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Today, I dedicate, my @TwitterAU feed, to #WorldWetlandsDay and the need to retain, restore, and preserve urban wetlands.
Today, in @MornPenShire, I will be at @TootgarookSwamp to acknowledge and celebrate, ongoing citizen science, to retain habitats and biodiversity. #WildOz xitter.cf/UNEP/status/9572123639…
We need to retain, restore and preserve urban wetlands - they are essential for sustainable urbanization. #WorldWetlandsDay
🍎 Lisa Brassington retweeted
Jess Wilson wants Victorians to stop being pessimistic while campaigning relentlessly to convince them Victoria is terrible.
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Workers have captured the moment a kangaroo bounded through the warehouse of an Epping fruit and vegetable market last night. 🦘
Store owners say that roos are often spotted outside the market at night, but rarely get so close to the action. #9News
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All this trivia on the day that Jess Wilson, announced, with strategic favourable drops, she will #privatise the wholesale fruit & vegetable market, throwing away all Victorians food security, to the highest bidder. #springst #auspol abc.net.au/news/2026-10-21/m…
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You’ve spent more time on this trivial non-story today than on the Liberal Party’s relationship with One Nation over the last three months.
You’re a political journalist choosing to obsess over trivia while leaving serious questions about power untouched.
🍎 Lisa Brassington retweeted
"Melbourne Wholesale Fruit & Veg Market: Coalition pledges to sell Epping site for $578M."
The only place in Australia that still has a publicly owned food wholesaler. Corporate profits over citizens, the Lib way. #springst #auspol reddit.com/r/AusNewsWire/com…
Speaking to food & fibre #Farmers, wetland ecologists, #Landcare regenerative stewards & bushwalkers today - not one supported nor were interested in a #PHONy OneNation candidate nor government.
Their MP shared a false narrative that Nationals & Liberals can stop RE ⚡️🚜.
#auspol
⚡️👨🌾 #VicFarmers, North East CFA, Farm groups & Rural volunteers want a 'stop now, no-go' with extra renewable energy projects.
Over 100 🚜 join major protest in #Benalla over uncertainty in renewable energy fires & landscape impacts.
#SolarFarms #BESS #Victoria #auspol #AusAg – at Benalla, Victoria
⚡️👨🌾 No more in our backyard. #VicFarmers
North East CFA, Rural & #Farmers group volunteers seek clarity over changing renewable energy landscape.
🚜 Major public protest in #Benalla against more renewable energy, plus unknown fire & landscape impacts.
#SolarFarms #BESS #auspol
🍎 Lisa Brassington retweeted
Richard Gere: We're living in the darkest moment that I've experienced on this planet. Whoever thought America could turn like this?
Whoever thought that a maniac like this would be president of the United States and dismantle all the good things?
America has never been a perfect place, but it has a perfect ideal that it's moving towards and always has, and it's been self-corrective.
First day, this guy dismantled almost everything that was good about the US government and the US people.
How is this even possible? Because we went to sleep. We didn't care. We didn't vote. We didn't really listen.
You know, of course, I didn't vote for this guy, but I didn't do enough work to skillfully convince people around me.
People close to me, not close to me, that this was insane to elect this person as president of the United States.
We all have to take responsibility for this. But how quickly, this was in weeks, he had dismantled America.
And you see how quickly our world can be taken from us if we fall asleep. And so we have to see the cues.
We have to see the cues, this dictatorship of the monsters. How quickly it happens. We have to be vigilant.
We can't sit back and go, "Ah, life is good, I'm fine. You know, I've got food, I've got money, blah blah, I've got my house, I've got another car, I'm thinking about this, blah blah, I'm okay. I know he's a bad guy, but it's okay."
It's not okay! It's never okay.
🍎 Lisa Brassington retweeted
I have never in my life heard a man say something so accurate about how misogyny is baked into our language. Wow. Must watch.
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WOW.
There is No Human override button if Labors new "Aged care" AI algorithm denies Grandma the care she needs to prevent her from dying alone at home in her own feces.
This is what happens when Labor puts Profit before people.
#AgedCare #HumanRightsViolations
🍎 Lisa Brassington retweeted
A study revealed a sickening trend where reports of sexault assault by detainees collapsed while sexual assault by ICE is shown to be growing RAPIDLY.
