Phoebe Lostroh
@profphoebe.bsky.social
Microbiologist, feminist, dog and cat lover, LGBTQIA+ communities, Grinnell College and UWC grad; she/her 🏳️🌈🥖🌹https://tinyurl.com/Virosphere
Continuing my writing on evolutionary biology and life. Another 6-ish minute read. Always free. "Never Bet It All" open.substack.com/pub/profmcin...
Never Bet It All
What potatoes, a gambler and your own genome knows about surviving a future you can't predict
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Come see Liz talk this morning about her MSc thesis work! 8am in Ecophys #Botany2026
PEACCH Lab presentations at #Botany2026 this week. I'll be giving a talk about dioecious mismatch in northern spicebush on Monday right before lunch and Liz Howe will be giving a talk on spring wildflower ecophysiology on Wednesday at 8!
In other Michigan news, the state looks set to elect it's first transgender lawmaker. Joanna Whaley won her Democratic primary and will compete in November for a state house seat, beating a primary opponent who tried and failed to disqualify her for not running under her deadname
Money out of politics. Money in your pocket. Medicare for All. Michigan... We won. I am so proud to be your Democratic nominee for US Senate. Let's win in November.
www.cbc.ca/news/health/... GO CANADA! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Ain't science great!!!!
Health Canada authorizes mRNA vaccine trial for Ebola virus causing huge outbreak in Congo | CBC News
Health Canada has given Moderna the green light to launch a clinical trial for a vaccine targeting the Bundibugyo form of the Ebola virus, which continues to surge throughout the Democratic Republic o...
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“preclinical data that we're seeing is promising." www.reuters.com/business/hea...
Treatment trials for Ebola strain behind Congo outbreak show promise, WHO says
Testing of experimental treatments, preventive medicines and vaccines for the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola behind Democratic Republic of Congo's ongoing outbreak is advancing rapidly, the U.N.'s World ...
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Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
The proposition that the president of the United States is an adjudicated rapist isn't an argument. It is a fact.
The elderly wolf we caught on the game cams this winter was back last night. Don't know why he's all alone, but he was certainly trying to phone a friend out there from 3 am on.
The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.
This is Bonggu. His human took this "embarrassing" pic of him napping. Even shared them with us to humiliate him. Jokes on them though because he's still very handsome. 13/10 (IG: hi_bbomabbong_2)
We’ve been saying this for a while now many of the people being targeted are just fishermen. Evidence now supports that the United States has killed individuals who were not involved in drug trafficking during its “counternarcotics interdiction operations” in the Caribbean and Pacific.
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The overlooked role of local frontline health workers in the Bundibugyo Ebola response - The Lancet Global Health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The overlooked role of local frontline health workers in the Bundibugyo Ebola response
The Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak, declared in May, 2026,1 is still spreading throughout Ituri Province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Several operational challenges indicate that response gover...
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The #Bundibugyo #virus disease #outbreak in DRC has become the country’s largest recorded #Ebola outbreak, with 3,605 confirmed cases, 1,587 deaths and transmission across five provinces. www.linkedin.com/posts/drmelv...
The current outbreak, Bundibugyo, has killed more than five times as many people as previous outbreaks did in the same amount of time www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/w...
Ebola Outbreak Is Now the Second-Deadliest Ever, and in Record Time
The disease has killed more than 1,500 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo in just over two months, causing deaths faster than officials have ever recorded.
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but never in human history have those who burned books been the good guys.
"A concentration camp, in its most basic definition, is a place where a targeted civilian population, not necessarily accused of a crime, is detained and at least some of their basic rights are suspended," writes @jwashing.bsky.social. "That’s precisely what’s happening in the United States today."
Don’t call them ICE detention centers. Call them camps | John Washington
I’ve spent a decade reporting on immigration enforcement. The word ‘camp’ best captures the political function of these facilities
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Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.
American Red Cross declares second-ever national blood supply crisis. Donations to top US provider have dropped to four-year summer low with less than a day’s supply of type O positive www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
American Red Cross declares second-ever national blood supply crisis
Donations to top US provider have dropped to four-year summer low with less than a day’s supply of type O positive
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This one caught me off guard and I'm literally writing a press release about biofouling deterrents. #ScienceSky #ChemSky 🧪 (throws out nut graf)
As you canvas everything the war in Iran is fucking up, I bet you never even thought of this one! The ships idling in the strait are undergoing "biofouling," picking up all kinds of invasive organisms that they are going to spread everywhere once they're released.
Blame Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the Out-of-Control Ebola Crisis open.substack.com/pub/zeteo/p/...
Blame Elon Musk and Donald Trump for the Out-of-Control Ebola Crisis
Jeremy Konyndyk, who helped lead the U.S. response to the 2014 Ebola outbreak, writes about the deadly consequences DOGE's dismantling of USAID has had, as Congo struggles to contain the virus.
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