Kristian G. Andersen

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Infectious diseases & genomics. Immunologist in (voluntary) exile. Minimal sarcasm. Fierce HOA (Hater of Acronyms).

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The irony is thick with this one, Nature. Why do journals do this? I mean, seriously.

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The #CDC has posted genetic sequence data from one of the new Colorado #H5N1 #birdflu human cases in #GISAID. That's good, fast sharing. The virus fits tightly into the cow outbreak strain tree. (Orange diamond is the human case.) gisaid.org/fileadmin/c/...

Even more on point. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Opinion | Donald Trump Is Unfit to Leadwww.nytimes.com He failed the tests of leadership and betrayed America. Voters must stand up to him in November.

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How PhD students and other academics are fighting the mental-health crisis in science Universities and institutions across the globe are exploring unique initiatives to help their students and staff cope with the stress of research. www.nature.com/artic... 1/3

How PhD students and other academics are fighting the mental-health crisis in sciencewww.nature.com Nature - Universities and institutions across the globe are exploring unique initiatives to help their students and staff cope with the stress of research.

On point. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/10/o...

Opinion | George Clooney: I Love Joe Biden. But We Need a New Nominee.www.nytimes.com I saw Biden three weeks ago at my fund-raiser for him. It’s devastating to say it, but he is not the same man he was, and he won’t win this fall.

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We are delighted to announce BEAST X v10.5.0 (beta 1) - the X is to differentiate it from the project 'BEAST2' & to denote these are orthogonal with a common origin. Website: beast.community Github: github.com/beast-dev/be... Many new models, performance enhancements and features (and a new logo)

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EcoHealth Alliance: Covid’s anti-science mob extracting its pound of flesh When a conspiracy theory is given specific villains, it will do damage, a lot of damage we will be worse off for. www.statnews.com/202... 1/3

EcoHealth Alliance: Covid's anti-science mob extracting its pound of fleshwww.statnews.com It scares me — and should scare you — that conspiracy theorists are winning the fight to debar EcoHealth Alliance. That would make the U.S. less prepared for the next pandemic.

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Heritage event today. A reminder, Heritage published the 80-page "Road Map for COVID-19 Congressional Oversight" that the GOP-led House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic appears to be following, which emphasizes the lab leak theory. www.heritage.org/china/event/...

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So proud of my old friend @peterstaley.bsky.social for standing up for EcoHealth Alliance when no one else will. www.statnews.com/2024/07/08/e...

EcoHealth Alliance: Covid's anti-science mob extracting its pound of fleshwww.statnews.com It scares me — and should scare you — that conspiracy theorists are winning the fight to debar EcoHealth Alliance. Thaqt would make the U.S. less prepared for the next pandemic.

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Whether it's genuine crankery or cynical scapegoating by cowardly politicians, it's insane to see a non-profit science org get thrown under the bus as a result of conspiracy theories like this. It will do nothing to appease those opposed to public health & science. www.statnews.com/2024/07/08/e...

EcoHealth Alliance: Covid's anti-science mob extracting its pound of fleshwww.statnews.com It scares me — and should scare you — that conspiracy theorists are winning the fight to debar EcoHealth Alliance. Thaqt would make the U.S. less prepared for the next pandemic.

Really good 15 min TWiV episode with Paul Offit outlining how false and irresponsible the recent lab leak nonsense from @nytimes.com is. I for one appreciate the brevity - there really is nothing more to it. If you're interested in the topic, give it a listen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ukv9...

Beyond the Noise #40: Lab leak maniawww.youtube.com In this episode Dr. Offit asks, why did the New York Times publish an op-ed supporting the lab leak theory when all evidence supports a zoonotic spillover?Sh...

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American academic freedom is in peril Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted. They face a concerted effort—including by members of Congress— www.science.org/doi/... 1/4

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Yesterday, I shared this same Canada Day thread on Bluesky, Threads, and X. Here's what I found. 🧵

“Canada is such a northern country, don’t we want a little global warming?” I often hear. In a nutshell, NO. We’re warming 2x faster than the rest of the world, driving extreme heat, flood, and sea level rise we are not prepared for. The wildfire season started in Feb this year. Feb! #canadaday

Canada’s Changing Climate Reportchangingclimate.ca

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Grants, jobs, tenure, awards: Preprints can help your career, at every stage from PhD to HHMI PI. rdcu.be/dMwrY

Preprints as tools to advance careersrdcu.be Nature Reviews Cancer - The practice of posting preprint manuscripts on servers such as bioRxiv has become increasingly common. In this Comment, Hindle and Sever explore the utility of preprints...

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"I think she believes it and that's fine … it's interesting to me that there are a lot of people who are in many ways brilliant scientists who become conspiracy theorists. Even the brightest of scientists are not immune to being conspiracy theorists and I think that's what's going on with her"

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"The Lab Theory and The Complicit Media" Wild how we got here, isn't it? sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-lab-leak...

