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Friedemann Weber

@friedemann.bsky.social

Basic researcher on viruses and innate immunity. Professor and Chair. Opinions are my own

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People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.

Ständig werden neue Nebenwirkungen dieser "experimentellen modRNA Gentherapie" entdeckt!

23.10.2025 06:33 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

The mathematics of droplet formation when cutting onions has been solved. With practical tips on how to minimize tears!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

22.10.2025 07:11 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
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NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.

"director of the...NIH...Bhattacharya...expressed concern about ...problems facing early career researchers...however...neglected to mention the biggest issue...actions...that—on his watch—have thrown biomedical research in the United States into chaos"
www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...

17.10.2025 06:53 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Gut dass die BZ so deutlich warnt. So ein Auto werde ich bestimmt nie kaufen.
(www.badische-zeitung.de/fahrer-unter...)

17.10.2025 06:40 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Das verstößt aber gegen das Weber-Fechnersche Gesetz

05.10.2025 10:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fühle mich gemobbt

03.10.2025 17:32 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Gerichtsurteile: Long Covid ist keine psychische Erkrankung Wegweisende Sozialgerichtsurteile stufen Long Covid und ME/CFS als körperliche Erkrankungen ein - und öffnen die Tür zur Anerkennung als Schwerbehinderung.

Gleich zwei Sozialgerichte urteilen, Versorgungsämter dürfen #LongCovid und #MECFS nicht als psychische Erkrankung einstufen - Betroffenen wurde die Tür zur Anerkennung einer Schwerbehinderung geöffnet www.riffreporter.de/de/gesellsch... @riffreporter.bsky.social

02.10.2025 10:21 — 👍 567    🔁 253    💬 13    📌 13
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From the CoronavirusDACH community on Reddit: Gerichtsurteile: Long Covid ist keine psychische Erkrankung Explore this post and more from the CoronavirusDACH community

Sozialgerichte stellen klar: Long Covid und ME/CFS sind keine psychischen Erkrankungen

02.10.2025 12:54 — 👍 28    🔁 10    💬 0    📌 0

Frau will nicht, dass ich „Willkommen in der Grauzone!“ auf die Geburtstagskarte schreibe

13.09.2025 16:12 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Holländisch muss man einfach lieben

13.09.2025 12:07 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Teile der Antwort könnten die Bevölkerung verstören

11.09.2025 12:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Schrödingers Bahnfahrt

11.09.2025 10:21 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Dozens of heatwaves linked to carbon emissions from specific companies Nearly one-quarter of heatwaves would have been ‘virtually impossible’ without global warming — and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

11.09.2025 06:31 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
KBV - ZEPAI: Angepasster COVID-19-Impfstoff Comirnaty für alle Altersgruppen bestellbar

KBV - ZEPAI: Angepasster COVID-19-Impfstoff Comirnaty für alle Altersgruppen bestellbar

05.09.2025 10:48 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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After ‘humiliating’ raid, Burkina Faso halts ‘gene drive’ project to fight malaria Disinformation campaign may have triggered “brutal” shutdown of mosquito lab

Serious setback in the fight against malaria:
"opposition to the project has grown, fueled in part by false accusations...social media...disinformation campaigns in the region often linked to Russian networks, says Mark Duerksen, a security expert"

05.09.2025 07:01 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome

Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe
Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome
#Arbovirus #mosquito

05.09.2025 06:35 — 👍 29    🔁 18    💬 2    📌 0
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Unraveling the arc of vaccine progress The philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously described life in 1651 as “nasty, brutish, and short.” He was undeniably correct, with estimates of average life expectancy in the UK at the time ranging from 37 to 40 years, largely owing to a high infant mortality ...

Where antivaxxers have taken over already:
"“zero-dose children” tragically account for nearly half of vaccine-preventable disease deaths"

29.08.2025 06:57 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The rise of rideable horses Early horse riders selected a rare mutation in a single gene to enhance rideability

Early horse riders selected a rare mutation in a single gene to enhance rideability.
Ancient DNA analysis and experimental work with mouse model (😀) provide new evidence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)

29.08.2025 06:45 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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David Nabarro obituary: global-health leader who fought malnutrition, malaria, Ebola and COVID-19 Persuasive physician who brought research evidence to the heart of global policy decisions.

"known for his ability to take robust research evidence and translate it into practical strategies...urged countries to act quickly to suppress transmission through find, test, trace and isolate systems...stressed that lockdowns should be “a last resort”.

28.08.2025 09:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Autism is on the rise: what’s really behind the increase? RFK Jr has vowed to find out what’s responsible, but scientists say he is ignoring answers from decades of research.

"One broad conclusion to emerge from the available data is that genetics plays a huge part"
"environmental factors are “a smaller slice of the pie”...and studies have convincingly shown no link to vaccines"

28.08.2025 08:54 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Early-life infectious disease exposure, the “hygiene hypothesis,” and lifespan: Evidence from hookworm disease | PNAS Exposure to infectious disease in early life may have long-term ramifications for health and lifespan. However, reducing pathogen exposure may not ...

"Findings show deworming before age five leads to 2.5 additional months of life...Further, decreasing hookworm exposure is related to improvements in...inflammation and skin-tested allergies, IN CONTRAST TO PREDICTIONS OF THE “HYGIENE HYPOTHESIS”

27.08.2025 11:25 — 👍 6    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Fool’s-gold science: The ethical and scientific perils of testing most vaccines using placebo-controlled randomized trials: EMBO reports: Vol 26, No 16 EMBO Press is an editorially independent publishing platform for the development of EMBO scientific publications.

"Kennedy Jr.’s views and HHS policy ignore both reality and history. All vaccines undergo a lengthy process of careful testing and independent regulatory oversight in the USA and other nations."

25.08.2025 10:19 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0

Ganz offenbar, ja. Hat mich auch erstaunt. Vielleicht die Trockenheit

24.08.2025 12:58 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Und Impfstoffexperte!

23.08.2025 15:40 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Isso, selbst die Schatten sind fast identisch

23.08.2025 15:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Bryce Canyon 1998 - Bryce Canyon 2025

23.08.2025 12:16 — 👍 9    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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What success looks like Nature Medicine - The 2025 Pandemic Agreement is a grand global social bargain that replaces charity with equity.

"Perhaps the singular goal of the Pandemic Agreement is to end the model based on charity and replace it with one based on equity and mutual legal obligation."

15.08.2025 07:39 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Gymnasiastin muss sich verteidigen, dass sie nicht studiert Eine siebzehnjährige Schülerin versteht die Welt nicht mehr. Sie besucht ein Gymnasium und möchte nach dem Abitur einen Ausbildungsberuf ergreifen. Das ruft immer wieder Irritation hervor. Hier schild...

Wert der Ausbildung: Warum muss ich mich dauernd rechtfertigen? via @faznet

13.08.2025 05:42 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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CDC union says vaccine misinformation put staff at risk after Atlanta shooting Deadly violence not random as staff have endured ‘months of mistreatment, neglect and vilification’, says union

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

10.08.2025 21:12 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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System von Palantir - Datenschützer warnen vor US-Polizeisoftware Die Polizei-Analysesoftware der US-Firma Palantir soll bei der Ermittlung von Terroristen helfen. Datenschützer bewerten das Tool jedoch extrem krtisch.
30.07.2025 21:14 — 👍 25    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

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