And I should add, are you looking for a good historical source to cite for your Epstein Barr virus research? I can send you a copy of Cancer Virus Hunters #epsteinbarrvirus #EBV #virosky #virology #microsky #tumorvirus #cancervirus

Gregory Morgan 🇺🇸🇳🇿@drgregorymorgan.bsky.social · last mo.

Looking for a good source to cite in your historical introduction to HPV, HepB, tumor virology, oncogene, cancer, p53, retrovirus, HIV, or Rous sarcoma virus research? Contact me and I will send you my book Cancer Virus Hunters. @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social 🧪#microsky #virosky #cancersky🧫♋

This review of an objectively great book (by my man😍) is especially nice for emphasising the aesthetic dimension of fragility with some great metaphors. Thank you @adrian-currie.bsky.social #philsci

Science for a Fragile World

Maybe the world is like an armillary sphere. Metallic balls representing celestial objects are placed just-so along spherical rings, tracing an at-first...

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Looking for a good source to cite in your historical introduction to HPV, HepB, tumor virology, oncogene, cancer, p53, retrovirus, HIV, or Rous sarcoma virus research? Contact me and I will send you my book Cancer Virus Hunters. @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social 🧪#microsky #virosky #cancersky🧫♋

Fun review on viral taxonomy: www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/jour... 🧫🦠

Virus taxonomy and the ICTV – 21 FAQs for the perplexed virologist

Just over 125 years has passed since the ‘filterable’ agents of tobacco mosaic disease and foot-and-mouth disease were first described as infectious, replicating entities smaller than bacteria. Today,...

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@asavage.bsky.social was an amazing commencement speaker blending science technology and art

RIP Craig Venter. I have fond memories of being invited to give a history of biology talk at his institute in Rockville, Maryland that was telecast in California and talking to him afterwards. 🧪 #virosky

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3mo ago

J. Craig Venter, a scientist and entrepreneur who decoded the human genome, has died at 79.

What Gregory J. Morgan's publications say about them: virus, biodiversity, design, science, bacteriophage, beauty @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social #AcademicSky See yours at https://scholargoggler.com/

Red bellied woodpecker at our new window mounted bird feeder

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Eric Topol@erictopol.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The Shingles vaccine is linked w/ reduced risk of Alzheimer's in 4 large natural experiments Today, the potential of high-dose flu vaccines vs standard dose in a large retrospective age 65+ cohort for less Alzheimer’s. More pronounced in women (like Shingles vaccines) neurology.org/doi/pdf/10.1...

Michael Bishop, co-discoverer of the src oncogene and one of the heroes of my book Cancer Virus Hunters, has passed. #oncogene #cancer #nobel #ucsf #roussarcomavirus www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/o...

J. Michael Bishop, Nobel Prize Winner for Cancer Research, Dies at 90

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Angela Creager's review of Matthew Cobb's @matthewcobb.bsky.social new biography of Francis Crick: lareviewofbooks.org/article/fran...

Doing Someone Else’s Crossword | Los Angeles Review of Books

The Francis Crick of Matthew Cobb’s new biography was both the consummate insider and a scientific outlier.

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Sad to hear of the passing of David Botstein, one of the greats in that 1st gen of folks to be trained in molecular biology. He generously talked with me, a lowly grad student, about Barbara McClintock... 30 years ago! @drgregorymorgan.bsky.social @alistairsponsel.bsky.social

Jonathan Eisen@phylogenomics.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Thinking about David Botstein, who passed away a few days ago. In searching for stories about my work w/ him I found something I had never seen - a lecture where he discusses a paper on MutS from when I was in grad school (which I discussed with him extensively). youtu.be/giEySXUewsk?...

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ChatGPT spits out surprising insight in particle physics

Physicists combined human acumen and AI-assisted math to show that a doubted particle interaction is possible after all

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Ice in the Hudson River Today

Peter Duesberg has died. I discussed his excellent early work on retroviruses and cancer (before the infamous HIV-AIDS denialism) in my book Cancer Virus Hunters #virosky 🧪 www.nytimes.com/2026/01/27/s...

