The Virologist 🇳🇱🤙 (@Pen_Is_Mighty on Twitter)
@thevirologist.bsky.social
Med-tech CEO, virologist, MBA. Classical violinist. Award-winning brewer. UW/FHCRC. An American expat in the Netherlands (from Kauai). Victim of the syntonic comma.
Tu non sai chi cazzo sono io.
Hawaii no ka oi.
Tu non sai chi cazzo sono io.
Hawaii no ka oi.
Pinned
I woke with a tremendous feeling of longing and sadness.
I didn't know why, but I was missing my friend..more than friend. Moose.
It wasn't until later in the morning that the Mrs. let me know it was the anniversary of his passing. It was a date I never put in my calendar.
Man, I miss you.
I didn't know why, but I was missing my friend..more than friend. Moose.
It wasn't until later in the morning that the Mrs. let me know it was the anniversary of his passing. It was a date I never put in my calendar.
Man, I miss you.
I do my best, as best I can.
This is my experience. I won’t be made to feel guilty for doing what I can, as I want it.
Gross indeed.
This is my experience. I won’t be made to feel guilty for doing what I can, as I want it.
Gross indeed.
December 7, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I do my best, as best I can.
This is my experience. I won’t be made to feel guilty for doing what I can, as I want it.
Gross indeed.
This is my experience. I won’t be made to feel guilty for doing what I can, as I want it.
Gross indeed.
Doing a lot of research. Truly.
This can only mean one thing.
This can only mean one thing.
December 7, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Doing a lot of research. Truly.
This can only mean one thing.
This can only mean one thing.
December 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
December 6, 2025 at 12:25 PM
I am so jealous
🔭☄️
Comet C/2025 A6 Lemmon from Sept 7 to Nov 20, 2025.
All images were taken with a 30cm Newtonian-telescope and ASI6200MC camera, and are displayed at the same scale.
📸 Mitsunoi Tsumura
www.facebook.com/groups/22700...
All images were taken with a 30cm Newtonian-telescope and ASI6200MC camera, and are displayed at the same scale.
📸 Mitsunoi Tsumura
www.facebook.com/groups/22700...
December 6, 2025 at 10:02 AM
I am so jealous
engaging with a regional biologics manufacturer, to find out they're a Chinese-owned concern; no guarantee that what I need wouldn't be partially manufactured in Chine.
nope. bye.
nope. bye.
December 6, 2025 at 6:31 AM
engaging with a regional biologics manufacturer, to find out they're a Chinese-owned concern; no guarantee that what I need wouldn't be partially manufactured in Chine.
nope. bye.
nope. bye.
For my sanity, I'm going to have to start muting US posts
December 6, 2025 at 4:25 AM
For my sanity, I'm going to have to start muting US posts
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To be real clear
This is not about evidence.
No new harm have been discovered.
This is about personal beliefs.
It's about power. It's about controlling you.
It WILL cause harm.
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
This is not about evidence.
No new harm have been discovered.
This is about personal beliefs.
It's about power. It's about controlling you.
It WILL cause harm.
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
To be real clear
This is not about evidence.
No new harm have been discovered.
This is about personal beliefs.
It's about power. It's about controlling you.
It WILL cause harm.
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
This is not about evidence.
No new harm have been discovered.
This is about personal beliefs.
It's about power. It's about controlling you.
It WILL cause harm.
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
December 5, 2025 at 8:23 PM
How stupid are you, America?
December 5, 2025 at 5:50 PM
How stupid are you, America?
for those of you who want secure messaging, without the possibility of being surveilled (read: 1CE), I might suggest something like Session.
Signal, WhatsApp, etc. all exist on centralized servers. All information can be collected.
getsession.org
Signal, WhatsApp, etc. all exist on centralized servers. All information can be collected.
getsession.org
Session | Send Messages, Not Metadata. | Private Messenger
Session is a private messenger that aims to remove any chance of metadata collection by routing all messages through an onion routing network.
getsession.org
December 4, 2025 at 4:33 PM
for those of you who want secure messaging, without the possibility of being surveilled (read: 1CE), I might suggest something like Session.
Signal, WhatsApp, etc. all exist on centralized servers. All information can be collected.
getsession.org
Signal, WhatsApp, etc. all exist on centralized servers. All information can be collected.
getsession.org
wow
3I ATLAS: Tails of an Interstellar Comet apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25120...
Comet 3I/ATLAS appears relatively normal when compared to Solar System comets, therefore providing more evidence that our Solar System is a somewhat typical star system.
Comet 3I/ATLAS appears relatively normal when compared to Solar System comets, therefore providing more evidence that our Solar System is a somewhat typical star system.
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
wow
December 3, 2025 at 2:17 PM
December 3, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Overcompensating for my past mistakes (forgetting salt or *sigh* forgetting the levain) I baked this 1kg monstrosity this morning. I need to work on my scoring.
From one of my sourdough cultures I created several months ago.
From one of my sourdough cultures I created several months ago.
December 3, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Overcompensating for my past mistakes (forgetting salt or *sigh* forgetting the levain) I baked this 1kg monstrosity this morning. I need to work on my scoring.
