Jasnah Kholin
@jasnah.bsky.social
HKer, nidovirologist. Revstar & MayaKuro fangirl. 一个健康的社會不該只有一種聲音. 解散警隊. ★ she/佢 ★
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“Overly honest methods”
November 10, 2025 at 7:33 PM
“Overly honest methods”
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The decision to sacrifice Ukrainians as disposable, second-class people for the sake of "avoiding escalation" has been an act of strategic idiocy. The consequences are now clear: Russia is more battle-hardened,its drone production is in overdrive, and its desperation makes it more dangerous,not less
On the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion in February 2022, President Zelensky called NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg from a bunker in Kyiv, pleading for a no-fly zone to stop Russian airstrikes.
He cited NATO’s past interventions in Bosnia and Iraq, but
He cited NATO’s past interventions in Bosnia and Iraq, but
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The decision to sacrifice Ukrainians as disposable, second-class people for the sake of "avoiding escalation" has been an act of strategic idiocy. The consequences are now clear: Russia is more battle-hardened,its drone production is in overdrive, and its desperation makes it more dangerous,not less
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Zhengli's team has done the work here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It just shows that bat-to-bat ACE2 variety spans a larger diversity than bat-to-human ACE2 variety; with some generalist viruses being able to infect human & some bat species, but not all bat species.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It just shows that bat-to-bat ACE2 variety spans a larger diversity than bat-to-human ACE2 variety; with some generalist viruses being able to infect human & some bat species, but not all bat species.
www.biorxiv.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Zhengli's team has done the work here:
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It just shows that bat-to-bat ACE2 variety spans a larger diversity than bat-to-human ACE2 variety; with some generalist viruses being able to infect human & some bat species, but not all bat species.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
It just shows that bat-to-bat ACE2 variety spans a larger diversity than bat-to-human ACE2 variety; with some generalist viruses being able to infect human & some bat species, but not all bat species.
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Oh, I think I do.
Bat ACE2's are quite diverse between bat species
The authors used bat cells from spanish R. ferrumequinum bats (blue); whereas BANAL viruses originally came from R. malayanus bats (red)
SC2 will most likely replicate in the "right" R.mal bat cell lines; see below:
Bat ACE2's are quite diverse between bat species
The authors used bat cells from spanish R. ferrumequinum bats (blue); whereas BANAL viruses originally came from R. malayanus bats (red)
SC2 will most likely replicate in the "right" R.mal bat cell lines; see below:
November 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Oh, I think I do.
Bat ACE2's are quite diverse between bat species
The authors used bat cells from spanish R. ferrumequinum bats (blue); whereas BANAL viruses originally came from R. malayanus bats (red)
SC2 will most likely replicate in the "right" R.mal bat cell lines; see below:
Bat ACE2's are quite diverse between bat species
The authors used bat cells from spanish R. ferrumequinum bats (blue); whereas BANAL viruses originally came from R. malayanus bats (red)
SC2 will most likely replicate in the "right" R.mal bat cell lines; see below:
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The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago today. The next year, the singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot chronicled the tragedy in an unlikely hit single.
Read about how ↓
Read about how ↓
Gordon Lightfoot Read About a Shipwreck. Then He Wrote One of Music's Most Unusual Hit Singles
bit.ly
November 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago today. The next year, the singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot chronicled the tragedy in an unlikely hit single.
Read about how ↓
Read about how ↓
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Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
MAHA: Its antivax mask has been dropped
Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
www.respectfulinsolence.com
November 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Del Bigtree and and the MAHA Institute embrace being proudly antivax. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so.
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Nothing mysterious, as one would expect, turns out that there are other SARS-CoV-2 related viruses out there with similar potential.
With BANAL-236, scientists managed to isolate just one such example, but we're only scratching not just the surface, but a tiny point of a hair on the surface.
With BANAL-236, scientists managed to isolate just one such example, but we're only scratching not just the surface, but a tiny point of a hair on the surface.
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Nothing mysterious, as one would expect, turns out that there are other SARS-CoV-2 related viruses out there with similar potential.
With BANAL-236, scientists managed to isolate just one such example, but we're only scratching not just the surface, but a tiny point of a hair on the surface.
With BANAL-236, scientists managed to isolate just one such example, but we're only scratching not just the surface, but a tiny point of a hair on the surface.
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However, you pop in human ACE2 and TMPRSS2, and now BANAL-236 and SARS-CoV-2 can replicate well in the Rhinolophus cell line.
Why is that? Good question, and I don't know - however, it shows that this particular entry barrier between bats and humans is very low for SARS-CoV-2 related viruses.
Why is that? Good question, and I don't know - however, it shows that this particular entry barrier between bats and humans is very low for SARS-CoV-2 related viruses.
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
However, you pop in human ACE2 and TMPRSS2, and now BANAL-236 and SARS-CoV-2 can replicate well in the Rhinolophus cell line.