Peter H. Duesberg, 89, Renowned Biologist Turned H.I.V. Denialist, Dies

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A circular economy turns waste into resources—and JCVI scientists are making it real. We are engineering microbes to upcycle mixed plastic waste into valuable products like lycopene and lipids. No sorting, no landfills—just innovation for a sustainable future. 🧪🧬 www.jcvi.org/media-center...

Scientists engineer microbial teams to transform mixed plastics into valuable products

La Jolla, California—December 11, 2025—Each year, the world produces more than 400 million metric tons of plastic, much of which ends up in...

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Why tumor viruses are more important than you think! @markowenmartin.bsky.social Mark O Martin's podcast is out. #virosky 🧪 www.youtube.com/watch?v=thSt...

Matters Microbial #117: Cancer Virus Hunters and Molecular Biology

YouTube video by MicrobeTV

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A thoughtful review of Cancer Virus Hunters in BJHS by @ctimmermann.bsky.social #cancer #historyofbiology #tumorvirology #HPV #cancervaccine #oncogenes #historyofscience #historyof20thcentury www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Looking forward to being on the podcast of @markowenmartin.bsky.social to talk about the history of tumor virology. We will talk about some of these viruses:

If you are looking to read a more nuanced account of Rosalind Franklin and Jim Watson following the Double Helix, check out an article Angela Creager and I wrote a while back: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

After the Double Helix : Rosalind Franklin's Research on Tobacco mosaic virus | Isis: Vol 99, No 2

ABSTRACT Rosalind Franklin is best known for her informative X-ray diffraction patterns of DNA that provided vital clues for James Watson and Francis Crick's double-stranded helical model. Her scienti...

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Children and young people faced higher and longer-lasting risks of rare heart complications after #COVID19 infection than after vaccination, say @vpd-hlri.bsky.social researchers. Find out more about this study 👇 bit.ly/43BmUof 🧪

Risk of rare heart complications in children higher after COVID-19 infection than after vaccination

Children and young people faced long-lasting and higher risks of rare heart and inflammatory complications after COVID-19 infection, compared to before or

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Nice to see philosophers of science taking on issues of the day. aeon.co/essays/scien...

Science needs disagreement. What makes some disagreement useless? | Aeon Essays

Scientific progress depends on disagreement. So why are vaccine sceptics and other science critics not worth listening to?

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Last chance to download my book for free! It's still available until tomorrow.

The Ramsey Lab@theramseylab.bsky.social · 10mo ago

New Element in the Philosophy of Biology series—free to download until Oct. 24! @djnicholson.bsky.social uncovers Schrödinger’s motivations for writing "What Is Life?", revisits its central arguments & examines the book’s lasting impact on cell & molecular biology👇 www.cambridge.org/core/element...

Rare white whale sighted in New Zealand: www.stuff.co.nz/nz-news/3608...

Rare white humpback whale spotted off coast of Kaikōura

Could it be the world-famous Migaloo who hasn’t been spotted in five years?

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One of my undergraduate mentors the biologist Hamish Spencer has retired: www.otago.ac.nz/news/newsroo...?

Zoology academic retires following career exploring natural evolution

Emeritus Professor Hamish Spencer recalls that, even when he was a child collecting shells from his local Bay of Plenty beaches, he was fascinated by the diversity of animals and how they relate to ea...

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I really love this new song from the artist Plain Henley: open.spotify.com/track/67Tb5m...

Summer's Out

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Moa creek was just down the road from where I grew up www.facebook.com/reel/7731375...

993 reactions · 178 shares | The wingless bird that ruled the roost. Episode 13. Remembering Moa 🥚 #moa #frankfilm #storiesfromthesouth | Frank Film

The wingless bird that ruled the roost. Episode 13. Remembering Moa 🥚 #moa #frankfilm #storiesfromthesouth.

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🧪 Cool subtext to this cool story on the “little red dots’ - possibly primordial black holes! - dotting the early Universe is that the hopes for the James Webb telescope have been realised. It is pulling back the curtain on puzzling and unexpected things that will help us understand how we got here.

A Single, ‘Naked’ Black Hole Rewrites the History of the Universe | Quanta Magazine

The James Webb Space Telescope has found a lonely black hole in the early universe that’s as heavy as 50 million suns. A major discovery, the object confounds theories of the young cosmos.

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Hoboken train station is being renovated

The start of the 2025-26 academic year at Stevens Institute of Technology