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Josh Mattila

@joshmattila.bsky.social
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Researching macrophages and neutrophils in TB || Entomology PhD, ticks and tick-borne bacteria || macro photography and reef aquaria enthusiast || opinions my own || Northern Minnnesotan

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Microbial Biotechnology (MBT) @microbiotech.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#MicroSky: New from Ball et al.! Bacteriophages slashed Pseudomonas syringae on highbush blueberry leaves by >100,000-fold, highlighting phage cocktails as a powerful, sustainable plant disease control strategy. Don’t miss Microb Biotech: doi.org/10.1111/1751...
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Waggoner Lab @labwaggoner.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
CAR-engineered microglia harness phagocytosis to target brain tumor in organoid models www.cell.com/cell-reports... @cp-cellreports.bsky.social
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Autonomy News @autonomynews.co · 07/10/2026
ICYMI: Two groups with anti-abortion ties received almost $9 million in federal family planning grants. Trump admin is “sending every signal that they will select grantees who align with their ideology, rather than highly qualified providers with a proven track record of delivering quality care.”
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‘Destructive’: Nearly $9 Million in HHS Grants Go to Groups With Anti-Abortion Ties
Millions in family planning funds are earmarked to create training centers, including one dedicated to infertility. The recipients have links to crisis pregnancy centers, the Heritage Foundation, and ...
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Rita Strack @ritastrack.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Come work with me!! Nature Biomedical Engineering is hiring an interim editor for 2027. Diverse relevant backgrounds welcome to apply. Please feel free to contact me with questions. Please repost! springernature.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/SpringerNatu...
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Interim Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biomedical Engineering
Job Title: Interim Associate or Senior Editor, Nature Biomedical Engineering Locations: London or Pune – Hybrid working model Application deadline: 21st October About Springer Nature Springer Nature i...
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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Something unprecedented happened during my visit to the Gulf. For the first time in 20 years in Congress, I was denied entry to U.S. military facilities and even meetings with military leaders. An order from Hegseth - that applies to both parties - to hide the cost of the war.
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Dale Hennessey @dalehennessey.qwertyqwert.ca · 05/10/2026
Measles causes immune system amnesia, potentially leaving you vulnerable to infections you already had - and thought you could never get again - *for years*. www.cidrap.umn.edu/measles/meas...
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Measles outbreaks could leave thousands vulnerable to infectious diseases for years
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The Upshot @upshot.nytimes.com · 06/10/2026
"Responses poured in from biochemists, quantum physicists, archaeologists, oceanographers, Nobel Prize-winning biologists, geoscientists, entomologists, you name it." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/05/s...
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What Are the Biggest Questions in Science Today? 100 Scientists Weigh In. (Gift Article)
We asked 100 scientists about unsolved problems in their fields. They sent back provocations — on the origins of life, the possibilities for human progress and much more.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Pennsylvania has now reported: -At least 1004 measles cases -198 hospitalizations -Five deaths Only four of the cases had been vaccinated. Sure, we’ve got some numbers here, but the damage from RFK Jr.’s malicious treachery is actually incalculable.
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Pennsylvania measles cases reach more than 1,000. Track outbreaks in your state
Measles cases have surged in 2026, and Pennsylvania reported more than a thousand cases as of Monday.
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Thomas Spooks 🎃👻💀 @thomasfuchs.at · 06/10/2026
fwiw arstechnica.com/apple/2026/1...
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Command-line tool quickly removes Apple Intelligence from macOS 27
The tool can free up over 12GB of storage.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
RFK Jr lies as often as you & I breathe His lies are designed to instill fear His lies “hide an ugly political agenda that is disastrous for public health” Here’s a valuable in-depth analysis of his big lies to date, on everything from vaccines to fluoride👇 www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...
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Opinion | Lessons From a Year of RFK Jr. Disinformation
His lies hide an ugly political agenda that is disastrous for public health
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Jack Iwashyna @iwashyna.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
NIH makes yet again new LOW number of grants report.nih.gov/nihdatabook/...
Table from NIH showing drop of nearly 8,000 grants vs 2023
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Payal Yokota @payalyokota.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Why does the same virus kill one host and spare another? The key is lung imprinting from a previous parasitic infection. Our new study @nature.com offers answers + critical mechanisms! Immense thanks to @KamalmKhanna and our collaborators. 🧵 #Diseasetolerance #NAMs www.nature.com/articles/s41...:
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Type 2 immune history trains lung macrophages for viral disease tolerance - Nature
Type 2 inflammation trains nerve- and airway-associated macrophages to confer disease tolerance against lethal influenza by limiting immunopathology and promoting tissue repair without enhancing viral...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Unless Congress reclaims its power, this will just become the new normal. A good first step would be to impeach Vought. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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National Science Foundation Diverted $1.4 Billion in Science Funds Mandated by Congress
The move, affecting about one-fifth of the National Science Foundation’s primary research budget, is the latest sign of how the White House is asserting more control over grants.
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The Editorial Board @editorialboard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
1. Let's not say goodbye to Eric Schmitt just yet. His story is about more than a power-mad senator falling on his face. It's part of a larger story about the Republicans defending the leader of an insurrection against the United States.
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Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The @mcgillperl.bsky.social @mcgill.ca invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher in Pandemic Prevention and Global Health Security to support a CIHR STEPS Team Grant focused on strengthening Canada's public health emergency response systems mcgill.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/McGill...
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Postdoctoral Researcher
Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at ...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The 2020 election has been relentlessly studied by our most experienced experts and by our most craven partisan hacks for 6y now, and every examination has wound up demonstrating the integrity of Biden’s victory in that election and the malignity of Trump’s obsession with undermining it.
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Iván Hidalgo-Cenalmor @ivanhcenalmor.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
We’ve updated #CellTracksColab to adopt the #LabConstrictor format, making CellTracksColab easier to package and distribute on local installation. If you want to understand how your cells move, give CellTracksColab a try, now directly on your own laptop or workstation! 💻 github.com/CellMigratio...
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Michael Way @drmichaelway.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Looking for a PhD? @crick.ac.uk PhD applications for next year are open. 4 year program with lots of outstanding projects on offer. If you are interested in viral host interactions, cytoskeleton, cell bio, live cell imaging - see Way lab project + video. plz repost www.crick.ac.uk/careers-and-...
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PhD student positions
PhD projects for the 2027 Crick PhD programme.
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Nature [Unofficial] @nature.com.web.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
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Tuberculosis treatment has advanced — now we need to stop drug resistance dragging us backwards
Nature, Published online: 30 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02963-x The next major advancement in TB might not be a new drug, but a better understanding of how and why resistance to medicines emerges.
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Mill_lab @cilialab.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
While #NikonSmallWorldInMotion has been quiet over #CiliaGate, the story has broken mainstream media here in the UK just in time for #PCDAwarenessMonth www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Tiny image sparks big backlash in Nikon photo contest
Dr Ning Xu denies he broke the rules of Nikon's annual Small World In Motion contest.
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Marc Veldhoen @marcveld.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Host cell traversal by Plasmodium parasites drives sterilizing T cell-mediated immunity following immunization Why do whole-sporozoite malaria vaccines sometimes achieve sterilising immunity, while subunit vaccines struggle? www.nature.com/artic... 1/10
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Host cell traversal by Plasmodium parasites drives sterilizing T cell-mediated immunity following immunization
Nature Microbiology - Whole-organism malaria vaccine efficacy relies on host cell traversal by Plasmodium parasites, which promotes protective liver-resident CD8 T cell responses independently of...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
this really is impeachable for any president, but really grotesque coming from a regime that cut life-saving development aid because they said it was not efficient
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When they get back in power, Democrats need to go all-in on higher education. We need a campaign of reinvestment in public universities across the country that makes the Morrill Land-Grant Act look like nothing by comparison *and* a GI Bill of Rights-style program of tuition grants.
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trishmaher.bsky.social @trishmaher.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
On Friday the administration announced it is refusing to spend about a billion dollars Congress appropriated for programs that help the American people—a refusal the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) says is illegal—and on Saturday, Trump used taxpayer money for his own vanity ads.
