Shuzhen Sim

Vector biology, environmental public health, and science communication at the Environmental Health Institute

[Shuzhen Sim @shuzhensim]

Our Wolbachia preprint is finally out, distilled from five years’ worth of trial data. Release of Wolbachia males nearly eliminated the mosquito population in the study sites, and reduced dengue by 71-88%. Next step, peer review https://t.co/rlmrRHhRDC

[Shuzhen Sim @shuzhensim]

We are looking for a scientist to lead important work on ventilation and indoor air quality! Great opportunity to make a direct impact on environmental public health. https://t.co/wV8AEIl92W

[Sarah Zhang @sarahzhang]

Yes distributing the COVID-19 vaccines in 2021 is complicated but have you considered how Spain got the smallpox vaccine across the Atlantic in 1803?

https://t.co/OGFJ8K4lyP

[Shuzhen Sim @shuzhensim]

Looks like our “circuit breaker” terminology has caught on

[London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine @LSHTM]

“For businesses, certainty of when and how long they will be closed gives room for planning, and for government to put in the appropriate financial support”

@GrahamMedley talks to @TIME about the potential benefits of planned #COVID19 circuit breakers. 👇https://t.co/KDkGGuBvQy

[Swaine Chen @swaine_chen]

Very flattered to have my perspective on last week's CRISPR @NobelPrize (and how awesome bacteria technology is!) published in @STcom! And our first lay press mention for #SGBUG 😀

https://t.co/umn9ybnsi1

[Margo Herre, MD, PhD @margo_herre]

The Taste of Blood paper is out!! This beautiful paper by Jove et al elucidates how taste neurons in the mosquito stylet, the needle-like appendage that pierces skin, detect human blood. Check out these INSANE calcium imaging videos of the stylet neurons responding to blood!!

[Ed Yong is not here @edyong209]

🚨I wrote about the rampant use of "strength" and "fighting" metaphors following Trump's COVID-19 diagnosis, the history of such language when talking about disease, and why it misleads, distracts, and makes things worse. 1/

https://t.co/3VULnpDfQQ

[Shuzhen Sim @shuzhensim]

Wow talk about impeccable timing

[Kevin Davies @KevinADavies]

*** PUBLICATION DAY *** (Hallelujah!)

A mere 10 years after 'The $1,000 Genome', I'm delighted to publish EDITING HUMANITY: The CRISPR Revolution and the New Era of Genome Editing @Pegasus_Books.

I've poured everything into this book. I hope you like it!
https://t.co/14bjLDJ2s3

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Consensus of 3 leading science, medical journals with *unprecedented* editorials; lies, anti-science, "dangerously incompetent"
1. @ScienceMagazine
https://t.co/4UZLKn9BAd
2. @TheLancet https://t.co/yFMk1SKHdS
3. @NEJM https://t.co/yFMk1SKHdS

[Anthony Solomon @anthonywsolomon]

Dengue: despite COVID19, @WHO recommends ongoing source reduction of 🦟 breeding sites around🏠s: https://t.co/5CUx958yPm

It's worth doing. An ecological study from🇸🇬Singapore has shown that work & school @ home associated with a 37%📈 in dengue cases: https://t.co/6nJhKYf5tk

[Shuzhen Sim @shuzhensim]

Data is beautiful 🦋

[Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum @lkcnhm]

#Openaccess #digitised data on 12,702🦋specimens from SG and Peninsular Malaysia are now on @GBIF! #CollectionsAreEssential

View the project highlights: https://t.co/qqitDkWGdh

Then see how entomologist Dr Hwang Wei Song’s (@curiousreduvius) team did it: https://t.co/VO4rXpTxP8

[Shuzhen Sim @shuzhensim]

Informative @zeynep interview on clusters. Distracted by the news ticker though, I assume they meant going *virtual* #freudianslip

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

One of the most important and overlooked factors in coronavirus spread is enclosed spaces and clusters, says The Atlantic’s @zeynep. “A lot of us have the wrong mental model of this pathogen.”

[marc deshusses @marcdeshusses]

Shocking news that #POTUS tested positive. Could he have infected Biden if he was contagious during the debate? Using our calculator https://t.co/483fdlEpfX shows aerosol transmission risk was low (0.05%) but still a non-negligible chance someone contracted COVID during the event

[zeynep tufekci @zeynep]

❗️Did you know that *study after study* finds most people don't seem to transmit COVID at all? That a small percent is responsible for almost all infections? That R is not that informative? My new piece on why this may be key to controlling the pandemic. https://t.co/59YgSSHdEZ

[Shuzhen Sim @shuzhensim]

I can’t stop watching this

[Perran Ross @MosWhisperer]

Exploding mosquitoes

https://t.co/ajLKAQtcQu

[Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎 @suilee]

1. There's a lot of buzz on the astronomical jump in cases from Hubei on Wednesday -- 14,840 new confirmed cases, almost 10 x compared to a day earlier. New deaths rose to 242, more than double fr day b4. The govt has changed the diagnostic criteria used to confirm cases. More ..

[CCDD at Harvard Chan @CCDD_HSPH]

Each day we learn more about the #nCOV2019 outbreak. Here is a #tweetorial on 5 key questions and terminology in infectious disease epidemiology to help make sense of all of this information.

[Shuzhen Sim @shuzhensim]

This toad handles Baltimore winters way better than I ever did

[Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health @JohnsHopkinsSPH]

"Nancy Connell, a retired microbiologist and senior scholar at @JHSPH_CHS, discovered the toad in the locker Friday morning after working out at the gym. She recognized him right away." 😳🐸 https://t.co/EGE8VrlozN

[Shuzhen Sim @shuzhensim]

Stumbled on this beautiful video today. This is evolution in the Anthropocene.

[Springer Nature @SpringerNature]

Watch a new and quite beautiful video from @Nature featuring the tale of the Edith's checkerspot #butterfly as it became caught in an evolutionary trap. https://t.co/HNwu1dsFJK

[Antonio Regalado @antonioregalado]

There is a story circulating about the "death penalty" for China's crisprbabies researcher JK He. There is no factual basis to it.

Dr. He says via email he's "doing fine" (thread)