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mitochondria mommy ☣︎
@viruswench.bsky.social
virologist in training | 38k on TikTok
HSV’s biggest fan
BS Microbiology
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“How does Ali Hazelwood churn out books so quickly” BABE she’s a former academic. Chances are she’s written a 100k word PhD dissertation within like a month cause that’s what we all do
November 8, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I always forget about bluesky, but hello fellow virus people and democracy seekers! 🩵🦇

As for life updates, I’m starting some work on HIV1 reservoirs and totally clueless. Any lenti or HIV people, I would love to know your must-read papers/books!
November 6, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I’m rarely on here but
September 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Violence is never the answer.

The craziest thing about all of this is that when I started getting notifications from the @standupforscience.bsky.social discord server, I knew it was an active shooter situation. Not a fire, not a crazy pathogen leaking from a lab, but an active shooter.
August 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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The heart and brain of EPA - its research office - has been dismantled. Policy now outranks evidence. Hundreds of scientists silenced while industry lobbyists cheer.

And the #EPA139 who spoke out still on admin leave.

Support them & the #DeclarationofDissent here: zurl.co/ZRMh1

zurl.co/32CuE
Win for chemical industry as EPA shutters scientific research office
Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on Office of Research and Development assessments.
arstechnica.com
July 24, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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I think the difference between South Park mocking Trump and Colbert is I suspect a lot more Trump voters watch South Park.
July 24, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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if we all start watching south park we will change the world
July 24, 2025 at 6:28 PM
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God bless South Park!
July 24, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hanging on by a thread rn and that thread happens to be south park
July 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
it meeee
When science is under attack, youth are under attack. Sign the petition at bit.ly/sfs-petition or at the link in our bio.
July 15, 2025 at 7:31 PM
pt HAD MMR!!!
please vaccinate your fucking kids because unvaccinated people DO hurt others.
July 15, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Fascinating case describes the first adult case of measles-associated HLH a rare, potentially fatal hyperinflammatory syndrome. The patient had received 2 MMR doses & had confirmed measles IgG prior to illness, but had also been treated w rituximab years earlier.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Haemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) secondary to measles in an adult with a loss of post-vaccination humoral immunity following rituximab
Measles is an important re-emergent infectious disease globally. Vaccine immunity at the population level is key to the prevention of outbreaks, as unvaccinated or immunosuppressed adults are particul...
www.thelancet.com
July 15, 2025 at 7:23 PM
@ medicine ppl: how did you know you wanted to go into medicine?

having my quarterly “what if i went to medical school” crashout lol xoxo
June 28, 2025 at 3:44 PM
my dad is a VP of sales at an electrical equipment company.

his best employee’s parents (mom, dad, stepdad) were all detained by ICE in Dallas last night while they were at the GROCERY STORE. THE GROCERY STORE.

thankfully he has located his parents and has an attorney now but FUCK ICE.
June 16, 2025 at 3:11 AM
“Why are so many kids getting long covid” idk maybe because repeat infections of a virus with neurotropic effects during development will do that
Sigh. I feel for parents, I really do. Masking kids is hard, especially when theres institutional and peer pressure not to. But once your kid is sick with long covid, there is no going back. Maybe not ever. www.news week.com/why-are-so-many-children-getting-long-covid-2080950
Why are so many children getting long COVID?
A study by Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) last year found that up to 5.8 million American children now have long COVID.
www.newsweek.com
June 11, 2025 at 2:57 AM
fire them both #fireandrewhuberman
June 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
June 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Superstars/Nobel winners will get job offers from everywhere. They do anyway. We should be focused on the average student, postdoc and lab tech whose life is going to be turned upside down by all of this. They have nowhere to go. Let's write stories about that.
June 4, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Hate to say it but I feel like these are consequences of no child left behind + cutting health class and sex ed in many red states

bring back health class. also bring back drivers ed
June 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Isn’t this literally like, the first episode of the show Inside Job on Netflix
June 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
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Santa Ono did his best to destroy our university’s DEI programs then resigned to go to Florida.

Turns out his prior DEI support means they don’t want him either.

No spine means no job.
June 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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They're literally doing the meme
June 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
how it feels to be a virologist in Florida rn
a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! ''
ALT: a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! ''
media.tenor.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:44 PM
SIGN IT! SIGN IT NOW! LOOKING AT Y’ALL MY VIRO PEERS!
🔔Trump’s Fool’s Gold EO is facing MAJOR backlash.

THOUSANDS of scientists, academics, & physicians - including us - are speaking out against this political assault on science.

Our Open Letter is featured here:
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/03/c...
The White House Gutted Science Funding. Now It Wants to ‘Correct’ Research.
www.nytimes.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Happy Pride!

Image: cross-section of HSV1 Virion Structure determined via CryoEM.
June 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM