Dave O'Connor

Adding it here for visibility. Looking to start routinely monitoring dairy products from Wisconsin milk and cream producers. NO H5N1 found in ANY Wisconsin retail products tested thus far, want to use retail monitoring to provide one type of early indication in case this changes.

This news is about as good as it gets. Landmark day in HIV research.

Congratulations to @trentkainalu/@TrentPrall who is now Dr. Trent following his successful Ph.D. defense!

@SolidEvidence To give credit where it is due, it was Roger, Nancy, Shelby, and me. And some perplexed dog park patrons.

@dho You know that when I talk my colleague canvasing dog parks to collect fresh canine fecal samples that I'm talking about Dave.

With a great segment from Marc on our search for a cryptic lineage in Wisconsin.

Excited to see viral air sampling from our work in K-12 schools as part of @PublicHealthMDC 's updated respiratory illness dashboard. publichealthmdc.com/coronavirus/da…

@willvuyk and @SolidEvidence just updated our preprint describing a SARS-CoV-2 cryptic lineage traced to its source. The update responds to astute commends raised by other scientists. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Big week for Dr. @MitchellRamuta - successfully defended his PhD thesis yesterday and had his last manuscript in the lab posted to Medrxiv today! When he's back online he can Twitter summarize. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Updated version of our preprint describing a Wisconsin cryptic lineage is now in Medrxiv at medrxiv.org/content/10.110…. I'll leave it to @SolidEvidence to do the twittering about it. Congrats to all involved!

Our newest preprint showing that African lineage Zika virus infection causes frequent pregnancy loss in 2-3 weeks in monkeys is now in Biorxiv (@lo_raasch and @JennaRosinski can provide more details)!: biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

@bchesky Please follow this by setting the default displayed price for the number of max guests when this isn’t specified explicitly - prevent hosts from deceptively showing prices per guest.

I’ve heard you loud and clear—you feel like prices aren’t transparent and checkout tasks are a pain. That’s why we’re making 4 changes: 1. Starting next month, you’ll be able to see the total price you're paying up front.

For those of you that have asked me why I am convinced that cryptic lineages are coming from people, I can finally point to a pre-print with @dho and many fantastic collaborators in the UWisc and Wisc Public Health. medrxiv.org/cgi/content/sh…

Our paper with @DrJDennehy @RoseKantor @dho describing the first 9 cryptic lineages of SARS-CoV-2 identified from wastewater (from 3 states) is now online. journals.plos.org/plospathogens/…

@taylorehill Nope.

Had my first awful @Airbnb @AirbnbHelp experience ever due to a combination of a mistake I made at booking, poor AirBnB platform design, and a host who exploited loopholes in the AirBnB system.

There’s Something in the Air: Monitoring Indoor Air for #SARSCoV2 Air surveillance in indoor spaces where people gather can be an important complement to clinical and wastewater data @MitchellRamuta @dho @dho_lab go.nature.com/3cB6Bk1

@PascaleDaniel6 Totally agree that prompt communication should be enforced, not just encouraged, by the platform going in both directions as a requirement for using it.

@dho How about a guest that we have been trying to respond to us for 3 weeks? Let us not see only one side of the story and where the support has been quite inefficient. Very unhappy superhost.

Check out this blog post explainer that @MitchellRamuta put together describing our @NatureComms paper on detecting SARS-CoV-2 and other viruses in air from schools and other congregate settings! microbiologycommunity.nature.com/posts/in-the-a…

Which is a shame, because I've really enjoyed our previous stays and especially our AirBnB experiences. And with that, back to my long Twitter hibernation!

After learning that their policies enable hosts to act in bad faith (by not responding to my initial message that would have avoided the entire situation), I'm not sure how much I'm willing to trust @Airbnb or their hosts in the future.