Anthony Olszewski

Anthony Olszewski

@anthonyolszewski.bsky.social

Founded and continues to manage Metro Cat Rescue and Jersey City Free Books. http://AnthonyOlszewski.com https://secondthiefbestthief.com/shortstories/audio/ https://trueinfections.com/

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Anthony Olszewski
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Anthony Olszewski
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@unsequenced.bsky.social Concerning Transhumanism, Nietzsche? "Zarathustra, however, looked at the people and wondered. Then he spake thus: Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman—a rope over an abyss." Thus Spake Zarathustra unsequenced.life/2026/09/30/m...

unsequenced.lifeThese are weird peopleI read and reviewed Adam Becker’s book More Everything Forever last year, but I recommend it so often, I decided to pull it into its own entry.
Anthony Olszewski
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Age researchers might consider domestic Ringneck Doves. Much easier to maintain than bats. I have a male who was rescued as an adult bird over 14 years ago. He shows no sign of ageing. There's nothing to distinguish him from his children and grandchildren. petcraft.com

Anthony Olszewski
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True, the birds don't have the alchemist twist for funding that promising the fountain of youth on bat wings does. Doves yield facts, not fancy. My suspicion is that tales of great age in bats are folklore.

Anthony Olszewski
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"A decade of health disinformation promoted by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sown wide confusion, hurt major institutions and encouraged the spread of deadly illnesses." www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/s... #infectiousdiseases #AIDS #Ebola #antivax #IDSky #Science

nytimes.comPutin’s Long War Against American Science (Gift Article)A decade of health disinformation promoted by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sown wide confusion, hurt major institutions and encouraged the spread of deadly illnesses.
Anthony Olszewski
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Voltaire's discussion of miracles is being invoked? "Certainement qui est en droit de vous rendre absurde est en droit de vous rendre injuste." voltairefoundation.wordpress.com/2021/02/16/v...

voltairefoundation.wordpress.comVoltaire on Capitol Hill: ‘Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities’Houdon’s bust of Voltaire still dominates the entrance hall of Thomas Jefferson’s house at Monticello, and last week Voltaire was being quoted on Capitol Hill. In the closing arguments of the impea…
Anthony Olszewski
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"A decade of health disinformation promoted by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sown wide confusion, hurt major institutions and encouraged the spread of deadly illnesses." www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/s... #infectiousdiseases #AIDS #Ebola #antivax #IDSky #Science

nytimes.comPutin’s Long War Against American Science (Gift Article)A decade of health disinformation promoted by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sown wide confusion, hurt major institutions and encouraged the spread of deadly illnesses.
Anthony Olszewski
@anthonyolszewski.bsky.social

"A decade of health disinformation promoted by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sown wide confusion, hurt major institutions and encouraged the spread of deadly illnesses." www.nytimes.com/2020/04/13/s... #infectiousdiseases #AIDS #Ebola #antivax #IDSky #Science

nytimes.comPutin’s Long War Against American Science (Gift Article)A decade of health disinformation promoted by President Vladimir Putin of Russia has sown wide confusion, hurt major institutions and encouraged the spread of deadly illnesses.
Anthony Olszewski
@anthonyolszewski.bsky.social

#IDSky #InfectiousDisease #MedSky #Medicine #Measles

CIDRAP@cidrap.bsky.social

Pennsylvania raises alarm on congenital measles The state had not seen the disease in decades. Read more: https://bit.ly/4yRKnON 📷: Government of Alberta / Flickr cc

Anthony Olszewski
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#IDSky #Phage #InfectiousDisease #MedSky #Medicine

Carl Zimmer@carlzimmer.com

Here's an update on my story in August about scientists using AI to make viruses. Now a startup has put AI viruses in a patient, to test them as a treatment called phage therapy. Gift link: nyti.ms/47pOLJv

nyti.msStart-Up Claims to Treat a Patient With A.I.-Created Viruses (Gift Article)Certain viruses attack bacteria and can sometimes clear antibiotic-resistant infections. Researchers said they had tailored a virus to attack one patient’s illness.
Anthony Olszewski
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#IDSky #InfectiousDisease

Global Virus Network@globalvirusnews.bsky.social

Join us for the #GVN Forefront of Virology Webinar on 10/28/26, 4 PM ET with Pritha Sharma, MD, MPH of Yale New Haven Health. "Integrating Wastewater & Airborne Surveillance: From Environmental Detection to Public Health Action" Register: https://ow.ly/ynR850ZUA0i

Anthony Olszewski
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Metro Cat Rescue is VERY LOW ON CAT FOOD! We need your help NOW so MANY cats won't be out in the cold and hungry! Here are the Links to our Chewy, Amazon and Walmart Wish Lists: www.chewy.com/g/metro-cat-... www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/... www.walmart.com/lists/shared...

chewy.comMetro Cat Rescue Society | Jersey City, NJ | ChewyMetro Cat Rescue saves kittens and cats from sickness, starvation and death in the streets. Anthony Olszewski and friends have been helping cats in need
Anthony Olszewski
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#Medicine

