Diogenes, PhD
iamdiogenes.bsky.social
Diogenes, PhD
@iamdiogenes.bsky.social
Virologist against Fascism. Anonymous because of my position. Supporting truth, justice, and democracy, for the least of us.
Of course they did.
June 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Most likely a major part?! They shape the entire sideways world view that has emerged over the last 30 years. The narratives to which those in our political system respond (or don’t). It’s a choose-your-own-adventure of bad and worse takes.
June 9, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Seems to have a very high force of gravity
June 3, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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The question I have from this stupid and obviously misleading excel plot is what happened with travel in October. Look at the variance across months, nothing here could possibly be construed as a trend.
May 3, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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I got to figure 1 in the paper and took a look at these survival curves and weight data.

Oh hey, that's fully reconstructed 1918 (unsurprising since Jeff Taubenberger, the senior author & acting NIAID director, reconstructed it). Also, what does "chimeric" mean for the H7N1, H6N1, and H10N7?
May 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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The press release did not offer more details so I looked at a paper about it. This was testing a quadrivalent BPL-inactivated vaccine (vaccine made of 4 inactivated low path avian viruses) by a heterosubtypic (different HxNy subtype) challenge.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
An inactivated multivalent influenza A virus vaccine is broadly protective in mice and ferrets
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) present major public health threats from annual seasonal epidemics and pandemics and from viruses adapted to a variety of animals including poultry, pigs, and horses. Vaccin...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
May 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
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Can't complain about half a billion for a "next-generation universal vaccine platform"! What is this amazingly innovative new vaccine technology? Tell me more, because this says "BPL-inactivated, whole virus platform". That describes current flu vaccines.
www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
www.hhs.gov
May 2, 2025 at 4:21 AM
“In Soviet America, cards use you to buy things!”
April 30, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Everyone is taking 1/5 of a pill?
April 30, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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I do wish big-time media orgs would stop taking the bait of calling these cuts to "Brown" or "Harvard." These are cuts to alzheimers research, maternal health research, antiviral coronavirus innovations, not "insert school here." They are cuts to our medical future and scientific livelihood.
April 24, 2025 at 12:49 AM
The best way to get rid of toxic chemicals is to dilute them across more children. It’s chemistry 101.
April 22, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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WE LITERALLY REGULATED THE HOLE IN THE OZONE LAYER OUT OF EXISTENCE
April 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM