Authorization for another 2 new vaccines, a potentially critical international licensing deal, and a new phase 3 trial: This month saw a…
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Covid-19 Intranasal & Co: A Very Big Month for Mucosal Covid Vaccines
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Science Communication Experiments on Naming Authors in Peer Review – Now With a New Kid on the Block
It’s been 6 years since the last results arrived from a randomized trial of revealing or concealing authors’ names for journal peer…
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Covid-19 Just How Many Covid Vaccines Are There? And Other Interesting Numbers
It’s just over 2 and a half years since the genome sequence of SARS-CoV-2 was released, kicking off the Covid vaccine race…
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Science Communication Bad and Good(-ish) News on the Abstract Spin Cycle
Abstracts are central to the science communication process. The words in them can lead searchers to find a paper. Because they’re the…
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Covid-19 And Then There Were 33…The Latest 11 Covid Vaccines to Reach the Phase 3 Results Milestone
There’s been a big leap in the number of Covid vaccines known to have phase 3 results since my last catch-up post…
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Covid-19 Next Generation Covid Vaccine Update: Intranasal & Other Mucosal Vaxes
Mucosal vaccines are aimed at the mucosal membranes—the wet linings starting inside our noses and mouths. They can be sprays, drops, or…
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Covid-19 Front-Runners in the Race for Variant-Proof and All-Coronavirus Vaccines
SARS-CoV-2 – the coronavirus that causes Covid – is the third from its virus family to cause devastating pandemics or outbreaks in…
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Covid-19 Women Versus Men Leaders in the Pandemic: An Update and Dig Into the Latest Data
Thanks to some virtuoso high-profile performances from a few women early on, this claim took off fast: having a woman at the…
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Science Communication Another Bit of Pandemic Fallout: The Weaponization of Absolute Risk Statistics
Back in the good old days, we only had to tear our hair out when people used relative risks without context, thereby…
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Covid-19 Covid Vaccine Results for the Under 5s in Trials, Rollout, & Off-Label Use
There could be well over 20 million children under 5 Covid-vaxed globally – the vast majority in China, and nearly all with…
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History Early Ukrainian Women Scientists: Part 3 – From Birds to Math, Space, & Plants in Space
In this final part, we meet the first of the scientists who are still living – and start to see the impact…
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History Early Ukrainian Women Scientists: Part 2 – From Mushrooms to Physics, a Programming Language, Plants, & Bees
The 5 women in this second part bring us to people born in the 20th century. The 3-part series covers a small…