#pathogen — Public Fediverse posts

#Life-Science #Biotech #Bildung #Biologie #Physik #Chemie
#Umweltkatastrophe
#Plastisphaere
#Pathogen

von Ralph Bertram (Laborjournal-Ausgabe 1-2, 2025)
www.laborjournal.de/rubric/stich...

💚 #FF 💚 @[email protected] 💚

Stichwort - Plastisphäre

#Life-Science #Biotech #Bildung #Biologie #Physik #Chemie
#Umweltkatastrophe
#Plastisphaere
#Pathogen

von Ralph Bertram (Laborjournal-Ausgabe 1-2, 2025)
www.laborjournal.de/rubric/stich...

💚 #FF 💚 @[email protected] 💚

Stichwort - Plastisphäre

Earlier this year I pitched the wonderful Jack Lyttle a short story for his twitch stream's Story Time segment since he's in-between reading two classics at the moment.

It's a sort of steampunk sci-fi found-correspondence thing, and Jack ended up turning it into a bit of a radio play performance!

The VOD has just gone up on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZTNRvJcKt0

#Pathogen #Scifi #writing #Twitch

Earlier this year I pitched the wonderful Jack Lyttle a short story for his twitch stream's Story Time segment since he's in-between reading two classics at the moment.

It's a sort of steampunk sci-fi found-correspondence thing, and Jack ended up turning it into a bit of a radio play performance!

The VOD has just gone up on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZTNRvJcKt0

#Pathogen #Scifi #writing #Twitch

#Research_Funding #Mirror_Life #Academia

"The policy also bars funding for studies in the nascent field of “mirror life”—engineered microorganisms with reversed molecular building blocks that could theoretically threaten all life on Earth. No governments have so far enacted bans on such research and the issue has divided scientists, with some calling such prohibitions premature."

New U.S. rules on risky #pathogen research draw mixed reviews:
https://www.science.org/content/article/new-u-s-rules-risky-pathogen-research-draw-mixed-reviews

#Research_Funding #Mirror_Life #Academia

"The policy also bars funding for studies in the nascent field of “mirror life”—engineered microorganisms with reversed molecular building blocks that could theoretically threaten all life on Earth. No governments have so far enacted bans on such research and the issue has divided scientists, with some calling such prohibitions premature."

New U.S. rules on risky #pathogen research draw mixed reviews:
https://www.science.org/content/article/new-u-s-rules-risky-pathogen-research-draw-mixed-reviews

Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v2.0.1 - v2.0.1 - Crazy Corgi Patch!
Highly parallelised multi-taxonomic profiling of shotgun short- and long-read metagenomic data
Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/taxprofiler/releases/tag/2.0.1

#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics

Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v2.0.1 - v2.0.1 - Crazy Corgi Patch!
Highly parallelised multi-taxonomic profiling of shotgun short- and long-read metagenomic data
Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/taxprofiler/releases/tag/2.0.1

#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics

Babesia Infected Red Blood Cell 🇺🇸

#Apicomplexa #Babesiamicroti #Babesiosis #Pathogen #Protozoan #Theileria #divergens #erythrocyte

▶️ 1 new picture from NIH BioArt https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babesia_Infected_Red_Blood_Cell_%28NIH_BioArt_699_-_783378%29.png

Babesia Infected Red Blood Cell 🇺🇸

#Apicomplexa #Babesiamicroti #Babesiosis #Pathogen #Protozoan #Theileria #divergens #erythrocyte

▶️ 1 new picture from NIH BioArt https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Babesia_Infected_Red_Blood_Cell_%28NIH_BioArt_699_-_783378%29.png

Assessing #Evidence to Guide Primary #Prevention of #Pathogen X, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/05/assessing-evidence-to-guide-primary.html

Assessing #Evidence to Guide Primary #Prevention of #Pathogen X, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/05/assessing-evidence-to-guide-primary.html

For anyone nervious or with health anxiety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMSv3zTFF1Y. It's Rebecca Watson's video, "No, Hantavirus is Not the Next Pandemic".

