"there isn't ENOUGH toxic yuri". "there's TOO MUCH toxic yuri." girl, the only thing toxic here is this big truck of Super Bimbo Pathogen I'm about to drive into City Hall, and yuri-n my way
November 9, 2025 at 8:02 PM
"there isn't ENOUGH toxic yuri". "there's TOO MUCH toxic yuri." girl, the only thing toxic here is this big truck of Super Bimbo Pathogen I'm about to drive into City Hall, and yuri-n my way
Fungal growth or a pathogen decomposing a fallen twig along the Boneyard Trail at Alum Creek State Park. #ColorADay #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin
November 9, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Fungal growth or a pathogen decomposing a fallen twig along the Boneyard Trail at Alum Creek State Park. #ColorADay #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin
Because COVID is airborne and that's how easy it is to get/spread a cardiovascular, neuroinvasive pathogen. So wear a respirator to stop catching it.
thinking about how rudy giuliani farted and it gave jenna ellis covid.
November 11, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Because COVID is airborne and that's how easy it is to get/spread a cardiovascular, neuroinvasive pathogen. So wear a respirator to stop catching it.
If you’re at @astmh.bsky.social #ASTMH2025 check out our session today on Enteric Pathogen Genomics & Evolution (room 717, 16:30) featuring @ksbakes.bsky.social on Shigella, plus 2 other great talks on V. cholerae phages, and Salmonella!
November 10, 2025 at 2:04 PM
If you’re at @astmh.bsky.social #ASTMH2025 check out our session today on Enteric Pathogen Genomics & Evolution (room 717, 16:30) featuring @ksbakes.bsky.social on Shigella, plus 2 other great talks on V. cholerae phages, and Salmonella!
🚨My very first (co-)first author paper got published in @pnas.org 🥳
We describe the tripartite interkingdom interaction between a yeast, the oomycete pathogen Albugo laibachii and a bacterium, mediated by a GH25 lysozyme 🦠
Thanks to everyone involved!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We describe the tripartite interkingdom interaction between a yeast, the oomycete pathogen Albugo laibachii and a bacterium, mediated by a GH25 lysozyme 🦠
Thanks to everyone involved!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
GH25 lysozyme mediates tripartite interkingdom interactions and microbial competition on the plant leaf surface | PNAS
Microbial communities inhabiting plants have emerged as crucial factors in regulating
plant health and defense against disease-causing pathogens. T...
www.pnas.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
🚨My very first (co-)first author paper got published in @pnas.org 🥳
We describe the tripartite interkingdom interaction between a yeast, the oomycete pathogen Albugo laibachii and a bacterium, mediated by a GH25 lysozyme 🦠
Thanks to everyone involved!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We describe the tripartite interkingdom interaction between a yeast, the oomycete pathogen Albugo laibachii and a bacterium, mediated by a GH25 lysozyme 🦠
Thanks to everyone involved!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"The U.S. wants countries to share pathogen samples and genomic sequencing data within five days of an outbreak, according to the document from the U.S. State Department, but it does not guarantee that any drugs or vaccines developed as a result of that exchange would go to the countries affected."
The new US official: in exchange for restarting foreign aid, the US gets other countries’ genomic data on diseases.
No promise to share the benefits of that IP, though - in contrast to WHO agreements that are under negotiation.
www.reuters.com/business/hea... 🛟🧪🩺
No promise to share the benefits of that IP, though - in contrast to WHO agreements that are under negotiation.
www.reuters.com/business/hea... 🛟🧪🩺
www.reuters.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:00 PM
"The U.S. wants countries to share pathogen samples and genomic sequencing data within five days of an outbreak, according to the document from the U.S. State Department, but it does not guarantee that any drugs or vaccines developed as a result of that exchange would go to the countries affected."
The next month, a quality control program that ensured consistency and accuracy across its 170 pathogen and contaminant labs was suspended as a result of staffing cuts.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
The next month, a quality control program that ensured consistency and accuracy across its 170 pathogen and contaminant labs was suspended as a result of staffing cuts.
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...
They've delayed compliance with rules.
Suspended quality controls across pathogen and contamination labs as a result of staffing cuts.
They scaled back the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, which looked for foodborne illnesses.
Profit will always matter more than people.
#Pinks
Suspended quality controls across pathogen and contamination labs as a result of staffing cuts.
They scaled back the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, which looked for foodborne illnesses.
Profit will always matter more than people.
#Pinks
Foreign Food Safety Inspections Hit Historic Low After Trump Cuts
The dramatic shift in oversight comes at a time when the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food, which accounts for the vast majority of the nation’s seafood and more than half its fresh fru...
www.propublica.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
They've delayed compliance with rules.
Suspended quality controls across pathogen and contamination labs as a result of staffing cuts.
They scaled back the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, which looked for foodborne illnesses.
Profit will always matter more than people.
#Pinks
Suspended quality controls across pathogen and contamination labs as a result of staffing cuts.
They scaled back the Foodborne Diseases Active Surveillance Network, which looked for foodborne illnesses.
Profit will always matter more than people.
