Which wild animals carry the COVID-19 virus? An ambitious U.S. project aims to find out | Science | AAAS science.org/content/articl…

Paleontologist Paul Sereno's Fossil Lab moves to Washington Park, opens doors to community chicago.suntimes.com/entertainment-…

Practically every day for the past two years students have reached out to me saying they really appreciated this post.

If you work in a field, literally any field, consider writing something like this!

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A highly pathogenic avian influenza A (H5N1) infection was identified in a dairy farm worker in Texas. This pathogen has been reported in multiple dairy herds in several states. Read the report by Dr. Timothy M. Uyeki of CDC and others: nej.md/3UrljM9 #IDTwitter

China studies in crisis: Time for change - johnmenadue.com/china-studies-… by David SG Goodman

Readers interested in the early phase of the covid-10 Pandemic and especially of Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak Spiraled Out of Control are invited to check out this chronology of the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan on the OUP site. (With special thanks to Sarah Butcher at OUP.)…

Santa Clara County shows spikes in Influenza A in April (to repeat the steps done for Amarillo, TX).
No such spike in San Jose to the north.
Calif Food and Ag needs to see if it is H5N1, as was found for the Amarillo Flu A spike.
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What does the dismantling of Shenyang's Symphony Orchestra tell us about funding for orchestras, local government support, and the operations of local government in China?

(BTW, Shenyang is Chicago's sister city in China and Shanghai is our friendship city.)

USDA to test ground beef for traces of H5N1 avian flu virus as more poultry outbreaks reported cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenz…

USDA to test ground beef samples for H5N1 traces as more poultry outbreaks reported

Dairy cows make up an estimated 6.8% of US beef production.

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If you had wanted to acquire a copy of Wuhan: How the COVID-19 Outbreak in China Spiraled Out of Control, you are in luck now as it's on special sale on Amazon amazon.com/Wuhan-COVID-19….

Today in 1893, the World's Columbian Exposition opened in Chicago's Jackson Park area. The MSI Chicago is one of the remnants from it. Introduces at this event - the Ferris Wheel, the Zipper, PBR beer, Wrigley's Juicy Fruit Gum, the automatic dishwasher & Cracker Jack Popcorn.

The collapse in the price of eggs in China is telling.

Virologist who was first to share COVID genome is shut out of lab in China nature.com/articles/d4158…

Good to know that the Zhang team has regained their access to the laboratory on an interim basis.

Chinese scientist who first published COVID sequence stages protest after being locked out of lab yahoo.com/news/chinese-s…

The University of Chicago, as usual, striking the right balance. Worth reading in full. It is exactly right.

President Alivisatos’ Note on the Encampment (April 29, 2024)

Dear Members of the University Community, Just a few hours ago, a group of students established an…