Important to remember that those who disembarked from the cruise ship are in the incubation period for #AndesVirus. While additional cases are concerning, they are not unexpected and underscore the need for close monitoring, rapid evaluation, and prompt isolation of anyone who develops symptoms.

I’m not *not* saying that feeding these LLMs giant blobs of government data had visible effects….

No comment on the thread - I just needed to say “look, these GUIs are so gooey” to get it out of my head.

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MORE! TEA!

Cat to Human H5N1 transmission. Next time someone tells me I discourage raw food because I’m getting paid off by big pet food I’ll drop this one on them. The veterinarian seroconverted but never had symptoms. None of the symptomatic contacts of the cats tested positive by either PCR or serology.

This is what international collaboration is supposed to look like. 🧪 TLDR: Five cases sequenced and analyzed across 3 methods and 9 countries. Two synonymous SNPs differ amongst them. Sequences look very similar to ones from 2018 cluster in Argentina.

We’re living in a science-fiction universe, but I think we picked the wrong one.

Pupdate: awakened an hour early this morning because the big dog could not restrain her endless greed and attempted to steal the leftover peanut butter treat on top of the puppy’s crate. In this life or the next, I shall have revenge.

FWIW, I don’t think the major problem in my field, or related ones, is that people need to move faster & produce more. I read a lot of papers as part of the job, and I’m increasingly convinced we’d benefit from fewer papers and better ones, not more mediocre work produced ever more “efficiently.”

*laughs in New England* What, you only get two seasons?

Data-backed analysis of one way that using an LLM for analysis gets you results that are anything but data-backed:

if you can’t talk about climate and make it relevant to people’s lives, that seems like a you issue not a climate issue.

OMG have you seen how many letters Big Dave has got after his name?

The problem with ebooks is that it puts my anti-stress coping mechanism (a book) on my stress-producing object (a thing with an internet connection).

1/ 🚀 Pathoplexus now supports the Andes variant of Hantavirus (ANDV). ANDV is the variant identified in the recent MV Hondius cases, & the Hantavirus variant previously identified as having occasional human-to-human transmission. pathoplexus.org/andv #hantavirus #hondius

things that can only be measured in quantum time: 1) the top quark 2) cosmic inflation 3) the time period between an avocado being unripe and being overripe

Companies that send you emails saying your order has shipped should put the tracking number IN THE EMAIL

Do you want the Tank Girl future? Because this is how we get the Tank Girl future and last time I checked none of you are sentient mutant kangaroos.

The bluesky app needs a way to search within the list of people you’ve blocked.

We have enough actual fascism happening right now that we really don’t need to be calling not-actually-fascism fascism, okay? Words still do mean things.

The wisest words in the universe are, ‘I don’t know, but let me help you find out.’ If you don’t know, say it. If someone’s says it to you, you’ve found a good one.

Tiny puppy demands belly rubs.

Tiny puppy has had a tiny bath. In the way of labs everywhere, this was considered a great injustice, torture of the first order, even though she was happily attacking the hose water not ten minutes earlier.

When someone's being a jackass, it helps to visualize them getting a fly in their mouth. It's unfortunate for the fly, but.

Alabama, from mineral deposits through agriculture and slavery to modern voting. Understanding how this sort of thing happens and why it matters is a basic test a lot of people are failing while they argue teaching history is unimportant

I drive - no transit to where I need to go, which is a *separate* problem - and I’m perfectly happy to have my tax dollars go to transit. I want more transit so maybe I can take it, but equally, every person on the train is one less terrible DMV driver on the road. And you *know* he’s a bad driver.

For his 100th birthday David Attenborough should get to surreptitiously release an animal of his choosing into the home of a big game hunter.

Ahahhaha, I *tried* being a professional writer - and you’ll note I am again a professional scientist. One that does a lot of writing, true, but one that *doesn’t* have to chase people for checks or sort out her own health insurance.

J and I were out walking the big dog, and a woman passed us carrying a coffee thermos. Me: “ooh, she has some really good coffee!” J: “really? I couldn’t smell it.” Me: “what do you mean? I can *still* smell it. it smells DELICIOUS.” J: “babe, I think you might need a coffee.”

Finished Katabasis, visceral body-horror I-know-you immediacy and all. Worth it. One of my top ten books of all time, maybe even top five.

*furious hissing*

“Researchers looked at two high-profile AI agent tools developed to help computer scientists in the field of machine learning. Both systems engaged in acts that violate research integrity, including making up data & p-hacking: running an experiment multiple times but only reporting best outcome.” 🧪

gods above and below, I hope they leave this arsewipe professor in hell

Look, I want to go to Antarctica, but I really suspect volunteering as a scientist is a safer way to do it than a cruise. And that’s as someone blessed with genetic resistance to norovirus.

Oh, the way I *ugly* laughed at this….

It is amazing how many things are just taxes on people who can’t do math.

I hope - and all my past experience with Smithies suggests I’m safe in this hope - Smith tells them to get fucked.

It’s the rules.

I started reading R. F. Kuang’s Katabasis, and let me say this fully as a compliment: she nails the entire… Thing… of academia and especially problematic academic power disparities that it’s honestly giving me a body-horror kind of reaction. It’s so good I might not be able to finish it.

First, if this is what you expect of parenthood, that you’ll have this level of control over the life of another human being, do not pass go. Parenthood isn’t for you. Second, it’s snake oil peddled by eugenicists who know it’s crap or are ignorantly fanatical about only some people having value.

Guys. Heads up. Let’s talk about Hantavirus. There have been SEVERAL bad takes and BLATANT misinformation circulating regarding this outbreak so I figured it was a good idea to make a thread about it. Stay calm. Stay vigilant. Know your facts. Here’s ALL you need to know. 🧪🧵⬇️

One of those times when *everyone* needs alt text. I read “doctor” professionally and I don’t know what all of this says.

Well well well looks like those art degrees aren't so useless after all

you fucked up a perfectly good freedom of navigation is what you did look at it, it's got tolls

An underappreciated problem with working from home is that the rise of work chat clients has VASTLY increased the number of conversations that can simultaneously be making you want to bang your head against your desk.

One of the infected people is the ship’s doctor and Kerkhove has basically confirmed it’s Andes virus to at least three media outlets, including Science. Where in the actual heck is the sequencing data already?

Ten bucks says one of the righty megadonors buys up a bunch of hotel rooms to make it look like the World Cup is a wild success. They do it with their books, after all.

one must exercise discretion and inner peace when attempting to procure the proper gherkin from its holy vessel

That’s… not a group of words I expected to see together, but what a neat approach! 🧪