The future looks bright! @samlearner.bsky.social

Why does the covid origins debate remain so polarising & acrimonious? What does this say about the state of science & the public discourse of science? My @theguardian.com op-ed debut, from a sociological perspective Include backstory behind the film Blame 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Congratulations to @colinparrish.bsky.social, on his well-deserved election to the American Academy of Microbiology! www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again

news.cornell.edu/stories/2025... @cayleefalvo.bsky.social @rainap.bsky.social

NEW: Russia's shadow war in the Baltics How a series of suspected sabotage incidents in the Baltic Sea has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure ft.com/baltic-sea w/ @richardmilne.ft.com @upyorkshire.ft.com @samjoiner.bsky.social @inari-ta.bsky.social @ian-bott.bsky.social

I guest lectured a class on tolerance and resistance last week (not a strong topic for me, I find the tolerance/resistance functions confusing). However, as 1) animations and 2) with a time component the functions finally started to make some sense.

My conversation with Ezra Klein on building new cities and taxing the daylights out of social media corporations. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tnQ...

New bat paper from our lab. Small changes in bats' diet can decrease influenza shedding and alter cytokine expression. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #bats #influenza #iav photo credit: José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

PLOS will no longer post on X/Twitter www.linkedin.com/posts/alison...

it's been a while... since I got the reverse rainbow.