Annick Mannaerts
@annickmannaerts.bsky.social
Helping scientists fight respiratory viruses and One Health advocate. Antwerp city guide. All opinions are my own. #resistdoge
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The people getting laid off are some of the highest-trained and most specialized people in healthcare. They don’t just get replaced by hiring some new people when a sane administration takes over. This is a huge loss for America.
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 2:39 AM
The people getting laid off are some of the highest-trained and most specialized people in healthcare. They don’t just get replaced by hiring some new people when a sane administration takes over. This is a huge loss for America.
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Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
October 10, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Lost Science is a new NYT series of accounts from scientists who have lost their jobs or funding. You can send your story to the Times here www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/c...
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Our Lancet viewpoint, 'Bioethics for the Planet', seems ever more timely. Caring for humans and all life forms demands we care also for the planet. Viewable with registration
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics
October 2, 2025 at 2:48 AM
Our Lancet viewpoint, 'Bioethics for the Planet', seems ever more timely. Caring for humans and all life forms demands we care also for the planet. Viewable with registration
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#climate #planetaryhealth #globalhealth #STS #ethics
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Mark Peterson’s black-and-white images of ICE agents evoke film noir and the urban-crime photography of the 1930s and ’40s. “If someone is doing everything right, and then they still get detained, it’s a crime scene,” he said.
ICE’s Spectacle of Intimidation
Immigrants showing up for court dates in Manhattan must now navigate past rows of masked federal agents.
www.newyorker.com
August 10, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Mark Peterson’s black-and-white images of ICE agents evoke film noir and the urban-crime photography of the 1930s and ’40s. “If someone is doing everything right, and then they still get detained, it’s a crime scene,” he said.
Outrageous
July 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Outrageous
Thank you Peter and Co. for persisting!
naturehealthglobal.org/announcing-t...
naturehealthglobal.org/announcing-t...
Announcing The Launch Of Nature.Health.Global. - Nature.Health.Global
April 16 saw the launch of Nature.Health.Global, to continue the work of Ecohealth Alliance, which is closing down.
naturehealthglobal.org
May 20, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Thank you Peter and Co. for persisting!
naturehealthglobal.org/announcing-t...
naturehealthglobal.org/announcing-t...
Just about three hours to go before submission close. Looking forward to learning about your research on respiratory viruses! 😀.
🚨 Deadline Alert! 🚨 Only 1 week to go until the #ESWI2025 #Abstract submission deadline!
📆 20–23 October 2025 | Valencia, Spain
🚀 Don’t miss the chance to contribute with your research to the largest European #scientific conference on #Influenza and other #AcuteRespiratoryVirus diseases
📆 20–23 October 2025 | Valencia, Spain
🚀 Don’t miss the chance to contribute with your research to the largest European #scientific conference on #Influenza and other #AcuteRespiratoryVirus diseases
May 16, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Just about three hours to go before submission close. Looking forward to learning about your research on respiratory viruses! 😀.
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Healthy beginnings, healthy futures #worldhealthday2025
April 7, 2025 at 11:12 AM
Healthy beginnings, healthy futures #worldhealthday2025
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The last time RFK Jr exerted his influence over a measles outbreak (Samoa 2019), 83 people died, mostly children under the age of 5.
These deaths are all preventable with the MMR vaccine. Everyone who voted to confirm RFK Jr knows this & must be accountable for it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/h...
These deaths are all preventable with the MMR vaccine. Everyone who voted to confirm RFK Jr knows this & must be accountable for it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/h...
A Second Child Dies of Measles in Texas (Gift Article)
It is the second confirmed measles death in the U.S. in a decade. If the outbreak continues at the current pace, the nation may lose its “elimination” status.
www.nytimes.com
April 6, 2025 at 4:16 PM
The last time RFK Jr exerted his influence over a measles outbreak (Samoa 2019), 83 people died, mostly children under the age of 5.
These deaths are all preventable with the MMR vaccine. Everyone who voted to confirm RFK Jr knows this & must be accountable for it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/h...
These deaths are all preventable with the MMR vaccine. Everyone who voted to confirm RFK Jr knows this & must be accountable for it.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/06/h...
