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lilscience.bsky.social
Scientist, Founder (2x), and Immunology expert. Excited about advances that blend tech, bio, and engineering. Don't fight biology, leverage it. No medical advice. Substack: https://substack.com/@lilscience
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USAID’s website has been deleted, all that is left is a note saying all personnel are now on administrative leave and personnel outside the US are to be brought home. Completely illegal, no act of congress or even executive order was signed to dismantle the agency

submitted 18 days ago • 1425 comments

Infectious disease doesn't disappear just because some silenced our federal health agencies. Here's my 2/4/2025 infectious disease round up.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

What happens when scientists are censored? People die. New Substack post on the status of censorship of United States Scientists "February 1st Has Come and Gone, US Science Remains Censored"

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Infectious Disease Roundup: 2/2/2025. Probable human case of H5N1 in Delaware. Egg prices high forever? More deadly, highly contageous Clade Ib MPOX continues to spread (14% pediatric patients in recent outbreak), and more fun topics.

submitted 20 days ago • 5 comments

Read more about the REAL science behind some of RFK Jr's statements today: The National Embarrassment: RFK Jr

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

"California attorney Mark Lemley dropped Meta Platforms Inc. as a client in a high-profile copyright case because of CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s “descent into toxic masculinity and Neo-Nazi madness,” the Stanford University professor said on LinkedIn."

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

As an Immunologist who has studied Influenza I was worried about H5N1, I am horrified re: H5N9. Our population has no pre-existing immunity. I repeat, we have NO PRE-EXISTING immunity to H5N9. (we have a little with H5N1 via H1N1 vaccines & infections) www.cidrap.umn.edu/avian-influe...

submitted 25 days ago • 9 comments

Vaccines are life saving. The individual & public health benefit outweighs the risk more than nearly any other approved drug/med procedure. Example: Tylenol is responsible for more deaths & hospitalizations than all vaccines combined. #RFKJr made $Ms off of telling people otherwise.

submitted 25 days ago • 11 comments

I left Twitter years ago. I don't think much of it will exist by this time next year. Reminder No one in history has blown $44B faster than Elon Musk while seemingly trying not to. Trump put him in charge of US Gov Efficiency. 😅

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

It's farcical that #RFKJr was nominated at all. Someone who has directly profited for decades attacking sound science with pseudoscience and is directly linked causing a deadly measles outbreak should never be in charge of HHS, this is a waste of everyone's time.

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

Please call and write to your senators and remind them that it doesn't matter what #RFKJr says in his hearings. Relying on "his word" against a multi-decade track record of attacking life-saving vaccines among other atrocities is utter nonsense. You don't take people like that "at their word"

submitted 25 days ago • 2 comments

#Medicaid is down in all 50 States. Medicaid is the primary program providing health care coverage and long-term services supporting more than 90 million low-income people, covering between 10-34% of each State's population. Read more about Medicaid here www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Would someone in the #Biotech or #Medtech community like to explain to Alexa Lardieri and the Daily Mail that this would not be the "Worlds First Cancer Vaccine" and perhaps remind them that the current nominee to oversee HHS has made millions being radically against all vaccines?

submitted 26 days ago • 6 comments

This is correct. Infectious disease is just a plane flight away. Stopping widespread destruction to human life (and yes economies if that's your number one) is now a global team effort. The #WHO is the organization that contains, isolates, and identifies pathogens.

submitted 27 days ago • 4 comments

The UK has reported it's first human case of H5N1. The person had extensive contact with a large number of infected birds on a farm. Threat to the general public remains low. www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

The United States Health and Human Services remains in a communications embargo. We are in the middle of a 'quad-demic'. There have been intermittent instances of highly pathogenic H5N1 infecting people (gaining mutations that would enable person to person spread). I will keep posting updates here:

submitted 27 days ago • 5 comments

Good leadership listens to experts.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Fellow #founders, let's make this article age poorly. Follow me here, more coming soon on how we're going to keep good tech alive and thriving.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

While I deeply appreciate the concern & agree with the authors, the entire US Health & Human Services, which includes the agencies that would spearhead the effort is currently shutdown. Please write more about the devastating consequences of that @financialtimes.com

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

Lest anyone question where I stand. There's a Nazi with an office in the White House. He was just moved him across the street after speaking to far right Nazi-sypathetic party in Germany called the AfD. Thread⬇️: A Real Silicon Valley story from someone born here. www.adl.org/resources/ba...

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Thanks for stepping in to fill this role.

submitted 28 days ago • 3 comments

Today I started to build a library of interesting and brilliant accounts to follow. I would like to direct my followers to one of the most important and perhaps underrated people I have found on BlueSky: @sherifink.bsky.social

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment