"ugh I'm that weirdo" I mutter, stumbling through the shrubs at @epi.ufl.edu to get close to this beauty. Look at that web! I am in awe.

Severe Covid leads to persistent viral reactivation, with >10 different viruses noted in the first 40 days after hospital admission. Long Covid was specifically associated with reactivation of latent Anelloviridae virus @nature.com www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Virus reactivation in acute and long COVID-19 - Nature

Chronic reactivation of distinct herpesviruses and anelloviruses occur during acute and long COVID-19, and track with disease severity, inflammation and outcomes, revealing immune signatures with prog...

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How about solar panels? Can we just have those?

This is a remarkably extreme statistic. Bordeaux, France has recorded more days >40°C in 2026 than in the entire 105 year period combined dating back to 1920 when records began. This summer has been so far above extreme it’s difficult to put into words. Chart: @WxNB_

‘Immediately stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature - 42.5C #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

‘Stop all outdoor activities’: South Korea records its highest ever temperature

Authorities issue alert saying indoor spaces without airconditioning are ‘dangerous’ as temperatures pass 40C for fifth straight day

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Pandemic risk—where is it heading, and how can we (re-)conceptualize it within current modeling frameworks? Check out our new preprint below! @carlsonlab.bsky.social @viralemergence.org

Colin Carlson@colincarlson.bsky.social · 2d ago

NEW stuff for Monday morning! Get your new stuff here! Pandemic risk is going up. Can we bring it back down? Probably not - unless we radically reimagine our relationship with nature, food, and each other. First preprint led by the brilliant @torrelavelle.bsky.social: www.medrxiv.org/content/10.6...

The US owes the Pan-American Health Organization $135 million in past dues. Trump's budget proposal cuts funding for PAHO entirely, even though our contribution is 0.001% of federal spending. The result will be even weaker defenses agst measles, dengue & more. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/30/h...

Former Officials Protest U.S. Plan to Defund Pan American Health Organization

The group of former health and national security officials warned that Americans will be more vulnerable to infectious disease threats.

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OH WOW! If you like seeing amazing pictures (of tropical bugs and others, mostly bugs), check out this thread, and keep clicking the 'replies' to see the sheer magnitude. So gorgeous. Such a lovely post. Thank you @ibycter.bsky.social for this treat.

Sean McCann@ibycter.bsky.social · 7d ago

So, @cataranea.bsky.social and I went to Guyana over the past week (ish) to attend #BugShot, in the Rupununi Savannah, at Karanambu Lodge. You wanna see some pictures of what we saw?

why the fuck is this guy allowed to just smash shit into the moon

Erin Fogg says Free Link@criminalerin.bsky.social · yesterday

I read the whole thing twice and still don't know if it's supposed to do that or not I feel like it's not

Been waiting for this to bubble up to the surface. Again, any other time in American history when we had functioning news media, this would have been a five alarm scandal. There would be senate hearings. There would be consequences for everyone in the chain of command involved in this.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterday

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

Moving quickly... still hilarious

Keep on shouting this until they listen

Autumn Wolff | Lesbian Author & Narrator@autumnwolff.bsky.social · 3w ago

You know what doesn't cause apocalyptic skylines and wildfires? Solar panels. Can we stop burning fossil fuels and just start massively investing more in renewables and battery tech, please?

Moon rising over the end of a very hot day here. Happy Friday folks, have some weekend.

Whew, the editors of @science.org are getting real.

The Assault On Science Funding Continues

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The annual number of mosquito disease days has increased in nearly all U.S. cities analyzed by Climate Central. Dr. @sjryan3.bsky.social contributed to this new report which analyzes mosquito-borne diseases in 293 cities from 1970-2025 www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

This is a very real aspect of the (dumb) structure of US health coverage. It creates terrible work environments, stifles creative moves, and "job lock" is a great term, but doesn't really capture the horror.

NPR@npr.org · 2w ago

About 24% of U.S. employees stay in unwanted jobs just for health insurance, a report out Wednesday finds. Up significantly since 2021, the uptick in "job lock" is a concerning sign for the U.S. economy. n.pr/4gQIY5E

TV20 interviewed Dr. @sjryan3.bsky.social to discuss why Alachua County may expect more West Nile virus cases www.wcjb.com/2026/07/19/a...

Alachua County may expect more West Nile virus cases, UF professor says

TV20’s Kristin Chase sat down with University of Florida professor of medical geography Sadie Ryan to discuss emerging cases in Alachua County.

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"My message to the people of the UK is that I'll train the new guy but you're going to have to stick with one of them eventually."

👏🏽👏🏽 India approves it’s first vaccine for dengue www.reuters.com/business/hea...

Japanese drugmaker Takeda's Qdenga becomes first dengue vaccine approved in India

Takeda Pharmaceutical's dengue vaccine Qdenga has been approved by India's drug regulator, making it the first such vaccine to be cleared in the country, the Japanese drugmaker's ​India unit said on M...

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I'd be great at it. I have no siblings. Actually, I'd suck at it, let's be honest, I would get bored after two weeks of no job, and would probably go back to doing what I do.

Bethany Albertson@albertsonb2.bsky.social · 3w ago

Thought experiment- if you were suddenly appointed to do your sibling’s job, how badly would you suck at it?

"Pandemic prediction in the space age: use of EOS data" - In a time of lots of Earth Observation System (EOS) data, the call to use it for predicting pandemics is out there. So how does it look? with @lippikiyay.bsky.social and Jakob Meredith bit.ly/4eUstUK - sjryan3.shinyapps.io/pand_eos_dash/

"NSF employees are now concerned that the $1 billion of withheld funds will not be released. If they are not, the combination of withheld funds and clawbacks would result in funding cuts of more than 30% for most directorates compared with their planned spending for 2025"

Dan Garisto@dangaristo.bsky.social · 4w ago

New: The National Science Foundation is preparing to claw back some $500 million in funds from some of its core science programs in physics, math, computer science, and engineering in order to fund a project from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

Get you colleagues who know it's your birthday later in the month when you won't be in the same place!!

It has been criminally underreported but Kelsey Pfendler has just rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean from the US coast to Hawaii in record time. A 2,400-mile unsupported journey in 43 days, 17 hours, and 55 minutes. Notably beating the Men’s record by 9 whole days.

"By unpacking who can actually detect and report these infections, the authors reveal that what we count as "disease risk" often says as much about societies as it does about microbes." Thanks for the write up of this work led by @samsambado.bsky.social www.clearskyscience.com/en/10.1038/s...

Being on the soft money side of academia, when funding is terminated on a whim & the peer review process is undermined, it means we can't predict funding for incoming students

Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD@prasad.bsky.social · last mo.

www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u... an ominous trend: graduate admissions are down 15 percent from last year, on top of an 11 percent decrease from the previous year we are destroying our seed corn

One day this will stop being funny. Today is not that day.

MPDI publishes climate denial. For more on this recurring cast of characters, who have previously submitted papers under pseudonyms, see: physicstoday.aip.org/news/climate...

USDA reports three new cases of screwworm, bringing total to 15 reut.rs/4oKRAN1

USDA reports three new cases of screwworm, bringing total to 15

The number of U.S. cases of New World screwworm has risen ​to 15 after three more animals tested positive ‌in Texas, the Department of Agriculture said in a post on social media on Sunday.

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