Ignorant, cruel, and shortsighted are but a few of the words I have to describe the current administration - they are destroying the fabric of government and who knows what else.

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

If you are a parasitologist in Northern California, please join us for our annual meeting March 1, 2025, 12-5 pm at SFSU.
Use this link to register docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Reg fees: $5 for student; $10 for faculty & others
Please share w/ folks in CA who might be interested

Congratulations!!!

a man in a superhero costume stands in front of a building that says ' kk industries ' on it ALT: a man in a superhero costume stands in front of a building that says ' kk industries ' on it

When your prelim data give you hope but then that hope vanishes on repeat

Six Childhood Scourges We’ve Forgotten About, Thanks to Vaccines Most Americans, including doctors, have no memory of the devastating diseases that routinely threatened children until the 1960s.

Questions today about vaccines might just be a product of their success. Here’s what people should know about six once-common illnesses that vaccines have contained for decades.

Prions Final Project YouTube video by Colin Smith

Learn about prions -
www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR41...

This is happening tomorrow!!!

BIOL 111 Final Presentation YouTube video by Portraits Videos

here is the scabies show - www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtOa...

🌱 🦠 🔬 Job -- Assistant Professor of Practice in Biotechnology and Plant and Microbial Sciences at University of Arizona arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

How do we know that autism is not linked to vaccines?

Short answer: Massive studies have not found a link between autism and vaccines.

Longer answer: Continue reading ⬇️

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My students created some memes based on topics we covered in Zoonoses and EIDs. These are just a few! Enjoy!

No, not in this course. We talk about it a little in Med Micro.

I had too much fun in class today! Student end-of-term projects were pretty awesome
1. A board game on Strongyloides
2. A dateline-type show on scabies
3. Podcast with 4 episodes and website on lyme disease
4. a children book on tularemia
5. explainer video on prions
It was awesome!!!

A New Approach to Predicting Malaria Drug Resistance Researchers at UC San Diego analyzed the genomes of hundreds of malaria parasites to determine which genetic variants are most likely to confer drug resistance.

Beautiful paper from the Elizabeth Winzeler laboratory at UC San Diego out today in Science building a predictive model of malaria drug resistance by analyzing the genomes of 724 parasite genomes evolved in the lab to resist one of 118 different antimalarial compounds

today.ucsd.edu/story/a-new-...

He was microchipped! Please pet owner, put a microchip in your pet... it made such a difference here!!!

If you register, the recording will be available to you for a week.

Join us this Friday!!!

We found the owner!!!!

But please dont share this as a mantra for success. If your success comes at the direct expense of your colleagues because they are doing all the work everyone is supposed to share in, it does not make you ‘successful’ it just makes you a horrible colleague.

Also see peer review

Rant over. For now

We have a guest tonight - Found a lost dog (no collar, not neutered) in our neighborhood. Sheltering him for the night; I feel so bad we can't afford to keep him (Ziggy and Bilbo are already very demanding.) It makes me sad to have to surrender him tomorrow.

Absolutely not!

The whole situation is so disheartening.

Add me, please! Thank you.

exactly!!! So frustrating!

I always have fun including the mascot of the school I am giving a talk at because they are usually warm-blooded animals, thus can be infected with Toxoplasma. Today will be an exception: the mascot is a SHARK!

A renewed reminder to anyone applying for a PhD or postdoc position in a lab--indicate your interest in the email/cover letter by talking a bit about that lab's work and why it would be a good fit. I answer any query that includes this information but do not answer those that do not.

It is so horrible what happened to him! I just think of his poor family. We live in some crazy times.

lol!