Nextstrain's daily-updated tree of SARS-CoV-2 genomes was my gateway into the world of viral phylogenetics in early 2020, and Nextstrain's beautiful interactive tree display is crucial to making usher.bio results usable. GISAID cutting off data harms global surveillance efforts. 🧵👇

🚨 NEW: The majority holder of the world's genetic sequence data is a bad actor who can cut off access to critics and competing services. We've tolerated this for years, and now it threatens the pandemic treaty. Time for WHO to step in. With @ctrlalttim.com: www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/to-f...

As reflected in the price of a dozen free range eggs being back to costing 10.99$ www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Further proof that even under a judicial order, this current administration refuses to meet the basic needs of our most vulnerable citizens. It’s time for us to stand together and build the support our people deserve. More details coming soon.

Among the many amazing things about Adams pleading his case here is that he openly supports and now is asking for help from… people who cancelled funding for cancer research.

“Furin cleavage site”, that is. Just casually, and naturally, sitting there in one of the most evolutionarily active parts of the genome. Mystery solved.

Well reported story on the PBS News Hour about science cuts and the ongoing and potential brain drain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO... Thanks to Terrance Tao and other scientists at various career stages for having the courage to speak out. Watch and share! 1/7

As expected, unfortunately. If ever you needed a reason for never using GISAID ever again (as a data producer or data user - we're both), look no further. Time to move on to more trusted and transparent solutions.

For 61 years the #BBCWorldService has been broadcasting the latest in science via its weekly Science in Action programme. That dies in the next half hour, with this final edition, reflecting on the fall in trust in expertise driven by malign interests over recent years.

Americans are on the verge of losing their ability to choose their government. But they don't seem to have realized it yet.

It's long past time for state and federal authorities alike to put an end to Stephen Miller's jerkoff fantasy of masked thugs kidnapping people of color off the street with impunity. Yes, there are Americans who want this. But they are a woefully small minority. Why are we still letting it happen?

Now out in @nejm.org : Between 2023–2024: Sixteen human infections with A/H5N1 in Cambodia. Six deaths. Most in children. All exposed to sick or dead poultry. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law www.nbcnews.com/politics/don...

“CDC experts actively responding to an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo that has killed 43 people were RIFed in the middle of their deployment.” rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/the-death-...

The Trump admin is in the midst of laying off 1,100-1,200 HHS staff. The CDC's outbreak responders, gone. The office producing CDC's weekly journal MMWR is gone. CDC staff securing sensitive data, gone. Worker safety, gone. Immunization group, gone. Instead, Congress watches RFK "make the proof"

Thoughtful and well-informed op-ed from @ianlmorgan.bsky.social Definitely worth a read! www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh... 1/2

Thank you @nytopinion.nytimes.com for publishing this rot. Marc Rowan has run hundreds of companies into the dust to extract profits from their failure and bankruptcies. Now he wants to do the same to American higher education. Do not believe a word this man says. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...

Democrats’ funding proposal would restore access to Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act marketplace for legal immigrants who will lose access once certain provisions of the Republicans’ tax and spending law take effect. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

I’m 100% sure that’s actually not the question to be asking

Come spend the midnight hour with @saveaidsresearch.bsky.social. We have some great presentations from Africa and Asia, as we head into the second half of our 24 hour livestream to Save AIDS Research! saveaidsresearch.org.

“… just days after a gunman sprayed over 500 bullets across the CDC campus, the government fired over 150 violence and injury prevention specialists”

"Democratic leaders have had six months to come up with a plan. If there’s a better plan than a shutdown, great. But if the plan is still nothing, then Democrats need new leaders."

And let's say it, @jamellebouie.net was there at the beginning saying this. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/o...

It’s been a while since I’ve been in school, but isn’t war something that countries usually declare on OTHER countries, not cities within their own country? How do you win a war on yourself?

A suspected Ebola outbreak is occurring in DRC. This is bad at any time! But it’s particularly worrisome now when US capacity to detect and respond to deadly biothreats has been purposefully dismantled. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

“I am unable to serve in an environment that treats CDC as a tool to generate policies and materials that do not reflect scientific reality and are designed to hurt rather than to improve the public’s health.” That’s from the resignation of CDC’s Demetre Daskalakis @drdemetre.bsky.social (on X) 🧪

The Wednesday Night Massacre at #CDC. Key leaders depart after firing of Director. #RFKJr #Vought & #Trump have now destroyed the agency. Their acts will kill people. They have blood on their hands. www.statnews.com/2025/08/27/c...

