𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝘂𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲-𝟮𝟳 𝗖𝗢𝗩𝗜𝗗-𝟭𝟵 𝘃𝗮𝗰𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲? Yes. On 5/28/26 the FDA recommended a new formulation targeting the JN.1-lineage XFG variant 𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗶𝘁 𝗯𝗲 𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲? Available now at walgreens. 1-2 mo for other locations.

💉 Where can you find accurate information on vaccines❓ ✅ American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): downloads.aap.org/AAP/PDF/AAP-... ✅ Medical societies: cmss.org/programs-and... ✅ CIDRAP for in-depth evidence review: vaxintegrity.cidrap.umn.edu/evidence-rev...

Another very disturbing outcome of the war on science.

Brian Nosek@briannosek.bsky.social · 4d ago

Important context for why we are making these changes is available in this summary: www.cos.io/blog/osf-cha...

(1/4) TW: Some of today’s topics are heavy, but it’s a heavy day. Let’s talk about trauma from the events that happened last year. The lasting impacts of showing up to work every day with bullet holes still visible from our desks for nearly a year has taken its toll.

We do not seem to have learnt anything from the COVID-19 pandemic. We are still complacent instead of proactive. Prevention is still not a priority, in particular not low income areas... And Bundibugyo is a species, not a strain... 🧪 #MedSky #PoliSky #EconSky

Ebola virus behind massive outbreak in DRC could be mutating, officials say

Cases have passed 4,000 and health watchdog plans to go door to door to find patients in major response escalation

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Congratulations to all the winners and particularly @wallaceucsf.bsky.social, @samlewis.bsky.social, @veronicasegarra.bsky.social, @mattwelchlab.bsky.social and @davidbreslowlab.bsky.social! 🥳🎉🎊

American Society for Cell Biology@ascbiology.bsky.social · 2w ago

Congratulations to the 2026 ASCB Honorific Award Winners! ASCB is proud to recognize scientists whose research, mentorship, education & leadership are helping shape the future of cell biology. See all the awardees: https://www.ascb.org/society-news/ascb-announces-2026-honorific-award-winners/

Here is some of that good news you've been looking for.

Bethany Brookshire@beebrookshire.bsky.social · 2w ago

It. WORKED!!! The calling and comments and yelling! It works. It's a temporary stall but it can be made permanent. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sena...

It's been two and a half months since the Ebola outbreak in the DRC was declared and it is now the biggest the country has ever experienced and the second largest the world has ever seen. Dozens of cases continue to be reported each day across three separate provinces. 🧪 insp.cd/sitrep-n077-...

The White House has finalized changes to F, J & I student visa terms. Beginning Sept 15 2026, visas will generally be limited to four years, replacing the current Duration of Status policy. https://www.ascb.org/science-policy/white-house-finalizes-changes-to-international-student-visa-terms/

Finally posted an ad for the postdoc position on my new NSF-funded project—come help build a new method to study plants' responses to environmental variation in space and over time, and figure out interesting ways to use it! Apply by 23 August to ensure consideration. Details: buff.ly/qTvaqvD

What ever happened to free speech ? A US citizen when asked to turn over his phone at a US airport by customs agents who then demanded access. He gave them a code that scrubbed all data from the phone. He's now being charged with a felony. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026...

Activist charged with felony after giving border agent "duress code" that wiped his phone

The government says destroying his own data during an airport interrogation was illegal.

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So... I am mentioned in Dr. Fauci's (now public) diary. 1/9

Come join a great department at a PUI!

Chris Martine | Plant People FTW@martinebotany.bsky.social · 3w ago

New higher ed job alert: tenure-track Molecular Biologist in the Biology Dept at Bucknell University. Come be a part of our PUI teacher-scholar tradition! Application review begins 29 Sep 2026. 1/2 #STEMeducation #undergradresearch #higheredjobs bucknell.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Ebola outbreak in the DRC: 2973 confirmed cases (+68) incl. 1309 deaths (+40) The outbreak has now touched 48 health zones across 5 provinces insp.cd/sitrep-n070-...

