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Wow. I really did not see this coming. (thread) bit.ly/3m4ANoJ

The historic Maya oriented their lives by the heavens. Today, their descendants and Western scholars team up to understand their sophisticated astronomy. #LongReads fcld.ly/q4vf6lk

Es ist ein demokratiepolitisches Experiment, das wir sehr ernst nehmen sollen: Der österreichische Klimarat hat seine Ergebnisse präsentiert. Und sie zeigen, dass wir Klima und Demokratie anders anpacken müssen. Ein Thread.

I used Midjourney to imagine the Solar System as food. Here's Jupiter as a sandwich.

The principal investigators behind the RECOVERY trial (for #covid19 treatments) have now started a trial testing tecovirimat (tpoxx) for the treatment of #monkeypox. First patient was enrolled on Friday. "This is the first ever trial in patients with monkeypox", says Peter Horby @peterhorby.bsky.social.

What we call (or don't call) a virus plays an important role in how we frame our communications and responses to it. Here is a long thread about how SARS-CoV-2 variants are named.🧵

Congrats to my former ⁦Harvard University⁩ bandmate ⁦Carolyn Bertozzi⁩ on her ⁦The Nobel Prize⁩ in chemistry! We won the Ivy League Battle of the Bands in 1986 with our rockin’ group ‘Bored Of Education’, with her on keyboards & me in spandex. news.stanford.edu/2022/10/05/car…

The SARS-CoV2 lineage soup was becoming a bit too complex to plot nicely, so here some simplified plots with lineages grouped by number of key mutations present, as suggested by Cornelius Roemer (with some help from Rodrigo Quiroga 🔬).

Cool thread about a German woman appointed to hunt witch hunters in the 1500s.

Ok folks. It’s time we talked about eels. I’m a geologist but I recently learnt about eels and… wow. Since then, I’ve been greeting strangers with ‘DO YOU KNOW ABOUT EELS?!’ Well, consider yourself a stranger in my path. Strap in. It’s a 🧵 1/so many

Psttt! If you live overseas and hail from AZ, CO, or NV, be sure your ballot was received and counted. Cure it if you need to. Deadline is TODAY! ow.ly/XU0550LBTtp #ballotcuring #COelections #AZelections #NVelections votefromabroad.medium.com/ballot-curing-…

A funded fellowship for science writers iDiv Biodiversity Research in exciting Leipzig !!! Pls RT. Maybe interesting for @AnnieRothNews Pam Hines Fritz Habekuß Brooke Jarvis Kai Kupferschmidt Fiona Harvey Helen Thomson Sarah Laskow Dagny Lüdemann

Exclusive: Paleontologist Robert DePalma has been accused of faking data in a paper showing the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs struck Earth in the spring. scim.ag/LS

“What has become clear to me over time is that the big challenge is not the viruses. That’s not what gives me a pit in my stomach,” he said. … Terrific piece on #h5n1 by Helen Branswell 🇨🇦: statnews.com/2023/02/08/tra…

Malawi is experiencing the deadliest cholera outbreak in its history with more than 36.000 cases and 1210 deaths. "With a sharp increase of cases seen over the last month, fears are that the outbreak will continue to worsen without strong interventions." who.int/emergencies/di…

🧵I think this might end up being the most important story of my career. For the sake of the planet, I hope so. The upshot: nearly limitless, renewable stores of clean-burning hydrogen fuel might be sitting underground, right under our noses. 1/ science.org/content/articl…

1/19 I was asked to comment to nature on a paper in Cell on ultra-deep seq of fecal samples from Hadza African foragers. Reading glaring ethical problems was a shock for a paper green-lit through peer & editorial review in a prestigious journal doi.org/10.1016/j.cell…