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Jordan T Becker

@jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social
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@UWMadison BS & PhD | @UMNews Postdoc | Viruses, RNA, & Evolution | dad | atheist | he/him | opinions my own | There's no art on a dead planet X

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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Moderation lists allowing mass block/mute accentuating existing silo-ing and also favoring neoliberals.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 29/03/2026
It's so hilarious: Dems have spent the last several years in garment-rending anxiety over their need for a "left Joe Rogan" to appeal to young men online. Now there is one -- literally, one (1) -- and the party has immediately fallen to vicious infighting over it. We couldn't even make it to 2.
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
FFS is it possible for you to go on Breaking Points? @krystalball.bsky.social ? I just doubt Grim would actually bring on Andersen/Rasmussen/Holmes/any-virologist. This is idiocy parroting right wing bs. Like >90% of virologists agree and they only have everything to risk from this fascist admin.
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Steve Williams @iloatheskies.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Ryan Grim has the occasional good take about various issues so it's important to consciously remember that he is, overall, absurdly credulous. There is no possibility covid started in summer 2019, under *either* the wet market *or* lab leak theories, a truly idiotic argument.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/02/2026
BASH: Is this measles outbreak a consequence of the administration undermining support for vaccines? DR OZ: I don't believe so. Secretary Kennedy has been advocating for measles vaccines BASH: Oh, come on
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Dimitri Drekonja, MD, MS @dimitridrekonja.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.
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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
(speaking into wrist) it’s time
Art from the game Red Alert 2 with a bunch of large zeppelins with a hammer and sickle and scary face drawn on them flying over the Statue of Liberty
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Nate Sherer @natesherer.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Happy Halloween!!
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Willow Coyote-Maestas @willowcoyote.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Zara Weinberg passed away earlier this week. She joined my lab earlier this year when her postdoc lab formally closed. She was a brilliant scientist, supportive mentor, dear friend, avid music fan, rabid believer in public transit, open science champion, and above all just an amazing human.
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
Has anyone confirmed Shia LeBeouf’s location or ability to time travel from the set of Holes?
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David Gorski, MD, PhD @gorskon.bsky.social · 20/10/2025
I find it hilarious that, for years later, they are still so cheesed about the commentary @gavinyamey.bsky.social. Good.
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Hey if anyone knows Justin, it looks like he’s been hacked on Bluesky or kidnapped IRL.
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
NIH should try “double blind” reviews. We can definitely redact identifying info. “We previously” becomes ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||. And Bibliography = |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
This probably explains a lot.
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Current Affairs @currentaffairs.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Watch the full discussion! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJso...
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The Reason You Can't Let Libertarians Run Your Country ft. Alex Skopic & Hartzell Gray
YouTube video by Left Reckoning
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Nearly an entire annual NIH budget to a country whose leader CHOSE to destroy its government and economy. That also immiserates the American economy directly (farmers) and indirectly (wasted use of budget). Anyone who says "we can't afford X" is lying to you.
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 13/10/2025
On Saturday, we wear yellow. ❌👑
(between the No Kings logo and an image of a hand holding a sign that reads “REJECTING KINGS SINCE 1776”) Wear yellow.
Show up.
Show out.
Saturday, October 18th.
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
Difficult calculus for Andrew Schultz and others praising Trump for “getting pussy” when that pussy is Epstein victims. Not to mention the inherent misogyny of that praise versus the slut shaming of Kamala. But consultants didn’t like calling them weird and mocking them, so ppl stopped.
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin. When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
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D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’ “Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?” -Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
Vaxxed?
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 11/10/2025
Keep an eye on Ro Khanna if that time comes.
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Is she a hero to the “people of Caracas” or to Venezuelan families? Should there be a courageous struggle for democracy in every corner and crevice of the world?
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Link?
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Maybe Andrew Schultz and that CEO that wanted to say the p-word had a point. I might be radicalized to mock people for their hubris to go running in a thunderstorm near trees.
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a cartoon pig is standing next to a dog and saying `` why i oughta let me at him let me at him ''
Alt: a cartoon pig is standing next to a dog and saying `` why i oughta let me at him let me at him ''
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
CHICAGO — WGN News editor/producer Debbie Brockman grabbed by Trump’s ICE goons.. who then intentionally ram a bystander’s car as they peel away. More: www.fox32chicago.com/news/wgn-new...
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clyde bruckman's skeleton's final repost @ultralaser.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
terrible things are happening outside. poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. families are torn apart. men, women, and children are separated. children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.

