TWiV 386: The dolphins did it

Dolphins did itHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Ted Diehl and Welkin Johnson

Ted and Welkin inform the TWiV team how the evolution of ancient retroviruses can be inferred by studying their sequences in the genomes of modern mammals, and join in a discussion of virus dispersal during different methods for drying hands.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:44:25

Welkin – Lab Girl by Hope Jahren (essay)
Ted – Accidental brilliance in science
Rich – Perpetual motion?
Kathy – R0 graphic and explanation
Vincent – NWS ditches all caps forecasts

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Basel – Gimli Glider and Mars Climate Orbiter
Ken – Vaccination comic book

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TWiV 385: Failure

Stuart FiresteinHosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier

Guest: Stuart Firestein

Stuart joins Vincent and Dickson to talk about his sequel to Ignorance, a book called Failure, which seeks to make science more appealing by revealing its faults.

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TWiV 384: Agent 003, a view to a fish kill

Tilapia die-offHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove and Rich Condit

Guests: Nischay Mishra and Ian Lipkin

Nischay and Ian join the TWiVions to discuss mass die-offs of tilapia by a novel orthomyxo-like virus, Ian’s editorial on the movie Vaxxed, and new vaccines to prevent dengue virus infections, including a human challenge model. 

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Weekly Science Picks 1:30:20

Rich – Dune by Frank Herbert
Alan – Adult vaccination video contest
Dickson – Ski town greenhouse
Vincent – Preprint servers: Force awakens or revenge of undead?

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Ken – Golden Mole Awards for Accidental Brilliance (list, video)
Jim – Linear algebra course

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TWiV 383: A zillion Zika papers and a Brazilian

Zika virus cryoEMHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Esper Kallas

Esper and the Merry TWiXters analyze the latest data on Zika virus and microcephaly in Brazil, and discuss publications on a mouse model for disease, infection of a fetus, mosquito vector competence, and the cryo-EM structure of the virus particle.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:44:30

Esper – The Chaos by Gérard Nolst Trenité (pronunciation guide) and HIV pathogenesis course
Alan – Science Kombat
Dickson – Four steps to wiping out a mosquito
Vincent – Public lacks information on Zika virus
Kathy – Zika virus cryo-EM structure video

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Justin – Culture-independent discovery of Archaeal virus
Melinda – Zika virus open research portal and Your body battles series

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TWiV 382: Everyone’s a little bit viral

We are viralHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Nels Elde and Edward Chuong

Nels and Ed join the TWiV team to talk about their observation that regulation of the human interferon response depends on regulatory sequences that were co-opted millions of years ago from endogenous retroviruses.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:32:40

Nels – Don’t Get Me Started – Matt Giorgianni
Alan – Sun’s magnetic field (paper)
Dickson – Most realistic dinosaur terrifies
Vincent – Top secret!
Kathy – Zika virus risk for US 50 cities (paper)
Ed – Watching comb jellies poop

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Asal – Lost paper of Gregor Mendel
Dennis – PhysicsGirl
Jacob – Second (XKCD) and ACI blogger interview

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TWiV 381: Add viruses and Zimmer

Carl ZimmerHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Carl Zimmer

Carl Zimmer joins the TWiV team to talk about his career in science writing, the real meaning of copy-paste, science publishing, the value of Twitter, preprint servers, his thoughts on science outreach, and much more.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:47:15

Carl – Surprising benefit of viral DNA
Alan – Global ship traffic
Dickson – Music with 2000 marbles
Vincent – The whiteboard revolution
Kathy – How to interpret UK and American advisors
Rich – Carina Storrs, science writer

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TWiV 380: Viruses visible in le microscope photonique

Zika virusHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVeroos deliver the weekly Zika Report, then talk about a cryoEM structure of a plant virus that reveals how the RNA genome is packaged in the capsid, and MIMIVIRE, a CRISPR-like defense system in giant eukaryotic viruses.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:29:40

Alan – Progression of Evolution
Dickson – Toddler dies of meningitis
Vincent – Gardasil ideology, not science
Kathy – The Noun Project
Rich – Physics Girl

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Mark – MyRadar app (iOS, Android)

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TWiV 379: A mouse divided

Role of TMER4Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

Guest: Scott Tibbetts

Scott Tibbetts joins the TWiVists to describe his work on the role of a herpesviral nocoding RNA in establishment of peripheral latency, and then we visit two last minute additions to the Zika virus literature.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:42:45

Alan – Okeanos Explorer
Dickson – Rome Reborn
Vincent – Twitter Missing Manual
Scott – Best Science Images of 2015
Kathy – Space Travel Posters
Rich – GoISSWatch

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Peter – Antibiotics and the Problem of the Broken Market

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TWiV 378: Herpes plays DUBstep

herpes headphonesHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, and Kathy Spindler

Guests: Greg Smith and Mark Fuccio

Greg Smith joins the TWiVirate to reveal how his lab discovered a switch that controls herpesvirus neuroinvasion, and then we visit the week’s news about Zika virus.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:42:10

Alan – Science byline counting project
Dickson – Bill Nye on climate change
Vincent – Zdziarski’s blog of things (Apple’s motion to vacate)
Greg – Atlas, the next generation
Kathy – Sources of Chaco wood
Mark – How Dogs Love Us by Gregory Berns

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Bohdan – The real reason for brains

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TWiV 377: Chicken with a side of Zika

chicken zikaHosts: Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Alan Dove, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler

The TWiVniks review the past week’s findings on Zika virus and microcephaly, and reveal a chicken protein that provides insight on the restriction of transmission of avian influenza viruses to humans.

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Weekly Science Picks 1:17:15

Alan – CDC vaccine quiz
Dickson – A telescope so powerful
Vincent – Virology Lectures 2016 (virology blog, iTunes U)
Rich – Ion propulsion (Wiki)
Kathy – Spurious Correlations

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Johnye – Magellan telescope and van Egmond photograpy at Kids Should See This

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Alan Dove, Ph.D.


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Jolene Ramsey, Ph.D.


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