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Isabel, haunting the orthoBOOOnyavirus stacks

@isabelott.bsky.social

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Evolutionary & population biology of vector-borne viral disease systems. 🦟 genetics PhD student in NC. Arbovirologist & orthobunyavirus wonk. Public health advocate. 80s mosquito. Archives enthusiast. Coaster-sized earrings. Opinions own. (she/her) 🏳️‍🌈

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Isabel, haunting the orthoBOOOnyavirus stacks @isabelott.bsky.social · Jun 11

The Athens (GA) Immigrants Rights Coalition, which I volunteered with for several years, is currently fundraising for their Support for Immigrant Families in Crisis fund. 98.5% of donations go straight to families in need. Please boost & contribute if you can!
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Support for Immigrant Families in Crisis (SIFIC) provides emergency assistance to local immigrant families who have limited access to resources, due to their documentation or economic status. SIFIC funds are used to help cover essential needs such as rent, utilities, food, medical expenses, attorney fees and legal fees. We are currently facing a deportation crisis that is separating families and the need for these kinds of support has escalated. Please help us to raise 25K this Spring, so that we can continue to help families in crisis! Thank you, Friend.

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Daniel S. Goldberg @profgoldberg.bsky.social · 6h

Moreover, as I've argued, the impulse to objectify the subjective experience of pain is problematic insofar as the denial of subjective xp is partly why we stigmatize people in pain.

A world-famous neuroscientist once said to me, "I like subjectivity fine; I just want to confirm it objectively." 🫠

Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 7h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

“In nursing homes, neonatal units, and ICU wards, researchers are racing to turn pain—medicine’s most subjective vital sign—into something a camera or sensor can score as reliably as blood pressure.”

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Isabel, haunting the orthoBOOOnyavirus stacks @isabelott.bsky.social · 7h

the whiskers are even a convincing smoke plume. really powerfully compelling stuff

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 10h

New, from me: I break down all that is happening with the shutdown.
Shutdowns are bad. But only Trump and Russ Vought are brave enough to ask: what if shutdowns aren’t painful enough? How can we use this as an opportunity to target our political enemies? 🧵
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-shutdo...

The Shutdown Shitshow

As Trump uses the shutdown to settle scores, the public bears the cost

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Dr. Jens Foell @jensfoell.de · 7h

Award-winning pain researcher here. This is not something that can be done. Hope this helps.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

AI is changing how we quantify pain

Artificial intelligence is helping health-care providers better assess their patients’ discomfort.

www.technologyreview.com

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Sarah Taber @sarahtaber.bsky.social · 7h

hey guys wanna see a sea muppet

Screenshot of a tweet from @TylerGreenfield, showing a juvenile basking shark & talking about how we don't know much about their ontogeny. Little guy looks like Gonzo from the Muppets 😭 The baby shark has a soft, pointed beak that hooks down at the end sticking out beyond its mouth, and no/very tiny teeth. Just felty-looking gums.

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 7h

Almost like we founded the entire country on opposing this exact sentence.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Bessent: "No kings equals no paychecks"

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Isabel, haunting the orthoBOOOnyavirus stacks @isabelott.bsky.social · 7h

something about the way the little mouth white spot looks like a tiny cigarette of some sort really sells it

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Isabel, haunting the orthoBOOOnyavirus stacks @isabelott.bsky.social · 7h

does “mad scientist’s research assistant” count

Isabel, haunting the orthoBOOOnyavirus stacks @isabelott.bsky.social · 7h

my research assistant helping me reassemble my day-to-day Binder from the travel-sized mini binder/folio combo i took to a conference abroad last week

a very silly tuxedo tort with her fluffy tummy out and feet floppy (babygirl mode) amidst an open binder/folio folder/several paper stacks laid out for organizational purposes. mostly printouts of very old papers

same setting, but she’s on her side, paws reaching towards her beloved Silent Carrot Full Of Drugs, looking enticingly up at the camera

in this one she is laying her whole butt on the papers and clutching them possessively yet responsibly. like, “don’t worry, i got these ones!!” she is a very good research assistant

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 19h

post spooky cats

🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 20h

nosfercatu! all because she didn't get ham

a plush tux cat sitting on a blue armchair and baring her fangs

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 7h

The best solution I can think of is to talk to the young women in our lives directly. Not publicly. Understand the pressures they are facing. Share your experiences. Sow intergenerational harmony, not division. Share the lessons you’ve learned, personally. But let them make their own decisions.

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Jaclyn A. Siegel, PhD @jacasiegel.bsky.social · 7h

I believe that widespread harassment and constant threats of violence have silenced many once-prominent feminist voices in online spaces, and I think that this has had adverse downstream consequences for young women on social media, who see misogyny normalized and promoted to them.

