I just want to point out that the missteps and potential mistakes being made by the CDC and Biden Admin at moment were, under Trump and for COVID, ridiculed as a failing of the Trump administration.

So… let’s not repeat those identical mistakes for H5N1 in a different admin

So for the next 10 days the dates will be the same backwards and forward. 😱

Lots about our favorite microwave weapon, Dan Vergano.

To conclude - I think there is some evidence there are at least four mammalian transmission clusters of H5N1, 3 being limited mink farm outbreaks, 1 being a sustained sealion outbreak (with mixed avian-mammalian ecology)...

What I'm not really able to cover yet is the North American cattle situation - not enough sequencing or epidemiological data has been shared to draw any strong conclusions - see this recent piece by Helen Branswell 🇨🇦 This is frustrating to say the least... twitter.com/statnews/statu…

Cleaned up my studio a little in the off chance that Joyce J Scott comes in! She has an opening tonight at Goya Contemporary a few doors down tonight!
goyacontemporary.com/index.php/exhi…

Can anyone direct me to data re: current Covid risks? Is it still more lethal and likely to cause longterm disability compared to other common pathogens, even in vaccinated people? I have it for a second time and would LOVE to know how cautious I need to be with activity.

Surveillance for a potential zoonotic jump of bird flu using ER visits as a main source of data seems like a “little too late” strategy

How about… I don’t know, asking the people on the farms where outbreaks have been detected to provide swabs on a routine basis. That would be

Are you interested in writing a book? theopennotebook.com/2023/12/12/a-b…

Services this weekend for Maynor Suazo Sandoval, who died in Key Bridge collapse and who had son and a daughter who was ‘la niña de sus ojos’ and raised two other children 💔 baltimoresun.com/2024/04/18/may… by Dan Belson 🦩

Excellent reporting from Antonio Olivo on the power-sucking capabilities of data centers, which are gobbling up land in Northern Virginia and using coal-fired power from W. Va. This is an issue in Md as we will be providing their coal for longer than planned.

washingtonpost.com/business/inter…

The six people who died when the Key Bridge fell aren’t just names on a paper.

They were Marylanders. Their lives had meaning. Their work had dignity. And we think about them every day.

There is a woman in my neighborhood who lets her dog poop dead center of my lawn and I went out and yelled at her this morning and anyway 1) satisfying 2) new lifelong enemy 3) dog owners, wtf.

Jewish and Italian immigrants founded Globe and never turned Black artists away. Their designs are so cool; it appears Cowboy Carter took a page from their book. They're not suing; they just want a nod from Bey. John-John WilliamsIV w/the story.

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Can you record your dreams, your memories? would AI do this? Alas, says Sally, the dream camera is nigh. lastwordonnothing.com/2024/04/19/the…

HEY.
REPORTERS.
STOP DOING THIS.

Everyone deserves a fair trial.
This is getting in the way of one.

2/2 Filippino Lippi, looking right at you from the edge of his own painting in the Brancacci Chapel, Florence.

Died (alas!) on this day in 1505, in Florence, Filippino Lippi. Son of the painter Fra Filippo Lippi, & destined to follow in his father's artistic footsteps. Here by himself as a young man, 1485.

Not sure if this article is supposed to be just for house plants but if you care about the environment and want native plants for outdoors Herring Run Nursery is THE place to go.

Also, went to Alonso's on Coldspring. Didn't realize all the people from The Dizz worked there. Love the spinning dessert case!!