Congratulations, @hsiehyp.bsky.social! The first paper from the newly-minted Hsieh lab at Academia Sinica.

Are you interested in how your genomics work can meaningfully feed into addressing the UK National Action Plan on AMR? 🧬🧫 🦠💊 Then check out our handy personal view out today in Lancet Microbe … 🧵1/n www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

New personal view article The role of microbial genomics in delivering the UK’s national action plan for confronting antimicrobial resistance 2024–29 www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR #OpenAccess #OA

It’s International HPV Awareness Day! | For health care professionals | Pocket Guide for Immunizers: HPV Vaccination | immunize.ca/sites/defaul... #HPV #VaccinesWork #VaccinesSaveLives #GetImmunized #OneLessWorry

Good news: Scientists were wrong about how bad sea level rise is. Bad news: It’s even worse than we thought.

The Canadian Sleep Research Consortium is doing a study on how the time change affects sleep and is recruiting adults and adolescents to keep a sleep journal for 3 weeks. Sign up before March 4: www.researchsleep.ca/time-change #ParticipateInResearch

Can’t wait. The only thing that’s upsetting is that it didn’t come sooner. Seriously have you tried explaining to a baby about time change at 4:30 in the morning?!

I don't so much mind when someone uses an LLM as one tool in their toolbox, used carefully and critically evaluated, integrated or not into something they make. I find it offensive when it supplants critical thinking and its outputs are treated as authoritative products in themselves.

Stanley Plotkin had a major hand in the development of a number of vaccines in use today; he designed the rubella vaccine. He remembers the world before widespread use of vaccines & knows what's coming as vaccine policy is rewritten & vaccine confidence is eroded. www.statnews.com/2026/03/02/s...

The mass murder of civilians in Gaza, the brazen attacks on hospitals and schools, without any accountability has created a new kind of warfare that should terrify and enrage all of us. Every child lost is someone’s whole world. Every life lost matters www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Women play a vital role in science. A powerful reminder from mRNA researcher and Nobel Prize winner Prof. Katalin Karikó on why science needs more women!

I use the silver morph fox coat as a teaching example of selection against a recessive allele as these silver morphs are homozygotes for a pigmentation allele. They were prized by hunters and so they were selected against over time See Figure 2 of Allendorf and Hard www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

In a world first, B.C. teen cured of rare disease through gene editing treatment. Ty Sperle cured of chronic granulomatous disease with a treatment known as “prime editing,” by Brenna Owen www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/briti... via @theglobeandmail.com

This week in Vancouver Timeline cleanse 😮‍💨 #canada #serenitynow

Kids born the same year that the term “RNA-seq” was coined are heading to college this fall. We are all unspeakably ancient.

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We are excited to kick-off of our seminar series on March 5, 4pm CET 🥳 🎤 Petter Brodin – A seeding reaction to colonizing microbes in human newborns 🎤 Eva Stange – Neonatal liver niches program T cell tolerance Register here: www.efis-eline.eu/seminars #EarlyLifeImmunity #Immunology #EFIS

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o... OpenClaw is at it again!

Chegg was bad enough and now... 🎢 #AcademicSky

What Happened in Chicago When Science Became the Enemy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/o... “What seems clear is that Americans have entered a grim new era, one where science itself is a political weapon, rather than a tool for the collective good”

Seven countries are losing all U.S. humanitarian aid: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Malawi, Mali, Niger, Somalia, and Zimbabwe. these projects are being canceled because “there is no strong nexus between the humanitarian response and U.S. national interests.” www.theatlantic.com/health/2026/...

Aerial view of the Fraser River, Port Mann Bridge, Pitt River Bridge, Surrey, Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, and Pitt Meadows #canada #aerial

The latest nutrition guidelines urge Americans to avoid highly processed food. But when it comes to carbs, many people don't know which ones are ultra-processed. Here's an easy way to find out.

