Monthly Archives: December 2025

Christmas Dinosaurs

Posted on December 25, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Don’t say I didn’t give you any gifts! This year’s theme for the U.S. Botanic Garden’s holiday trains is DINOSAURS! Enjoy: (something kind of meta about using dead plants to simulate extinct plants) Triceratops: Parasaurolophus: MOAR BELOW

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Links 12/24/25

Posted on December 24, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Lanternfly honey has arrived. Just don’t ask how it’s made. The impact of spotted lanternflies is showing up in a less obvious way: It’s changing honey. Exactly how that change happens may not be the best … Continue reading →

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Links 12/23/25

Posted on December 23, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: New Model of Urbanization Upends Paradigm of Mayan Collapse In Massachusetts visit, Trump’s NIH chief defends move to prioritize funding research in places like Iowa, Nebraska In Biblical Israel, Hartebeest Still Roamed. What Led to Their … Continue reading →

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WAR? What Is It Good For?

Posted on December 23, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Maybe absolutely nothing? Last week, Matthew Yglesias wrote a ridiculous piece arguing that liberals (liberals is his term) should embrace the oil and gas industries to win votes. In response, Democratic Representative Sean Casten (IL-06), on Bluesky, performed a rapid … Continue reading →

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Links 12/22/25

Posted on December 22, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of the dementia disease course Considerations and perspectives on phage therapy from the transatlantic taskforce on antimicrobial resistance A Troubling Rise in the Grisly Trade of a Spectacular … Continue reading →

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A Possible Trajectory of Childhood Diseases Under Plaguelord and HHS Secretary Kennedy

Posted on December 22, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Friday night, the Trump administration under direction from Plaguelord and HHS Secretary Kennedy decided to stop recommending childhood vaccines. This is both expected and very bad. I think there will be few immediate consequences fortunately, so that hopefully gives us … Continue reading →

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Links 12/21/25

Posted on December 21, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: CDC panel recommends delaying birth dose of hepatitis B vaccine This Microbe ‘Plays Dead’ in NASA Clean Rooms, and We May Have Sent It to Mars Deep-sea mining tests impact over a third of seabed animals … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on December 21, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

…two weeks of Mad Biologist posts: Trump Administration to End Affirmative Action for Male College Applicants Trump’s Primary Problem Isn’t Aging, It’s Narcissism Impeach HHS Secretary and Plaguelord Kennedy. Impeach Him Now. Some Thoughts on and Context for the U.S. … Continue reading →

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Links 12/20/25

Posted on December 20, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: 56 million years ago, the Earth suddenly heated up – and many plants stopped working properly The Mirror Test Is Broken The Truth Behind the Deathwatch Beetle’s Creepy Tap-Tap-Tapping Is Our Picture of Evolution Still Stuck … Continue reading →

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Links 12/19/25

Posted on December 19, 2025 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Rare taxa modulate the emergence of dominants in microbial communities (very clever experiment!) The Mystery of the Missing Porcupines The Undermining of the C.D.C. These very hungry microbes devour a powerful pollutant Teens may have come … Continue reading →

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