Jason
jaclements.bsky.social
Jason
@jaclements.bsky.social
I think it might be time to get the Goa’uld running things here
April 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Reposted by Jason
This is going to be another rough week for our colleagues in government & for all of us. Vast cuts of govt scientists hurts everyone’s health.

Let’s talk about what this will do to vaccines.

This is the process. Here’s how they’re going to undermine it:
www.cdc.gov/vaccines/bas...
How Vaccines are Developed and Approved for Use
Learn how vaccines are developed and approved for use.
www.cdc.gov
February 18, 2025 at 4:06 PM
This will be the Federal Select Agent Program at some point.
February 15, 2025 at 2:32 AM
Reposted by Jason
Merbecoviruses acquiring ACE2 usage in bats multiple times.

More natural 'gain-of-function' evolution - if you listened to the MAGA sellouts and fascist enablers like Chan, Ridley and Ebright you'd be forgiven for thinking things like this can only happen in a lab.

www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Multiple independent acquisitions of ACE2 usage in MERS-related coronaviruses
Two coronaviruses related to MERS-CoV, which infect European Pipistrellus bats, have been found to use ACE2 as their receptor. These viruses target an ACE2 surface region distant from those recognized...
www.cell.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Reposted by Jason
It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.”

University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.
January 31, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Brought to you by the crack team that missed 9/11 and thought that Iraq was secretly hoarding a doomsday arsenal of WMDs.
C.I.A. Now Favors Lab Leak Theory to Explain Covid’s Origins
A new analysis that began under the Biden administration is released by the C.I.A.’s new director, John Ratcliffe, who wants the agency to get “off the sidelines” in the debate.
www.nytimes.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:42 PM
SARS-CoV-2 downgraded to risk group 2 by CDC and NIH. It’s about time.
December 20, 2024 at 7:06 PM