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Colin Kremer @quant-ecology.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“Cool” new NSF postdoc position available in my lab at UConn, studying our unique Arctic phytoplankton collection and the interactive effects of temperature, light, and photoperiod. 3 years of funding, detailed job ad here: s.uconn.edu/q1o0itl62l.
Picture of centric Arctic diatom
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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 27/09/2026
Four days ago, a scientist was surprised by the news that Anthropic discovered new virus genes for making DNA. He says he’s been studying them for years—and feeding his data to Anthropic’s AI as part of his own research. Coincidence? Here’s my story. nyti.ms/3VSWayc
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Did Anthropic’s A.I. Really Make a Scientific Discovery on Its Own? (Gift Article)
An expert at the University of Copenhagen said his team had been sharing its research with the company’s A.I. model, Claude, and that its new finding matched their work.
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Josh Mattila @joshmattila.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is so grim. Will we ever be able to rebuild capacity and high- level competence at the CDC?
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Mia Konjikusic, PhD @konjikusicmia.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
To add to all the lovely videos of non-AI processes multicilia beating: ctenophore multiciliated cells! They can reach up to 1mm long, causing a rainbow light refraction effect with the correct light positioning! Taken by myself at MBL in 2019 embryology. Realtime frame-rate!
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Anh Hoang Le, PhD 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇻🇳 @anhhle2702.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Happy #FluorescenceFriday. The first time I imaged a 🐸 embryo, I didn't realise they had these ciliated cells on the outer surface. So you can imagine how surprised and curious I was! These cilia are similar to those found in the human airway. And yes, this is just a good old confocal + 🔥LUT!
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Maitreya Dunham @maitreya.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Exciting news: @uwgenome.bsky.social will be hiring for two tenure-track faculty positions this year, one open rank and one assistant professor. Both are “Genome Sciences” interpreted broadly so we welcome applicants working in a variety of fields and methods. Ad will be out shortly.
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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"We showed that bats, and thus powered flight, most likely originated in Europe in the late Paleocene, refuting previous African, Asian and North American origins..." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography - Nature
An updated phylogeny of bats is presented, based on new genome assemblies and many ancient fossils and including all known bat families.
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Levayer Lab @levayerr.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Not every cell react the same way to caspase activation. In our recent study (led by @tomcumming.bsky.social and initiated by @avillars.bsky.social ), we tried to better understand what explains this difference and outlined a role of past caspase exposure 👇 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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🇵🇸Martin “Doomsday” Pfeiffer🖖🏳️‍🌈 @nuclearanthro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Oh, hey, a measles outbreak in Boston in 1713 killed 5 of 11 people infected in Cotton Mather's household. Nutrition matters as do the effects of other diseases. Measles, in fact, is astonishing in this regard as I discuss in the next post! READ ON!
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The Past Is Never Dead—Measles Epidemic, Boston, Massachusetts, 1713
Measles Epidemic, Boston, Massachusetts, 1713
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Sen. Cory Booker @booker.senate.gov · 23/09/2026
Trump’s EPA let a major pesticide company pick what its regulations should be. Alarming proof that EPA is there to serve corporate interests, not protect the safety of Americans. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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US environment agency let Bayer pick regulations for destructive weedkiller, documents show
Environmental Protection Agency asked firm to choose rules it wanted for dicamba, then put the choices in a proposed federal rule
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Benjamin Hlina, PhD @benjaminhlina.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Check out {ggview}…this was a game changer for me to solve this. It creates the plot in viewer at the dimensions you give it/would want to save it so you don’t have to export and then check and reconfigure and then reexport. github.com/idmn/ggview
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GitHub - idmn/ggview: Ggplot picture previewer
Ggplot picture previewer. Contribute to idmn/ggview development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As you call members of Congress to raise concern about a Vought-led grant review panel, encourage them to sign onto proposed legislation that could help: 1) Follow the Science Act by @degette.house.gov would remove political appointees from the grant-making process: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Charles Scanga @cscanga.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
GAVI statement on the importance of new, more effective vaccines for TB: www.gavi.org/news/media-r...
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New “blockbuster” tuberculosis vaccines could save seven million lives by 2050
Next-generation TB vaccines, expected to become available from 2029, could deliver major health and economic gains, helping to save an estimated 7.3 million lives, generate up to US$ 135 billion in ec...
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
It's a rookie mistake to buy your dog a RED BALL/TOY. Dog vision is dichromatic, meaning dogs can see greys, yellow & blues. A red ball, to dog-vision, is the same general color as green grass. Stick to blues & yellows for high pupper visibility. Dog Vision Simulator here: dogvision.com
From the Australian website "All Pets Education and Training":
"This image shows the picture as we see it on the left, and how our pups see it on the right."

A variety of toys are seen with human and pet vision.
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Moi Expósito-Alonso (MOILAB) @mexpositoalonso.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Fantastic Asst Professor positions open across multiple UC Berkeley departments @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social Plant/Algae/Microb aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05522 Plant/Env aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05382 Gen/Dev/Evo aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05481 Eco aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05489
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Assistant Professor – Plant or Macroalgae-Associated Microbial Communities and Interactions - Plant and Microbial Biology
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“Americans have one of the proudest scientific heritages to draw upon. The founding fathers were keenly aware of the necessity of the freedom to think, the freedom to reason, & the freedom to create. These rights are broadly covered under the First Amendment.” ❤️ this idea: a 1A right to science
Americans have one of the proudest scientific heritages to draw upon. The founding fathers were keenly aware of the necessity of the freedom to think, the freedom to reason, and the freedom to create. These rights are broadly covered under the First Amendment to our
constitution.

We have built on these rights with a federal system of grantmaking, an investment in the best minds in America.
The NIH represents the crowning achievement of this national meritocratic effort to trust the American system to
create American science.
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Josh Mattila @joshmattila.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Oh no, not good.
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
A rabid cow has been reported in Minnesota. Nine people who had contact with the cow must now be treated with post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), which is incredibly expensive.
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Rabies confirmed in Brown County cow. MDH recommends shots for 9 people who were exposed
MDH recommended nine people obtain rabies post-exposure prophylaxis as they may have been exposed to saliva from the infected animal. The disease is extremely dangerous and life-threatening to both hu...
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Senator Ed Markey @markey.senate.gov · 20/09/2026
This administration's latest attack on the Endangered Species Act is a one-way ticket to species extinction by letting bad actors kill an endangered species if they claim they “didn’t mean to do it.” Don't sacrifice whole species for corporate convenience.
Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Article is useful in that it shows that a) Trump is directly involved in these decisions, b) sees them in purely personalist terms - he wants to politicize research grants so he can destroy Harvard for daring to defy him
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Institut Necker Enfants Malades @inem-necker.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🔬 New publication, now out in #ScienceImmunology led by Mathieu Deygas in Pablo Vargas team, shows that Adaptive motility enables neutrophils to rapidly navigate confined capillaries 📰 To read the article: tinyurl.com/52vxuhmp
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Noah Whiteman @nkwhiteman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Reminder that the deadline for the tenure track position in my division in MCB is one month away (October 19), as you’ll see it is a wide open search in terms of area within and across fields of genetics, genomics, evolution, and development. Please circulate.
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BEACON @beaconbio.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Two malaria cases and one death among residents near Frankfurt Airport, Germany, following six cases and two deaths among workers beaconbio.org/en/report/?reportid=7…
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Peter MacPherson @petermacp.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Very pleased to contribute to this meta-analysis. Among contacts of #TB, protection from preventive therapy waned quickly in high incidence settings, but persisted for years in low and medium incidence settings authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S... @uofgshw.bsky.social 🦠🧪🛟
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Josh Mattila @joshmattila.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Not good
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European Virus Bioinformatics Center @evbc.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
How can an unknown #bacteriophage be classified? A new guide presents 10 practical tips, covering genome quality, taxonomic tools, similarity searches, phylogenetics, protein structure, host range and ecology. 🦠🔬 #Virology  📄 doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1014403 👤 EVBC member: Colin Hill
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Ten quick tips for classifying unknown bacteriophage
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