Navani Kholin
@elsecallermegan.bsky.social
Bioinformatician • Avian Flu • Roslin Institute • Traveler • Fan of Noodles • 🇺🇲 | 🇨🇳 | 🏴 • she/her
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I guess the media needs it to be spelled out but the core principle of RFKj wellness fascism is that if you get sick it’s your fault, you could have avoided it by using the right “supplements” and working out, so you might as well die because you’re of no use
If you find this confusing you should never comment on American politics ever again.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
July 3, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I guess the media needs it to be spelled out but the core principle of RFKj wellness fascism is that if you get sick it’s your fault, you could have avoided it by using the right “supplements” and working out, so you might as well die because you’re of no use
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Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name
https://go.nature.com/4lCOHLo
https://go.nature.com/4lCOHLo
Japan requires name change after marriage — with big effects on female scientists
Survey finds law requiring married couples to share the same family name causes havoc for researchers.
go.nature.com
July 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Japan is the only country in the world that legally requires married couples to share the same family name
https://go.nature.com/4lCOHLo
https://go.nature.com/4lCOHLo
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Using social network appraoch to map HPAI across 35 host species in N. England. Inter-specific social network position predicted similarity between viral genomes, consistent w HPAIV transmission in nature.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
July 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Using social network appraoch to map HPAI across 35 host species in N. England. Inter-specific social network position predicted similarity between viral genomes, consistent w HPAIV transmission in nature.
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
👉 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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"You have died of dysentery." A path into science shouldn't be as fraught as the Oregon Trail. Check out epidemiologist, NSF GRFP fellow, and Kansan @haileyrobertson.bsky.social's McClintock letter in the Topeka Capital-Journal! www.cjonline.com/story/opinio...
Topeka scientist says NSF funds critical to infectious disease forecasting | Opinion
Planned budget cuts for 2026 would deepen damage to STEM education, jobs, and public access to taxpayer-funded data.
www.cjonline.com
June 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
"You have died of dysentery." A path into science shouldn't be as fraught as the Oregon Trail. Check out epidemiologist, NSF GRFP fellow, and Kansan @haileyrobertson.bsky.social's McClintock letter in the Topeka Capital-Journal! www.cjonline.com/story/opinio...
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There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems
June 29, 2025 at 11:49 PM
There's a lot to be said about identity, solidarity. But a simple place to start: the people who are willing to fight for their neighbors when their neighbors have different problems have a very, very good chance of having neighbors to fight with when you all share problems
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The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to start thinking about alternative career paths
https://go.nature.com/3IluFXf
https://go.nature.com/3IluFXf
If you’re a US researcher, now is the time to establish a plan B
The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to start thinking about alternative career paths.
go.nature.com
June 30, 2025 at 12:42 PM
The scale of funding cuts in the United States means that countless scientists will lose their jobs. It would be naive not to start thinking about alternative career paths
https://go.nature.com/3IluFXf
https://go.nature.com/3IluFXf
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On Sunday I traveled to the middle of the desert to capture this: The ISS against our sun. What I didn't expect: the sun producing a magnificent flare at the same time — AJamesMcCarthy, 19 June 2025
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On Sunday I traveled to the middle of the desert to capture this: The ISS against our sun. What I didn't expect: the sun producing a magnificent flare at the same time — AJamesMcCarthy, 19 June 2025
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June 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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On Sunday I traveled to the middle of the desert to capture this: The ISS against our sun. What I didn't expect: the sun producing a magnificent flare at the same time — AJamesMcCarthy, 19 June 2025
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On Sunday I traveled to the middle of the desert to capture this: The ISS against our sun. What I didn't expect: the sun producing a magnificent flare at the same time — AJamesMcCarthy, 19 June 2025
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This is an extremely good article on why (for reasons more nuanced than in the title) people's situations and experience can lead them to quite rationally make choices that public health messaging (correctly) identifies as very risky. Worth reading
June 28, 2025 at 12:31 PM
This is an extremely good article on why (for reasons more nuanced than in the title) people's situations and experience can lead them to quite rationally make choices that public health messaging (correctly) identifies as very risky. Worth reading
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An AI model developed by Google DeepMind could help scientists make sense of the non-protein-coding part of the genome
https://go.nature.com/3HYwJEu
https://go.nature.com/3HYwJEu
DeepMind’s new AlphaGenome AI tackles the ‘dark matter’ in our DNA
Tool aims to solve the mystery of non-coding sequences — but is still in its infancy.
go.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 3:15 PM
An AI model developed by Google DeepMind could help scientists make sense of the non-protein-coding part of the genome
https://go.nature.com/3HYwJEu
https://go.nature.com/3HYwJEu
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“This is one of the most exciting recent advances for influenza prevention." www.science.org/content/arti...
A single shot of a flu drug could outperform vaccines—and protect for an entire season
One injection of a long-lasting drug showed up to 76% efficacy in a large trial
www.science.org
June 24, 2025 at 8:44 PM
“This is one of the most exciting recent advances for influenza prevention." www.science.org/content/arti...