Thomas Hunt
@ttaggghunt.bsky.social
Co-Founder at Tolka Therapeutics and microbiologist dedicated to using phage therapy to tackle the rise of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections.
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Ron Pearlman is looking awfully memeworthy, too.
October 15, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Ron Pearlman is looking awfully memeworthy, too.
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Normal Greeks: “emergency exit procedure.”
Me, a late antique Hellenist: “liturgy of the exodus of danger.”
Me, a late antique Hellenist: “liturgy of the exodus of danger.”
June 17, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Normal Greeks: “emergency exit procedure.”
Me, a late antique Hellenist: “liturgy of the exodus of danger.”
Me, a late antique Hellenist: “liturgy of the exodus of danger.”
Stay safe out there, Californians.
June 8, 2025 at 6:07 AM
Stay safe out there, Californians.
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Russia invaded Ukraine unprovoked. Their forces killed tens of thousands of civilians including friends of mine. I stand with the people of Ukraine to defend their rights, their freedom, and their lives
Disgusted by my country, which seems to operate now entirely based on greed
Disgusted by my country, which seems to operate now entirely based on greed
February 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Russia invaded Ukraine unprovoked. Their forces killed tens of thousands of civilians including friends of mine. I stand with the people of Ukraine to defend their rights, their freedom, and their lives
Disgusted by my country, which seems to operate now entirely based on greed
Disgusted by my country, which seems to operate now entirely based on greed
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The current invasion of politics into science puts us on a slippery slope that has a known outcome.
As bio major in 1980s USSR I trained with geneticists who barely survived Stalin's purges for their science.
I thus have 1 degree of separation from that outcome.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
As bio major in 1980s USSR I trained with geneticists who barely survived Stalin's purges for their science.
I thus have 1 degree of separation from that outcome.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
The pushback against state interference in science: how Lysenkoism tried to suppress Genetics and how it was eventually defeated
Genetics in the Soviet Union (USSR) achieved state-of-the-art results and had reached a peak of development by the mid-1930s due to the efforts of the scientific schools of several major figures, incl...
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
January 26, 2025 at 11:07 PM
The current invasion of politics into science puts us on a slippery slope that has a known outcome.
As bio major in 1980s USSR I trained with geneticists who barely survived Stalin's purges for their science.
I thus have 1 degree of separation from that outcome.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
As bio major in 1980s USSR I trained with geneticists who barely survived Stalin's purges for their science.
I thus have 1 degree of separation from that outcome.
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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Beautiful antibiotic discovery data visualisation, and bang up to date too #MicroSky
Many people talk about the "Golden Age of Antibiotics", but I hadn't seen it visualized properly.
Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time?
So, I visualized it myself!
Just how many types of antibiotics were discovered during that time?
So, I visualized it myself!
December 24, 2024 at 12:03 PM
Beautiful antibiotic discovery data visualisation, and bang up to date too #MicroSky