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Isabel, haunting the orthoBOOOnyavirus stacks @isabelott.bsky.social · 7h

my research assistant helping me reassemble my day-to-day Binder from the travel-sized mini binder/folio combo i took to a conference abroad last week

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Tue Sparholt Jørgensen @tuesparholt.bsky.social · 11h

Bacterial telomeres are common, just not so much in RefSeq 'complete' genomes. But they can be added by the new tool David Faurdal wrote. I am thrilled to see this out as a preprint here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... @tilmweber.bsky.social @thombooth.bsky.social

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Patrick Goymer @patrickgoymer.bsky.social · 8h

A new study in @plosone.org shows that genetically variable ovariole number does not correlate with egg count or survival after bacterial infection, suggesting the evolutionary trade-off between reproduction and immunity under lab conditions could be weak.

Ovariole number does not predict reproductive output or trade-off with immunity in Drosophila melanogaster

Reproduction and immunity are two energetically demanding traits that frequently trade-off with each other. Prior studies have suggested that the cost of reproduction limits the ability of Drosophila…

journals.plos.org

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 9h

surprised there hasn’t been more discourse around the illegal firing of NCHS leadership, including those in vital statistics.

which are vital

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anil oza @aniloza.bsky.social · 1d

If there are NIH folks who would like to watch our STAT summit (including a panel on the state of the NIH), please reach out and we can get you access

Theresa Kim, PhD, MS @tyk314.net · 1d

And many of us at #NIH are furloughed right now, so we cannot afford it or attend. We hope it's a successful panel.

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Krystal Tsosie @kstsosie.bsky.social · 9h

Out today via @natgenet.nature.com, the first federally funded #Tribal #data repository, a revolutionary approach to data management and applied/operationalization of IDSov @d4itdr.bsky.social. Also, if you are at #ASHG25, come see us this morning in 205ABC
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 18h

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

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Josh Mendell @mendell-lab.bsky.social · 23h

Colliding ribosomes are potent signals of cellular stress. But do cells use ‘programmed’ ribosome collisions to regulate gene expression? I’m excited to present a new story from my lab led by Frederick Rehfeld(@fred-rehfeld.bsky.social) which revealed that the answer is YES! Read on to find out how👇

Oxidative stress sensing by the translation elongation machinery promotes production of detoxifying selenoproteins

Selenocysteine, incorporated into polypeptides at recoded termination codons, plays an essential role in redox biology. Using GPX1 and GPX4, selenoenzymes that mitigate oxidative stress, as reporters,...

www.biorxiv.org

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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 9h

It's maddening that anyone with a brain and that pays attention would be told "wait and see" lol. It took a day.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 2d

Promoting the editor-in-chief's personal side project. Zero named sources in a story that promotes the editor-in-chief's personal political position. Misspelling the subject's name. It took one day for CBS News to become a conservative blog.

www.cbsnews.com/video/some-n...

CBS News: Some NYPD officers worry about Mandani becoming NYC mayor the Free Press reports.

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Isabel, haunting the orthoBOOOnyavirus stacks @isabelott.bsky.social · 1d

if i would’ve wanted “an assistant” for any stage of this process, it probably would’ve been the “scanning a 200 page ILL hard copy thesis in by hand” bit

Isabel, haunting the orthoBOOOnyavirus stacks @isabelott.bsky.social · 1d

adding AI in PDF viewers feels like making fridges “smart.” unclear what the positive outcomes could even be, and at best you’ve overcomplicated (and introduced room for god knows what kinds of failures to) a pretty simple, highly functional tool

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Isabel, haunting the orthoBOOOnyavirus stacks @isabelott.bsky.social · 1d

oh, to open a nearly 200 page PDF (that I scanned in myself by hand) without having to manually close four different Adobe pop-ups saying, “wow, that’s a long document, do you want our AI wizard to summarize it for you?!”

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Amanda Jean Stevenson @amandajean.bsky.social · 1d

CDC had worked for decades to overcome the fear of government research created by the US Public Health Service's participation in the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis. Robust protections for human subjects for the basis of that effort. Gutting the CDC IRB is dangerous in so many different ways.

HELLody SchreiBOO @melodyschreiber.com · 1d

"No IRB in the world would approve it." That's what every researcher has told me about saline placebo trials to test vaccines we already have.

The CDC just got rid of its entire IRB. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

‘Instability and whiplash’ as CDC slashes 1,300 jobs before reinstating half

Trump administration says 700 notices were sent in error, while former top CDC officer says ‘they didn’t think through what they were doing’

www.theguardian.com

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Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 4d

(forgetting the word for antibiotics) do i need cancel culture

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