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At various times Trump has invoked, and lost, both presidential immunity and Westfall immunity.
The Westfall Act says that the US is responsible for any govt employee’s tort within the scope of his/her employment.
https://skywriter.blue/pages/did:plc:v

The Duty Comes From the Data: Rethinking Platform Liability in the Age of Algorithmic Harm
https://musictechpolicy.com/2025/07/05

The Duty Comes From the Data: Rethinking Platform Liability in the Age of Algorithmic Harm
Platforms like TikTok and YouTube claim immunity under Section 230, but when they exploit user data to push harmful content, they cross into tort liability. It’s time to hold platforms accountable …

Identifiability in epidemic models with prior immunity and under-reporting
Fanny Bergstr\"om, Martina Favero, Tom Britton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07825

Identifiability in epidemic models with prior immunity and under-reporting
Identifiability is the property in mathematical modelling that determines if model parameters can be uniquely estimated from data. For infectious disease models, failure to ensure identifiability can lead to misleading parameter estimates and unreliable policy recommendations. We examine the identifiability of a modified SIR model that accounts for under-reporting and pre-existing immunity in the population. We provide a mathematical proof of the unidentifiability of jointly estimating three pa…

Trump’s appeal of EJ Carroll’s $83.3 million defamation verdict against him is set for oral argument June 24
Trump & DOJ have jointly moved to postpone
This case involves alleged defamations in 2019, when Trump was president.
At various times Trump has invoked, and lost,
both presidential immunity and "Westfall immunity".
The Westfall Act says that the US is responsible for any govt employee’s tort within the scope of his/her employment

“Siloviki” is perhaps the most borrowed word in Russian studies
— probably because it explains so much about Putin’s Russia.
Its members are the police, the border control, the army, the security services, the spies.
For their service to the regime, they are rewarded with early pensions,
plenty of cash and almost total immunity from investigation for corruption or brutality.
In truth, the American security state, with its qualified immunity, surveillance appar…

Opinion | Here’s What’s Happening in America, in Six (Mostly) Russian Terms
To help Americans name their new reality, we wrote a phrase book of authoritarianism.

Determining vaccine responders in the presence of baseline immunity using single-cell assays and paired control samples
Zhe Chen, Siyu Heng, Asa Tapley, Stephen De Rosa, Bo Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06451

Determining vaccine responders in the presence of baseline immunity using single-cell assays and paired control samples
A key objective in vaccine studies is to evaluate vaccine-induced immunogenicity and determine whether participants have mounted a response to the vaccine. Cellular immune responses are essential for assessing vaccine-induced immunogenicity, and single-cell assays, such as intracellular cytokine staining (ICS) are commonly employed to profile individual immune cell phenotypes and the cytokines they produce after stimulation. In this article, we introduce a novel statistical framework for identi…

Folks from the 70's, get yourself tested. I recently got tested and discovered my immunity has waned, getting a Measles booster in 2 weeks (can only be from your doctor or public health, in BC).
https://mstdn.ca/@Jgmeadows/114812365550605439

Trump's lawyers say the Supreme Court's sweeping presidential immunity ruling should save him $83.3 million (Jacob Shamsian/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tests-presidential-immunity-carroll-defamation-verdict-payout-2025-6
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p79#a250624p79

Genotype networks drive oscillating endemicity and epidemic trajectories in viral evolution
Santiago Lamata-Ot\'in, Octavian C. Rotita-Ion, Alex Arenas, David Soriano-Pa\~nos, Jes\'us G\'omez-Garde\~nes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03279

Genotype networks drive oscillating endemicity and epidemic trajectories in viral evolution
Rapidly evolving viruses use antigenic drift as a key mechanism to evade host immunity and persist in real populations. While traditional models of antigenic drift and epidemic spread rely on low-dimensional antigenic spaces, genomic surveillance data reveal that viral evolution produces complex antigenic genotype networks with hierarchical modular structures. In this study, we present an eco-evolutionary framework in which viral evolution and population immunity dynamics are shaped by the stru…

Supreme Court to review scope of states' immunity after a pair of bus accidents (Ry Rivard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/03/supreme-court-nj-transit-accidents-00439417
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p102#a250703p102

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.19375 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arX…

