flodebarre.bsky.social
Evolutionary biologist, theoretician
CNRS Senior Researcher at Sorbonne Université
Interests: Infectious diseases, their origins and control; scientific publishing; diversity in science
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2497-833X
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Merci pour cette analyse !
Le communiqué de presse indiquait aussi que l'université n'avait pas de permis pour travailler dessus ("The university does not have federal permits to handle it."). Savez-vous ce qu'il en est exactement ?
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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If you burn down a forest, you don't miss out on lumber for just that season. You have to replant all the trees, nurture them, and wait for them to grow.
The science and research budget cuts happening now are wanton, senseless arson. Recovery, if it ever happens, will take generations.
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I had never realised that that's what the handle meant... and a search of their old tweets confirms it. Charming. Thanks.
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oh yes!...
(even more awkward when the two claims are in the same journal!)
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distorsion de ségrégation méiotique / distorsion méiotique / distorsion de ségrégation
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Les carottes crues détoxifient les œstrogènes !
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109K followers sur Instagram, je découvre un monde...
www.instagram.com/anadasilv__
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Je viens de regarder l'article et le chapô est trompeur : les lentilles c'est bien pour le fer et pas pour les douleurs prémenstruelles.
En revanche je crois que ça se saurait si la courge butternut soulageait les douleurs...?!
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Coach en nutrition, c'est du rebranding de nutritionniste, ou une astuce pour se faire passer pour nutritionniste sans avoir de diplôme ?
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Now they are using this paper to argue that the fact that D614G rapidly evolved to stabilize the spike was a sign that the FCS was recent (this is a point made in the commentary). I think people agree?
But as Ben pointed out, the extrapolation to a lab origin of the FCS is completely spurious. 2/2
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It's pure goalpost shifting.
Alina Chan's initial theory was that SC2 was perfectly adapted to humans and remained stable in the first months of the pandemic; she dismissed D614G as adaptation.
It became untenable, so 1/2
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(Je voulais écrire "contextualisation" mais autocorrect l'a changé en un autre mot...)
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He could check the references he cites, that's basic scholarship. Strong, actually unsupported, statements are made, starting with their list of previous lab accidents
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Right? The narcissism is staggering. The ms is so poor... and yet, if he wanted, he could definitely find an outlet, there are several leaker-friendly journals
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Thank you!
(I had a small technical glitch that prevented me from smoothly advancing slides...)
We'll see how our work ages when the Trump administration publishes at last what the US intelligence community has found (if this ever happens)
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Same language again in this quote-tweet by Rand Paul: documents on the cover-up -- not on the origin itself.
Will they go after Fauci, Daszak, the PO authors, without even being able to prove that the origin is actually a lab leak?
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You were probably already considering it, but I recommend attending the classes at WiKo!
(assuming you are fine being in a student position again; for some people it was hard!)
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I have worse for you: The French government published yesterday an AI generated video to celebrate WW2 Resistance (including a cheerful German soldier)
www.lemonde.fr/pixels/artic...
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Funny, hey, I thought Covid was over
www.science.org/content/arti...
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The same language was used by NIH director Jay Bhattacharya.
"with [...] the help of the U.S. and also Germany and the UK" refers to the "cover-up".
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Apparently, you just need to pay $10000 to have your paper published in The Lancet.
Makes me wonder what RFKJr would say about the eLife system...
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The "Lancet letter" was just shortly mentioned in the podcast, and it became a whole paragraph in Politico. People seem to have forgotten how short the letter was, and how largely inconsequential it was until USRTK made a story out of it with emails, months later.
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Yes, and that new "journal" was (uncritically) mentioned in the Politico article on the news
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Apparently, you can just buy a publication The Lancet, NEJM or JAMA
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I was also wondering about them when I read the RFKJr news! Has there been any official announcement?
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Thanks for sharing, and congratulations @beyerstein.bsky.social -- almost four years later, the text is amazingly good!
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Pas certaine que le vol de données soit un échec pour eux...
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Do not give them an INCH!
It's not: Well, maybe there are some areas where DEI has become too much a focus.
It's: FREE COUNTRIES DON'T SEND OUT BANNED WORDS LISTS TO THEIR SCIENTISTS
It's not: Well, science isn't perfect...
It's: FREE COUNTRIES DO NOT HAVE SCIENCE COMMISSARS
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They get to determine what is fraudulent. Anything that won't be aligned with what they want to do can arbitrarily be called fraudulent. They are already doing it for Covid origin papers, no reason to expect that they will stop there
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Anthrax also
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"Presentations should be formatted using the widescreen (16:9) slide size, not 4:3. Only Powerpoint and pdfs are supported."
www.evolutionmeetings.org/instructions...
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Actually @adamjkucharski.bsky.social's comment is about a previous paragraph. DWW's point there is contradicted by his own text; Trump thought it was a lab leak and did not require harsher measures because of it...
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It's even worse than this: he cites a whistleblower's claim that CIA agents were paid to change their minds
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This is also my interpretation :-)
Here's an example of another take
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I am curious to know how you interpret the final arguments. I've seen various takes on what he is supposed to mean...!
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They had made their doubts public early on; See this from May 2020
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/sci...
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Merci pour la suggestion. Voici une traduction gist.github.com/flodebarre/1...
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Cette fois, les coupes concernent toutes les disciplines. Même les mathématicien·nes ne sont plus à l'abri de l'arbitraire Trumpien.
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Voici la justification des coupures : Harvard ne se soucierait pas assez de la sécurité et du bien-être des étudiants juifs.
Ce que ça a à voir avec des recherches sur l'évolution de la résistance des bactéries aux antibiotiques est laissé à l'appréciation des lecteurices.
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Thanks for posting. Do you have a version of the tree where the scale is the absolute number of substitutions rather than the number per site? I think it may be clearer to lay people.
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If anyone needs it, here is a twitter thread from 2021 show why RaTG13 absolutely can't be the progenitor of SARS-CoV-2 because you would need to 'undo' all the mutations on RaTG13 that arose since its most recent common ancestor(s) with SC2: rambaut.github.io/twitter/ratg13
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Merci. Outre le fait de les inviter, il y a l'absence totale de contractualisation. Ils les laissent raconter n'importe quoi, tranquillement.