The Virologist 🇳🇱🤙
@thevirologist.bsky.social
Med-tech CEO, virologist (UW/FHCRC), MBA. Classical violinist, award-winning brewer, press photographer. An American 🇺🇸 expat (from Kauai, HI, no ka oi 🤙) in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 via Scotland 🏴. Victim of the syntonic comma. Tu non sai chi cazzo sono io.
It's been a while since my camera roll was taken over by cat pictures. You're probably going to see a lot of them here (without any Kauai scenery to intersperse). Mister coming up to cool off during the heat of the day.
The corruption is immense. In the midst of this: fires, floods, measles, loss of sacred lands, family farms, and ranches, health care and insurance, and food for kids. Gilding statues in DC w/ no-bid contracts while Americans are in need. open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...
August 2, 2026
Friday’s dismissal of the Department of Justice case against David Hearn for vandalism of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool came days after Hearn’s lawyers asked for transcripts of the grand jury p...
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“Mister,” as we’ve come to know him, regularly visits and hangs out. He doesn’t know it yet, but he’s going to the vet next week to be chipped and neutered (vaccinated too). I think there will be a lot of treats that will be required to rebuild trust.
Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin (@humboldtuni.bsky.social) is hiring: Research Fellow/Postdoc in Finance #postdoc #finance
not as fun or spectacular as my Kauai astrophotography, but at least there were no clouds for the full moon a couple of nights ago.
University of Cambridge (@cam.ac.uk) is hiring: Post-doctoral Research Associate #postdoc #medicine #parkinsonsdisease
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Amy Maxmen, PhD@amymaxmen.bsky.social · 6d agoThe evidence supports the alt theory of a spillover from animals sold at the market. Spillovers also happen to account for all other novel infectious disease epidemics. I'm tired of writing about this since I'm tired of the harassment. Pretty much every science writer I know feels the same.
Closing the hearing, Paul asked rhetorically: “Did [Fauci’s] actions lead to the largest man-made plague in history?” I can’t even with these mediocre, privileged white men.
I wonder how many U.S lawmakers understand that here in OZ, during the Covid years, we looked to Dr. Fauci to debunk the lies from the White House ... and prepare accordingly.
'Let’s start with the primary reason, which is that we can’t grow the causative organism, T. pallidum, in standard lab cultures. This means that we rely mostly on a series of antibody tests.' voices.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
Syphilis Testing Is Terrible — So Let’s Learn How It Works
A guided tour through EIAs, RPRs, false negatives, false positives, and the strange endurance of a test from 1906
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LIVE: Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies in Senate hearing Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul, after being subpoenaed to testify. The hearing is expected to examine…
LIVE: Dr. Anthony Fauci testifies in Senate hearing
Dr. Anthony Fauci, the former top U.S. infectious disease expert, appears before the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, chaired by Sen. Rand Paul, after being subpoenaed to testify. The hearing is expected to examine gain-of-function research funding, the origins of COVID-19, and related allegations. #anthonyfauci #coronavirus #covid19 #covid #us #randpaul #senate #live #Reuters #News Keep up with the latest news from around the world:
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The Orange Menace may literally ruin the world.
Lewis Pugh Foundation@lewispughfdn.bsky.social · last wk.Scientists warn that ships stranded for months in the Strait of Hormuz have accumulated unusually large amounts of marine life on their hulls. When they return to service, they could transport invasive species to ports around the world. www.whoi.edu/press-room/n... @whoi.edu @unep.org
the Skylar Capital Management 167 Mw data center was approved by the BLM in June, through unorthodox permitting procedure that avoids an environmental review or public input. Projected to use 16B gallons of water/yr. Enjoy the drought, Nevada.
She’s a Stanford alumna, too. Lots of effort was spent to get access to her money for the University. Stanford seems to churn out some memorable alums (not in a good way). As long as they bring in $, Stanford doesn’t care what position they take.
Kevin Elliott@kjephd.bsky.social · last wk.Impossible to tell if that look in her eyes is the glint of the delighted true believer finally getting the fascism she wants or the terror of someone whose company is hostage to the mercurial dictator she's introducing. In the end, it does not matter one bit.
Delft University of Technology (@tudelft.nl) is hiring: Postdoc in Theoretical Quantum Physics #postdoc #physics #quantumphysics
The Abdication For years, the kitchen had been his. Not legally, perhaps. Not even by mutual agreement. But by the ancient and immutable principle that if everyone else is doing it wrong, eventually The Scientist takes over. And so it had been. 1/21
