Hwa Shi-Hsia /xwa51 ʂɚ55 ɕja35/
@coolvirus.bsky.social
PhD in infectious diseases and immunology, not in common sense, impulse control, or social skills.
Mpox, Yersinia pestis, avian influenza, dengue, EV-A71, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, SARS-CoV-2, cats and dogs, bikes, democracy, sewing. 🇲🇾🇿🇦🇸🇬🇺🇸
Mpox, Yersinia pestis, avian influenza, dengue, EV-A71, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, SARS-CoV-2, cats and dogs, bikes, democracy, sewing. 🇲🇾🇿🇦🇸🇬🇺🇸
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I have friends who are colleagues and friends who are laypersons, so if you think a post is too complicated, it's not for you, and if you think it's too simplistic, it's also not for you.
I gotta say it's pretty cool that the announcement of the Steam Frame VR headset has an older woman in one of the prominent product photos.
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamfr...
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamfr...
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I gotta say it's pretty cool that the announcement of the Steam Frame VR headset has an older woman in one of the prominent product photos.
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamfr...
store.steampowered.com/sale/steamfr...
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Five new #avian flu outbreaks confirmed in ducks, turkeys in 3 US states
In Michigan, 113,000 birds were affected on a turkey farm, the state's third detection in commercial turkeys in less than a week.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Photo: Andew-M-Whitman / Flickr cc
In Michigan, 113,000 birds were affected on a turkey farm, the state's third detection in commercial turkeys in less than a week.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Photo: Andew-M-Whitman / Flickr cc
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Five new #avian flu outbreaks confirmed in ducks, turkeys in 3 US states
In Michigan, 113,000 birds were affected on a turkey farm, the state's third detection in commercial turkeys in less than a week.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Photo: Andew-M-Whitman / Flickr cc
In Michigan, 113,000 birds were affected on a turkey farm, the state's third detection in commercial turkeys in less than a week.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/a...
Photo: Andew-M-Whitman / Flickr cc
Huge outbreak of bird flu on a turkey farm. Unhappy Thanksgiving...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
Five new avian flu outbreaks confirmed in ducks, turkeys in 3 US states
In Michigan, 113,000 birds were affected on a turkey farm in Ottawa County, the state's third detection in commercial turkeys in less than a week.
www.cidrap.umn.edu
November 8, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Huge outbreak of bird flu on a turkey farm. Unhappy Thanksgiving...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...
#Tuberculosis #TB in a children's book about life in the 1910s
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
#Tuberculosis #TB in a children's book about life in the 1910s
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And of course I’d be remiss if I didn’t shout out the role of beavers, who are laying the groundwork for salmon recovery in Spencer Creek & other Klamath basin streams by creating rearing ponds for the next generations of coho & steelhead.
Tired: dams made of concrete
Inspired: dams made of willow
Tired: dams made of concrete
Inspired: dams made of willow
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 PM
And of course I’d be remiss if I didn’t shout out the role of beavers, who are laying the groundwork for salmon recovery in Spencer Creek & other Klamath basin streams by creating rearing ponds for the next generations of coho & steelhead.
Tired: dams made of concrete
Inspired: dams made of willow
Tired: dams made of concrete
Inspired: dams made of willow
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You "ease pressure" by paying them and FINALLY staffing up to proper numbers. (Like - hire more controllers than you think you need so that there are plenty of students in training. And then keep hiring controllers for YEARS so that retirements don't cause perpetual staffing crises.)
Breaking news: The Trump administration has announced it will reduce flight traffic by 10 percent in 40 markets across the U.S. as part of an effort to ease pressure on air traffic controllers, as the government shutdown enters its second month.
U.S. orders 10% cut in flights at several airports as shutdown drags on
The Trump administration says the move, which will affect 40 markets, is part of an effort to ease pressure on air traffic controllers.
wapo.st
November 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
You "ease pressure" by paying them and FINALLY staffing up to proper numbers. (Like - hire more controllers than you think you need so that there are plenty of students in training. And then keep hiring controllers for YEARS so that retirements don't cause perpetual staffing crises.)
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Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
November 5, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.
