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Jessie Uehling

@fungaljess.bsky.social
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Assistant Professor at Oregon State University using evolutionary/population genomics to understand fungal symbioses jessieuehling.com

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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Its happening! Mycology Fall 2026 starts this Wednesday for the new cohort of OSU mycologists. shout out to Kyle Mondron for being an out of this world supportive TA!!
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Cascade Mycological Society @cascademyco.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Our May speaker is Professor @fungaljess.bsky.social! In this talk, she will detail best practices and provide resources for collecting, documenting and preserving macro-fungi, as well as accessioning them in the OSU herbarium. cascademyco.org/2026/05/cms-...
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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Karl Maasdam joined us on one of my Mycology class trips last fall to document the process. The OSU #mycofam is goin strong
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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
We had so much last weekend hosting Mycology Field Day at the Peavy Arboretum. This collab w @osubpp.bsky.social @coforegonstate.bsky.social & Noah Siegel hosted >70 fun guys/gals for a day of mushroom collections & ID workshops
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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Absolutely no one: Me: but look what else we found on our foray!!!!!
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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
For those who share my media and politics fatigue- Bagpipers in Melbourne claimed world record with AC/DC's 'It's a Long Way to the Top'
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Uehling lab @uehlinglab.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I need your help to promote the careers of our next generation of scientists and leaders. Im generating a list of awards for as part of my new role chairing BPPs award committee.
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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
How do you discover a new species? Sometimes it starts in an herbarium cabinet. In this case, the OSC truffle collection (the largest in the world!!) helped rewrite the story of one of the PNWs most prized fungi, the Oregon Black Truffle. #OregonMycology #Truffles #OSCHerbarium #Cascadia 🐶🍄 🧬
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Jessica Williams @lothlin.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Exsudoporus frostii showing some wicked reticulation and absolutely abundant guttation #fungifriends #mycology #nature
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Jonathan Jacobs @bioinformer.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
My team at ATCC is growing! New #bioinformatics position open now! More to come too! If you’re an early career bioinformatics professional, have a passion for #genomics standards, quality and scientific reproducibility - then take a look!🧬🖥️ 🧫🦠🔬🚀 Let’s go! careers-atcc.icims.com/jobs/3992/bi...
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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Have you heard about MycoEd yet? A model educational program offering training for students on fungal genome sequencing and analysis. how powerful!! #mycofam #thefutureisfungal journals.plos.org/plospathogen...
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Myco-Ed: Mycological curriculum for education and discovery
Fungi are important and hyperdiverse organisms, yet chronically understudied. Most fungal clades have no reference genomes, impeding our understanding of their ecosystem functions and use as solutions...
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New Phytologist @newphyt.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
✨ Paper spotlight ✨ Microbial drivers of root plasticity doi.org/10.1111/nph.... (🧵 1/6) Plant roots have evolved mechanisms to adjust their development within the highly heterogeneous soil matrix, integrating local environmental conditions into their endogenous developmental programs.
Fig. 1 Schematic representation of plant–microbe interactions and microbial metabolism that influence root development and nutrient uptake.
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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Can we use NGS data for pooled strain phenotyping & association mapping as a tool for the genetic dissection of trait variation in BSL3 fungi? Why yes we can. academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-...
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“Select and Resequence” methods enable a genome wide association study of the dimorphic human fungal pathogen Coccidioides posadasii
Abstract. Next-generation sequencing has unlocked a wealth of genotype information for wild populations, but interpreting it in the context of phenotypes r
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Jason Stajich @hyphaltip.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
www.the-scientist.com/a-fungus-not...
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A Fungus, Not Its Insect Host, Paints the World Red
Lac insects carry a yeast-like symbiont that produces a commercially important bright red pigment, revealing insights about insect-microbe symbiosis.