From one of my sourdough cultures I created several months ago.
From one of my sourdough cultures I created several months ago.
Reposted by The Virologist 🇳🇱🤙 (@Pen_Is_Mighty on Twitter)
Scientists must learn to join larger pro-democracy and people's movements, coalitions. Our science training may not have prepared us for such work, but we can no longer sit in the safety of our labs and expect the world to get better
My book review @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
My book review @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
From doing science to saving science
Science and scientists are under assault. From denial of vaccines to climate change,
political leaders are increasingly sacrificing democracy as well as science on the
altar of populism and authoritar...
www.thelancet.com
November 28, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Scientists must learn to join larger pro-democracy and people's movements, coalitions. Our science training may not have prepared us for such work, but we can no longer sit in the safety of our labs and expect the world to get better
My book review @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
My book review @thelancet.com
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted by The Virologist 🇳🇱🤙 (@Pen_Is_Mighty on Twitter)
I REMEMBER.
In 1981, nearly 100% of people with AIDS died, often rapidly.
I remember weeping.
I remember Ronald Reagan's refusal to say "AIDS".
I remember the brave patients, loving caregivers, and the defiant power of ACT-UP.
And finally the miracle of modern therapy.
Rise up for World AIDS day.
In 1981, nearly 100% of people with AIDS died, often rapidly.
I remember weeping.
I remember Ronald Reagan's refusal to say "AIDS".
I remember the brave patients, loving caregivers, and the defiant power of ACT-UP.
And finally the miracle of modern therapy.
Rise up for World AIDS day.
Commemorating #WorldAIDSday is an act of defiance against ideology driven policies that will end our progress to end the epidemic.
December 1, 2025 at 11:46 PM
I REMEMBER.
In 1981, nearly 100% of people with AIDS died, often rapidly.
I remember weeping.
I remember Ronald Reagan's refusal to say "AIDS".
I remember the brave patients, loving caregivers, and the defiant power of ACT-UP.
And finally the miracle of modern therapy.
Rise up for World AIDS day.
In 1981, nearly 100% of people with AIDS died, often rapidly.
I remember weeping.
I remember Ronald Reagan's refusal to say "AIDS".
I remember the brave patients, loving caregivers, and the defiant power of ACT-UP.
And finally the miracle of modern therapy.
Rise up for World AIDS day.
Do we have to say, every single time, for every event…”Can you imagine if Biden or Harris did…!??”
Irrelevant!
Irrelevant!
December 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Do we have to say, every single time, for every event…”Can you imagine if Biden or Harris did…!??”
Irrelevant!
Irrelevant!
Pretty cool (if true)
Remarkable story of a Georgia high school team who used CRISPR to make a rapid diagnostic test strip for Lyme disease, speeding dx from 2 weeks to days
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
www.cbsnews.com/news/teens-m...
Teens may have come up with a new way to detect, treat Lyme disease using CRISPR gene editing
To compete at iGEM, a sort of science Olympics, teens at a Georgia high school set their sights on finding a better way to detect and treat Lyme disease. Their approach uses CRISPR gene editing.
www.cbsnews.com
December 1, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Pretty cool (if true)
I would think—after enduring monthly tsunami sirens testing for years on Kauai—that this would be easier.
Always a shock to the system. Air raid sirens plus phones exploding…no mistaking it’s the first of the month
Always a shock to the system. Air raid sirens plus phones exploding…no mistaking it’s the first of the month
December 1, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I would think—after enduring monthly tsunami sirens testing for years on Kauai—that this would be easier.
Always a shock to the system. Air raid sirens plus phones exploding…no mistaking it’s the first of the month
Always a shock to the system. Air raid sirens plus phones exploding…no mistaking it’s the first of the month
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 AM
I've had a lot on my plate lately, and, in theory, I've been doing a lot of baking to "clear the mind." I"ve been doing an o/n fermentation at 4ºC
Yesterday's loaf: I forgot to add salt. Ugh.
Today's loaf? I didn't add the EFFING levain. I made the Netherland's largest cracker.
UGHHHHHH
Yesterday's loaf: I forgot to add salt. Ugh.
Today's loaf? I didn't add the EFFING levain. I made the Netherland's largest cracker.
UGHHHHHH
December 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
I've had a lot on my plate lately, and, in theory, I've been doing a lot of baking to "clear the mind." I"ve been doing an o/n fermentation at 4ºC
Yesterday's loaf: I forgot to add salt. Ugh.
Today's loaf? I didn't add the EFFING levain. I made the Netherland's largest cracker.
UGHHHHHH
Yesterday's loaf: I forgot to add salt. Ugh.
Today's loaf? I didn't add the EFFING levain. I made the Netherland's largest cracker.
UGHHHHHH
Not quite the Kauai sunrises that I love, but pretty nonetheless.
Netherlands.
Netherlands.
December 1, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Not quite the Kauai sunrises that I love, but pretty nonetheless.
Netherlands.
Netherlands.
November 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
My little Sunday sourdough loaf. Resting.
November 30, 2025 at 10:08 AM
My little Sunday sourdough loaf. Resting.