Arthur Kroon
@arthurkroon.bsky.social
Ex Algae farmer, biosafety officer, love to read and write, I follow all biology with a focus on virology, immunology and molecular biology.
#BiologicalWeapons #GeneticEngineering #Threat The terrifying threat of a genetically engineered plague www.economist.com/culture/2026... [...] In this imagined scenario, there is an explosion at an infectious-disease research facility in Siberia, where scientists genetically alter bacteria ...
The terrifying threat of a genetically engineered plague
Annie Jacobsen imagines the repercussions of a leak from a Russian laboratory
economist.com
#Biosecurity #PublicHealth #Europe #GlobalWarming Tropical Diseases Like #Dengue Fever and #Chikungunya Are on the Rise in Europe www.wired.com/story/tropic... [...] As climate change increases temperatures across Europe, invasive mosquitoes are spreading and introducing disease agents ...
Tropical Diseases Like Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Are on the Rise in Europe
Climate change is helping invasive species to not only establish themselves across the continent but to stay alive for longer. Scientists suggest we get used to it.
wired.com
#BiologicalWeapons #Threat #Epidemic No One Makes Good Policy Based on Worst Case Scenarios almauroni.substack.com/p/no-one-mak... [...] Let’s look closer at her op-ed, which focuses on efforts to prepare the United States from a biological attack. One of the most significant problems with the ...
No One Makes Good Policy Based on Worst Case Scenarios
It's way past time to stop admiring the advice of doom-sayers
almauroni.substack.com
#Biosecurity #USA #Smuggling Smuggling charges against NIH virologists trigger political uproar www.nature.com/articles/d41... [...] The case is the latest in a string of prosecutions of researchers for smuggling biological samples. It has brought further scrutiny to Munster and Kwe’s workplace,...
Smuggling charges against NIH virologists trigger political uproar
Other researchers say that non-infectious viral samples in luggage posed no risk, but might have violated import rules.
nature.com
#Science #ArtificialIntelligence #Governance AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... [...] The creation of robust human-curated scientific literature has never been more crucial. The propagation of AI slop in the scientific record and ...
AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive
There’s a saying in the management world, popularized by NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the 1990s, that the goal of technological improvements is to make products faster, better, and cheaper. Alt...
science.org
Eric van Kaathoven: Samenwerking van SP met PVV in Pekela is overschrijding van een rode lijn, daarom leg ik mijn functie neer www.bnnvara.nl/joop/artikel...
Samenwerking van SP met PVV in Pekela is overschrijding van een rode lijn, daarom leg ik mijn functie neer - Joop - BNNVARA
Met hun besluit brengt de afdeling Pekela de hele SP ernstige schade toe.
bnnvara.nl
#Biosecurity #PublicHealth #Hantavirus #Ebola #WHO Hantavirus and Ebolavirus outbreaks: When Deadly Pathogens Challenge Global Health Governance idsa.in/wp-content/u... [ #OpenSource - PDF file available] In the context of the recent Hantavirus and Ebolavirus outbreaks, this commentary ...
#Ticks #ConspiracyTheory #Disinformation Climate change is driving a tick boom. MAHA is blaming Bill Gates. grist.org/health/as-ti... [...] While all these conspiracies involve different ticks, different diseases, and different alleged culprits, they are often treated as interchangeable ...
Climate change is driving a tick boom. MAHA is blaming Bill Gates.
Where experts see climate change, others see the designs of a global cabal.
grist.org
#BiologicalWeapons #Threat #USA #Biosecurity Smuggling and Biolabs: The Growing Threat to America’s Biodefense From Within Our Borders www.hstoday.us/subject-matt... Throughout American history, the overwhelming majority of bioterrorism threats have been local, domestic threats from non-state ...
Smuggling and Biolabs: The Growing Threat to America’s Biodefense From Within Our Borders - HSToday
Throughout American history, the overwhelming majority of bioterrorism threats have been local, domestic threats from non-state actors.
hstoday.us
... Companies, professionals, experts, academics and citizens are invited to share the main challenges and bottlenecks they encounter and suggestions to address them. The feedback will support the preparation of the Commission’s proposal for Biotech Act II, an important element of the Commission ...
In zo'n beetje iedere Europese hoofdstad is het besef ingedaald dat de transatlantische band kapot is, behalve in Den Haag. #droomland www.trouw.nl/politiek/kab...
