David J. Marchant (he/him) @ruby_marchant
Hey fellow humans we got a great planet down here Edmonton, Alberta Joined October 2014-
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Our premier of Alberta just blocked renewable energy projects for 7 months. Western Canada BURNS because of a LACK of renewable energy. This is true madness and insanity, Danielle Smith! You are apparently very DEEP in big oil’s pockets.
In secondary school around 1990 I heard a talk about how the WHO predicted that climate change is an emergency on par with the threat of nuclear war. I suppose that in both scenarios the World burns. We’re experiencing one of them anyway: Western Canada burns
Since 20 years ago after SARS-CoV1 in 2003 virologists be like, hey World, this is a huge population of coronaviruses circulating in bats throughout China with huge pandemic potential. Neocons after SARS round 2= it was a lab leak!!! SMH
I don’t like vitriol, but dogged pursuit of antivaxxers and the musings of conspiracy theorists are necessary. AIDS denial conspiracies of the same vein led to 1/3rd million deaths in SA hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/…
I don’t like vitriol, but dogged pursuit of antivaxxers and the musings of conspiracy theorists are necessary. AIDS denial conspiracies of the same vein led to 1/3rd million deaths in SA hsph.harvard.edu/news/magazine/…
When conservatives are done destroying education and well quality of life in general they want a board seat in big oil/business. It’s just about scratching backs, not governance
When conservatives are done destroying education and well quality of life in general they want a board seat in big oil/business. It’s just about scratching backs, not governance
Notwithstanding clause = screw your rights
Using the notwithstanding clause in Canada is tyranny
Notwithstanding taxes, I’m going to stop paying my taxes. My own ‘notwithstanding’ clause. Hey so now it’s legal!
‘Notwithstanding’ should be replaced with “in spite of” to accurately portray what they are doing to your rights in Canada
Notwithstanding, the Canadian politician’s magic word to violate Canadian rights
I keep coming back to Fermi’s paradox: So where are they?
I think we’d treat life with much greater value if we realized just how remarkably rare it is in the Universe
We live in an exceedingly rare gentle part of the galaxy. It took 13.8 billion years for us to come this far in our state of civilization and we think the galaxy is teeming with intelligent life? Nope.
Overturning Roe v Wade feels like an act of incels; It’s so terribly misogynistic.
Watching Indiana Jones and Kingdom of Crystal Skull after work + Beer and corn Chips. Love this movie. Haters gonna hate.
Doing research for a friend: if you play Minecraft with your son on LAN and they accidentally strike your character but you then strike their character in retribution, Is that child abuse? Research, friend, Not me.
I was Dadding today, “I’m not throwing this away, there’s half (an eaten) sandwich in here. This is perfectly good food. Any takers? No? Well, Don’t mind if I do.”
When you shovel your home regularly and the neighborhood skate rink is covered in a foot of snow. I be like, ‘step aside, I got this, gimme 20 min.’ Heh. ;)
I got mild myocarditis from SARS CoV2 INFECTION; cardiac MRI diagnosis. Got my MODERNA vaccines and symptoms disappeared. Lesson learned: Infection is FAR more dangerous than a vaccine. Vaccines protect.
It reinstalls my faith in the UofA student body when only 5 students show up to an anti-vax protest
