So good. The memes are evolving to do some heavy pedagogical lifting.

More & more evidence accruing that SARS-CoV-2 causes significant persistent effects on the brain. We now have multiple strands supporting this- -long-term symptoms-brain fog, memory loss -higher risk of stroke/neuro diseases -structural brain changes -virus persistence in brain🧵

Thread. Have you ever heard of "civil asset forfeiture"? You're never going to think about the police the same way again. (1)

NEW: The workers who make Rice Krispies & Froot Loops are on strike at all Kellogg's U.S. cereal plants. They work 16-hour forced overtime shifts and 7-day work weeks, sometimes up to 120 days straight. Now, amid record profits, Kellogg's wants to cut their pay & benefits.

2/ Back in January, COVID was the: - #1 cause of death among 45+ year-olds - #2 cause of death among 25-44 year-olds In Aug/Sept, COVID was - #1, #2, or #3 cause of death among 25+ year-olds - #4, #6, or #7 cause of death among kids/youth under 25

“Covid zero is impossible with omicron, so what’s the point in even trying to reduce/slow transmission?” My answer: 🧵 1/

Omicron is not a Pokemon-style "final evolution" of SARS-CoV-2. It's still mutating rapidly, including in the spike protein, and with the amount of replication it is doing out there right now, we can expect new variants. Hoping is not a strategy. Giving up is not a plan.

'21 was a great year for biotech advances. Of course, mRNA was the year's star thanks to COVID. However, there were 5 other biotech advances that were ridiculously exciting, too. A thread:

Yes, the boat hit the iceberg, but putting the children in lifeboats is the most destructive thing imaginable to their psyche. It's time for us to stop all this evacuation talk and just complete the voyage.

"The bodies of the children all lie here, dumped into this narrow trench hastily dug into the frozen earth of Mariupol to the constant drumbeat of shelling." apnews.com/article/russia…

okay so a neat thing about QUENCH is that it's an extant causative form of a word that no longer exists in English!

MYTH: We don't have a solution to nuclear's "waste problem" REALITY: Nuclear waste isn't a problem. In fact, it’s the best solution we have to meeting our energy needs while protecting the natural environment! Here's what you need to know:

Our spatial #metabolomics paper on #phosphonolipids is out 🥳🎉peerj.com/articles/achem… #mussels & #oysters are not just tasty but have a fascinating #biochemistry 👨‍🔬 A big thank you to my colleagues for their feedback and especially Dolma, Benedikt Geier and Manuel Liebeke!

If you take a Petri dish, castor oil and some ball bearings and put all in an electric field, you might happen to spot an interesting behavior: self-assembling wires who appear to be almost alive [Stanford Complexity Group: buff.ly/3utG23e]

I've been disappointed in content coming from Scientific American for a while now, so I guess I'm not surprised to see this. Let’s examine these claims: 1. Is nuclear waste “piling up” 2. Is nuclear waste becoming unsafe? 3. Do we need a repository now?

>50 funded positions (PhD students, postdocs, technicians) are available in new Cluster of Excellence "Microbiomes drive planetary health" across 8 Austrian research institutions. Thanks for RT. microplanet.at #microbiology #health #jobs MedUni Wien CeMM FWF

I am very happy to announce the publication of our protocol that combines #MALDI #MSI with #FISH. Thanks to @benebio3d, Manuel Liebeke and our collaborators at the Dreisewerd lab and BrukerMassSpec! Hope to see many correlated #spatialmetabolomics datasets! nature.com/articles/s4159…

My latest: Nobody expected Hamas's slaughter—not Israel, not its critics, not the experts. But they should have. Hamas has been telegraphing its intentions for years, we just weren't paying attention. I put all the evidence in one place. Please read it: theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

A bright and shining example of the suicidal absurdity of technocapitalist society occurs every year at this time, all across the country. 1/n