Is it Solid Evidence or Liquid Gold?? It's both for wastewater-based epidemiology! Check out our new paper - Trade-Offs of Processing Settled Solids, Whole Influent, or Centrifuged Influent for Codetecting Viral, Bacterial, and Eukaryotic Pathogens in Wastewater pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

One NIH diversity supplement grant reinstated! we'll take the win! now if we can just get our delayed NOA on the parent grant to come through...

Nice article on our new paper out in @natcomms.nature.com www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/n...

Interested in cas9 targeted sequencing of ARGs and their genomic context? check out our new paper! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

STAGGERING: This new study of 133 countries is the first to estimate the impact of all USAID’s work. In 2 decades, it has saved *92M* lives. Current cuts, if not reversed, are forecast to cost up to *14M* lives thru 2030. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I am devastated by the recent news that HUD is pushing the National Science Foundation (NSF) out of their building. People need to speak up NOW. Thread w/ facts:

Below is email I sent to trusted @meidastouch.com @adammockler.com and my local Congressional leaders-use any/all parts that help. (1/)

New paper out! Here we find that 85% of pathogens detected in child stool are also found in animals living in close proximity. Longitudinal sampling and TAC analysis also showed pathogen transmission from animals => soil => child hands => new infections. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Today RFK Jr took the single biggest step towards destroying childhood vaccines

When @nytimes asked me in December whether RFK could kill the vaccine program - I said he’d have to remove CDCs ACIP

And… that’s exactly what he just did today

Not good-just like that we cannot trust CDC on vaccines

My mom had polio, was disabled her entire life, it severely impacted my entire family & me personally, & she died way too early. She contracted it in infancy shortly before the Salk vaccine roll-out.

These attacks on vaccines are a public health nightmare.

Many people are going to get sick & die.

As Chair of the Department of Global and Public Health @healthsciences.mcgill.ca, I am pleased to share two open junior faculty positions!

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“We were interested in understanding the role of the household environment in bacterial transmission to humans,” said Prof. @seqh2o.bsky.social.

“And our findings showed that water is actually one of the most important transmission pathways for pathogenic and drug-resistant bacteria.”

Shutting down the Energy Star program will raise your energy costs and make you sicker. There is no good policy reason to shut it down. None. It saves people lots of money and helps cut pollution. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/06/c...

Berkeley researchers have shown that household environment might play a larger role in the transmission of gastrointestinal bacterial infections via drinking water than previously thought.

nice to have a daredevilry distraction from the current fed gov research horrors

New NIH Guide Notice about foreign subawards

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Not a great morning. Two grant cancellations and now this: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Human wastewater contamination is so bad in Alabama homes that 1 in 3 adults in one county had hookworm. Biden funded efforts to improve sanitation there. But the effort is cancelled as "DEI".

www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

How are pathogenic and antibiotic resistant bacterial strains shared across humans, animals, and the environment? Using PIC-Seq + StrainGE, we find drinking water plays an important role in human-human strain sharing. Just published in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

And we are building a roster of expert consultants for our growing list of projects! Read more and apply here: drive.google.com/file/d/1DNEZ...

The time burden of future climate change in SSA will disproportionately fall on women

Climate change is expected to make sub-Saharan Africa warmer and drier.

In @natcomms.nature.com, @seqh2o.bsky.social & co. explore how this affects the burden of collecting water—with impacts for health, hygiene, income, and gender equity:

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

New blog post going into @seqh2o.bsky.social and team’s inventions — which add the right amount of chlorine to disinfect water at places people collect it — and why we decided to support the work in 2020: www.openphilanthropy.org/research/how...

Thanks to support from Open Phil, we are getting ready to launch sales of the TuriTap in Kenya in a couple of weeks! www.openphilanthropy.org/research/how...