Advocate & vote for better conditions for working, parenting & disability.

Join or start a union at your work. You need no-fault sick leave, esp when local infections break out.

Do managers want:

Only ONE person this week out sick?
Or else a half-dozen in coming weeks?

#Hantavirus #Hantaan #Rodent #Rodents #Zoonosis #Zoonoses #Doctor #Doctors #Medicine #Medical #Sick #Sickness #ill #illness #Disease #Diseases #infect #infection #infectious #Virus #Viruses #Viral #Pathogen #Pathogens #Pathogenic #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #WorldHealthOrg #Science #Scientific #Experiment #Test #Tests #Testing #Epidemiology #Epidemiological #Public #Health #PublicHealth

For anyone nervious or with health anxiety: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMSv3zTFF1Y. It's Rebecca Watson's video, "No, Hantavirus is Not the Next Pandemic".

Advocate & vote for better conditions for working, parenting & disability.

Join or start a union at your work. You need no-fault sick leave, esp when local infections break out.

Do managers want:

Only ONE person this week out sick?
Or else a half-dozen in coming weeks?

#Hantavirus #Hantaan #Rodent #Rodents #Zoonosis #Zoonoses #Doctor #Doctors #Medicine #Medical #Sick #Sickness #ill #illness #Disease #Diseases #infect #infection #infectious #Virus #Viruses #Viral #Pathogen #Pathogens #Pathogenic #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #WorldHealthOrg #Science #Scientific #Experiment #Test #Tests #Testing #Epidemiology #Epidemiological #Public #Health #PublicHealth

Also wear masks or respirators. (Except the snood type ones. The rest are all better than nothing or *way* better than nothing.) Don't travel or commute to work when ill.
Advocate and vote for better conditions when working, parenting, and disabled. Join a union or start one at your workplace. Push for no-fault sick leave, especially when local infectious outbreaks flare up.
Check what air filtration systems are installed where people gather, mainly indoor spaces. Consider public transport, at work, schools, public buildings, and manufacturing. Ask some organisations what their air quality data and upgrade plans are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZncfH7nKX74

#Hantavirus #Hantaan #Rodent #Rodents #Zoonosis #Zoonoses #Doctor #Doctors #Medicine #Medical #Sick #Sickness #ill #illness #Disease #Diseases #infect #infection #infectious #Virus #Viruses #Viral #Pathogen #Pathogens #Pathogenic #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #WorldHealthOrg #Science #Scientific #Experiment #Test #Tests #Testing #Epidemiology #Epidemiological #Public #Health #PublicHealth

Also wear masks or respirators. (Except the snood type ones. The rest are all better than nothing or *way* better than nothing.) Don't travel or commute to work when ill.
Advocate and vote for better conditions when working, parenting, and disabled. Join a union or start one at your workplace. Push for no-fault sick leave, especially when local infectious outbreaks flare up.
Check what air filtration systems are installed where people gather, mainly indoor spaces. Consider public transport, at work, schools, public buildings, and manufacturing. Ask some organisations what their air quality data and upgrade plans are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZncfH7nKX74

#Hantavirus #Hantaan #Rodent #Rodents #Zoonosis #Zoonoses #Doctor #Doctors #Medicine #Medical #Sick #Sickness #ill #illness #Disease #Diseases #infect #infection #infectious #Virus #Viruses #Viral #Pathogen #Pathogens #Pathogenic #WHO #WorldHealthOrganisation #WorldHealthOrg #Science #Scientific #Experiment #Test #Tests #Testing #Epidemiology #Epidemiological #Public #Health #PublicHealth

#Outdoor roaming of owned #cats elevates #risk of zoonotic #pathogen #exposure: A global synthesis, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/04/outdoor-roaming-of-owned-cats-elevates.html

#Outdoor roaming of owned #cats elevates #risk of zoonotic #pathogen #exposure: A global synthesis, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/04/outdoor-roaming-of-owned-cats-elevates.html

