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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.

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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.

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"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

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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

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Aerial photograph of solar panels and sundry huts set among vegetation.

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

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¿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

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“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

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Conceptual art shows a disposable cup, straw and a bunch of sugar lumps on a blue background. Text reads: Soda taxes can’t reverse the obesity epidemic. By Kristin Kiesel and Richard J. Sexton. OPINION: They might be able to help, but only if well-designed and in combination with other policies

Long overlooked, menstrual stem cells could have important medical applications, including diagnosing endometriosis. Learn more: https://arevie.ws/MenstrualStem_KM via @KnowableMag

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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

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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

The hidden threat from rising coastal groundwater OPINION: Sea level rise won’t hit just homes on shorefronts, but also the infrastructure beneath our feet By Shellie Habel

When people think about sea level rise, many picture scenarios like flooded coastlines in Florida or Bangladesh, and beachfront homes succumbing to erosion on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. But some of the most significant threats to our communities are going unnoticed, underground.

Groundwater inundation has the potential to cause overwhelming amounts of damage and to exacerbate social inequalities. We need to proactively tackle the current and impending flood of problems.

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

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Conceptual illustration shows a person speaking words that appear as aspects of the natural world, like plants and animals. Text reads: Indigenous languages are founts of environmental knowledge

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

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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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”It is time for a serious, proactive international response to the forest health crisis. If we continue to just react to threats as they pop up, biodiversity will continue to suffer.”

Read the #OpEd by Annual Review of Phytopathology co-author Geoff Williams: https://arevie.ws/Forests_KM (@KnowableMag)

Read the #OpenAccess review: https://arevie.ws/Forests_PY61 (Annual Review of Phytopathology)

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Photograph shows landscape of dead conifer trees with mountains behind them. Text reads: Forests are under attack from invasive species. OPINION: International commerce and travel bring ecological destruction to the world’s most cherished natural places. We need to do more to stop the assault. By Geoff Williams

There’s growing interest in studying coffee as an agroecosystem. Such farming methods have the potential not only to help sustain our caffeine fix, but also to provide a bounty of biological richness.

Learn more:
☕ “How shade coffee lends conservation a hand” (@KnowableMag)
https://arevie.ws/CoffeeEco_KM

☕ “Complex Ecological Interactions in the Coffee Agroecosystem” (Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics)
https://arevie.ws/CoffeeEco_ES45

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Polygenic risk scores — a patient’s chance, based on tiny DNA variants, of developing cardiovascular disease, breast cancer and more — are coming to clinics. But there are kinks to iron out and accuracy remains an issue. https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/health-disease/2024/polygenic-risk-score-genes-heart-disease-cancer-coming-to-clinic via @KnowableMag

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Sports psychology research has exploded, as scientists have explored the nuances of everything from the pursuit of perfection to the harms of abusive coaching. Such research has the potential not only to enhance athletic performance, they say, but also to provide insights into psychological influences on success in other realms.

More via:
🏈 @KnowableMag: https://arevie.ws/SportsPsych_KM
🏈 Annual Review of Psychology: https://arevie.ws/SportsPsych_PS74

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