2 years & 8 new Myotis bat genomes later, so proud to be an alum of these incredible teams showing how bats break the rules: adapting to DNA viruses using exact same pathways behind their cancer resistance & long lifespans. Bats are evolutionarily economical & this makes them so cool! #TEworldwide

Lucie Etienne@lucievirevolte.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Insights into longevity & virus-driven adaptation from Myotis bat genomes International & fantastic collab. with @psudmant.bsky.social @denard.bsky.social Labs ! Major credit to the 2 leading scientists: Juan Vazquez & @lauterbur.bsky.social now with their own labs! You 2 rock! (1/n)

DAY 30 of the #IranMassacre of more than 43,000 innocent civilians. In memory of them who had more courage than us, who shouted our words louder & who are no longer beside us today. 109 intelligent students who stayed & fought for a #FreeIran

DAY 29 of the #IranMassacre It’s a shame that international communities dismiss Iranian struggles as foreign agents. Videos show the IRGC shooting to kill, bloodied streets, missing students, & medics being hanged for doing their duties. All is documented. You just need to actuall care

DAY 28 of the #IranMassacre. Please don’t stop talking about #FreeIran 🙏

DAY 27 of the #IranMassacre, Iranians have endured unimaginable atrocities! Can you imagine surviving 3 days among piles of body bags in a Kahrizak morgue to escape the regime that shot you? That is why we are determined to complete #IranRevolution2026, so please talk about Iran.

DAY 26 of the #IranMassacre that coincidences with Tuesday campaign of #NoToExecutionsInIran We have reached the point of no return in the #IranRevolution2026. No deals with the DiCtator. Image depicts "Iran" written in blood. Verified data via Abdolrahman Boroumand Center for Human Rights in Iran.

Day 25 of the #IranMassacre. On 01 Feb 2026, across Iran, students protested for their many arrested classmates & the fallen, like #AidaHeidari, killed during the #IranRevolution2026, for #FreeIran. This is a generation that will not bend the knee.

DAY 24 of #IranMassacre , we will #FreeIran bc we will not forget all the beautiful lives #IRGCTerrorists destroyed. One shot killed #MatinGhorbani but broke two hearts. #IranRevolution

DAY 23 of #IranMassacre which costed more than + 36500 lives. As Saadi said: Human beings are members of a whole, in creation of one essence & soul. If one member is afflicted with pain, Other members uneasy will remain. If you have no sympathy for human pain, the name of human you cannot retain.

DAY 22 of #IranMassacre during #IranRevolution2026 while sporadic #DigitalackoutIran continues & all these names that are not repeated. This one is for Shahab Mousavi, 21 years old. His youtube: m.youtube.com/@dreamflexan...

DAY 21 of #IranMassacre . The high price we paid for #IranRevolution2026 during #DigitalBlackoutIran

DAY 20 of #IranMassacre . They said #IranRevolution2026 was foreign agents but apparently they now hire little kids to shout #DeathToTheDictator . If this is foreign invasion why did you #DigitalBlackoutIran ?

DAY 19 of #IranMassacre during #IranRevolution2026 through #DigitalBlackoutIran, the IR regime keeps targeting medical staff who are honoring the oath they took by treating civilians that were shut during peaceful protests. Among them are:

DAY 18 of #IranMassacre during #DigitalBlackoutIran for #IranRevolution2026 I‘ve never seen a cooler 19 year old than Diana Bahador (aka Baby rider). She was murdered with live ammunition on 9.1.2026.

DAY 17 of #IranRevolution2026 during #IranMassacre & #InternetBlackoutIran , they killed the 30 year old Babak Sadeghi Mohseni. He loved nature & wanted a normal life.

DAY 16 of national mourning #IranMassacre #IranRevolution2026 How many minutes are needed to honor 20,000 lives lost & the future stolen from Iran? How many more decades do we need to fight this cruel, colonizing regime?

DAY 15 of #DigitalBlackoutIran #IranMassacre #IranRevolution2026 #FreeIran they murdered 23 years old Raha Bohloolipour. She was full of life. She liked literature & David Bowie

DAY 14 of #DigitalBlackoutlran #IranMassacre #IranRevolution2026 #FreeIran

DAY 13 of #DigitalBlackoutlran #IranMassacre #IranRevolution2026 #FreeIran

Black DOVE ! 🜋@blackdave14.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is Iran. They aren’t even wearing official military uniforms. Their faces are masked. They chant “Labbayk ya Khamenei” as they fire into homes. Into the homes of foreign enemies? No، into the homes of the rightful owners of this land. This is an occupied Iran.

Human Rights is not selective. If you care about this, please join us to be the voice of Iranians that like me had to leave their families back in the internet blockage.

Neyriz is a battlefield! 💨 On Jan 6, security forces reportedly saturated the streets with tear gas to break the uprising. Despite the heavy crackdown and fires at government offices, the people of Fars refuse to be silenced! 👊🦁🇮🇷 #IranProtests #Neyriz #16Dey #Fars #Iran #Freedom

#Iran: We've seen disturbing videos of forces entering hospitals to attack protesters. To now be silencing free speech through fear and violence in places of healing is an extreme escalation. It must be condemned loudly and immediately.

Scraping who is on the platform working on #TransposableElements or other types of #RepetitiveDNA Have fun! go.bsky.app/7t5GQAP

If you are interested in #Adaptation in #bats and #TEworldwide , checkout our new preprint!

Lucie Etienne@lucievirevolte.bsky.social · 2y ago

Extensive longevity &DNAvirus-driven adaptation in Myotis bats Tremendous work by Juan Manny Vazquez + M Elise Lauterbur🤩 w.@mottasx1.bsky.social &great crew of ppl Awesome collab w. @psudmant.bsky.social & @denard.bsky.social labs to illuminate 🦇 functional evolution www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Like KoRV in its koala host, the endogenization process in Melomys is at the earliest stages, providing additional wildlife model of germline colonization by exogenous retroviruses. Read our new findings at: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... #TEworldwide #TEsky