Links for you. Science:
14,280 Black patients moved up transplant waitlist after race scrubbed from criteria
Genome-wide association studies have problems due to confounding: Are family-based designs the answer?
Common antibiotic may be helpful in fighting respiratory viral infections (paper here; neomycin is already widely used over the counter, but we would have to keep an eye on bacterial cross-resistance to other aminoglycosides)
When does antimicrobial resistance increase bacterial fitness? Effects of dosing, social interactions, and frequency dependence on the benefits of AmpC β-lactamases in broth, biofilms, and a gut infection model
The Bird Flu Outbreak Is Alarming. And the Government Is Stumbling. The H5N1 crisis at dairy farms shows that public health agencies have failed to absorb the lessons of Covid.
Monkeypox virus: dangerous strain gains ability to spread through sex, new data suggest
Other:
“Humans in the loop” must detect the hardest-to-spot errors, at superhuman speed
They fled Venezuela — and transformed D.C.’s food delivery scene (I wish them well, but I’m also glad I wasn’t imagining the whole ‘people driving 50cc bikes like they’re crazy’ thing)
What could the region do to ensure WMATA not only survives but thrives?
The Real-Estate Fund Buying Up Homes in Top School Districts
Real Talk About a 2028 General Strike
Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “space lasers” show how the GOP gets away with escalating violence
No Strange New Respect For Mike Johnson. At least not until he explains why he sacrificed thousands of lives, swaths of territory, and perhaps the future of Ukraine for nothing.
Internet service has ‘nutrition labels’ now. Here’s how to use them.
Trump’s humiliation deepens: In court, he can’t hide from his tabloid roots
Under budget pressure, D.C. public schools may eliminate 200 positions
Beastie Boys paid for trans woman’s gender-affirming surgery
Philadelphia becomes fourth city to ban largest ghost gun parts dealer
The digital tyranny of needing an account for everything
Why religion is becoming an even stronger force within the Republican Party (gift link)
FTC Announces Rule Banning Noncompetes
Trump was going to dominate the courtroom. Instead, he is shrinking.
Giving workers something more than attacks on critical race theory and banning lunch breaks
How to fix college finances? Eliminate faculty, then students.
Millions of New Workers Eligible for Overtime Under DOL Rule
Why some South Africans are rethinking Nelson Mandela’s legacy
Read This Delicious Newly Unsealed Evidence In Jack Smith’s Stolen Documents Case Against Trump!
Crossing Over
Paying for it doesn’t make it a market
Stanford Finance Professor Anat Admati Is Making Jamie Dimon Very Nervous – Again Calling His Bank “Dangerous”
Federal Workers Are Fleeing Washington. Can College Students Replace Them?
Red Line segment will close for three months this summer, Metro says