Meadow @Renasho329904
375 Followers 5K Following See the world on the road, and get to know yourself on the way!
Abby @claudinha_58
20 Followers 322 Following
Trushar Patel, PhD, D.. @trushar_7
2K Followers 649 Following Associate Dean & @CRC_CRC Chair @UofLArtSci @uLethbridge. CEO-Quadrumix BioTech, FRSC @RoySocChem, FRSB @RoyalSocBio, Editor @EurBiophysJ, Biophysics➡️Virology
Stuart Neil @stuartjdneil
16K Followers 1K Following Virologist. 🦠 HIV, EBOV, SARS2 and Flu interactions with their hosts. ‘Biodefense expert’ according to a hack
Jaskaran Singh Hora @jaskaranhora
102 Followers 703 Following Graduate in Biotechnology - interested in Mitochondrial Dynamics, Mitophagy, Cancer and Virology
Barbara Porto @BarbaraPorto16
587 Followers 369 Following Assistant Prof in Dept of Med Micro & Infectious Diseases @umanitoba • Scientist @CHRIManitoba • Innate immunity to respiratory viruses 🦠🫁🔬#NewPI 🇧🇷🇨🇦
Dr. Deanna Santer @drdeannasanter
2K Followers 917 Following Assistant Professor in Dept of Immunology, @umanitoba & CHRIM studying human interferons (esp type III IFNs)
Dr. Neeloffer Mookher.. @NMfromUManitoba
2K Followers 928 Following Professor, University of Manitoba, Dept. Internal Medicine & Immunology. Interested in regulation of inflammation & host defence peptides.
Saeideh Davoodi, PhD @SaeidehDavoodi
132 Followers 313 Following Research & Education Program Manager at @AB_OTDT
Bushran N Iqbal @bushran_n
383 Followers 4K Following Diagnostic & Research Virology laboratory- Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Peradeniya.
Sloan Lab @RichardSloanLab
1K Followers 2K Following Richard Sloan. Viruses and Immunity. Edinburgh and China. Edinburgh University @EdinburghUni and @zje_institute.
Danica Fae Besavilla @DanicaBesavilla
45 Followers 224 Following 🇵🇭🇨🇦 PhD student with Angeletti group. Immunology and Molecular Virology. Influenza. Göteborg Universitet.
Jordan Wight @jordtwight
422 Followers 1K Following Microbiology PhD candidate @MemorialU with @LakePulse • Environmental and wildlife microbes • E. coli | #AMR | IAV | #rstats | #OneHealth • (he/him)
Michael Norris @Paramyxologist
366 Followers 655 Following Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Toronto | Virology, structural biology, chemical biology | He/Him. 🇨🇦🏳️🌈👨🔬
ViralPseudotypeUnit @ViralPseudotype
2K Followers 4K Following VPU is an R&D laboratory with PIs @NJTemperton, @SDScotty74 & @ewrightlab: expertise in developing virus pseudotype-based tools and assays. Labs: Kent + Sussex.
Marceline Cote @MCoteLab
924 Followers 1K Following Associate Professor, uOttawa | OISB | CI3 | Canada Research Chair in Molecular Virology and Antiviral Therapeutics
Arinjay Banerjee @sci_questions
9K Followers 2K Following Virologist | Principal Scientist | Adjunct Professor | Co-Lead, One Health @USask. My team investigates highly pathogenic zoonotic viruses #LZCI | My views
Jimmy Dikeakos @DikeakosLab
970 Followers 880 Following Professor @WesternU and Chair of Grad Studies in MNI , Virologist. Husband and Dad. Habs and Bears fan who enjoys espresso.
VignuzziLab @VignuzziLab
16K Followers 9K Following viruses-evolution-Singapore-fitness! @idlabs_astar. #PrideInSTEM 🏳️🌈 #DiversityInSTEM 🇸🇬🇮🇹🇨🇦🇫🇷🇺🇸🇸🇦🇬🇧🇭🇺🇲🇾
Wael Elhenawy @Wael_Elhenawy84
561 Followers 822 Following Assistant Professor @UAlberta_MMI. CRC-Tier II in Microbiome. Crohn's disease-associated bacteria/Microbial evolution/ Biofilms/Genomics. Opinions are my own.
Corcoran Lab @corcoran_lab
1K Followers 1K Following Dr. Jenn Corcoran (she/her) Interested in what viruses have to teach us about cell biology.
Matthew Macauley @MatthewMacaule4
855 Followers 279 Following Associate Prof @ UAlberta interested in glycans, immunology, chemical biology
Ahmed K. Oraby @ahmedkhottary
433 Followers 836 Following Postdoctoral Fellow @UAlberta_MMI working at the interface of Med Chem, virology, CADD and ChemBio. PhD in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry @TheWestGroup1.
