C'est surtout utilisé dans les médias francophones ont dirait...dans les médias anglophones ils ont l'air de privilégier le surnom "Stratus", donné par le prof canadien qui aime bien renommer les variants (alors que ça serait si simple de garder son nom, à savoir XFG...
Une entreprise contrôlée par le régime autoritaire de Dubaï construira et exploitera le port de Contrecoeur. Il s'agit du plus gros projet de développement industriel des dernières décennies sur le fleuve Saint-Laurent. www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...
@zachhensel.bsky.social and I have a new paper on the origin of SARS-CoV-2! 🧪
There are a lot of reviews on the topic already, so we tried to do something different: characterize "lab leak" scenarios, and directly address those on SARS-CoV-2's furin cleavage site.▫️1/9
doi.org/10.5802/crbi...
Here's the NIH's proposed budget - from $48 billion to $27 billion. NIAID, current ~$7 billion cut to ~$4.2 billion.
The proposed 15% cap on indirect costs remains.
Again, these budgets are passed, and our leadership in science, technology, and innovation is gone.
www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
I urge everyone to read Unbreaking’s new page on everything the govt is doing to destroy & diminish medical research funding.
It’s the best thing I’ve read on this topic: @lizneeley.bsky.social & co have such done an incredible job.
unbreaking.org/issues/medic...
You might be wondering why we haven't updated outbreak.info for months.
Well, the reason is that GISAID cut our access in January - as they did others. Without telling us.
After a ♾️ back and forth, that is now permanent.
More on that soon - and why GISAID should not be trusted with critical data.
26/05/2025, Rassemblement pour la Palestine à proximité de l’ambassade 🇮🇱 à Paris . Témoignage de Gerard Haddad , juif, médecin.
« Pendant longtemps j'étais sioniste. Je suis parti vivre en 🇮🇱 comme médecin pendant 3 ans. Ça m’a guéri de mon sionisme. La violence là bas est sans limite… »
If you're faculty, especially if you are tenured faculty, you need to be sending *all* the alarms up the chain until central admin says something (preferably something involving the word "lawsuit")
Excited to announce the start of ARTIC2! 🎉
ARTIC2 builds on the success of ARTIC aiming to make sequencing more equitable and accessible. 🤝🧬
EVE Group at @swisstph.ch is a key team member - we'll be helping make sequences easier to store and share via Loculus & @pathoplexus.org ! 🌎
More below! 👀👇🏻
Absolutely thrilled to announce the launch of ARTIC2 - a £5.5M 5 year project funded by @wellcometrust.bsky.social to build on the ARTIC approach of low-cost, globally accessible genome sequencing for surveillance of outbreaks, epidemics and endemic diseases: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/am...
The number of confirmed #measles cases in the US this year — an unknown fraction of the true total — has hit 800, per #CDC, making this the 2nd worst year for measles since the virus was eliminated in 2000. And the year is young.
The count in Texas is just under 600. www.cdc.gov/measles/data...
Among the abrupt termination of #CDC programs was the shuttering of the agency's viral #hepatitis lab. Imagine cops being asked to solve crimes without the capacity to test for fingerprints or swab for DNA. That's what this does to hepatitis surveillance in the US. www.statnews.com/2025/04/14/c...
Tirer sur des ambulances, cacher les corps et enlever le survivant.
Tout va bien.
➡️ l.leparisien.fr/qlyL
1. A #measles 🧵:
#CDC reports that as of 4/10, there were 712 confirmed measles cases & 3 measles deaths in 25 states across the US to date this year. Many of them are linked to the West Texas outbreak, with individual states reporting:
Texas, 541; New Mexico, 58; Kansas, 32; Oklahoma, 12.
Le ministère de l'Environnement répond à une demande d'accès à l'information pour obtenir des documents dans le dossier Stablex. Il ne pourra pas répondre «dans le délai de vingt jours prévus». Cette demande fait partie des documents que le service de relations médias a refusé de me transmettre:
Stablex: le projet de loi caquiste aura «de lourdes conséquences» parce qu’il «vient «fragiliser le droit» et qu’il va à l’encontre de «l’État de droit», en plus de «créer un précédent». — Centre québécois du droit de l’environnement. www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...
We would love feedback on a new NCBI-BLAST service we are launching today: sky-blast.com
Under the hood it's the same BLAST executable and databases provided by NCBI, with a replica of the NIH's interface - providing an alternative to the US gov service that's less congested, faster & more reliable
What appears to be a massive flock of birds in red, purple and blue colours in a pale blue sky. Each "bird" represents a bird species, and their colour represents their conservation status from the IUCN Red List. Around one third of species appear to be near threatened, endangered or extinct
This dataviz is absolutely amazing 😍 Global bird species' conservation status displayed as a massive flock!
By Andrea Garrec, longlisted for the 2024 Information Is Beautiful Awards
www.informationisbeautifulawards.com/showcase/731...
#dataviz 📊🌏🧪🐦🦉🦆🦅
Stablex: «Le site a une valeur écologique», affirme l'ingénieure forestière Camille Proulx. Les milieux humides et boisés qui seront détruits avec l'autorisation du gouvernement Legault servent notamment d'habitats de nidification. Contexte : www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...
La CMM et Blainville vont contester devant les tribunaux le projet de loi du gouvernement Legault en faveur de l'expansion du site d'enfouissement de déchets dangereux de Stablex. www.ledevoir.com/environnemen...
Il faut sauver les enfants. Qu'est-ce qu'une République qui laisse maltraiter les enfants, qui est indifférent à leur sort, qui s'enferme dans le déni ou le mensonge, qui pense qu'il faut les dresser et les punir. Mon #Edwyto @backseat-fr.bsky.social #betharram #lescouarnec
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Samedi 8 mars, la lutte contre le patriarcat et l’extrême droite seront au cœur des revendications de la Journée internationale des droits des femmes. Militantes et salariées le constatent : la régression s’installe et les valeurs s’inversent.
www.mediapart.fr/journal/fran...
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
NEW: The Minerva Research Initiative, established by the Pentagon to fund social science relevant to national security, is being gutted. Dozens of researchers studying threats from extremist groups, misinformation or climate change have received notices that their grants are being terminated.
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Affaire Bétharram : la Une de @mediapart.fr ce mercredi 19 février :
- Bayrou dans la tourmente après ses mensonges
- il y a 30 ans, son soutien à l'école privée
- la deuxième victime du père Carricart témoigne
👉 www.mediapart.fr
This so disheartening. We rely on the CDC for so many things the general public isn't even aware of. As an ID doc when we encounter or suspect rare pathogens we can sometimes only get diagnostic testing from the CDC.
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
This cartoon by @mluckovich.bsky.social is getting banned on Twitter. Because of course it is.
