Dr. Annie Feighery

In my head, this goes on the shelf next to @nikkipaynebooks.bsky.social's amazing books :)

awesome title.

This thread rules

I'm so sorry.

How does treatment induced antibiotic resistance happen in real-world infections? We analysed 25k Pseudomonas isolates from 180 patients in a clinical trial to find out! TLDR: The ecological and evolutionary paths are surprisingly diverse & complex even in patients receiving identical treatment…

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together.

I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

Project Drawdown launches Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support scientists working in the public good Fellowship seeks early- to mid-career researchers based in America who are committed to science and public expertise

While others are stepping back on climate, Project Drawdown is stepping up!

We’re proud to announce the Climate Science Serving America Fellowship to support U.S.-based Ph.D.-level scientists & engineers focused on climate solutions for the public good.

drawdown.org/news/project...

Principal Research Scientist Remote

Cool/important job alert:

Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's
Research team for the area of knowledge integrity

Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...

This is incredibly cool — A source familiar with Bad Bunny’s performance tonight tells me that the couple in the halftime show got married for real. They invited Bad Bunny to their wedding and in turn he invited them to get married during his performance.

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This is figure 1, which gives an overview of OpenScholar, ScholarQABench and evaluation results.

A paper in Nature presents OpenScholar, an open-source language model that can outperform commercial large language models in performing accurate literature reviews. go.nature.com/3MozzFq #Academicsky 🧪

Whose ethics govern global health research? Ethical research must not exploit scarcity as an experimental variable.

"Ethical research requires that participant safety remains central, not subordinate to hypothesis testing....Vulnerability should never be seen as an opportunity to advance research at the expense of those it claims to serve." @natureportfolio.nature.com
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Africa’s health security is global security Africa’s health security is global security

Opinion: Africa’s health security is global security. As aid contracts and risks grow, Africa is building sovereign, continent-led systems — proving that resilience, not dependence, is the strategy for a safer world.

Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys GPS mobility data is a valuable source of behavioral measurement which is subject to systematic biases including the over- or under-representation of demographic groups, and variations in the quality ...

Correcting temporal bias in mobility data using time-use surveys arxiv.org/abs/2601.22330

Vagus Nerve Stimulation and the Immune System Kevin Tracey, the pioneering neurosurgeon who discovered the connection, talks about the recent FDA approval for rheumatoid arthritis and where this is headed

1 minute of vagus nerve stimulation per day was recently FDA approved as a treatment for rheumatoid arthritis. A new Ground Truths podcast with Kevin J. Tracey who pioneered this field
erictopol.substack.com/p/vagus-nerv...

This band and choir is amazing. Take in this song, too: www.instagram.com/reel/DTtpG2U...

I'm grateful for Bruce Springsteen's new song today. But let's acknowledge Jesse Welles as this moment's Boss!

🗨️ Africa–Europe relations are moving beyond an aid-based model.

We spoke to Former Vice-President of the European Parliament at the 2025 #IGW where she called for a new partnership built on mutual interests.

#AfricaEurope #Africa #TheAfricaWeWant

*I'm* not crying from seeing the mayor of NYC spending time talking to his constituency about the city managing a weather crisis the way leaders should

*you're* crying from seeing the mayor of NYC tell people to enjoy the snow

I'm so sorry.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

If you are in the path of this weekend's winter storm, & you are predicted to face power outages, turn your heat up in advance. All of the surfaces of your interior will absorb that energy. When the power fails, that energy will radiate back into the room buying you as much as 8 extra hours of warm.

He was a nurse.

BREAKING: The person who was allegedly shot by ICE officers in the video below has DIED.

ACA Premium Spikes Will Derail Disabled People’s Careers The expiration of the enhanced premium tax credits threatens the economic stability and health coverage of self-employed Americans with disabilities.

The expiration of the enhanced premium tax credits threatens the economic stability and health coverage of self-employed Americans with disabilities.

www.americanprogress.org/article/aca-...

#RepublicanHealthcareDisaster

Exclusive: key NIH review panels due to lose all members by the end of 2026 Thirteen of the agency’s advisory councils, which must review grant applications before funding is awarded, are on track to have no voting members.

🚨 New from me: Grant review at more than half of NIH's institutes could be frozen by the end of the year.

That's because crucial NIH grant-review panels are slated to be empty at those institutes by Jan 2027.

A wonky bureaucratic problem with big implications.

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How England’s outdated water tracking system leaves regulators in the dark Experts warn accurately monitoring consumption by bulk users such as farmers, datacentres and businesses can be all but impossible

We need robust, integrated measurement of water use & wastewater generation across catchments & nationwide.

Without it, we cannot improve efficiency, expand recycling and reuse, or secure long‑term water resilience.

We need Government incentives to drive this.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

That one's dangerous. I've accidentally hit call on a contact a few times because of the lag between screens.

same and same. And why does the new UI make simple actions harder? Making a call to a contact with Facetime audio went from two clicks to four.

Our paper on the mysterious Devonian organism Prototaxites has now finally been published! See the paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...) and our explainer thread below!
Prototaxites reconstruction by Matt Humpage