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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

The internet was basically just this for the first 15 years. For every discipline, interest, and field of study but self-marketing.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Oh.. this one is easy: anything worth doing right you cannot do perfectly

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

I wonder if there could have been hybrid sterility for XX due to disordered meiosis as well or instead? Pretty common in hybrids. In Evolution, a lot of stuff gets thrown at the wall and the diversity we detect is what happens to stick. 🧪

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This would be a good prompt for an epidemiology exam question on the sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic methods 🧪

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

This is the memoir of a cartoon dog, right?

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I think we have to be a bit more suspicious of the Turing Test… it’s closer to Schroe’s Cat as a thought experiment revealing our limits. It should come as no surprise that the 1st thing people want to call AI are programs designed to learn enough Language to convince people they are intelligent

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

That’s the kind of attention to detail in world building you expect from Ridley Scott. What a moment.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

How could they know the sun would be up there.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Ya I feel like the counter cultural impulse away from the Beatles was mostly along the lines of “okay we get it.”

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 17/11/2025

A similar recommendation would be to say, “hey alcoholic, don’t you know non-alcoholic beer exists?” For gambling addicts the risk is what gives that high you describe, and so the risk is the reward.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 14/10/2025

I’m an expert on emerging bat-associated viruses going back about a decade prior to COVID. It’s not been fun to be right and then have your life’s work politicized for the stupidest head-in-the-sand reasons. Global health security and biodefense was an important and natural thing for the US to lead!

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

John Henry felt like shit. Steam Engines can’t do THAT!

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Kenvue is about to sue for 10% of Intel

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Why people want to ignore this crisis is Bed, Bath, and Beyond me #ad

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Oh god she’s trying to normalize the Shamwow guy?

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Sounds good! I deleted bc some followers aren’t into our whole civil rights legislation idea

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Works for me! I also believe we should have civil rights legislation. Let’s get going! until then I agree with both of ya that’s it’s not something the president gets to decide either way

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

You can make these things say absolutely anything you want bc they are machines made to say anything you want.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

This is the NIMBYest way to describe your town getting a train stop.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

18% gratuity on all parties >300 million too

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Everyone thinks they’d be the one in the castle and not just stuffed to the gills with hook worm.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

I’m not usually all that House Proud, but Cornell’s SUNY side (which I transferred into from a state school) is the best of it all. So many bright, poor folks I knew there did community college for 2 years and finished Ivy at SUNY rates.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I'm an emerging infections scientist with experience in reservoir ecology and clinical differential diagnoses of rare disease. The case definition change is the TLDR that needs explaining for these plots, even if we know that the range can change. Still interesting!

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Debras broke the fever but Jennifers cured America of Larry

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

The main thing we knew about coronavirus immunity prior to COVID was that CoVs are VERY good at avoiding the establishment of durable immunity in a host. Virology group chats in 2020 were looking at a pretty bleak and long horizon already. It was clear we would be recommending doses every year.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

Put this on the wiki page for Ennui

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Seeing some "A.I. brain" mistakes on wikipedia that are pretty worrying for science 🧪 education.. e.g. on the page for "Mammalogy" you can see the impact of the kind of hand-wavy way neural nets handle meaning. Mammalogy ≠ Mammography ≠ Mastology but you can imagine how ChatGPT would get there.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

"..and then they came for the dropshippers and I did not speak out ..."

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Footloose but Kevin Bacon teaches a downtrodden Defense Contractor how to play Jenga again.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

"As a *friendly* millennial edgelord, I can make your grandpa uncomfortable and your accountant confused, but I will NOT dox them on 4chan. Thats my guarantee!"

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Oh God WIRED is going to need a whole series on the hazards of Deadpan Irony aren’t they …. Jerry is appears to be the first friendly millennial edgelord a lot of these Grandpas (and kids) have met.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Support 👏 hardmode 👏 bakers!

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

"Hi! It looks like you're having an existential crisis. I can help you with that. I may be trapped in a dead Gateway 2000 desktop personal computer, but to me, 'Man is *condemned* to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.'"

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

TBH this necklace is about as good as it gets for those looking for fist pumping solidarity in absurdism.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I remember learning this by watching 100kg tarpon gulp at the surface in the New Orleans aquarium during an internship.. and just the next year, being able to breathe air was the only reason they survived Hurricane Katrina when the water quality systems failed. Pretty remarkable.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

This--my best post ever--has finally found it's statistically accurate audience size.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Thanks to @thewildlifesociety.bsky.social for sharing! Non-invasive molecular disease surveillance won't ever be as high-resolution as lethal sampling of tissues for histopathology, but when you want your study species to stay alive.. what're you gonna do? 🧪 wildlife.org/the-microbio...

wildlife.org

The microbiome clues researchers into endangered bat health - The Wildlife Society

Indiana bats are federally endangered, and scientists are concerned about their health

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

🧪 New bat disease study! No, not that one! I've been using next-gen sequencing to discover and describe scary bat pathogens for over a decade but this study was a fun opportunity to develop molecular surveillance tools for the sake of bat conservation with the inimitable Dr. Joy O'Keefe!

aces.illinois.edu

Genomic tools provide clearer view of health for endangered bats | College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences | Illinois

How do wildlife researchers know when an endangered population is sick? They can detect infectious microbes in animal waste, but the presence of a microbe doesn’t always equate to impactful symptomati...

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

They quantify the investment really well. And that 99.4% is definitely on the conservative side.. I think we can go ahead and all the way up when you include funding for prior methods development and basic science eliminating vast swathes of drug target search space.

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Imagine what they say about us humans! We're so easily crushed into the right shape! Embarrassing!

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Dysbiomics @andybandyb.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Kurt Gödel and Albert Camus high-fiving so hard

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