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Cell must be pissed

Led by Pei Li, we found dramatic nAb evasion conferred by a single DelS31 mutation in the NTD of spike and increased conformational stability. DelS31 variants currently account for >70% of US COVID cases, should DelS31 be included in vaccine design? biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

A logical appeal to UKRI to adopt a preprint mandate ukdayone.org/briefings/refo…. I find two arguments for preprint mandate/Plan U particularly compelling. 🧵

“When I put on the muck boots and go into Twitter, it feels like the whole thing should be in Russian” https://linktr.ee/john_dickerson on Slate slate.com/podcasts/polit…

Reminder of the CRISPR babies publication saga

This is really cool!

More of a comment than a question?

man, that (awesome) c elegans paper on amyloid-based inheritance reminds me so much of Sue Lindquist’s work. over a decade since I worked with her and I still think of her often. Would not be a scientist without her support.

"People get attracted to alternative medicine not necessarily because they think there’s something magical but because [t]hey’re desperate...That can be a gateway to more extreme views...to more misinformation" via Timothy Caulfield independent.co.uk/health-and-wel…

When 'Data not shown' = "these are the sort of data we would have expected to obtain...Unfortunately, we didn’t do this particular experiment"...and related fibs. journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/11…

Great to see this old article on bad refereeing now available at JCS [particularly memorable for me because it provoked an angry letter from an eminent reader disgusted I'd allowed the word "fart" in a scientific article] journals.biologists.com/jcs/article/11…