Isabel
Evolutionary & population biology of vector-borne viral disease systems. 🦟 genetics PhD student in NC.
Arbovirologist, orthobunyavirus wonk, feral reference librarian, & public health advocate. 80s mosquito. Coaster-sized earrings. (she/her) 🏳️🌈
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- Reposted by IsabelHarvard professor Robert Trivers tried to get Jeffrey Epstein in touch with Norman Finkelstein. Instead of accepting, Norman sent a reply calling Alan Dershowitz a pedophile rapist and saying Trivers should be ashamed for defending them, and both should be strangled instead
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- Reposted by IsabelI just want to call this line from petitioner's counsel out specifically: "We shouldn't need a specific court order to ask the DOJ not to put somebody's life in danger." Bars.
- Reposted by IsabelMeanwhile, during all the delays, ICE agents are pressing detained individuals to self-deport, claiming they'll never get out otherwise. All AFTER the Court has ordered their release. And then when they are release, they're dumped on the side of the road, in 0° weather, in Crocs.
- Reposted by IsabelLe then says she didn't receive proper training, and that there are only four AUSAs working on habeas petitions (they're so screwed). Earlier she said she'd shadowed other attorneys for about 3 weeks and that "when you showed up, they just throw you in the well and then here we go."
- Reposted by IsabelElizabeth, a 10-year-old Minnesota girl, spent a month detained at the ICE facility in Dilley, TX before her release last night w/ her mom. Dilley now has a measles outbreak and hundreds of other kids remain detained. Elizabeth has flu-like symptoms and her mom has hives, a school official told me
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- Reposted by IsabelWhat Bannon is proposing is illegal. Brennan Center: “It is illegal to deploy federal troops or armed federal law enforcement to any polling place. In fact, it is a federal crime for anyone in the U.S. military to interfere in elections in any way.” www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...
- Reposted by IsabelReposting again because according to Reddit threads, another round of RWR emails went out today.
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- Reposted by IsabelGramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.
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- Reposted by IsabelNEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.
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- I’m *always* here for an adaptive RdRp evo-driven story!! They’re so often overlooked relative to surface proteins and canonical virulence factors.
- Reposted by IsabelBhattacharya cited no studies, no analysis, except his belief that vaccination rates will go up as they paradoxically remove vaccines from the childhood schedule. (1/3 🧵)
- perks of voice to text reading longhand brainstorm drafting: great way to quickly chuck words into a doc cons of VTT in my line of work:
- Reposted by Isabelworth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead
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- Reposted by IsabelStarting to think @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social might be right www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...
- Reposted by IsabelBecause they have said it. 3/ sciencebasedmedicine.org/maha-podcast...
- Reposted by IsabelVought is a special kind of sociopath. Read @juliametraux.bsky.social's piece from last February. This man is just a destructive zealot. 4/ www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by IsabelSo the question here is mis-specified. There is no "alternative" research funding in any way that would make American biomedical research whole for researchers to seek out. 1/ www.statnews.com/2026/02/03/p... via @statnews.com
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- Reposted by IsabelIn the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.
- Reposted by IsabelThe targeting of Native Americans by ICE is so widespread, tribal governments all over are responding. To protect tribal citizens from ICE raids, tribes are holding events to help citizens get updated IDs and even speeding up the printing and processing times.
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- Reposted by IsabelAs an old I am required to inform everyone there was a time when there were a lot of journalists working full time and it was considered a pretty good and stable career
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- Reposted by IsabelThe suburban observers, heavily women, say they share a personality type. “Many of us have encountered bullies our entire lives...I think that turns you into somebody that, even if that bully is wearing full tactical gear, I'm not interested in laying down for you.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Isabel“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
- Reposted by Isabelhappening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
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