Simone Richardson PhD

A scientist studying viruses and the antibodies that bind them proudly🇿🇦 Fc enthusiast 🤓cartoonist, boy mom, immunologist @AIRU

[Simone Richardson PhD @cueEVILlaugh]

Our latest study is out exploring what omicron infection meant for immune responses. So stoked for this one and proud of my little team and the killer lab, clinicians and boss that's behind all of this magic @PennyMo70026063

[Cell Host & Microbe @cellhostmicrobe]

Benefits of Vaccination before Omicron: #SARSCoV2 Omicron in unvaccinated triggers Abs but poor VOC cross-reactivity. Omicron in vaccinated elicits cross-reactive Abs. Omicron vaccines unlikely as strong immunogens in naïve @cueEVILlaugh @PennyMo70026063 https://t.co/DJJNd8vqKh

[Simone Richardson PhD @cueEVILlaugh]

No thank you to @ColCacchio at MonteCasino. When my husband sustained a back injury just outside holding my two year old (that we had to rush off to the hospital for) their first concern was to send the manager to ask how we will pay for our bill when we had just ordered #classy

[News from Science @NewsfromScience]

A phenomenon similar to an economic principle known as the Great Gatsby Curve—which describes how generational wealth predisposes one’s children to higher incomes—also plays out among scientists, argues a new study. https://t.co/zQKKTa2lVs @ScienceCareers

[Sky News @SkyNews]

This year's Nobel Prize for physiology and medicine has been awarded to two American scientists who discovered how "microRNA" controls the decoding of genetic information in living organisms

Read more🔗
https://t.co/XlXmyosrGY

[Simone Richardson PhD @cueEVILlaugh]

@just_Thande I actually have the cotton on ones and my sad tired feet are very satisfied

[Tulio de Oliveira @Tuliodna]

This is the best news of the week! ‘Gamechanger’ HIV prevention drug to be made available cheaply in 120 countries! A twice year injection that showed 100% success in protecting against HIV infection! https://t.co/BFmJB88v2H

[Simone Richardson PhD @cueEVILlaugh]

Couldn't be a prouder supervisor. No longer needed!!!

[AIRU @AIRU_SAMRC]

The newly minted Dr Motsoeneng gave a fantastic talk yesterday! @options2024

[MicrobeTV @profvrr]

TWiV reviews avian H5N1 influenza virus in the US, measles at highest levels in England, positive selection underlies repeated knockout of ORF8 in SARS-CoV-2 evolution, and cross-species spill-over potential of the H9N2 bat influenza A virus. 📺 https://t.co/4MlBAmUgVd

[Rajeev @Rajeev_The_King]

𝗨𝗽𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗶𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝘃𝗶𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗳𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮

Here are the current trends of the main respiratory viruses circulating in South Africa:

[Immunopaedia @Immunopaedia]

Happy International Day of Immunology!

Today we celebrate all things immunology! We celebrate all the wonderful work being done and done in this magnificent field. A field essential to the advancement of humankind!

@iuis_online @immunopaedia

#DayofImmunology #immunology

[Simone Richardson PhD @cueEVILlaugh]

In the absence of much good news on my feed and war, injustice, emergent viruses... Look someone found this Lego piece!

[Sky News @SkyNews]

A rare Lego piece that fell into the sea in 1997 has been found by a 13-year-old boy in Cornwall

Read more🔗
https://t.co/NYsmdRWQjZ

[Simone Richardson PhD @cueEVILlaugh]

An awesome resource I've just stumbled upon.

[AVAC @HIVpxresearch]

Concerns rise around #avian flu, Republic of Congo declares #mpox epidemic, Uganda #ebola plan could be blueprint for future responses, and more only in this week's #PandemicWatch. Read the full issue and subscribe to the weekly newsletter here 📰 https://t.co/QchzpiKldY

[Prof Lennart Nacke, PhD @acagamic]

The classic hourglass structure of paper writing

[Elisa Granato @Prokaryota]

going into this mode so I can calculate c1v1 = c2v2

[Colette Delawalla M.A., M.S. @CDelawalla]

So, like…what’s the job that allows you to actually do research for a living? Not going to meetings, overseeing other people’s research, emails, reviewing other people’s ideas, etc…but actually DOING your OWN research?

Asking for a friend*

*me

[Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful]

Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 - which does it pick?
(by @Leniolabs_)

[amfAR @amfAR]

"amfAR’s Krim fellows represent the brightest of the next generation of HIV researchers," amfAR CEO Kevin Robert Frost said. https://t.co/4HlJGfOXJ3

[amfAR @amfAR]

amfAR is thrilled to announce we've awarded funding to three extraordinary researchers: Kalen Petersen, Ph.D.; Simone Richardson, Ph.D.; and Gabriel Duette, Ph.D. Learn more: https://t.co/4HlJGfOXJ3

[Trends in Immunology @TrendsImmuno]

DNA flexibility can shape the preferential hypermutation of antibody genes https://t.co/V8ZgLERiJa #immunology

[Simone Richardson PhD @cueEVILlaugh]

Devastated.

[News Live SA @newslivesa]

Parts of Mabalingwe Nature Reserve, Bela-Bela, Limpopo have burnt down

Reports : more than 50 homes have burnt down near Bela Bela