Aquatic Disease And Pathogen Repository (Aquadepth) To Track, Evaluate, And Ultimately Predict Aquatic Disease Outbreaks Across The Nation [inc. spatial, USA]
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https://www.usgs.gov/centers/western-fisheries-research-center/news/aquadepth-merging-aquatic-disease-surveillance-data <-- shared technical article
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#fedscience #publicgood #foodsecurity #health #fish #fisheries #coral #sampling #mitigation #animalhealth #naturalresources #ecosystems #environment #habitat #aquaculture #economics #planning #impacts #humanimpacts #AquaDePTH #aquatic #disease #pathogen #database #spatial #GIS #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #surveillance #monitoring #USA #opendata #biogeographic #nationwide
@USGS

Aquatic Disease And Pathogen Repository (Aquadepth) To Track, Evaluate, And Ultimately Predict Aquatic Disease Outbreaks Across The Nation [inc. spatial, USA]
--
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/western-fisheries-research-center/news/aquadepth-merging-aquatic-disease-surveillance-data <-- shared technical article
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#fedscience #publicgood #foodsecurity #health #fish #fisheries #coral #sampling #mitigation #animalhealth #naturalresources #ecosystems #environment #habitat #aquaculture #economics #planning #impacts #humanimpacts #AquaDePTH #aquatic #disease #pathogen #database #spatial #GIS #mapping #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #surveillance #monitoring #USA #opendata #biogeographic #nationwide
@USGS

Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v2.0.0 - v2.0.0 - Crazy Corgi!
Highly parallelised multi-taxonomic profiling of shotgun short- and long-read metagenomic data
Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/taxprofiler/releases/tag/2.0.0

#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics

Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v2.0.0 - v2.0.0 - Crazy Corgi!
Highly parallelised multi-taxonomic profiling of shotgun short- and long-read metagenomic data
Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/taxprofiler/releases/tag/2.0.0

#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics

New slogan I need on every billboard, podcast ad, cereal box, news ticker, etc:
> "Symptom management" is lifesaving for disabled people. You do not understand.

#spoonie #disability #MassDisablingEvent #tired #sick #illness #unwell #disease #infectious #pathogen #virus #bacteria #fungus #protozoa #protist #hyphae #yeast #microbiome #microbiota #microorganisms #YouAreAColony #YouAreACity

New slogan I need on every billboard, podcast ad, cereal box, news ticker, etc:
> "Symptom management" is lifesaving for disabled people. You do not understand.

#spoonie #disability #MassDisablingEvent #tired #sick #illness #unwell #disease #infectious #pathogen #virus #bacteria #fungus #protozoa #protist #hyphae #yeast #microbiome #microbiota #microorganisms #YouAreAColony #YouAreACity

Can we predict which #pathogen will be responsible for the next #pandemic? Mete Yuksel & Nicole Mideo explore a new study in @PLOSBiology that challenges the idea that pathogens that frequently spill over are more likely to emerge. Paper: https://plos.io/4ss5WCY Primer: https://plos.io/4uOyh8f

Can we predict which #pathogen will be responsible for the next #pandemic? Mete Yuksel & Nicole Mideo explore a new study in @PLOSBiology that challenges the idea that pathogens that frequently spill over are more likely to emerge. Paper: https://plos.io/4ss5WCY Primer: https://plos.io/4uOyh8f

Pathogen host-jumps pose major risks to health, but how can we predict them? This study shows that #pathogen novelty, rather than #spillover rate, is a stronger predictor of host-jump risk, so we should monitor emerging pathogens with limited spillover histories @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4ss5WCY

Pathogen host-jumps pose major risks to health, but how can we predict them? This study shows that #pathogen novelty, rather than #spillover rate, is a stronger predictor of host-jump risk, so we should monitor emerging pathogens with limited spillover histories @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/4ss5WCY

What concrete steps can we take to reinforce #biorisk management? In this Perspective, an international group of experts advocate for better global standards for #pathogen research.
#Microbiology #DURC
https://plos.io/3NN7451

What concrete steps can we take to reinforce #biorisk management? In this Perspective, an international group of experts advocate for better global standards for #pathogen research.
#Microbiology #DURC
https://plos.io/3NN7451

