@markkhurana.bsky.social
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Pandemic Preparedness requires deep and comprehensive understanding.
If you agree and want to know more, sign up to Mark Khurana's Phd defense on 21 November at Mærsk Tower at University of Copenhagen
Details 👇
healthsciences.ku.dk/phd/calendar...
🎉 @markkhurana.bsky.social
#Science #pandemic
If you agree and want to know more, sign up to Mark Khurana's Phd defense on 21 November at Mærsk Tower at University of Copenhagen
Details 👇
healthsciences.ku.dk/phd/calendar...
🎉 @markkhurana.bsky.social
#Science #pandemic
PhD defence: Mark Poulsen Khurana
Large-scale phylogenetic inference and pathogen genomics in the era of SARS-CoV-2 and beyond
healthsciences.ku.dk
November 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Pandemic Preparedness requires deep and comprehensive understanding.
If you agree and want to know more, sign up to Mark Khurana's Phd defense on 21 November at Mærsk Tower at University of Copenhagen
Details 👇
healthsciences.ku.dk/phd/calendar...
🎉 @markkhurana.bsky.social
#Science #pandemic
If you agree and want to know more, sign up to Mark Khurana's Phd defense on 21 November at Mærsk Tower at University of Copenhagen
Details 👇
healthsciences.ku.dk/phd/calendar...
🎉 @markkhurana.bsky.social
#Science #pandemic
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Terrific @scientificdiscovery.dev post on randomized controlled trials in @ourworldindata.org.
Including this important chart on the impact of pre-registration.
Magically, when people had to pre-register outcomes, many of the benefits disappeared.
ourworldindata.org/randomized-c...
Including this important chart on the impact of pre-registration.
Magically, when people had to pre-register outcomes, many of the benefits disappeared.
ourworldindata.org/randomized-c...
September 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Terrific @scientificdiscovery.dev post on randomized controlled trials in @ourworldindata.org.
Including this important chart on the impact of pre-registration.
Magically, when people had to pre-register outcomes, many of the benefits disappeared.
ourworldindata.org/randomized-c...
Including this important chart on the impact of pre-registration.
Magically, when people had to pre-register outcomes, many of the benefits disappeared.
ourworldindata.org/randomized-c...
Moving to a walkable city adds 1,100 steps a day 🚶♂️
AI may deskill colonoscopists when used constantly 🛠️
Engineered yeast now feeds honeybees the sterols they need to thrive 🐝
All in this week's edition of HealthByte!
open.substack.com/pub/byteofhe...
AI may deskill colonoscopists when used constantly 🛠️
Engineered yeast now feeds honeybees the sterols they need to thrive 🐝
All in this week's edition of HealthByte!
open.substack.com/pub/byteofhe...
HealthByte 038
This week: Moving to a walkable city adds 1,100 steps a day, AI may deskill colonoscopists when used constantly, and engineered yeast now feeds honeybees the sterols they need to thrive.
open.substack.com
August 26, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Moving to a walkable city adds 1,100 steps a day 🚶♂️
AI may deskill colonoscopists when used constantly 🛠️
Engineered yeast now feeds honeybees the sterols they need to thrive 🐝
All in this week's edition of HealthByte!
open.substack.com/pub/byteofhe...
AI may deskill colonoscopists when used constantly 🛠️
Engineered yeast now feeds honeybees the sterols they need to thrive 🐝
All in this week's edition of HealthByte!
open.substack.com/pub/byteofhe...
This week in HealthByte 037:
The brain can trigger immunity from just seeing infection, AI predicts ICU crises hours in advance, and lithium deficiency emerges as a possible Alzheimer’s trigger 🤔
Link to the newsletter here:
byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
The brain can trigger immunity from just seeing infection, AI predicts ICU crises hours in advance, and lithium deficiency emerges as a possible Alzheimer’s trigger 🤔
Link to the newsletter here:
byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
HealthByte 037
This week: The brain can trigger immunity from just seeing infection, AI predicts ICU crises hours in advance, and lithium deficiency emerges as a possible Alzheimer’s trigger.
byteofhealth.substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:33 AM
This week in HealthByte 037:
The brain can trigger immunity from just seeing infection, AI predicts ICU crises hours in advance, and lithium deficiency emerges as a possible Alzheimer’s trigger 🤔
Link to the newsletter here:
byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
The brain can trigger immunity from just seeing infection, AI predicts ICU crises hours in advance, and lithium deficiency emerges as a possible Alzheimer’s trigger 🤔
Link to the newsletter here:
byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
This week in HealthByte 035:
Oral contraceptives show no clear liver cancer risk, neurons fuel cancer spread by donating mitochondria, and sea slugs use stolen chloroplasts for photosynthesis and nutrition.
open.substack.com/pub/byteofhe...
