"Announcing biosecurity.world" by Alix Pham (Alix Pham 🔸), Swan, Jérémy Andréoletti (Jérémy Andréoletti 🔸), and johantang🔸

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People sometimes ask me why I am so obsessed with lead poisoning - and sometimes I ask myself that too - but this paper sums it up well. - 5.5 million premature adult deaths from cardiovascular disease - US$1.4 trillion in global economic losses - we can solve it

I've mentioned previously that one of the more dangerous carbon monoxide scenarios is flue pipe disconnect because it doesn't initiate internal equipment safety switches. If a disconnected appliance produces high CO, functioning CO detectors are the last line of defense

Flu pandemics have appeared every 10 to 50 years for millennia. Vaccines have been available for 80 years, but reduce infection risks by just 40% on average. How can we make "universal" vaccines that confer lifelong immunity against any strain of flu: past, present, or future?

Indoor air quality has been a problem for most of human history. From Viking longhouses to 19th-century London, the struggle to breathe clean air has shaped how we build, live, and even govern. This is the BATTLE FOR BETTER AIR. 🧵

In honor of international women's day, let's take a moment to remember the most famous statistician in history. You've definitely heard of her, but you probably have no idea she was a statistician. It's Florence Nightingale.

Most OECD countries fail to reach the UN’s target for aid to the poorest countries— In 1981, the major foreign aid donor countries, also known as the Development Assistance Committee, made a promise at the UN: to aim for at least 0.15% of their national income to assist the

Happy to share our new preprint: `The rise, decline and fall of clades' with Jérémy Andréoletti 🔸, Daniele Silvestro and Helene Morlon , where we study how the biodiversity of clades rise and fall, and the processes behind these patterns. 1/5 doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

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Great work led by Jérémy Andréoletti 🔸, on the Occurrence Birth-Death with lineage-specific speciation and extinction rates!