How Many Doses of Vaccines Do Kids Really Get? If folks inflate the vaccine doses today to make it look like kids get 72 doses, why doesn't that same anti-vaccine math work in the 1960s?

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Saturn and its moons photographed by Voyager 2

BREAKING: Bird Flu Reinfections Surge at US Poultry Farms, Experts Urge Vaccines and Stricter Measures.

Pregnancy’s true toll on the body: huge birth study paints most detailed picture yet Data from 300,000 births reveal how essential biological measurements are altered by carrying and delivering a baby.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

A bird flu pandemic is looming.

The virus has jumped to a sheep in Yorkshire, proving it’s adapting.

With every spillover, the risk of human transmission grows.

Time is running out swift action is our only defense.

Illustration of 5 birthday candles, only 4 are burning. The text reads: "Every year, 4.8 MILLION children do not make it to their fifth birthday"

One of life’s greatest tragedies is losing a child.

And yet, 1 child under 5 dies somewhere in the world every 18 seconds - mostly from preventable causes like

💔 Birth complications
💔 Pneumonia
💔 Diarrhoea
💔 Malaria

This amounts to 4.8 MILLION deaths each year.

NEW report: bit.ly/4kTTBUV

Four ways COVID changed virology: lessons from the most sequenced virus of all time After 150,000 articles and 17 million genome sequences, what has science taught us about SARS-CoV-2?

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

BREAKING: Bird Flu Continues to Spread as Trump’s Pandemic Experts Remain Absent, Raising Alarms.

Archaeal Virology Unit @pasteur.fr stands up for science!

@vsevillia.bsky.social, Titouan, @miguelgrv.bsky.social, Eduardo, @anton1nouriss.bsky.social, ..., Virginija, @sonaida.bsky.social, Jovan

Self-plagiarism: A retrospective study of its prevalence and patterns across scientific disciplines This study explores the incidence and nature of self-plagiarism across various disciplines. Using Retraction Watch data, we analyze retraction times, authorship patterns, disciplinary differences, ...

New paper by Yulia Sevryugina:
Self-plagiarism: A retrospective study of its prevalence and patterns across scientific disciplines
"image and entire article duplications are primary causes of self-plagiarism-related retractions"
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Prepare now for a potential H5N1 pandemic

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A Consensus Statement on establishing causality, therapeutic applications and the use of preclinical models in microbiome research Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Published online: 03 March 2025; doi:10.1038/s41575-025-01041-3In this Consensus Statement, causality, therapeutic applications and preclinical models in microbiome research are critically assessed,…

New online! A Consensus Statement on establishing causality, therapeutic applications and the use of preclinical models in microbiome research

Cows Have Been Infected With a Second Form of Bird Flu (Gift Article) A new version of the virus is widespread in wild birds but had not previously been detected in cows.

BREAKING: Dairy cows in Nevada have been infected with a new form of bird flu that is distinct from the version that has been spreading through herds over the last year

w/ @emilyanthes.bsky.social

www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/h...

Limited impact of Salmonella stress and persisters on antibiotic clearance - Nature Experiments in infected mice and tissue-mimicking chemostats show that resilience of Salmonella against antimicrobial compounds is largely a result of starvation-induced general resilience rather than survival of a small subset of hyper-resilient cells.

Nature research paper: Limited impact of Salmonella stress and persisters on antibiotic clearance

https://go.nature.com/3EAundb

Synthetic lethality of mRNA quality control complexes in cancer - Nature PELO–HBS1L and SKI complexes in the human mRNA quality control pathway exhibit a synthetic lethal interaction and may represent novel targets for the development of cancer therapies.

Nature research paper: Synthetic lethality of mRNA quality control complexes in cancer

https://go.nature.com/4jLGwvZ

The land–ocean Arctic carbon cycle Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Published online: 06 February 2025; doi:10.1038/s43017-024-00627-wAnthropogenic warming is perturbing the Arctic carbon cycle. This Review provides an overview of contemporary carbon stocks and fluxes across…

New online! The land–ocean Arctic carbon cycle

Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa - Nature A cross-sectional study from four African countries shows the importance of investigating the gut microbiome in previously under-represented populations and provides a framework for equitable microbio...

#GastroEdPicks Expanding the human gut microbiome atlas of Africa @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

BREAKING: 8.3 Million Birds Killed in January 2025 as Avian Flu Outbreaks Strike 5 States

According to USDA, 8.3 Million Birds Have Been Killed in January 2025 Due to Avian Flu in 8 Outbreaks Across 5 States.

Mosque-Cathedral of Córdoba, Andalucía 📍 🇪🇦

Orange moon fading in the black background.

Look at the moon 👀

American Ingenuity Beat the Polio Outbreak So Why Risk Letting It Return?

I’m never going to make rent by sharing all the free links, but this is so important — friend link: brandy-schillace.medium.com/american-ing...

American Ingenuity Beat the Polio Outbreak So Why Risk Letting It Return?

“In a scene that predates the #Matrix movie by 50+ years, Paul looked out into a sea of metal cases, each containing a human being, plugged in to the machine. Only their heads poked through, floating disembodied. Rows and rows, as if without end”
🧪🗃️ #polio #vaccines
Please read and share.

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COVID 5 years later: Learning from a pandemic many are forgetting Five years after SARS-CoV-2 surfaced, scientists reflect and look ahead to the next threat

🦠I attended a fantastic meeting of coronavirologists (et al.) in early December. @cohenjon.bsky.social covered it for Science and really captured the essence, the urgency, and even the spicy bits. Watching him work, live, was pretty rad, and this is a great read www.science.org/content/arti...

cool! peptidoglycan triggers biofilm formation in various Gram-pos. and Gram-neg. bacteria.
also cool - but well known: peptidoglycan fragments trigger spore germination in 𝘉. 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘵𝘪𝘭𝘪𝘴
#MicroSky

For Maths fans, 2025 is a square.
45² = 45 x 45 = 2025
Also,
9² x 5² = 2025
40² + 20² + 5² = 2025
My favourite?
1³+2³+3³+4³+5³+6³+7³+8³+9³ = 2025
#Mathematics #teaching #education

The Red Emission nebula NGC-2014 and it's smaller blue neighbor NGC-2020
The Cosmic Reef
Image credit Hubble
Constellation Dorado
Distance 163,000 light years
Discovered 1826 James Dunlop
The blue in NGC 2014 is the glow of oxygen, heated to 20,000°F by blasts of ultraviolet light.

⚠️ BREAKING:

CDC on High Alert as Bird Flu Cases Rise, Potentially Developing into a Pandemic.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is closely monitoring the rise in bird flu cases in the U.S., especially for signs that it could develop into a pandemic.

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