Check Out the Largest 3-D Map of the Universe Check Out the Largest 3-D Map of the Universe: It spans over 11 billion years of cosmic history

Check Out the Largest 3-D Map of the Universe nautil.us/check-out-th...

SPLASHDOWN!!!

Welcome home ArtemisII

Lunar Flyby - NASA

Oh this is great: there’s now an #Artemis II Lunar Flyby Gallery on the NASA images site: www.nasa.gov/gallery/luna... (thx @dpmanchee.bsky.social for pointing it out)

"Humanity's next great voyage begins" #Artemis

Seems bad

@vscooper.micropopbio.org & @isabelott.bsky.social let me crash their high-school bacteria hunt while I was working on my book "Life's Edge." Their paper's now out, featuring lots of mutants (including my very own CZ1A).

Two years after it emerged, ‘cow flu’ is still circulating—and baffling scientists Researchers still aren’t sure how H5N1 influenza spreads between cows and from farm to farm

2 years ago now the world learned US dairy cows were being infected with #H5N1 #birdflu, raising concern the virus would find a new route to move from animals to humans. Cow infections seem to have slowed & many questions remain, @cohenjon.bsky.social reports. www.science.org/content/arti...

In Talking to Parents About Vaccines, Pediatricians Navigate a Sea of Misinformation

In Talking to Parents About Vaccines, Pediatricians Navigate a Sea of Misinformation

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/h...

More than 150,000 uncounted Covid-19 deaths occurred early in the pandemic, a study finds The Covid-19 pandemic's early death toll was much higher than the official U.S. count, according to a new study that spotlights dramatic disparities in the uncounted deaths.

“used machine learning to sift thru the death certificates of infected patients who died in hospitals..used patterns observed in those records to evaluate death certificates of people who died outside hospitals..whose deaths were attributed to things like pneumonia.. www.statnews.com/2026/03/18/s...

If the White House doesn't nominate a person to serve as #CDC director by March 25, the administration will not be able to have someone serving in the role of acting CDC director.
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It truly is bioengineering’s moment.

🔵Our new pre-print examines how #AI might intersect with #bioweapons across seven key acquisition stages, emphasising actors, utilities, and processes rather than technology alone.

➡️https://ssrn.com/abstract=6299518

#disarmament #CBW #biologicalweapons #OPCW #chemicalweapons

Bio-attribution Challenge www.darpa.mil/research/cha...

“These growing cracks in the country’s public health armor will complicate efforts to protect Americans from future disease threats—whether an outbreak, a pandemic or a biological attack.”

🎯

Nature: China pledges billion-dollar spending boost for science

by Xiaoying You @nature.com

go.nature.com/4rqZQ4u

The Limits of Sequence-Based #Biosecurity Screening Tools in the Age of AI-Assisted Protein Design.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Evaluating AI-Assisted Customer Verification for Synthetic Nucleic Acid Screening.

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

A titan of vaccine development sees his field’s achievements slip away Stanley Plotkin, the 93-year-old "godfather of vaccines," is watching his field’s achievements slip away.

"All I can say is that I’m beginning to regret having lived so long — because we’re going downhill"

www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/s...

Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted. As vaccination rates decline, the economic consequences will increase, research suggests.

If measles vaccination rates continue to drop just 1% annually for the next five years, the cost to the U.S. could reach $1.5 billion a year, according to a new report from the Yale School of Public Health.

Defense Industrial Base:
DOD Efforts to Develop Domestic Biomanufacturing.

www.gao.gov/products/gao...

I… I need a minute.

Johns Hopkins H5N1 Influenza Preparedness & Response Forum Join us at Johns Hopkins for a hands-on forum on tackling H5N1 flu outbreaks and response strategies!

On March 3 in DC, join us for the Johns Hopkins H5N1 Influenza Preparedness & Response Forum! H5N1 is already threatening livestock and poultry, but if it gains sustained human-to-human transmission, challenges will escalate quickly. We have to plan, now.

www.eventbrite.com/e/johns-hopk...

What is… AMAZING!

COVID’s origins: what we do and don’t know Researchers summarize key insights from the world’s first comprehensive investigation into how a pandemic started.

After nearly 3.5 years of deliberations, researchers concluded their independent assessment of the origin of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2

go.nature.com/4qUxijx

WTF?

Useful, as always.

“These latest findings once again underline the need to hold Russia accountable for its repeated violations of the Chemical Weapons Convention and, in this instance, the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.”

This was my question as well.

Joint Statement by the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands on Alexei Navalny's death Joint Statement by the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands on Alexei Navalny's death.

Joint Statement by the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands on Alexei Navalny's death

www.gov.uk/government/n...

Russia killed Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK and allies say Former opposition leader’s death while in Arctic jail at age of 47 result of mixture of diseases, according to Moscow The Foreign Office has blamed the Russian state for the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, which it said was the result of poisoning from a dart containing frog toxin. The frog poison – called epibatidine – is said to have been used when Navalny, 47, died suddenly on 16 February 2024. Continue reading...

Russia killed Alexei Navalny with frog toxin, UK and allies say