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Greg Tinkler 🚝 πŸ’ 🧠 πŸ”¬ πŸš€ 🌌 πŸ›°οΈ 🌎 πŸ₯Š

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Dad, Bio prof, connoisseur of monkey brains, lover of Monorails, PeopleMovers, and large cantilevered concrete terraces with janky water features. He/they.


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They are constantly searching for the next stars n bars, or the next NSDAP flag

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Only relevant for NotLD zombies which were afraid of fire

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Isabel Ott's avatar Isabel Ott @isabelott.bsky.social
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Measles is the most contagious virus we know of, can cause devastating complications, and increases vulnerability to *all* infections. It’s horrible and deadly, and we have the tools we’d need to *eradicate* it. We can’t afford to let this get out of control again.

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Daniel Martin's avatar Daniel Martin @fizbin.bsky.social
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I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

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Cheerwine

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If he does he better watch those windows. Not very good quality.

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Ebola has been one of the most feared infectious diseases, killing half of those who are infected and with few treatment options. www.npr.org/sections/goa...

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Partner here. My total wasn't even that bad, but my LDLs are high which fucked up my ratio. Statin hasn't been any issue other than it does leave me a teeny bit achey some mornings, but it's honestly less than if I just went to the gym.

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Tale as old as time

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank 's avatar Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social
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Climate change has so many risks for infection transmission. Frozen pathogens released from Permafrost. Wetter milder weather facilitates mosquito spread and lifecycle with all they can carry, there are dangers for food and water security & deforestation risks zoonotic infections πŸ§ͺ

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So in case you weren't sure, Tara really really wants fish stick.

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Night monkey?

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No dear. Just no.

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Carl Zimmer's avatar Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.bsky.social
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Scientists are studying the DNA of thousands of people who lived thousands of years ago, uncovering the evolutionary history that helped give rise to diseases like multiple sclerosis. Here’s my story on a new analysis of Stone Age roots of modern health. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2024/01/10/s... πŸ§ͺ

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank 's avatar Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social
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REALLY good to see this study showing that like adults, vaccines protect children against risk of getting long covid. If only Long Covid were considered in UK decisions re vaccine eligibility.

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MU-Peter Shimon πŸ€„'s avatar MU-Peter Shimon πŸ€„ @mu-peter.bsky.social
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An energy costly architecture of neuromodulators for human brain evolution and cognition 🏺πŸ§ͺ
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Suggests that an up-regulation of neuromodulator activity, alongside increased brain size, is a crucial aspect of human brain evolution.

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Relatable

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Dorit Reiss's avatar Dorit Reiss @doritreiss.bsky.social
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"A study shows that US children who received mRNA COVID-19 vaccines have some protection against developing long-lasting symptoms of the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2."

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

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Katie Mack's avatar Katie Mack @astrokatie.com
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If you’re going to be gathering with people over the holidays, you can potentially save your loved ones a lot of pain and grief by doing a rapid test first and staying away if you test positive or feel at all unwell. Missing out is no fun but being the cause of someone else’s illness would be worse!

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Old enough to remember Rauner in your deep blue state....

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Dr Tom Frieden's avatar Dr Tom Frieden @drtomfrieden.bsky.social
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We’re sleepwalking into a nasty flu/Covid/RSV season. Hospitalizations among all age groups in the U.S. increased by 200% for influenza, 51% for COVID-19, and 60% for RSV in the past four weeks. It’s not too late to get your updated vaccinations!

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Jonathan Eisen's avatar Jonathan Eisen @phylogenomics.bsky.social
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Public Service Announcement:

"A popular and incorrect view on the evolution of virulence, frequently expressed in the context of SARS-CoV-2, is that in the long run, pathogens will tend to evolve to be decreasingly virulent"

From www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Alexander Tin 's avatar Alexander Tin @alexander-a-tin.bsky.social
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New CDC alert on these cases of tickborne Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

- 5 hospitalized
- 4 under 18 years old
- 3 dead
- all recently in Tecate, Mexico

CDC now urging doctors "do not delay treatment pending the result of a confirmatory laboratory test"

emergency.cdc.gov/han/2023/han...

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I once said something about getting into shape and my daughter said "round is a shape"

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Eric Topol's avatar Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social
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US Covid hospitalizations are on the rise, now >20,000 new admits/week, and this wave is just getting started as the JN.1 variant becomes dominant and wastewater levels surging in the Midwest with other regions to follow. The booster protects vs JN.1!

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Others are also sharing stories, but as I mentioned earlier this year, it took us 4 tries in- person plus 3 canceled appointments to get 9yo his COVID vaccine. How many parents are going to go through that?

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LeVar Burton is a literacy campaigner and child advocate and should be treated with Fred Rogers levels of reverence and if he's not, people havent been paying attention, they're racist, or both. That man is a national treasure.

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AF the Virologist 's avatar AF the Virologist @afthescientist.bsky.social
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Wearing a high quality mask also prevents you from spreading it to others if you are infectious. Many people have asymptomatic infections or have an infectious asymptomatic period prior to symptoms. Wearing a mask protects you & protects others. It’s never too late to start masking again.

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I will never recover from this student email.

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I want a divorce

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That Guy James's avatar That Guy James @jroberts.bsky.social
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Remember: if a kid shows up tonight not wearing a costume, mind your fuckin business and make with the fuckin candy. Some kids are poor and can’t afford a costume. Some kids are sneaking out because of religious parents. Give them candy and tell them happy Halloween.

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This is the only possible reply

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I'd rather not

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Boston Tom Levenson's avatar Boston Tom Levenson @tomlevenson.bsky.social
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Hotez is spot on. I'll add, finishing a book about the emergence of germ theory, that it's been just long enough since the post WW2 vaccine revolution that the misery thus eased has faded from memory. Malign assholes don't remember or care about was gained and how tragically much we have to lose.

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Don't cross the streams

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It’s Ursula Le Guin’s birthday. β€œYou cannot buy the revolution. You cannot make the revolution. You can only be the revolution. It is in your spirit, or it is nowhere.”

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Tara C. Smith's avatar Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social
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Hope some of you are able to attend yesterday. Speakers were amazing and questions for the Q&A were super thoughtful.

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N. K. Jemisin's avatar N. K. Jemisin @nkjemisin.bsky.social
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It's not an "impossible dilemma," Scholastic. On one side you've got white nationalists and queerphobes; on the other you've got diverse books. You have chosen the bigots.

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πŸ§ͺInterested in vaccine hesitancy? We're putting on a (livesteamed!) symposium with experts Jennifer Reich and Nadine Gartner Tues Oct 17, 9-noon Eastern, β€œWhy Parents Reject Vaccines and How to Move the Needle”. Free registration: kent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...
MedSky PedSky MicroSky EpiSky

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Can confirm

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Those of us in public health know that the impact that Travis Kelce has by promoting vaccination is much bigger than doctors or scientists promoting it, so thank you Travis. Vaccines are rad. πŸ§ͺ EpiSky IDSky

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Yeah, not my favorite but doable

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