Friedemann Weber
@friedemann.bsky.social
Basic researcher on viruses and innate immunity. Professor and Chair. Opinions are my own
Stellungnahme der Kommission „Zoonosen und Virusinfektionen der Tiere“ zu H5N1
Gesellschaft für Virologie
@gesvirologie.bsky.soc
Gesellschaft für Virologie
@gesvirologie.bsky.soc
Stellungnahme der Kommission „Zoonosen und Virusinfektionen der Tiere“ zu H5N1 | Gesellschaft für Virologie
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November 12, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Stellungnahme der Kommission „Zoonosen und Virusinfektionen der Tiere“ zu H5N1
Gesellschaft für Virologie
@gesvirologie.bsky.soc
Gesellschaft für Virologie
@gesvirologie.bsky.soc
Was viele Leute nicht verstehen:
zu früh dran sein ist auch unpünktlich
zu früh dran sein ist auch unpünktlich
November 7, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Was viele Leute nicht verstehen:
zu früh dran sein ist auch unpünktlich
zu früh dran sein ist auch unpünktlich
Was trained with material from X discussions
AI hallucinates because it’s trained to fake answers it doesn’t know
Teaching chatbots to say “I don’t know” could curb hallucinations. It could also break AI’s business model
www.science.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Was trained with material from X discussions
How can anyone even come up with such an idea?
This luxury ‘cat poo’ coffee has a unique flavour: what’s behind it?
Civets enrich coffee beans they eat and excrete with two fatty acids often used in dairy products, study finds.
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:21 AM
How can anyone even come up with such an idea?
Reposted by Friedemann Weber
🧵Remember the preprint claiming SARS-CoV-2 has a "synthetic fingerprint"?
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
October 29, 2025 at 7:32 AM
🧵Remember the preprint claiming SARS-CoV-2 has a "synthetic fingerprint"?
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
It said a restriction map was "extremely unlikely to have arisen by random evolution.”
I took its claims seriously.
The "synthetic fingerprint" hypothesis collapses. My new preprint explains why.
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) "resulted in a sharp reduction...of airborne and aerosol-transmitted infections. ...observation bolsters the “collateral benefit” case for NPIs during pandemic responses."
Broad benefits of the COVID-19 pandemic response
Nonpharmaceutical interventions protected the US population from other infectious diseases
www.science.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Nonpharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) "resulted in a sharp reduction...of airborne and aerosol-transmitted infections. ...observation bolsters the “collateral benefit” case for NPIs during pandemic responses."
Reposted by Friedemann Weber
Damit ist dann die Behauptung, der Lableaker, es gäbe keine Furin-Cleavagestelle in wilden Fledermauscoronaviren auch komplett obsolet!
That would have been big news a few years ago, unfortunately the great science that gives important understanding in coronaviruses is now back to the small circle of scientists. Anyway: A fully functional furin cleavage site in a bat betacorarnavirus! Congrats to the authors!
We’ve identified a highly divergent betacoronavirus from South American bat that encodes a functional furin cleavage site.
Another fascinating reminder of how diverse coronavirus evolution is in wildlife reservoirs.
#Virology #VirusEvolution #Bats #Coronavirus
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Another fascinating reminder of how diverse coronavirus evolution is in wildlife reservoirs.
#Virology #VirusEvolution #Bats #Coronavirus
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 29, 2025 at 10:17 PM
Damit ist dann die Behauptung, der Lableaker, es gäbe keine Furin-Cleavagestelle in wilden Fledermauscoronaviren auch komplett obsolet!
Der dauert ein bisschen
Warum heißt es wahrheitsliebender Vorfahr und nicht Truthahn?
October 30, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Der dauert ein bisschen
Katze bringt Nichtangriffsgarantie für Mäuse ins Spiel
Lawrow bringt Nichtangriffsgarantie für Europa ins Spiel
Minsk - Russland ist nach Worten von Außenminister Sergej Lawrow bereit zu einer Nichtangriffsgarantie für EU- und Nato-Staaten. «Wir haben mehrmals
www.stern.de
October 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Katze bringt Nichtangriffsgarantie für Mäuse ins Spiel
Ständig werden neue Nebenwirkungen dieser "experimentellen modRNA Gentherapie" entdeckt!
People with some cancers live longer after a COVID vaccine
mRNA vaccines seem to boost the effectiveness of an immune therapy for skin and lung cancer ― in an unexpected way.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:33 AM
Ständig werden neue Nebenwirkungen dieser "experimentellen modRNA Gentherapie" entdeckt!
The mathematics of droplet formation when cutting onions has been solved. With practical tips on how to minimize tears!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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October 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
The mathematics of droplet formation when cutting onions has been solved. With practical tips on how to minimize tears!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
"director of the...NIH...Bhattacharya...expressed concern about ...problems facing early career researchers...however...neglected to mention the biggest issue...actions...that—on his watch—have thrown biomedical research in the United States into chaos"
www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...
www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...
NIH Leadership Is Failing Early Career Researchers
Halted training programs, funding chaos, and hiring freezes jeopardize advancement options for early career researchers.
www.the-scientist.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:53 AM
"director of the...NIH...Bhattacharya...expressed concern about ...problems facing early career researchers...however...neglected to mention the biggest issue...actions...that—on his watch—have thrown biomedical research in the United States into chaos"
www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...
www.the-scientist.com/nih-leadersh...
