After 2 years of close collaboration with colleagues in #Kyiv, our work supporting a #phage therapy program in #Ukraine is now out as a preprint:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
The @isvm-society.bsky.social is organising monthly #virus of #microbes (including #phage). Nominate a speaker and register for the upcoming events at isvm.org/ivom/
My frangipani tree is finally flowering! It only took six or seven years
This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥
Real viruses do the same thing!
RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid
Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up
Australia Admits All Those Animals Made Up theonion.com/austral...
Anytime you think things aren't going well just remind yourself of Mr. Howells who mistakenly disposed of a laptop hard drive containing the private key for 8,000 Bitcoin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin... #downandout #bitcoin
I’ve been casually watching this story for years. Glad to see there has been recent progress and potential for their recovery! It is hard to express how big and amazing these stars are when you are diving. www.cbc.ca/news/science...
Congress eliminated public media funding, and the president signed it into law. At a time of deep division, public media brings us together.
Help keep it strong. Join our monthly donors today: n.pr/458sOhq
Some journals are claiming that you need to pay big $$ for gold open access to comply with NIH's new public access policy. FYI that is total bs. You can comply by depositing the Accepted Manuscript into PubMed Central on the Date of Publication without embargo. Pass it on.
"A Proposed Budget Cut That Would Cripple American Science." --Amid Fear of Retaliation, N.S.F. Workers Sign Letter of Dissent. Story by @alexaroblesgil.bsky.social Gift link: nyti.ms/3IFzGKJ
The first known use of 'avocado toast' was in 1928.
The Great Depression was a year later.
Now, we're not saying that that's the reason, but...
When your city has an open data portal with the location of every tree, you can do this:
WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.
“Dudes in Corollas”! Our friend Loren Miraglia, a scientist and brewer, often shares his latest creations with our lab. Today we sampled four versions of his Belgian-style quadrupel. The barrel-aged one was my favorite.
🚨 EU will pass 18th sanctions package against Russia today:
- Oil price cap 15% below market price
- Import ban on refined Russian oil products
- Nord Stream transactions ban
- 77 shadow fleet tankers
- 22 Russian banks cut from SWIFT
- 22 companies aiding Russia's military
So grateful for the clear, unequivocal witness and voice of Rep. @maxwellfrost.bsky.social who visited the horrifying detention camp in Florida. As he said, “I didn’t see any Russians who’ve overstayed their visas. Only Black & Latino men who look like me.” @maddow.msnbc.com
Slide shows a picture of a petri dish and its close-up, showing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus; the pictures were published in our Microbial Genomics journal in 2015.
Continuing celebrations of our 80th anniversary and looking back to our beginnings, here’s a close-up of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) from our first ever volume of Microbial Genomics - doi.org/10.1099/mgen... #MGen
Is it too late to give Sacha Baron Cohen an Oscar for this? Not a damn lie told. 🇺🇸
#booksky #writingcommunity
Mike Lee Stresses He Would Have Posted Same Thing If Own Family Savagely Murdered
Photo from RFK JR.’s Twitter account of Kristi Noem, Rand Paul and RFK Jr standing in front of a sign that says NIAID IRF. The text of the tweet says With @Sec_Noem and @SenRandPaul inspecting the biological hazard labs at Fort Detrick. NIAID.
I hope everyone at these labs is in full PPE to protect them from these three pathogens.
A screen shot of an email reading: Dear Dr. Gill, Jacquelyn, I am writing to let you know that given the current budgetary projections and recent adjustment of NSF’s over-arching priorities, NSF/BIO will not be making any new awards through the Biology Integration Institutes Program. Therefore, the solicitation has been archived, and NSF has returned your proposal without review so you can re-submit it, or portions of it, to appropriate BIO programs that currently are receiving new proposals, if you wish. Sincerely, Jim Deshler Division Director (Acting) Division of Biological Infrastructure
Last February, I led a proposal submission that encompassed six months, hundreds of hours, four institutions, a massive team, and and 256 pages. NSF just informed us that the entire Biology Integration Institute program was archived and our proposal would not even be reviewed.
With a form email.
Before captivity — a proud, strong defender of Ukraine.
After captivity — tired, hungry, tortured... but not broken.
This is what Russian captivity looks like.
And what is most painful? The world pays almost no attention to it. 👇
#NoKings
We are developing a killer team of phage biologists here who are ready to take on any challenge. My best moments each week are when these guys drop by to chat :) #NZLabLife @microsky
www.canterbury.ac.nz/news-and-eve...
Durbin to Bhattacharya: "I can't understand it. I disagree w/ this admin on so many things. But this is the one that really gets to me personally. To think this nation would walk away from medical research. For God's sake...cancer, your budget requests a 38% cut to the National Cancer Institute"
😕 pretty much
