Really cool.

Everything gas is fire.

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has officially declared the end of the mpox epidemic Read more at: https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=2d6eb9e8-5390-422a-b16b-df49f5613a8b&eventid=12e5dd59-09db-45e8-b279-910c56a82d76&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialpost

Finding yourself at a Waffle House without a clear explanation of how you got there is actually a pretty common experience.

Interesting (to me at least!) to see what goes on under the hood of some of the newer frontier AI models — particularly those that can run off-network and with modest computational specs. Here’s the brand new gemma4 (e4b), reasoning through a clear request to violate bio security guardrails.

This seems weirdly pro-lice. www.theatlantic.com/science/2026...

Over the last 25 years, six people who contracted measles in the U.S. died from it. A model built by Stanford researchers predicts that if Americans could no longer get the vaccine, measles could kill about 290,000 people in the next 25 years.

Update on SARS-CoV-2 BA.3.2 in the US. www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes...

Timeline cleanse.

New research article Lineage dynamics of invasive Escherichia coli isolates in the Netherlands from 1975 to 2021: a retrospective longitudinal genomic analysis www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA

Our special bacteriology lab would nerd out so hard over this.

Thanks for the great response to last week’s job post. We have another opportunity to share. This one is a Senior Research Technician role at the University of Birmingham, helping us build the ARTIC primer foundry facility: edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

Tuxedo lab coat!?

Fascinating cluster of a devastating disease.

This is fantastic!

Decades of therapy. gizmodo.com/hasbro-celeb...

No notes. Have a happy and safe valentine’s day.

This seems on brand. apple.news/AS8JmvJ_zRLy...

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“The truth is that we are all in this together. In public health, there is no ‘them’, there is only “us”. — Dr. William H. Foege

If you've ever wondered about the infrastructure behind the Internet Archive and the Wayback Machine, check out this teardown ➡️ hackernoon.com/the-long-now...

I want to do this for my next job. At one point in my career, I almost did.

NPR’s Jan. 6 archive brings together reporting, video, documents and testimony to show what really happened during the Capitol riot. Explore the timeline, cases and evidence behind the attack.

Defenseman Lane Hutson scored with 1:20 left in overtime, and the Montreal Canadiens beat the Dallas Stars 4-3.

#PPOD: Team members working with NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover created this “postcard” by commanding the rover to take images at two times of day on Nov. 18, 2025, spanning the 4,722nd and 4,723rd Martian days, or sols, of the mission. 🧪 🔭 Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

Sequencing Instrumrnt Outlook 2026 My observations & predictions on sequencing instrument companies 🧬🖥️ omicsomics.blogspot.com/2026/01/sequ...

A minor cartographical change.

California, USA: Hand, Foot, and Mouth Disease – Over 100 Cases and 38 Cluster Events in Children Under Five https://beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=029087d8-228b-414a-b996-fbd611b911fa&eventid=dd3aefac-7d62-4f20-8a23-b5ea209059f9&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialpost

Babies who don’t get their first round of vaccines on time at 2 months of age are much less likely to get vaccinated against measles, mumps, and rubella by age 2, according to a new study. www.statnews.com/2026/01/02/m...

The energy I’m going into 2026 with.

EXCLUSIVE: @laurenweberhp.bsky.social & I have spent the last year collecting school+county-level vaccination data from across the US and found that only about 28% of counties now have herd immunity for kindergartners from measles—that leaves about 5.2mn kids unprotected. Gift link: wapo.st/49zDc43

Former U.S. senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of Colorado, the first Native American chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs and a leader of the effort to build the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, died Dec. 30. He was 92.

For decades, the FDA made it impossible to know which factory your prescription drugs were manufactured in. ProPublica built a tool to show you. Here’s how we did it.

This seems fine.

💾 mlst 2.25.0 has been released! Fixed a bug that missed alleles in increasingly larger schemes like senterica (thanks @microbiologikat.bsky.social) and updated the databases. #bioinformatiocs #microbiology #genomics github.com/tseemann/mls...

The U.S. will very likely lose its measles-elimination status next month, and Americans will have to confront how difficult this virus can be to control, @katherinejwu.com reports:

The end of an era; a passing of the baton in bacterial annotation. Prokka was one of the first apps that opened my eyes to the potential of well-designed microbial bfx on a local machine. I have pestered the brilliant @torstenseemann.bsky.social ever since. Prokka est mort. Vive le bakta.

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Continued excellence. An absolutely indispensable piece of open source software.

This is how we ride.

Excellent.

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