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Botanical Society of America @botsocamerica.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
27 million herbarium specimens digitized—and still going strong! #Botany2025 sponsor Picturae makes natural history collections globally accessible with precision digitization. Learn more: www.picturae.com
A close-up of a herbarium specimen featuring a dried plant branch with small brown cones on a white sheet, positioned beneath a partially visible label. The image promotes Picturae’s herbarium digitization services, with a caption reading: "27 Million Digitized and Growing."
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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Join us in BPP!! We are searching for a new Herbarium Director. This open rank, tenure-track/tenured position will direct/manage the OSC herbarium, lead a robust plant systematics/ecology/evolution research program, teach UG/grad courses and more! (see PD linked below) Full consideration: Aug 31
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Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Botany & Plant Pathology)
The Department of Botany and Plant Pathology invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, tenure-track or tenured Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor position.Any hiring at the rank o...
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ゲッチョ @gettyo.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
ツクツクボウシセミタケ
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Oregon State University Botany and Plant Pathology @osubpp.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Congratulations to these faculty members receiving promotions in the BPP department! Jessie Uehling - Associate Professor with Indefinite Tenure James Mickley - Sr. Instructor I Jenny Lorang - Sr. Instructor I Jessica Lodwick - Sr. Instructor I Bill Thomas - Sr. Research Associate I
OSU BPP Promotions in 2025: Jessie Uehling-Associate Professor with Indefinite Tenure, James Mickley-Sr. Instructor I, Jenny Lorang-Sr. Instructor I, Jessica Lodwick-Sr. Instructor I, Bill Thomas-Sr. Research Associate I
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Cameron Thrash @jcamthrash.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
AutoMLST2: a web server for phylogeny and microbial taxonomy academic.oup.com/nar/advance-... #jcampubs
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AutoMLST2: a web server for phylogeny and microbial taxonomy
Abstract. Accurate and accessible phylogenetic analysis is essential for understanding microbial taxonomy and evolution, which are integral to microbiology
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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
So awesome to have @benwolfe.bsky.social for the Dallice & Mary Mills Seminar in BPP. What a treat.
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Dr Suchitra Kataria @suchitrk.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
A microfluidic wearable device for wound exudate management and analysis in human chronic wounds | Science Translational Medicine www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...?
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A microfluidic wearable device for wound exudate management and analysis in human chronic wounds
A smart bandage enables efficient wound fluid capture and multiplexed biosensing of wound biomarkers that may inform treatment and time to heal.
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Francis M. Martin @fmartin54.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Conventional and organic farms with more intensive management have lower soil functionality | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Conventional and organic farms with more intensive management have lower soil functionality
Organic farming is often considered to be more sustainable than conventional farming. However, both farming systems comprise highly variable management practices. In this study, we show that in organi...
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Morgan Carter @morgancarterphd.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
I had an amazing visit to Oregon State University complete with a fungi walk in the rainy forests. Grateful to the Uehling lab for hosting me! #NewPI 🍄🌲
Me posing in a lab in front of a large pyramid stack of petri dishesSmall mushrooms coming up through leaves and moss on the forest floorA selfie with Jessie Uehling and me in the forest in rain gearA stick on the forest floor with many types of lichens attached
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Mycological Society of America @msafungi.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
FYI, the theme of the #MSAfungi25 meeting will be "Fungal Features: Cultivating Mycology and Mycologists"
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Paul Kardol @paulkardol.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Two cool post-doc positions available at Umeå Uni to work on David Wardle's unique long-term experiments on lake islands in N-Sweden! One position focuses on microbial communities, the other on above-belowground linkages. Please, share! 🧬🦠🌲🍂 www.umu.se/en/work-with... www.umu.se/en/work-with...
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Soil Biology Group - Wageningen UR @sbl-wur.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Are you a post- doc interested in soil health and other dimensions of regenerative agriculture? We are looking to appoint a post-doc for a 4.5 yr position leading a monitoring programme in a large project on regenerative agriculture (ReGeNL). Read more here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p...