They locked up a Colombian child coming to go to Disney World with her family. What the hell are we doing? And why in the world would anyone come here for the World Cup/Olympics? www.miaminewtimes.com/news/immigra...

PayPal Confirms Data Breach — Money Stolen, Passwords Reset

More hope from mRNA vaccines. In this instance, individualized vaccines were given to women with triple negative breast cancer following surgery and adjuvant therapy. The results are quite remarkable. Despite cancer finding a ‘T cell-evading’ work-around in some patients. #Science 🧪

Let's learn some surprising things about hummingbird tongues. First, as you can see, their tongues are forked & feathery, highly specialized for lapping up their liquid diet of nectar. But it gets weirder up close!

FYI, this grant program is open to anyone communicating science. It does not require that you went to school for science. You could be a Ph.D. student, an artist, a community organizer, a teacher, or any other profession. As long as you are communicating science IRL in the US, you're eligible.

Kid 1: Do you have a TV when you were little? Me: …

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

I’ve written a post about my recent experiences (successes) with AI coding models; the experiences that caused me to re-evaluate my initial judgements, the surprise I had at what can be accomplished, & some fears I have about these tools. Discussion welcome! combine-lab.github.io/blog/2026/02...

We came to Tumbler Ridge so that this community, who has been through the unthinkable, may know that Canadians are with you.

To say this is bonkers doesn’t do justice to how dangerous it also is

Kind of makes sense. I mean, we haven't had the outbreak of a new and deadly worldwide pandemic in almost five years.

It's so wild to me that I am mad about a literal pharmaceutical company not being treated justly by regulators. We live in the craziest timeline.

Join me in signing this petition to @hootsuite.com 's CEO calling on them to: Cancel their contract with ICE. As a Canadian business owner and former Hootsuite user, I am DISGUSTED. you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ho... you.leadnow.ca/petitions/ho...

Thought I was super prepared with Valentine's day cards for kiddos' classes as I saved a bunch of extras from last year.

How do bacterial pangenomes evolve, what controls their dynamics, why do they exist? Fitting a mechanistic model to 450 species from allthebacteria.org suggesting fast vs slow gene exchange (i.e. amount of MGEs) is a major differentiating factor, correlated with phylogeny rather than lifestyle

Let's learn about the coquí frog 🐸 (Eleutherodactylus coqui), native to Puerto Rico where it is a beloved national symbol. I want to focus on their call: two tones described as co- and -quí. (SOUND ON) Take a listen 👂 & see if you spot the pattern. Then I'll tell you something amazing about it.

"This is the hard truth I want to land: climate does not care what’s trending. It’s not interested in Jeffrey Epstein, Gaza, or Greenland. There is no algorithmic mercy. Physics is physics, and it is getting more abrupt." #climatecrisis #ElNino #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/we-are-...

I’ve caught glimpses of a decent aurora once, nowhere near this spectacular, but the thing that struck me most was that the light flowed in a way that was very conspicuously NOT like a liquid but like electricity. It felt like being inside one of those plasma globe lamps. Eerie and breathtaking.

What a shameful country we are.

“In just a few weeks, the United States reported four times as many cases than typically seen throughout an entire calendar year, the CDC said… Declining vaccination rates have left approximately 300,000 kindergarteners unprotected from measles infection.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

Is now a good time to remind them about “herd immunity”?

Here's what the boys who "would have" perfectly controlled COVID have delivered us now that they have power and the opportunity to prove their competence in the real-world. abcnews.go.com/Health/us-se...

If you have an interest in mixing computation and experiments to understand microbial evolution (for example antibiotic resistance) and you think you might be a good fit for a postdoc in my lab, reach out. If it seems it might be a fit I’m happy to help you frame it as AI for Biology per this call

Spring semester has been brutal with no end in sight. Having RSV rip through the house is the cherry on top.

Kind of obsessed with my 11-year-old's drawing of a black hole barfing out a rainbow and creating the earth.