Nature can be beautiful but also evil.
It has brought us the worst pandemic in more than 100 years.
What is it about #SARSCoV2 that makes it so nefarious? 1/
Finally, some useful information!
Among women presenting for childbirth in NYC (all screened for coronavirus), these are rates of +
Now, repeat for random population sample
And repeat test for potential FN
https://t.co/spWAyySraH
Hello, please signal boost! If you or someone you know has recently recovered from COVID-19 and would like to help, consider getting your plasma tested and/or donated to give patients a fighting chance and save lives. Email [email protected]
I wrote about the new coronavirus itself--where it came from, why it's behaving in the way it's behaving, how it infects and kills, and what the summer might bring. It's early days, of course, but this serves as a rough preliminary portrait of SARS-CoV-2. https://t.co/GL4wrlvN0r
This is such a cool study about the origin of life. I don’t want to spoil the twist, but do check it out. To me, it’s an astonishingly beautiful solution to a hard paradox about how the first cells came to be. https://t.co/4LbkzFc2MF
A study of 189 media accounts of cycling deaths finds that reporting norms subtly blame the victim and lead the reader to believe the deaths are acceptable. https://t.co/tT2cCEtC6l
The most successful people I've met:
1. Have niche interests
2. Adapt
3. Acquire resources
4. Out-compete locals
5. Have billions of offspring
6. Are actually bacteria
7. Evolve antibiotic resistance
8. Share knowledge/plasmids with others
#microbiology#ASMClinmicro
And now for something completely different - rediscovered unprocessed data of a spider building a net on my balcony. This composite image combines 2800 frames into one (minimum filter).