Since I'm getting a questions about the new data - a few _preliminary_ comments: 1️⃣ Are the outbreaks in the US connected? 👉 Very likely. 2️⃣ Does this mean US will lose elimination status? 👉 Yes, but that's been clear for a while. Data: nextstrain.org/measles/geno... A few details + caveats 🧵👇

If this is indeed the B1 bridge linking Tehran to Karaj, then the following video from January 2006 I recently posted is of my dad on a road just before the bridge: bsky.app/profile/niem...

I'm old enough to remember Trump saying they were doing regime change to "save" the people of Iran, which he now denies. But all we've seen is collective punishment of the Iranian people and a deliberate neutering of both existing government and opposition figures to cause chaos and destablization.

This dehumanizing rhetoric proves that the events of the past month have been deliberate war crimes and crimes against humanity. You could even say there is genocidal intent here given the "where they belong" comment. The US backed this in Gaza, against Cuba, and many other peoples in the past.

100+ year old Pasteur Institute in Tehran was a premier infectious disease research institute and vaccine manufacturer It is a reason Iranian kids like me born in 60s had access to measles vaccines soon after they were developed in the west

@nygenome.org is hiring Genomic AI Fellows! (fancy postdoc positions) If you're interested in working at the interface of AI and genomics in a great environment please apply at: jobs.silkroad.com/NYGenome/Car...

🔔Exclusive: CDC just posted a tranche of genomic data from measles. 1,000 genomes have been sequenced, so researchers expect an answer to the elimination question within the month. "That we're even talking about this is nuts," said @kgandersen.bsky.social kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Trump defunding of NPR and PBS blocked by judge, but damage is already done arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

I do not mean to sound crass esp given the seriousness of this subject but: I’ve been looking into this lately and Nick beat me to it with his usual kickass reporting. This is one of the components, left unwritten in my copy, of how team trump members keep leaking to us that the war is going even…

Listening in to the birthright citizenship oral arguments. I won't be fully live-posting through them, but will highlight some comments. I'll have a quick analysis up after the arguments, later this afternoon.

This is the result of our incredibly rewarding collaboration with Yatish Turakhia and members of his lab. In particular, and foundational to our work, we previously developed the underlying phylogenetic Pangenome data structure, PanMAN. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Alex Kramer, Alan Zhang and friends posted our preprint today. In it, we introduce Panmap, a tool for phylogenetic placement, assembly, lineage abundance estimation, and eDNA assignment using phylogenetic pangenomes. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Thanks for kindly introducing our recent study😁 I hope you like it🦇

Super grateful for the amazing harp covers of Final Fantasy songs by @harpsibored.bsky.social, which are the only things that consistently calm down our 3-month-old when he's crying 🙏 Listening to "On Our Way" from FF7 right now, and he fell right to sleep! youtube.com/playlist?lis...

My latest book is about more than the making of Age of Empires. It's a story of brothers, camaraderie, innovation, and dreams—the cost of chasing them, the passion that drives them, and the joy when they come true. Available for preorder from @bossfightbooks.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/gab...

Panmap: Scalable phylogeny-guided alignment, genotyping, and placement on pangenomes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.29.711974v1

Blocking archives risks harming the public record. Some news organizations are restricting access to the #WaybackMachine over fears of AI scraping. Mark Graham explains why these concerns are unfounded. Get the story on Techdirt 🔗 www.techdirt.com/2026/02/17/p... @mark.bsky.social #techdirt

Maybe you heard somewhere that the COVID-19 pandemic started with a lab leak? NO! That is NOT what the evidence shows. It was not a goddamn lab leak. I’ve had enough. Here is what the evidence shows: it was zoonotic spillover at the market rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/five-reaso...

ICYMI, I got to talk to dynamic duo @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social for the 404 Media podcast. we get into what keeps us hopeful, why Emily is done with the word "democratizing" in AI, and ridicule as praxis. listen wherever you get your pods! www.404media.co/ridicule-as-...

Watch Director Bhattacharya's performance at CPAC really got to me. I chose to share some of my observations with him. Hold on... 1/11

That all actual scientific evidence to date supports the notion that the COVID pandemic was caused by at least 2 zoonotic jumps at the Huanan market 👀🌶️

For nearly 30 years, journalists have relied on the Internet Archive to see how stories were originally published, before edits, removals, or changes. We need to safeguard that. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

And that would be ALL actual scientific evidence. Every bit of it. Every last shred of it. Lab leakers are invested in a mass delusion.

