mitochondria mommy ☣︎
@viruswench.bsky.social
virologist in training | 38k on TikTok
HSV’s biggest fan
BS Microbiology 🔜
Opinions my own, not representative of my institution.
HSV’s biggest fan
BS Microbiology 🔜
Opinions my own, not representative of my institution.
It’s great when an experiment works for once!!!!
HEK293 cells coinfected with our custom AAV capsid and GFP.
HEK293 cells coinfected with our custom AAV capsid and GFP.
January 2, 2026 at 4:08 PM
It’s great when an experiment works for once!!!!
HEK293 cells coinfected with our custom AAV capsid and GFP.
HEK293 cells coinfected with our custom AAV capsid and GFP.
Dang, it may be time for me to actually use this account for networking.
Anyways, if you’re new here, hi! I’m graduating with my B.S. in Microbiology and Cell Science with a minor in Bioinformatics from the University of Florida this spring! Go gators and go virology!
Anyways, if you’re new here, hi! I’m graduating with my B.S. in Microbiology and Cell Science with a minor in Bioinformatics from the University of Florida this spring! Go gators and go virology!
January 2, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Dang, it may be time for me to actually use this account for networking.
Anyways, if you’re new here, hi! I’m graduating with my B.S. in Microbiology and Cell Science with a minor in Bioinformatics from the University of Florida this spring! Go gators and go virology!
Anyways, if you’re new here, hi! I’m graduating with my B.S. in Microbiology and Cell Science with a minor in Bioinformatics from the University of Florida this spring! Go gators and go virology!
AND YET THEY WON’T FUND MY LAB’S RESEARCH ON THIS EXACT FUCKING TOPIC (molecular therapies for HIV reservoirs). BE SO FUCKING FOR REAL.
December 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
AND YET THEY WON’T FUND MY LAB’S RESEARCH ON THIS EXACT FUCKING TOPIC (molecular therapies for HIV reservoirs). BE SO FUCKING FOR REAL.
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!
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 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!
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!
I’m rarely on here but
September 23, 2025 at 11:27 PM
I’m rarely on here but
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.
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
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.
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.
Reposted by mitochondria mommy ☣︎
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
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
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
And the #EPA139 who spoke out still on admin leave.
Support them & the #DeclarationofDissent here: zurl.co/ZRMh1
zurl.co/32CuE
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
it meeee
pt HAD MMR!!!
please vaccinate your fucking kids because unvaccinated people DO hurt others.
please vaccinate your fucking kids because unvaccinated people DO hurt others.
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...
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 7:30 PM
pt HAD MMR!!!
please vaccinate your fucking kids because unvaccinated people DO hurt others.
please vaccinate your fucking kids because unvaccinated people DO hurt others.
Reposted by mitochondria mommy ☣︎
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...
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
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...
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@ 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
having my quarterly “what if i went to medical school” crashout lol xoxo
June 28, 2025 at 3:44 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
having my quarterly “what if i went to medical school” crashout lol xoxo
“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
“Why are so many kids getting long covid” idk maybe because repeat infections of a virus with neurotropic effects during development will do that
caturday @publichealthguy1.bsky.social
June 5, 2025 at 2:35 PM
caturday @publichealthguy1.bsky.social
Reposted by mitochondria mommy ☣︎
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
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.
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
bring back health class. also bring back drivers ed
June 4, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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
bring back health class. also bring back drivers ed
Isn’t this literally like, the first episode of the show Inside Job on Netflix
Yes, Trump re-shared post claiming Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced by clones www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...
Yes, Trump re-shared post claiming Biden was executed in 2020 and replaced by clones
In late May 2025, Trump "ReTruthed" a post reading, "Biden clones doubles & robotic engineered soulless mindless entities are what you see."
www.snopes.com
June 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Isn’t this literally like, the first episode of the show Inside Job on Netflix
Reposted by mitochondria mommy ☣︎
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.
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
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.
Turns out his prior DEI support means they don’t want him either.
No spine means no job.
Reposted by mitochondria mommy ☣︎
They're literally doing the meme
June 3, 2025 at 10:16 PM
They're literally doing the meme
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
how it feels to be a virologist in Florida rn
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...
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
SIGN IT! SIGN IT NOW! LOOKING AT Y’ALL MY VIRO PEERS!
Happy Pride!
Image: cross-section of HSV1 Virion Structure determined via CryoEM.
Image: cross-section of HSV1 Virion Structure determined via CryoEM.
June 1, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Happy Pride!
Image: cross-section of HSV1 Virion Structure determined via CryoEM.
Image: cross-section of HSV1 Virion Structure determined via CryoEM.
Reposted by mitochondria mommy ☣︎
I was thinking of waiting until next cycle to apply for phds but now I’m thinking of pulling the trigger and applying now (straight out of undergrad).
Thoughts?
hate stat comparing but I have ~3.5yrs research experience in 3 diff labs, 1 pub out and 2-3 more coming, but pretty low GPA (3.3).
Thoughts?
hate stat comparing but I have ~3.5yrs research experience in 3 diff labs, 1 pub out and 2-3 more coming, but pretty low GPA (3.3).
May 31, 2025 at 7:03 PM
I was thinking of waiting until next cycle to apply for phds but now I’m thinking of pulling the trigger and applying now (straight out of undergrad).
Thoughts?
hate stat comparing but I have ~3.5yrs research experience in 3 diff labs, 1 pub out and 2-3 more coming, but pretty low GPA (3.3).
Thoughts?
hate stat comparing but I have ~3.5yrs research experience in 3 diff labs, 1 pub out and 2-3 more coming, but pretty low GPA (3.3).
Reposted by mitochondria mommy ☣︎
Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.
Contradicting RFK Jr., CDC keeps recommending covid vaccine for kids
While RFK Jr. said coronavirus vaccines would be removed from the CDC schedule for healthy children, it’s still recommended in consultation with doctors.
www.washingtonpost.com
May 30, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Breaking news: Contradicting HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC continues to recommend the coronavirus vaccines for healthy children, according to new documentation posted to the agency's website.