requiem @requiem@qoto.org

Hi, I'm going by Requiem. I'm in school studying bio/medicine at the moment, and wishing I could study physics too! This account is my first venture into professional social media, so I'll probably actually put my name on it later, but for now I'm using a pseud.

I like sharks, marine biology, video games, and the color blue. I'm learning American Sign Language at the moment, and hope to pick up some other languages later.

Morning reading: Politics + alternative therapies for addressing antibiotic-resistant bacteria

- Discussion of the PASTEUR Act, an attempt to change the way pharma companies are paid for drugs, to incentivize societally-important medicines over selling more individual units
- Phage therapy, both natural and synthetic phages, to target specific bacteria
- Antimicrobial peptides, which also target specific bacteria

Overall, incredibly pleased, because I knew this was an issue, but much of the buzz around antibiotic-resistant bacteria ends up leading to doomsaying rather than solutions.

https://gizmodo.com/scientists-are-looking-beyond-antibiotics-to-stop-the-d-1846184160

Hi, I'm going by Requiem. I'm in school studying bio/medicine at the moment, and wishing I could study physics too! This account is my first venture into professional social media, so I'll probably actually put my name on it later, but for now I'm using a pseud.

I like sharks, marine biology, video games, and the color blue. I'm learning American Sign Language at the moment, and hope to pick up some other languages later.

Wild to think that we're almost a full year since things started locking down en masse. I was mid-semester, we were sent home for spring break and then told not to come back for a month. I haven't been back to campus since.

I miss being able to do things in the classroom, and I know lockdowns are for a good reason - one of my profs and one of my classmates have both gotten COVID in the past year, and those are only the ones I know about. Still wild.