Oral contraceptives show no clear liver cancer risk, neurons fuel cancer spread by donating mitochondria, and sea slugs use stolen chloroplasts for photosynthesis and nutrition.
open.substack.com/pub/byteofhe...
HealthByte 035
This week: Oral contraceptives show no clear liver cancer risk, neurons fuel cancer spread by donating mitochondria, and sea slugs use stolen chloroplasts for photosynthesis and nutrition.
open.substack.com
July 8, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This week in HealthByte 035:
Oral contraceptives show no clear liver cancer risk, neurons fuel cancer spread by donating mitochondria, and sea slugs use stolen chloroplasts for photosynthesis and nutrition.
open.substack.com/pub/byteofhe...
Oral contraceptives show no clear liver cancer risk, neurons fuel cancer spread by donating mitochondria, and sea slugs use stolen chloroplasts for photosynthesis and nutrition.
open.substack.com/pub/byteofhe...
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Remember when MDPI used questionable practices to siphon traffic from big five publishers’ journals? Never thought I’d see the shoe on the other foot.
Springer-Nature launched a series of "Discover" journals that closely mimic MDPI titles -- sharing *identical* journal names, and likely similar business model.
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
What is going on, and why researcher will - as always - fall for it?
A 🧵
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io/website/post...
Springer Nature Discovers MDPI – The Strain on Scientific Publishing
Home page for the paper ‘The Strain on Scientific Publishing’ by Mark A Hanson, Dan Brockington, Paolo Crosetto and Pablo Gomez Barreiro
the-strain-on-scientific-publishing.github.io
June 16, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Remember when MDPI used questionable practices to siphon traffic from big five publishers’ journals? Never thought I’d see the shoe on the other foot.
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Did you remember to subscribe to A Byte of Health?
#Science #substack
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May 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Did you remember to subscribe to A Byte of Health?
#Science #substack
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Amazing essay on how technological change is forcing us into an evolutionary bottleneck: "a period of rapid pressure that threatens cultures, customs and peoples with extinction."
Highly recommend reading.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
Highly recommend reading.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
Opinion | An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive.
www.nytimes.com
May 13, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Amazing essay on how technological change is forcing us into an evolutionary bottleneck: "a period of rapid pressure that threatens cultures, customs and peoples with extinction."
Highly recommend reading.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
Highly recommend reading.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...
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📄 NEW | Genetic Study shows that Wildlife Trade sparked COVID-19 Virus Emergence in Humans
SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Wuhan too quickly for bat hosts to have carried it there.
cell.com/cell/fulltex...
gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
@davidlrobertson.bsky.social
@spyroslytras.bsky.social
@bljog.bsky.social
SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Wuhan too quickly for bat hosts to have carried it there.
cell.com/cell/fulltex...
gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
@davidlrobertson.bsky.social
@spyroslytras.bsky.social
@bljog.bsky.social
The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2
Recombination-aware evolutionary analyses of the entire genomes of SARS-CoV-1-like
and SARS-CoV-2-like viruses indicate that SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 descend from bat
coronaviruses that circulated as...
cell.com
May 8, 2025 at 9:49 AM
📄 NEW | Genetic Study shows that Wildlife Trade sparked COVID-19 Virus Emergence in Humans
SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Wuhan too quickly for bat hosts to have carried it there.
cell.com/cell/fulltex...
gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
@davidlrobertson.bsky.social
@spyroslytras.bsky.social
@bljog.bsky.social
SARS-CoV-2 arrived in Wuhan too quickly for bat hosts to have carried it there.
cell.com/cell/fulltex...
gla.ac.uk/research/az/...
@davidlrobertson.bsky.social
@spyroslytras.bsky.social
@bljog.bsky.social
A whole year of newsletter'ing!
