Merve Tepe, PhD
PhD MICROBIOLOGIST
AMR, Biofilms, Phage Therapy, Drug Design and some other similar topics 🤫🔜
@remissionbiome.bsky.social team
@renegaderesearch.bsky.social volunteer
DEFEND SCIENCE, RESIST IGNORANCE 🚫
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- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhD@zackpolanski.bsky.social Please can you question Streeting on the research showing that Covid causes mental health problems. There is not over diagnosis of conditions like Autism, we now have experts who can identify it. So many are struggling and Labour are ignoring children suffering neurological
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDA new Nature Medicine study analyzing health records from >100 million people in the US offers compelling evidence that reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) ,the same virus that causes chickenpox and shingles may contribute to dementia risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDFrom ancient Egypt, more than 3,000 years ago ~ this wooden cosmetic spoon with handle in the shape of a biting, running jackal (ca 1539-1292 BC) opencollection.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/4065
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDIf #MECFS were a war, it seems that the brain would be its main battlefield. mecfsscience.org/decodeme-the...
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDWe, globally, are using ever-more electricity and renewables are supporting the rise, adding to rather than replacing use of fossil fuels (overall there's barely a decline, and there was an increase in the US and EU) www.theguardian.com/environment/...
- Yeah, me too. Duh 🙄🤐
- If your local Democratic Party or your political campaign needs a website or a website makeover. I'm available. grimescountydemocrats.org
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDI'm celebrating Flag Day and the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary with the most perfect meal for today: Chicken tacos and orange soda with no ice. 😃
- "Behold the turtle 🐢 He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. " J. Conant
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- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDFlagging this for my students as a perfect example counterfactual reasoning 😊
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDNew Preprint out! In this short and sweet article, we showcase how management practices (antibiotic treatment) has impacted the AMR profiles associated with bee microbiomes. The take home? More management = more plasmid-borne resistance! doi.org/10.1101/2025... #microbiome 🧪 🐝
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDBy teaching us to view poverty as a moral failure of the individual, society keeps us from realizing that poverty is actually an ethical failure of society itself. We can choose with UBI to prevent everyone from ever experiencing the poverty that 60% of us will experience in life, and we just don't.
- Just wow, but tbh, it's not unfamiliar to me, as well. 🙄🤐😬👋
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDThe evidence that Trump et al. used to claim that Tylenol causes autism was a paper by Harvard’s Andrea Baccarelli. The paper did not show a causal relationship, but Dr. Baccarelli was paid $150,000 to testify against Tylenol’s manufacturer in court. RFK Jr. says conflicts are bad tho.
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDand THAT’s what’s being cited as “proof” by the Trump administration? …just asking! If you want the whole juicy story, read the article I wrote today: 🔗 news.immunologic.org/p/the-tyleno...
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDWill @hsph.harvard.edu take action given they hired Andrea Bacarrelli in 2024 AFTER he falsified links between Tylenol use in pregnancy & autism in federal court (& was paid $150,000) and THEN published the same claims in a journal with a history of fake peer review & falsified data 1/
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDIn fact, it’s often used as an appeal to authority to enable them to spread MORE misinformation. That’s why media headlines like “study out of Harvard” go viral, even if it’s absolute trash data. People associate names of institutions with belief they are inherently reputable.
- Well-said Dr. Love. Very well-said 😮💨👋🫡
- Same same and ugh, sigh 😮💨😔
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDWho’s harmed by this disinformation? • Pregnant patients who are scared, confused, and at risk. • Children who will be subjected to treatments with no evidence to support them. • Parents who are being told it’s their fault their child is neurodivergent. 5/
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDThe strongest predictor of autism is genetics. Data: • If one identical twin has ASD, the other has a 90–99% chance. • Compare that to 31–67% chance for fraternal twins. • Non-twin siblings have ~20% likelihood of ASD, 7-fold higher than general population. 1/
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDThe Tylenol–Autism Pseudoscience Pipeline How false testimony about Tylenol and autism failed in court, was repackaged as “peer-reviewed” junk science, and is now driving Trump’s dangerous medical advice. by @drandrealove.bsky.social news.immunologic.org... 1/3
- Omg, this is epic and I'm speechless..thank you @keagar.bsky.social hope you have a wonderful Wednesday. 🙏🙋♀️👋🏻👋🏻
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDI HAVE AN ANNOUNCEMENT. DRINKING WATER CAUSES AUTISM. IN A DEFINITIVE STUDY ON THIS ISSUE, THE RESEARCHERS FOUND THAT THE PARENTS OF EVERY AUTISTIC CHILD HAD DRUNK WATER DURING THE PREGNANCY. THIS PROVES IT. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDAre we vaccinating under 2s more than a generation (30 years) ago? We used fewer vaccines, protecting against 8 infectious diseases. These complex vaccines, containing over 3000 antigens, were good, but there was room for improvement. 1/8
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDWhere does COVID vaccine mRNA go? There’s confusion & fearmongering out there. Let’s go through what regulators and studies actually show. 1) “Local” means the muscle where the shot is given + the draining lymph nodes. That’s exactly where vaccines are designed to act! 1/10
- Ugh, this one made me so sad 😮💨😓
- FT piece on the decline of Chemistry (from January). www.ft.com/content/563f...
