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As Nobel season approaches and names are bandied about, isn’t it time for Jeffrey Gordon to win Medicine for his pioneering microbiome work? #medsky #microbiology #science

Scientists have spent decades puzzling over potatoes’ origin story. The answer was juicier than anyone expected, @katherinejwu.com reports.

It’s now a little harder to earn a five-star rating from the #VirginiaTech Helmet Lab.

Police in Salt Lake City say three people are in custody after a shooting that left a victim with life-threatening injuries during the city’s “No Kings” demonstration.

Reading @jbf1755.bsky.social’s and enjoying (not certain if enjoying but fascinated by) “Field of Blood”. I knew about the Sumner caning but now I realize it wasn’t an abhoration. It’s helping me see our path the present. Why wasn’t the Cilley story taught in HS?

Exposure to an E. coli mutagenic toxin colibactin increases risk of early onset colorectal cancer. Made me say ‘Wow!’ But isn’t surprising on reflection. #medsky #moleculargenetics #oncology

A new frontier for biochemists but 120 light years away. Now physicists and engineers need to get a move on to give us warp drive.

See below for the story of Flemington NJ resident Karim Daoud, who was detained by ICE on March 18 even though he he entered the US legally 20+ years ago and is married to a citizen.

This measles alert is for people who went to Capital Health in Hopewell, NJ near Princeton 3/23-24.

Preprints, Conspiracy Theorists and Governance? Provocative topic in article from The Publication Plan. #academicpublishing #scientificpublishing

@nj.com Any deep thoughts on track & field following the alleged baton assault of a runner by another in a HS relay? Though not involved, T&F event javelin is a sport based on infantry combat leading to something in running events 🤔

Really??? The B1G and ACC had their tourneys this weekend with no issues, as usual. There are plenty of stories of US parents fighting at baseball and basketball games

Yes it is highly contagious AND it affects the immune system causing “immune amnesia”. The infected are susceptible to other diseases for years after, causing sickness and death #measles #infectiousdisease

Will They Come for PubMed Next? www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco... #medicine #medsky #molbiol🧪 You need to be old like me to remember doing your research and dissertation without NLM. We cannot go back

Pubmed is back up after a roughly 12 hour issue. A friend who's a coder tells me it was a DNS misconfiguration. Whether accidental or not is unknown. #Medsky #academicpublishing

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov IS Down!!! #medsky #academicpublishing #scientificpublishing #molecbiol🔬 MedlinePlus is 'up' but gives stilted responses to queries

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov IS Down!!! #medsky #academicpublishing #scientificpublishing #molecbiol🔬 MedlinePlus is 'up' but gives stilted responses to queries

I’m on the sidelines watching now but remember my arguments with my committee that junk RNA wasn’t junk. Nature is conservative. It won’t waste energy on ‘junk’ tiny RNA production #genetics

Even when children “recover”, there is still mortal risk. Subacute sclerosing panecephalitis from measles. SSPE case studies shook me when a virology grad student

#AcademicPublishing #ScientificPublishing

Podcast on naming in science. A colleague who cloned mammalian ether-a-go-go (hERG) stated the problem. Though fun for C elegans and Drosophila folks back then, the names fail when communicating human disease to patients! No more merlot or zinfandel genes. #molecularbiology #scientificpublishing

A certain HG Wells quote on symbiosis keeps rattling in my head. From his biology text “The Science of Life”. Ain’t it the case #MedSky #science #AcademicPublishing

A new study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases found that COVID-19 hospital admissions & deaths remained higher than influenza in Denmark from 2022-2024. The risk was greatest for unvaccinated individuals, those with comorbidities, and men.🧪 #IDsky www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

#Medicine🔬 #MolBiol🧪

Excellent discussion of pandemic cinema as a reflection of societal zeitgeist. Well worth a listen. Since I come from a molecular virology background I see these movies with a bias #Scuence #Medicine🔬#MolBiol🧪

What's your favorite movie about disease? On this week's book club episode, Erin chats with the authors of Diseased Cinema: Plagues, Pandemics and Zombies in American Movies all about the genre and how it's changed over time. And check out the Infectious Historians podcast if you haven't already!

Not an MD but was a PhD grad in microbiology and molecular genetics under infectious disease MD advisor. We had to read this every week and also be prepared to share and discuss with MD 1st year students at recitation grad students led. Not a trivial thing

ICMJE proposed update to the Recommendations for the Conduct, Reporting, Editing, and Publication of Scholarly Work in Medical Journals #AcademicPublishing #Medicine

#CDC has confirmed #H5N1 #birdflu in a child in San Fransisco whose source of infection hasn't been determined. The child had fever & conjunctivitis, but has since recovered. Info not yet available on the genotype of the virus, which should help point to a source (ie wild birds or cows).

Interesting read on maintaining integrity of academic articles #SciPub #AcademicPublishing

New study: "Undeclared use of] #ai seems to appear in journals with higher citation metrics and higher article processing charges ([#APCs), precisely those outlets that should theoretically have the resources and expertise to avoid such oversights." https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.15218 #misconduct […]

Bluesky is developing itself as a strong platform for discussion among scientists. Less so to lay community. Is this a positive or negative? #Science #ScientificPublishing #MolBiol #Bluesky

Between predatory publications and preprints with no subsequent journal publication, there is a lot of dross out there the general public cannot fully put into context. #AcademicPublishing

"Spelling out all the potential consequences of an unknown party accessing your DNA is impossible, because scientists’ understanding of the genome is still evolving," @kristenvbrown.bsky.social wrote in one of our don't-miss stories of 2024:

#cancer #molecular genetics

Investigators trying to determine how a child in California might have contracted H5N1 bird flu are continuing to learn more details about the case.

Spider’s using slingshots using spicy senses: their webs. bsky.app/profile/edyo... wrote a truly wonderful book in animal senses, “An Immense World” click.aaas.sciencepubs.org?qs=cc89d750a...

Good introduction into need for and use of comparative vertebrate genomics and about involved to accomplish it www.npr.org/2024/12/04/1...

Excellent overview of H5N1 avian flu status and puzzling questions by @helenbranswell.bsky.social #virology #medicine www.statnews.com/2024/12/02/b...

There is a microscopic arms race occurring in the bathroom bsky.app/profile/did:... 🔬 www.the-scientist.com/a-viral-inve...

Shocked, not shocked I’m old enough to remember fighting with my qualifying committee whether ‘junk DNA’ really is junk click.aaas.sciencepubs.org?qs=12b380c74... #molecularbiology

More evidence of Neanderthal tech click.aaas.sciencepubs.org?qs=c23373e23...

The Important Questions of Our Time — What if…. scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2024/11/22/t...