Rhia Jarvis
@magnum-ophis.bsky.social
Upstate Medical PhD candidate in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology👩🏼🔬🔬🦠🧬 Lover of all things feathered, furred, and scaled 🕊🐈🐍
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Remains of 27 Nubian people from 350 BCE–1400 CE found in the Nile River Valley reveal shifting tattooing styles, with dotted diamonds and crisscrossed motifs in the pre-Christian era giving way to facial tattoos in the medieval Christian era. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/v8r450XMz4r
December 19, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Remains of 27 Nubian people from 350 BCE–1400 CE found in the Nile River Valley reveal shifting tattooing styles, with dotted diamonds and crisscrossed motifs in the pre-Christian era giving way to facial tattoos in the medieval Christian era. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/v8r450XMz4r
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Centralizing data from diverse reporting systems enables timely, actionable #measles surveillance, helping guide public health interventions, improve vaccination efforts, and model outbreak risk more precisely within communities.
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ja.ma/4p3xM5S
December 20, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Centralizing data from diverse reporting systems enables timely, actionable #measles surveillance, helping guide public health interventions, improve vaccination efforts, and model outbreak risk more precisely within communities.
ja.ma/4p3xM5S
ja.ma/4p3xM5S
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This is a very hopeful way to close out the year—give it a read.
Science has named the seemingly unstoppable growth of renewable energy worldwide as the 2025 Breakthrough of the Year.
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
Learn more about this year's #BOTY and other big advances in science: https://scim.ag/493Tpgx
December 19, 2025 at 3:14 PM
This is a very hopeful way to close out the year—give it a read.
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Tuberculosis: A surprising new hiding place for a dangerous pathogen
The bacterium that causes TB can hide in liver cells called hepatocytes and reprogram their metabolism for its own benefit.
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The bacterium that causes TB can hide in liver cells called hepatocytes and reprogram their metabolism for its own benefit.
buff.ly/DjdnT51
December 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Tuberculosis: A surprising new hiding place for a dangerous pathogen
The bacterium that causes TB can hide in liver cells called hepatocytes and reprogram their metabolism for its own benefit.
buff.ly/DjdnT51
The bacterium that causes TB can hide in liver cells called hepatocytes and reprogram their metabolism for its own benefit.
buff.ly/DjdnT51
Pretty jarring to be reminded that federal (aka taxpayer, aka OUR) money is being spent to send spam emails from Dr. Oz, noted peddler of pseudoscience, especially under the guise of “Medicare.gov”. Grifters gotta grift, I guess, and this administration loves a grift. #pseudoscience
December 20, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Pretty jarring to be reminded that federal (aka taxpayer, aka OUR) money is being spent to send spam emails from Dr. Oz, noted peddler of pseudoscience, especially under the guise of “Medicare.gov”. Grifters gotta grift, I guess, and this administration loves a grift. #pseudoscience
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RFK Jr. has been busy this week:
- Defunded the AAP for criticizing him
- Funded an anti-vax group from Denmark to conduct an unethical Hep B study in Guinea Bissau
- Made anti-science policy that is going to deeply harm trans kids
- Instructed the CDC to stop recommending vaccines
#ImpeachRFKjr 🧵
- Defunded the AAP for criticizing him
- Funded an anti-vax group from Denmark to conduct an unethical Hep B study in Guinea Bissau
- Made anti-science policy that is going to deeply harm trans kids
- Instructed the CDC to stop recommending vaccines
#ImpeachRFKjr 🧵
December 20, 2025 at 4:18 PM
RFK Jr. has been busy this week:
- Defunded the AAP for criticizing him
- Funded an anti-vax group from Denmark to conduct an unethical Hep B study in Guinea Bissau
- Made anti-science policy that is going to deeply harm trans kids
- Instructed the CDC to stop recommending vaccines
#ImpeachRFKjr 🧵
- Defunded the AAP for criticizing him
- Funded an anti-vax group from Denmark to conduct an unethical Hep B study in Guinea Bissau
- Made anti-science policy that is going to deeply harm trans kids
- Instructed the CDC to stop recommending vaccines
#ImpeachRFKjr 🧵
Come see Cory Doctorow speak about enshittification and how the internet is broken: ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/vie...
Watch Keynote: The Enshittification of Everything | eCornell
Be Informed. Be Inspired. Experience the Best of Cornell, Live and On Demand.
ecornell.cornell.edu
September 12, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Come see Cory Doctorow speak about enshittification and how the internet is broken: ecornell.cornell.edu/keynotes/vie...
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Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science
https://go.nature.com/45hoe0T
https://go.nature.com/45hoe0T
#OpenToWork: how laid-off US scientists are coping with shattered careers
Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science.
go.nature.com
May 21, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Unemployed researchers face some tough career choices as they flood the job market after the Trump administration’s cuts to science
https://go.nature.com/45hoe0T
https://go.nature.com/45hoe0T
This morning, I suddenly got email bombed through “govdelivery” signups for a ton of government website update email lists. Wondering if this is isolated to me, or something happening more broadly?
#govdelivery #emailspam
#govdelivery #emailspam
April 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
This morning, I suddenly got email bombed through “govdelivery” signups for a ton of government website update email lists. Wondering if this is isolated to me, or something happening more broadly?
#govdelivery #emailspam
#govdelivery #emailspam
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Vaccines have granted families in wealthy countries the luxury of forgetting what measles, polio, rubella, and other preventable diseases are like.
We're looking at how many millions of lives vaccines have saved.
Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/4jqOqKn
We're looking at how many millions of lives vaccines have saved.
Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/4jqOqKn
April 11, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Vaccines have granted families in wealthy countries the luxury of forgetting what measles, polio, rubella, and other preventable diseases are like.
