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timothychase.bsky.social
@timothychase.bsky.social
Interests include quantum computation, climatology, evolutionary biology, photography, hiking, and the Mandelbrot set.
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Have you noticed that science communication is overrun with populist rhetoric? @timhenke.bsky.social and I have.

We are beset by influencers who rubbish institutions, prop up cranks, and mislead audiences about problems in science.

We deserve better.

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December 1, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Numerous SARS-CoV-2 spillover events between humans and mink even after cullings with transmission occurring between farms. Makes me wonder about the role of wildlife farms in Yunnan and the role of recombination between betacoronavirus clades due to coinfection in the origin of the precursor....
This is quite late but our lab has a preprint out about a SARS-CoV-2 situation we had in mink in Lithuania back in 2021. It's a doozy with re-emergence of extinct lineages, a country-wide test of all mink farms in Lithuania & some interesting dynamics in mink. www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/5🧵
November 15, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. "
www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...
Early Career Rescue Fellowship
www.uni-konstanz.de
November 11, 2025 at 7:10 PM
My wife asked me to cut her an apple...
November 10, 2025 at 5:35 PM