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDI can't help but to notice similarities
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDReporter Laura Weiss (@lauralew105.bsky.social) is looking to speak with people with #LongCOVID who are on Medicaid and concerned about losing benefits due to work requirements or otherwise due to Trump's spending bill. Contact her at (lauraweisswrites at gmail dot com).
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDWorld health officials counter Trump's unproven claim of link between acetaminophen and autism nbcnews.com/world/europe/world-… 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗻𝗲𝘄𝘀 ⇢ CanadaHealthwatch.ca 🍁
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhD🧵 Happiness Incubator (2016) | Original pen & ink on paper drawing by Robert Bohan [1]
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhD“I’m really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell.” To the people of the world who wonder if there are Americans who grasp how mad he is: There are. We can see it. We are working to mobilize our people to oppose him and his dangerous regime.
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhD"This questionable statement reflects a widespread myth in the wellness community concerning an extremely common gene mutation called MTHFR, which can inhibit the ability of cells’ mitochondria to process folic acid." Yep. I wrote about this in March 2019 and it won't die.
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDCorrelation isn't causation: Trump reprised his #Covid-era role, but this time w/ unproven autism advice. He distorted facts on autism, Tylenol & vaccines & even called his announcement "historic." Bloviating RFK jr is a joke. The study they cited was a meta-analysis 👇
- Oh, wow, cool work
- Vancouver researchers studied 30 people & found pulmonary long COVID is linked to an overactive T cell response in the blood & lungs along with higher autoantibodies.This points to lingering airway inflammation driven by autoimmunity. #COVIDISNTOVER #MASK4YOURLIFE www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDYet again, machine learning — even gussied up via the transformer architecture — encodes and reinforces societal biases. This study reveals that LLM-based peer review relies heavily on author institution in its decisions. arxiv.org/abs/2509.15122
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhD🔴 Praying for you Joe 🕊♥️💐 And Canks ~ You need to go 🐥
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhD2 decades after the first GLP-1 drug, we're still in the early stages for where this is headed. Nice, succinct summary and graphic by a pioneer of the field: @danieljdrucker.bsky.social jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
- Me too @leftistlawyer.com sigh. Long exasperated sigh 😮💨👋🏻🙋♀️🫡
- Couldn't agree more, LOL 😂😂😂
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDI stand with PBS. I stand with NPR. I stand with Stephen Colbert. I stand with Jimmy Kimmel. I stand with the First Amendment. PERIOD.* *Also #ReleaseTheEPSTEIN_Files
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- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDIt is a very human temptation to tell ourselves stories to try to calm the fear as United States is being destroyed from within. Our rights are being taken away from us. Do not look away. It’s happening. The United States is in mortal danger.
- Oh Jeez. They're STILL talking about The Free Speech while I'm a Turk expat mostly living in either Israel or the US, I'm so very 👇👇 whatever 🤣🤣🤣😬🤐🤫🇹🇷🙋♀️🫡
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDTerrible advice.
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDyeah
- Hahahhahaha 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤐🤣🤣🤣🤣 youtube.com/shorts/sZw0z...
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- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDSoon there will be only ONE gender : transgender.
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDI'm working a Nigerian scammer, using Yoruba slang to try to get him to open up. As usual, when I recognized he (?) Was a scammer I used to word "Alaye" to let him know I'm in the game, too. He replied with "Idan mhi" which is equivalent to My Dude! and asked which scam I'm running. I replied /1
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDyou got insomnia in my anxiety! you got anxiety in my insomnia! Reese's Anxiety Insomnia Cups™
- Lol, I'm dying @the-bob-lucas.bsky.social I mean, I feel lucky to get to know you. Yeah, not irl. I wish i could. You're so cool 🙋♀️😅😱😳😬🤐🫡👋🏻
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDHere's why it doesn't matter who killed CK or why he was killed; The assassination of Charlie Kirk is more than an act of gun violence; it's a catalyst. To understand what comes next, we need to explore the powerful, timeless process of how a political movement forges a martyr. /1
- Oh Lord. I dunno, i hate deep fake, too. Oh nooooooooo
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDGod all the reporting on the shooters roommate sound like actual 17th century witchcraft accusations She did nothing
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDSo yeah, I live in an alternate universe full of wonderful curious people that want to take care of themselves, and me, and be safe at work…
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDFinally, I spoke to a tradie about the benefits of wearing a respie when working with dirt and aerosol hazards on a job site… and they were really interested…
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDNot to forget flu is also an annual ECONOMIC BIG ISSUE.
- Reposted by Merve Tepe, PhDBecause *somebody* spent such a lot of time promoting the words “only like a flu” that people have forgotten flu is an annual BIG KILLER.