Civilians among the rubble following airstrikes in Tehran. (Photos by Mehdi Ghasemi)

Lab Leakers: "SARS-CoV-2 can't infect bats, so it must have been made in a lab". Science: "Let's do the experiment". SARS-CoV-2 behaves exactly like one would expect in a reservoir species - low-level infection, no overt disease, etc. Elegant study from Sato Lab: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

That all actual scientific evidence to date supports the notion that the COVID pandemic was caused by at least 2 zoonotic jumps at the Huanan market 👀🌶️

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.

Large crowds protested Saturday against the war in Iran and President Donald Trump's actions in “No Kings” rallies across the U.S. and Europe, with Minnesota taking center stage. https://to.pbs.org/4bEjRzT

“You must persevere,” said Bill Bien, a lymphoma survivor. “It means so much to so many people you’ll never meet. It will save their lives.” My report on No Kings: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Fuck ICE and illegal wars. Impeach Trump. No Kings.

New feature for PearTree - root-to-tip plots. Web version at peartree.live | desktop apps to follow at github.com/artic-network/peartree/releases/latest

Holy fuck, this figure is bleak 😬

OMG Thanks to the authoritarian leadership of HHS and its divisions (CDC, NIH, FDA, CMS), including retaliatory firings of whistleblowers, only 8.7% of federal workers at HHS feel they could report illegal activity Congrats to RFK Jr, Jay Bhattacharya, Marty Makary, & Dr Oz—heckuva job, dudes!

Open-source, Hardware-Independent GPU Acceleration for Scalable Nanopore Basecalling with Slorado and Openfish https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.03.25.714356v1

Myloasm, our long-read metagenome assembler, is now published! w/ @mgmarin.bsky.social and @lh3lh3.bsky.social Very rewarding after > a year of development and countless hours thinking about assembly. Thanks to beta testers, Li lab, and reviewers who gave very helpful feedback. rdcu.be/famFj

i know i posted this yesterday, but i need to post it again. jay bhattacharya's immediate reaction to the CDC shooting was to repeat more anti-vaccine lies in the media — the very same lies that led to the attack.

I don't think people understand how hard it is to work in the video-game industry right now. If you've been laid off, it can take months if not years to find new work. If you haven't been laid off, you're anxious that you will be laid off. This week's column: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Kash Patel emails (1.1 GB) The first tranche of emails from the mailbox of Kash Patel, the director of the FBI, which was hacked by Handala, a hacking group that is believed to have ties to Iranian intelligence. ddosecrets.org/article/kash... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

In addition to Podcast Jay speaking (in his official capacity) at CPAC, last night RFK jr. was announced as a speaker. Can someone please tell me how this isn’t a violation of the Hatch Act? Also, why am *I* being accused of politicizing science when the people in charge are *campaigning*?!

The first tranche of Kash Patel emails will be on @ddosecrets.org soon.

I'm live, trying out the RGB-Pi 2, Reflex Prism and a generic HDMI DAC. Come join if you're bored!: www.youtube.com/live/nGaVlGo...

After looking for a while, it seems that no @10xgenomics.bsky.social Flex v2 data is actually publicly available right now! If you have Flex v2 data that you’d be willing to share for testing / tool development purposes, please reach out to me!

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Making this episode of @funfactorpod.com with @retrogradeamnesia.bsky.social almost killed me. Please watch it to help me feel better about 20 hours of editing and 12 hours of encoding time. Watch it, then put it on the in the background, share it on Reddit, tell your mom. I need the validation.

New preprint! Do you have a sequencing dataset from a sample with 0 or more viruses of interest in it, and you want to be able to map + produce consensus sequences of all viruses (if any) that are in it super fast and low-memory? Check out MultiVirusConsensus! www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

I’d like to point out as well that as I was making my lil Table of CDC Directors I had to laugh, because only the woman was required to have relevant training and experience for the position. For the men, it was what the hell, let’s just give them the job in the absence of any real qualifications.

"The question is not whether another spillover is coming. It is whether the world will have destroyed the very people and systems capable of detecting it before it arrives." This is such a good quote.

Trump’s failure to nominate a new CDC Director is just another symptom of the weapons-grade incompetence of The Regime. The CDC could easily have been just humming along in the background while the U.S., I don’t know, starts wars and such. But no. And this is also a national security threat.

Hey PAX East folks, Come hang out with me at this cool panel— “Final Fantasy VII: Your Academic Panel” Plus, I have a special announcement at the very end that you Prof OGs will be VERY excited for. 👀 #paxeast