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📢 Albert Osterhaus explains how public awareness on #humanmetapneumovirus is being raised as we speak. 🎧 Tune into #ESWIAirborne to hear more shorturl.at/Hb9JE 🎙️The episode features Bernadette van den Hoogen & Ann Falsey, moderated by Clare Taylor
#ESWIEducationHub
#ESWIEducationHub
April 1, 2025 at 8:43 PM
📢 Albert Osterhaus explains how public awareness on #humanmetapneumovirus is being raised as we speak. 🎧 Tune into #ESWIAirborne to hear more shorturl.at/Hb9JE 🎙️The episode features Bernadette van den Hoogen & Ann Falsey, moderated by Clare Taylor
#ESWIEducationHub
#ESWIEducationHub
Colon cancer awareness. 248 empty seats doe 248 deaths in Belgium this month. Antwerp. #coloncancer
March 31, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Colon cancer awareness. 248 empty seats doe 248 deaths in Belgium this month. Antwerp. #coloncancer
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🔔 🆕#ESWI #H5N1 Spotlight Bulletin is out! 🔔
🔛 Explore the latest recommendations, scientific articles, institutional statements, and more on #H5N1 ➡️ mailchi.mp/eswi/fluzine...
📚 Visit #ESWIEducationHub for all the details! eswi.org/site/educati...
🔛 Explore the latest recommendations, scientific articles, institutional statements, and more on #H5N1 ➡️ mailchi.mp/eswi/fluzine...
📚 Visit #ESWIEducationHub for all the details! eswi.org/site/educati...
March 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
🔔 🆕#ESWI #H5N1 Spotlight Bulletin is out! 🔔
🔛 Explore the latest recommendations, scientific articles, institutional statements, and more on #H5N1 ➡️ mailchi.mp/eswi/fluzine...
📚 Visit #ESWIEducationHub for all the details! eswi.org/site/educati...
🔛 Explore the latest recommendations, scientific articles, institutional statements, and more on #H5N1 ➡️ mailchi.mp/eswi/fluzine...
📚 Visit #ESWIEducationHub for all the details! eswi.org/site/educati...
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Just released, the definitive explanation!
Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1: history, current situation, and outlook
Florian Krammer florian.krammer@meduniwien.ac.at,
Enikö Hermann
Angela L. Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
doi.org/10.1128/jvi....
Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1: history, current situation, and outlook
Florian Krammer florian.krammer@meduniwien.ac.at,
Enikö Hermann
Angela L. Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
doi.org/10.1128/jvi....
Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1: history, current situation, and outlook | Journal of Virology
Influenza virus pandemics are caused by influenza A viruses and happen in irregular
intervals (1). The H1N1 subtype caused a pandemic in 1918 that claimed between 20 and 50 million
lives, followed by ...
journals.asm.org
March 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Just released, the definitive explanation!
Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1: history, current situation, and outlook
Florian Krammer florian.krammer@meduniwien.ac.at,
Enikö Hermann
Angela L. Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
doi.org/10.1128/jvi....
Highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1: history, current situation, and outlook
Florian Krammer florian.krammer@meduniwien.ac.at,
Enikö Hermann
Angela L. Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social
journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
doi.org/10.1128/jvi....
Bedankt om onze petitie te tekenen! Red het kunstenaars statuut!
www.groen.be/bedankt_peti...
www.groen.be/bedankt_peti...
Bedankt om onze petitie te tekenen!
www.groen.be
March 26, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Bedankt om onze petitie te tekenen! Red het kunstenaars statuut!
www.groen.be/bedankt_peti...
www.groen.be/bedankt_peti...
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University of Queensland virologist @krenfreeshort.bsky.social: "I think it is definitely worthwhile for the government to consider investing more into fundamentally understanding what this virus would do in Australia and what the landscape would look like."
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
Australia on alert after UK detects world's first case of bird flu in sheep
Scientists call for the federal government to invest more in preventing the disease from spreading to Australia's $5 billion sheep meat industry.
www.abc.net.au
March 25, 2025 at 9:33 AM
University of Queensland virologist @krenfreeshort.bsky.social: "I think it is definitely worthwhile for the government to consider investing more into fundamentally understanding what this virus would do in Australia and what the landscape would look like."
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...
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📣 This Friday, 28 March (12:00–12:30 CET):
Join a roundtable on #OneHealth governance in the EU.
With top EU leaders & experts, discussing how One Health can tackle global health & climate challenges.
🎥 Stream: bit.ly/4c1x4Bq
🔎 Info: bit.ly/4fFvAxk
Join a roundtable on #OneHealth governance in the EU.
