Merve Tepe, PhD
@mervetepephd.bsky.social
PhD MICROBIOLOGIST
AMR, Biofilms, Phage Therapy, Drug Design and some other similar topics 🤫🔜
@remissionbiome.bsky.social team
@renegaderesearch.bsky.social volunteer
DEFEND SCIENCE, RESIST IGNORANCE 🚫
#SonKale06
Ankara
AMR, Biofilms, Phage Therapy, Drug Design and some other similar topics 🤫🔜
@remissionbiome.bsky.social team
@renegaderesearch.bsky.social volunteer
DEFEND SCIENCE, RESIST IGNORANCE 🚫
#SonKale06
Ankara
Pinned
"Behold the turtle 🐢 He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. " J. Conant
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@zackpolanski.bsky.social Please can you question Streeting on the research showing that Covid causes mental health problems. There is not over diagnosis of conditions like Autism, we now have experts who can identify it. So many are struggling and Labour are ignoring children suffering neurological
Shame on Labour to be talking about overdiagnosis of mental health problems. Also simultaneously ignoring the mountain of research on neuro covid and the mental health issues known to be caused from COVID infections! We need urgent loud opposition to this. 🧵
Simon Wessely — the controversial psychiatrist once dubbed “Britain’s most hated doctor” has been appointed vice chair of Labour’s review into overdiagnosis of mental health and neurodivergence.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/controv...
October 7, 2025 at 7:44 AM
@zackpolanski.bsky.social Please can you question Streeting on the research showing that Covid causes mental health problems. There is not over diagnosis of conditions like Autism, we now have experts who can identify it. So many are struggling and Labour are ignoring children suffering neurological
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A new Nature Medicine study analyzing health records from >100 million people in the US offers compelling evidence that reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) ,the same virus that causes chickenpox and shingles may contribute to dementia risk.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Varicella-zoster virus reactivation and the risk of dementia - Nature Medicine
Large-scale longitudinal health records reveal consistent association of varicella-zoster virus reactivation with dementia.
www.nature.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
A new Nature Medicine study analyzing health records from >100 million people in the US offers compelling evidence that reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) ,the same virus that causes chickenpox and shingles may contribute to dementia risk.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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From ancient Egypt, more than 3,000 years ago ~ this wooden cosmetic spoon with handle in the shape of a biting, running jackal (ca 1539-1292 BC)
opencollection.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/4065
opencollection.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/4065
October 1, 2025 at 6:08 AM
From ancient Egypt, more than 3,000 years ago ~ this wooden cosmetic spoon with handle in the shape of a biting, running jackal (ca 1539-1292 BC)
opencollection.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/4065
opencollection.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/4065
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If #MECFS were a war, it seems that the brain would be its main battlefield. mecfsscience.org/decodeme-the...
DecodeME: the biggest ME/CFS study ever - ME/CFS Science
The first results of DecodeME are in, the largest research project ever undertaken on myalgicContinue readingDecodeME: the biggest ME/CFS study ever
mecfsscience.org
October 7, 2025 at 7:48 AM
If #MECFS were a war, it seems that the brain would be its main battlefield. mecfsscience.org/decodeme-the...
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We, globally, are using ever-more electricity and renewables are supporting the rise, adding to rather than replacing use of fossil fuels (overall there's barely a decline, and there was an increase in the US and EU)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Global renewable energy generation surpasses coal for first time
Record solar expansion and steady wind growth driving world’s shift away from fossil fuels in 2025, report finds
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 6:43 AM
We, globally, are using ever-more electricity and renewables are supporting the rise, adding to rather than replacing use of fossil fuels (overall there's barely a decline, and there was an increase in the US and EU)
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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"Behold the turtle 🐢 He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. " J. Conant
October 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
"Behold the turtle 🐢 He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. " J. Conant
Yeah, me too.
Duh 🙄🤐
Duh 🙄🤐
If your local Democratic Party or your political campaign needs a website or a website makeover. I'm available.
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October 6, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Yeah, me too.