One year ago, we launched A Byte of Health! Since then, our team has published 27 newsletters with over 3,400 reads 🥳
If you’re interested in concise summaries of the latest breakthroughs in health and medicine, check out the newsletter: byteofhealth.substack.com
One year ago, we launched A Byte of Health! Since then, our team has published 27 newsletters with over 3,400 reads 🥳
If you’re interested in concise summaries of the latest breakthroughs in health and medicine, check out the newsletter: byteofhealth.substack.com
A Byte of Health | Mark Khurana | Substack
A biweekly newsletter exploring the latest breakthroughs in science and medicine. Click to read A Byte of Health, a Substack publication. Launched a year ago.
byteofhealth.substack.com
April 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
A whole year of newsletter'ing!
One year ago, we launched A Byte of Health! Since then, our team has published 27 newsletters with over 3,400 reads 🥳
If you’re interested in concise summaries of the latest breakthroughs in health and medicine, check out the newsletter: byteofhealth.substack.com
One year ago, we launched A Byte of Health! Since then, our team has published 27 newsletters with over 3,400 reads 🥳
If you’re interested in concise summaries of the latest breakthroughs in health and medicine, check out the newsletter: byteofhealth.substack.com
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I am hiring PhD students and Postdocs to join me in beautiful Copenhagen. Together, we will develop data science methods to improve epidemic preparedness.
Copenhagen is amazing, salary is good, we have plenty of funding, and a great community.
Read more..: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Copenhagen is amazing, salary is good, we have plenty of funding, and a great community.
Read more..: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Ph.D. and postdoc positions in Data Science for epidemic preparedness at the NERDS research group
The NERDS (NEtwoRks, Data, and Society) team at the IT University of Copenhagen welcomes applications from aspiring PhD students and postdocs in the areas of Da
candidate.hr-manager.net
March 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
I am hiring PhD students and Postdocs to join me in beautiful Copenhagen. Together, we will develop data science methods to improve epidemic preparedness.
Copenhagen is amazing, salary is good, we have plenty of funding, and a great community.
Read more..: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
Copenhagen is amazing, salary is good, we have plenty of funding, and a great community.
Read more..: candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
This week in A Byte of Health 🔬
1. Western diets during pregnancy linked to ADHD & autism
2. Engineered therapeutic mitochondria may aid organ repair
3. Annual HIV prophylaxis injections show promise
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#Medsky
1. Western diets during pregnancy linked to ADHD & autism
2. Engineered therapeutic mitochondria may aid organ repair
3. Annual HIV prophylaxis injections show promise
🔗 Read the full HealthByte 027 newsletter here: open.substack.com/pub/byteofhe...
#Medsky
HealthByte 027
This week: A Western diet during pregnancy is linked to ADHD and autism in children, engineered mitochondria may support organ repair, and annual HIV prophylaxis injections show promise.
open.substack.com
March 23, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This week in A Byte of Health 🔬
1. Western diets during pregnancy linked to ADHD & autism
2. Engineered therapeutic mitochondria may aid organ repair
3. Annual HIV prophylaxis injections show promise
🔗 Read the full HealthByte 027 newsletter here: open.substack.com/pub/byteofhe...
#Medsky
1. Western diets during pregnancy linked to ADHD & autism
2. Engineered therapeutic mitochondria may aid organ repair
3. Annual HIV prophylaxis injections show promise
🔗 Read the full HealthByte 027 newsletter here: open.substack.com/pub/byteofhe...
#Medsky
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Despite Elon Musk's claim that the foreign aid freeze hasn't killed anyone yet, Nick Kristof finds ample evidence to the contrary.
In South Sudan, HIV-positive mothers and children who lost access to lifesaving drugs have died. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In South Sudan, HIV-positive mothers and children who lost access to lifesaving drugs have died. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 16, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Despite Elon Musk's claim that the foreign aid freeze hasn't killed anyone yet, Nick Kristof finds ample evidence to the contrary.
In South Sudan, HIV-positive mothers and children who lost access to lifesaving drugs have died. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
In South Sudan, HIV-positive mothers and children who lost access to lifesaving drugs have died. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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We have raised concerns about the study methodology in a Danish study about hormonal IUDs and the risk of breast cancer in a Letter to the Editor in @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
Breast Cancer and Levonorgestrel-Releasing Intrauterine Systems
To the Editor We are concerned that some of the methodological approaches in a recent study1 linking use of LNG-IUSs to increased risk of breast cancer may lead to spurious associations and limit the ...
