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Editor-in-Chief of a very good microbial journal.

(Illustration by David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-028)

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On Monday I start writing my next editorial. I still don’t know what it will be about.

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“No flowers, please: donations should be sent to Nigel Farage, c/o Reform UK inc.”

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And don't preprints undermine the process?

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Is it cumbersome to manage? Or do you just strip out the by-line?

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"I think older children and younger people especially deserve to be able to celebrate. The past few years have been very hard on them, and they must be allowed to feel optimistic about how politics can shape their lives."

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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I'm happy 😀 to announce I have a PhD position on the mathematical 🧮 modelling 💻 of microbial 🦠 evolution! I'm looking forward to working with an enthousiastic candidate on this project, please contact me with any questions! #JobAlert Please retweet! vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-...

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Artist Hitomi Terasawa drew a meticulous cross-sectioned rendering of Hong Kong's infamous Kowloon Walled City before it was razed in 1994. Now we have rare scans revealing the inner workings of the labyrinth-like metropolis.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/07/kowl...

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This speaks volumes:

"The term aerosol was avoided, although well defined in aerosol science, out of concern that its scientific definition is not widely understood."

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

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Get Me Zarniwoop's avatar Get Me Zarniwoop @martinmorrey.bsky.social
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"Come with me to a fantastical land [where] young people can live and work in any country in Europe. You can swim in a river without catching Weil’s disease, or see your doctor ... [and] 40,000 people rely on food banks instead of 3.1 million"
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

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'The increases in wealth for some have coincided w a deepening hopelessness for others. Even before Covid19 struck, social epidemiologists & public health experts were sounding the alarm about unprecedented spikes in mortality rates & declining life expectancy in the most deprived parts of the UK'

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Being able to edit posts is the one thing I miss about Mastodon.

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😨 I can't believe I made a typo like that.

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Political reactions to major infectious disease outbreaks tend to oscillate between "robust" and "conservative". So, given how recent covid was, this should tell you a lot about the attitude to #influenza #H1N1 in dairy cattle.

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"Those statistics are almost certainly an undercount of the actual number of people who would become sick if raw milk was widely available nationally, given it is currently consumed by such a small percentage of the population and it is still illegal in many states"

www.statnews.com/2024/07/03/d...

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"The last-minute endorsement shows that, as with other tabloids, the Sun never had as much political power as it likes to boast, in the sense that it influenced voter behaviour."

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You're so right. I lost mine in February. While the sadness still casts a little shadow, I get incredible joy from seeing pups out and about resplendent in their cheekiness.

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We really are the boiling frog:

"Ecologists describe a phenomenon called “shifting baseline syndrome”, which is the idea that as the environment degrades, each new generation accepts the degraded situation they experience as normal."

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It feels odd to say it, but I needed this refresher of just how bad things have been. Their vandalism has been on such a scale that it has been hard to stop their latest damage from overshadowing past messes.

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So, I think when my editor asked me to do a long list of Tory policy screw ups since 2010, he was expecting something funny? The reality was... not particularly funny.

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Highlighting that activity is against disease is giving me flashbacks to similar points being ignored in 2020. 😱

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London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine's avatar London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @lshtm.bsky.social
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New strain of #mpox virus circulating in DRC

Michael Marks & David Heymann explain we need to understand transmission & severity, focus on protecting communities, and prevent wider spread.

👇 t.co/yd0hqMURUK

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"I think she believes it and that's fine … it's interesting to me that there are a lot of people who are in many ways brilliant scientists who become conspiracy theorists. Even the brightest of scientists are not immune to being conspiracy theorists and I think that's what's going on with her"

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Has anyone reached this stage in the political cycle? @PostFilm

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Has anyone created an ID, microbiology, or virology etc starter pack?

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"Bryant’s great contribution is that he clearly shows there is no such thing as that “better America”. In fact, American exceptionalism – the enduring belief, to put it crudely, that the US is the best country in the world – “has blinded it to the ways in which it is unusually bad”."

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"Regrettably, the Board of Trustees has made the difficult decision to propose to close aidsmap in July. Despite exploring alternatives, we do not see a sustainable path forward."

www.aidsmap.com/news/jul-202...

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Christian Kost's avatar Christian Kost @kostchristian.bsky.social
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A fully funded (3 year) PhD position is available in my group. The project will focus on analysing how synergistically interacting bacteria coevolve.

Join my vibrant group at @UniOsnabrueck.

Please RT

Deadline: 28.07.2024

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I do find the "why are you so quiet?" argument a bit confusing. It's not that things have gone unsaid, it's that few are interested in listening because what we have to say doesn't bolster lazy narratives.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH's avatar Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPH @rmcarpiano.bsky.social
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(cont'd) I wrote a bit about this troubling science opinion/hot take phenomenon back in 2021. Glad to see @gregggonsalves.bsky.social and Moore address this further.
🛟🧪Medsky sociology policysky 🧭 health policy

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That’s good to know. Although I’m happy for everyone to benefit from my wisdom 🧐

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Mr. Am I Being Detained 's avatar Mr. Am I Being Detained @gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Werner Herzog directing a Maybelline ad: Perhaps she is born with it. What a frightful notion, to be imbued with the fetters of capitalist commodification from birth. It suggests God Himself is a part of our dreadful pattern instead of a refuge from it.

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You need this today. For morale.

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The realisation of The Terminator is not what I had prepared myself for.

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Over-reliance on special effects rather than quality screenwriting?

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