We're looking at how many millions of lives vaccines have saved.
Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/4jqOqKn
We're looking at how many millions of lives vaccines have saved.
Read the full story: https://go.nature.com/4jqOqKn
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Metrics that predict the success of folding and the activity of designed protein sequences are developed and experimentally validated go.nature.com/3UuVqfL
rdcu.be/egMkT
rdcu.be/egMkT
Computational scoring and experimental evaluation of enzymes generated by neural networks - Nature Biotechnology
Metrics that predict the success of folding and the activity of designed protein sequences are developed and experimentally validated.
go.nature.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Metrics that predict the success of folding and the activity of designed protein sequences are developed and experimentally validated go.nature.com/3UuVqfL
rdcu.be/egMkT
rdcu.be/egMkT
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Previously undescribed human gut bacteria that aid in the digestion of plant cellulose are scarce in urban societies but abundant in ancient and hunter-gatherer microbiomes, according to a 2024 Science study. scim.ag/4j0GEqE #ScienceMagArchives
Cryptic diversity of cellulose-degrading gut bacteria in industrialized humans
Cellulolytic human gut bacteria are scarce in urban societies but abundant in ancient and hunter-gatherer microbiomes.
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April 8, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Previously undescribed human gut bacteria that aid in the digestion of plant cellulose are scarce in urban societies but abundant in ancient and hunter-gatherer microbiomes, according to a 2024 Science study. scim.ag/4j0GEqE #ScienceMagArchives
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I wrote a little step-by-step guide for straightforward and simple visualization of timelapse lifetime data (specific for acquisition of lifetime data with a Leica scope):
github.com/JoachimGoedh...
github.com/JoachimGoedh...
April 8, 2025 at 7:50 AM
I wrote a little step-by-step guide for straightforward and simple visualization of timelapse lifetime data (specific for acquisition of lifetime data with a Leica scope):
github.com/JoachimGoedh...
github.com/JoachimGoedh...
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Optimized pipeline for generating highly potent neutralizing Affitins: application to SARS-CoV-2 spike protein https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.03.646589v1
April 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Optimized pipeline for generating highly potent neutralizing Affitins: application to SARS-CoV-2 spike protein https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.04.03.646589v1
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I wonder what my old friend the Chicken Man is up to these days. Does he still live in Philly? I hope he’s doing okay. Now to relax and listen to this new Bruce Springsteen album
April 6, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I wonder what my old friend the Chicken Man is up to these days. Does he still live in Philly? I hope he’s doing okay. Now to relax and listen to this new Bruce Springsteen album
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you know what's funny is that as it becomes more normal to not instantly answer every text, if it takes a day or two for someone to answer, that's just like, how fast letters are. we have cycled back to paper mail cadence
April 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
you know what's funny is that as it becomes more normal to not instantly answer every text, if it takes a day or two for someone to answer, that's just like, how fast letters are. we have cycled back to paper mail cadence
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I saw someone criticizing a very funny poster for making jokes instead of posting about politics, and I am reminded of a favorite line from E. B. White: We should strive not for balanced books but balanced libraries
April 6, 2025 at 3:35 AM
I saw someone criticizing a very funny poster for making jokes instead of posting about politics, and I am reminded of a favorite line from E. B. White: We should strive not for balanced books but balanced libraries
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🚨TUESDAY, APRIL 8TH🚨
In partnership @aaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social (and others) we say:
KILL THE CUTS
Find and register for an event near you: www.killthecuts.org/action-near-...
#savescience
#killthecuts
In partnership @aaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social (and others) we say:
KILL THE CUTS
Find and register for an event near you: www.killthecuts.org/action-near-...
#savescience
#killthecuts
Find an Action Near You — Kill The Cuts
www.killthecuts.org
April 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
🚨TUESDAY, APRIL 8TH🚨
In partnership @aaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social (and others) we say:
KILL THE CUTS
Find and register for an event near you: www.killthecuts.org/action-near-...
#savescience
#killthecuts
In partnership @aaup.bsky.social @higheredlabor.bsky.social @uaw.org @aftunion.bsky.social (and others) we say:
KILL THE CUTS
Find and register for an event near you: www.killthecuts.org/action-near-...
#savescience
#killthecuts
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HEY DORKS, GET YOUR SIGNS READY!
*Two* upcoming opportunities to Stand Up for Science, together.
🚨TOMORROW APRIL 5TH🚨
In partnership with @indivisible.org we say: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE
Find an event near you and register here: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...
#standupforscience
#handsoff
*Two* upcoming opportunities to Stand Up for Science, together.
🚨TOMORROW APRIL 5TH🚨
In partnership with @indivisible.org we say: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE
Find an event near you and register here: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...
#standupforscience
#handsoff
April 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
HEY DORKS, GET YOUR SIGNS READY!
*Two* upcoming opportunities to Stand Up for Science, together.
🚨TOMORROW APRIL 5TH🚨
In partnership with @indivisible.org we say: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE
Find an event near you and register here: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...
#standupforscience
#handsoff
*Two* upcoming opportunities to Stand Up for Science, together.
🚨TOMORROW APRIL 5TH🚨
In partnership with @indivisible.org we say: HANDS OFF OUR SCIENCE
Find an event near you and register here: handsoff2025.com?utm_source=s...
#standupforscience
#handsoff
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Some very clever and interesting membrane biophysicists (and also me) are doing a little webinar on... well, membrane biophysics of today and tomorrow.
Check it out if you have time!
Check it out if you have time!
March 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Some very clever and interesting membrane biophysicists (and also me) are doing a little webinar on... well, membrane biophysics of today and tomorrow.
Check it out if you have time!
Check it out if you have time!