US research excels because generations of scientists have been free to pursue difficult questions, challenge conventional wisdom, and publish findings without political interference. The Trump admin wants to change that. @afthighered.bsky.social Full statement: www.aaup.org/news/aaup-af...

AAUP, AFT Reject Trump’s Radical Plans to Overhaul Scientific Research Funding

AAUP President Todd Wolfson and AFT President Randi Weingarten issued a statement in response to the Trump administration’s proposal to transform how the federal government funds research.

aaup.org

Insane new research. Scientists gave asthma patients free electric stoves to replace their gas stoves, then checked to see if symptoms improved. Not only did symptoms improve, ditching gas was *better than medicine.* Details in today's newsletter: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/electric-s...

Researchers used electric stoves to treat asthma. It worked.

The latest evidence that gas is bad for your health.

climatecoloredgoggles.com

somehow I only recently learned that LLMs need the whole conversation fed back to them on each prompt so their i/o cost scales as O(n^2), something that would be considered completely unacceptable in almost any other production network-accessible software

The recorded death toll from the Ebola outbreak in the DRC is about to cross 1,000 cases. In reality there have likely been a lot more deaths already. Many new cases appear to have no link to known cases, suggesting much of the spread is still happening in the dark.

Interesting paper on #TCR repertoire variation in wild-caught mice. While not controlled for genetics or exposure history, it gives important insights into the extent of variation in a natural setting. academic.oup.com/discovimmuno...

The T-cell receptor repertoire of wild mice

AbstractIntroduction. Wild animals live in a pathogen-rich environment and are normally infected with a wide range of micro- and macro-parasites. Wild anim

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just got an email from my (former) chair that the university has acted & the state has approved the formal closure of my department. this was done without any faculty input on the decision or the process, & has ended a vibrant, growing (!), humanities department that won teaching and research awards

Matt Gabriele@profgabriele.com · 12mo ago

Anyway, happy Monday! The Dean is shutting down my department - Religion & Culture, the only 1 of is kind in the country & home to the innovative Major in Humanities for Public Service. There is no immediate budgetary or political pressure for this decision

What is the word for that feeling when you return the rental car with the low fuel light on, having prepaid for gas?

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Ebola outbreak in DRC still outpacing response A WHO official warns the outbreak could be 2 to 4 times larger than the number of confirmed cases, which are now around 1,800. Read more: https://bit.ly/4wARha6 📷: WHO/Josua Mulala Raymond

This is how you can do paired testing in #tidyplots 🍒 #rstats #dataviz #phd

$11 billion. That’s how much the Trump admin spent to pay retiring employees not to work through the Deferred Resignation Program (aka, fork in the road), according to a report from @publiccitizen.bsky.social. Many agencies are now frantically trying to rehire. www.citizen.org/article/11-b...

Trump's $11 Billion Resignation Program: How the Trump Administration’s Downsizing of the Federal Workforce Cost American Taxpayers Billions - Public Citizen

The Trump administration has paid federal employees at least $11 billion – and likely much more – not to work.…

citizen.org

Should be an interesting read for bat 🦇 researchers…

Prof. Elizabeth Clare@profbatgirl.bsky.social · 2mo ago

New paper from the lab on #eDNA sampling strategies for air. Well done Nina Garrett #womeninStem 🧪 . Sampling Intensity and Temporal Persistence of Airborne eDNA in Partially Enclosed Spaces - Garrett - 2026 - Environmental DNA - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Released 40 years ago today. Still the greatest day off.

The new situation report on Ebola in the DRC records 676 confirmed cases including 136 deaths. That's 41 new confirmed cases in the past 24 hours, most of them from Ituri province and 12 from North Kivu. Worth noting that outbreak is still expanding into new health zones. 🧪 insp.cd/sitrep-n27-m...

TFW you finally relocate the 1906 type locality of one of your focal species and now you know what it’s really supposed to look like. #iamabotanist

Just published new data on the clinical presentation of disease and genomic characterization of the 2026 Bundibugyo virus index case in Uganda. I love to see the rapid dissemination of science www.nature.com/articles/s41...