Bryan Delius, PhD
@bdelius.bsky.social
Professor of Integrative Biology, Pittsburgh resident, and citizen of planet Earth. Also a lover of corvids, scifi, and all things spooky. Child Free By Choice (CFBC)
That's no ballroom!
October 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
That's no ballroom!
🤦 I ordered a milkshake on door dash and now there are boys in my yard.
October 1, 2025 at 11:58 PM
🤦 I ordered a milkshake on door dash and now there are boys in my yard.
Human cases of 'kissing bug' disease reported in 8 states. See map. share.google/gewPDaZ5zYPp...
Chagas now endemic in the US as public health infrastructure continues to crumble as budgets are slashed.
Chagas now endemic in the US as public health infrastructure continues to crumble as budgets are slashed.
'Kissing bug' disease is endemic in US, researchers say. See map of reported cases.
Chagas disease, also known as "kissing bug disease" is now endemic in the U.S., according to researchers.
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September 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Human cases of 'kissing bug' disease reported in 8 states. See map. share.google/gewPDaZ5zYPp...
Chagas now endemic in the US as public health infrastructure continues to crumble as budgets are slashed.
Chagas now endemic in the US as public health infrastructure continues to crumble as budgets are slashed.
It's frustrating to watch the US walk away from the global community on issues as important as public health.
RFK Jr. blocks a U.N. declaration on non-communicable diseases : Goats and Soda : NPR share.google/jugqUPCCxiIB...
RFK Jr. blocks a U.N. declaration on non-communicable diseases : Goats and Soda : NPR share.google/jugqUPCCxiIB...
RFK Jr. 'rejects' a U.N. declaration on non-communicable diseases
Global health leaders expressed dismay at Kennedy's objection but vowed to move forward without the support of the U.S.
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September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
It's frustrating to watch the US walk away from the global community on issues as important as public health.
RFK Jr. blocks a U.N. declaration on non-communicable diseases : Goats and Soda : NPR share.google/jugqUPCCxiIB...
RFK Jr. blocks a U.N. declaration on non-communicable diseases : Goats and Soda : NPR share.google/jugqUPCCxiIB...
Assistant Professor Position in Duquesne's Department of Biological Sciences
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September 8, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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We are entering an era in which we have novel diseases emerging at the fastest rate in human history, and globalization and connectivity are helping new and existing diseases expand into new regions. There has never been a more important time for the US to fund public health, CDC, NIH, and WHO.
Democratic Republic of the Congo declares Ebola virus disease outbreak in Kasai Province
Kinshasa – Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Kasai Province where 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including four health w...
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September 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
We are entering an era in which we have novel diseases emerging at the fastest rate in human history, and globalization and connectivity are helping new and existing diseases expand into new regions. There has never been a more important time for the US to fund public health, CDC, NIH, and WHO.
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Welp, no more bagged salads or preprepared salads in restaurants.
Also, Yersinia = THE PLAGUE. This is very bad for a lot of rural areas.
Also, Yersinia = THE PLAGUE. This is very bad for a lot of rural areas.
CDC is no longer surveilling outbreaks caused by campylobacter, cyclospora, listeria, shigella, vibrio and Yersinia. What could go wrong?
The CDC quietly scaled back a surveillance program for foodborne illnesses.
As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.
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As of July 1, a critical surveillance program is monitoring for only two pathogens instead of the usual eight.
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August 27, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Welp, no more bagged salads or preprepared salads in restaurants.
Also, Yersinia = THE PLAGUE. This is very bad for a lot of rural areas.
Also, Yersinia = THE PLAGUE. This is very bad for a lot of rural areas.
At least 600 CDC employees being terminated in US, union says | Health News | Al Jazeera
With potential pandemics, like chikungunya and bird flu, on the horizon dismantling our public health and global disease monitoring infrastructure is possibly going to come back to bite us.
With potential pandemics, like chikungunya and bird flu, on the horizon dismantling our public health and global disease monitoring infrastructure is possibly going to come back to bite us.
At least 600 CDC employees being terminated in US, union says
Sackings come as Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr pushes to significantly downsize department.
