Kai Kupferschmidt
science journalist. author. molecular biologist. curious.
interested in #microbes, #misinformation and all things #blue
contributing correspondent at @science.org
co-host of @pandemia.bsky.social
2024 KSJ fellow at MIT
Signal: kakape.93
- Reposted by Kai Kupferschmidt"It’s like I have to choose between my life and my career." The personal stories of 5 scientists affected by Trump's assault on science. www.science.org/content/arti...
- Trump‘s EO on gain-of-function work underscores how differently this administration treats the risk of a dangerous virus in a lab vs. say on a dairy farm. “In this administration’s outlook, diseases come from labs, not nature, so they aren’t doing anything about it“, says @ggronvall.bsky.social 🧪
- There are still a lot of questions swirling around the executive order on "dangerous gain-of-function" research that Trump signed yesterday. I've written up for @science.org what we know so far and what it might mean for infectious disease research. #IDsky 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