Duh 🙄🤐
Duh 🙄🤐
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I'm celebrating Flag Day and the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary with the most perfect meal for today: Chicken tacos and orange soda with no ice. 😃
June 14, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I'm celebrating Flag Day and the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary with the most perfect meal for today: Chicken tacos and orange soda with no ice. 😃
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Omg, this is so cool..hope we can make a trip to Eastern Turkey with you..i believe that part of Turkey is the best..
And thanks for the story about the İbrahim Tatlises song and glad you liked the Gates of Istanbul 😊
And thanks for the story about the İbrahim Tatlises song and glad you liked the Gates of Istanbul 😊
October 5, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Omg, this is so cool..hope we can make a trip to Eastern Turkey with you..i believe that part of Turkey is the best..
And thanks for the story about the İbrahim Tatlises song and glad you liked the Gates of Istanbul 😊
And thanks for the story about the İbrahim Tatlises song and glad you liked the Gates of Istanbul 😊
"Behold the turtle 🐢 He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. " J. Conant
October 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
"Behold the turtle 🐢 He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. " J. Conant
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Flagging this for my students as a perfect example counterfactual reasoning 😊
To understand how budget cuts could impact the NIH, economists looked to the past--and their alternate history revealed how Trump-level defunding would have undercut breakthrough new medicines of the 21st century 🧪 my story:
'Alternative history' of the NIH shows how a 40% budget cut may thwart new medicines
An “alternative history” has revealed the potential impacts a smaller National Institutes of Health would have had on past drug development—and the results
www.fiercebiotech.com
September 25, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Flagging this for my students as a perfect example counterfactual reasoning 😊
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New Preprint out!
In this short and sweet article, we showcase how management practices (antibiotic treatment) has impacted the AMR profiles associated with bee microbiomes.
The take home? More management = more plasmid-borne resistance!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#microbiome
🧪 🐝
In this short and sweet article, we showcase how management practices (antibiotic treatment) has impacted the AMR profiles associated with bee microbiomes.
The take home? More management = more plasmid-borne resistance!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#microbiome
🧪 🐝
Bee Microbiomes Harbor Diverse Antimicrobial Resistance Genes on Plasmids
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is an emerging public health threat. In North America, tetracycline and macrolide antibiotics are often used to prevent or treat bacterial infections in honey bees. Prev...
doi.org
September 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New Preprint out!
In this short and sweet article, we showcase how management practices (antibiotic treatment) has impacted the AMR profiles associated with bee microbiomes.
The take home? More management = more plasmid-borne resistance!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#microbiome
🧪 🐝
In this short and sweet article, we showcase how management practices (antibiotic treatment) has impacted the AMR profiles associated with bee microbiomes.
The take home? More management = more plasmid-borne resistance!
doi.org/10.1101/2025...
#microbiome
🧪 🐝
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By teaching us to view poverty as a moral failure of the individual, society keeps us from realizing that poverty is actually an ethical failure of society itself. We can choose with UBI to prevent everyone from ever experiencing the poverty that 60% of us will experience in life, and we just don't.
Poverty is not a moral failure of the individual—it's an ethical failure of society itself
YouTube video by Scott Santens
youtube.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:56 PM
By teaching us to view poverty as a moral failure of the individual, society keeps us from realizing that poverty is actually an ethical failure of society itself. We can choose with UBI to prevent everyone from ever experiencing the poverty that 60% of us will experience in life, and we just don't.
Just wow, but tbh, it's not unfamiliar to me, as well. 🙄🤐😬👋
To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.
September 25, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Just wow, but tbh, it's not unfamiliar to me, as well. 🙄🤐😬👋
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The evidence that Trump et al. used to claim that Tylenol causes autism was a paper by Harvard’s Andrea Baccarelli.
The paper did not show a causal relationship, but Dr. Baccarelli was paid $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in court.
RFK Jr. says conflicts are bad tho.
The paper did not show a causal relationship, but Dr. Baccarelli was paid $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in court.
RFK Jr. says conflicts are bad tho.