jamanetwork.com
March 11, 2025 at 10:36 AM
We have raised concerns about the study methodology in a Danish study about hormonal IUDs and the risk of breast cancer in a Letter to the Editor in @jama.com jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
This week in our (free!) research newsletter 📰💊
1. Preserving immune function by slowing thymus aging
2. Neurons in the hypothalamus that regulate social needs
3. Aspirin's potential role in preventing cancer metastasis
byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
1. Preserving immune function by slowing thymus aging
2. Neurons in the hypothalamus that regulate social needs
3. Aspirin's potential role in preventing cancer metastasis
byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
HealthByte 026
This week: Preserving immune function by slowing thymus aging, neurons in the hypothalamus that regulate social needs, and aspirin's potential role in preventing cancer metastasis.
byteofhealth.substack.com
March 11, 2025 at 11:24 AM
This week in our (free!) research newsletter 📰💊
1. Preserving immune function by slowing thymus aging
2. Neurons in the hypothalamus that regulate social needs
3. Aspirin's potential role in preventing cancer metastasis
byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
1. Preserving immune function by slowing thymus aging
2. Neurons in the hypothalamus that regulate social needs
3. Aspirin's potential role in preventing cancer metastasis
byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
Need a quick overview of breakthroughs in medical research over the last couple of weeks?
We've got you covered in our HealthBytes newsletter!
Link to this week's edition: byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
We've got you covered in our HealthBytes newsletter!
Link to this week's edition: byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
HealthByte 025
This week: Vitamin D, omega-3, and exercise slow aging, reduced yellow fever vaccine doses show promise, and less frequent mammograms are as effective as annual screenings for breast cancer.
byteofhealth.substack.com
February 24, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Need a quick overview of breakthroughs in medical research over the last couple of weeks?
We've got you covered in our HealthBytes newsletter!
Link to this week's edition: byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
We've got you covered in our HealthBytes newsletter!
Link to this week's edition: byteofhealth.substack.com/p/healthbyte...
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New @nature.com
How #AI can play a pivotal role in future pandemic preparedness and mitigation, with caveats
nature.com/articles/s41...
a privilege to join this global collaborative effort led by Moritz Kraemer and Samir Bhatt
How #AI can play a pivotal role in future pandemic preparedness and mitigation, with caveats
nature.com/articles/s41...
a privilege to join this global collaborative effort led by Moritz Kraemer and Samir Bhatt
February 19, 2025 at 6:12 PM
New @nature.com
How #AI can play a pivotal role in future pandemic preparedness and mitigation, with caveats
nature.com/articles/s41...
a privilege to join this global collaborative effort led by Moritz Kraemer and Samir Bhatt
How #AI can play a pivotal role in future pandemic preparedness and mitigation, with caveats
nature.com/articles/s41...
a privilege to join this global collaborative effort led by Moritz Kraemer and Samir Bhatt
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AI is poised to accelerate understanding in infectious diseases, but its value needs to be demonstrated through close collaboration between research, industry, society, and policy.
Paper free to read: rdcu.be/eaxEw
Summary here: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...
Paper free to read: rdcu.be/eaxEw
Summary here: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...
Artificial intelligence for modelling infectious disease epidemics
Nature - This Perspective considers the application to infectious disease modelling of AI systems that combine machine learning, computational statistics, information retrieval and data science.
rdcu.be
February 20, 2025 at 10:13 AM
AI is poised to accelerate understanding in infectious diseases, but its value needs to be demonstrated through close collaboration between research, industry, society, and policy.
Paper free to read: rdcu.be/eaxEw
Summary here: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...
Paper free to read: rdcu.be/eaxEw
Summary here: www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-02...
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Looking forward to digging into this. Co-authors include
@mghafari.bsky.social & @mugkraemer.bsky.social.
"Large-scale genomic surveillance reveals immunosuppression drives mutation dynamics in persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections"
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
@mghafari.bsky.social & @mugkraemer.bsky.social.
"Large-scale genomic surveillance reveals immunosuppression drives mutation dynamics in persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections"
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.medrxiv.org
February 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Looking forward to digging into this. Co-authors include
@mghafari.bsky.social & @mugkraemer.bsky.social.
"Large-scale genomic surveillance reveals immunosuppression drives mutation dynamics in persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections"
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
@mghafari.bsky.social & @mugkraemer.bsky.social.
"Large-scale genomic surveillance reveals immunosuppression drives mutation dynamics in persistent SARS-CoV-2 infections"
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...