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🦘 Australian
💿 generation Y
🧬 trying to "be a scientist" (whatever that means)
🥄 Looking for my niche

My main profile is @kirt 🦣 I have profiles on a few other instances, so science people don't get flooded with other posts unless that interests them. If this is against a "multiple profiles" rules of this server, just let me know and I'll try to consolidate things? (If you can't find me, try @TashTaylor and she'll find me)

🦣 Main social profile@kirt
researchgatehttps://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kirt-Hanks
🦤 twitterhttps://twitter.com/kirt_hanks
🦤 twitterhttps://twitter.com/evolving_string

It used to be that going to the hospital made you better, not sicker. Watch how carelessness with masks, ventilation, testing, and staying home when infectious, can lead to infection in a hospital—safety matters. 😷

#InfectionPrevention #Masking #CleanAir #PublicHealth #StaySafe #COVID #DiseasePrevention

Two Israeli tourists in Miami were shot by a Jewish-American man who had reportedly told police he’d carried out the attack thinking they were Palestinians.

Further complicating the incident, one of the injured men reportedly posted “death to the Arabs” in a message on social media after the shooting. “My father and I went through a murder attempt against anti-Semitic background,” he wrote.

https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2025/2/18/us-man-shot-two-israeli-tourists-thinking-they-were-palestinians#flips-6368993208112:0

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#Gaza #Palestine

US man shot two Israeli tourists thinking they were Palestinians

Two Israelis in Miami were shot by a man who’d told police he’d carried out the attack thinking they were Palestinians.

Al Jazeera
How can i do anything to help with climate change other than learn about it and doing those click to help websites, maybe eventually save up and donate a little bit to climate change orgs?

The next round of our travel/event fellowship closes 1 December 2023 https://www.open-bio.org/2023/10/19/event-fellowship-2023-3/

Aims to increase diverse participation at events that promote #OpenSource #bioinformatics and/or #OpenScience. We invite applications seeking #FinancialSupport to attend relevant scientific events from January 2024 to August 2024. Includes conferences, workshops, code fests, hackathons, training courses, collaborative sprints, informal meet-ups or other skill-building and networking events.

OBF » Call for the third round of OBF Event Fellowship 2023 & overview of the second 2023 round. » Call for the third round of OBF Event Fellowship 2023 & overview of the second 2023 round.

Open Bioinformatics Foundation Homepage

Did you love (or indeed miss) #SMBE2023? Don’t despair: We’re already planning #SMBE2024. Save the date 7–11 July 2024 and see you then in Mexico! ⁦‪@SMBEmeetings‬⁩

Transition is singularity beautiful. It's the most amazing experience I've had in my entire life.

Every physical change from HRT. Every mental adjustment due to estrogen flowing through my system or due simply to my own personal processing and mental healing. It's strange and beautiful. Surreal. Every step is a surprise and every step brings me closer my true self. It's like stepping out onto an alien world and finding that you are finally home.

#transJoy

Making dozens of digital copies of myself and assigning each one a task from my "to do" list-- then watching in disgust as they all dwaddle about procrastinating.
Vicky Outen

Now see, this is an interesting flowering plant. It's also parasitic, has no chlorophyll, and only appears above ground to flower.
It's Ghost Pipe. It is an uncommon plant in several areas of the world. It's parasitic on mycorrhizal fungi - the fungi that are symbiotic with plants (via roots). Trees provide mycorrhizal fungi with carbs, and the fungi provide trees with more nutrients. Ghost pipe steals nutrients/carbs from the fungi. Picture by me, in Maine, USA #Nature #plants #fungi #parasites

@mike_honey_

Are the #COVID variants up to E now?

Are they still all omicron?

They really should have called omicron #SARScov3 and #COVID21 or possibly #SARScov4 after calling Modi's Monster SARS-CoV-3 instead of #Delta ?

Calling every #variant #omicron when there are constant new #variants really feels like deliberate #obfuscation to hide them?

I've seen media reports saying #NoNewVariants when there are just as many as ever, or more?

#Modi

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