Scientist behind Trump’s Tylenol claims was paid $150K to give evidence against drug maker
The Harvard academic Andrea Baccarelli gave an ‘unreliable’ testimony on the links between autism and paracetamol, and produced research that raises ‘serious concerns about bias’
www.thetimes.com
September 25, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The evidence that Trump et al. used to claim that Tylenol causes autism was a paper by Harvard’s Andrea Baccarelli.
The paper did not show a causal relationship, but Dr. Baccarelli was paid $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in court.
RFK Jr. says conflicts are bad tho.
The paper did not show a causal relationship, but Dr. Baccarelli was paid $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in court.
RFK Jr. says conflicts are bad tho.
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and THAT’s what’s being cited as “proof” by the Trump administration?
…just asking!
If you want the whole juicy story, read the article I wrote today:
🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/the-tyleno...
…just asking!
If you want the whole juicy story, read the article I wrote today:
🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/the-tyleno...
September 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
and THAT’s what’s being cited as “proof” by the Trump administration?
…just asking!
If you want the whole juicy story, read the article I wrote today:
🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/the-tyleno...
…just asking!
If you want the whole juicy story, read the article I wrote today:
🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/the-tyleno...
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Will @hsph.harvard.edu take action
given they hired Andrea Bacarrelli in 2024 AFTER he falsified links between Tylenol use in pregnancy & autism in federal court (& was paid $150,000)
and THEN published the same claims in a journal with a history of fake peer review & falsified data
1/
given they hired Andrea Bacarrelli in 2024 AFTER he falsified links between Tylenol use in pregnancy & autism in federal court (& was paid $150,000)
and THEN published the same claims in a journal with a history of fake peer review & falsified data
1/
September 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Will @hsph.harvard.edu take action
given they hired Andrea Bacarrelli in 2024 AFTER he falsified links between Tylenol use in pregnancy & autism in federal court (& was paid $150,000)
and THEN published the same claims in a journal with a history of fake peer review & falsified data
1/
given they hired Andrea Bacarrelli in 2024 AFTER he falsified links between Tylenol use in pregnancy & autism in federal court (& was paid $150,000)
and THEN published the same claims in a journal with a history of fake peer review & falsified data
1/
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In fact, it’s often used as an appeal to authority to enable them to spread MORE misinformation.
That’s why media headlines like “study out of Harvard” go viral, even if it’s absolute trash data.
People associate names of institutions with belief they are inherently reputable.
That’s why media headlines like “study out of Harvard” go viral, even if it’s absolute trash data.
People associate names of institutions with belief they are inherently reputable.
September 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In fact, it’s often used as an appeal to authority to enable them to spread MORE misinformation.
That’s why media headlines like “study out of Harvard” go viral, even if it’s absolute trash data.
People associate names of institutions with belief they are inherently reputable.
That’s why media headlines like “study out of Harvard” go viral, even if it’s absolute trash data.
People associate names of institutions with belief they are inherently reputable.
Well-said Dr. Love. Very well-said 😮💨👋🫡
Having an academic job ≠ credibility.
Ex:
Mehmet Oz, Columbia
Marty Makary, Hopkins
Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford
Andrew Huberman, Stanford
Philip Landrigan, BC
Vinay Prasad, UCSF
Mark Hyman, Cleveland Clinic
Deepak Chopra, Harvard
David Sinclair, Harvard
Andrea Baccarelli, Harvard
Harvard’s pattern…
Ex:
Mehmet Oz, Columbia
Marty Makary, Hopkins
Jay Bhattacharya, Stanford
Andrew Huberman, Stanford
Philip Landrigan, BC
Vinay Prasad, UCSF
Mark Hyman, Cleveland Clinic
Deepak Chopra, Harvard
David Sinclair, Harvard
Andrea Baccarelli, Harvard
Harvard’s pattern…
September 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Well-said Dr. Love. Very well-said 😮💨👋🫡
Same same and ugh, sigh 😮💨😔
Never ceases to amaze me how so many people will deny peer reviewed research by experts in the field and believe some random putz on youtube.
September 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Same same and ugh, sigh 😮💨😔