Postdoc, Netherlands Institute of Ecology. Insect-microbe symbiosis; current work evolution of plant-viral symbiosis driven by artificial selection. he/him/his
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Jason Chen retweeted
This is basically a classical dangerous Gain of Function (dGoF) experiment. I wish the US government would shut it down.
A while ago, Stacey Schultz-Cherry and I wrote a commentary (pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/article…), that ends with this sentence:
US: Bird flu has been spreading for around two months on a Utah mink farm holding thousands of animals. None have been culled, workers aren't being monitored, and the USDA says it doesn't regulate mink. So thousands of animals are exposed, workers could be at risk, and nobody seems to be taking responsibility.
theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
Jason Chen retweeted
I literally spend ALL of my time either in the forest documenting wildlife or crammed somewhere editing the content. I sacrifice everything for not much return, like ALL creators do! 😤
The concept that ‘grifters’ can just exist by downloading content without consent and uploading on their own platform for monetisation is disgusting - especially when this is how they respond after being caught!
BAN THEM! 🤮
Jason Chen retweeted
Science girl is the exact same, she blocked me straight away after I called her out for constantly stealing mine and friends content
Jason Chen retweeted
I guess it wasnt about Hamas or the hostages after all, but always about ethnic cleansing. Who’d have known!!
Jason Chen retweeted
if there isn't disproportionate, life-destroying criminal sanction for the people responsible for this in 2029 there will just never be a non-partisan bureaucratic apparatus ever again. I've seen this happen a couple times in a couple places- it just doesn't come back.
SCOOP: The State Dept has started asking career diplomats up for promotion if they voted for Trump in 16, 20, 24.
Federal law prohibits politically based hiring for career staff.
State tells @washingtonsun it's screening for "fidelity" and execution of the president's vision👇
Jason Chen retweeted
I understand that this is a very serious and important story but I keep laughing at the idea of Dutch spies
The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. vanityfair.com/story/jared-k…
Jason Chen retweeted
A phage-encoded small RNA that mimics chimeric guide to inhibit CRISPR-Cas9
"a phage encodes the sgRNA decoy to sequester Cas9"
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Jason Chen retweeted
y’all. Emory students are hosting a jon ossoff look-alike contest on campus 😭
talk about grassroots enthusiasm
Jason Chen retweeted
Abolish ICE.
ICE operation near Canton elementary school prompts shelter-in-place freep.com/story/news/local/m…
Jason Chen retweeted
In soil, viral richness increased with depth and viruses shifted toward lysogeny as carbon availability declined. Viral endolysin promoted necromass carbon accumulation, which contributed to increases in mineral-associated organic carbon. doi.org/10.1038/s41559-026-0…
Jason Chen retweeted
How does a predatory fungus build a trap to capture a nematode? New work by @fungi_worms lab reveals how prey signals reorganize conserved polarity and cytoskeletal machinery to redirect hyphal growth, form a trap, & then switch gears to penetrate the prey hubs.la/Q04BzS4D0
Jason Chen retweeted
Orangutan mothers plan play dates for their offspring, according to 15 years of behavioral and movement data from 31 Bornean orangutan mother–child pairs. The generally solitary apes expend energy to take their offspring to visit similarly aged peers. ow.ly/fJB450ZZoih
ALT An orangutan mother and child on the move in Borneo. Stock photo.
Jason Chen retweeted
I’m so fucking tired of the celebrity worship of white journalists who go to Palestine to “document the occupation.” They build platforms off our oppression, then attack Palestinians the second our politics don’t suit them. Meanwhile, Palestinian journalists document this reality every fucking day, often until they’re killed doing it, and rarely receive the same recognition. Stop making celebrities out of people who parachute into our suffering. Recognize the Palestinians who live it.
Jason Chen retweeted
in case you didn't know a trans woman was denied care for cancer in the UK because they refused to put her on either sex segregated ward (mens or womans). she died because of this. 16 days without treatment and she died. this new guidance has killed and will kill trans people
