Can you see Bourbon virus? 😂
14.06.2025 02:59 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0@bentelab.bsky.social
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Can you see Bourbon virus? 😂
14.06.2025 02:59 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0What a despicable scope of this study! Although not mentioned in the text, you can read between the lines that immigrants could be considered the source of CCHFV for Spain! #CCHFV pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39921135/?ut...
12.02.2025 00:00 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0This is the most relevant article to NIH and research cuts I’ve seen.
Imagine if this was today , how many people would be saying “Why are we studying Gila Monsters and their impact on diabetes ? That’s wasted money !”
globalnews.ca/news/9793403...
More trouble for academia! NIH will change the indirect cost rates. This will motivate even more academics to leave the US.
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide...
ROFL!
05.02.2025 21:48 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Everybody wake up!
02.02.2025 01:15 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0All of your most sensitive data and our country’s checkbook are in the hands of an unelected billionaire.
This is the most corrupt administration in history and it’s putting our economy & government in serious jeopardy.
It’s time to speak out and fight back.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...
World map with all countries in green except for the United States, symbolizing U.S. withdrawal from the World Health Organization. Caption from '@IdiotBenevolent' says "The updated World Health Organization map is a sick joke."
The joke is on us.
23.01.2025 15:43 — 👍 31305 🔁 7780 💬 1180 📌 481'Blathering in Davos': Trump mocked for 'lies and moronic claims' in big economic speech
www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...
🚨 URGENT: Major Disruption at NIH - Impact on Biomedical Research.
NIH has implemented sweeping restrictions that affect the entire biomedical research community. The ripple effects of these restrictions threaten to put U.S. biomedical research behind globally.
www.science.org/content/arti...
Free speech absolutists
23.01.2025 03:19 — 👍 20796 🔁 5537 💬 1448 📌 548Hahaha. Gave my MAGA acquaintance a little of his own medicine. Got his panties in a wad and blocked me. They can dish out (for 4 years) but can't take their own medicine. What a loser.
22.01.2025 04:42 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Asking for a friend😅: a colleague with pathological narcissism makes snide comments in emails. What else can I do than just ignoring her? 🤣🤣🤣
22.01.2025 03:59 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I see that Melania chose to wear her Hamburglar hat to honor the criminals in the nation--and next to her.
20.01.2025 17:15 — 👍 38703 🔁 6817 💬 1881 📌 506The richest man on Earth is a drug-addict Nazi with an office in The White House.
What are you going to do about it?
Told you guys! And so it begins. And scientists are blamed if we have a problem. www.bbc.com/news/article...
21.01.2025 06:47 — 👍 29 🔁 12 💬 0 📌 1Not good news: @WHO just announced a new Marburg outbreak in Tanzania.
“As of 11 January 2025, nine suspected cases were reported including eight deaths across two districts – Biharamulo and Muleba. …Results are pending official confirmation.”
www.who.int/emergencies/...
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#IDsky
I am glad people are standing up to this!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Lol
10.01.2025 17:29 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0📣 New podcast episode! Host Jill Morgan (@jill-morgan.bsky.social) from Emory University, Dr. Dennis Bente (@bentelab.bsky.social) from @utmbhealth.bsky.social & Dr. Saima Ali from Indus Health & Hospital Network discuss Crimean-Congo Hemorrhagic Fever (#CCHF): netec.org/transmission...
08.01.2025 20:58 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0Plummer R. (2024, 20241230). Share Covid data, World Health Organization tells China. BBC Retrieved 1231, 2024,
https://buff.ly/4a1YmGV
Gan N. (2024, 20241231). WHO urges China to share Covid origins data, five years on from pandemic’s emergence. CNN Retrieved 1231, 2024,
https://buff.ly/40jXPNe
Anonymous. (2024, 20241231). China defends COVID-19 data-sharing as WHO seeks more access. Reuters Retrieved 1231, 2024,
https://buff.ly/40ixP4O
Finally! Took way too long. Raoult, what a shady guy! Overall, the IHU now has 32 retracted papers — 28 of them authored by Raoult — and 230 other studies with expressions of concern!!!
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Saw this in today’s WSJ. I don't recognize any of the names of the IC scientists mentioned in the piece. 😪 #ScienceNews #WSJ
Ticks? Hemorrhagic fever? Check out yours truly on this podcast.
#ticks #CCHF #virus #climatechange
Have we learned any lessons from COVID? Not!
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
I predict we will see the COVID situation all over again: HPAI will become a huge public health issue in 2025, and then the ignorant say we created it.
27.12.2024 14:09 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0If you want to learn more about CCHF transmission risk
26.12.2024 18:07 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0