Kabinet blijft erbij: relatie met ‘bondgenoot’ VS blijft goed, alleen de toon is veranderd
Kamerleden zijn verbaasd over de houding van het kabinet, namelijk dat de trans-Atlantische band ook in deze Trump-tijden fier overeind blijft. ‘Dit is een capitulatie in slow motion.’
trouw.nl
Interesting clustering. Could the last 3 cases have caught their infection from a different case, not Case 1?
'Denktank HCSS waarschuwt: Defensie zit in no time zonder brandstof in oorlogstijd. Kerosine de meest kritieke militaire brandstof van allemaal.' www.ad.nl/binnenland/d...
Denktank waarschuwt: Defensie zit in no time zonder brandstof in oorlogstijd
Als er een grote oorlog uitbreekt aan de oostgrens van Europa kan defensie in no time zonder voldoende brandstof komen te zitten. Daarvoor waarschuwt de Haagse denktank HCSS in een rapport over de kwe...
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#BiologicalWeapons #USA #Biosecurity #Ukraine #Laboratories #CIA DNI Tulsi Gabbard probes US funding to more than 120 biolabs abroad nypost.com/2026/05/11/u... Note: If correct, this would be a major #Disinformation coup for Russia in the #UkraineRussiaWar. Director of National Intelligence ...
Exclusive | DNI Tulsi Gabbard probes US funding to more than 120 biolabs abroad
WASHINGTON — Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is investigating more than 120 biological laboratories abroad that were funded by US taxpayer dollars for decades, as part of an effort …
nypost.com
Spectacular is the least, concerning that this passenger off boarded on tristan da Cunha on 20 april before 30 passengers offboarded on st Helena on 24 april.
#Biosecurity #Outbreak #Hantavirus #Disinformation #USA #Trump Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare www.theguardian.com/science/2026... [...] In the absence of trusted information, misinformation about the outbreak is ...
Hantavirus misinformation runs rampant as the US is unequipped to respond to infectious disease health scare
But the US’s withdrawal from the WHO – and cuts to the country’s health system – stymie officials’ response
theguardian.com
... pandemic, have been linked to traded wildlife, the long-term impact of the wildlife trade in shaping pathogen exchange between humans and wild animals remains unclear.
US Navy destroyer USS Frank E. Peterson Jr (DDG 112) in the Strait of Hormuz this Sunday morning (local time). (SRC: MarineTraffic).
AI can now autonomously design and run thousands of biological experiments, but the regulatory systems meant to oversee this capability have fallen dangerously behind. The gap between what’s possible (like making a dangerous virus spread more easily) and what’s regulated is growing, and that’s a
AI can design and run thousands of lab experiments without human hands. Humanity isn’t ready for the new risks this brings to biology
Researchers have found that even people with limited experience in biology can use AI to help them create a dangerous pathogen.
theconversation.com
I've never seen anything like this before. There are currently at least 14 (fourteen!) KC-135R Stratotankers on their way to the Middle East. Inbound from bases across the United States. They're used to refuel other aircraft in the air.
#ChemicalWeapons #BiologicalWeapons #HybridWarfare #Prepredness #NATO this is how we are preparing for the new dirty war www.irishdentist.ie/this-is-how-... NATO strengthens biodefense in the face of the risk of attacks with pathogens, secret programs and hybrid threats. From artificial ...
this is how we are preparing for the new dirty war - IrishDentist.ie
NATO strengthens biodefense in the face of the risk of attacks with pathogens, secret programs and hybrid threats. From artificial intelligence to the global race
irishdentist.ie
On this day in COVID history, February 15, 2020: More than 80 clinical trials launch to test coronavirus treatments Source: Nature https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00444-3
London measles outbreak: more than 60 children infected Cases are spreading between children in Enfield as the virus exploits low MMR vaccination rates, medical experts say www.thetimes.com/uk/... 1/3
London measles outbreak: more than 60 children infected
Cases are spreading between children in Enfield as the virus exploits low MMR vaccination rates, medical experts say
thetimes.com
#BiologicalWeapon #ChemicalWeapon #Toxin #Assassination #Russia #OPCW Navalny was poisoned with exotic frog toxin, five Western nations confirm theins.ru/en/news/289387 [...] The phantasmal poison frog, the species that produces epibatidine, was designated a protected species in 1984. ...
Navalny was poisoned with exotic frog toxin, five Western nations confirm
Five European countries have confirmed that Navalny was poisoned with epibatidine — a high-potency neurotoxin derived from South American poison dart frogs. Traces of the toxin were found in tissue sa...
theins.ru