Why is that? Good question, and I don't know - however, it shows that this particular entry barrier between bats and humans is very low for SARS-CoV-2 related viruses.
Why is that? Good question, and I don't know - however, it shows that this particular entry barrier between bats and humans is very low for SARS-CoV-2 related viruses.
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"SARS-CoV-2 is too well-adapted to humans [hence, insert your favorite conspiracy theory]".
That was never right because, for one, SARS-CoV-2 is a pandemic virus so it necessarily had to be "well-adapted".
Now, a new study shows the same is true for BANAL-236 - a related virus isolated from bats.
That was never right because, for one, SARS-CoV-2 is a pandemic virus so it necessarily had to be "well-adapted".
Now, a new study shows the same is true for BANAL-236 - a related virus isolated from bats.
November 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
"SARS-CoV-2 is too well-adapted to humans [hence, insert your favorite conspiracy theory]".
That was never right because, for one, SARS-CoV-2 is a pandemic virus so it necessarily had to be "well-adapted".
Now, a new study shows the same is true for BANAL-236 - a related virus isolated from bats.
That was never right because, for one, SARS-CoV-2 is a pandemic virus so it necessarily had to be "well-adapted".
Now, a new study shows the same is true for BANAL-236 - a related virus isolated from bats.
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“Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.”
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
November 9, 2025 at 9:05 PM
“Heat pumps are superior in efficiency to condensing boilers, even if the heat pumps are powered by electricity from a power station burning natural gas.”
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
Not me saying that but the late Prof Sir David MacKay.
More in my @carbonbrief.org article 👇
interactive.carbonbrief.org/factcheck/he...
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Pretty crazy that this shipwreck was only 50 years ago. Something about the telling of it in Canada’s greatest ever folk song makes it feel ancient.
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot on Apple Music
Song · 1976 · Duration 6:29
music.apple.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Pretty crazy that this shipwreck was only 50 years ago. Something about the telling of it in Canada’s greatest ever folk song makes it feel ancient.
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It's why the non-response to USAID getting gutted looms so large in my mind. Very clear signal early that abandonment was a preferred response to political challenges in the current context.
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
It's why the non-response to USAID getting gutted looms so large in my mind. Very clear signal early that abandonment was a preferred response to political challenges in the current context.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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who would be the single human in a Muppet adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (and who would the other characters be)
November 8, 2025 at 11:43 PM
who would be the single human in a Muppet adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (and who would the other characters be)
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If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show
Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, and it internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day, company documents show.
www.reuters.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
If 10% of my business was based on defrauding and scamming people, and was called a "pillar of the global fraud economy", I would have some serious moral qualms about my business. Not our friends at Meta though.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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“Understanding the Covid-19 pandemic as a catalyst for right-wing backlash is misleading because it’s too passive” www.liberalcurrents.com/propaganda-r...
Propaganda, Rather than Pandemic Policies, Caused the War on Public Health
The backlash narrative ignores basic facts of the case.
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 AM
“Understanding the Covid-19 pandemic as a catalyst for right-wing backlash is misleading because it’s too passive” www.liberalcurrents.com/propaganda-r...
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Happy Liminal Christmas everyone @shitchester.bsky.social
November 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy Liminal Christmas everyone @shitchester.bsky.social
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Review @jhumimmunity.org @casanovalab.bsky.social
The seven enigmas of SARS-CoV-2: From the past to the future
rupress.org/jhi/article/...
The seven enigmas of SARS-CoV-2: From the past to the future
rupress.org/jhi/article/...
November 10, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Review @jhumimmunity.org @casanovalab.bsky.social
The seven enigmas of SARS-CoV-2: From the past to the future
rupress.org/jhi/article/...
The seven enigmas of SARS-CoV-2: From the past to the future
rupress.org/jhi/article/...
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I’m sorry but this shit drives me bonkers, there was a price for that “big dick energy,” its in rows and rows of crosses and stars at Colleville-sur-Mer
November 10, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I’m sorry but this shit drives me bonkers, there was a price for that “big dick energy,” its in rows and rows of crosses and stars at Colleville-sur-Mer
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The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
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lol
November 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
lol
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
November 10, 2025 at 2:34 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.
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BREAKING: "The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that Canada no longer holds measles elimination status."
Statement from the Public Health Agency of Canada on Canada’s Measles Elimination Status
Following over 12 months of transmission across the country, PAHO confirms Canada's loss of measles elimination status. We are coordinating efforts with provinces and territories to restore the status...
www.canada.ca
November 10, 2025 at 2:36 PM
BREAKING: "The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) has notified the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) that Canada no longer holds measles elimination status."
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The entire western hemisphere straight up ignoring this makes it so much fucking worse
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 AM
The entire western hemisphere straight up ignoring this makes it so much fucking worse