JoRondo retweeted
O discurso de James Talarico, político ligado ao Partido Democrata e recém-eleito Senador pelo Estado do Texas, que está repercutindo no mundo todo:
"Pessoas trans são 1% da população. Os muçulmanos são 1% da população. Os imigrantes ilegais são 1% da população. Nós estamos focados no 1% errado.
Pessoas trans não estão afetando o nosso sistema de saúde. Os muçulmanos não estão retirando o financiamento das nossas escolas. Imigrantes não estão cortando impostos para si mesmos e seus amigos ricos.
São os bilionários e seus políticos fantoches. As guerras culturais são uma cortina de fumaça. Tantas das divisões neste Estado e neste País são fabricadas por bilionários que nos querem lutando entre si ao invés de lutando contra eles."
JoRondo retweeted
For over a year, Canada has worked intensively and in good faith with the United States to negotiate a new comprehensive trade deal. We have been pragmatic, patient, and persistent. Our goal has always been to get the best deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame.
Late last evening I instructed our negotiators to return to Ottawa. We cannot accept what the U.S. has offered, and we will not give what they have asked.
Canada will match the U.S.’ new tariffs dollar for dollar in order to protect Canadian workers, farmers, families, and businesses. We take this step confident that it is in the best interests of Canada.
In the coming days, we will release the details of these new tariff measures, which will come into force the Tuesday after Labour Day.
Looking forward to #MicrobiomeAnchor in #Halifax this week ! Flash talk on Monday, followed by poster session to present my (very) recent preprint bit.ly/3RF86Sg @Isabel_Laforest
#metagenomics #taxonomy #bioinformatics #diversity #microbiome #microbialEcology
JoRondo retweeted
Who's the science fiction book I read once that postulates that Bill Gates is actually an alien using strategically terrible Microsoft technology to hold back human technological advancement because aliens like our music.
Might be the most plausible piece of science fiction I have ever encountered.
JoRondo retweeted
It’s important that you understand what happened last night.
Last night, Stephen Colbert interviewed Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, a candidate who, by all accounts, is on track in the polls to flip Texas blue.
In response, Trump’s FCC reportedly threatened CBS if the interview aired.
CBS caved and pulled the segment, citing “financial reasons.”
In modern American history, no president has been more hostile to free speech than Donald Trump.
But censorship always backfires.
Here’s the full segment Trump didn’t want you to see.
Was *literally* doing a comparison between a robust aitchison PCA on non-rarefied vs PCoA on rarefied data when this alert landed in my inbox. I think the universe is trying to tell me something. #metagenomics #rarefaction #coda
JoRondo retweeted
A massive global review just confirmed it.
Clinical trials + real-world data from 132 million people across the globe.
The HPV vaccine doesn’t just reduce cervical cancer.
It almost eliminates it.
Yes, you read that right.
Girls vaccinated before 16 have an 80% lower risk of cervical cancer.
Not a small reduction. Not “maybe.”
Eighty percent.
The protection isn’t only for the cervix.
HPV causes cancers of the anus, penis, vagina, vulva, mouth, throat - the vaccine blocks the virus before the damage ever starts.
This isn’t one study. It’s Cochrane, the gold standard of independent science.
They analyzed clinical trials + real-world data from 132 million people across the globe.
Not pharma PR.
Not a lab press release.
Global. Independent. Verified.
The #1 fear? Side effects.
Here’s what the data says:
Arm soreness? Sure.
Serious complications? No evidence.
Rare side effects? Same rate as unvaccinated people.
Translation: social media invented the danger.
Cochrane couldn’t find it.
Lawsuits against HPV vaccines?
Courts dismissed claims as “speculative inferences.”
Translation: conspiracy theories don’t hold up under evidence.
Meanwhile, cervical cancer kills 350,000 women every year.
Mostly young women. Mostly preventable.
We don’t need more fear.
We need more vaccination.
And yes - boys should get the vaccine too.
HPV doesn’t only cause cancer in women.
Vaccinating boys protects everyone.
Some countries are on track to eliminate HPV cancers entirely.
Others are falling behind because misinformation spreads faster than vaccines.
That shouldn’t be our legacy.
We already have the tool to end cervical cancer.
Not reduce it. End it.
The only thing standing in the way is fear.
Science isn’t asking for blind trust.
It’s showing its receipts.
Stop sharing rumors.
Start preventing cancer.
"Too often, research topics have no sense of a “stop rule,” with null results being greeted with ever more specific and complex speculations about the nature of associations."
cell.com/neuron/fulltext/S08…
Very important work IMO !
The generalized tendency to omit justification for methodological choices in microbiome studies has always bugged me.
Great article @AmyDWillis and David ! nature.com/articles/s41564-0…
Master & PhD positions opening in our lab!
Plant-insect trophic network resilience from the perspective of microbiomes.🐞🐛🦟🌿🌲🪴🦠🧬
Share if you know someone who knows someone, a great team to work for!
laforestlab.com/positions
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Looking to improve your #microbiome data analyses skills? Hope to see you at #STAMPS2025 at @MBLScience
Applications Due: March 11, 2025
go.mbl.edu/STAMPS
I mentioned "microbial dark matter" to a non-microbial ecologist and he pointed out that dark matter is hypothetical, whereas unknown microbes are real.
How about we call it what it is : the Unknome.
*micdrop*
#microbiome #microbes #metagenomics #sequencing
