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Regina Harris Baiocchi
@haikufest.bsky.social
🎶✍🏽📚Composer|Author|Poet Founder www.HaikuFest.com
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Has anyone tried turning the government off and back on again?
November 14, 2025 at 8:37 AM
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Let’s talk about why I am increasingly uneasy about the upcoming flu season. A new H3N2 influenza variant has been emerging globally, and it carries mutations linked to immune escape i.e the virus’s ability to bypass some of our pre-existing immunity. 🧵
utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
Emergence of seasonal influenza A(H3N2) variants with immune escape potential warrants enhanced molecular and epidemiological surveillance for the 2025–2026 season | Journal of the Association of Medical Microbiology and Infectious Disease Canada
Background: All of the major antigenic changes in influenza A(H3N2) viruses since 1968 have involved mutations at just nine amino acid positions, called cluster transition sites, surrounding the receptor binding region of the hemagglutinin surface protein. During the northern hemisphere (NH) 2024–2025 influenza season, A(H3N2) variants emerged with multiple parallel substitutions affecting cluster transition sites 135, 145, 158 and/or 189, with implications for the 2025–2026 season. Methods: Using >24,000 global A(H3) sequences between September 2024 and August 2025, we assess the nature and frequency of amino acid mutations among emerging NH and southern hemisphere (SH) A(H3N2) variants relative to the 2024–2025 subclade J and updated 2025–2026 subclade J.2 vaccine reference strains. We contextualize based upon historic amino acid variation among >210,000 global A(H3) sequences since 1968 and publicly available antigenic characterization data relative to 2024–2025 and 2025–2026 vaccine reference strains Results: Virtually all circulating A(H3N2) viruses in 2024–2025 were subclade J.2. In Europe, about one-third had cluster transition site mutations, mostly T135A with S145N. In North America, more than two-thirds had cluster transition site mutations, including T135K or S145N, with late-season increase in doubly mutated J.2.3 (N158K + K189R) and J.2.5 (S145N + N158K) subclades. The SH 2025 season showed increase in J.2.3 and emergence of J.2.4 (T135K + K189R) including a further drifted J.2.4.1 variant with additional N158D and other mutations, recently renamed subclade K. A substantial proportion of J.2.3 and J.2.4 viruses are antigenically distinct from the 2025–2026 influenza vaccine. Conclusion: Influenza A(H3N2) variants with a combination of cluster transition site mutations emerged during the NH 2024–2025 season. A further drifted and vaccine-mismatched variant now called subclade K arose during the SH 2025 season and is projected to predominate among A(H3N2) viruses for the NH 2025–2026 season. While mismatched vaccines may still provide protection, enhanced genetic, antigenic and epidemiological (eg, vaccine effectiveness) monitoring are warranted to inform risk assessment and response.
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November 14, 2025 at 12:02 PM
cancer radiates
talking in the treble clef
with one opinion

#poem #senryū
#writemap 386 opinion
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
in an act of faith
for the living & the dead
we harvest water

#haiku #poetry
#FaithMap 042 water 💦
📸 Adrianna Amari @4aamari.bsky.social
November 13, 2025 at 12:37 PM
West African masks
wood carvers catch the Spirit
catching woodcarvers

#haiku #poetry
#dailyhaikuprompt mask
📸: @joe_bassey
November 13, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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‪.
from the morning calm
crawls a milkweed beetle
halting at the tip of a tender leaf
curious, its antennae rise
searching in the quiet for the flower people
.

#oddlyme
old prompts #emoetry #calm #vss365 #crawl
#poetry #micropoetry
#photography #milkweed #beetle
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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This blessed me early on a Sunday morning
🤳🏽tt: @ thanda.choir

like & pin the feed
#BlackskyZen ✨🎶🎤
November 9, 2025 at 10:23 AM
star
stones
sculpted
by eons
of living water
palming wet sand with kids’ cartwheels 🤸🏽‍♀️

#Fibonacci #poetry
#FaithMap 42 water 💦
📸 @xmuse_
November 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
muddle of moonbeams
taste of lovesick suffering
in rich men’s shadows

#senryū #poetry
#writemap 384 rich
#faithmap 41 love
📸 Patrick Zephyr
November 8, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Artist Helen Ahpornsiri creates intricate collage artworks created with real pressed flowers and leaves. #WomensArt #Autumn #Fall
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Tomorrow, NOV 4th, is ELECTION DAY. Get ready exercise your fundamental right to VOTE!

PA: VOTE YES TO RETAIN 💥DEM MAJORITY💥 PA SUPREME COURT JUSTICES
Christine Donohue
Kevin Dougherty
David Wecht

Know your ballot. VOTE BLUE to protect our rights and freedoms.
November 3, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Say it ain’t so 🥲
November 2, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature.
The U.S. has revoked the visa of Nobel winner Wole Soyinka.
The American government has revoked the visa of Wole Soyinka, the Nigerian author who won the 1986 Nobel Prize in literature, according to Al Jazeera. The writer received what he called a “rather c…
buff.ly
November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Laughing to keep from crying—as my Elders used to say‼️
November 2, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Happy #November 🌻
November 1, 2025 at 3:58 PM
💙🥁🩵 🎹 🩵🎶✍🏽 💙
#RiseInPower
October 29, 2025 at 2:19 PM
🙏🏽 ☮️ ❤️‍🩹
October 29, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Walz: "We have a federal system that we're all in it together, we help other states when they need it, but we have a situation where they're trying to divide us & provide specific aid to states that they like at the moment, which is absolutely unconscionable... either that or give us our money back"
October 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Tim Walz: "People are gonna be lined up out here to get food, and we're talking about a damn ballroom. Don't lose the plot."
October 27, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Walz: "They are paying contractors to pay down the East Wing but they're not putting money into the food bank. So if there's a sense of frustration in America, it's very real ... when the White House press secretary said their top priority is the ballroom, we could not disagree more."
October 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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*4 WALLS OF LATH...*

#poetry
#prompt
#spokenword
#poetrylovers
#whistpr wasp
#vss365 creep
#vssdaily trash
#writingprompt
#poetrycommunity
#writingcommunity
#emoetry absorbed
#blueskyrelay moment
#moonmystic beginnings
#2wordprompt rigid, train
#OurPoetryX creaking_floorboards

*Audio On, Please*🗣️🎙
October 27, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Pls tell me it ain’t so. The phenomenal Jack DeJohnette: #drummer #pianist #composer & gentle #Soul will be dearly missed. #RiseInPower

🥁🎹🎶✍🏽❤️‍🩹
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October 27, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Ended music-filled week with fellow composer @sethbou of @acmchicago at his new venue The #CheckOut for #OpenHouseChicago sponsored by @chiarchitecture
Seth played my piano music “Deliverance,” he commissioned to celebrate First Church of Deliverance @fcdchicago in Bronzeville

♥️🎹🎶✍🏽🖤
October 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Friday, 24 October 7:30 #FREE concert @ColumbiaChi Sherwood Hall. 6Degrees #Composers presents my #spirituals and #choral #music featuring Felicia Patton, Andrea Morris, Jeanel LaBlanc, Eric McCarter, Anthony Jones, Kimberly Carlos, directed by Richard Nunley

🎙️♥️🎶♥️✍🏽
October 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM