Kai Kupferschmidt ✓
@kakape · Berlin, Germany · joined 08 Jun 2009
@kakape.bsky.social science journalist. molecular biologist. curious. writer at @sciencemagazine part of @pandemiapodcast, all things #blue
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"Nearly 7 years after her first attempt to test Ebola prevention drugs, Jaspard is stunned by the sudden interest in the trial. “I've kept this project for all these years, despite the fact that a lot of people were saying it's not useful, you don't need to do this, go away,” she
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One glimmer of hope in the Ebola response:
Within hours of the outbreak in DRC being declared, researchers convened to prepare drug trials.
A lot has changed on that front since the Ebola outbreak in West Africa a decade ago. But huge challenges remain…
My story in
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@kakape @ScienceMagazine Call Fauci. His studies with the CDC showed the utility of remdesevir on ebola. When they killed everyone who took it, it became protocol for respiratory problems. Most are dead after 3-5 days.... STILL PROTOCOL!!!
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@kakape @JeremyKonyndyk @ScienceMagazine Thanks Kai. Good article. What about an mRNA vaccine?
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There is a LOT going on as researchers and public health experts are racing to respond to the #Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC and Uganda before it grows bigger.
My story in @ScienceMagazine is here:
https://t.co/aVam5zVDCw
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@NewsfromScience @katestarbird @uwcip Final story is up now too. It’s about inoculation, its roots in Cold War psychology research and what if anything we can expect from this and other psychological interventions…
https://t.co/I5oEGcBa59
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@NewsfromScience @katestarbird @uwcip Second story from my trio on misinformation research covers what I see as the 5 biggest challenges facing the field. It is up here now:
https://t.co/08QKJ03Nma
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The first story is up now on @NewsfromScience: It’s a look at the work of @katestarbird and her team at @uwcip, who study rumors at the University of Washington, specifically rumors around the US elections.
https://t.co/kggCBxEodQ
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Those stories are coming out this week in
@ScienceMagazine
and I will try and do something I haven’t done in a while and delve deeper in a few threads.
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(oops, broke the thread. It's been too long clearly. lol
Let me repost the rest below)
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@kakape We could start with the disinformation that the COVID pandemic is over.
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It’s been an interesting experience in turns fascinating and frustrating and when I went back to full-time science writing earlier this year I decided to try and put at least some of what I’ve learnt into words.
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I ended up spending almost a year at MIT as a Knight Science Journalism Fellow (@KSJatMIT) to try and understand misinformation/disinformation better, to - I hope - be a better infectious disease journalist.
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I’ve reported on infectious diseases for 15 years, but during the covid-19 pandemic and even more during the global outbreak of mpox clade IIb, I was shocked by the amount of misinformation I was seeing. Misinfo had always been part of any outbreak, but this felt different.
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.
What the audience does
Likes76.3%3 434 in total
Reposts11.0%497 in total
Replies2.4%108 in total
Quotes0.8%37 in total
Bookmarks9.5%427 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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