A bit on this study and why it's important to actually read studies and not just read Guardian articles about said studies. It seems pretty clear cut and concerning doesn't it? Study says, lockdowns prematurely aged adolescent's brains, girls more than boys. It certainly is

Covid-19 Gaslighting Bingo: Just a way to pass the time & realize we're not alone. Inspired by all the back to school gaslighting. First one to get a line wins!

Biologists would love to be able to read out the amino-acid sequence of any protein molecule as they would the letters of a sentence. A system in which a biological motor pulls proteins through a pore brings the dream closer to reality go.nature.com/3MHf43i

Study in Australia on 14 human donors: Astodrimer sodium nasal spray reduced SARS-CoV-2 infectivity by 96.6% and preserved normal mucociliary function. Other sprays showed mixed effectiveness and safety. nature.com/articles/s4159…

I have a YouTube playlist for molecular biology for my undergrad interns in the lab. I might as well share it here. youtube.com/playlist?list=…

Our new paper: COVID‐19 Mitigation Strategies in Australia - In Jan 2023 74% disagreed that masks were no longer needed and 66% wanted 5-day isolation mandate; 38% wanted masks to be mandated in indoor spaces (38%) and 25% avoided going to hospitals. So... 🧵

The Kiffness x Donald Trump - Eating the Cats 😿🐶 Stream / Buy: onerpm.link/EatingTheCats

Pete Buttigieg is one of the smartest and most capable political communicators on the planet. This is extremely insightful on Trump.

Shocking news this week that apparently Covid is airborne. This changes everything.

#Novavax4Australia Novavax Mark Butler MP Australian Department of Health and Aged Care

Google has a new experimental tool (Illuminate) that takes a link to a preprint and creates a "podcast" discussing the paper. I tested this with a few preprints that recently caught my attention (Ropebwt3, genomic language models, VEP guidelines) blog.stephenturner.us/p/illuminate-p…

When they ask me what keeps me going in academia

BBC News (UK) The evidence for high-grade masks is not weak. What was weak were the excuses given to the COVID enquiry by those in power, who made bad decisions.

For those of you who didn’t watch it, the Covid inquiry played out essentially like this “Here’s the evidence and studies showing that Covid is an aerosol and high-grade masks work” “Hmmmm….yeah, noo. That’s annoying and I don’t wanna☹️”

lol 22Minutes this was pretty good actually. It captured how absurd our current reality is quite well

Schools are a key source of COVID transmission. Kids and teachers spending a long time together in low ventilation environments with the capacity for kids to spread disease from one social network to another. We need to take this problem seriously. abc.net.au/news/2024-09-2…

We just released a 90-minute Primer - a condensed version of the full COVID Safety For Schools course - to give busy teachers and parents an overview of the issues and practical tips on what they can do to minimise health risks from covid. covidsafetyforschools.org/primer

Ben Carroll Prof Brendan Crabb Burnet Institute Victorian Government Thank you so much. Please consider private dance schools, bus companies, and external camp providers, when thinking about schools and their ventilation and filtration requirements. It's so hard to get traction as an individual with these types of services our children use.

“Indoor air is an outlier in our otherwise comprehensive public health framework. Despite people spending the majority of their time inside, IAQ is mostly unregulated, in contrast to the standards that apply to, for example, food and water.” abc.net.au/news/2024-09-2…

Great article that: 1) Acknowledges C19 is a continuing crisis; 2) reports the good news that clean indoor experts recently met with ⁦Anthony Albanese⁩ to lobby for better infrastructure to tackle this crisis theconversation.com/grattan-on-fri…