Danielle Ofri@danielleofri.bsky.social

Beacon Press will be turning 175 soon, and has reissued "Singular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue" as part of the limited edition series, Beacon Press Classics! www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJUu... @beaconpressbks

youtube.comSingular Intimacies: Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue (reissued from Beacon Press Classics!)In honor of its upcoming 175th anniversary, Beacon Press has launched a limited-edition series entitled "Beacon Press Classics, " reissuing sixty classic titles from its illustrious backlist. We're…
Anthony Olszewski
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"(positive correlation with body size) of lifespan otherwise seen across mammals and other metazoans," # # # At a glance, this statement appears obvious, so its repeated on and on.  Under scrutiny, the correlation between size and lifespan all too often is either meaningless or not true.

nature.comInsights into longevity and virus-driven adaptation from Myotis bat genomes - NatureComparative and functional analyses of Myotis bats uncover unique patterns of adaptation in virus-interacting proteins and longevity-associated pathways, linking two hallmarks of bat biology.
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Anthony Olszewski
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Those studying animals ageing well might consider the domestic ringneck dove. These easy to maintain birds can go well past a dozen years with no sign of being old. My memory is that there are reports of doves in their thirties, but these individuals are geriatric.

Anthony Olszewski
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"(positive correlation with body size) of lifespan otherwise seen across mammals and other metazoans," # # # At a glance, this statement appears obvious, so its repeated on and on.  Under scrutiny, the correlation between size and lifespan all too often is either meaningless or not true.

nature.comInsights into longevity and virus-driven adaptation from Myotis bat genomes - NatureComparative and functional analyses of Myotis bats uncover unique patterns of adaptation in virus-interacting proteins and longevity-associated pathways, linking two hallmarks of bat biology.
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Anthony Olszewski
@anthonyolszewski.bsky.social

"(positive correlation with body size) of lifespan otherwise seen across mammals and other metazoans," # # # At a glance, this statement appears obvious, so its repeated on and on.  Under scrutiny, the correlation between size and lifespan all too often is either meaningless or not true.

nature.comInsights into longevity and virus-driven adaptation from Myotis bat genomes - NatureComparative and functional analyses of Myotis bats uncover unique patterns of adaptation in virus-interacting proteins and longevity-associated pathways, linking two hallmarks of bat biology.
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Anthony Olszewski
@anthonyolszewski.bsky.social

"(positive correlation with body size) of lifespan otherwise seen across mammals and other metazoans," # # # At a glance, this statement appears obvious, so its repeated on and on.  Under scrutiny, the correlation between size and lifespan all too often is either meaningless or not true.

nature.comInsights into longevity and virus-driven adaptation from Myotis bat genomes - NatureComparative and functional analyses of Myotis bats uncover unique patterns of adaptation in virus-interacting proteins and longevity-associated pathways, linking two hallmarks of bat biology.
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Lucie Etienne
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Insights into longevity & virus-driven adaptation from Myotis bat genomes International & fantastic collab. with @psudmant.bsky.social @denard.bsky.social Labs ! Major credit to the 2 leading scientists: Juan Vazquez & @lauterbur.bsky.social now with their own labs! You 2 rock! (1/n)

nature.comInsights into longevity and virus-driven adaptation from Myotis bat genomes - NatureComparative and functional analyses of Myotis bats uncover unique patterns of adaptation in virus-interacting proteins and longevity-associated pathways, linking two hallmarks of bat biology.
CIRI Lyon@ciri-lyon.bsky.social

Félicitations à Lucie Etienne et son équipe, soutenue par le CNRS IRP RAPIDvBAT, le CNRS IRC Univ. Arizona et le CNRS MITI, pour leurs travaux sur la longévité et l’adaptation induite par les virus à partir des génomes de chauves-souris Myotis. 💡: www.nature.com/articles/s41....

nature.comInsights into longevity and virus-driven adaptation from Myotis bat genomes - NatureComparative and functional analyses of Myotis bats uncover unique patterns of adaptation in virus-interacting proteins and longevity-associated pathways, linking two hallmarks of bat biology.
Anthony Olszewski
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"Darya Shipilova, an employee at an institute in the eastern city of Irkutsk, died on the night of 2 October at a regional hospital in the nearby town of Shelekhov two days after falling ill." www.theguardian.com/world/2026/o... #SiberianPlague #infectiousdisease #IDSky

theguardian.comLab worker ‘possibly’ dies of plague in Siberia, prompting quarantine measuresPrecautions in place in several hospitals in eastern Russia amid uncertainty over death of Darya Shipilova
Anthony Olszewski
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As a tangent, theres a huge literature on training to improve physical performance.  For the intellectual, we have not much more than what our grandmothers could have told us -- get lots of rest.  That and repetitio est mater studiorum.

Anthony Olszewski
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Instead, should AI use be banned like steroids in athletics? Might something like the guideline for Kabbalah study -- not before age 40-be in order?   As a stray pensée, in the back of my mind is McLuhan's perspective that there's pervasive evil in electronic media -- a breaking of the circle.