Darren O'Connell

Check out our new blog summarising our recent meta-analysis assessing treatments for the Varroa mite #pathogen of honey bees out!

This #invasive #parasite has huge impacts on crop production from lost #pollination

Broadly, synthetic chemicals were effective at killing the pathogen, but had negative impacts

Biological treatments showed promise for bee health, but were understudied

Organic chemical treatments were the best current option

#research #disease #bees

ucd.ie/earth/news-opinion/news

Eddlestonian

artpal.com/eddlestonian

The bacterium Bactrionis L31 identified by Dr. Elara Voss – Voss Research Center – Zurich, Switzerland

#germ #microbe #microorganism #bacilli,
#bugs, #pathogen #virus #aerobe #ai #artificial
#anaerobe #organism #bacterium #bacteria
#disease #microorganism #bug #bacillus
#microscopic #organism #bacillus
#bug #germ #science #scientist

Feb 06, 2025, 14:20 · · · 0 · 0
Darren O'Connell

Great to see our meta-analysis assessing treatments for the Varroa mite #pathogen of honey bees out!

This #invasive #parasite has huge impacts on crop production from lost #pollination

Broadly, synthetic chemicals were effective at killing the pathogen, but had negative impacts on the bees

Biological treatments showed great promise for bee health, but were understudied

Organic chemical treatments seem on balance the best current option

#research #disease #bees

sciencedirect.com/science/arti

Mx Verda

X is terrible, but after the Meta news on explicitly allowing transphobia / transmisia, overall it's just been a tough week.
Idk what I have but my asthma attack started last week. Elevated neutrophils indicate bacterial infection, my GP said? So either it was "probably viral" like the OoH 111 GP said and became bacterial as well, or I was unlucky that it was bacterial to begin with.

I've been on Prednisolone, a corticosteroid since the 9th; then last night I started Doxycyline, an antibiotic, and Montelukast.
Montelukast is a leukotriene receptor antagonist, so it blocks leukotrienes, my patient pamphlet says.

Got a chest X ray out of it, at least. (Had back pain behind my ex-gallbladder since its removal anyway.)
Let this be a lesson not to lessen your mask discipline or stubbornness when other people peer pressure you to take risks with your health.
This is my first asthma exacerbation in a decade and I do not want to continue experiencing this. I do not recommend it. The people telling me I was 'paranoid', 'over-thinking it', 'worried about nothing' and more do NOT have to feel what I am feeling.

Teenage boys in public who choose to whine at me and intentionally coughing towards me (what?!!?) is super aggressive, creepy, entitled, and harmful to everyone witnessing that. Still, my upper and mid back has not stopped aching. I don't get fevers and I don't have a cough. Only you know your body.

Some people choose to care about harm reduction; others don't. Do right by yourself and do your sustainable best by others. I believe in you!

youtube.com/watch?v=My_wEXmNgt

#sick #illness #RespiratoryIllness #PostViralIllness #ChronicIllnessMemes #virus #bacteria #viral #sickness #infection #InfectionPrevention #pathogen #pathogensAirborneTransmission #infectious #disease #diseases #AsthmaAttacked #AsthmaExacerbation #breathe #breath

SPQR

That doesn't mean that SARS-CoV-2 infection is benign, is inconsequential. We still see people in the hospital with SARS-CoV-2 infection, we still see people with strokes and heart attacks and, you know, brain fog and all other manifestations.
#COVID19 #pathogen #pathology #virology #physiology #BrainScience #neurology #neurobiology #biology #microbiology #health
cbc.ca/radio/quirks/long-covid

Jon Sullivan

I saw my first myrtle rust in Christchurch this afternoon (while at a dance performance of my daughter’s). This is the 24th confirmed observation on #iNaturalist of this pathogen in Canterbury.

The Brazilian pathogen attacks, and can kill, trees in the Myrtle family (like pohutukawa, rata, and eucalyptus) and is an invasive pathogen worldwide. It arrived in NZ, in Northland, in May 2017.

I found it on a planted ramarama hybrid.

inaturalist.nz/observations/25

#InvasiveSpecies #pathogen #NZ

Myrtle Rust (Austropuccinia psidii)

Myrtle Rust from Merivale, Christchurch, New Zealand…

iNaturalist NZ
PLOS Biology

Meta-analysis of >100 ectothermic animal host-pathogen systems, by @lijingdioo @kaylacking &co, reveals importance of #pathogen taxa, thermal optima & evolutionary history in determining impact of #ClimateChange on infection outcome #PLOSBiology plos.io/4fVUkkP

PLOS Biology

#Plants use NLRs for #pathogen defense, but what do downstream "helper" #NLRs do? @M__Selvaraj @mpcontreras4 @KamounLab &co reveal that the helper NLR NRC2 flips from autoinhibited homodimer to active oligomeric resistosome upon activation #PLOSBiology plos.io/40e5fBU