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August 21, 2025 at 4:31 PM
At least 600 CDC employees being terminated in US, union says | Health News | Al Jazeera
With potential pandemics, like chikungunya and bird flu, on the horizon dismantling our public health and global disease monitoring infrastructure is possibly going to come back to bite us.
With potential pandemics, like chikungunya and bird flu, on the horizon dismantling our public health and global disease monitoring infrastructure is possibly going to come back to bite us.
The parasite that turns off your body’s pain alarm and sneaks in | ScienceDaily
"The worm, Schistosoma mansoni, has evolved a way to switch off the body’s pain and itch signals, letting it invade undetected. By blocking certain nerve pathways, it avoids triggering the immune system’s alarms."
"The worm, Schistosoma mansoni, has evolved a way to switch off the body’s pain and itch signals, letting it invade undetected. By blocking certain nerve pathways, it avoids triggering the immune system’s alarms."
The parasite that turns off your body’s pain alarm and sneaks in
Scientists have discovered a parasite that can sneak into your skin without you feeling a thing. The worm, Schistosoma mansoni, has evolved a way to switch off the body’s pain and itch signals, lettin...
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August 12, 2025 at 9:36 PM
The parasite that turns off your body’s pain alarm and sneaks in | ScienceDaily
"The worm, Schistosoma mansoni, has evolved a way to switch off the body’s pain and itch signals, letting it invade undetected. By blocking certain nerve pathways, it avoids triggering the immune system’s alarms."
"The worm, Schistosoma mansoni, has evolved a way to switch off the body’s pain and itch signals, letting it invade undetected. By blocking certain nerve pathways, it avoids triggering the immune system’s alarms."
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What if we could repurpose an existing vaccine for another disease? 🤔
This month, England launched the first-ever gonorrhea vaccine program - using a vaccine for meningococcal disease
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This could change our fight against antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea!
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This month, England launched the first-ever gonorrhea vaccine program - using a vaccine for meningococcal disease
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This could change our fight against antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea!
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Gonorrhoea vaccine roll-out begins across the UK
Doctors say the jabs could save the NHS millions of pounds over the next decade.
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August 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
What if we could repurpose an existing vaccine for another disease? 🤔
This month, England launched the first-ever gonorrhea vaccine program - using a vaccine for meningococcal disease
🤯
This could change our fight against antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
This month, England launched the first-ever gonorrhea vaccine program - using a vaccine for meningococcal disease
🤯
This could change our fight against antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea!
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Bird Flu May Now Be Airborne, Scientists Say share.google/PA0knjjCb3Ed...
One of many reasons we need a robustly funded CDC, NIH, and NSF.
One of many reasons we need a robustly funded CDC, NIH, and NSF.
Bird Flu May Now Be Airborne, Scientists Say
Scientists found in a new study that the bird flu was detected in the air of dairy farms, suggesting that both the cattle and workers could be infected by inhaling it. However, health officials mainta...
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August 5, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Bird Flu May Now Be Airborne, Scientists Say share.google/PA0knjjCb3Ed...
One of many reasons we need a robustly funded CDC, NIH, and NSF.
One of many reasons we need a robustly funded CDC, NIH, and NSF.
Report suggests plastic pollution impacts to human health costs ~$1.5 trillion per year.
Plastic causing "disease and death from infancy to old age" that costs $1.5 trillion a year, report warns
Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, a report in the Lancet medical journals warns
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August 4, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Report suggests plastic pollution impacts to human health costs ~$1.5 trillion per year.
The rubber hand illusion works on octopuses too
Despite having a very distantly related evolutionary path from humans, octopuses and humans both have brains that can falsely identify artificial anatomy as being their own.
Despite having a very distantly related evolutionary path from humans, octopuses and humans both have brains that can falsely identify artificial anatomy as being their own.
The rubber hand illusion works on octopuses too
Like humans, octopuses can fall for the rubber hand illusion and believe that a fake arm is theirs. This suggests they have a sense of their own body, just as we do.
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July 23, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The rubber hand illusion works on octopuses too
Despite having a very distantly related evolutionary path from humans, octopuses and humans both have brains that can falsely identify artificial anatomy as being their own.
Despite having a very distantly related evolutionary path from humans, octopuses and humans both have brains that can falsely identify artificial anatomy as being their own.
