Jeff Mahr
@jandma.bsky.social
Dad, Former Virologist now Professor of Biology and Obssessor of Viruses at a Community College, I splice commas and teach Biology in (actual) prisons now and then
(1/2) For some dumb reason, I typed "anything" into Pubmed and this 1881 gem is all that came up. Oddly relevant for our age.
October 29, 2025 at 2:01 PM
(1/2) For some dumb reason, I typed "anything" into Pubmed and this 1881 gem is all that came up. Oddly relevant for our age.
🧪😢Messing around with mortality data in the CDC Wonder Database and stumbled on a really sad fact. I kind of knew this was true before I found this, but in a more abstract sense. My heart goes out to every one of these families affected.
October 28, 2025 at 10:07 PM
🧪😢Messing around with mortality data in the CDC Wonder Database and stumbled on a really sad fact. I kind of knew this was true before I found this, but in a more abstract sense. My heart goes out to every one of these families affected.
🧪(1/2) Some potentially "cup half full" news last week about CIDRAP and NEJM partnering to start a journal to compete with CDC's MMWR, which in the past disseminated timely and reliable public health surveillance data and communicated emerging public health issues...but...
October 28, 2025 at 4:23 PM
🧪(1/2) Some potentially "cup half full" news last week about CIDRAP and NEJM partnering to start a journal to compete with CDC's MMWR, which in the past disseminated timely and reliable public health surveillance data and communicated emerging public health issues...but...
🧪Putting 2 and 2 together here. Recent reports of antibiotic resistance in Bordetella pertussis + decreasing US vaccination rates = ... job security for Florida's ER staff?
Prediction: increasing whooping cough deaths in the US | These are a few of my favorite things
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October 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
🧪Putting 2 and 2 together here. Recent reports of antibiotic resistance in Bordetella pertussis + decreasing US vaccination rates = ... job security for Florida's ER staff?
🧪Whooping cough - more backwards progress in the US.
Whooping cough: “I’m baaackkkk” | These are a few of my favorite things
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October 22, 2025 at 2:39 PM
🧪Whooping cough - more backwards progress in the US.
🧪 Does anyone know someone who works on any aspect of a model organism and would be willing to come on our podcast to talk (generally) about the historical discoveries made that benefitted humans that started as research in that model organism? 🧪 tracksidescience@gmail.com
Trackside Science
Two scientists talking about science while enjoying some fermented beverages every other week. One sober scientist nerding out about viruses the other other week.
tracksidescience.libsyn.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
🧪 Does anyone know someone who works on any aspect of a model organism and would be willing to come on our podcast to talk (generally) about the historical discoveries made that benefitted humans that started as research in that model organism? 🧪 tracksidescience@gmail.com
🧪 Do chemicals in smoke affect seed germination? 🧪#communitycollegescience
August 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
🧪 Do chemicals in smoke affect seed germination? 🧪#communitycollegescience
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DEEP DISH COMMUNION WAFERS
May 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
DEEP DISH COMMUNION WAFERS
People get out of prison all the time, and they face a myriad of barriers that this guy is successfully navigating. The teeny time role I played in his journey is completely overshadowed by my pride in him.
April 29, 2025 at 11:14 PM
People get out of prison all the time, and they face a myriad of barriers that this guy is successfully navigating. The teeny time role I played in his journey is completely overshadowed by my pride in him.
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A federal prosecutor sent a letter to the @accpchest.bsky.social editor-in-chief, probing whether the publication is "partisan" when it comes to "various scientific debates."
@awgaffney.bsky.social
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@awgaffney.bsky.social
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Medical Journals Get Letters From DOJ
At least three journals received letters from a U.S. Attorney asking about 'competing viewpoints'
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April 18, 2025 at 7:38 PM
A federal prosecutor sent a letter to the @accpchest.bsky.social editor-in-chief, probing whether the publication is "partisan" when it comes to "various scientific debates."
@awgaffney.bsky.social
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
@awgaffney.bsky.social
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...
Posting the companies I am boycotting feels insufficient. Is there a website with an easy-to-remember URL that could be put on small stickers that one could use for direct-to-consumer action in supermarkets? Just to inform/remind others which products contribute to the problem.
