Great study and thread by Bloom Lab. Careful analysis of SARS-CoV-2 outbreak on a ship shows that even under very "spready" conditions, only a small slice of the genetic diversity within an infected person makes it to the person they infect. 1/8

Care for some ghastly love stories from the animal kingdom? I got you! Happy Valentine's Day🐢🐙🐌

The 3 main theories for #Omicron's origins. Scientists are trying to pinpoint where and how the highly transmissible #COVID19 #variant emerged so they can be better prepared for the next one nationalgeographic.com/science/articl… Priyanka Runwal National Geographic

Not what I wanted to read today: In Malawi a young child has contracted wild polio, the first case in Africa in over five years. Looks like the virus was imported from Pakistan where polio is still endemic. afro.who.int/news/malawi-de…

ATTN WEEBS! two new reports, published today by the CDC, find that #AnimeNYC was not actually a superspreader event, despite Omicron's presence at the convention -- but the situation is still complicated. I covered this for Science News: (1/11)

Kyiv subway now. Everybody’s reading news.

Just so we are clear – this is the moment we've all been afraid of. This is it. The Russian army is officially, blatantly invading Ukraine, the biggest country in Europe. God help our soldiers.

Germany has just said it will effectively block the approval of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipelines from Russia. Short thread on Scholz's press conference this morning: 1. On Putin's recognition of DNR & LNR: Scholz called it a “unilateral, incomprehensible and unjust action” /1

Here’s a partial list of reporters on the ground and others who know what they’re talking about. x.com/i/lists/149432…

New The Associated Press reporting tonight: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy was asked to evacuate Kyiv at the behest of the U.S. government but turned down the offer. An American official tells me Zelenskyy said, “The fight is here; I need ammunition, not a ride.”

We have just released two preprints on the origin of SARS-CoV-2: 1. "The Huanan market was the epicenter of SARS-CoV-2 emergence" zenodo.org/record/6299116…

“Civilized” x.com/Elevatedquid/s…

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NUCLEAR WASTE FACILITIES TARGETED IN KYIV, HIGH RISK OF RADIOACTIVE CONTAMINATION

I can’t wrap my mind around the existence of this clip.