The Lab Leak Theory and the Complicit Mediasciencebasedmedicine.org How the media's need for tales of intrigue and villains fosters the political weaponization of uncertainty

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Our NEJM piece today on academic freedom, and why institutions cannot remain silent, such as when lives are potentially at stake, as occurred with Covid. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

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Powerful defense of Dr. Athony Fauci by Richard Horton in The Lancet: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... “why is the international scientific community so quiet? ... The answer is self-censorship"

Offline: In defence of Dr Fauciwww.thelancet.com “Is this what we have become? Is this what we have devolved into?” US Congressman Kweisi Mfume was reacting to comments from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene at a hearing of the Select Subcommitt...

Gretchen and Gavin entered the room.

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The Lab Leak Theory and the Complicit Media: How the media’s need for tales of intrigue and villains fosters the political weaponization of uncertainty. sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-lab-leak...

The Lab Leak Theory and the Complicit Mediasciencebasedmedicine.org How the media's need for tales of intrigue and villains fosters the political weaponization of uncertainty

We have had some delays, but quick update as the wave did indeed come in right as expected. This translates to *a lot* of infections in San Diego at the moment, so please keep this in mind. Primarily driven by KP.2 and similar, but KP.3 will add to this shortly, so it'll be high for a while.

Quick update on the COVID-19 situation here in San Diego: 1️⃣ Currently low levels, based on wastewater. 2️⃣ However, I expect this to change in a few weeks. A few comments 👇🧵

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"...if this outbreak were playing out in another country [read China], U.S. officials would be calling the response unacceptable." www.statnews.com/2024/06/26/b...

Three months into bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows, experts see deep-rooted problems in responsewww.statnews.com Three months into the H5N1 bird flu outbreak in U.S. dairy cows, experts see deep-rooted problems in the government's response.

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A huge study of #LongCovid in South Korea and Japan shows a pronounced increase of Guillain-Barré syndrome, cognitive deficit, insomnia, anxiety disorder, encephalitis, ischemic stroke and mood disorder. Reduced by vaccination nature.com/articles/s41...

Short- and long-term neuropsychiatric outcomes in long COVID in South Korea and Japan - Nature Human Behaviournature.com Using propensity score matching, Kim et al. find evidence of higher short- and long-term risk of adverse neuropsychiatric outcomes in Korean and Japanese cohorts of individuals infected with SARS-CoV-...

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One last thing about the NYTimes' op-eds and the COVID lab leak. I am not suggesting that the authors "stay in their lane," but if you think you're an expert on everything, you're an expert on very little. 1/

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“At times, I am deeply disturbed about the state of our society,” Fauci writes near the end of his book. “We have seen complete fabrications become some people’s accepted reality". Never a truer statement.

'The resonances betwen the 2 greatest public-health crises of Fauci’s tenure at niaid are impossible to ignore. Both cases involve asympt. infection, a scramble for tests & treatments, public-information campaigns, & the search for a vaccine—miraculously fast for covid19, still unfulfilled for HIV'

Anthony Fauci’s Side of the Storywww.newyorker.com The former NIAID director has been both lauded and demonized for his work during the COVID pandemic, but his autobiography insists that his career needs to be seen whole to be understood.

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Excellent! We got John P. Moore and @gregggonsalves.bsky.social to do a critique of those awful pieces on COVID19 and lab leak. Let's just say, it is not flattering. sciencebasedmedicine.org/why-is-the-n...

Why is The New York Times now promoting an anti-science agenda?sciencebasedmedicine.org This essay stems from concerns about two editorials published in The New York Times recently. We felt that they were problematic in that the past is viewed through a blurred prism to produce revisioni...

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This needs to be seen in context of the wider orchestrated campaign to silence experts by trying to get their papers retracted and claiming they are fraudulent etc.

John Moore, virologist/immunologist from Cornell Weill Med in NYC and I take the NYTimes to task for two opinion pieces on #COVID earlier this month. Both pieces are examples of "science opinion", where non-experts weigh in on topics beyond their ken. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

“The New York Times” Is Failing Its Readers Badly on Covidwww.thenation.com A pair of shoddy opinion pieces proves that the paper is letting its audience down and undermining the fight to improve our knowledge of the virus.

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Got milk virus genomes? (or any H5N1?) Throw them at usher.bio and see where they land in per-segment trees of tens of thousands of public Influenza A H5N1 sequences!

UCSC UShER: Uploadusher.bio UCSC Genome Browser

This is such a critical and quick read, highlighting the dishonesty of @nytimes.com in platforming revisionist history, pseudoscience, and conspiratorial beliefs in their Opinion section. Expertise matters. NYTimes would do well to appreciate that fact when it comes to science opinion.

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