I cannot for the life of me parse this as 3 priorities but maybe it's because just saying "data" doesn't really count as an idea.

Myst (1993)

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Acquired imm of herds in CA's Central Valley has prevented a repeat of the nightmare of Fall 24, but cycling in naive calves and heifers into herds with potentially infectious cows seems like a good way to keep this in circulating (notwithstanding the 4 additional spillovers detected to date)

One of the most surprising things in this excellent piece:
"Veterinarian Edith Marshall, an epidemiologist with the California Department of Food and Agriculture, says a few have had cows that remain infected for more than 1 year." 🤯

Been listening to this album for years and just realized that she’s talking about playing Geoguessr

In fairness this is how I sound when I try to explain CDC leadership to someone who hasn't been following closely

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Thrilled for @caitlingilbert.bsky.social, Craig Whitlock and Lisa Rein for on being named finalists for the Goldsmith Awards for their coverage last year of VA disability fraud:
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Congratulations to the @miamiherald.com's Alexandra Glorioso, the @tampabaytimes.bsky.social's Lawrence Mower & Justin Garcia on being named finalists for the Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting for their coverage of Hope Florida! goldsmithawards.org/announcing-t...

Current Soybean Export Projection Still Look Too High U.S. export sales and shipments as of the first week in March as a percent of the USDA's March WASDE estimate vs. new crop sales also as of the first week in March as a percent of the USDA Ag Outlook ...

"This is the second lowest number of exports sold at this point in the marketing year since the 2012/13 season ...
The two years where the pace of sales and shipments were even lower was in the 2018/19 and 2019/20 seasons where the U.S. and China were in the midst of a huge trade war."

Wow, sure would have been a great year for soy exports to not be cratered

Hopefully this does not come roaring back for Ohio and Indiana in the same way it did last winter.

But it is well worth being on alert. We have been seeing time and time again that when HPAI infiltrates commercial flocks in poultry-dense areas, it tends to spread.
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What the U.S. Government Is Dismissing That Could Seed a Bird Flu Pandemic Egg producers suspect bird flu is traveling through the air. After a disastrous Midwestern outbreak early this year, we tested that theory and found that where the wind blew, the virus followed. Vacci...

It just so happens that Jay 12 is one of the first farms that hit by the massive outbreak I covered in Nov, which bore signs that the virus could be spreading between farms over the air, raising the stakes for the current policy to block vaccine in poultry.
www.propublica.org/article/bird...

Buffers around Jay 12, which places much of Jay and Mercer County in a control or surveillance zone for HPAI

And just now, a detection in a Jay County turkey flock (Jay 12), putting most one of the densest poultry-farmed areas in the country under in a control zone.

Map of recent cases in Lancaster County, PA

A new D-strain reassortant, D1.12, has cut a swath through Lancaster County, PA. Nearly 8 million birds have been culled in the county since late January.

Case list from Indiana Board of Animal Health

There's also been a resurgence in cases in northwest Indiana, after a brief lull in cases following rampant spread in Amish duck farming communities in November and December.

www.in.gov/boah/species...

Bird flu outbreaks hit Wisconsin egg producer again, millions of hens impacted Wisconsin's fourth largest egg producer, Daybreak Foods, faces two more bird flu outbreaks in less than 2 weeks, impacting millions of hens.

Some of the largest egg laying farms have been reinfected. A 3M+ layer farm Hyde County, NC went down again, as is a major egg producer in WI -- just six months after its last infection. WI has lost 4.3M hens and pullets in last 2 weeks
www.wisfarmer.com/story/news/2...

Pretty rough month for #H5N1

More than 10M layers have been culled due to HPAI outbreaks in the last month. It's one of the worst months we've seen since H5 2.3.4.4b first started infecting U.S. flocks in 2022.

🧵 on what I'm seeing domestically

I'd be less annoyed if the peninsula on Qeshm that it shows didn't kind of resemble the general shape of the Musandam Peninsula relative to the actual Strait of Hormuz

This og:image drives me absolutely insane every time I see it

Béla Fleck - Whitewater (Official Audio) YouTube video by Béla Fleck

Day 212 of trying to convince the toddler that Whitewater from Bela's 1988 album Drive is, in fact, his favorite song.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfqn...

oof, aaaaand discourse 🧟

Been trying to write more music lately and hard to shake a sense that so much of music can be described thematically as a version of "Things ( are | aren't ) changing and I (do | don't) like it."

cannot emphasize what a relief it is to have new reference sequences for the newly detected segments this fall, particularly NA protein