Shuborno Islam @Shuborno_Islam
95 Followers 273 Following 🇧🇩 Microbiologist || Infectious Diseases Surveillance || Child Health Research Foundation @chrfbd || *snoring* 😴😴
Sue Tsai @SueYTsai1
382 Followers 355 Following Assistant Prof at the University of Alberta, diabetes/immunology researcher
Marie-Claire Arrieta @ArrietaLab
3K Followers 1K Following Prof at @UCalgaryMed, mom of 2, wife, microbiome scientist. Not in that order and order changes a lot. CostariCanadian 🇨🇦🇨🇷Co-author of @kidsandmicrobes
Cameron Griffiths @CamTheVirusGuy
255 Followers 640 Following PhD | Postdoc in the @janeslab studying systems virology | @HFSP fellow | Your friendly neighborhood virologist | Purveyor of the finest low quality jokes
Olivier Julien @OJ_Lab
194 Followers 305 Following
Colin Coros @aminostrategies
71 Followers 179 Following
Dufourlab @dufourlab
1K Followers 691 Following The Dufour lab is interested in investigating the roles of proteases in inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. https://t.co/tadLmW1GLE
Canadian Society for .. @CanSocVirol
2K Followers 507 Following The Canadian Society for Virology (CSV), founded in 2015, supports the Canadian virus research community #VirologyFTW
Mara Steiner @mara_steiner21
6 Followers 99 Following
The Overall Lab @OverallLabNews
571 Followers 263 Following Proteomics Lab in the best place on Earth :)
NaisHi 🐼 @cHiekaoRi
329 Followers 660 Following
Angela Nusrat @AngelaNNusrat
3 Followers 40 Following
Brittney Lloyd @_brittneyryan_
27 Followers 93 Following
Tony Dufour @tonedufour
127 Followers 377 Following failed poet, fake philosopher, unpublished novelist
Stuart Neil @stuartjdneil
16K Followers 1K Following Virologist. 🦠 HIV, EBOV, SARS2 and Flu interactions with their hosts. ‘Biodefense expert’ according to a hack
Marion Koopmans, publ.. @MarionKoopmans
86K Followers 3K Following https://t.co/x3zIbMPDg5 Head of Viroscience Department , WHO collaborating centre EID
Alberta Diabetes @AlbertaDiabetes
2K Followers 832 Following The Alberta Diabetes Institute at the University of Alberta @UAlberta is dedicated to translating discovery science into health solutions for diabetes.
Dr. Neeloffer Mookher.. @NMfromUManitoba
2K Followers 928 Following Professor, University of Manitoba, Dept. Internal Medicine & Immunology. Interested in regulation of inflammation & host defence peptides.
Andrew Pepper @PepperLab_UofA
303 Followers 191 Following Islet transplanter, diabetes researcher, assistant prof., outdoor enthusiast
Xavier Clemente PhD @MuscImmunol
181 Followers 121 Following Assistant Professor of Immunology at the @UAlberta. Dept of Medical Microbiology and Immunology. Interested in all immune cells within muscles.
Sue Tsai @SueYTsai1
382 Followers 355 Following Assistant Prof at the University of Alberta, diabetes/immunology researcher
4B Harm Reduction Soc.. @4bHarmReduction
1K Followers 598 Following Frontline street outreach response in Edmonton-filling gaps left by government & system failure #YEG #HarmReduction [email protected] 💜
Olivier Julien @OJ_Lab
194 Followers 305 Following
Cameron Griffiths @CamTheVirusGuy
255 Followers 640 Following PhD | Postdoc in the @janeslab studying systems virology | @HFSP fellow | Your friendly neighborhood virologist | Purveyor of the finest low quality jokes
Marceline Cote @MCoteLab
924 Followers 1K Following Associate Professor, uOttawa | OISB | CI3 | Canada Research Chair in Molecular Virology and Antiviral Therapeutics
VignuzziLab @VignuzziLab
16K Followers 9K Following viruses-evolution-Singapore-fitness! @idlabs_astar. #PrideInSTEM 🏳️🌈 #DiversityInSTEM 🇸🇬🇮🇹🇨🇦🇫🇷🇺🇸🇸🇦🇬🇧🇭🇺🇲🇾
