Mera L🪬
@mlicc1701.bsky.social
Duke University alumn. Virology research specialist in the Sheahan Lab at CVRG (y'know, at that other blue school). Pop punk millennial. she/they. ✡️•🏳️🌈•🖖
What one needs for science in its best form can be summed up in a Panic! at the Disco lyric: "if you talk, you better walk, you better back your shit up"
Awful telling that Thiel's little hand puppet doesn't put much stock in evidence...
Awful telling that Thiel's little hand puppet doesn't put much stock in evidence...
November 12, 2025 at 6:51 PM
What one needs for science in its best form can be summed up in a Panic! at the Disco lyric: "if you talk, you better walk, you better back your shit up"
Awful telling that Thiel's little hand puppet doesn't put much stock in evidence...
Awful telling that Thiel's little hand puppet doesn't put much stock in evidence...
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Her role as one of the first structural virologists is underappreciated.
It's International Women in Science Day ♀️, and I want to talk briefly about Rosalind Franklin.
A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.
A conventional choice for unconventional reasons: Dr. Franklin was one of the FIRST STRUCTURAL VIROLOGISTS. Let's talk about her work outside of the Crick & Watson debacle.
November 7, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Her role as one of the first structural virologists is underappreciated.
Reposted by Mera L🪬
WHO has a long history of coordinating scientific networks - for flu samples, they've been doing it for 70 years. Global South countries have been begging for this, and have been ignored. The world is stuck in a hostage crisis with a shady businessman: www.science.org/content/arti...
The ‘invented persona’ behind a key pandemic database
GISAID offers a safe space to post viral genomes. Peter Bogner, its perplexing creator and overseer, may be jeopardizing its future
www.science.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:33 PM
WHO has a long history of coordinating scientific networks - for flu samples, they've been doing it for 70 years. Global South countries have been begging for this, and have been ignored. The world is stuck in a hostage crisis with a shady businessman: www.science.org/content/arti...
Honestly, from information in Seth Mnookin's The Panic Virus alone, I do not understand why Wakefield didn't serve any time for fraud
October 29, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Honestly, from information in Seth Mnookin's The Panic Virus alone, I do not understand why Wakefield didn't serve any time for fraud
