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Jason Needham

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Virologist

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Figure 1. Timeline of mainly US civil society campaigns to encourage meat reduction as individual climate action along with short descriptions of the animal agriculture industry’s response.

Figure 1. Timeline of mainly US civil society campaigns to encourage meat reduction as individual climate action along with short descriptions of the animal agriculture industry’s response.

There’s a popular talking point that says boycotting animal products is an “individual action” that distracts from the responsibility of powerful corporations.

The meat industry spent decades promoting this narrative.

new paper:
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www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

15.03.2025 13:35 — 👍 78    🔁 22    💬 1    📌 2

Hey Erik,
Could you please add me to the group? Here's a link to my orchid: orcid.org/0000-0002-37...

Thanks!
Jason

11.12.2024 22:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Single-cell analysis reveals host S phase drives large T antigen expression during BK polyomavirus infection Author summary BK polyomavirus (BKPyV) is the leading cause of graft loss in kidney transplant patients due to the lack of effective antivirals. Previous studies have implied that early expression of ...

Single-cell analysis reveals host S phase drives large T antigen expression during BK polyomavirus infection

journals.plos.org/plospathogen...

06.12.2024 16:05 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

There is no brain microbiome.

An example of where the actual, broadly defined * peer review has * worked *.

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03.12.2024 10:51 — 👍 23    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

The preliminary sequence from the H5N1 human case in British Columbia has been posted and it is not good news. The virus potentially has a quasispecies at HA residue 226 (H3 numbering). This is bad news because we know that mutations at residue 226 can increase binding to human receptors. 1/

16.11.2024 15:19 — 👍 2177    🔁 963    💬 206    📌 208

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