Holden ThorpLike everybody else, I’m trying to figure out what to do as Twitter dies. Following @erictopol’s lead and setting up a Substack. Here you go: https://open.substack.com/pub/holdenthorp/p/talking-with-tony-fauci?r=nm6fe&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
Angie Rasmussen 
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Mastodon-curious virologist
K. TaylorRT @andrewpekosz@twitter.com
We are looking for postdoctoral associates! We are all about respiratory viruses and epithelial cells and need a person to work on SARS-CoV-2. See our lab https://pekoszlab.com/ and department https://publichealth.jhu.edu/departments/molecular-microbiology-and-immunology websites for more information @CEIRRNetwork@twitter.com
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/andrewpekosz/status/1602473364110598145
Ken WhiteI've gotten a lot of responses to that Substack piece about leaving Twitter. Many are positive but some are negative. A few are saying "oh so you think free speech is nasty?"
What kind of stupid question is that? Of course I do. The Nazis marching at Skokie were nasty. All sorts of speech is nasty. Supporting free speech doesn't mean reserving judgment about it, you imbecile. It means not using the state to suppress it.
If Elon thinks New Twitter is hardcore, he should check out reality:
“The booing got louder as Musk wandered around onstage with a microphone in hand. Musk started pacing and waving, clearly unsure what to do about such a negative reaction…
“Thanks for having me up on stage,” Musk said awkwardly to more boos.
“The first comedy club on Mars....” Chappelle said, as Musk stood by awkwardly just saying “yeah.””
https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-booed-stadium-crowd-dave-chappelle-sf-boo-1849881192
This is my account on Twitter - https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen - verified by https://Twittodon.com
I guess I’m going to start using this more, now that Twitter is becoming both morally and functionally unusable.
New preprint dropped to ruin Thanksgiving with more novel SARSr-CoVs
https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1595750984915247105?s=46&t=uHCP5fH5Q_PXi6z-mdN8rQ
https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1595750984915247105?s=46&t=uHCP5fH5Q_PXi6z-mdN8rQ
Dr. Angela Rasmussen on Twitter
“This Thanksgiving, I’m grateful for scientists like Mang Shi & colleagues, who do great work despite many challenges. Here they found a novel recombinant bat CoV that is very similar to SARS-CoV-2 in its receptor binding domain. In nature, not a lab. https://t.co/5K2HQw8JT8”
Michael LetkoOur latest work on ACE2-independent sarbecoviruses is now out in mBio! In 2020, we showed how pseudotypes could infect cells without ACE2 and have now confirmed this phenotype with live virus. Important information if we ever want to stop these viruses https://tinyurl.com/4ytz6rkp
Martin EnserinkAn infection with one respiratory virus makes you less likely to become infected with another. This fascinating phenomenon, called "viral interference," may explain why we rarely see a perfect storm of viral epidemics, @joncohen writes.
(Bonus fact: This is where the name "interferon" came from.)
Okay #NewToMastodon, how do I deal with #impersonation ? I’ve now had two accounts on other instances, @angie_rasmussen@birdsite.wilde.cloud & @angie_rasmussen@news.twtr.plus that are quite obviously impersonating me!
I’ve reported both accounts but am unclear if it violates their server rules. Not having common terms of service or a centralized reporting mechanism seems like kind of a big problem in this regard!
I’ve reported both accounts but am unclear if it violates their server rules. Not having common terms of service or a centralized reporting mechanism seems like kind of a big problem in this regard!