Happy new year, and thank you for introducing me to UwU Underground!

Vaccine-Preventable Disease: A Global Tracker | Think Global Health This map is updated weekly and visualizes outbreaks of nine childhood diseases in collaboration with the International Society for Infectious Diseases

I'd love to say lots of nice things about this invaluable preventable disease tracker from @monscience.bsky.social and team at Think Global Health. It's an incredible resource.

But I can't get over my anger & sadness that this resource is even needed.
www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/vacc...

DNA from Napoleon's 1812 army identifies pathogens likely responsible for the army's demise during retreat from Russia In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But by December, only a fraction of the army remained alive. Historical records...

Might be time to update your priors; it might not have been typhus that tore through Napoleon's army on the Russian campaign but rather two other fevers—one foodborne, the other from body lice

phys.org/news/2025-10...

Toward Same-Day Genome Sequencing in the Critical Care Setting | NEJM Decisions about critical care are almost always made without access to genetic information. The authors report the application of a new method of DNA sequencing in infants in a neonatal intensive c...

A new world record for ultra rapid whole genome sequencing and interpretation for critically ill individuals less than 4hrs! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Just chilling here in Cape Town, watching the eclipse

Diabolus Ex Machina This Is Not An Essay

Possibly the best thing I've read about ChatGPT yet.

h/t @melaniemitchell.bsky.social

amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

A reminder that South African researchers gave the world crucial early insights into the Beta, Omicron BA.1 and BA.4/5 variants, as well as valuable ongoing work into many other pathogens/outbreaks…

Just like the book, this review deserves 5 stars!

To paraphrase Lowry: "Fuck! Fuck fuck fuck!"

Are labels like autism and ADHD more constraining than liberating? A clinician argues diagnosis has gone too far A staggering rise in the prevalence of many medical conditions and the cultural attention we pay them is the subject of a new book, The Age of Diagnosis.

"We might imagine that overdiagnosis occurs when diagnoses are made in the absence of illness, but O’Sullivan’s definition is more subtle. A condition is overdiagnosed, she writes, when the costs of the diagnosis outweigh its benefits."

theconversation.com/are-labels-l...

We just wanted to take a moment to thank all our new supporters! Tomorrow, there will be more of us!

Join bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer, at the The Carolina Theatre in Greensboro NC as he discusses Absolution!

Plus, a special screening of Annihilation—the not faithful film adaptation!

📅 April 9 | 7:00 PM

FREE and open to the public!

#greensborobound #greensboronc #jeffvandermeer #scifi

openRxiv has arrived!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of openRxiv as an independent, researcher-led nonprofit to oversee bioRxiv and medRxiv, the world’s leading preprint servers for life and health sciences.
openrxiv.org/introducing-...

#openRxiv #OpenScience #Preprints #bioRxiv #medRxiv

This is why this space is vital. When COVID first hit, I knew to protect myself with an N95 because doctors worldwide shared information on social media before it reached NY. We must continue to keep each other informed no matter how hard Trump tries to stop us.

View of Signal Hill hiking up Lion’ Head

Nice view o Signal Hill hiking up Lion’s Head!

Snapshot of a Pfizer press release from October 2024 indicating FDA's approval of an ESV vaccine for certain patients aged 18-59 years old at increased risk of disease

Uhh ... Did you know Pfizer's RSV vaccine is now approved for certain 18-59 y/os? 😮 I feel like this hasn't been disseminated?

www.pfizer.com/news/press-r...

Great visualisation of transformer models in action:
bbycroft.net/llm

View of Cape Town from the top of Table Mountain

Amazing view from the top of Table Mountain. Enjoying some time off

Happy midsummer / midwinter (depending on where you are)!

Great analysis of individualised set-points for physiological markers, and their implications. A further sign that pathology as a whole is evolving into a data-science direction

Thank you, nice summary.

"What's happening with this mystery illness in the Congo"

I've gotten this text dozens of times in the past few days.

Here's what we know. What we don't.

And what really matters 🧵

‘Would you survive 72 hours?’ Germany and the Nordic countries prepare citizens for possible war Apps and booklets are offering advice on how to build a bunker, stockpile food and live without electricity in case the worst happens Germany is developing an app to help people locate the nearest bunker in the event of attack. Sweden is distributing a…

‘Would you survive 72 hours?’ Germany and the Nordic countries prepare citizens for possible war

Narrator: it did
#IDSky

Still trying to keep up with following back all new followers. And hopefully will post soon. Interests quite diverse: ID (#IDSky), bioinformatics, graphs and networks, knowledge graphs

Big Insect must be behind this!

Fantastic resource!

An incoherent flow chart for “should I use AI”

This is the most accurate image AI has ever generated