Prof. Michael Fuhrer
@michaelsfuhrer.bsky.social
Epidemic epistemic trespassing. Knows a lot about graphene.
Monash Uni. Directed fleet.org.au. Fellow @scienceacademy.bsky.social.
Plays bass for www.instagram.com/push_the_trigger
Bird photos at www.flickr.com/photos/off-world
Monash Uni. Directed fleet.org.au. Fellow @scienceacademy.bsky.social.
Plays bass for www.instagram.com/push_the_trigger
Bird photos at www.flickr.com/photos/off-world
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Part III of this deeply unpopular series! 😴💤💀
How has the music industry changed with streaming?
Last time, I looked at the distribution of revenue in the streaming industry. It’s profoundly unequal.
Today I'll argue that, unequal as it is, things are far better now than just a few years ago!
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How has the music industry changed with streaming?
Last time, I looked at the distribution of revenue in the streaming industry. It’s profoundly unequal.
Today I'll argue that, unequal as it is, things are far better now than just a few years ago!
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It’s so hard for locally-owned venues. Go out more. See more bands. Netflix will be there when you get back.
Make memories because it all slips away far too soon.
No one turns 80 and says “remember that time we watched TV on a Saturday night?”
Make memories because it all slips away far too soon.
No one turns 80 and says “remember that time we watched TV on a Saturday night?”
Breaking some news for @coyotemedia.org here.
Incredibly sad about this — some of the best nights of my life have involved this club — but I’m also so honored and grateful to Ramona, Kathleen and Lynn for trusting me with this story.
www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...
Incredibly sad about this — some of the best nights of my life have involved this club — but I’m also so honored and grateful to Ramona, Kathleen and Lynn for trusting me with this story.
www.coyotemedia.org/san-francisc...
Beloved SF Club Bottom of the Hill to Close at the End of 2026
One of the city’s last independent music venues, Bottom of the Hill has survived waves of gentrification, COVID closures, and more throughout its 35 years. Now, owners say it’s last call — on their ow...
www.coyotemedia.org
January 3, 2026 at 1:15 AM
It’s so hard for locally-owned venues. Go out more. See more bands. Netflix will be there when you get back.
Make memories because it all slips away far too soon.
No one turns 80 and says “remember that time we watched TV on a Saturday night?”
Make memories because it all slips away far too soon.
No one turns 80 and says “remember that time we watched TV on a Saturday night?”
Reposted by Prof. Michael Fuhrer
Devastating. Yesterday, a 5-year-old boy died from the flu.
Dr. Oz was spewing advice earlier this week where he downplayed the importance of vaccines and recommended “getting sunlight”.
I don’t know whether Micah was vaccinated, but of the kids who died from flu last year, 90% were not.
Dr. Oz was spewing advice earlier this week where he downplayed the importance of vaccines and recommended “getting sunlight”.
I don’t know whether Micah was vaccinated, but of the kids who died from flu last year, 90% were not.
Influencer Paul Kim's Son, 5, Dies After Contracting Severe Case of the Flu
Influencer Paul Kim’s 5-year-old son, Micah, died on Dec. 31 after contracting a severe case of influenza, which led to the child suffering seizures and sepsis.
people.com
January 1, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Devastating. Yesterday, a 5-year-old boy died from the flu.
Dr. Oz was spewing advice earlier this week where he downplayed the importance of vaccines and recommended “getting sunlight”.
I don’t know whether Micah was vaccinated, but of the kids who died from flu last year, 90% were not.
Dr. Oz was spewing advice earlier this week where he downplayed the importance of vaccines and recommended “getting sunlight”.
I don’t know whether Micah was vaccinated, but of the kids who died from flu last year, 90% were not.
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Ohio has our first pediatric #flu death of the season-- unvaccinated 16 year old, previously healthy.
No child should die of this. Vaccination isn't perfect, but it's the best protection.
No child should die of this. Vaccination isn't perfect, but it's the best protection.
January 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Ohio has our first pediatric #flu death of the season-- unvaccinated 16 year old, previously healthy.