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I want to remind everyone that while air traffic controllers are the most obvious FAA employees, there are tens of thousands more, including the technicians who keep ATC operating, the inspectors on the ground at air carriers & cargo operators, etc. who are vital to air safety.
We. Need. Them. All.
We. Need. Them. All.
November 5, 2025 at 10:59 PM
I want to remind everyone that while air traffic controllers are the most obvious FAA employees, there are tens of thousands more, including the technicians who keep ATC operating, the inspectors on the ground at air carriers & cargo operators, etc. who are vital to air safety.
We. Need. Them. All.
We. Need. Them. All.
Reminder of yet another thing that's affected by the US government shutdown
My thoughts are with the victims of today's UPS plane crash, but they are also with the NTSB investigators who, tomorrow, will dig through half a mile of toxic debris to find the black boxes, all without being paid. Godspeed to them as well.
November 6, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Reminder of yet another thing that's affected by the US government shutdown
If Morgoth was Australian:
Him: OK, we've escaped Valinor and made it back to Middle-Earth. Time to rebuild Angband, we're not here to fuck spiders.
Ungoliant: Speak for yourself
🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕸️
Him: OK, we've escaped Valinor and made it back to Middle-Earth. Time to rebuild Angband, we're not here to fuck spiders.
Ungoliant: Speak for yourself
🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕸️
November 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
If Morgoth was Australian:
Him: OK, we've escaped Valinor and made it back to Middle-Earth. Time to rebuild Angband, we're not here to fuck spiders.
Ungoliant: Speak for yourself
🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕸️
Him: OK, we've escaped Valinor and made it back to Middle-Earth. Time to rebuild Angband, we're not here to fuck spiders.
Ungoliant: Speak for yourself
🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕷️🕸️
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I find there's a huge mismatch between the standard advice that people give about scientific conference talks, and how people actually give talks.
So I picked out the most important pieces of advice that are most often ignored. 🧪
So I picked out the most important pieces of advice that are most often ignored. 🧪
The best scientific talk advice that gets ignored
Here are some prescriptions for a case of UCPS (Unengaging Conference Presentation Syndrome).
scienceforeveryone.science
October 28, 2025 at 9:24 PM
I find there's a huge mismatch between the standard advice that people give about scientific conference talks, and how people actually give talks.
So I picked out the most important pieces of advice that are most often ignored. 🧪
So I picked out the most important pieces of advice that are most often ignored. 🧪
Random thought of the day: Negri Sembilan is fractal because it's a federation of states (the original 9 mini-kingdoms) inside a federation of states (as a state in modern Malaysia)
October 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Random thought of the day: Negri Sembilan is fractal because it's a federation of states (the original 9 mini-kingdoms) inside a federation of states (as a state in modern Malaysia)
Just explained to my family that a bunch of my colleagues are being forced to work FOR FREE
October 25, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Just explained to my family that a bunch of my colleagues are being forced to work FOR FREE
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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
October 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
Wooo I got 1 triops in this hatch! The "Desert Family Pack" says it should contain about 10 triops but I only used a quarter of the packet for my 4L nano tank.
Hopefully it doesn't eat the fairy shrimp and clam shrimp, I gave it a little bit of spinach.
www.arizonafairyshrimp.com/eggs_s.html
Hopefully it doesn't eat the fairy shrimp and clam shrimp, I gave it a little bit of spinach.
www.arizonafairyshrimp.com/eggs_s.html
September 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Wooo I got 1 triops in this hatch! The "Desert Family Pack" says it should contain about 10 triops but I only used a quarter of the packet for my 4L nano tank.
Hopefully it doesn't eat the fairy shrimp and clam shrimp, I gave it a little bit of spinach.
www.arizonafairyshrimp.com/eggs_s.html
Hopefully it doesn't eat the fairy shrimp and clam shrimp, I gave it a little bit of spinach.
www.arizonafairyshrimp.com/eggs_s.html
I have friends who are colleagues and friends who are laypersons, so if you think a post is too complicated, it's not for you, and if you think it's too simplistic, it's also not for you.
September 19, 2025 at 6:20 PM
I have friends who are colleagues and friends who are laypersons, so if you think a post is too complicated, it's not for you, and if you think it's too simplistic, it's also not for you.
