The brutal respiratory infection has infected tens of thousands and killed at least 13 people in the U.S. in 2025

Vaccines are a triumph of human ingenuity, modern medicine and public health. It’s no surprise that when the nation’s most prominent anti-vaxxer rose to the highest health office in the land,US vaccine policies are in disarray and access to vaccines is imperiled. 🧪🦠 www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...

China now dominates global production of renewable energy technologies. It makes 80% of the world’s solar cells, 70% of its wind turbines, and 70% of its lithium batteries, at prices no competitor can match. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

Astronomers made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the JWST: A runaway super-massive black hole, rocketing through space at a staggering 1,000 km/s, leaving a 200,000 light-year-long tail in its wake in which gas is accumulating and triggering star formation. 🧪 www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

#Sewage is full of lots of stuff that is not poop. Excess #antibiotics from our bodies, or meds dumped in the toilet, end up at wastewater treatment plants too, and from there they can get into our rivers. Use antibiotics as directed to prevent dumping. #AMR #AntibioticResistance

Two highly venomous snakes, a gaboon viper and a puff adder, were discovered by a landlord after his tenant left the country and his animals. Ireland has very little regulation around the ownership of dangerous animals by private individuals. 🧪 www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

Astronomers made a truly mind-boggling discovery using the JWST: A runaway super-massive black hole, rocketing through space at a staggering 1,000 km/s, leaving a 200,000 light-year-long tail in its wake in which gas is accumulating and triggering star formation. 🧪 www.space.com/astronomy/bl...

I have created a poster on sequencing-based spatial transcriptomic technologies and added it to my latest blog post. Please check it out #spatialbiology #spatialomics #transcriptomics 🧪 nonlinear-thoughts.netlify.app/posts/sst-pl...

Despite funding setbacks, the global HIV response gained new momentum. WHO approved twice-yearly injectable lenacapavir for HIV treatment and prevention—marking a major step forward. 🔗 https://bit.ly/49wdcpl

There's more evidence that the Covid-19 vaccine lowers risk of preterm birth, hospital stays and death.. 🧪🦠 www.sciencenews.org/article/bene...

Every year on Christmas Eve in Holten, the Netherlands, candles are lit on the graves of 1394 Canadian soldiers who gave their live to liberate our country from the Nazis. To honour and remember their sacrifice.

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China now dominates global production of renewable energy technologies. It makes 80% of the world’s solar cells, 70% of its wind turbines, and 70% of its lithium batteries, at prices no competitor can match. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

There's more evidence that the Covid-19 vaccine lowers risk of preterm birth, hospital stays and death.. 🧪🦠 www.sciencenews.org/article/bene...

Every year on Christmas Eve in Holten, the Netherlands, candles are lit on the graves of 1394 Canadian soldiers who gave their live to liberate our country from the Nazis. To honour and remember their sacrifice.

Did Astronomers Just Find a ‘Superkilonova’ Double Explosion? Maybe.

NASA’s newest space telescope has unveiled a stunning map of the cosmos in infrared

One of the first hominids, Hispanopithecus, lived 11 million years in what is now Catalonia. They are believed to have lived largely on tree canopies, only descending to take part in occasional sardanes. They did not have control of fire, and were therefore forced to eat their bruschettas soggy.

For the first time, scientists have directly detected molecules in a Frisbee of gas and dust swirling around an alien gas-giant planet

Ancient DNA analysis shows that the first domesticated cats left Africa no earlier than around 2,000 years ago. Yet these felines still had plenty of time to achieve world domination, with hundreds of millions now kept as pets. 🧪 www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she investigated cellular recycling centres known as proteasomes, she uncovered an entirely new part of the immune system. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The 3D global building map opens new possibilities for disaster risk assessment, climate modelling and urban planning. It also helps to improve how the UN Sustainable Development Goals for cities and communities is monitored. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

These microrobots can execute digitally defined algorithms and autonomously change behavior in response to their surroundings. It paves the way for general-purpose microrobots that work together to carry out tasks without supervision in uncertain environments. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

In 1965 the CIA tried to install a plutonium powered listening device on a mountain top to spy on China. The mission failed, the plutonium core was never recovered. A concern is that the Ganges river, on which hundreds of millions depend, may get contaminated. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

