Rebecca C Christofferson
Virologist/epi. Jazz, 🐈, puns. Oxford comma for evah. Views mine alone and do not represent any organizational affiliations. RT/like != endorse. I stand w Ukraine. Twitter: RC_Epi
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonJeffrey Epstein was investigated for being a Russian spy Polish PM says photographs suggest financier was recruited to supply Moscow with kompromat — as Christopher Steele notes Robert Maxwell connection www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
- Reposted by Rebecca C Christofferson📢 European Commission @ec.europa.eu @euclimateaction.bsky.social: " #Paris, #Vienna, #Zagreb and other European cities will be at more risk of #dengue, #Zika and #chikungunya #outbreaks as #ClimateChange expands #mosquito range 🦟" environment.ec.europa.eu/news/paris-v...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonOh my God, this is simply not possible. It cannot be possible. The NIH director, the DIRECTOR, does not know what actually happens at the NIH. Like, what?! [My best friend spent two decades at NIH as an intramural researcher; the NIH has an intramural research program, irp.nih.gov/].
- Reposted by Rebecca C Christofferson“Imagine if we had to follow the law”
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonAs an ID physician who was on the frontlines of #COVID from the beginning and saw countless people die of this disease I find this take from Bhattacharya to be insulting. It disrespects every healthworker who risked their life and the patients who died.
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonDOJ has since killed this link. This is what was there:
- New Epstein docs www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonChildren are dying in the US concentration camps www.cbsnews.com/news/anadith...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonIn case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonWalz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonIf you can’t see the links between the people in this photo and ICE kidnapping, torturing, & murdering people, then you really are not paying attention at all. At all. See, for example, this astounding piece by @sarahdigregorio.bsky.social www.vanityfair.com/news/story/r...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonThis bullshit always makes my blood boil. It’s actually not illegal to organize a protest! Protests are rarely spontaneous! Someone has to make them happen. Sometimes those people also provide messaging, and did you know printing is really easily accessible now??
- Bondi: "It's extremely organized. The signs they have are all matching, they're well written. And look at what's happening today. How did these people go out & get gas masks? These protesters. Would you know how to walk out on the street and buy a gas mask? Think about that. We're not gonna have it"
- The people who yell about 2nd amendments rights will be the same people who will say that a man shot by ICE shouldn’t have had a gun.
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonPlease keep in mind this number does not include people who died in ICE detention. Last year 32 died in custody, the most in decades. This year there have already been 5 deaths-- including one ruled a homicide abcnews.go.com/US/cuban-imm...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonDOJ lies. DHS lies. ICE lies. That has been established. Do not repeat their claims as fact. Their claims are arguments or, often, misleading propaganda — when not outright lies. They are seeking to make a case for their lawlessness (and to please Trump), not seeking to inform.
- I can’t believe I have to post this. But the polio vaccine is absolutely necessary. 🤦♀️
- ICE is immoral.
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonYour written protocols and lab notebooks are a love letter to your future self (whether it’s you or a future lab member). Please be kind. Here are some critical things I have frequently noticed missing: (feel free to add yours in thread 🧵)
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- Footage shows Danish troops arriving in Greenland as part of a new military deployment. Among the personnel who landed on the island is Major General Peter H. Boysen, Chief of the Danish Army Command. #Greenland
- $10 says it's a hematoma www.yahoo.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonIncredibly, E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved by Limiting Air Pollution www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonNEW: Top DOJ officials quit after their division refused to probe Minnesota ICE shooting - At least four leaders of the Civil Rights Division resigned because the section's head, Harmeet Dhillon, decided not to investigate shooting of Renee Good. www.ms.now/news/doj-civ...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonICE just indiscriminately stopped a citizen at a bus stop in front of the co-op. If this is how they treat the President of the Minneapolis City Council who is legally observing, just think of what they’re doing to everyone else in our City.
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonThe goal here is martial law. It’s martial law. Let’s be clear about that.
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonBREAKING: Massive Crowds of Anti-ICE protesters in Minneapolis, Minnesota as we speak. The tide is turning. America is Fed Up. Americans should be fighting back against what is happening in this country. Having masked, secret police shooting people, breaking into homes and cars, is NOT normal.
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonNow this hits
- Reposted by Rebecca C Christofferson"We are calling on ICE to halt all operations in Portland until a full and independent investigation can take place.” Portland Mayor Keith Wilson speaks after U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agents shot and injured two people. www.ms.now/news/shootin...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonWhen things are unambiguous, it is on journalists - and, in fact, all of us - to describe things exactly as they are. There are no “alternative facts” or “alternative realities,” no matter how hard some would like to convince you otherwise.
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonYale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonEmmanuel Macron’s comments come as Germany’s president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, warns against turning world into ‘robber’s den’ www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonThe state Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says they've been informed by the FBI that US DOJ has said FBI will solely lead the investigation into Renee Nicole Good's killing by a federal officer. State investigators no longer have access to "case materials, scene evidence/investigative interviews"
- Way to geaux, @sjryan3.bsky.social !
