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mitochondria mommy ☣︎

@viruswench.bsky.social
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virologist in training | 38k on TikTok HSV’s biggest fan BS Microbiology 🔜 Opinions my own, not representative of my institution.

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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
FELLOW VIROLOGISTS WHO HAVE ENGAGED WITH THE RESIDENT EVIL FRANCHISE: Which RE scientists keep up with TWiV??!???! #re9 #residentevil9 #residentevilrequiem
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
It’s great when an experiment works for once!!!! HEK293 cells coinfected with our custom AAV capsid and GFP.
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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!
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
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.
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
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!
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I’m rarely on here but
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
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.
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Stand Up for Science! @standupforscience.net · 24/07/2025
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
arstechnica.com
Win for chemical industry as EPA shutters scientific research office
Companies feared rules and lawsuits based on Office of Research and Development assessments.
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
it meeee
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
pt HAD MMR!!! please vaccinate your fucking kids because unvaccinated people DO hurt others.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
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...
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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...
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
@ 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
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
“Why are so many kids getting long covid” idk maybe because repeat infections of a virus with neurotropic effects during development will do that
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
fire them both #fireandrewhuberman
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
caturday @publichealthguy1.bsky.social
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Metabo_Dave @metabodave.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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.
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
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
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Isn’t this literally like, the first episode of the show Inside Job on Netflix
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Shematologist, MD @shematologist.medsky.social · 03/06/2025
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.
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James Medlock @jdcmedlock.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
They're literally doing the meme
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
how it feels to be a virologist in Florida rn
media.tenor.com
a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! ''
ALT: a woman is saying `` this is the bad place ! ''
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
SIGN IT! SIGN IT NOW! LOOKING AT Y’ALL MY VIRO PEERS!
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Happy Pride! Image: cross-section of HSV1 Virion Structure determined via CryoEM.
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Renee DiResta @noupside.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Get ready guys
Andrew Huberman in ...
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Professor and Neuroscientist at Stanford & Host of Huber...
Visit my website 2d • Edited •
I hosted Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the new director of The National Institutes of Health (NIH) on the Huberman Lab podcast and we recorded for nearly five hours. No topic was left unturned! You can expect it to be out in about two weeks.
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
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).
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 30/05/2025
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.
washingtonpost.com
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.
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
E.coli O157H7 you have the opportunity to do the funniest thing in existence rn
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Stand Up For Science Open Letter actionnetwork.org/petitions/op...
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Sign The Open Letter to Stand Up For Science Now!
Science is under siege. Trump’s latest Executive Order calls for politically appointed science commissars to evaluate research. Join us in adding your name to our open letter condemning Trump’s escala...
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NBC News @nbcnews.com · 30/05/2025
Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
taking microscope pics with shaky hands is extremely hard. anyway here’s my mesencephalic stem cells pre differentiation! time to turn these babies into neurons :)
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
DOWN WITH THERMO FISHER AND DOWN WITH TARIFFS
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DEI Virologist @kyt-thatsme.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
So, how long do we think these tariff surcharges at science supply companies are gonna last given the current funding issues ? Like you’re raising prices and people don’t have access to money so…..
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
CDC Flu @CDCFlu CDC estimates seasonal #flu has caused at least 47 million illnesses, 21 million medical visits, 610,000 hospitalizations, and 27,000 deaths as of May 17, 2025. Full report here: bit.ly/4k5TtR7
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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.medsky.network · 21/05/2025
#Medsky🧪 #IDsky #Immunosky #publichealth This study found that the Spike proteins from #SARSCoV2 & other human #coronaviruses directly activate mast cells, initiating a rapid inflammatory response through a well-defined intracellular signaling cascade. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...
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Spike proteins of coronaviruses activate mast cells for degranulation via stimulating Src/PI3K/AKT/Ca2+ intracellular signaling cascade | Journal of Virology
The activation and degranulation of mast cells (MCs), triggered by a variety of viruses, are intricately linked to viral pathogenesis. However, the precise mechanism underlying virus-induced MC degran...
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Communications from the CDC have slowed to a trickle. This does not “Make America Healthy Again”. It makes us sick. www.npr.org/2025/05/21/n...
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Diseases are spreading. The CDC isn't warning the public like it was months ago
Some of the CDC's main channels for communicating urgent health information to the public have gone silent.
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Betty C. Jung @bettycjung.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk med.stanford.edu/news/all-new...
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Study strengthens link between shingles vaccine and lower dementia risk
A new analysis of a vaccination program in Wales found that the shingles vaccine appeared to lower new dementia diagnoses by 20% — more than any other known intervention.
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Can’t tell if I don’t like the guy I’m seeing or he’s just not Matt smith
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
double it and pass it to the next president
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Krassensteins @krassenstein.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
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GUINNESS @guinnessisacat.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
TODAY I AM CAUSING A RUCKUS
Guinness the black cat sits on the fridge. Caught mid-meow, he throws his head back, looking possessed.Guinness the black cat sits on the fridge, his eyes wide and empty.
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Pandemic 𓅃. Index @panaccindex.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
The federal government is a rogue anti-vax entity that wants American children to die easily preventable deaths.
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
not my usual post but any tips for dealing with heat intolerance? i feel like im going through menopause in my 20s here
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Does anyone know approximately how many scientists the US federal government funds per year (across all agencies, including people supported by grants and fed workers)? Or where I could find this information?
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
for your profile banners!!!!!! go go go!!!!!!!!! @standupforscience.bsky.social
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mitochondria mommy ☣︎ @viruswench.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
peep the new banner 👀 (sadly not as funny as karaoke bar bathroom graffiti. but important.)
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Dorks, it’s time to throw sand in the gears. They want us to stop teaching, we will teach in the streets. They want us to stop our research, we will use archival data. They want to send us back to the dark ages, we will be a light. We will not lay down and take this.
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TRAstonDrs @castltrastondrs.medsky.network · 06/05/2025
#Medsky🧪 #iDsky #pedsky #Measles as a #PublicHealth Threat Highly contagious disease with severe complications (pneumonia, encephalitis, death). Measles-related mortality remains high in vulnerable groups… @isid.org www.ijidonline.com/article/S120...
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Global Resurgence of Measles: Turning the Tide through a Bold Agenda for Prevention and Control
Globally, measles vaccination between 2000 and 2023 had averted an estimated 60 million deaths, showcasing the profound impact of immunization campaigns [1]. Transmission of the measles virus across b...
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Colette Delawalla, PhD @cdelawalla.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
(For the Monday morning crowd) Saving science costs money and we need your help! Please donate if you can, share with your network, and tell your friends ✊🏼❤️
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Another incompetent fraud has just been given a role in pandemic preparedness at HHS. Steven Hatfill was a heavy promoter of hydroxychloroquine as a treatment for COVID19. It does absolutely nothing to treat COVID19. Worse, he lied about earning a PhD. He allegedly failed his defense.
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