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I'm watching the ACIP meeting. #Follow along for updates.
The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.
The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.
The meeting of the CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices is starting now. They will vote on delaying the hepatitis B vaccine (now given at birth) until baby is 1 month old, as long as mom tests negative. www.youtube.com/live/-6uBNXs...
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) - September 18, 2025 - Day 1 of 2
YouTube video by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
www.youtube.com
September 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I'm watching the ACIP meeting. #Follow along for updates.
The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.
The committee will vote on whether to delay the hepatitis B vaccine for babies and whether to give the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) and chickenpox vaccines separately.
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www.youtube.com/live/-6uBNXs...
Arjun Srinivasan, MD from the CDC notes that measles caused 48,000 hospitalizations and 400-500 deaths a year before the vaccine.
Arjun Srinivasan, MD from the CDC notes that measles caused 48,000 hospitalizations and 400-500 deaths a year before the vaccine.
September 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
www.youtube.com/live/-6uBNXs...
Arjun Srinivasan, MD from the CDC notes that measles caused 48,000 hospitalizations and 400-500 deaths a year before the vaccine.
Arjun Srinivasan, MD from the CDC notes that measles caused 48,000 hospitalizations and 400-500 deaths a year before the vaccine.
Does anybody know about brain epigenetics and estrus? She got spayed while in heat and I think her tiny cat brain got stuck in slut mode. It's been over a year and she still does the lordosis thingy when you pet her behind
September 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Does anybody know about brain epigenetics and estrus? She got spayed while in heat and I think her tiny cat brain got stuck in slut mode. It's been over a year and she still does the lordosis thingy when you pet her behind
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Even in the fourth year of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine, the US and the EU continue importing Russian oil, gas, metals, and fertilizers
In 2025, profits from oil and gas account for roughly 77.7% of Russia’s federal budget euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/15/e...
In 2025, profits from oil and gas account for roughly 77.7% of Russia’s federal budget euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/15/e...
Experts uncover US “shopping list” that feeds Russia’s war machine with $2.50 billion in 2025
Energy, metals, and resources — every crate and container keeps the Kremlin’s missiles flying while civilians suffer.
euromaidanpress.com
September 15, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Even in the fourth year of Russia’s all-out war against Ukraine, the US and the EU continue importing Russian oil, gas, metals, and fertilizers
In 2025, profits from oil and gas account for roughly 77.7% of Russia’s federal budget euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/15/e...
In 2025, profits from oil and gas account for roughly 77.7% of Russia’s federal budget euromaidanpress.com/2025/09/15/e...
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Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...
September 13, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Weird how when a Trump supporter, white supremacist, and reportedly, a former member of Turning Point USA shot up Florida State University (FSU) several months ago and killed two people - there wasn't the same national conversation about "political violence." www.mediaite.com/news/mass-sh...
"You're too pretty to be a scientist"
.... despite the vaccine-themed tattoo, NIH shirt, and jewelry from South Africa where I did my PhD on tuberculosis?
#womeninscience #ootd
.... despite the vaccine-themed tattoo, NIH shirt, and jewelry from South Africa where I did my PhD on tuberculosis?
#womeninscience #ootd
September 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"You're too pretty to be a scientist"
.... despite the vaccine-themed tattoo, NIH shirt, and jewelry from South Africa where I did my PhD on tuberculosis?
#womeninscience #ootd
.... despite the vaccine-themed tattoo, NIH shirt, and jewelry from South Africa where I did my PhD on tuberculosis?
#womeninscience #ootd
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As a Norwegian-American, I must say I’m really sick of all this white supremacist Valhalla bullshit. Most Viking Age Norwegians were not cruising around in longships pillaging & blood-eagling their enemies, unless by that you mean growing barley, cod fishing, & herding sheep.
September 13, 2025 at 4:54 AM
As a Norwegian-American, I must say I’m really sick of all this white supremacist Valhalla bullshit. Most Viking Age Norwegians were not cruising around in longships pillaging & blood-eagling their enemies, unless by that you mean growing barley, cod fishing, & herding sheep.