Michael Lin, MD PhD 🧬
@michaelzlin
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Professor of Neurobiology & Bioengineering @Stanford ☘️🧪🦠🧠🌈🔬📖🇺🇲🌏Neurons, viruses, medicines. Invented predecessor of nirmatrelvir. Also @MichaelLinLab
Harvard→UCLA→HMS→UCSD→Stanford
Joined July 2015
Click the thread below to get to my SARS-CoV-2 mega-metathread. That thread previously had its own intro tweet, but I deleted it by mistake. This being Twitter, there are no free undos. So instead this tweet will parachute you into it. https://t.co/f0Fev0zI9M
First, a link to the COVID-19 metathread of 2020-2021 https://t.co/oc63zcHZgk
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Remember when Donald Trump said there would be people standing in bread lines trying to get food if Kamala Harris won? People are standing in line for food in Cleveland because of Donald Trump. It’s always pure projection.
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“China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels. This trend will continue simply because renewables are cheap.” Gift link: China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics https://t.co/VtBc2owvV0
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The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
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It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history. She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no
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Sexual Orientation Is Mythology - Pastor Patrick Hines Podcast (Excerpt)
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This may be the defining photograph of Donald Trump’s presidency. (via Getty)
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BIOFIRE and WWScan both show the lowest readings since Pirola (BA.2.86*) swept two years ago. We're in a good lull right now.
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Yeah no, the damage right now is different because it is a top-down concerted effort by the executive branch of the government to destroy the university system and make it into some weird conservative government mouthpiece instead
The damage to research and academic integrity at universities began long before Terence Tao started complaining. His silence then was complicity. I’ve received a lot of pushback for saying this — much of it mean-spirited and ad hominem — so I’ll simply ignore and block the
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First they came for reproductive rights. Then they came for vaccines. Now they’re coming for mental health. There is zero evidence SSRIs cause mass violence. You know what does? Guns — and the fact that anyone can access weapons that kill hundreds in seconds. #GunReformNow
Drawing on the nation’s most comprehensive data, the @CDCgov is finally confronting the long-taboo question of whether SSRIs and other psychoactive drugs contribute to mass violence.
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Of course Mamdani won. What's more telling is that Schumer refused to endorse him to the end, showing that Schumer would rather be seen as more loyal to business interests within NYC than to the people of the city.
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Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway: "I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons." Thank you Tom! Masks are a key part of public health.
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If someone had said, two weeks ago, that DJT was going to throw a Great Gatsby party the same day SNAP benefits ran out for the poorest Americans, his defenders would have accused that person of making up crazy accusations out of TDS.
You literally can't make this stuff up. While Trump illegally denied food to 42 million low-income Americans, including 16 million kids, he hosted a lavish "Great Gatsby" party for his billionaire pals at his country club. This is oligarchy at its ugliest. We must fight back.
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Most of the carbon in us probably went through a factory too ... as I eat this cookie
Half of the nitrogen in your body didn’t come from nature. It came from a factory. The Haber–Bosch process - invented in 1909 - pulls nitrogen from the air and turns it into fertilizer. ~50% of the nitrogen in human tissue comes from it.
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Every rise in life expectancy came from science, technology, and modern medicine.
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It's amazing how seamlessly these guys toggle back and forth between: - COVID was just a cold. I can't believe they tried to stop it. AND - COVID was a brutal killer. I can't believe they didn't do more to stop it.
Thousands of Americans died in nursing homes under Andrew Cuomo’s Covid-19 regime. Just hours before New Yorkers vote for their next Mayor, he apologized: “I apologize for any family that lost a loved one during that time.” What are your thoughts on the sincerity of this
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Good morning with good news: Global solar deployment keeps smashing records! About 3X more solar was built in H1 2025 than in all of 2021 and nearly 2X more than in all of 2022! 2025 global new solar (more than 700 GW) will smash the 2024 record! https://t.co/1X5xDwqF7x
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Australian scientist who alerted world that COVID is airborne wins top science prize When WHO falsely claimed in March 2020 COVID wasn’t airborne, Prof Lidia Morawska took action—organising 239 scientists to warn about SARS-CoV-2 airborne spread and call for global recognition.
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