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[John Hawks @johnhawks]

"In this Archipelago there are two distinct faunas rigidly circumscribed, which differ as much as those of South America and Africa, and more than those of Europe and North America: yet there is nothing on the map or on the face of the islands to mark their limits." #Wallace200

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

scientists, press offices and journalists, I am BEGGING you to stop using "scientists used to think non-coding DNA was useless but this new discovery ..." as a way to hype up genomics papers - it is trite, it is lazy, it is wrong, it is misinformation https://t.co/fGiyH3q62P

[Paul Sax @PaulSaxMD]

This blinded, placebo-controlled randomized clinical trial gives us the best evidence we have thus far that any treatment reduces the incidence of long covid/pasc.

Importantly, it was a protocol-specified endpoint.

[The American Association of Immunologists (AAI) @ImmunologyAAI]

After reviewing Arizona’s abortion law, which went into effect after the Supreme Court decision in Dobbs, AAI has moved IMMUNOLOGY2024™ from Phoenix to Chicago. AAI issued a statement articulating its deep concern about the decision’s deleterious impact. https://t.co/8v1BgRaZke

[ASM @ASMicrobiology]

For decades, Dr. Anthony Fauci has led with science to fight infectious disease. His leadership during the pandemic saved countless lives, & his commitment to evidence-based science is a key reason why public policies have been able to protect public health. ASM stands w/ Fauci.

[T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @TRyanGregory]

I have yet to hear from anyone with actual expertise in evolution and genomics who didn't see the problems in this paper immediately. Too bad it wasn't made available as a pre-print so these issues could have been dealt with before publication.

[Tulio de Oliveira @Tuliodna]

Like many scientists, I am also not convinced that Omicron evolved stepwise in Africa and was undetected for months. In the next tweets, I highlight some of my thoughts on this report and highlight some of the weaknesses. 1/x

[Hensley Lab @SCOTTeHENSLEY]

“From what we can see, it looks like the vaccines are pretty darn good matches to what’s circulating. If there’s ever a time to get vaccinated, this is the year to do it.”

Flu hospitalizations increase nearly 30% as U.S. enters holiday season https://t.co/HzwMsNqUCU

[TompkinsLab @tompkins_lab]

How do we know nexgen influenza vaccines will work? Attend and present your work at the Correlates of Protection meeting, and find out.
#influenza
#vaccines https://t.co/liUIwTHrp0

[Oded Rechavi @OdedRechavi]

Early career researcher

[Richard Neher @richardneher]

Mutational tolerance varies strongly by gene. ORF1b and M are most conserved, while ORF3a, ORF6, ORF7ab, ORF8 are not at all. The graphs below shows distributions and the landscape of fitness costs across genes.

10/N

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Pay attention: Big data loses to good data. “A survey of 250,000 respondents can produce an estimate of the population mean that is no more accurate than an estimate from a simple random sample of size 10… data quality matters more than data quantity” https://t.co/TDNMfeRyWh

[Virological Posts @virological_org]

An APOBEC3 molecular clock to estimate the data of emergence of hMPXV https://t.co/7AUDGUYkft

[iayork @iayork]

@alexspeier Is he a potential broadcaster? He’s always seemed smart, thoughtful, and insightful in interviews

[iayork @iayork]

@IsbergRalph I just hope everyone has fun, and someone remembered to bring the juice boxes

[Dr. Angela Rasmussen @angie_rasmussen]

This article is making the rounds.

Sounds scary, right? Constant reinfections and no immunity! Plague doctor! Forever plague!!!

Too bad it is almost entirely poorly sourced, grossly misinterpreted, hyperbolic bullshit.

[Chrispin Chaguza @ChrispinChaguza]

🧵for our latest preprint on the intrahost evolution of SARS-CoV-2 virus in an immunocompromised individual (60s) with a history of cancer chronically infected for at least 471 days (ongoing) with consistently replicating viruses at a high viral load. 1/n

https://t.co/qBNEjXTqMt

[Dr Emma Hodcroft @firefoxx66]

I'm honoured to have been part of the global & African-anchored group working on a new, non-stigmatizing naming scheme for #monkeypox.

We propose renaming 'Congo Basin' to Clade 1, & 'West African' to Clades 2 & 3 - to stop using harmful, geographical-based names.

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[Tulio de Oliveira @Tuliodna]

The changing epidemiology of human monkeypox—A potential threat? A systematic review - Bunge et al. PLoS NTD - 2022 - https://t.co/39QXVGWC0f