COVID-19 cases rising in these states amid summer wave: CDC
Here's another reason we need robustly funded CDC, NIH, and NSF government organizations.
Here's another reason we need robustly funded CDC, NIH, and NSF government organizations.
See where COVID cases are rising amid summer wave: New CDC data
As the U.S. approaches the midpoint of summer, the CDC is reporting cases of the virus are growing or likely growing in dozens of states.
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July 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
COVID-19 cases rising in these states amid summer wave: CDC
Here's another reason we need robustly funded CDC, NIH, and NSF government organizations.
Here's another reason we need robustly funded CDC, NIH, and NSF government organizations.
Studies show non-parents are happier than parents unless 1 of these 3 things are true
TLDR: you're filthy rich AND have a good work/life balance, you live outside the US, or you're kids have moved out.
Intentional child-free living is increasing in the US; I can't imagine why ...
TLDR: you're filthy rich AND have a good work/life balance, you live outside the US, or you're kids have moved out.
Intentional child-free living is increasing in the US; I can't imagine why ...
Studies show non-parents are happier than parents unless 1 of these 3 things are true
"Bundle of joy" might not be the most apt nickname.
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July 23, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Studies show non-parents are happier than parents unless 1 of these 3 things are true
TLDR: you're filthy rich AND have a good work/life balance, you live outside the US, or you're kids have moved out.
Intentional child-free living is increasing in the US; I can't imagine why ...
TLDR: you're filthy rich AND have a good work/life balance, you live outside the US, or you're kids have moved out.
Intentional child-free living is increasing in the US; I can't imagine why ...
These kinds of events are part of the reason that we need robustly funded CDC, NIH, and NSF government organizations and why we need to work hand-in-glove with the WHO.
Outbreak of Chikungunya Virus Poses Global Risk, Warns WHO
The World Health Organization warned on Tuesday a major chikungunya virus epidemic risks sweeping around the globe, calling for urgent action to prevent it.
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July 23, 2025 at 1:57 PM
These kinds of events are part of the reason that we need robustly funded CDC, NIH, and NSF government organizations and why we need to work hand-in-glove with the WHO.
A fantastic study from a fantastic group of researchers ...
A high-protein diet improves birds' ability to tolerate infection, study finds
Whether you feed bread to ducks at the local pond or hang a bird feeder on your back porch, the food you're offering wild birds plays a role in their ability to tolerate infection. New research from t...
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June 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
A fantastic study from a fantastic group of researchers ...
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Research @UArkansas identifies diet driven differences in how canary immune systems respond to infection while revealing how a protein diet primes the birds to resist infection @uarkansas.bsky.social @sauerscientist.bsky.social @clstacy.bsky.social
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Study Finds High Protein Diet Improves Birds' Ability to Tolerate Infection
Research identifies diet-driven differences in how canary immune systems respond to infection while revealing how a protein diet primes the birds to resist infection.
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June 25, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Research @UArkansas identifies diet driven differences in how canary immune systems respond to infection while revealing how a protein diet primes the birds to resist infection @uarkansas.bsky.social @sauerscientist.bsky.social @clstacy.bsky.social
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A small victory on a heavy news day.
Judge blocks the Trump administration's National Science Foundation research funding cuts - ABC News share.google/tIBnp7ROkPVS...
Judge blocks the Trump administration's National Science Foundation research funding cuts - ABC News share.google/tIBnp7ROkPVS...
Judge blocks Trump administration's science research funding cuts
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump's administration from making drastic cuts to research funding provided by the National Science Foundation
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June 22, 2025 at 12:10 PM
A small victory on a heavy news day.
Judge blocks the Trump administration's National Science Foundation research funding cuts - ABC News share.google/tIBnp7ROkPVS...
Judge blocks the Trump administration's National Science Foundation research funding cuts - ABC News share.google/tIBnp7ROkPVS...
Whomever designed the Minneapolis / St. Paul International Airport deserves a special place in hell where they have to continuously walk forever, but their progress is irregularly and frequently interrupted by a single mother with a stroller and too many children to corral... 😒
June 11, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Whomever designed the Minneapolis / St. Paul International Airport deserves a special place in hell where they have to continuously walk forever, but their progress is irregularly and frequently interrupted by a single mother with a stroller and too many children to corral... 😒