diary of anne frank, january 13, 1943.
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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
I really appreciate Justice Jackson contrasting the lower courts' meticulous and responsible approach to judging—extensive deliberations, written opinions—with the Supreme Court's slapdash, unreasoned work over the shadow docket. www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...
They have done so in reasoned and thoughtful written opinions—opinions that, in the nor- ‘mal course, we would get to parse, assess, and embrace or reject, while fully explaining our reasoning.
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Paperback is en route! Are you promoting the book on podcasts or anything? Probably good chats with @majorityreport.bsky.social or @rhodesben.bsky.social or @ryangrim.bsky.social or #ScienceInActionBBC. Narrative on Covid and science is getting lost in USA with other obvious problems.
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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 01/08/2025
Happy August. Here is a little surprise for everybody: The english version of my book is finally available. You can get it on Amazon. You can also read and listen to it on my blog, where I will release the book as freely accessible serialized novel. 1/ www.protagonist-science.com/p/lab-leak-f...
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Lab Leak Fever
The COVID-19 Origin Theory that Sabotaged Science and Society
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Portland popo popping people. Trump troops trampling treeple. Healthcare healers helping humans. Repub really relish rights refrained.
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Classic.
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a black and white cartoon of a man holding a sign that says ' sickos ' .
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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
🚨 IMPORTANT THREAD 🚨 People are protesting the Broadview ICE facility tonight. This will likely be an extremely high-risk action. I caution you to consider your risk level before attending. I will not attend. Attendance risks your safety, but also the safety of Broadview residents + detainees. 1/6
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
James Austin Johnson this season...
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Liz Szabo @lizszabo.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Why is basic research important? Scientists struggled unsuccessfully for decades to develop an RSV vaccine. Then NIH scientists figured out the key structure of a protein. Now we have 3 vaccines and 3 monoclonal antibodies against RSV. www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-...
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A Turning Point in Infant Health—How 2023 Changed the Fight Against RSV
The year 2023 marked the debut of groundbreaking innovations to prevent severe RSV infections in infants. Now protected babies are way less likely to develop severe infections or to end up in the ICU
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
If you believe long-COVID exist, then you should accept that long flu and long rhinovirus and long hand-foot and long RSV exists. We always know long polio = paralysis and long EBV = MS.
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
We will respond at a time and place of our choosing consistent with the severity of this designation with regard to its ability of affect those constituents that may or may not be considered affected by this label.
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bioRxiv Microbiology @biorxiv-microbiol.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Mammalian ZAP and KHNYN independently restrict CpG-enriched avian viruses www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/202…
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Jobs once and only once. Then rotted out towns after they poison the land, air, and water.
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 18/09/2025
A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.
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Jordan T Becker @jordanbeckerphd.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Carl Schmitt, the Plettenberg jurist?
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an older man wearing headphones is sitting in front of a microphone .
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Prasad Jallepalli, MD, PhD @prasad.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
“Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson [from his role in the Abrego Garcia case]. ‘This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style. We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.’”
In his remarks, Mr. Van Hollen cited his involvement in fighting for the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was wrongfully deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador in the spring. Some in his party, he said, argued that getting embroiled in a fight over a deportation was a “distraction” and potentially politically unpopular, because Mr. Trump’s hard line on immigration had resonated with voters.

Mr. Van Hollen saw a different lesson.

“This finger in the wind stuff has got to end. We also need to stop deluding ourselves that the problem is all about messaging, or about volume, or style,” he said. “We don’t just need to fight. We need to fight for something.”
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
In his Oval Office address on political violence, Trump lists the attempt on his life, the Scalise shooting, and attacks on ICE agents. He does not mention Jan 6th, the attack on the Pelosi family, the Hortman murders, the kidnapping attempt on Gretchen Whitmer, or the fire at Gov Shapiro’s house.
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Tal Lavin @swordsjew.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2025
rarely have I more acutely felt the dynamic by which Dems are held responsible for the rhetoric of every random left-leaning person on the internet and Republicans are not even asked to answer for their own personal words
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2025
Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."
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