#Pinks
Rare Fungus Emerging as an Opportunistic Pathogen Amid COVID-19
www.thailandmedical.news/news/rare-fu...
www.thailandmedical.news/news/rare-fu...
Rare Fungus Emerging as an Opportunistic Pathogen Amid COVID-19 - Thailand Medical News
www.thailandmedical.news
November 10, 2025 at 3:47 AM
Rare Fungus Emerging as an Opportunistic Pathogen Amid COVID-19
www.thailandmedical.news/news/rare-fu...
www.thailandmedical.news/news/rare-fu...
"Seven mutations appeared in a strain of H3N2 seasonal flu and led to a "fast increase" in reports of the mutated virus, says Prof Derek Smith, the director of the centre for pathogen evolution at the University of Cambridge."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
New flu virus mutation could see ‘worst season in a decade'
Leading flu experts say they will not be surprised if this year's is the worst flu season for a decade.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:12 PM
"Seven mutations appeared in a strain of H3N2 seasonal flu and led to a "fast increase" in reports of the mutated virus, says Prof Derek Smith, the director of the centre for pathogen evolution at the University of Cambridge."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Here is your daily reminder that the bird flu is a man-made crisis.
Animal farming, in particular, is the most risky human behavior for pandemics. Experts call the industry a “pathogen time-bomb”. Funding this industry is not just destructive and cruel, it is self harm.
Animal farming, in particular, is the most risky human behavior for pandemics. Experts call the industry a “pathogen time-bomb”. Funding this industry is not just destructive and cruel, it is self harm.
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Here is your daily reminder that the bird flu is a man-made crisis.
Animal farming, in particular, is the most risky human behavior for pandemics. Experts call the industry a “pathogen time-bomb”. Funding this industry is not just destructive and cruel, it is self harm.
Animal farming, in particular, is the most risky human behavior for pandemics. Experts call the industry a “pathogen time-bomb”. Funding this industry is not just destructive and cruel, it is self harm.
Kerstin Unger (from @plantmicrobiosis.bsky.social group) on Pathogen-mediated degradation of the plant defense metabolite sulforaphane functions as public good in a leaf bacterial community
See their @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PMS2025
See their @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PMS2025
November 7, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Kerstin Unger (from @plantmicrobiosis.bsky.social group) on Pathogen-mediated degradation of the plant defense metabolite sulforaphane functions as public good in a leaf bacterial community
See their @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PMS2025
See their @natcomms.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
#PMS2025
Super interesting new paper about doxycycline treatment being linked to lower schizophrenia risk years later.
They don’t take up the idea that persistent pathogen could be involved but I have to wonder.
#NEISvoid #LongCovid #PANS #PANDAS
They don’t take up the idea that persistent pathogen could be involved but I have to wonder.
#NEISvoid #LongCovid #PANS #PANDAS
Doxycycline Use in Adolescent Psychiatric Patients and Risk of Schizophrenia: An Emulated Target Trial | American Journal of Psychiatry
Objective: As many as half of individuals who develop psychosis had attended child and adolescent psychiatric services at some stage in childhood, highlighting substantial opportunities for prevention...
psychiatryonline.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Super interesting new paper about doxycycline treatment being linked to lower schizophrenia risk years later.
They don’t take up the idea that persistent pathogen could be involved but I have to wonder.
#NEISvoid #LongCovid #PANS #PANDAS
They don’t take up the idea that persistent pathogen could be involved but I have to wonder.
#NEISvoid #LongCovid #PANS #PANDAS
Exposure to cold weather makes you more susceptible to illness and creates the conditions for pathogens to infect you, like dried sinuses. During this time, you can come into contact with a pathogen or you may already have a pathogen attacking you.
Get well soon.
Get well soon.
November 10, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Exposure to cold weather makes you more susceptible to illness and creates the conditions for pathogens to infect you, like dried sinuses. During this time, you can come into contact with a pathogen or you may already have a pathogen attacking you.
Get well soon.
Get well soon.
PathogenSurveillance: an automated pipeline for population genomic analyses and pathogen identification. #PathogenSurveillance #Nextflow #Bioinformatics #WGS #PathogenIdentification @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 9, 2025 at 5:49 PM
PathogenSurveillance: an automated pipeline for population genomic analyses and pathogen identification. #PathogenSurveillance #Nextflow #Bioinformatics #WGS #PathogenIdentification @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
LOL I actually forgot about the virus (which they clearly had to rewrite because they wrote a plot about a manmade pathogen BEFORE the Pandemic) God that movie was so fucking stupid
November 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
LOL I actually forgot about the virus (which they clearly had to rewrite because they wrote a plot about a manmade pathogen BEFORE the Pandemic) God that movie was so fucking stupid
Turns out there are worse threats to personal liberty than temporary restrictions attempting to slow the spread of a new and deadly pathogen.
November 5, 2025 at 4:18 AM
Turns out there are worse threats to personal liberty than temporary restrictions attempting to slow the spread of a new and deadly pathogen.