No child should die of this. Vaccination isn't perfect, but it's the best protection.
No child should die of this. Vaccination isn't perfect, but it's the best protection.
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An interesting read, most especially if you can’t accept that SARS-CoV-2 was a natural spillover event.
I am pretty sure that @jimalwine.bsky.social wrote a piece about the increased tempo of pandemics at one point.
I am pretty sure that @jimalwine.bsky.social wrote a piece about the increased tempo of pandemics at one point.
Review of 200 novel human viruses over a century a reminder that pathogen emergence isn’t rare
www.cidrap.umn.edu
January 3, 2026 at 1:12 AM
An interesting read, most especially if you can’t accept that SARS-CoV-2 was a natural spillover event.
I am pretty sure that @jimalwine.bsky.social wrote a piece about the increased tempo of pandemics at one point.
I am pretty sure that @jimalwine.bsky.social wrote a piece about the increased tempo of pandemics at one point.
We're a little behind on data reporting due to the holidays, but it is clear that there's a lot of flu out there in the US.
Almost all of it is novel subclade-K A/H3N2. Thankfully very little A/H1N1 or B!
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Almost all of it is novel subclade-K A/H3N2. Thankfully very little A/H1N1 or B!
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January 2, 2026 at 9:58 PM
We're a little behind on data reporting due to the holidays, but it is clear that there's a lot of flu out there in the US.
Almost all of it is novel subclade-K A/H3N2. Thankfully very little A/H1N1 or B!
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Almost all of it is novel subclade-K A/H3N2. Thankfully very little A/H1N1 or B!
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Rainbow Lorikeet checking out the real estate.
Seen in Melbourne's SE suburbs.🪶
Seen in Melbourne's SE suburbs.🪶
January 2, 2026 at 12:54 AM
Rainbow Lorikeet checking out the real estate.
Seen in Melbourne's SE suburbs.🪶
Seen in Melbourne's SE suburbs.🪶
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The energy I'm going into 2026 with.
January 1, 2026 at 1:18 AM
The energy I'm going into 2026 with.
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It's remarkable how low COVID deaths have fallen in the last year. The 2024 summer wave peaked at 1,358 deaths per week; the 2025 summer wave peaked at 466 deaths per week.
www.cdc.gov/covid/php/su...
www.cdc.gov/covid/php/su...
December 29, 2025 at 4:03 PM
It's remarkable how low COVID deaths have fallen in the last year. The 2024 summer wave peaked at 1,358 deaths per week; the 2025 summer wave peaked at 466 deaths per week.
www.cdc.gov/covid/php/su...
www.cdc.gov/covid/php/su...
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It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.
December 29, 2025 at 8:10 PM
It's a good commentary on 2025 that the US President announces a major military attack on a foreign country and even the straightest arrows think, 50% chance it's an attack, 50% chance president is on another cognition bender.
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post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
PJ Harvey’s 1993 Rid Of Me found me as I ended a relationship that had remade my world. This was the sound track as I began again.
PJ Harvey’s 1993 Rid Of Me found me as I ended a relationship that had remade my world. This was the sound track as I began again.
December 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
PJ Harvey’s 1993 Rid Of Me found me as I ended a relationship that had remade my world. This was the sound track as I began again.
PJ Harvey’s 1993 Rid Of Me found me as I ended a relationship that had remade my world. This was the sound track as I began again.
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post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
The Real Ramona by the Throwing Muses saved my life in 1991, became my personality etc. That’s all.
The Real Ramona by the Throwing Muses saved my life in 1991, became my personality etc. That’s all.
December 28, 2025 at 2:55 PM
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or Alice In Chains.
The Real Ramona by the Throwing Muses saved my life in 1991, became my personality etc. That’s all.
The Real Ramona by the Throwing Muses saved my life in 1991, became my personality etc. That’s all.
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
December 28, 2025 at 2:20 AM
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
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post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
December 27, 2025 at 10:11 PM
post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains
The primary phenomenon shown by this chart is that wealth (in 2022 dollars) has grown a lot - almost 300% in 3.3 decades! - and grown for every group.