In 1965 the CIA tried to install a plutonium powered listening device on a mountain top to spy on China. The mission failed, the plutonium core was never recovered. A concern is that the Ganges river, on which hundreds of millions depend, may get contaminated. 🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A growing number of educators are finding that oral exams allow them to test their students’ learning without the benefit of AI platforms such as ChatGPT. 🧪 www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

These microrobots can execute digitally defined algorithms and autonomously change behavior in response to their surroundings. It paves the way for general-purpose microrobots that work together to carry out tasks without supervision in uncertain environments. 🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The 3D global building map opens new possibilities for disaster risk assessment, climate modelling and urban planning. It also helps to improve how the UN Sustainable Development Goals for cities and communities is monitored. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Detectives often find important clues by digging through rubbish. That approach paid off for systems biologist Yifat Merbl. When she investigated cellular recycling centres known as proteasomes, she uncovered an entirely new part of the immune system. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The ghost and Mrs Muir starring Hope Lange and Irish actor Edward Mulhare.. Loved that show when growing up.. does anyone remember it?

Participants’ preferences in real-world elections swung by up to 15 percentage points after talking to a chatbot The more information the chatbots provided, the more persuasive they were, but they were also more likely to produce false statements, the authors found 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Some things just get better as they mature. Like good wine and whiskey.. And then there is Ted Danson.. A really great actor.. ‘The Good Place’ and ‘A Man on the Inside’ 😊

We are recruiting an information systems manager to support our data management and stewardship efforts. 13-month contract on 53k/year, but I'll be looking to extend the role contingent on renewed funding for our CRF. Small, close-knit team + flexible working arrangements.

Paradromics, a neurotechnology developer, will carry out a long-term clinical trial of its brain–computer interface (BCI). The device will be implanted in two volunteers who are unable to speak to restore their ability to communicate with real-time speech. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Scientists have converted the blood type of a donor kidney and transplanted the organ into a person. The procedure — the first of its kind — could improve access to donor organs, specialists say, because the blood type of the donor would no longer matter. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nitazenes can be as much as 500 times more potent than opium-derived drugs. This means that just a tiny amount can be deadly. There were 179 confirmed deaths from nitazene overdoses in the UK since May 2024. Ireland too has seen several nitazene overdose deaths. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Four subtle tweaks to an enzyme could help explain why naked mole rats’ can live for nearly 30 years, an unusually long lifespan for a creature its size. The enzyme, cGAS, enhances the animal’s ability to repair genetic damage that leads to ageing. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

In science this is known as ‘crap in, crap out’.. Artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots are worse at retrieving accurate information and reasoning when trained on large amounts of low-quality content, particularly if the content is popular on social media. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections. 🦠🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The Center for Pediatric CRISPR Cures at the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, San Francisco, are developing personalized gene-editing therapies. These correct mutations causing severe life-threatening illnesses. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

How/why are Americans, of all political affiliations, are ok with this? Genuine question, I truly don’t understand. 🧪

In Ireland, insulin is free of charge with a prescription for individuals registered for the Long-Term Illness (LTI) Scheme, which covers most people with Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. 🧪

At the start of Trump’s first term in office he tore up the pandemic preparedness plan by the Obama administration. Now his administration is burning the US pandemic preparedness infrastructure to the ground. When, not if, the next pandemic comes the US will not able to protect public health.. 🧪

Four subtle tweaks to an enzyme could help explain why naked mole rats’ can live for nearly 30 years, an unusually long lifespan for a creature its size. The enzyme, cGAS, enhances the animal’s ability to repair genetic damage that leads to ageing. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Nitazenes can be as much as 500 times more potent than opium-derived drugs. This means that just a tiny amount can be deadly. There were 179 confirmed deaths from nitazene overdoses in the UK since May 2024. Ireland too has seen several nitazene overdose deaths. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today. The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly. We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials “Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs. #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

I like how they gave the Nobel Prize to someone fighting for democracy in Venezuela, instead of someone sinking fishing boats off their coast.

I don’t tango but love gaming.. both are good for the brain 😊 Engaging in a creative pastime can slow brain ageing, according to a study of dancers, musicians, artists and video game players from multiple countries. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...