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonForensic analysis of objective video evidence. This is how you serve readers searching for clarity.
- Reposted by Rebecca C Christofferson@chrislhayes.bsky.social: “A 37-year-old American citizen, the mother of a young child is dead tonight. She was shot in the face by an agent of the federal government, and that government has spent the day telling despicable lies about her.”
- I’m so angry! The woman was not angling for the ICE agent. Don’t let the Trump propaganda machine lie to you. Notice how not a single ICE raid was held during Venezuelan demonstrations in support of Trumps illegal operation. Curious.
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonBill Cassidy spent 2025 criticizing RFK Jr’s radical moves, but failing to actually do anything meaningful, despite his powerful committee chairmanship. In 2026, the senator is offering more of the same, indifferent to the consequences of his passivity. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...
- Reposted by Rebecca C Christoffersonopen.substack.com/pub/pauloffi... RFK Jr. is about to launch a dangerously unethical experiment in West Africa.
- Ok. *Now*
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- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonIt’s nearly 10 am on the east coast of the US. Do you know where your elected head of state is?
- Mike Johnson needs to be held accountable for dereliction of duty. Where the hell is congress????
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- Happy New Year from South Louisiana. If you look closely, you’ll see that it takes exactly 1.5 beers to get me to play drums.
- I’m somehow on Peter O’toole and Richard Harris tiktok and I’m tickled to death. www.tiktok.com/t/ZTrog3C6X/
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- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonI don't think most Americans have any idea how dangerous it is for a president to declare an entire ethnic group to be "garbage." This is how the worst atrocities in human history have begun.
- Reposted by Rebecca C Christofferson1. LLM-generated code tries to run code from online software packages. Which is normal but 2. The packages don’t exist. Which would normally cause an error but 3. Nefarious people have made malware under the package names that LLMs make up most often. So 4. Now the LLM code points to malware.
- Gee. I wonder why. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonCBS News abruptly removed a segment from “60 Minutes” that was to feature the stories of Venezuelan men deported by the Trump administration to what the program called a “brutal” prison in El Salvador. Sharyn Alfonsi, the correspondent, criticized the network’s decision to remove her reporting.
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonBhattacharya’s leadership of the NIH is a chaotic clown show 🤦♂️
- New article in The Lancet on the NIH situation over the past year and into the future. www.thelancet.com/action/showP... 1/3
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonYES
- I'm an "A.i." abolitionist. Here's why. gregpak.net/2025/12/19/i...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonThere have been at least 4.6 million illnesses, 49,000 hospitalizations, and 1,900 deaths from flu this season so far. There is a lot of flu out there. Getting the flu shot prevents hospitalisations and death! Please get your flu shot it id not too late.
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonThe planned hepatitis B birth-dose trial in Guinea-Bissau raises serious ethical concerns. Withholding a proven, life-saving vaccine from newborns to answer speculative questions is an absence of equipoise with real downstream harms for trust in vaccines. bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
- Reposted by Rebecca C Christofferson"Ethical standards do not become optional because the participants are African." bktitanji.substack.com/p/how-unethi...
- Reposted by Rebecca C Christofferson“NIH is in crisis, grants are being terminated, labs are closing….but they found $1.6 million for an unsolicited proposal to study whether we should delay a vaccine we’ve been safely giving for 40 years, in a country where infants are at high risk of infection” www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-va...
- This is making me irrationally angry. www.thriftbooks.com/w/monas-eyes...
- Ha ha ha. Damage control from the Vanity Fair article. www.yahoo.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonAbsolute evil. www.propublica.org/article/usai...
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonIt's all about pleasing RFK Jr and his anti-vaxx MAHA movement
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonJust want to share with my American friends how the Australians respond to a shooting tragedy. Action, rather than thoughts and prayers.
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonFaculty and staff need to be fluent in the language and techniques of univ budgets. Budgets are how an institution's mission is operationalized. But they're arcane documents, cloaked in obscurantism. And upper admin and boards use that opacity to do all sorts of shit, unaccountable and unfettered
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- Happy Hanukkah 🕎 to all my friends who celebrate!
- December in NOLA
- Reposted by Rebecca C ChristoffersonTrue Breaking News (Washington Post): VA to cut 35,000 health care jobs across nation like nurses & doctors. VA already strained. Did our vets refuse to give back medals to melt into gold bars/coin/ballroom sconces for Trump? Truly the worst vets’ Christmas present ever.
- Reposted by Rebecca C Christofferson“A deeper, context specific approach would be to treat #OneHealth implementation at the community level as a co-design partnership, with local, traditional and Indigenous knowledges forming the very basis of any One Health interventions.” @naohun.bsky.social @onehealthuofg.bsky.social
- NEW Opinion in PLOS Global Public Health, which advocates for funding and engagement in deep context-specific social research before funding and engaging in One Health interventions: One Health for all: Implementing international frameworks with local communities journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
