Mike Honey

mikehoney.bsky.social

19 October 2026 02:24

Here's the latest variant picture with a global scope, to late September. XFG.* "Stratus" variants remained dominant, roughly flat at 46% frequency. The JN.1.* + DeFLuQE lineages (almost all PJ.2.1) grew strongly to finish at 14%. 🧵

Nature Portfolio

natureportfolio.nature.com

16 October 2026 01:05

Artificial light at night (ALAN) is a substantial, growing and largely unregulated threat to biodiversity worldwide. A Review in Nature Reviews Biodiversity examines the state of knowledge regarding the measurement, impacts and mitigation of ALAN. go.nature.com/4yglFr2 🌎🧪

fseersholm.bsky.social

09 October 2026 14:06

Do you like riddles(and molecular biology)? Maybe you can help me solve this one. We’ve found a short piece of DNA (a plasmid) present in almost all plague samples from the Second Plague Pandemic (1338-1840), but absent in all earlier or later plague cases. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Prof. Eliot Jacobson

climatecasino.net

08 October 2026 15:23

As of October 7, the preliminary Niño 3.4 sea-surface temperature once again rose above 30.0°C. Below is a graph showing a timeline for the Niño 3.4 SST for every day from January 1, 1982 through yesterday. The Climate 8-Ball is busy calculating p(Doom).

University of Oxford

ox.ac.uk

08 October 2026 15:19

NEW: Oxford researchers have discovered how specialised immune cells in the brain can remove harmful protein clumps from neurons, opening up potential new avenues for treating Parkinson’s disease. Parkinson's disease affects more than 10 million people worldwide. Read more ⬇️ https://bit.ly/4rRfxDQ