Roberto Pereira
@rcrpereira.bsky.social
PhD Molecular Medicine🦠
Viruses•Vaccines•Molecular Biology🧑🔬
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Viruses•Vaccines•Molecular Biology🧑🔬
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🌅Morning!
💉Trump & RFK Jr often host press events at which they spout damaging BS about vaccines, Tylenol, etc; why are powerful physicians, like Drs Makary & Bhattacharya, standing by their sides nodding obsequiously?
@jonshaffer.bsky.social & I say MDs should RESIST💪
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
💉Trump & RFK Jr often host press events at which they spout damaging BS about vaccines, Tylenol, etc; why are powerful physicians, like Drs Makary & Bhattacharya, standing by their sides nodding obsequiously?
@jonshaffer.bsky.social & I say MDs should RESIST💪
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
Trump and RFK Jr are dismantling public health—aided and abetted by powerful doctors
High profile physicians should be using their positions of power to resist Trump and RFK Jr’s damaging policies, not collaborating with them, say Gavin Yamey and Jonathan Shaffer
President Donald Tr...
www.bmj.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:21 AM
🌅Morning!
💉Trump & RFK Jr often host press events at which they spout damaging BS about vaccines, Tylenol, etc; why are powerful physicians, like Drs Makary & Bhattacharya, standing by their sides nodding obsequiously?
@jonshaffer.bsky.social & I say MDs should RESIST💪
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
💉Trump & RFK Jr often host press events at which they spout damaging BS about vaccines, Tylenol, etc; why are powerful physicians, like Drs Makary & Bhattacharya, standing by their sides nodding obsequiously?
@jonshaffer.bsky.social & I say MDs should RESIST💪
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
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NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor
January 4, 2026 at 2:04 AM
NEW: Plans for secret U.S. raid to capture Maduro leaked to the Washington Post and New York Times before it happened, but both decided not to publish to protect U.S. troops - Semafor
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Thinking about this and the Polymarket stuff at the same time and frowning
🟡 NEW: The New York Times and Washington Post learned of a secret US raid on Venezuela soon before it was scheduled to begin Friday night — but held off publishing what they knew to avoid endangering US troops.
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
www.semafor.com/article/01/0...
News organizations held off on reporting Venezuela raid
The American news organizations held their stories over concerns about endangering US troops.
www.semafor.com
January 4, 2026 at 3:01 AM
Thinking about this and the Polymarket stuff at the same time and frowning
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My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.
January 3, 2026 at 10:27 PM
My statement on President Trump’s actions in Venezuela.
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Trump says he'll make deals with oil companies to fix Venezuela's oil industry, should help with all the resources theft their planning, and threatens Venezuela with further violence.
January 3, 2026 at 4:47 PM
Trump says he'll make deals with oil companies to fix Venezuela's oil industry, should help with all the resources theft their planning, and threatens Venezuela with further violence.
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Trump just announces the US will be running Venezuela now, until the can do a "safe, proper, and judicious" transfer of power. Announcing an occupation before you've occupied a country is a new one.
January 3, 2026 at 4:45 PM
Trump just announces the US will be running Venezuela now, until the can do a "safe, proper, and judicious" transfer of power. Announcing an occupation before you've occupied a country is a new one.
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I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris.
In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).
In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).
January 3, 2026 at 1:18 PM
I’m thinking this morning about all the people I spoke to last year who were absolutely convinced, and tried to convince me, that Trump would be antiwar compared to Biden and Harris.
In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).
In the past week alone he has attacked Nigeria and then Venezuela and also threatened to attack Iran (again).
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A very embarrassing moment for the FIFA Peace Prize committee
JUST IN: Trump says the U.S. has captured Maduro and his wife and flown them out of the country.
January 3, 2026 at 9:31 AM
A very embarrassing moment for the FIFA Peace Prize committee
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Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.
January 3, 2026 at 9:56 AM
Kidnapping the leader of a foreign state without any declaration of war and announcing it via social media is full-on rogue state stuff. From the world’s number one superpower.
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ACIP member Catherine Stein is claiming that there is no informed consent with the birth dose of HBV vaccine.