🍎 Lisa Brassington retweeted
Bluesky is the new science Twitter: new study concludes
For the past decade, Twitter has been a primary home of scientists on social media. In recent years, new leadership at Twitter has made substantive changes that have resulted in increases in the prevalence of pseudoscience, conspiracy theory, and harassment on the platform, causing many scientists to seek alternatives. [including me]
Survey results overwhelmingly confirm that changes to Twitter have made the social media platform no longer professionally useful or pleasant, and that many scientists have abandoned it in favor of Bluesky.
Results show that for every reported professional benefit that scientists once gained from Twitter, scientists can now gain that benefit more effectively on Bluesky than on Twitter.
academic.oup.com/icb/article…
🍎 Lisa Brassington retweeted
First thing Rose Byrne does after winning at the #GoldenGlobes?
FaceTimes her husband.
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Acetylsalicylic acid disrupts SARS-CoV-2 spike protein glycosylation and selectively impairs binding to ACE2
‼️YOUR ATTENTION: Very interesting Italian work, supporting earlier science findings: ASPIRIN!
➡️Acetylsalicylic acid (ASA/aspirin) has shown potential in reducing COVID-19 severity via anti-inflammatory effects, but its direct impact on SARS-CoV-2 spike S1 protein binding to ACE2 receptor was unknown.
➡️ASA directly interferes with S1-ACE2 binding, potentially mitigating viral entry and tissue injury.
➡️In Vitro:
- ASA pre-incubation dose-dependently reduced recombinant S1 binding to ACE2 on Vero cells and in ELISA assays
-Limited cytopathic effects of live SARS-CoV-2 (specific to ASA, not paracetamol).
➡️In Vivo:
- In human ACE2 transgenic mice, ASA-treated S1 caused markedly less lung injury, fibrosis (reduced fibronectin/collagen), and inflammation (fewer macrophages/neutrophils) than untreated S1.
➡️Mechanism:
- Glycoproteomics revealed ASA alters S1 glycosylation, notably reducing N-glycosylation at N61 and O-glycosylation at S325, with increased acetylation.
➡️Experimental confirmation:
- Site-directed mutagenesis creating the N61D/S325A double mutant in the spike protein reduced ACE2 binding in vitro and lung pathogenicity in vivo, thereby replicating the protective effects of ASA.
➡️Conclusions:
- ASA exhibits a novel antiviral action by disrupting spike glycosylation, supporting its repurposing as a low-cost intervention to prevent COVID-19 progression and related complications.
➡️No clinical doses are discussed, only a 20mg/L in an In-vivo mouse model. 🤔
➡️‼️"These findings unveil a previously unrecognized antiviral activity of ASA, providing a molecular rationale for its repurposing as a low-cost, readily available intervention to prevent the progression from mild to severe COVID-19."
So, Aspirin directly impairs SARS-CoV-2 spike protein binding to ACE2 by disrupting its glycosylation, thereby reducing viral entry, cytopathic effects, and lung injury in preclinical models.
frontiersin.org/journals/imm…
🍎 Lisa Brassington retweeted
Happy New Year, everyone! The last few days I have had various routine medical scans and treatment. It has been wonderful to catch up with the team looking after me so well (& catching up with friends & colleagues). Best wishes to everyone for 2026!
@NthSydHealth
@Sydney_Uni
@COBLH
@SydneyLHD
#glioblastoma
#braincancer
#Brainstorm
🍎 Lisa Brassington retweeted
“Australia is Freaking Amazing” is the title of @JustinWolfers’ Boyer Lecture. And a pretty good description of Justin too.🇦🇺
Listen here: abc.net.au/listen/programs/b… #auspol
🍎 Lisa Brassington retweeted
It’s hard to believe federal politicians think it’s fine to be members of a registered lobbying organisation sponsored by the peak body for gambling.
They’re like frogs in hot water.
I’ll be reintroducing my Clean Up Politics Act on our first day back.
theage.com.au/politics/feder…
🍎 Lisa Brassington retweeted
A must watch, once-in-a-lifetime interview
Dave: I assume these people [press club journalists] would feel pangs of shame
Chris Hedges: I don't think these people feel any shame at all ... Remember I worked for the New York Times. The self-adulation is kind of off the charts, and they're not particularly introspective or self-critical👇🏽
#SundayShot
youtube.com/watch?v=LatGGT8h…
