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Links for you. Science: COVID-19 Vaccine Side Effects and Long-Term Neutralizing Antibody Response: A Prospective Cohort Study (if this holds up, I have off the charts antibody production…) House Republicans press for new guardrails on ‘gain-of-function’ research by NIH No … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: SARS-CoV-2 is a natural virus that has nothing to do with gain-of-function research. While a complex topic, there is zero scientific doubt behind this today COVID-19 associated with higher risk of erectile dysfunction (IT PUTS THE … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: This hurricane season could be among the worst in decades, NOAA warns Alaskan rivers turning orange due to climate change, study finds This ‘doomsday’ glacier is more vulnerable than scientists once thought 4 ways vaccine skeptics … Continue reading →

Last week, NY Times executive editor Joe Kahn said words, many of them stupid, to Ben Smith in a Semafor interview. In the interview, Kahn, as NY Times leadership is wont to do, ignored the powerful role the NYT has … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: Long range segmentation of prokaryotic genomes by gene age and functionality Glowing Sea Creatures Have Been Lighting Up the Oceans for More Than Half a Billion Years A Simple Act of Defiance Can Improve Science for … Continue reading →

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 →

Links for you. Science: Screen time robs average toddler of hearing 1,000 words spoken by adult a day, study finds Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone The day I realized I was in the wrong place. What’s … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: The first discovery of SFTSV in the Centre of Metropolitan Beijing, China Maximum Likelihood Estimators For Colony Forming Units Parts of Amazon rainforest could tip toward collapse by 2050 A ‘collapse’ is looming for Louisiana’s coastal … Continue reading →

*And by D.C., I mean Alexandria, VA, because the publicly available D.C. data don’t seem to be collected anymore. Another very solid decline for Alexandria, VA: With a decline from 929 copies/ml to 723 copies/ml, we’re still seven times higher … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: It is time to authenticate the Microbiome Sciences with accredited educational programs and departments Meet ‘Hercules,’ the Largest Male Funnel-Web Spider Ever Found WGS of a cluster of MDR Shigella sonnei utilizing Oxford Nanopore R10.4.1 long-read … Continue reading →