Gut dass die BZ so deutlich warnt. So ein Auto werde ich bestimmt nie kaufen.
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October 17, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Gut dass die BZ so deutlich warnt. So ein Auto werde ich bestimmt nie kaufen.
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Fühle mich gemobbt
October 3, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Fühle mich gemobbt
Reposted by Friedemann Weber
Gleich zwei Sozialgerichte urteilen, Versorgungsämter dürfen #LongCovid und #MECFS nicht als psychische Erkrankung einstufen - Betroffenen wurde die Tür zur Anerkennung einer Schwerbehinderung geöffnet www.riffreporter.de/de/gesellsch... @riffreporter.bsky.social
Gerichtsurteile: Long Covid ist keine psychische Erkrankung
Wegweisende Sozialgerichtsurteile stufen Long Covid und ME/CFS als körperliche Erkrankungen ein - und öffnen die Tür zur Anerkennung als Schwerbehinderung.
www.riffreporter.de
October 2, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Gleich zwei Sozialgerichte urteilen, Versorgungsämter dürfen #LongCovid und #MECFS nicht als psychische Erkrankung einstufen - Betroffenen wurde die Tür zur Anerkennung einer Schwerbehinderung geöffnet www.riffreporter.de/de/gesellsch... @riffreporter.bsky.social
Sozialgerichte stellen klar: Long Covid und ME/CFS sind keine psychischen Erkrankungen
From the CoronavirusDACH community on Reddit: Gerichtsurteile: Long Covid ist keine psychische Erkrankung
Explore this post and more from the CoronavirusDACH community
www.reddit.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Sozialgerichte stellen klar: Long Covid und ME/CFS sind keine psychischen Erkrankungen
Frau will nicht, dass ich „Willkommen in der Grauzone!“ auf die Geburtstagskarte schreibe
September 13, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Frau will nicht, dass ich „Willkommen in der Grauzone!“ auf die Geburtstagskarte schreibe
Holländisch muss man einfach lieben
September 13, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Holländisch muss man einfach lieben
Schrödingers Bahnfahrt
September 11, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Schrödingers Bahnfahrt
KBV - ZEPAI: Angepasster COVID-19-Impfstoff Comirnaty für alle Altersgruppen bestellbar
KBV - ZEPAI: Angepasster COVID-19-Impfstoff Comirnaty für alle Altersgruppen bestellbar
kbv.de
September 5, 2025 at 10:48 AM
KBV - ZEPAI: Angepasster COVID-19-Impfstoff Comirnaty für alle Altersgruppen bestellbar
Serious setback in the fight against malaria:
"opposition to the project has grown, fueled in part by false accusations...social media...disinformation campaigns in the region often linked to Russian networks, says Mark Duerksen, a security expert"
"opposition to the project has grown, fueled in part by false accusations...social media...disinformation campaigns in the region often linked to Russian networks, says Mark Duerksen, a security expert"
After ‘humiliating’ raid, Burkina Faso halts ‘gene drive’ project to fight malaria
Disinformation campaign may have triggered “brutal” shutdown of mosquito lab
www.science.org
September 5, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Serious setback in the fight against malaria:
"opposition to the project has grown, fueled in part by false accusations...social media...disinformation campaigns in the region often linked to Russian networks, says Mark Duerksen, a security expert"
"opposition to the project has grown, fueled in part by false accusations...social media...disinformation campaigns in the region often linked to Russian networks, says Mark Duerksen, a security expert"
Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe
Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome
#Arbovirus #mosquito
Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome
#Arbovirus #mosquito
Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe
Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome
www.science.org
September 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
Mosquito-borne viruses surge in a warming Europe
Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome
#Arbovirus #mosquito
Chikungunya cases break records in France; West Nile virus appears near Rome
#Arbovirus #mosquito
Where antivaxxers have taken over already:
"“zero-dose children” tragically account for nearly half of vaccine-preventable disease deaths"
"“zero-dose children” tragically account for nearly half of vaccine-preventable disease deaths"
Unraveling the arc of vaccine progress
The philosopher Thomas Hobbes famously described life in 1651 as “nasty, brutish, and short.” He was undeniably correct, with estimates of average life expectancy in the UK at the time ranging from 37 to 40 years, largely owing to a high infant mortality ...
www.science.org
August 29, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Where antivaxxers have taken over already:
"“zero-dose children” tragically account for nearly half of vaccine-preventable disease deaths"
"“zero-dose children” tragically account for nearly half of vaccine-preventable disease deaths"
Early horse riders selected a rare mutation in a single gene to enhance rideability.
Ancient DNA analysis and experimental work with mouse model (😀) provide new evidence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Ancient DNA analysis and experimental work with mouse model (😀) provide new evidence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)
The rise of rideable horses
Early horse riders selected a rare mutation in a single gene to enhance rideability
www.science.org
August 29, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Early horse riders selected a rare mutation in a single gene to enhance rideability.
Ancient DNA analysis and experimental work with mouse model (😀) provide new evidence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)
Ancient DNA analysis and experimental work with mouse model (😀) provide new evidence
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
(www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...)