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Hwa Shi-Hsia /xwa51 ʂɚ55 ɕja35/

@coolvirus.bsky.social

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PhD in infectious diseases and immunology, not in common sense, impulse control, or social skills. Mpox, Yersinia pestis, avian influenza, dengue, EV-A71, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, SARS-CoV-2, cats and dogs, bikes, democracy, sewing. 🇲🇾🇿🇦🇸🇬🇺🇸

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Hwa Shi-Hsia /xwa51 ʂɚ55 ɕja35/ @coolvirus.bsky.social · 22d

I have friends who are colleagues and friends who are laypersons, so if you think a post is too complicated, it's not for you, and if you think it's too simplistic, it's also not for you.

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 10d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 16d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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Hwa Shi-Hsia /xwa51 ʂɚ55 ɕja35/ @coolvirus.bsky.social · 22d

Wooo I got 1 triops in this hatch! The "Desert Family Pack" says it should contain about 10 triops but I only used a quarter of the packet for my 4L nano tank.

Hopefully it doesn't eat the fairy shrimp and clam shrimp, I gave it a little bit of spinach.

www.arizonafairyshrimp.com/eggs_s.html

Hwa Shi-Hsia /xwa51 ʂɚ55 ɕja35/ @coolvirus.bsky.social · 22d

I have friends who are colleagues and friends who are laypersons, so if you think a post is too complicated, it's not for you, and if you think it's too simplistic, it's also not for you.

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 23d

I'm watching the ACIP meeting. #Follow along for updates.
The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.

Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 23d

The meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is starting now. They will vote on delaying the hepatitis B vaccine (now given at birth) until baby is 1 month old, as long as mom tests negative. www.youtube.com/live/-6uBNXs...

Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) - September 18, 2025 - Day 1 of 2

YouTube video by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

www.youtube.com

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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 23d

www.youtube.com/live/-6uBNXs...
Arjun Srinivasan, MD from the CDC notes that measles caused 48,000 hospitalizations and 400-500 deaths a year before the vaccine.

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Hwa Shi-Hsia /xwa51 ʂɚ55 ɕja35/ @coolvirus.bsky.social · 23d

Does anybody know about brain epigenetics and estrus? She got spayed while in heat and I think her tiny cat brain got stuck in slut mode. It's been over a year and she still does the lordosis thingy when you pet her behind

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Euromaidan Press @euromaidanpress.bsky.social · 26d

Even in the fourth year of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine, the US and the EU continue importing Russian oil, gas, metals, and fertilizers

In 2025, profits from oil and gas account for roughly 77.7% of Russia’s federal budget euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/15/e...

Experts uncover US “shopping list” that feeds Russia’s war machine with $2.50 billion in 2025

Energy, metals, and resources — every crate and container keeps the Kremlin’s missiles flying while civilians suffer.

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It's Going Down @igd.bsky.social · 28d

Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...

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Hwa Shi-Hsia /xwa51 ʂɚ55 ɕja35/ @coolvirus.bsky.social · 28d

I'm hoping USB-C sticks around for a while tho

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Hwa Shi-Hsia /xwa51 ʂɚ55 ɕja35/ @coolvirus.bsky.social · 28d

"You're too pretty to be a scientist"
.... despite the vaccine-themed tattoo, NIH shirt, and jewelry from South Africa where I did my PhD on tuberculosis?

#womeninscience #ootd

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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 28d

As a Norwegian-American, I must say I’m really sick of all this white supremacist Valhalla bullshit. Most Viking Age Norwegians were not cruising around in longships pillaging & blood-eagling their enemies, unless by that you mean growing barley, cod fishing, & herding sheep.

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Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus @drtedros.who.int · 28d

@who.int is doing all we can to alleviate suffering & evacuate those who need urgent medical care outside Gaza.

The urgent problem we face is that too few countries are willing to receive them.

We call for countries to open their arms to these critically ill patients.

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Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 29d

'One work day, her task was to enter details on chemotherapy options for bladder cancer, which haunted her because she wasn’t an expert on the subject.
“I pictured a person sitting in their car finding out that they have bladder cancer and googling what I’m editing,” she said.'

Thiago Carvalho @cyrilpedia.bsky.social · 29d

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute based in Bremen, Germany. “These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

How thousands of ‘overworked, underpaid’ humans train Google’s AI to seem smart

Contracted AI raters describe grueling deadlines, poor pay and opacity around work to make chatbots intelligent

www.theguardian.com

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Adam Taylor @lordblade.bsky.social · Sep 11

Someone else shared this.
Various comments Kirk has made.

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · Sep 11

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”.

-Charlie Kirk

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Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social · Sep 11

Holy shit.

Trump tried to convince deported South Korean workers to stay and train Americans

South Korea chooses to bring ‘exhausted and in-shock’ workers home after plant raid

www.independent.co.uk

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Hwa Shi-Hsia /xwa51 ʂɚ55 ɕja35/ @coolvirus.bsky.social · Sep 11

During my past life in industry, I too once did a technology transfer trip to train our contractors at their plant in a foreign country, but it sure as heck didn't involve being violently arrested and thrown in prison before doing the tech transfer

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Matt Pearce @mattdpearce.com · Sep 11

Not to interrupt production at the takes factory but they should probably identify and catch the actual killer before we decide what it all means.

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NBC News @nbcnews.com · Sep 11

Australian authorities say that they were investigating videos posted online by a U.S. influencer that show him capturing and restraining wild crocodiles in the state of Queensland.

U.S. influencer under investigation in Australia over controversial crocodile videos

Mike Holston, also known as The Real Tarzann, posted two videos to his 15 million followers on Instagram that show him capturing and restraining wild crocodiles.

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Julie Novkov @jnovkov.bsky.social · Sep 10

If on some folks' own terms, college is all about workforce prep, do you want your entry-level employee complaining to the CEO and the state attorney general or US attorney? If so, good job in reinforcing that path.

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Ákos T Kovács @evolvedbiofilm.bsky.social · Sep 11

Super cool Pseudomonas-Bacillus interaction paper in @natmicrobiol.nature.com from Yun Chen
with @gabrieleberg.bsky.social

Phenazines shape Gram+ abundance & influence Bacillus cell biology

Phenazines contribute to microbiome dynamics by targeting topoisomerase IV
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Kathy Darragh @kdarragh.bsky.social · Sep 11

I'm looking for PhD students to join the lab starting August 2026. We study the evolution of insect chemical signals so if you're interested in evolutionary biology, chemical ecology, molecular biology, behavior, or genetics, this could be a good fit for you! More info here: tinyurl.com/mrxchwfm

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Journal of Experimental Medicine @jem.org · Sep 11

Our new collection highlights recent advances in our understanding of #macrophages & #dendriticcells, and their roles in #infection, #allergy, #cancer, #neuroinflammation, & #neurodegeneration. Read new research to accompany next week's #EMDS2025! rupress.org/jem/collecti...

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Hwa Shi-Hsia /xwa51 ʂɚ55 ɕja35/ @coolvirus.bsky.social · Sep 11

This screenshot reminds me of some other people who referred to other humans as cockroaches... The genocidaires in Rwanda