reading →

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Links 2/15/25

Posted on February 15, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Could the Bird Flu Become Airborne? Measles Outbreak Mounts Among Children in One of Texas’ Least Vaccinated Counties Some species of baleen whales avoid attracting killer whales by singing too low to be heard HHMI kills … Continue reading →

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Links 2/14/25

Posted on February 14, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Cybersecurity Threat Modeling the Genomic Data Sequencing Workflow: An example threat model implementation for genomic data sequencing and analysis (pdf) Virologist Wendy Barclay: ‘Wild avian viruses are mixing up their genetics all the time. It’s like … Continue reading →

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How to Damage an Already Precarious Office Building Market

Posted on February 14, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

David Dayen describes how the effort by the DOGE-infiltrated General Services Administration (GSA) could lead to an even greater office building valuation meltdown (boldface mine): This would be exactly the wrong strategy for the moment, as Van Nieuwerburgh explained. A … Continue reading →

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Links 2/13/25

Posted on February 13, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Nasal COVID-19 vaccine based on WashU technology to enter U.S. clinical trials H5N1 bird flu spills over again; Nevada cows hit with different, deadly strain Deadly version of H5N1 bird flu spills over into Nevada dairy … Continue reading →

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