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Here's a superb seasonal science Storyboard from our friends at @KnowableMag, with stories on everything from how snowflakes grow to why being a Grinch is bad for your health.
https://flipboard.com/@knowablemag/science-stories-for-the-holiday-season-t4qg7p5qa2i3j792
#Science #Christmas #Winter #Bears #Mistletoe #Champagne #Snowflakes
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This piece was adapted from an article in the Annual Review of #Virology, now available as a Review in Advance: https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-vi-12-041725-010437
Viruses are important causes of disease and death in humans worldwide — and understanding how viruses contribute to chronic disease is essential to developing preventive strategies.
That's where virologists are well-positioned to contribute, write Annual Review of Virology editors Terence S. Dermody and Julie K. Pfeiffer in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
🔗 Read more: https://www.post-gazette.com/opinion/guest-columns/2025/04/28/chronic-disease-maha-kennedy-virus-virologist-research/stories/202504280002 #Virology #ScienceMastodon
I launched the Open Access Tracking Project (#OATP, @oatp) in 2009 and #TagTeam in 2011, and have run them ever since. In that time they've been widely used but seldom reviewed. This morning I was taken by surprise when I saw the lengthy review by Lilly Hoi Sze Ho.
https://katinamagazine.org/content/article/resource-reviews/2025/living-archive-open-access-movement-next-chapter
I was surprised mostly because I had no idea it was coming. (It's a review, and I understand why she didn't contact me first.) But it's also surprisingly positive, surprisingly detailed, and surprisingly accurate. Recommended.
It's true (as she reports) that I'm trying to pass both projects on to new hands.
https://bit.ly/TransferOATP
I can add the update that I might soon succeed. I'm talking now with several nonprofits whose names you'd recognize as major players in the world of #OpenAccess.
"One of Wiltschko’s favorite examples is the Canadian eh? 'If I tell you you have a new dog, I’m usually not telling you stuff you don’t know, so it’s weird for me to tell you,' she says. But 'You have a new dog, eh?' eliminates the weirdness by flagging the statement as news to the speaker, not the listener." —Bob Holmes for @KnowableMag
https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/mind/2025/interjections-important-for-conversation-flow
For climate and livelihoods, Africa bets big on solar mini-grids 🔆
Nigeria is pioneering the development of small, off-grid solar panel
installations to bring reliable electricity to remote communities — setting a
model for other African countries.
Learn more in @KnowableMag
👉 https://knowmag.org/Minigrids_KM
Lea en español en Knowable en español
👉 https://knowmag.org/Minigrids_KEE
Take a deeper dive: “Faster Than You Think: Renewable Energy and Developing Countries”
This 2019 article in the Annual Review of Resource Economics explores the energy transition in developing countries and the challenges and benefits involved.
✍️ Channing Arndt, Doug Arent, Faaiqa Hartley, Bruno Merven, and Alam Hossain Mondal
🔗 https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-resource-100518-093759
¿Cuál es su peligrosidad? ¿De dónde procede? Los orígenes de la gripe H5N1 se remontan a los años noventa, y algunos acontecimientos clave allanaron el camino para el brote que estamos viendo hoy.
Lea en español: https://arevie.ws/BirdFlu_KEE
Take a deeper dive: Explore related articles from the Annual Review journals
Environmental Role in Influenza Virus Outbreaks (Annual Review of Animal Biosciences)
👉 https://buff.ly/UXxU5Q5
Cross Talk Between Animal and Human Influenza Viruses (Annual Review of Animal Biosciences)
👉 https://buff.ly/ykX8lkd
Avian Influenza: Public Health and Food Safety Concerns (Annual Review of Food Science and Technology)
👉 https://buff.ly/YWK6Ik3
💡 Everything you need to know about bird flu: https://arevie.ws/BirdFlu_KM
How dangerous is it? Where did it come from? #H5N1 influenza’s origins stretch back to the 1990s, and key events paved the way for the outbreak we’re seeing today.
“This is the largest animal disease outbreak we’ve ever had,” Maurice Pitesky, a veterinary researcher at the University of California, Davis, tells @KnowableMag
👉 https://arevie.ws/BirdFlu_KM
#KnowableMagazine #ScienceMastodon #BirdFlu #Microbiology #PublicHealth
“Many public health advocates and scholars see sugar-sweetened-beverage taxes (often simply called soda taxes) as key to reducing obesity and its adverse health effects,” write behavioral economists Kristin Kiesel and Richard J. Sexton. “But a careful look at the data challenges this view.”
Read more:
🥤 In @KnowableMag: https://arevie.ws/SodaTaxes_KM
🥤 Take a deeper dive (Annual Review of Resource Economics): https://arevie.ws/SodaTaxes_RE15
Long overlooked, menstrual stem cells could have important medical applications, including diagnosing endometriosis. Learn more: https://arevie.ws/MenstrualStem_KM via @KnowableMag
Bed bugs have resurfaced with a vengeance in 50 countries since the late 1990s. But recently, the resurgence has brought an added twist.
Learn more:
➡️ “Getting rid of bed bugs: Trickier than ever” (@KnowableMag) https://arevie.ws/BedBugs_KM
➡️ “Historical and Contemporary Control Options Against Bed Bugs, Cimex spp.” (Annual Review of Entomology) https://arevie.ws/BedBugs_EN68
As sea level rises, coastal groundwater rises too — increasing the risk of damage to underground infrastructure such as buried pipes and wires, as well as flooding basements and rutting roadways.
More:
”The hidden threat from rising coastal groundwater“ (Knowable Magazine)
https://arevie.ws/Habel_KM
“Hidden Threat: The Influence of Sea-Level Rise on Coastal Groundwater and the Convergence of Impacts on Municipal Infrastructure” (Annual Review of Marine Science)
https://arevie.ws/Habel_MS16
Peoples who live close to nature have a rich lore of plants, animals and landscapes embedded in their mother tongues — which may hold vital clues to protecting biodiversity.
Learn more:
🗣️ Indigenous languages are founts of environmental knowledge (@KnowableMag)
https://arevie.ws/EnvironmentalLinguistics_KM
🗣️ Environmental Linguistics (Annual Review of Linguistics)
https://arevie.ws/EnvironmentalLinguistics_LI9
With the first medical therapy approved and systems like CRISPR-Cas showing up in complex cells, there’s a lot going on in the genome editing field. Here’s a primer via @KnowableMag https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2024/crispr-gene-editing-therapy-systems-eukaryotic-cells
A massive bias in medical studies toward men of European origin means that genetic variants in understudied populations don’t get the focus they deserve, writes bioinformatician and Annual Reviews co-author Manuel Corpas.
Read the #OpEd in @KnowableMag: https://arevie.ws/GWAS_KM
Take a deeper dive: “Addressing Ancestry and Sex Bias in Pharmacogenomics” (Annual Review of Pharmacology and Toxicology) https://arevie.ws/GWAS_PA64
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