April 16, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Posting the companies I am boycotting feels insufficient. Is there a website with an easy-to-remember URL that could be put on small stickers that one could use for direct-to-consumer action in supermarkets? Just to inform/remind others which products contribute to the problem.
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In my post about PubMed, I raised concern about what might happen with the committee that decides what journals are PubMed-indexed. They could open the anti-science/pseudoscience floodgates.
This is the message now where the committee should be. Gulp
internet.csr.nih.gov/Committees/M...
#MedLibs
This is the message now where the committee should be. Gulp
internet.csr.nih.gov/Committees/M...
#MedLibs
April 3, 2025 at 6:12 AM
In my post about PubMed, I raised concern about what might happen with the committee that decides what journals are PubMed-indexed. They could open the anti-science/pseudoscience floodgates.
This is the message now where the committee should be. Gulp
internet.csr.nih.gov/Committees/M...
#MedLibs
This is the message now where the committee should be. Gulp
internet.csr.nih.gov/Committees/M...
#MedLibs
Preparing to record an episode of the Trackside Science on Friday has my blood boiling. We are going to go thru the Centers for Disease Control Divisions listed in this picture taken from inside the CDC yesterday. Just to explain briefly what each one does. tracksidescience.libsyn.com
April 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
Preparing to record an episode of the Trackside Science on Friday has my blood boiling. We are going to go thru the Centers for Disease Control Divisions listed in this picture taken from inside the CDC yesterday. Just to explain briefly what each one does. tracksidescience.libsyn.com
Want to take a strong action against the orange dictator? Cut off his audience. He craves attention. Cut it off. Stop doing business with corporations that put reporters in the White House. There aint nothing but bullshit coming out of there anyhow.
April 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Want to take a strong action against the orange dictator? Cut off his audience. He craves attention. Cut it off. Stop doing business with corporations that put reporters in the White House. There aint nothing but bullshit coming out of there anyhow.
Is anyone archiving the government websites of these divisions that are dissappearing???? 🧪
April 1, 2025 at 10:46 PM
Is anyone archiving the government websites of these divisions that are dissappearing???? 🧪
Little did 1970s me know that these words, read as fantasy, would become so real.
March 30, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Little did 1970s me know that these words, read as fantasy, would become so real.
STILL having trouble processing that a free and fair election produced THIS
March 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
STILL having trouble processing that a free and fair election produced THIS
Modelling what I want others to do: challenging my confirmation bias on vaccines.
Score: Vaccines: 1, Autism Conspiracies: 0
Also: Japan collects better public health data than the US (duh) #vaccines #science 🧪
Score: Vaccines: 1, Autism Conspiracies: 0
Also: Japan collects better public health data than the US (duh) #vaccines #science 🧪
My confirmation bias about vaccines and autism | These are a few of my favorite things
sites.gsu.edu
March 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
What the helll is she about to do with that drink???
March 13, 2025 at 1:01 PM
What the helll is she about to do with that drink???
Measles vaccination lowers childhood deaths from non-Measles viruses, and bacteria. *Infection* with Measles Virus suppresses the immune system and increases deaths from other viruses and bacteria.
sites.gsu.edu/jmahr/2025/0...
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Measles vaccination prevents more diseases than you think | These are a few of my favorite things
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March 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Measles vaccination lowers childhood deaths from non-Measles viruses, and bacteria. *Infection* with Measles Virus suppresses the immune system and increases deaths from other viruses and bacteria.
sites.gsu.edu/jmahr/2025/0...
sites.gsu.edu/jmahr/2025/0...
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Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.
February 1, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Reminder: They're trying to demoralize you, and they're doing a great job of it. Part of resisting is making time for joy despite the attempts to make you feel this is not the time for it. Love your people. Dig the art that speaks to you. Go to the places where life flows into you. You deserve joy.
Is "science literacy" different from "rational thinking"? If yes, how is it different. If no, why was the term SL coined?
January 30, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Is "science literacy" different from "rational thinking"? If yes, how is it different. If no, why was the term SL coined?