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dancrowley.bsky.social
@dancrowley.bsky.social
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postdoctoral scientist at Cornell University working on pathogen spillover and immunology
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New paper from our Australia Hendra virus project! Juvenile animals often drive seasonal pathogen transmission. In our case, we find no evidence juvenile bats drive seasonal Hendra virus spillover events in Australia. besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Cohorts of immature Pteropus bats show interannual variation in Hendra virus serology
Pteropus bat with offspring, photo taken by Manuel Ruiz-Aravena.
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February 3, 2026 at 5:52 PM
dancrowley.bsky.social
The future looks bright! @samlearner.bsky.social
June 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
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janeqiu.bsky.social
Why does the covid origins debate remain so polarising & acrimonious?

What does this say about the state of science & the public discourse of science?

My @theguardian.com op-ed debut, from a sociological perspective

Include backstory behind the film Blame

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The Covid ‘lab leak’ theory isn’t just a rightwing conspiracy – pretending that’s the case is bad for science | Jane Qiu
While figures like Steve Bannon have exploited the issue, scientists have done themselves no favours by shutting down legitimate inquiry, says award-winning science writer Jane Qiu
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June 26, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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rafaelkcampos.bsky.social
Congratulations to @colinparrish.bsky.social, on his well-deserved election to the American Academy of Microbiology! www.cornellsun.com/article/2025...
Prof. Colin Parrish To Be One of 65 New Members of the Microbiology Academy Class of 2025
The Cornell Daily Sun - Independent Since 1880.
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April 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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rodger.bsky.social
We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again
April 2, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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March 24, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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news.cornell.edu/stories/2025... @cayleefalvo.bsky.social @rainap.bsky.social
Changes in bats’ diets increase spread of viruses, spillover risk | Cornell Chronicle
When bats lose access to their habitat and natural food sources, they seek food on agricultural lands - new research explains why, when their diets change, they shed more virus and infect more hosts, ...
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March 14, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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samlearner.bsky.social
NEW: Russia's shadow war in the Baltics

How a series of suspected sabotage incidents in the Baltic Sea has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure

ft.com/baltic-sea

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Inside Russia’s shadow war in the Baltics
A series of suspected sabotage incidents has exposed the vulnerability of Europe’s undersea infrastructure
ft.com
March 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
dancrowley.bsky.social
I guest lectured a class on tolerance and resistance last week (not a strong topic for me, I find the tolerance/resistance functions confusing). However, as 1) animations and 2) with a time component the functions finally started to make some sense.
February 21, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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My conversation with Ezra Klein on building new cities and taxing the daylights out of social media corporations.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tnQ...
A Democrat Who Is Thinking Differently | The Ezra Klein Show
YouTube video by The Ezra Klein Show
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February 19, 2025 at 3:42 PM
dancrowley.bsky.social
New bat paper from our lab. Small changes in bats' diet can decrease influenza shedding and alter cytokine expression. doi.org/10.1098/rspb... #bats #influenza #iav photo credit: José Gabriel Martínez-Fonseca
February 19, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.
BY EMAIL Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH) Mr. Bove, I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General. In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives. There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to, give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Yours truly, Hagan Scotten Assistant United States Att…
February 14, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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richardsever.bsky.social
PLOS will no longer post on X/Twitter www.linkedin.com/posts/alison...
Alison Mudditt on LinkedIn: As of today, PLOS is no longer posting on X/Twitter. Please continue to… | 13 comments
As of today, PLOS is no longer posting on X/Twitter. Please continue to follow us here and over on Bluesky (bsky.app/profile/plos.org). And thanks to Madhukar… | 13 comments on LinkedIn
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January 10, 2025 at 12:38 AM
dancrowley.bsky.social
it's been a while... since I got the reverse rainbow.
January 8, 2025 at 6:38 PM