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Jeremy Kamil
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[He, him.] CMV virologist exploring how viruses
enter cells and other tricky mischief (lately, of the glycoimmune-centric variety). University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. My posts here are my own speech, not my employer’s. #LoveVirology #Glycotime
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This week, Professor James Hansen and colleagues published projections that the global temperature record could reach +1.7°C by 2027.
And if that number lands in your gut the way it landed in mine, good. It should.
#climatecrisis #auspol www.lyrebirddreaming.com/post/two-yea...
Two Years to 1.7°C: the “Prediction Game” We Can’t Afford to Lose
Australia’s sweltering through another early-summer heatwave, and I’m trying to decide whether to write about the weather outside my window - or the bigger climate system we’re reengineering on this p...
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December 20, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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These are our most impressive institutions and crucial for our survival as a people and a species.
An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth
December 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Our🥶COOLNESS paper to date is finally published! Ice cold and lithium dramatically delay forgetting (extend memory) in C. elegans. Why? read all about it! 👇
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Cold and lithium delay forgetting of olfactory memories in Caenorhabditis elegans
Nature Neuroscience - In this study, we identify an actively regulated process that governs the rate of forgetting in Caenorhabditis elegans, modulated by both temperature and the mood-stabilizing...
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December 18, 2025 at 11:29 AM
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This is exactly right - if it's already at the stage where Vought is tweeting out the hit, no downside to pushing back. Every climate journalist or science organizer in the country has a job to do tonight. Someone at NSF has to carry this order out, and it can very much be gummed up if not stopped
I know we're getting used to the destruction but this one put my jaw on the floor. Very much hoping - for all of us but most immediately for our NCAR/UCAR colleagues - this can be avoided with enough pushback.
December 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Another insane move from the Trump regime.

One of NCAR's contributions to climate science is the development of the Community Earth System Model (CESM), which is used by researchers worldwide. Here's a simulation of air-sea CO₂ fluxes from CESM.
December 17, 2025 at 3:53 AM
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“The influenza season has begun roughly four weeks earlier than in previous seasons. At least 27 of the 38 countries in the WHO European Region reporting data are now seeing high or very high influenza activity.”
@whoeurope.bsky.social warning of an intense, early flu season
#IDsky 🧪
More than half of the WHO European Region experiencing intense, early influenza season driven by new strain
Copenhagen, 17 December 2025 Influenza is sweeping across the European Region earlier than
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December 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
December 17, 2025 at 3:37 AM
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Turned to a random page in this biography of Maurice Hilleman and look what I found
December 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Confused by all the histones that are cropping up in organisms that are decidedly NOT eukaryotes? check out our review - fantastic work by team NucEvo in the #Lugerlab
The Expanding Histone Universe: Histone-Based DNA Organization in Noneukaryotic Organisms - www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
December 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I remember talking ~shingles in class and thinking, “I could probably handle the pain”…

In my 40s, shingles emerged in my hairline and spread across my face.

I’m here to tell you, it hurt like a mother&^%er, and that was before it spread to my eye.

People can go blind from it.

Get the vaccine.
All over my FB people talking about their bad experiences with shingles vax and dissuading each other from getting it! We need to give people real info on how to mitigate the symtoms caused by vaccines because vaccines are always better than meeting a virus unprepared. Yet drs aren't coaching ppl
December 9, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Vaccines are good for you.
December 2, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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We love Gingkos. This is a fun explainer about why they drop all their leaves at once. I have been watching UNC's Davie Hall tree for several years--this year the leaf drop was early this week!
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113K views · 1.8K reactions | Why do ginkgo trees drop all their leaves at once? And what does UNH’s iconic James Hall ginkgo tell us about how frost is coming later in the fall? Serita Frey, a profe...
Why do ginkgo trees drop all their leaves at once? And what does UNH’s iconic James Hall ginkgo tell us about how frost is coming later in the fall? Serita Frey, a professor of natural resources,...
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November 27, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Pediatricians say vaccines do not cause autism. A bear-eating heroin addict who fantasizes about sucking his own semen out of his lovers' orifices says they do. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Since 2005, the number of wild and domesticated birds H5N1 has killed is greater than the combined human populations of the U.S. and Russia. On this week's episode, why this version of avian influenza won’t go away. bigpicturescience.org/episodes/flu...
November 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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This seems like a crazy important story that is getting very little coverage here - especially if it destabilizes the regime
'Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has made Tehran impossible to sustain'

#Iran 🇮🇷
Iran president says capital move now a necessity as water crisis deepens
Iran’s capital must be moved because the country “no longer has a choice,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Thursday in remarks carried by state media, warning that severe ecological strain has mad...
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November 21, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The official CDC website on autism and vaccines is now a screed of cherry-picked data and conspiratorial thinking claiming that actually vaccines *might* cause autism.

This is where we’re at folks…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Yikes yikes yikes 😟
CDC has overhauled its website to assert that “the claim ‘vaccines do not cause autism’ is not an evidence-based claim”
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
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Unprincipled and weak. The murder of journalists is perhaps the single most direct violation of the right to freedom of speech. (1/2)
Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."
November 20, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Prashant Singh in the lab of Tina Iverson at Vanderbilt published this image of the bacterial 🦠flagellar motor, a detailed molecular model made possibly by CryoEM 🔬.

The similarity to mechanical motors are strong enough we can use terms like stator, rotor, rod & gearing to describe it.
November 17, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Highly pathogenic H5N5 avian flu has mostly been detected in wild birds and transmitted from Europe to N. America by pelagic seabirds. Mammals (seals, walrus, cats) have been infected, but this is the 1st documented human case. Some have a PB2-E627K mutation known to facilitate mammalian adaptation.
A case in WA of H5N5 (not H5N1), a strain of avian influenza not seen in humans before:

“This is a severely ill patient,” hospitalized w/ high fever, confusion & respiratory distress, said the state epidemiologist.

They have a mixed backyard flock...

1/2

www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...
First U.S. case of human bird flu in 9 months confirmed in Washington state
The U.S. has reported its first human case of bird flu since February, with a confirmed infection in Washington state
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November 15, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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The New York Times won’t use the word but we should because it’s obvious: right wing political influencers aren’t just ‘close to’ the administration — they are its propagandists in the most literal sense of that word. They financially benefit from access & loyalty.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/b...
Conservative Media Picks an Epstein Story Line and Sticks to It
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November 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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This interview by @aliroginpbs.bsky.social with FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is a masterclass. It should be taught in j-schools and she should receive a medal for it.

Here are just a few of the things she does while making it all look easy:

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FDA head explains decision to drop 'black box' warnings from menopause hormone treatment
The FDA announced it would begin asking drug companies to remove so-called “black box” warnings for hormones prescribed to treat symptoms of menopause. The FDA says the warning has dissuaded generatio...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:40 AM