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Links 8/17/26

Posted on August 17, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: More nor’easters. West Coast landslides. Raging wildfires. Here’s how El Niño could hijack the world’s weather this year. New Dinosaur Discovery in Zimbabwe: Mini-sauropod That May Have Been Bipedal What Big Bug “Attacked” An ESPN Reporter … Continue reading →

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Links 8/16/26

Posted on August 16, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: New evidence that wild armadillos spread leprosy to humans Protein language models are overly constrained by covariation A systematic identification of resistance determinants to antisense antibiotics suggests adaptation strategies dependent on the delivery peptide What to … Continue reading →

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In Case You Missed It…

Posted on August 16, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

…a week of Mad Biologist posts: For Russell Vought and His Theocrats, Women’s Job Loss Is a Feature, Not a Bug Yes, Trump’s Executive Order on Vaccines Does Matter (Remember the Fauci Discourse?) Tolerating Politicians’ Personal Brutality and the Invective … Continue reading →

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Links 8/15/26

Posted on August 15, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: No Babies Were Aborted to Make the MMR Vaccine Misaligned citations and LLM-generated scientific fraud Behold the ‘glueball,’ a strange new form of matter A Pragmatist-Artifactualist view of experimental model organisms: the case of epigenetic inheritance … Continue reading →

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Links 8/14/26

Posted on August 14, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Physics PhDs Are Leaving the US at a Record-high Rate A Painful Condition Is Rising in Young Men. Scientists Are Racing to Figure Out Why. ”The Disease of Kings” is trending. Is a modern diet to … Continue reading →

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A Much Better Week for D.C.’s Crime Stats

Posted on August 14, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

And we’ve been due one. As of Friday 9am, D.C. has reported only on new homicide this week, bringing the total for the year to 64*. Last year, during the same time period, we had 100 homicides, and in the … Continue reading →

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Links 8/13/26

Posted on August 13, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: Is It Safe to Eat Lettuce Yet? Company Offering ‘100% Human-Written, Never AI’ Medical Research Is Entirely AI Trump signs executive order with plan to reduce number of recommended childhood vaccines AI Is Dead. Organoids Are … Continue reading →

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Links 8/12/26

Posted on August 12, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The only reason you’ll ever need not to write with AI (very important; focuses on science, but seems relevant to other disciplines too) From mice to ‘gym rats’: Unregulated use of peptides raises alarm among researchers … Continue reading →

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Tolerating Politicians’ Personal Brutality and the Invective Gap

Posted on August 12, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Over the weekend, political scientist Dan Silverman compared the response to former senate candidate Graham Platner and (for now) Republican congressional candidate Max Miller: I hope I don’t have to explain who Graham Platner is, but, if you haven’t heard … Continue reading →

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Links 8/11/26

Posted on August 11, 2026 by mikethemadbiologist

Links for you. Science: The Explosive Failures Fueling the Cyclospora Outbreak The Strongest El Niño in History Is Coming. Get Ready. Taylor Farms Voluntarily Recalls Fresh Jalapeños Over Salmonella Concerns First volunteer vaccinated in the world’s first Bundibugyo ebolavirus vaccine … Continue reading →

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