Let’s ask American Samoa why they ran out of child-sized coffins last time RFK visited

Just to add to your nightmares, don't forget about the impact of climate change. Many fungi grow best in environments where temperatures are lower than the human body temperature (37.5 Celsius). As they adapt to a warming climate, some will gain the ability to infect humans.

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

So far, Vance’s foreign policy record is yelling at Zelensky for not thanking Trump enough, campaigning for AfD in Germany and Orban in Hungary, getting rejected by the Pope on his invite to the US, and failing in the Iran negotiations.

One of the Artemis astronauts stood up immediately after splashdown and started collecting his carryon bags even though he was seated in the back row of the capsule.

Excited to share our new paper out today in @science.org 🎉

We show that HGT via natural competence drives diversification of chromosomal integrons in V. cholerae 🤩

Below a 🧵 on key findings incl. background on natural competence in V. cholerae 1/
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Today is a good day to remember that Carl Sagan was as outspoken about the dangers of war and nuclear weapons as he was an advocate of space exploration.

A nuclear armed United States is now an existential threat to the rest of the world

when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

Well, well…

If the 14th amendment was not meant for modern immigrants, then the 2nd amendment was not meant for modern arms.

#truth

Phage receptor prediction from genome sequencing alone. Bacterial receptor (blue) interacting with phage proteins (purple) is shown here

📣Huge preprint 🔔
Today we share something our group has been working toward for a long time, led by @lucasmoriniere.bsky.social We asked can we predict which receptor a phage targets from its genome sequence alone? For most phages, we couldn’t. So Lucas set out to do something I had only dreamed of.

The Horrors That Could Lie Ahead if Vaccines Vanish Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

We decided to illustrate it.

Cartoon by @andertoon.bsky.social

Headline: Dow rises 300 points after Trump says U.S. in ‘serious' talks to end operation in Iran

Golden retriever runs 15 feet after owner mimes throwing tennis ball

It’s almost like public education is in a manufactured budget crisis designed to create a scarcity mindset so they can justify closing programs and firing people.

Dems need to be on every news channel saying this. Everyday. All day.

Gosh, perhaps there are fewer campus protests because schools, as The Atlantic urged them to do, aggressively went after protestors. Columbia suspended, expelled, and retroactively revoked degrees in proceedings that were so arbitrary and capricious they were overturned by a NY state judge.

Art of the Deal

Opinion | When a Narcissist Goes to War

Great parallel by @jamellebouie.net between Trump's blindness to Iran's agency and his blindness to the domestic opposition's agency.

The truism that, in war, the enemy always gets a vote takes on a whole new meaning here, given Trump's hostility to voting rights and electoral outcomes.

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One week - and that's more than the entirety of the US public health budget up in, literal, smoke.

*poof*

Happy St Patrick’s Day ☘️

Four glimpses of Ireland from my portfolio. Every one of these images has their own story, something I talk about in detail when presenting my ‘Portfolio In Print’ to clubs around Ireland.

Update on my last submission to the Nature family of journals.

Bacteriophage data on capsular Klebsiella bacteria barcoded library

New paper 🔔

Collaboration
@sullivan-lab.bsky.social
Marissa Gittrich led the work

Klebsiella phage biology has focused almost entirely on capsulated strains, but capsule loss is the #1 resistance mechanism under phage predation. We used a naturally acapsular host to reveal the receptor landscape

15 phases of the moon captures between March 2nd at 12:37 and March 3rd at 4:36AM; the moon goes full full to crescent, then red and back towards crescent. the foreground is of a joshua tree and rocks with light pollution; the light pollution is from the original foreground. no milky way due to it being on the other side of the sky

HERE IT IS:

Earlier this month, without any planning, I drove 6 hrs to the desert to capture the last full lunar eclipse until December 2028

Over 3 hours I shot over 3000 stills, but not the stars

Last Tuesday I drove 4 hrs to capture the stars

After 30+ hrs figuring out editing, this is DONE 🧵

I used to play Risk a lot in high-school. Here’s how many troops I think it will take to hold the Strait of Hormuz.

The Trump administration could really restore confidence by getting the entire Cabinet to ride a tanker through the Straits of Hormuz to show everyone how safe and easy it is now.

They could bring along a lot of MAGA influencers and Fox News hosts to broadcast it all live!

New York ACTUALLY HAS 12 SEASONS It is currently 0.94 standard deviations colder than expected for Mar 12. Winter Fool's Spring Second Winter (You are here) Spring of Deception Third Winter The Pollening Actual Spring Summer Hell's Front Porch False Fall Second Summer Actual Fall

Look, I'm not a fool and so did not actually believe that Fool's Spring was spring, but that doesn't mean I'm not angry about Second Winter 12seasons.nyc

I cannot stress enough that this messaging should continue