Monthly Archives: March 2025

Links 3/8/25

Posted on March 8, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: 22,000-Year-Old Footprints Reveal the Earliest Evidence of Human Transport Technology More NIH job cuts coming? Agency’s scientists already reeling after week of firings ‘America’s tree’ is missing. Will we do what it takes to bring it … Continue reading →

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Links 3/7/25

Posted on March 7, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Exclusive: NIH appears to archive policy requiring female animals in studies Listeria outbreak linked to recalled frozen shakes now blamed for 12 deaths ‘Unknown disease’ that can kill within days leaves 53 dead in Congo Science … Continue reading →

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Links 3/6/25

Posted on March 6, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Nate Brought, on why he quit NIH. Amino acid properties, substitution rates, and the nearly neutral theory Is There Room for Metformin at COVID-19’s Dinner Table? Updated Analysis of Clinical Trials Host-Calibrated Time Tree Caps the … Continue reading →

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When the Emperor Has No Clothes

Posted on March 6, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

This, of course, is a post about Elon Musk. There’s a meme about Elon Musk in which a software engineer says he used to think Musk knew what he was talking because he (the engineer) didn’t know much about rockets, … Continue reading →

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Links 3/5/25

Posted on March 5, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The most underreported and important story in AI right now is that pure scaling has failed to produce AGI Ed Yong Wants to Show You the Hidden Reality of the World Dr. Vinay Prasad Embraces Policy-Based … Continue reading →

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The Kennedy Op-Ed: Don’t Ignore the Dog Whistles

Posted on March 4, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Over the weekend, HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy wrote an op-ed suggesting that parents vaccinate their kids with the MMR vaccine, and has widely been seen as a change of heart. But if you have been following anti-vaxxers for a long … Continue reading →

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Links 3/4/25

Posted on March 4, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Texas measles outbreak raising concerns about undetected transmission New blood test identifies hard-to-detect pancreatic cancer with 85% accuracy Trump administration fires workers at NIH’s Alzheimer’s research center, including incoming director Despite restraining order, pipeline for new … Continue reading →

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Links 3/3/25

Posted on March 3, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: People can give their cats bird flu, CDC study suggests We’re Running Out of Chances to Stop Bird Flu Trump Administration Stalls Scientific Research Despite Court Ruling (the goal here is to prevent NIH from being … Continue reading →

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Links 3/2/25

Posted on March 2, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Financial peril could doom a famed New York paleontological institute US flu reaches high severity status as deaths outpace COVID Odds of recently discovered asteroid hitting Earth drop nearly to zero The National Institute of Standards … Continue reading →

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Links 3/1/25

Posted on March 1, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The NIH Memo That Undercut Universities Came Directly From Trump Officials Near-extinct Caribbean reptile makes epic comeback Ax falls on elite group of Ph.D.s training to lead U.S. public health labs Rapid evolution of prehistoric dogs … Continue reading →

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