Mosquitoes were introduced to Hawaii on ships c. 1826. Non-native birds acted as a reservoir for the pathogen in lowland areas as native birds (which lacked immunity) became limited to high altitude forests. Climate change allowed mosquitoes to colonize higher elevations.
www.cnn.com/science/hawa...
www.cnn.com/science/hawa...
Thousands of mosquitoes are being dropped by drone over islands in Hawaii. Here’s why | CNN
Native Hawaiian honeycreeper birds are being wiped out by avian malaria. Scientists think they can battle the problem by releasing more mosquitoes.
www.cnn.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Mosquitoes were introduced to Hawaii on ships c. 1826. Non-native birds acted as a reservoir for the pathogen in lowland areas as native birds (which lacked immunity) became limited to high altitude forests. Climate change allowed mosquitoes to colonize higher elevations.
www.cnn.com/science/hawa...
www.cnn.com/science/hawa...
What's new this week in AI, data science, bioinfo: LLMs for learning to code, #Rstats updates (R Data Scientist, R Weekly), RAG, layoffs & AI, DuckDB for data science, Anthropic+Iceland, AI in science, AI in drug discovery, Nextflow & pathogen surveillance doi.org/10.59350/28g...
Weekly Recap (Nov 7, 2025)
LLMs for learning to code, R updates (R Data Scientist, R Weekly), RAG, layoffs & AI, DuckDB for data science, Anthropic+Iceland, AI in science, AI in drug discovery, Nextflow & pathogen surveillance
doi.org
November 7, 2025 at 2:04 PM
What's new this week in AI, data science, bioinfo: LLMs for learning to code, #Rstats updates (R Data Scientist, R Weekly), RAG, layoffs & AI, DuckDB for data science, Anthropic+Iceland, AI in science, AI in drug discovery, Nextflow & pathogen surveillance doi.org/10.59350/28g...
#PMS2025 Check the posters of my 2 wonderful PhD students @logansuteau.bsky.social & Louna Colaert-Sentenac!
Results on multi-kingdom SynCom experiments inoculated on seeds to perform plant microbiome engineering & promote pathogen resistance on rapeseed & common bean 🫘 🌱
@emersys-irhs.bsky.social
Results on multi-kingdom SynCom experiments inoculated on seeds to perform plant microbiome engineering & promote pathogen resistance on rapeseed & common bean 🫘 🌱
@emersys-irhs.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
#PMS2025 Check the posters of my 2 wonderful PhD students @logansuteau.bsky.social & Louna Colaert-Sentenac!
Results on multi-kingdom SynCom experiments inoculated on seeds to perform plant microbiome engineering & promote pathogen resistance on rapeseed & common bean 🫘 🌱
@emersys-irhs.bsky.social
Results on multi-kingdom SynCom experiments inoculated on seeds to perform plant microbiome engineering & promote pathogen resistance on rapeseed & common bean 🫘 🌱
@emersys-irhs.bsky.social
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hope this latest summer mutation isn't enough to completely escape the immunity of the vaccines formulated last year. The usual trouble of having to hit the moving target of a continuously evolving pathogen.
Hope this latest summer mutation isn't enough to completely escape the immunity of the vaccines formulated last year. The usual trouble of having to hit the moving target of a continuously evolving pathogen.
Will a new mutated flu strain cause a rough winter?
Leading flu experts say they will not be surprised if this year's is the worst flu season for a decade.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 AM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Hope this latest summer mutation isn't enough to completely escape the immunity of the vaccines formulated last year. The usual trouble of having to hit the moving target of a continuously evolving pathogen.
Hope this latest summer mutation isn't enough to completely escape the immunity of the vaccines formulated last year. The usual trouble of having to hit the moving target of a continuously evolving pathogen.
PhD position (Cambridge, UK)
Modelling pest and pathogen entry and spread pathways to enhance the UK Plant Health Risk Register
with @nikcunniffe.bsky.social
at University of Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2401
Modelling pest and pathogen entry and spread pathways to enhance the UK Plant Health Risk Register
with @nikcunniffe.bsky.social
at University of Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2401
November 8, 2025 at 10:18 PM
PhD position (Cambridge, UK)
Modelling pest and pathogen entry and spread pathways to enhance the UK Plant Health Risk Register
with @nikcunniffe.bsky.social
at University of Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2401
Modelling pest and pathogen entry and spread pathways to enhance the UK Plant Health Risk Register
with @nikcunniffe.bsky.social
at University of Cambridge @camplantsci.bsky.social
More details: http://iddjobs.org/jobs/2401
New #flu #virus mutation could see worst season in a decade ...
| #Influenza | #infections | #pathogen | #publichealth | Via bbc .com
| #Influenza | #infections | #pathogen | #publichealth | Via bbc .com
New flu virus mutation could see ‘worst season in a decade'
Leading flu experts say they will not be surprised if this year's is the worst flu season for a decade.
www.bbc.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
New #flu #virus mutation could see worst season in a decade ...
| #Influenza | #infections | #pathogen | #publichealth | Via bbc .com
| #Influenza | #infections | #pathogen | #publichealth | Via bbc .com