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Post-doctoral Researcher (ReGeNL line 3): Monitoring outcomes of regenerative agriculture
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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Take the students outside and compassionately help them learn from failures. I thoroughly enjoyed this article and hope to incorporate some of these concepts in my classes and lab.
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The 10 Most Significant Education Studies of 2024
It’s that time again—our yearly review of the research you should read, from the sneaky ways that inattention can spread in your classroom to the promises and perils of AI.
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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
Psilocybin decreases (MADRS score) depression symptoms in COVID frontline healthcare workers, new small double-blind randomized clinical trial finds jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Psilocybin Therapy for Clinicians With Symptoms of Depression After the Pandemic
This randomized clinical trial examines the effect of psylocibin on the level of depression, burnout, and posttraumatic stress disorder among US physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, ...
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Anthony Amend @fungaloha.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Proud of our new paper in which we force-feed plastic to marine fungi, and watch them evolve to eat it more efficiently. Plastic is the fastest growing new habitat on our planet, fungi can help recycle it. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... Hereʻs a link to the PDF: amendlab.com/wp-content/u...
Me with a chunk of live rock in Kaneohe bay
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All Things Fungi @allthingsfungi.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
There’s something rather lovely about witnessing the cycle of Life. Seedlings sprouting through 💩. Recyclers recycling. Pilobolus sp. Captured at #kneppwilding #fungifriends #fungi #naturephotography #allthingsfungi
A macro picture of a seedling sprouting through a cow pat covered in dung cannon fungiA macro picture of coprophilous fungiA macro picture of Pilobolus sp. Also know as dung cannons / hat throwers
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Stefano Ghignone @steoware.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
#plant #microbs #host #coevolution #symbiosis #symbiosky #AMF "Host-microbe co-evolution" Conference Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Roma - Palazzo Corsini - Via della Lungara 10 Streaming available www.lincei.it/it/manifesta...
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Host-microbe co-evolution | Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
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Aylwyn Scally @aylwyn-scally.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
Applications open for several research positions here in Cambridge including evolutionary genetics, genomics and population genetics. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/
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Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge.
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Steven Pergam, MD, MPH @pergamic.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Have undergraduates interested in getting experience in research? ✅ out the Infectious Diseases Sciences Summer Scholars Internship Program that provides support for students for an ~8 wk summer research experience w/ ID faculty @fredhutch.bsky.social More information and app: twtr.to/TQv2A
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IDS Summer Internship
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Stefano Ghignone @steoware.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
#species #distribution #modeling #diversity #software #R #RProject Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software doi.org/10.1111/ecog...
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Achieving higher standards in species distribution modeling by leveraging the diversity of available software
The increasing online availability of biodiversity data and advances in ecological modeling have led to a proliferation of open-source modeling tools. In particular, R packages for species distributi....
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Catharine.Aquino @catharineaquino.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Check out this cool paper from the lab of Jacob Corn using @nanoporetech.com to look at large scale genomic alterations following genome editing. A big thank you for acknowledging the contributions of @fgcz-en.bsky.social team members #genomics www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Genome editing with the HDR-enhancing DNA-PKcs inhibitor AZD7648 causes large-scale genomic alterations - Nature Biotechnology
A compound that enhances homology-directed repair in CRISPR editing leads to genome instability.
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Jessie Uehling @fungaljess.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
Whoah. Thank you
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Louis Berrios @louberrios.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
A 'sum of their parts' usually happens when you inoculate plants with bacteria AND mycorrhizal fungi – but not always. Read our recent article in @ISMEComms to understand more. academic.oup.com/ismecommun/a...
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Co-inoculations of bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi often drive additive plant growth responses
Abstract. Controlled greenhouse studies have shown the numerous ways that soil microbes can impact plant growth and development. However, natural soil comm
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Louis Berrios @louberrios.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
How do ectomycorrhizal fungi alter soil food webs? Evidence from our multi-omics analysis suggests that they help suppress plant pathogens and enrich bacterial indicators of plant and fungal health. Check out our mSystems article to find out more: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/....