With top EU leaders & experts, discussing how One Health can tackle global health & climate challenges.
🎥 Stream: bit.ly/4c1x4Bq
🔎 Info: bit.ly/4fFvAxk
March 25, 2025 at 9:55 AM
📣 This Friday, 28 March (12:00–12:30 CET):
Join a roundtable on #OneHealth governance in the EU.
With top EU leaders & experts, discussing how One Health can tackle global health & climate challenges.
🎥 Stream: bit.ly/4c1x4Bq
🔎 Info: bit.ly/4fFvAxk
Join a roundtable on #OneHealth governance in the EU.
With top EU leaders & experts, discussing how One Health can tackle global health & climate challenges.
🎥 Stream: bit.ly/4c1x4Bq
🔎 Info: bit.ly/4fFvAxk
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📣 Fifth #ESWIAirborne unwraps and defines key intervention strategies for acute respiratory viruses 🎙️Colin Russell (ESWI Chair, University of Amsterdam), Catherine Weil-Olivier (Paris-Cité University, CLCI Board Member), & Barbara Rath (Vaccine Safety Initiative) #ESWIEducationHub shorturl.at/4Fnro
Wrap up - Unpacking intervention strategies for acute respiratory viruses | ESWI
Our distinguished experts and coalition partners unwrap and define key intervention strategies for ARVIs. Building on insights from previous episodes they offer fresh perspectives and bring to light t...
shorturl.at
March 21, 2025 at 3:17 PM
📣 Fifth #ESWIAirborne unwraps and defines key intervention strategies for acute respiratory viruses 🎙️Colin Russell (ESWI Chair, University of Amsterdam), Catherine Weil-Olivier (Paris-Cité University, CLCI Board Member), & Barbara Rath (Vaccine Safety Initiative) #ESWIEducationHub shorturl.at/4Fnro
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KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
March 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN.
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
☎️: (202) 224-3121
Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid.
The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING.
Call retiring Senators too!
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Vaccine hesitancy for pets is growing and it matters www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social
www.skepticalraptor.com
March 13, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Vaccine hesitancy for pets is growing and it matters www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalrap... via @skepticalraptor.bsky.social
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My co-EIC Florian Krammer wrote this commentary in Vaccine on the need for next generation flu vaccines to have a NA component (the N in H5N1 or H3N2).
It’s a smart idea & safeguards against bad matches to HA & other subtypes that share N1 or N2.
It’s a smart idea & safeguards against bad matches to HA & other subtypes that share N1 or N2.
March 10, 2025 at 12:43 PM
My co-EIC Florian Krammer wrote this commentary in Vaccine on the need for next generation flu vaccines to have a NA component (the N in H5N1 or H3N2).
It’s a smart idea & safeguards against bad matches to HA & other subtypes that share N1 or N2.
It’s a smart idea & safeguards against bad matches to HA & other subtypes that share N1 or N2.
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🚨 #Europe needs a sustainably funded #influenza research & response network #EPSCO
💬 Florian Krammer: "We had 4️⃣ #influenza #pandemics since 1900 and it is very likely that the next pandemic will be caused by an influenza virus again."
ℹ️ ➕ mailchi.mp/eswi/fluzine...
💬 Florian Krammer: "We had 4️⃣ #influenza #pandemics since 1900 and it is very likely that the next pandemic will be caused by an influenza virus again."
ℹ️ ➕ mailchi.mp/eswi/fluzine...
March 10, 2025 at 11:31 AM
🚨 #Europe needs a sustainably funded #influenza research & response network #EPSCO
💬 Florian Krammer: "We had 4️⃣ #influenza #pandemics since 1900 and it is very likely that the next pandemic will be caused by an influenza virus again."
ℹ️ ➕ mailchi.mp/eswi/fluzine...
💬 Florian Krammer: "We had 4️⃣ #influenza #pandemics since 1900 and it is very likely that the next pandemic will be caused by an influenza virus again."
ℹ️ ➕ mailchi.mp/eswi/fluzine...
I love ships!
“The offer of early retirement and the dismissal of probationary employees are the two main ways the FAA is trimming its workforce. Both are blunt instruments that threaten to sacrifice key talent,” Isaac Stanley-Becker writes:
The FAA’s Troubles Are More Serious Than You Know
The agency responsible for air safety is facing deep cuts and interference by Elon Musk.
www.theatlantic.com
March 9, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I love ships!