Hughes Car Wash @HughesPetroleum
187 Followers 72 Following The Official Twitter of Hughes Petroleum Ltd.
Tony Dufour @tonedufour
127 Followers 377 Following failed poet, fake philosopher, unpublished novelist😂😂😂oh @Bryce_Nickels you sad little man. Perhaps they’d met you before and thought ‘nah, can’t be arsed’ In answer to your question. None, zero, zip. I suspect you have trashed your reputation without any 3rd party help
@stuartjdneil @RutgersU Dealing with my own Covid denier. They do it surreptitiously. Real cowards. Gain traction with University leadership by saying they are alumni and “supporter” of the University. Eh Mr Kassian?
Very cool graphic from @PeterHotez showing the relative risks of measles infection vs the measles vaccine to kids.
@CartlandDavid That is not correct. This is the cycle threshold for selection of samples for full virus genome sequencing.
At 2 AM on December 25, 2021, I couldn’t sleep. I called my partner: "I'm quitting my post-doc." "Are you sure?" he asked. I could tell he was surprised - surprised that I would walk away from a career in which I had devoted much of my life. For which I had sacrificed so much.…
Looking for examples of #onehealth in action? Look no further ✋👇The 2022 OneHealth Zoonotic Diseases joint report bridges over animal and human health, focuses on food safety, links diseases to climate, and is built as a cooperation between @EFSA_EU @ECDC_EU and 🇪🇺🇳🇴🇮🇸 🇱🇮
Newly published @EFSA_EU and @ECDC_EU joint #onehealth 2022 #zoonoses Summary Report, check it here 👉 europa.eu/!Fg6qW4 #onehealth #zoonoses #westniledisease #salmonella #campylobacter
Students asking me if it worth going to school for 30 years to become a PI
fingers crossed
@MarionKoopmans It's one of the reasons the academies exist - to protect science and promote the value of science to society. Of course, the minute an organization speaks up, it's subjected to the same exhausting attacks that their members are being put through.
We stand behind Academy Fellow Professor @edwardcholmes and his rigorous approach to scientific inquiry. He’s spent decades working on virus evolution. His research has been instrumental in the fight against COVID-19 and he’s now looking ahead to understand how we can help…
Determining pandemic origins are important for prevention, but if it’s “natural,” what can we do? I think this is part of the lab leak’s enduring appeal. It’s easy to stop lab leaks if you’re cool with just stopping virology research. Addressing zoonosis is a lot harder to do.
It’s not lost on me that these are species (foxes and raccoon dogs) that are also on the list of susceptible candidates in which SARS-CoV-2 could have spilled over into the human population. Mink farms have also been associated with both H5N1 and SARS-CoV-2 outbreaks/epizootics.
So suggesting that fur farm workers should use caution & maybe some PPE just because H5N1 isn’t efficiently transmitted between mammals is a poor approach. Sure it doesn’t transmit efficiently now. But that might not be true after further passage through mammals farmed for fur.
H5N1 & SARS-CoV-2 are very different, but they have this is common with all viruses: they exist solely to make more viruses, which they can’t do without a host. With enough “practice” infecting a given host, they can & will adapt. It is their biological imperative. Adapt or die.
You don’t need “gain-of-function” virology research to get a virus to expand its host range. What you need are circumstances where a lot of susceptible hosts are in close proximity and there are few barriers to transmission. Like a fur farm. Like the wildlife trade.
Good to see “ symptomless testing” in poultry workers in the UK when working with H5n1 infected birds. Larger scale studies like this will help guide risk assessments. news.sky.com/story/bird-flu…
A favorite talking point from the lab leakers is that it’s absurd and unlikely that SARS-CoV-2 would have the opportunity to adapt to species besides bats except in a lab. But humans give viruses opportunities to adapt all the time. cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influenz…
We have to pay to ski or hike in Kananaskis, fine. But rather than make these dudes pay a trail fee, the UCP gives $8M to quad/off-road groups so they can rip up the land. Got it… #Ableg #FireTheUCP #DanielleSmithIsUnfitToLead
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