Was toxicologist, now a writer. New book about fungal pandemics across species coming soon. For more see: https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324007012 https://linktr.ee/emonosson
New report in The Lancet finds pollution is responsible for a staggering 9 million deaths per year, which would mean it causes 1 in 6 deaths. A nearly incomprehensible level of human suffering.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanplh/article/PIIS2542-5196(22)00090-0/fulltext
@inkican I did just leave (had been meaning to sinkce Musk took over.) I hope that there will be a good place to find papers and discussion. I don't see that here as much as I would like.
Audit AI search tools now, before they skew research
This, some hope for some bats. Too many have died because of a #fungalpathogen most likely brought from EU to US years ago. And it is still infecting new populations of bats. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/little-brown-bats-provide-glimmer-of-hope-against-a-species-threatening-fungus #bats #evolution #fungus #science
Hey #ScienceMastodon anyone out there think about #evolution #toxicology #pollution #contaminants? Would love to meet you. Just starting a possible book project would love to hear what you are up to.
An excellent overview of why #fungalpathogens are so important especially in crop plants. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01465-4 #agriculture #science
This. We will see as Earth warms a rise in human fungal pathogens. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-climate-fungal-disease-humans-expert.html #fungalpathogen #fungi
Ralph Yarl's mother says he's "able to communicate mostly when he feels like it, but mostly he just sits there and stares, and the buckets of tears just rolls down his eyes.”
Typically the media loves a triumph over adversity story. But in these cases we should see the pain and trauma and heartbreak. That's the only way we have hope of political movement on guns.
https://apnews.com/article/ralph-yarl-shooting-updates-d81b24a4ca0e71a55136f287d5c6877b
Too many people in the USA think that their gun is more important than your life.
Feeling sad. The U.S. is a gun-sick nation. Too many people are OK with that.
.@brotherjones_ and @Justinjpearson protested for action on guns after a school shooting in Nashville left three children and three adults dead.
The state GOP's response?
Expel them from Tennessee’s legislature.
The GOP is becoming the American fascist party.
C&EN, the weekly chemistry newsmagazine where I work, is hiring an audience engagement editor. The biggest part of that is social media. So come work with me, and tell them I sent you! No, seriously, there's a recruitment bonus, tell them I sent you :)
https://jobs.acs.org/job/Washington-Audience-Engagement-Editor%2C-C&EN-DC-20036/1002475600/ #scicomm #chemistry #altchemjobs
After nearly a century of scientific inquiry, #scientists have at last been able to characterize a key component in the substance responsible for giving countless living #organisms their color.
#Melanin #Chemistry #Biology #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/04/chm04112302.html
1938 Chevy meets it's distant and much younger cousin, 2019 EV Chevy. They got along just fine. #ElectricVehicles #vintage #chevy
Fungal pathogens deserve more attention; when fungus hits, there is no "going away." They are hard to treat and there are no vaccines. And changing climate will push more fungi towards temperature tolerance. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/02/opinion/the-last-of-us-fungus-climate-change.html #fungus #fungalpathogen #lastofus
A striking visualisation of #climatechange: the date of Kyoto cherry blossoms' reaching full bloom, plotted over the past 1000 years.
Thanks to the cultural significance of cherry blossoms in Japan, we have data on the specific day of the year when a very particular species of cherry blossom (P. jamasakura) reached "full-flowering" (満開) in a specific area on the outskirts of Kyoto (Arashiyama), all the way back to 800 AD.
The trend of the past 50 years is hard to miss…
Rare, but a plant fungus caused an infection in a human. https://www-sciencedirect-com.silk.library.umass.edu/science/article/pii/S2211753923000106?via%3Dihub #fungalpathogen
Candida auris, an emergent fungal infection. Possibly climate related. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/03/20/candida-auris-fungus-infection/ #fungalpathogens
Rusts are one of the most feared fungal pathogens in plants. They make spores which can easily spread on the wind. https://theconversation.com/what-is-myrtle-rust-and-why-has-this-disease-closed-lord-howe-island-to-visitors-202045
#fungalpathogens #fungus