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Ectomycorrhizal fungi alter soil food webs and the functional potential of bacterial communities | mSystems
Understanding how soil microbes interact with one another and their host plant will help us combat the negative effects that climate change has on terrestrial ecosystems. Unfortunately, we lack a clea...
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STCmicrobeblog @stcmicrobeblog.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
@blugenes.bsky.social we're glad to see you here, stan 👏 and take the freedom to "retweet" your post from Sep 15, 2021 where you said: "What science needs is more gedanken! Nice piece in Nature on an excess of data vs dearth of ideas." Without further comment 😄 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Biology must generate ideas as well as data
Data should be a means to knowledge, not an end in themselves.
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Jeffrey Townsend @jeffreytownsend.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Just out in mBio 🧪 "Transcription factor-dependent regulatory networks of sexual reproduction in Fusarium graminearum" 🧪, in which we characterize the transcription factors governing the development of the F. g. multicellular body plan during sexual reproduction. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Transcription factor-dependent regulatory networks of sexual reproduction in Fusarium graminearum | mBio
Understanding transcriptional regulation of sexual development is crucial to the elucidation of the complex reproductive biology in Fusarium graminearum. We performed gene knockouts on 13 transcriptio...
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Marcel van der Heijden @mvanderheijden.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
We are looking for a new PhD student, exploring whether ancient microbiomes can help us to develop a more sustainable agriculture. Deadline for application: 15th of December. We have a very nice team (I think...) and this is in an excellent consortium with top scientists from all over the World.
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Lukas Large @lukaslarge.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A Blackening Waxcap, Hygrocybe conica for black fungi Friday #FungiFriends #FungiFriday
A conical black mushroom in mossy grass
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Bob McIntosh @scotfot.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
#lichen Xanthoria parietina
A photograph of a deep golden yellow lichen growing on a small branch. It takes the form of closely packed/overlapping circular lobes. On the left partially obscuring the lichen is the branching structure of light green oak moss lichen. The background is out of focus
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Michael Brockhurst @brockhurstlab.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
2x professorships available in Manchester Institute of Biotechnology including in Microbial Engineering area (broadly defined to include microbiomes, environmental biotech etc) — join us! www.jobs.manchester.ac.uk/Job/JobDetai...
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Chair Appointments within Manchester Institute of Biotechnology:Manchester Institute of Biotechnology
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Job Fairy Our MRC UK-China AMR project DETECTIVE-II needs a post doc. Please reach out if you are interested edzz.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...
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Research Fellow - Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes - 104952 - Grade 7
To take a lead role in the development and delivery of an MRC funded UK-China research network on antimicrobial resistance epidemiology
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Ian Henderson @hendersi.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/49389/
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Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics - Job Opportunities - University of Cambridge
Associate Professor / Professor of Evolutionary Genomics in the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge.
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Hadley Wickham @hadley.nz · 29/11/2024
If you're interested in trying out LLMs in #rstats but don't know where to begin, I've added a few two vignettes to elmer: elmer.tidyverse.org/articles/elm... and elmer.tidyverse.org/articles/pro...
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Getting started with elmer
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Meghie Rodrigues @meghier.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Thank you so much to whoever put this very comprehensive list of #science Bsky starter packs together. This is just amazing: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Starter packs
BIOLOGY General Science community https://go.bsky.app/HVYAMEA Research Institutions in Life Sciences https://go.bsky.app/LxXpcvJ LGBTQIA+ in STEM https://go.bsky.app/BFc4wgf LGBTQIA+ in STEM 2 h...
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Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Disease prevalence in US states before & after vaccine introduction Graphic from Edward Tufte More graphics.wsj.com/infectious-d... 🧪
Graphic shows dramatic reduction in polio, rubella, mumps, measles, and hepatitis A cases after the introduction of vaccines for each disease.
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