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Onisillos
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Editor-in-Chief of a very good microbial journal.

(Illustration by David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-028)
I didn’t expect this book to be so full of gossip.
January 20, 2026 at 11:39 AM
I’ve seen the 1984 map doing the rounds today. It’s worth remembering that there’s a less fictional map with links to Elon Musk
January 5, 2026 at 6:38 PM
Music to my ears! I've been so close to losing it whenever I come across one of these hyperbolic labels.

There is No Such Thing as the Super Flu rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/there-is-n...
January 5, 2026 at 3:03 PM
"Overall, 56% of other people's responses assigned higher probability values to words than you did. On average, your estimates were 5 percentage points lower than others."

I blame my job
January 5, 2026 at 10:10 AM
Typical
January 1, 2026 at 9:57 PM
December 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
The title of this paper should have been "Is this your god!?"

arxiv.org/pdf/2408.065...
December 15, 2025 at 10:15 AM
You will be visited by three spirits
December 9, 2025 at 11:43 AM
I still can't understand how this doesn't seem to apply to the US

www.who.int/tools/your-l...
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
What fictional creature/villain traumatised you as a child?
November 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
😁
November 4, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The day is getting closer…
November 1, 2025 at 9:41 PM
One of her other work outfits.

She had two science degrees 😳
October 28, 2025 at 10:03 PM
October 28, 2025 at 10:17 AM
My eldest daughter is living her best life. This is her at work.
October 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Um
October 13, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Looking through this, as you do, and got alarmed. Then saw "change in case definition since 2021 has led to a steep increase" 😅

ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/environmenta...
October 10, 2025 at 11:28 AM
This is starting to look like a seasonal pattern ukhsa-dashboard.data.gov.uk/respiratory-...
October 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
It looks like the US CDC has helpfully archived the important things

stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/6023
October 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I have also had some things to say about this:

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

and

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
September 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
What’s your sign?
September 27, 2025 at 10:14 PM
The funniest thing I've ever heard a fascist say is that the regime will never come for them...
September 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
September 12, 2025 at 11:59 AM
I'm genuinely moved by this humanity between political rivals.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
September 3, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Post a random picture, or else everything will go bad in September.
September 1, 2025 at 8:39 PM