This is an egregious lie.
This is an egregious lie.
December 4, 2025 at 6:20 PM
ACIP member Catherine Stein is claiming that there is no informed consent with the birth dose of HBV vaccine.
This is an egregious lie.
This is an egregious lie.
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🆕 Our new piece in @nejm.org, written with colleagues in 2 PEPFAR countries—Zambia & South Africa—& at Duke examines the new US approach to global health
“A retreat from multilateralism, a geopolitical emphasis, and rushed transitions could threaten progress,” we say
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
“A retreat from multilateralism, a geopolitical emphasis, and rushed transitions could threaten progress,” we say
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
The New U.S. Global Health Strategy — A Reset of America’s Health Cooperation | NEJM
The U.S. administration recently unveiled its new approach to global health. A retreat
from multilateralism, a geopolitical emphasis, and rushed transitions could threaten
progress.
www.nejm.org
December 1, 2025 at 10:01 AM
🆕 Our new piece in @nejm.org, written with colleagues in 2 PEPFAR countries—Zambia & South Africa—& at Duke examines the new US approach to global health
“A retreat from multilateralism, a geopolitical emphasis, and rushed transitions could threaten progress,” we say
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
“A retreat from multilateralism, a geopolitical emphasis, and rushed transitions could threaten progress,” we say
www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
www.who.int/campaigns/wo...
We have made incredible progress in the last 25 years in the fight against HIV/AIDS, particularly in the development of ARVs. The current US administration has tried their hardest to undermine and destroy this progress 👎
We have made incredible progress in the last 25 years in the fight against HIV/AIDS, particularly in the development of ARVs. The current US administration has tried their hardest to undermine and destroy this progress 👎
World AIDS Day 2025
On 1 December WHO joins partners and communities to commemorate World AIDS Day 2025. Under the theme “Take the rights path: My health, my right!”, WHO is calling on global leaders and citizens to cham...
www.who.int
December 1, 2025 at 10:27 AM
www.who.int/campaigns/wo...
We have made incredible progress in the last 25 years in the fight against HIV/AIDS, particularly in the development of ARVs. The current US administration has tried their hardest to undermine and destroy this progress 👎
We have made incredible progress in the last 25 years in the fight against HIV/AIDS, particularly in the development of ARVs. The current US administration has tried their hardest to undermine and destroy this progress 👎
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We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
Meta halted internal research that purportedly showed (young) people who stopped using Facebook became less depressed and anxious, according to an unredacted legal filing released on Friday. www.cnbc.com/2025/11/23/m...
Meta halted internal research suggesting social media harm, court filing alleges
Meta is alleged to have halted internal research suggesting social media harm, according to court documents.
www.cnbc.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:59 AM
We saw it with big tobacco, we saw it with the fossil fuels industry. When their own internal research showed the harm from their product, the defunded the research and attacked independent researchers coming to the very same conclusions.
#ScienceUnderSiege
#ScienceUnderSiege
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Yesterday, I read a quick note by @michaelemann.bsky.social on the problems of UNFCCC rules on consensus that keep derailing COP after COP. It led me to organise a few thoughts on whether UNFCCC reform is still possible and what other pathways are/could be available.
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Is there life after COP? And is UNFCCC reform even possible?
With so many COP 30 eulogies, we need to ask if our toxic relationship with the climate change negotiations system is part of the problem.
the.ecocene.blog
November 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Yesterday, I read a quick note by @michaelemann.bsky.social on the problems of UNFCCC rules on consensus that keep derailing COP after COP. It led me to organise a few thoughts on whether UNFCCC reform is still possible and what other pathways are/could be available.
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A divergent betacoronavirus with a functional furin cleavage site in South American bats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684489v1
October 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
A divergent betacoronavirus with a functional furin cleavage site in South American bats https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10.24.684489v1
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The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
Trump Administration Is Bringing Back Scores of C.D.C. Experts Fired in Error
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:14 AM
The Trump administration on Saturday scrambled to rescind layoffs of hundreds of CDC scientists who were mistakenly fired on Friday night in what appeared to be a substantial procedural lapse.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/h...
