Antarctic fish viromes are just as rich and diverse as their tropical fishy friends biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Coffee! You already sell coffee!

First scientist to publish Covid sequence in China protests over lab ‘eviction’ theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

It's been just over 1 month since Dept. of Agriculture reported finding #H5N1 #birdflu in dairy cows. There are still many questions about what's going on & the risk it poses to people. But some things are starting to come into focus. By Megan Molteni & me. statnews.com/2024/04/30/h5n…

You couldn't pay me enough to be this needy cringe.

We are thrilled to announce the election of 120 members and 24 international members to the National Academy of Sciences in recognition of their distinguished and continued achievements in original research.

Congratulations to our new #NASmembers and welcome to the Academy!

Personally I think this sounds very bad. time.com/6972021/donald…

Whoa. In his gag order ruling, Judge Merchan laments that Trump can’t be fined more than $1,000 for his violations. “While $1,000 may suffice in most instances to protect the dignity of the judicial system…it unfortunately will not achieve the desired result in those instances

The media needs to stop repeating his talking points and make clear what another Trump presidency would mean for abortion rights: Free reign for anti-choice extremists, approval of abortion meds being repealed, a backdoor national ban using Comstock

In his interview with TIME, Donald Trump says he would let states monitor women’s pregnancies & allow them to prosecute abortion patients. He also wouldn't commit to vetoing a national abortion ban.

He will let the anti-abortion movement do whatever it wants.

Just out in Emerging Infectious Diseases: Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 virus infects epithelial cells of mammary alveoli (where milk is produced) of the udder in dairy cows. #vogelgriep 1/2
wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/30…

It's starting to look like pasteurization inactivates #H5N1 #birdflu viruses in milk. But people who drink raw milk are playing with fire right now. statnews.com/2024/04/29/bir…

New Houldcroft lab preprint! doi.org/10.1101/2024.0… What does the landscape of T cell immunity to adenoviruses look like in healthy English adults (and why should we care)?

My colleagues and I have just posted a
'Note about availability of #H5N1 2.3.4.4b consensus sequences from cattle and other species' Virological Posts.

Consensus genomes and metadata.

virological.org/t/note-about-a…

1/7. Right-wing justices postulate Trump's 'immunity.' The objection is that this makes him a king. Not so. It's much worse.

Weird. In 2009, Kavanaugh wrote a law review article specifically contemplating criminal prosecutions for Presidents after they leave office, and noting that this possibility provides a check on a “bad-behaving or law-breaking” President. I guess he just changed his mind for some

Dads of Chicago Assemble!

frustrating thing about h5n1 is that odds are still good that it will not cause a pandemic in the near future, so i can imagine people freaking out and then concluding that scientists were scaremongering

A single colonization of New Guinea + Australia by rodents around 8.5 million years ago led to a massive adaptive radiation with ≥157 species. Between rodents and bats, Australia actually has more placental species than marsupials.

I don’t think the Supreme Court’s Republicans have ever been as obviously, cartoonishly in the tank for Donald Trump as they were this week. They want him to win! And they’re doing what they can to give him his best shot. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics/s…