Recurrent group A Streptococcus tonsillitis is an immunosusceptibility disease involving antibody deficiency and aberrant TFH cells stm.sciencemag.org/content/11/478…

Targeting March 2 for Crew Dragon's first flight to the International Space Station blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew…

This is an important thread. We won’t move anywhere on diversity and fairness in STEM while those in power hold these positions, that bias doesn’t exist because I’ve never “seen” it

Open letter to journal editors: dynamite plots must die. Dynamite plots, also known as bar and line graphs, hide important information. Editors should require authors to show readers the data and avoid these plots. simplystatistics.org/2019/02/21/dyn…

Humbled to reach one million followers today. It’s a tricky platform. I’ve had some good takes and some bad ones but have enjoyed meeting so many of you here. Thank you. 🙏

The dawn of a new era in human spaceflight

Mulaney is easily the best host the show has had since John Mulaney hosted last year. slate.trib.al/uHubWJx

Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed!

We're super excited for #Apollo50th next weekend. In the meantime, here's a cool visualization that shows you the Moon phase and the location of all of the human landings on the Moon. svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4731

"Boy, you sure get a different perspective in this thing in zero g." — Astronaut Michael Collins A new website lets you experience #Apollo11 as it happened in real time, 50 years ago. Here's how software developer Ben Feist built the project: go.nasa.gov/2jPu1qm #Apollo50th

Just got the Facebook invite to storm Area 51 - is anyone else bringing potato salad.

NASA Announces Plans To Launch Chimpanzee Into Sun trib.al/TSODmBa

Someone today asked me if I wanted to read Smash Mouth's "All Star" translated into Aramaic and then back to English. The answer to that question is always yes.

Leaving Earth: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap190825.… youtube.com/watch?v=rFDjAf…

Janet Yellen Announces Americans Can Use Promo Code ‘THANKS’ For 10% Off All U.S. Goods And Services bit.ly/3xi95JR

Not sure why everyone is so surprised about waning antibodies. This is how the immune system works. IgG has a half life of ~30 days and, once antigen is gone, fades away leaving memory B and T cells. Look how one of the main immunology books picture it.

NEW: We now track the evolution of key metrics in Israel compared to pre-vaccination. 3 waves shown with 3 very different situations: • Late 2020: before vaccination • July 2021: 55% fully vaccinated • Now: 63% fully vaccinated + 45% boosted + omicron ourworldindata.org/grapher/israel…

#NASAWebb is fully deployed! 🎉 With the successful deployment & latching of our last mirror wing, that's: 50 major deployments, complete. 178 pins, released. 20+ years of work, realized. Next to #UnfoldTheUniverse: traveling out to our orbital destination of Lagrange point 2!

Saw this one coming. 'Off the grid' will be cool. x.com/verge/status/9…