Johanna Muurinen

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American."

It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026.

www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

A huge thanks to all the amazing speakers and participants at #SPAAM7 yesterday 🧬🙌

The sessions were full of inspiring talks and great discussions!✨

Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.

Gain of Fiction: How COVID Origins Motivated Defunding of U.S. Science | Think Global Health Defunding scientific research in the United States has halted disease cure studies amid multiple infectious crises

Gain of Fiction: How COVID Origins Motivated Defunding of U.S. Science

@ggronvall.bsky.social explains how in recent weeks, the Trump administration—including NIH Director Bhattacharya—has rationalized the defunding of scientific research by citing COVID-19's lab leak theory.

Pre-European contact leprosy in the Americas and its current persistence Leprosy, primarily caused by Mycobacterium leprae, is considered a disease introduced into the Americas during European colonization. However, the recent discovery of a second pathogen causing leprosy...

Did leprosy exist in the Americas before European invasion? Our lab #aDNA study at @institutpasteur.bsky.social supervised by @nrascovan.bsky.social in collab with @avanzich.bsky.social (CSU) finds M.lepromatosis in pre-colonial Ancestors from North and South America www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Describe your work in one gif

#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky

Here’s the thing about suggesting “cooking classes” as an alternative to insulin for diabetics.

It’s ignorant. It’s ableist. It’s eugenicist. We know all of this.

It’s also incredibly privileged.

It assumes that healthy eating is accessible to everyone & that not doing it is a choice 🧵

Suomen Kauppakamari on erikoisessa asemassa: ei viranomainen, mutta sillä on lakisääteisiä tehtäviä, kuten kauppatodistusten ja alkuperätodistusten myöntäminen. Näihin asioihin tulee myös valtion rahoitusta – eli meidän verorahoja.
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Sture-setä on taas reilu jätkä. Napannut kuvakaappuksen mun face-päivityksestä ja jakanut Twitteriin. Sieltähän sitten kaikki röllit löysi tiensä mun faceen.

Jep, oon facessa mun päivitykset on olleet pääosin julkisia. Eipä ole enää. Lähdin Twitteristä, kun halusin eroon noista.

blaOXA-58. On kyllä bakteerien geeni jos sillä on jotain väliä. Perustelu on että laajensi ymmärrystäni antibioottiresistenssistä silloin kun aloittelin väikkäriä.

HS Visio | Nälkämaan ihme: Suomen surkein kolkka jättää nyt kaikki muut taakseen, eikä sen pitäisi olla mahdollista Kainuun talous on kasvanut huimaa vauhtia, ja ihmeet ovat seuranneet toisiaan. HS meni katsomaan, mitä kuilun partaalla käyneessä maakunnassa oikein tapahtuu.

Todella mielenkiintoinen juttu. Ja Onnistuu myös mielestäni hienosti selittämään kestävyyden taloudellisen ulottuvuuden viimeisessä osassa. www.hs.fi/visio/art-20...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Äitini on tällainen henkilö, ollut varmaan aina. Siivoaa, havannoi ja pitää kunnossa talonsa takana olevaa metsikköä.

It's time for MEGA: let's make Europe great again! The Nazis & Operation Paperclip crippled European science & culture. Now the US is conducting its own purge. The EU should invest billions into academia, set up new programmes and research centres. Should have done this before Brexit already.

Finland invests in research excellence – new funding call by Research Council of Finland to support recruitment of international talents The Research Council of Finland (RCF) has launched a funding call to improve universities’ ability to recruit international experts to Finland. In line with the RCF’s strategy, the call wi...

Are you a professor or assistant professor level researcher in the US or elsewhere outside of Finland? Looking for new opportunities in an inspiring and well-connected research environment? Finland might be just the place for you.

Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.

Ei varmaan enää voi allekirjoittaa? Oli pieni ongelma sähköpostin kanssa ehdokkuuteni alkutaipaleella niin on mennyt kaikenlaista ohi. Olen ehdolla Sipoossa.

To wrap this already long thread up, a reminder: now that Europe has to rearm, we really, really need to remember these lessons of the past.

Finland wasn’t the only country to understand that strong defence requires a strong society.

But our current crop of politicians seem to have forgotten it.

We sequenced a dozen metagenomes!!! You won't believe what happened next...

🦠🧫🖥🧬🧪🔬
Every metagenomic paper without experimental design:

Kiitos vinkeistä! Itse olen toistaiseksi käyttänyt sitä vain kielen parantamiseen ja jonkun verran koodausapuna. Siinä se on erityisen hyvä, kielimalli kun on.

Jo melkein puolet suomalaisista uskoo Yleisradion olevan politisoitunut uutislähde.

Kymmenen vuotta disinformaatiota ja oikeistopopulismia on vetänyt Suomea syvälle suohon.

Trumpin Amerikan meininki saadaan tännekin, jos oikeisto ei lakkaa uskomasta tyhmään paskapuheeseen.

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6

What is to be done? Support scientific institutions, join scientific societies, support scientific journals that use rigorous peer review, write on bsky/blogs/traditional media, delete your X account, educate people on the risks of AI as an information source, avoid use of AI in scientific writing

In short time the science denial work will all be AI generated, and the volume will increase 10x. Or 100x. And will be preferentially amplified. And it will sound much more convincing, and real, to a lot of folks. And it'd be an absolute complete waste of your time to argue with. And you'd lose.

Climate change deniers used grok to generate a fake paper that they promptly published in a fake journal. It'll have >1 million views on X in under 24 hours.

It's not just an example of bad things on X. There are a lot of those. But it also shows that sci comm there is meaningless and futile

Antibiotics from the abyss – assessing the impact of deep-sea mining on biodiscovery at Newcastle University on FindAPhD.com PhD Project - Antibiotics from the abyss – assessing the impact of deep-sea mining on biodiscovery at Newcastle University, listed on FindAPhD.com

One week left to apply for this BBSRC funded PhD position in the Duncan lab, cosupervised by @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @ruamicro.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Äh, huonosti näköjään selitin. Tarkoitin kuvauksen ensimmäistä sanaa ”tiedemiehet”.

Kuvakaappaus YLE Areenasta, Maailman vanhin DNA -dokumentin kuvauksesta. Teksti alkaa sanalla ”tiedemiehet”.

Mitenkäs teidän lauantai on lähtenyt käyntiin? Mä lähetin Ylelle oikaisupyynnön. Syy on kuvakaappauksen ensimmäinen sana. Ihanaa että YLE esittää dokumentin aiheesta mitä itsekin tutkin, mutta voitaisko me vuonna 2025 vähän miettiä sanavalintojamme. Linkki Areenaan: areena.yle.fi/1-70375143?u...