But the proportions haven't changed dramatically. (They've changed, for the worse, but it's very difficult to tell from this chart.)
But the proportions haven't changed dramatically. (They've changed, for the worse, but it's very difficult to tell from this chart.)
December 27, 2025 at 11:18 PM
The primary phenomenon shown by this chart is that wealth (in 2022 dollars) has grown a lot - almost 300% in 3.3 decades! - and grown for every group.
But the proportions haven't changed dramatically. (They've changed, for the worse, but it's very difficult to tell from this chart.)
But the proportions haven't changed dramatically. (They've changed, for the worse, but it's very difficult to tell from this chart.)
The new Subclade-K strain of influenza A/H3N2 is putting a strain on Canadian healthcare right now.
Influenza positivity in Ontario in ages 5-11 is literally *43 TIMES* higher than covid positivity (73.3% vs. 1.7%).
Is it plausible 1 in 58 have covid in Ontario right now?
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Influenza positivity in Ontario in ages 5-11 is literally *43 TIMES* higher than covid positivity (73.3% vs. 1.7%).
Is it plausible 1 in 58 have covid in Ontario right now?
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December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The new Subclade-K strain of influenza A/H3N2 is putting a strain on Canadian healthcare right now.
Influenza positivity in Ontario in ages 5-11 is literally *43 TIMES* higher than covid positivity (73.3% vs. 1.7%).
Is it plausible 1 in 58 have covid in Ontario right now?
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Influenza positivity in Ontario in ages 5-11 is literally *43 TIMES* higher than covid positivity (73.3% vs. 1.7%).
Is it plausible 1 in 58 have covid in Ontario right now?
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Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
NEW: By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court blocks Trump’s deployment of the National Guard to Chicago to assist immigration agents. A majority holds that he likely lacks authority to do so. Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch dissent. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
![The Government asked this Court to stay the District Court's order. After the response and reply were filed, JUSTICE BARRETT referred the application to the Court. We directed the parties to file supplemental letter briefs on an issue that the District Court had addressed but the parties' initial briefs had not: the meaning of the term "regular forces" in §12406(3). In its supplemental brief, the Government argues that the term refers to civilian law enforcement officers, such as those employed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement or the Federal Protective Service.
Respondents, echoing the District Court, maintain that the term refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary.
We conclude that the term "regular forces" in §12406(3) likely refers to the regular forces of the United States mili-tary. This interpretation means that to call the Guard into active federal service under §12406(3), the President must be "unable" with the regular military "to execute the laws of the United States." Because the statute requires an assessment of the military's ability to execute the laws, it likely applies only where the military could legally execute the laws. Such circumstances are exceptional: Under the Posse Comitatus Act, the military is prohibited from "execut[ing] the laws" "except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress."
18 U. S. C. §1385. So before the President can federalize the Guard under §12406(3), he likely must have statutory or constitutional authority to execute the laws with the regular military and must be "unable" with those forces to perform that function.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6h7b2i6ttw3l4t7pvbvxdith/bafkreiftbhzwvn3vgwhqsi7k2paizvdw4t26ailljvovso3chqupnmj364@jpeg)
December 23, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Wow. Genuinely shocked, and a hugely consequential decision.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
Importantly, this is a case where @martylederman.bsky.social's amicus brief appears to have made a MAJOR impact. Before he wrote it, courts were sidestepping the "regular forces" issue entirely. And that's what the Trump admin lost on.
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Yes, I was going to say the same thing. "Garbage in, garbage out".
This study relies entirely on the body of work by Z. Al-Aly et al. using electronic health records from the US Veterans Administration database.
This study relies entirely on the body of work by Z. Al-Aly et al. using electronic health records from the US Veterans Administration database.
December 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Yes, I was going to say the same thing. "Garbage in, garbage out".
This study relies entirely on the body of work by Z. Al-Aly et al. using electronic health records from the US Veterans Administration database.