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Right wing think tank (AEI) employee Roger Pielke Jr. has formed a cozy relationship with the Murdoch media as he spreads climate disinformation in Australia.
It's right out of #ScienceUnderSiege (and yes, Roger is prominently mentioned in the book): www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It's right out of #ScienceUnderSiege (and yes, Roger is prominently mentioned in the book): www.theguardian.com/environment/...
News Corp embraces fantasy genre by turning climate crisis into ‘laughable’ science fiction | Temperature Check
The National Climate Risk Assessment is attacked in the Daily Telegraph, while wind turbines became a frightening obstacle for firefighting planes and solar panels a source of mountains of landfill wa...
www.theguardian.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Right wing think tank (AEI) employee Roger Pielke Jr. has formed a cozy relationship with the Murdoch media as he spreads climate disinformation in Australia.
It's right out of #ScienceUnderSiege (and yes, Roger is prominently mentioned in the book): www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It's right out of #ScienceUnderSiege (and yes, Roger is prominently mentioned in the book): www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "
BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:
October 11, 2025 at 2:43 AM
For some context the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly report in addition to being just a good read, to quote wikipedia, "is the main vehicle for publishing public health information and recommendations that have been received by the CDC from state health departments. "
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NEW: @CDCgov hit hard by massive firings that several staff describe to me as a “bloodbath.”
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
Among those RIFd:
—leadership of the center for immunization and respiratory diseases;
—leadership of global health center
—leadership of the measles outbreak response; 1/4
October 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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Germinal center–mediated broadening of B cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 booster immunization
Original antigenic sin? No, memory B cells are predominantly recruited to the germinal center, where they undergo further selection and affinity maturation.
www.science.org/doi/...
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Original antigenic sin? No, memory B cells are predominantly recruited to the germinal center, where they undergo further selection and affinity maturation.
www.science.org/doi/...
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Germinal center–mediated broadening of B cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 booster immunization
SARS-CoV-2 variant booster vaccination broadens human B cell responses through the germinal center reaction.
www.science.org
October 11, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Germinal center–mediated broadening of B cell responses to SARS-CoV-2 booster immunization
Original antigenic sin? No, memory B cells are predominantly recruited to the germinal center, where they undergo further selection and affinity maturation.
www.science.org/doi/...
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Original antigenic sin? No, memory B cells are predominantly recruited to the germinal center, where they undergo further selection and affinity maturation.
www.science.org/doi/...
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Dozens of employees at the CDC — including “disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office — were notified late Friday that they were losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s latest round of federal layoffs.
Trump Administration Lays Off Dozens of C.D.C. Officials
“Disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists, the entire Washington office and the staff of a weekly public health journal were among those who learned late Friday that they would lose their jobs.
nyti.ms
October 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Dozens of employees at the CDC — including “disease detectives,” high-ranking scientists and the entire Washington office — were notified late Friday that they were losing their jobs as part of the Trump administration’s latest round of federal layoffs.
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The HPV vaccine is doing what had been promised.
17 years after it became available, HPV infections decreased significantly in vaccinated people and unvaccinated people because of herd immunity. buff.ly/WvjQ1BS
h/t @boghuma.bsky.social
#medsky #pedsky 🛟🧪
17 years after it became available, HPV infections decreased significantly in vaccinated people and unvaccinated people because of herd immunity. buff.ly/WvjQ1BS
h/t @boghuma.bsky.social
#medsky #pedsky 🛟🧪
October 5, 2025 at 1:51 AM
The HPV vaccine is doing what had been promised.
17 years after it became available, HPV infections decreased significantly in vaccinated people and unvaccinated people because of herd immunity. buff.ly/WvjQ1BS
h/t @boghuma.bsky.social
#medsky #pedsky 🛟🧪
17 years after it became available, HPV infections decreased significantly in vaccinated people and unvaccinated people because of herd immunity. buff.ly/WvjQ1BS
h/t @boghuma.bsky.social
#medsky #pedsky 🛟🧪