My first-author work on the Cryptosporidium single-cell atlas and sex determination is online ⁦⁦nature⁩!!! In ⁦Boris Striepen⁩ we sequenced the transcriptomes of over 9000 parasites showing a direct commitment to sexual development! nature.com/articles/s4158…

Our paper on the Cryptosporidium single-cell atlas and sex determination is online nature!

Congrats Katelyn Walzer! Beautiful work!

This is so Cool ! I always believed that Histones were a viral invention!
Self-assembling viral histones are evolutionary intermediates between archaeal and eukaryotic nucleosomes | Nature Microbiology nature.com/articles/s4156…

New preprint from CEIRRNetwork researchers at Pitt and Emory on the stability and remaining infectiousness of #H5N1 (and H1N1) #influenza on surface materials in milking machines. Potential mechanism of udder-to-udder transmission or fomites to workers. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Great turnout today for our GEMINI workshop on mastering Adobe Illustrator, led by Allie Greenplate and Mark Painter.

CDC's wastewater dashboard looking for signals of #H5N1 #birdflu has gone live. Scroll way down this page to find it. Marc Johnson

cdc.gov/flu/avianflu/h…

if you're concerned that the new AlphaFold3 is totally closed source and doesn't even share executables, sign the letter to Nature that is being put together - see the thread quoted here. The link to the letter is the 2nd tweet in the thread.

I have endorsed this letter and strongly agree with the points herein. Moreover, I think there are even more serious reasons the AlphaFold3 publication in nature is highly problematic and antithetical to core scientific principles!

Signed

Mick Jagger doing math in his head in 1969

The thing that most strikes me about the current #H5N1 #birdflu outbreak in cattle (and terrifies me to some extent) is how much the virus surprised us once again. And how cavalier our response seems in the face of that fact.

26. The photographer's assistant by Djamel Hadj Aissa

17. 'How dare you take my picture' by Blain Harasymiw

24. No sudden movements by Lynsey Addario