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Caro Goujon

@carogoujon.bsky.social

Virologist (Inserm) and group leader at IRIM (@irim-life.bsky.social), Montpellier University, CNRS. RNA viruses and innate immunity. #FirstGen. Views my own.

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Caro Goujon@carogoujon.bsky.social · last yr.

New job offer in the team! If you're an experienced virologist (with a PhD), join us to work on Horizon Europe-funded APPEAL project in the vibrant city of Montpellier, South of France! euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/359640

Research assistant (postdoc level) in molecular virology, EU-funded project APPEAL (Montpellier, France)

The research assistant with a PhD in molecular virology (RA, 'ingénieur de recherche' in French) will work on the Horizon Europe-funded APPEAL project involving 13 partners from 6 countries, including...

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Marc Gozlan@marcgozlan.bsky.social · last yr.

Un nourrisson atteint d’une maladie génétique ultra-rare reçoit un traitement personnalisé inédit A lire sur 'Réalités Biomédicales' www.lemonde.fr/realites-bio...

Un nourrisson atteint d’une maladie génétique ultra-rare reçoit un traitement personnalisé inédit

Un nourrisson atteint d’une maladie génétique aussi rare que sévère a bénéficié aux Etats-Unis d’une technique innovante, appelée édition de base, capable de corriger une seule lettre de son ADN. Cett...

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Prof Christina Pagel@chrischirp.bsky.social · last yr.

A new article estimates that even a 10% DECLINE in MMR vax coverage in the US could lead to 11 MILLION US measles cases over 25 years. IF instead MMR coverage INCREASES by 5%, cases would falled to <10K. Given infectiousness of Measlies, it's VITAL to ⬆️ MMR vax rates. Measles info below 1/2

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Maureen Johnson@maureenjohnsonbooks.com · last yr.

"This week, Elon Musk said 'The fundamental weakness of Western civilization is empathy.' Elon's words reminded me of this: Anthropologist Margaret Meade noted that the first sign of civilization was a healed human femur...."

Caro Goujon@carogoujon.bsky.social · last yr.

I also have a few examples of my own… as a #FirstGen student, I started with a technical training. during my first intership, a postdoc asked me what I wanted to do afterwards and when I said pursuing my studies and do a PhD, the reply was ‘oh, but you’d need to be clever for that… didn’t you know?´

Adriana Guatame-García@guatamite.bsky.social · last yr.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.” Absurd we still need to go through this 🧪👩‍🔬

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.
American Society for Virology@amersocvirology.bsky.social · last yr.

Vaccines work! As measles cases have recently been reported in Alaska, Georgia, New York, Rhode Island and Texas, it's important to remember that prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine in 1963, measles killed 400-500 people and resulted in ~48,000 hospitalizations per year.

Graph showing that prior to 1963 when the measles vaccine was introduced, there were around 300,000-700,000 measles cases per year. Within a few years of the vaccine, the number of cases fell below 20,000/year. There were a blips where cases rose, but shortly after the second vaccine dose was recommended in 1989, annual cases have generally been well below 1,000 cases. In 2000, measles elimination was declared in the US. Now we have sporadic outbreaks that typically spread among unvaccinated people. Chart is from Center for American Progress and is based on CDC data on measles cases.