Microbiologist. Science needs feminism. Feminism needs science. Opinions my own, not associated with any employer’s. Same handle elsewhere. ProfPhoebe.bsky...
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ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
Getting closer to 1918, folks.
Scientists isolated #H5N1 from the eyes of a dairy worker, and it efficiently infected alveolar epithelial cells.
Those alveoli cells are deep in your lungs, and are the primary
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ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
⚠️Here’s yet another option other than BioRender! ⚠️
📢 SciDraw is a free repository of high quality drawings of animals, scientific setups, and anything that might be useful for scientific presentations and posters.
🔁❤️Free Science! RIP BioRender!!
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Free scientific illustrations for biologists! 😍
@NIH has released a library of 500+ free scientific illustrations to create figures, presentations, and illustrations!
all freely available in the public domain.
Retweet and spread the message!
bioart.niaid.nih.gov/
ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
#H5N1 Emails Reveal How Health Departments Struggle To Track Human Cases of Bird Flu: some farm owners resisting monitoring of employees for signs of bird flu, making it challenging to track case numbers, severity, changes in symptoms or infectivity.
kffhealthnews.org/news/artic…
ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
APHIS #H5N1 Confirms 2 Layer Farms 10/15/24
Franklin Co WA 839,700 hens
Cache Co UT 1,852,900 hens
Franklin
owned by Oakdale Egg Farms near Pasco
media reports w/ video
8 H5N1 presump pos cullers (5 CDC conf so far)
genetics descr as NOT B3.13
largest H5N1 clust in US hist
1/2
ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
.@USDA confirms 3 dairy herds in California have tested positive for #H5N1 #birdflu. Interesting to see them push this out on a holiday. aphis.usda.gov/livestock-pou…
Looks like @USDA is getting ready to announce the 3 #H5N1 #birdflu infected dairy herds in California. Its website says there've been 197 herds in 14 states since the start of the outbreak, but its line list has 194 herds in 13 states.
Odd glitch. aphis.usda.gov/livestock-pou…
ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
The top 1% have never had it so good.
They are making money hand over fist.
At the same time, weekly wages for the average worker are nearly $50 less than they were 50 years ago.
What does that say about American economic policy?
ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
According to the WHO clade 1 Mpox is now a GLOBAL health emergency, and the incubation period can be up to 21 days
According to the UK govt list of HCIDs clade 1 Mpox is airborne
In months there’ll be a lot of people with Mpox saying “but we didn’t know”
Yeah we did - mask NOW
ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
Just a reminder, unlike Pfizer & Moderna, Novavax targets S2
The stable part of the Spike protein
The part that doesn't vary between mutations
More & more that appears to be a good thing
👏👏👏
.@Novavax
Researchers make breakthrough in fight against COVID-19 news.rice.edu/news/2024/rese…
ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
BREAKING: Pete and Chasten are headed to the key swing state of Wisconsin today to campaign for @KamalaHarris. This is great news.
ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
The world's in a better place vis-a-vis #mpox vaccine production than it was in 2022, during the clade IIb international outbreak. But there are still limits on supplies. @BavarianNordic CEO laid out their numbers for @statnews. statnews.com/2024/08/16/bava…
ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
This didn't take long: Sweden reports a case of clade I (I'm guessing clade Ib) #mpox, in someone who traveled to "an affected region."
Clade Ib is the version of the virus transmitting from person to person.
h/t @HmpxvT dn.se/direkt/2024-08-15/rege…
ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
And so it happens... Nobody knows, how bad it might be (or not)... However, we are determining the odds by being cautious (or not)...
#Mpox #Mpox2024 #mpoxoutbreak #pandemic #vaccination
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gq…
ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
With 195 publicly LGBTQ athletes competing at #Paris2024 #TeamLGBTQ would currently be in 8th place on the medal table.
That’s ahead of every country that criminalises homosexuality.
Data: @outsports
#OlympicGames
outsports.com/2024/8/10/2409…
ProfPhoebe 🥖🌹🏳️🌈 retweeted
Just plugged today's CDC numbers into my new forecasting model (releases Mon). My initial reaction was "Jesus Christ. That's bad. That's really really bad."
If you live in the West in particular, it's currently about as bad as last winter. About 1 in 23 infectious out West.
ALT CDC regional COVID-19 transmission graph. The West region is nearly identical to last winter's peak.