David Dansereau
borrowedcarbon.bsky.social
David Dansereau
@borrowedcarbon.bsky.social
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I’m really only just getting into it but I genuinely love birding as a hobby. The entire goal is to look at the bird. Is there a bird? There is a bird! Look at the bird! If you are very keen you can learn what to call the bird so that you can properly thank it for the joy you feel when you see it. 🪶
May 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.

Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals.

Take a look.
open.substack.com/pub/insideme...
BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed.
Any unpublished manuscript mentioning certain topics, including gender and "LGBT," must be pulled or revised.
open.substack.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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This is an amazing resource: the receipts on how academia is responding, case by case, to the pause in funding.
Academic Skyers: I am compiling a list of policies and statements from various universities about how they are handling the "pause" in terms of stopping expenditures (or not).

Please respond to this post with your institution and materials.

THANK YOU!
January 28, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Machine learning helps researchers decode communication among fruit bats
Researchers 'Translate' Bat Talk. Turns Out, They Argue—a Lot
A machine learning algorithm helped decode the squeaks Egyptian fruit bats make in their roost, revealing that they "speak" to one another as individuals
www.smithsonianmag.com
January 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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3 new @nejm.org papers on #H5N1 today
"highlight the urgent need for vigilant surveillance of emerging mutations and assessment of the threat of human-to-human transmission" (from overview, text below)
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
December 31, 2024 at 10:07 PM
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We're excited to announce a generous $3.3M grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. This support reinforces our mission to inspire new transformative open science models and pioneer a shift away from traditional publishing models and APCs. Read more on The Official PLOS Blog. plos.io/4iynqsD
PLOS receives $3.3M grant to support Open Access publishing & business model transformation - The Official PLOS Blog
Note: PLOS issued the following press release on Tuesday, December 10. PLOS has been awarded a $3.3million grant from the Bill &amp…
theplosblog.plos.org
December 18, 2024 at 7:07 PM
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Excellent study by my Penn-CEIRR colleagues showing that a single HA substitution in H5 (at same exact residue that changed in the British Columbia case!) enables efficient H5N1 binding to receptors in the human upper airway.

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
A single mutation in bovine influenza H5N1 hemagglutinin switches specificity to human receptors
In 2024, several human infections with highly pathogenic clade 2.3.4.4b bovine influenza H5N1 viruses in the United States raised concerns about their capability for bovine-to-human or even human-to-h...
www.science.org
December 5, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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November 28, 2024 at 6:47 AM
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🌍🦠 H5N1 avian influenza is resurging with alarming traits. Once confined to poultry in Asia, it’s now global, causing wild bird die-offs & spilling into mammals. What’s next for this highly pathogenic virus? #H5N1 #Influenza
A perspective🧵
November 26, 2024 at 2:49 PM
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Please allow me to re-share my rough sketch of some advanced carbon capture technology
November 22, 2024 at 11:20 AM
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(This is a repost from that other place.)

I am proposing to establish the Electoral Reform Party of Canada.

ERP for short

Hear me out. I have a plan.

🧵
November 12, 2024 at 10:43 PM