It's amazing how much potential public health data is locked behind a paywall. Looking at you Optum and BioFire.

Nah, I'd guess an organophosphate poisoning but you'll never read the conclusive results outside local news sources. Like I said, clickbait.

These headlines are such clickbait, we all know it's probably some pesticide poisoning.

FULLY FUNDED PhD - Visualising avian influenza virus tropism and co-infection in avian hosts at University of Glasgow on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - FULLY FUNDED PhD - Visualising avian influenza virus tropism and co-infection in avian hosts at University of Glasgow, listed on FindAPhD.com

Excited to advertise a fully funded PhD with @socialinfluenza.bsky.social investigating how influenza virus evolution differs between different avian hosts (and how this impacts pandemic potential). Joint between @pirbrightinst.bsky.social + @cvrinfo.bsky.social

www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

What a fantastic vignette format.

@iuidfellowship.bsky.social

Dear Member of Congress: The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) and HIV Medicine Association (HIVMA) are deeply grateful for the longstanding bipartisan support from Congress for the National Institutes of Health (NIH). We want to inform you of current and likely impacts of delays and changes in funding policies and procedures for NIH grants. Our concerns relate to the following areas within NIH: • Massive reduction in notice of funding opportunities • Delays in funding processes and inadequate capacity to administer grants • Increase in forward funding of multiyear awards in year one • Delays and potential lapses in funding for large clinical trial networks and clinical trial units Lack of transparency around permitted international collaborative partners for research projects • Disproportionate impact of grant terminations on vulnerable populations, especially women and people of color

U.S. infectious disease research is on the brink. Without immediate action from Congress, much of it will cease to exist within a year.

For example👇

1️⃣ No collaborative RFAs posted for >1 year (normal: many / year).
2️⃣ No foreign collaborators allowed on grants.

🧪🪦 www.idsociety.org/globalassets...

PHealthy's comment on "Melamine cleaning sponges, commonly known as "magic erasers," shed microplastic fibers (MPFs) when worn down. This study pioneers the recognition of these sponges as an importan... Explore this conversation and more from the science community

A fun back of the envelope calculation comparing disposable magic erase sponges and polyester shirts:

www.reddit.com/r/science/s/...

Having tried to help control the bullshit on Reddit during COVID, bad science spreads 100x faster than proper review and worse scientific skepticism is usually met with gaslighting and doubling down. Anything to make a buck.

Willing to start World War III

What's the best way to propagate generational poverty? This country was and still is built on slavery, the form just changes identity.

Begging? Nah, loudly questioning why editors are so fucking lazy and stupid? Every single time.

U.S. Pushes Allies to Chase a New Terrorism Target: The Far Left

NYT headlines remind me of a line from Aladdin:

"PHENOMENAL COSMIC POWERS!!!"

"...itty bitty living space"

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u...

SCOOP: The acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has delayed publication of a CDC report showing covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ED visits + hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half. My latest.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

So you're saying that TB is likely urbanizing faster than populations in general? When calculating prevalence ratio was there control for testing capacity rural/urban?

The PAHO meeting will certainly be interesting, hopefully it's before the 4th.

*reported cases

Dengue Suppression by Male Wolbachia-Infected Mosquitoes | NEJM Wild-type female Aedes aegypti mosquitoes that mate with male A. aegypti mosquitoes that have been infected with the wAlbB strain of Wolbachia pipientis bacteria produce nonviable offspring owing t...

"The protective efficacy of the intervention, calculated as (1−odds ratio)×100, ranged from 71 to 72% with 3 to 12 months or more of wolbachia mosquito exposure, as represented by odds ratios of 0.28 to 0.29."

www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Measles outbreak kills at least 15 in Bangladesh Measles, ​among the most infectious of pathogens, requires that 95% of ​the population be vaccinated to prevent its spread.

www.nbcnews.com/world/asia/m...

Vaccination Coverage by Age 24 Months Among Children Born ... This report describes vaccination coverage by age 2 among ...

Deceased coverage across every vaccine.

www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Couple quick charts re: data reliability.
First, revisions: Recent revisions have been consistently downward (although note that January was revised UP). The scale of the revisions isn't unprecedented, but they have been quite large. #EconSky #NumbersDay

What happens when whole hospital systems collapse? Steward was sold for a fraction to other PE-owned systems, is there a hospital economic bubble I haven't heard about?

So pleased to contribute to this preprint on H5N1 spillover from birds to dairy cattle from the Moo Flu Crew, led by the excellent @jevp.bsky.social.

We traced both B3.13 in Texas and D1.1 in Nevada and Arizona to look at how the virus evolves and what changed👇

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Meanwhile medical devices and peptides are wild wild west.

I'm just assuming the Trump Administration is going to point the finger (without evidence) at Mexico and immigration come November.

Also I don't suppose you could add a small fact check to things like RFK ramblings on podcasts?

I wonder if Canada and Mexico have genomic data to compare any spillage

CLIA certification takes a lot of time and effort, I don't see testing coming back without some kind of significant staffing upswing. Here's hoping botulism testing endures.

It would seem you have trouble distinguishing friends from foes. I was talking about directly attacking allies, not alienating apathetic moderates. A hard question for you: Is there urgency or are you simply competing against many other existential threats and trying to be the loudest voice?

Ha, tell me again what this whole post is about.