This study relies entirely on the body of work by Z. Al-Aly et al. using electronic health records from the US Veterans Administration database.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
The new Subclade K of Influenza A/H3N2 is posting some impressive numbers in Ontario, Canada - now at 33.8% positivity. Positivity among 5-11 year-olds at 73.3%(!)
www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-...
www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-...
December 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
The new Subclade K of Influenza A/H3N2 is posting some impressive numbers in Ontario, Canada - now at 33.8% positivity. Positivity among 5-11 year-olds at 73.3%(!)
www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-...
www.publichealthontario.ca/en/Data-and-...
New Zealand has also bee hit hard by the late out-of-season wave of Subclade-K influenza A/H3N2.
I updated the gist with the latest data from the respiratory dashboard, adding the last 3 weeks of atypical summer flu cases (A/H3). My opinion- no likely slowdown before New Year given increased Christmas period contacts, but then we have the summer isolation period.
December 20, 2025 at 10:44 PM
New Zealand has also bee hit hard by the late out-of-season wave of Subclade-K influenza A/H3N2.
Dems are reading this and concluding: "We need to make being tough on crime the #1 issue we run on in 2026".
"Who do you trust more to handle..."
Environment - 🔵D +31
Healthcare - 🔵D +24
Economic Inequality - 🔵D +22
Education - 🔵D +18
Trade/Tariffs - 🔵D +17
Jobs - 🔵D +13
Inflation/Cost of Living - 🔵D +12
Foreign - 🔵D +12
Taxes - 🔵D +10
Immigration - 🔵D +7
Crime - 🔴 R +1
AtlasIntel / December 19, 2025
Environment - 🔵D +31
Healthcare - 🔵D +24
Economic Inequality - 🔵D +22
Education - 🔵D +18
Trade/Tariffs - 🔵D +17
Jobs - 🔵D +13
Inflation/Cost of Living - 🔵D +12
Foreign - 🔵D +12
Taxes - 🔵D +10
Immigration - 🔵D +7
Crime - 🔴 R +1
AtlasIntel / December 19, 2025
December 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Dems are reading this and concluding: "We need to make being tough on crime the #1 issue we run on in 2026".
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#H5N1 : An infected herd was recently detected in Wisconsin, and genome sequencing indicates that this is yet another spillover event, making it the fourth detected one.
How do these spillovers happen and why are they restricted, so far, to the US?
www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...
How do these spillovers happen and why are they restricted, so far, to the US?
www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...
December 20, 2025 at 7:11 AM
#H5N1 : An infected herd was recently detected in Wisconsin, and genome sequencing indicates that this is yet another spillover event, making it the fourth detected one.
How do these spillovers happen and why are they restricted, so far, to the US?
www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...
How do these spillovers happen and why are they restricted, so far, to the US?
www.aphis.usda.gov/news/agency-...
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“they” is a person here and should face whatever law we can bring to bear, civil or criminal.
“They’re denying that any of her birth certificates, which are from Laurel, Maryland, her records of immunization, medical records — they’re denying the authenticity of them. It is something I’ve never encountered.” www.huffpost.com/entry/us-cit...
Trump Administration Says Maryland Woman's Birth Certificate Is Fake In Dystopian Move
Dulce Consuelo Diaz Morales was arrested on Sunday. ICE won’t release her despite extensive documentation of her citizenship, her attorneys told HuffPost.
www.huffpost.com
December 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
“they” is a person here and should face whatever law we can bring to bear, civil or criminal.
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NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
December 18, 2025 at 9:01 PM
NB: When I, a professor of law, profess that an act is unlawful, I am not doing it to inform the lawbreaker, but rather to inform you, the reader.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
So the question “what, like you think he cares?” is inapposite. The question is whether *you* care. I think you should, which is why I bother.
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What does it take to achieve the highest level of human performance? Across athletics, science, chess, and music
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Recent discoveries on the acquisition of the highest levels of human performance
Scientists have long debated the origins of exceptional human achievements. This literature review summarizes recent evidence from multiple domains on the acquisition of world-class performance. We re...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
What does it take to achieve the highest level of human performance? Across athletics, science, chess, and music
@science.org
science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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science.org/doi/10.1126/...