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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 →

Links for you. Science: The link between climate change and a spate of rare disease outbreaks in 2023 Digital measurement of SARS-CoV-2 transmission risk from 7 million contacts Unusual boxes and 7,000-year-old trove found locked in ice The sea cucumber … Continue reading →

Links for you. Science: fosA7: a silent fosfomycin resistance gene in Salmonella? (pdf) Discordance between different bioinformatic methods for identifying resistance genes from short-read genomic data, with a focus on Escherichia coli Unravelling the effect of New Year’s Eve celebrations … Continue reading →

Science: The Climate Can’t Afford Another Trump Presidency Trump’s Polarization of Science Is Bad for Everyone Long COVID is associated with severe cognitive slowing A synbiotic preparation (SIM01) for post-acute COVID-19 syndrome in Hong Kong (RECOVERY): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled … Continue reading →

A few weeks ago, some asshole with a blog discussed how masking at meetings can prevent disease transmission: I also was at an in-person conference on Tuesday and Wednesday, and by the last couple of hours or so on Wednesday, … Continue reading →