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Diogenes, PhD

@iamdiogenes.bsky.social
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Virologist against Fascism. Anonymous because of my position. Supporting truth, justice, and democracy, for the least of us.

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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Terrible model. How far down the basic research pipeline will this go? Not far enough to support any kind of sustainable research enterprise. And how excited will this PE group be to support trainees? Also - Trump admin will step in to block foreign investment in research, like they have at NIH.
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
This is pretty obviously trolling for people to flip out and swear at him so he can go back to Musk Pravda with screenshots demonstrating that Bluesky is a hysterical mob. Just block and channel your attention somewhere more interesting.
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Daniel Hurdiss @danielhurdiss.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Latest preprint from the lab, many years in the making! By combining #cryoEM with #AlphaFold3 modelling, we propose that norovirus NS3 forms a transmembrane RNA translocase. This could have big implications for our understanding of viral replication & assembly (🧵) www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
Of course they did.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
NYT: “If you saw all this in any other country — soldiers sent to crush dissent, union leaders arrested, opposition politicians threatened — it would be clear that autocracy had arrived.” 😳🇺🇸 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/o...
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Thelonevirologist @thelonevirologist.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Strategy to overcome a nirmatrelvir resistance mechanism in the SARS-CoV-2 nsp5 protease www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Strategy to overcome a nirmatrelvir resistance mechanism in the SARS-CoV-2 nsp5 protease
Conformational flexibility is used to overcome nirmatrelvir resistance in the SARS-CoV-2 nsp5 protease.
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Most likely a major part?! They shape the entire sideways world view that has emerged over the last 30 years. The narratives to which those in our political system respond (or don’t). It’s a choose-your-own-adventure of bad and worse takes.
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 07/06/2025
Can’t shake the thought that having all this matériel in DC and provoking anti-ICE riots in LA, Chicago, and gods-know-where would make a handy little setup for declaring martial law. Meh, it’s probably nothing. 😬
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Seems to have a very high force of gravity
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Alt NIH Bluesky 🧪 @altnih4science.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
This is brilliant because it takes advantage of academics’ natural willingness to talk about their work. Please consider doing one of these!
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lindseymcbride.bsky.social @lindseymcbride.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
You voted for this @hassan.senate.gov @shaheen.senate.gov @democrats.senate.gov @housedemocrats.bsky.social
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Nina Metz @ninametz.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
👎 Anyway: Worth keeping track of filmmakers who are making their stance known on AI
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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This kid is 15, and so has a moral clarity and uprightness that no adult elected official would or could ever have. There aren't really and never have been two sides of this issue, but if it has to be argued as a binary thing I don't see how anything less than this could seem like the side to be on.
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Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
RFK Jr. said multiple times during his house and senate hearings today that no scientists have been fired from federal agencies. Our reporting has shown that hundreds, if not thousands, of scientists have been let go from NIH/CDC/FDA
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Just announced: recall on fighter jets due to issues with parking brakes.
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The question I have from this stupid and obviously misleading excel plot is what happened with travel in October. Look at the variance across months, nothing here could possibly be construed as a trend.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
I got to figure 1 in the paper and took a look at these survival curves and weight data. Oh hey, that's fully reconstructed 1918 (unsurprising since Jeff Taubenberger, the senior author & acting NIAID director, reconstructed it). Also, what does "chimeric" mean for the H7N1, H6N1, and H10N7?
Figure 1C-H from https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11022527/
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The press release did not offer more details so I looked at a paper about it. This was testing a quadrivalent BPL-inactivated vaccine (vaccine made of 4 inactivated low path avian viruses) by a heterosubtypic (different HxNy subtype) challenge. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...
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An inactivated multivalent influenza A virus vaccine is broadly protective in mice and ferrets
Influenza A viruses (IAVs) present major public health threats from annual seasonal epidemics and pandemics and from viruses adapted to a variety of animals including poultry, pigs, and horses. Vaccin...
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Can't complain about half a billion for a "next-generation universal vaccine platform"! What is this amazingly innovative new vaccine technology? Tell me more, because this says "BPL-inactivated, whole virus platform". That describes current flu vaccines. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
“In Soviet America, cards use you to buy things!”
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Everyone is taking 1/5 of a pill?
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feminist next door @emrazz.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Trump’s 100 day job approval polling is worse than any other president in the last 50 years by a minimum -10. It’s incredible that Republicans and business leaders continue to fall all over themselves to appease such a historically incompetent and epically unpopular leader.
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Ben Verdi @benverdi.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I do wish big-time media orgs would stop taking the bait of calling these cuts to "Brown" or "Harvard." These are cuts to alzheimers research, maternal health research, antiviral coronavirus innovations, not "insert school here." They are cuts to our medical future and scientific livelihood.
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The best way to get rid of toxic chemicals is to dilute them across more children. It’s chemistry 101.
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John Argh @johnargh.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
WE LITERALLY REGULATED THE HOLE IN THE OZONE LAYER OUT OF EXISTENCE
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
38 of the 43. "38 of 43 experts cut last month from boards that review science and research in NIH laboratories are female, Black or Hispanic. "The scientists typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal..." www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...
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Women, minorities fired in purge of NIH science review boards
Scientists, with expertise in fields that include mental health, cancer and infectious disease, typically serve five-year terms and were not given a reason for their dismissal.
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
#HomanTrafficking
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
And how are you going to convict and remove?
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Is it just me or is David Byrne mentioned in every week’s New Yorker?
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
It’s probably VLOOKUP() in excel
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Still curious if @amersocvirology.bsky.social will show any leadership here? How about when your trainees are detained and harassed on their way to #ASV2025 ? Again, what is a society except a means to advocate for your principles? #LoveVirology? Wake up!
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Matt McDermott @mattmfm.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Amazing how every Trump rally gets wall-to-wall coverage — but when 36,000 people show up to protest him with Bernie and AOC, it barely makes a headline. We get endless diner stories about ‘forgotten’ Trump voters. Where are the stories of Americans left behind by the GOP?
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Autism was only added to the DSM (DSM-II) in 1952. No shit it wasn’t widely diagnosed in the 50s.
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Dumbest motherfuckers alive.
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
I’m so sorry.
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
And where did all the Hoover Institute ghouls come from?
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
“Punish Americans”, when it was their golfing buddies who built this entire system that screwed American manufacturing workers in the first place, and upon which our current ridiculous, bankrupt Amazon economy was built.
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Have you ever… exhaled on a cold day? Human #chemtrails!!
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Are we calling this #HomanTrafficking yet?
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Tim Dickinson @timdickinson.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Having covered protests for the last quarter century or so I can tell you that this #handsoff happening extraordinary, and likely to build. (Oh, and that the big newspapers are acting typically clueless)
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Rick Steves @ricksteves.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Under Fascism, the state makes sweeping changes (sold as an attack on waste, fraud, and abuse) in the name of efficiency…and “the trains will run on time!” Stream my hour-long special “Rick Steves’ The Story of Fascism in Europe” at www.ricksteves.com/fascism.
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burnt undertones @burntundertones.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Today. Find the location nearest you and join everyone.
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Everybody needs to get out the today. Check on these guides before you go.
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Figure out where you need to be on Saturday. It ain’t on your couch! Let’s scare some billionaires! www.mobilize.us?event_type=1...
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Figure out where you need to be on Saturday. It ain’t on your couch! Let’s scare some billionaires! www.mobilize.us?event_type=1...
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Same logic as binge-drinking only kills the weak brain cells.
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
@colinparrish.bsky.social @shanluliu.bsky.social
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Diogenes, PhD @iamdiogenes.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Very curious why @amersocvirology.bsky.social has said nothing in the last three months about any of the issues which are having deeply damaging impacts on their society members. What is a society except a means to advocate for your principles? Love Virology? Wake up!
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