In a scientific first, they successfully retrieved #pathogen genomes from medieval #parchment and paper #manuscripts 📖 - revealing that historical documents are an under-recognised source of ancient #disease data. (3/4) +1

New publication: #Biofertilizer induces #soil #disease suppression by activating #pathogen suppressive #protist taxa.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-025-00897-2

New publication: #Biofertilizer induces #soil #disease suppression by activating #pathogen suppressive #protist taxa.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41522-025-00897-2

😔 There is a new salamander pathogen out there in the US, found first in non-native species in collections, including European Fire Salamander among a few others. Some of our native species are at risk, in particular Spotted Salamander and Eastern Newt.
"Scientists continue to work to identify the unknown pathogen first reported in a private collection of the genus Salamandra in November 2025 which may have originated from outside North America... Salamandra species that have gotten sick from this unknown pathogen, the death rates have ranged from 35-55%."
Source: https://parcplace.org/species/pathogenalert/

That's the bad news. The good news is that for everything wrong in this world, how do we know about this? Because people care, reported it, and those who know how are following it up and studying it. There is still good in the world. If you are a pet amphibian owner or flip lots of rocks looking for herps, check out the source link for more info and practice biosecurity.

#salamander #amphibian #pathogen #disease #wildlife

Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v1.2.6 - v1.2.6 - Bouncy Basenji Patch!
Highly parallelised multi-taxonomic profiling of shotgun short- and long-read metagenomic data
Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/taxprofiler/releases/tag/1.2.6

#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics

Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v1.2.6 - v1.2.6 - Bouncy Basenji Patch!
Highly parallelised multi-taxonomic profiling of shotgun short- and long-read metagenomic data
Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/taxprofiler/releases/tag/1.2.6

#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics

A debilitating #hoof disease affecting #elk herds across the Pacific Northwest appears to be driven not by a single #pathogen but by multiple #bacterial species working together
#Veterinary #Microbiology #VeterinaryMicrobiology #WildlifeEpidemiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/vet02022601.html

A debilitating #hoof disease affecting #elk herds across the Pacific Northwest appears to be driven not by a single #pathogen but by multiple #bacterial species working together
#Veterinary #Microbiology #VeterinaryMicrobiology #WildlifeEpidemiology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/02/vet02022601.html

#Escherichia coli found in #diabetic foot infections is not a uniform #pathogen but constitutes a highly diverse array of genetic groups, with distinct lineages independently adapting to the diabetic wound environment.
#Microbiology #Biomedical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/bmed01132602.html

#Escherichia coli found in #diabetic foot infections is not a uniform #pathogen but constitutes a highly diverse array of genetic groups, with distinct lineages independently adapting to the diabetic wound environment.
#Microbiology #Biomedical #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2026/01/bmed01132602.html

#Zoonotic and #Avian #Pathogen Detections in Fecal and Sediment #Samples - A Low-risk, High-throughput One Health Approach to #Surveillance, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/12/zoonotic-and-avian-pathogen-detections.html

#Zoonotic and #Avian #Pathogen Detections in Fecal and Sediment #Samples - A Low-risk, High-throughput One Health Approach to #Surveillance, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/12/zoonotic-and-avian-pathogen-detections.html

Pipeline release! nf-core/taxprofiler v1.2.5 - v1.2.5 - Bouncy Basenji Patch!
Highly parallelised multi-taxonomic profiling of shotgun short- and long-read metagenomic data
Please see the changelog: https://github.com/nf-core/taxprofiler/releases/tag/1.2.5

#classification #illumina #longreads #metagenomics #microbiome #nanopore #pathogen #profiling #shotgun #taxonomicclassification #taxonomicprofiling #nfcore #openscience #nextflow #bioinformatics

#Candida albicans is a leading opportunistic fungal #pathogen of humans. Ci Fu, Leah Cowen &co expand the GRACE #Calbicans #FunctionalGenomics resource, identifying genes important for temperature-dependent fitness & highlighting its power to reveal vulnerabilities @PLOSBiology plos.io/3Wft0Xg