The Co-evolution of Cooperation and Epidemic Spreading
People's cooperation in adopting protective measures is effective in epidemic control and creates herd immunity as a public good. Similarly, the presence of an epidemic is a driving factor for the formation and improvement of cooperation. Here, we study the coevolution of epidemic dynamics and the public good game as a paradigm of cooperation dynamics. Using simulations and a mean-field description, we show that the presence of an epidemic can promote cooperation even in regimes where cooperati…

NO KINGS ACT: Presidents shall not be entitled to any immunity. Let's finish what we started 250 years ago!
Sign the petition:
https://risingdems.org/l

CDC urges summer camps to check for measles immunity, as U.S. nears record (Alexander Tin/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-urges-summer-camps-to-check-for-measles-immunity-as-u-s-nears-record/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250613/p135#a250613p135

An Integrated Lab on a CD Microfluidic Platform for High-Efficiency Blood Cell Separation and Passive Mixing
Reza Lotfi Navaei, Haniyeh Tehrani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.01977

An Integrated Lab on a CD Microfluidic Platform for High-Efficiency Blood Cell Separation and Passive Mixing
Blood accounts for 7-8% of total body weight, with an average adult containing 4.5 to 6 quarts. It delivers oxygen and nutrients to cells, removes waste products, supports immunity, and regulates body temperature. Comprising over 4,000 components, including plasma, platelets, erythrocytes, and leukocytes, blood presents a challenge for isolating specific cell types due to its heterogeneity. In autologous therapies, target cells may be as rare as one per million background cells. This study pres…

HR-VILAGE-3K3M: A Human Respiratory Viral Immunization Longitudinal Gene Expression Dataset for Systems Immunity
Xuejun Sun, Yiran Song, Xiaochen Zhou, Ruilie Cai, Yu Zhang, Xinyi Li, Rui Peng, Jialiu Xie, Yuanyuan Yan, Muyao Tang, Prem Lakshmanane, Baiming Zou, James S. Hagood, Raymond J. Pickles, Didong Li, Fei Zou, Xiaojing Zheng
https://

HR-VILAGE-3K3M: A Human Respiratory Viral Immunization Longitudinal Gene Expression Dataset for Systems Immunity
Respiratory viral infections pose a global health burden, yet the cellular immune responses driving protection or pathology remain unclear. Natural infection cohorts often lack pre-exposure baseline data and structured temporal sampling. In contrast, inoculation and vaccination trials generate insightful longitudinal transcriptomic data. However, the scattering of these datasets across platforms, along with inconsistent metadata and preprocessing procedure, hinders AI-driven discovery. To addre…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.19388 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_qbi…

A minimal model of pan-immunity maintenance by horizontal gene transfer in the ecological dynamics of bacteria and phages
Bacteria and phages have been in an ongoing arms race for billions of years. To resist phages bacteria have evolved numerous defense systems, which nevertheless are still overcome by counter-defense mechanisms of specific phages. These defense/counter-defense systems are a major element of microbial genetic diversity and have been demonstrated to propagate between strains by Horizontal Gene Transfer (HGT). It has been proposed that the totality of defense systems found in microbial communities …

Mathematical models for the EP2 and EP4 signaling pathways and their crosstalk
Alessandra Cambi, Diane S Lidke, Mariya Ptashnyk, Willemijn Smit, Stefanie Sonner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11712

Mathematical models for the EP2 and EP4 signaling pathways and their crosstalk
The G-protein coupled receptors EP2 and EP4 both transduce the signal of the lipid messenger Prostaglandin E2 (PGE2). Changes in the cell response to PGE2 can have important effects on immunity and development of diseases, however, a thorough understanding of the EP2-EP4 receptors' signaling pathways is lacking. Experimental data show that receptor activity (indicated by cAMP expression) has a different kinetics depending on which receptor is triggered by PGE2 and that crosstalk exists between …

Effect of Vaccine Dose Intervals: Considering Immunity Levels, Vaccine Efficacy, and Strain Variants for Disease Control Strategy
Samiran Ghosh, Malay Banerjee, Amit K Chattopadhyay
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21132

Effect of Vaccine Dose Intervals: Considering Immunity Levels, Vaccine Efficacy, and Strain Variants for Disease Control Strategy
In this study, we present an immuno-epidemic model to understand mitigation options during an epidemic break. The model incorporates comorbidity and multiple-vaccine doses through a system of coupled integro-differential equations to analyze the epidemic rate and intensity from a knowledge of the basic reproduction number and time-distributed rate functions. Our modeling results show that the interval between vaccine doses is a key control parameter that can be tuned to significantly influence …