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Edward Nirenberg @enirenberg.bsky.social · 9h

Neat

Association Between Apple Eaters and Physician Visits

This cross-sectional observational study does not support that “an apple a day keeps the doctor away”; however, the small fraction of US adults who eat an apple a day do appear to use fewer prescripti...

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Ricardo Levins Morales Art Studio @rlmartstudio.bsky.social · 19h

This week in 1988: 1,000+ ACT UP demonstrators shut down the FDA headquarters, demanding (and eventually winning) action on developing HIV/AIDS treatments. ACT UP's militant and creative actions always included powerful visual artwork, and paved the way for movements in the decades to come.

A photograph from the 1988 ACT UP demonstration outside the FDA. Many people are participating in a die-in on the front steps, holding mock tombstones with messages like "RIP - killed by the FDA" and "Dead from lack of drugs." A line of police officers (some with classic 80s mustaches) wearing riot helmets stands between them and the building; one cop wearing white gloves is walking through the demonstrators. Affixed to the 2nd story windows of the building is a series of posters and a large blank banner reading Silence = Death.

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Yijia Li @yijiali89.bsky.social · 7h

Yijia Li @yijiali89.bsky.social · 19h

Weekend on call hospital cafeteria delicacy treat.

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Yijia Li @yijiali89.bsky.social · 19h

I guess there’s exemption for gov ethics

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 1d

The spatial landscape of infectious mononucleosis tonsils @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 2d

The editors of the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR) were apparently fired today.

The precursor to MMWR began in 1878 to address emerging public health threats rapidly.

We are not “great” without it. We are vulnerable to threats from sporadic foodborne illness to bioterrorism.

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Ken Koon Wong @kenkoonwong.bsky.social · 2d

Ever wondered what M184V, K65R actually mean? I learnt it from rebuilding Stanford’s HIV resistance algorithm from scratch to find out. Spoiler: it took tons of code to match their 3-line tool. But the lesson was worth it

#idsky #hivsky #bioconductor #rstats #sierrapy #bioinformatics

My Attempt To Reproduce Stanford HIVdb Sequence and Mutation Analysis From Scratch | Everyday Is A School Day

Ever wondered what M184V, K65R actually mean? I learnt it from rebuilding Stanford's HIV resistance algorithm from scratch to find out. Spoiler: it took tons of code to match their 3-line tool. But th...

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ACLU @aclu.org · 2d

As we've said before: Diss tracks are protected by the First Amendment.

Drake’s Lawsuit Over Kendrick Lamar’s ‘Not Like Us’ Dismissed by Judge

Drake’s defamation lawsuit against Universal Music Group over Kendrick Lamar’s “Not Like Us" has been dismissed by a federal judge.

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Florian Scheuer @florianscheuer.bsky.social · 3d

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 3d

Intranodal expansion of follicular T helper cells in patients with multiple sclerosis @insight.jci.org
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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 3d

❄️ Antifreeze from fish blood

A lab-made version of a fish blood protein stops ice crystals from forming, protecting foods and medicines from freeze damage. Cheap, safe, and biodegradable.

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#SciComm 🧪 #MaterialsScience #Biotech

An Ultrapotent, Ultraeconomical, Antifreeze Polypeptide

Simple and inexpensive polypeptides composed of random copolymers of alanine and glutamic acid are effective antifreezes for applications in foods and biomedicine. The polypeptides, inspired by natur...

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 3d

A human pan-disease blood atlas of the circulating proteome
@science.org @buenoalvez.bsky.social
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Yijia Li @yijiali89.bsky.social · 3d

I'll have to say I don't really like tapioca pearls.... lolol. I might be an outlier. I do put lots of jelly in my bobba tea. My fav are definitely TSAOCAA and Yifang.

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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 3d

A genome-to-proteome map reveals how natural variants drive proteome diversity and shape fitness @science.org @stanforduniversity.bsky.social
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Yijia Li @yijiali89.bsky.social · 3d

Congrats! @roby-b.bsky.social

MGH Division of Infectious Diseases @mgh-id.bsky.social · 3d

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The carbapenem inoculum effect provides insights into the molecular mechanisms underlying carbapenem resistance in the Enterobacterales | mBio

Infections caused by carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) pose significant threats to patients and public health worldwide. Carbapenem resistance can occur through several molecular mechanisms,...

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Yijia Li @yijiali89.bsky.social · 3d

lol fortunately I drink none of these brands 😂

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Paul Sax @paulsaxmd.bsky.social · 7d

Tremendous honor -- thank you so much @idsainfo.bsky.social and especially @darcy-id-doc.bsky.social #IDSky
www.idsociety.org/education--t...

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Journal of Clinical Investigation @jci.org · 9d

A major barrier to HIV cure is a population of T cells that harbors replication-competent proviruses

Here, Robert F. Siliciano & team report most viruses in the latent HIV-1 reservoir are resistant to autologous neutralizing antibodies: www.jci.org/articles/vie...

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CIDRAP @cidrap.bsky.social · 9d

Pakistan, Nigeria report new #polio cases

The cases include three wild poliovirus type 1 and three circulating variant poliovirus type 2.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/p...

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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 9d

A serological study highlights the role of sex workers & non-sexual household transmission in the ongoing outbreak of mpox (clade Ib) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

@LeandreMurhula @LucaMZaeck @MarionKoopmans
#mpox #virology #PublicHealth

Serological evidence of clade Ib Mpox transmission by sex workers and within household in South Kivu, DRC - Nature Communications

Serological studies are needed to understand the ongoing clade Ib mpox outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and neighboring countries. Here, the authors conduct a cross-sectional serological study in South Kivu, highlighting the role of professional sex workers and household transmission in mpox epidemiology.

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 11d

Now Jeanne Marrazzo, the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases has been fired by #RFKJr in retaliation. This administration is corrupt. Matthew Memoli: remember this man's name, MAGA grifter who scored $500M for his research. www.statnews.com/2025/09/04/n...