The @NYTimes has done a fantastic job on explaining what the Trump administration’s savage cuts to biomedical research mean: cures that won’t happen. Please share this widely. This is a catastrophe. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/24/o...

Great analysis of Macedo and Lee's "In Covid's Wake," revealing it to be cherry-picked storytelling that is often disconnected from evidence. Their institutional affiliation doesn’t make any of their arguments more true 🎁 www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

5-4 Supreme Court rules that NIH can terminate grants pending the full ruling. thehill.com/regulation/c... I have no (printable) words...

This point isnt being made enough. Last week’s attack on the #CDC could have been a slaughter. www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...

I just got the notice that all the FlyBase people at Harvard, including me, will be laid off on October 12. I'm devastated.

NEW 🚨 The violence is the point. Elected Dems must call for widespread resignations (RFK, Bhattacharya, Prasad) in response to the CDC shooting. Public health must demand this of them, and the public must demand that of us. With @publichealthguy1.bsky.social in STAT: www.statnews.com/2025/08/15/c...

Postdoc position is still open! Definitely reach out if you’re keen on tracking pathogen evolution and spread (especially using wastewater 😎)!

This is really reporting 'inside' the response to the devastating Mpox outbreak in Sierra Leone. Critical reading, as we are facing a future in which we will increasingly be confronted with emerging diseases, even preventable ones. www.telegraph.co.uk/global-healt...

They recovered over 180 bullet shells at the CDC. Debris from shattered glass is still being cleaned up. I am completely stunned at how quickly the news cycle has moved on. This was an act of terrorism targeting public health experts, and the response seems to be a collective shrug.

The shooting at the CDC in Atlanta, which killed a police officer, followed the spread of false information around Covid vaccines and animosity directed at the agency, public health workers say. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/09/u...

"Vought & his cronies are shitting bureaucratic nukes & wiping their asses with the Constitution. This Executive Order is egregiously unlawful. It is a flagrant attempt to kill scientific research & education & exact economic ruin in service of corruption & the erosion of democratic norms."

It’s been quite a while… but we’re glad to report our San Diego wastewater dashboard is back up and running!

@kevinlibuit.bsky.social & @curtiskapsak.bsky.social were two of the co-authors on a new paper on Freyja 2 — a bioinformatics tool for real-time, multi-pathogen wastewater surveillance. Read about it here: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...

New federal data shows that vaccination rates among American children entering kindergarten fell during the 2024-25 school year, extending a worrying trend that began during the Covid-19 pandemic. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/h...

A few days ago we preprinted our Freyja 2 paper, describing the expansion of our original Freyja method to a real-time, multi-pathogen surveillance tool to track pathogen lineage prevalence and dynamics from sequencing of wastewater and other complex samples (like milk). 🧵  doi.org/10.1101/2025...

The NIH’s 2024 budget of just under $37B generated $95B in economic activity in 2024 alone. 99.4% of new pharmaceuticals approved from 2010-2019 came from NIH-funded research. I’m hard pressed to think of anything that generates as much direct economic benefit as our NIH did before they destroyed it

What do you know, Mother Nature is up to her usual gain-of-function virology tricks again and is making new coronaviruses in wild Australian bats.

I think it's safe to say that we're probably in the beginning of what will become this summer's COVID-19 wave(let) - and if I had to take a guess, likely a relatively mild one. This is based on test positivity, wastewater surveillance from SSI Denmark and US CDC. All 📈. Links below.

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I know RFK Jr. has assembled a quack crew to concoct a study showing otherwise but here is an new important large cohort study of over 1.2 million children in Denmark showing no association Aluminum adsorbed vaccines and chronic dz in childhood including autism. www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/...

Because disinformation & lies have drowned out experts like Dr. Titanji and her colleagues who provide evidence-based clinical care vs and who genuinely care about people’s health. Flooding the zone with bullshit drowns truth. We need to stop playing defense & start fighting the propagandists.

Absolutely astounding paper about a recombinant feline-canine coronavirus. What is so fascinating is how the canine coronavirus spike gene recombines into the feline coronavirus. The breakpoints so closely track the gene.... it's just remarkable selection.