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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. 🇲🇾🇿🇦🇸🇬🇺🇸
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...
November 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
#Tuberculosis #TB in a children's book about life in the 1910s
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 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
September 19, 2025 at 6:23 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
September 18, 2025 at 3:23 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
September 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Picked up Tsu Jing's "Kingdom of Characters" because I'm super banana, but I love literature and history and etymology, so I have this weird liminal relationship with #Chinese #ChineseLanguage
September 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I need someone to write a blog post properly decoding all the Hawaiian royalty and officers' regalia in detail.
And I need someone to make me a copy of this guy's epic coronavirus corona.
#ChiefOfWar
August 30, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Getting the bandits genotyped!

#cats #catdna #darwinsark @broadinstitute.org
August 19, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Main campus deer 🦌♥️

#nih #niaid #wildlife
July 18, 2025 at 7:36 PM
What are we supposed to do? Sci-Hub? #sarcasm

arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
July 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Double rainbow in Rockville!!! 🌈🌈
June 18, 2025 at 10:54 PM
I guess this is why he has beef with NOAA

#NoKings
June 14, 2025 at 1:54 AM
I found an astounding independent local fabric store near my lab and I can't believe I was trekking across town to JoAnn before they folded.
I may bail out of research and become a dressmaker.
gstreetfabrics.com
#sewing
May 24, 2025 at 1:34 AM
Just had a new fusion food idea:
GULA MELAKA GLAZED PECANS
Go ahead and try but remember you heard it here first
May 16, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Happy #BikeToWorkDay

#womeninscience #womenonbikes #NIH

"I don't care, I'm still free / You can't take the sky from me"
May 15, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Thank you for flying with Chonky Airlines
Angie going VTOL
#Cats #chonky
May 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is a bit middle school toilet humour but for example I thought this masks = pants meme did a good job of illustrating risk reduction and that it's not binary/black-and-white
May 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
I was very influenced by Usborne's How Your Body Works as a child so I can never stop anthropomorphizing cells, they're all little people with jobs and relationships. Delighted that Hataraku Saibou/Cells At Work is doing the same for the younger generation.
#immunology #cellbiology #anime
May 3, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Heading to main campus for some corona work today, bunch of NIH supporters outside. Thanks guys
May 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Critical information for students.

I started college less than a week after September 11, 2001. It was a terrifying time to be an 18 year old foreigner. I feel for the kids now

theintercept.com/2025/04/17/i...
April 22, 2025 at 2:22 PM
What the actual f?!
I just checked. It's real. This is appalling
April 18, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Every time I see one of these I interpret it as, the elevator is closed because of an infestation of European Badgers (Meles meles)
April 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Lockdown Kitten, it's your 5th anniversary! He was seven hundred grams of sass when we brought him home 2 days before South Africa shut down @gordonwells.bsky.social
March 25, 2025 at 6:33 AM