Hwa Shi-Hsia /xwa51 ʂɚ55 ɕja35/

Singapore is a capitalist oligarchy too but private health insurance there costs for an entire YEAR what one MONTH costs in the USA.

I'm 华诗霞 and I endorse this sunset

#Rockville #Bethesda #Maryland #Chinesenames

Advertisement for Qdenga dengue vaccine for 240 Malaysian ringgit per dose

Whoops forgot picture

My friend back in KL saw an ad for the #dengue 🦟⚽ vaccine I used to work on at Inviragen/Takeda ☺️ Nice to see "translational research" actually having been translated

#flaviviruses #arboviruses #mosquitoes #Aedes #NTDs #vaccines

I need somebody to photoshop in an azhdarchid as the Nazgul steed instead of that goofy looking thing in the Jackson film.

And no it's not called a "fellbeast", fell just means scary. Tolkien didn't give it a name.

Just realized that, except for brief periods of <1 year, I've never in my adult life lived in a country where I wasn't on an employment-based visa and could do normal people side hustles like walking dogs, food service, or sex work.

Employment based visas mean your free time isn't even really yours

Frikkin amazing stuff.

I use a personal library software called Calibre and it has 3rd party plugins that can remove DRM from Amazon and Kobo ebooks. Amazon .kfx can then be converted to .epub; Kobo files are natively epub. I'm currently reading your Tyrannosaur Chronicles that I bought off Kobo and ported this way.

This hacker conference installed a literal antivirus monitoring system Organizers had a way for attendees to track CO2 levels throughout the venue—even before they arrived.

Organizers at New Zealand hacker conference used CO2 monitors to create a literal antivirus monitoring system (indoor CO2 being a proxy for exhaled air). Now why don't we do this at biology conferences...

arstechnica.com/security/202...

Facts and evidence are not “orthodoxy”

“Prohibited words and concepts: Equity, diversity, & inclusion; anti-racism; Bias; Critical race theory; implicit bias; oppression; intersectionality; prohibited discriminatory practices; racial privilege; promoting stereotypes based on personal identity characteristics.”

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Behind this important reversal is a member of the Coast Guard who saw what was happening and had the courage to leak it to the press. That person deserves serious praise.

Brooke double-fisting crickets for breakfast

#prayingmantis #mantids #mantises #petinsects #petbugs

It's for people who want to shoot something but don't have the patience to go and sit in the woods for hours

Not just a USA thing, they also have game farms in South Africa.

And lion farms 🤮

Cuter and closer: Raccoons may be on their way to becoming America's next pet The rubbish raiders are showing reductions in snout length, a sign of early domestication, researchers say.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

Here's this week's Random Animal Facts Journal Club paper:

Apostolov 2025 Front Zool

Tracking domestication signals across populations of North American raccoons (Procyon lotor) via citizen science-driven image repositories

I postbac'd at the National Wildlife Health Center in 2005-6. Helped with a cull of a very similar sketchy deer farm where the guy had been warned that his deer had #CWD. He smuggled several dozen bucks away before the feds came in and culled the rest.

The necropsy samples came back 80% positive 🦌💀

🚀New preprint from our lab!
I am very excited to finally share what has been the main focus of my PhD for the past almost 3 years! It is about viral dark matter and a powerful tool we built to shed light on it. 🧬💡
Continue reading (🧵)

Texas ‘Ghost Deer’ Suspect Facility Tests Positive For CWD Two deer tested positive at a Tom Green County facility owned by prominent breeder Ken Schlaudt.

Deer farmers behaving badly again

www.publicdomain.media/p/texas-ghos...

#cwd #chronicwastingdisease #prions #madcow #deer #hunting

Still better than Malaysian civil servants' conventionally obsequious "Saya yang menurut perintah" = I who am following orders

Some of the older civil servants here use acronyms like "V/r" = Very respectfully. The one that confused me was "/s" till I found out it meant Sincerely, not Sarcastically unlike on social media

I switched to "Sincerely" after I read that Americans think "Best regards" (which I used at my old job in Singapore) is now considered archaic/sarcastic/cold/rude.

Wonderful news. I'm not a parent myself, I can only imagine how shattering it would be to watch your baby gasping for air.

Any President who calls for the opposition party to be hanged should be immediately impeached and removed from office.

getting kids properly screened for adhd with providers that fully trained for it is also near-impossible for many families. it’s so hard to find any providers who accept new patients, regardless of insurance.

you won’t fix clinical issues in this specialty without addressing these underlying causes

every time the pediatric adhd medication discourse starts up, i gotta remind folks that getting pediatric adhd behavioral therapy is nearly impossible to get for many families. one of the worst shortages out there. medication is often the only realistic option available to desperate parents

I gotta say it's pretty cool that the announcement of the Steam Frame VR headset has an older woman in one of the prominent product photos.

store.steampowered.com/sale/steamfr...

Five new #avian flu outbreaks confirmed in ducks, turkeys in 3 US states

In Michigan, 113,000 birds were affected on a turkey farm, the state's third detection in commercial turkeys in less than a week.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...

Photo: Andew-M-Whitman / Flickr cc

Five new avian flu outbreaks confirmed in ducks, turkeys in 3 US states In Michigan, 113,000 birds were affected on a turkey farm in Ottawa County, the state's third detection in commercial turkeys in less than a week.

Huge outbreak of bird flu on a turkey farm. Unhappy Thanksgiving...

www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

#Tuberculosis #TB in a children's book about life in the 1910s

And of course I’d be remiss if I didn’t shout out the role of beavers, who are laying the groundwork for salmon recovery in Spencer Creek & other Klamath basin streams by creating rearing ponds for the next generations of coho & steelhead.

Tired: dams made of concrete
Inspired: dams made of willow