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Flo Débarre Profile picture
@flodebarre
Nov 6, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
The release notes of the latest Twitter update do not bode well for the future of the platform.

I am choosing #Mastodon as a backup plan, and not Substack or Instagram, because I wasn't on Twitter to preach, but for discussions.
#TwitterMigration

A few tips to join Mastodon 🧵 What's New Version History ...
1️⃣ Use fedifinder.glitch.me to find the Mastodon accounts of people you follow and are followed by on Twitter. It scans their bios for mentions of Mastodon accounts.

You will also see on which servers people are, which is useful to chose one.
2️⃣ Directly go to the server of your choice to sign up, or look for one on joinmastodon.org/servers or on the Mastodon app.

Don't overthink this server choice, it matters less than you may fear: you can follow people across servers. You won't be stuck in a silo.
3️⃣ Once sign-up is successful, take the time to fill in details such as your name, profile picture, bio, links (which can be verified ✅).
Write an introductory post with the #introduction hashtag.

In other words, don't start following people as the equivalent of a Twitter egg!
4️⃣ Go to Preferences, Import and Export, Import, and upload the csv file of account names that you downloaded on step 1️⃣. And voilà!, you are already following a lot of familiar faces, probably across servers, i.e. out of your "silo".
5️⃣ Add your full Mastodon account (@handle@instance) to your Twitter bio, so that others can find you like you did in step 1️⃣.
6️⃣ There are a few differences between Mastodon and Twitter, notably post visibility and how DMs look like. Take a few minutes to familiarize yourself by reading tips like blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2022-11-…
7️⃣ Consider chipping in to help run the server you have joined.
You are now ready to take flight if things turn bad here -- or to start interacting on Mastodon right now, because why not!
#TwitterMigration
Admittedly, setting up an account on Mastodon may sound daunting...! But it's worth the effort.

And importantly, Mastodon is anything but siloed: you can follow / be followed by people on other servers ⏬

mastodon.ie/@Ciaraioch/109…

screenshot of the linked tw...
1⃣bis: if your antivirus software (Norton it seems) is unhappy with the first link, try pruvisto.org/debirdify/ instead!

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Sep 21
Je ne suis pas la seule à avoir été choquée par l'accusation du Monde envers mes collègues, non justifiée (car infondée) et faite sans recherche de contradictoire. D'où vient-elle ? 1/8 Il demande une enquête en vue d’une possible rétractation de la nouvelle étude, et va jusqu’à évoquer des soupçons d’inconduite scientifique.
@hervenirom cite Richard Ebright, un spécialiste de bactéries qui n'a pas fait de recherche sur Covid-19, est un activiste de la fuite de labo, et qui passe ses journées à tweeter des insultes. 2/8
Comme raconté dans cet article dans la partie News de Science, le harcèlement et les insultes de Richard Ebright envers d'autres scientifiques ont fait l'objet de plaintes officielles. 3/8

science.org/content/articl…
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Sep 20
The quote attributed to @Ayjchan in Le Monde was so dumb that I thought she was misquoted, but she posted something even more stupid on Twitter.
No, Alina Chan, this is not what the papers claim!!
And I know it because I co-led the new study... 1/ The latest analysis by Proximal Origin authors and colleagues directly refutes their own 2022 claims in Science. Their new Cell paper argues that the pandemic most likely started with Lineage A (but the early market cases were all Lineage B) & likely only in early Dec 2019. 7:31 PM · Sep 19, 2024
Two figures having similar layouts does not mean that they show the same things!!!
What is even weirder is that @Ayjchan is posting the legend, and it's clear the percentages are about totally separate points 🤦‍♀️ 2/ screenshot of Chan's tweets of the figures
We did not do the type of simulations of Alina Chan's top figure in our recent work. When @Ayjchan is quoted in Le Monde as saying the modeling results differ, it's absurd: we repeated the value from the previous study. 🤷‍♀️3/
[Translation in ALT text] But she questions the proposed models, which have varied over time, ending up in Cell with a handful of cases on the market at the beginning of December 2019. “And suddenly all these countries are affected at the same time? That doesn’t make sense,” she believes.
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Aug 28
Let's now talk a bit about some science:
In his 2021 article, Jesse Bloom over-emphasized the significance of the "recovered" sequences.
They contain only limited information, because they are partial, and key positions are not covered: ▫️1/🧵

J Bloom's paper contained two figures with phylogenetic trees, one without the "recovered" sequences, one with them. The three trees correspond to his three proposed progenitors: A+C18060T, A+C29095T, A+T3171C.
In the recovered sequences, only 29095 is covered. ▫️2/ slide showing the two figures with three trees each
J Bloom not only added the "recovered" sequences, but also re-colored existing sequences. Visually, you'd think there is a lot of new information. In fact, in the middle node, there is only one "recovered" sequence. And we can't even know if it is actually like the progenitor▫️3/ slide showing the middle progenitor node, with annotations
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Aug 23
It is time to share our findings about a study by @jbloom_lab that had a lot of echo in 2021.
TL;DR: The sequences that J Bloom recovered were not from the earliest cases, but from late January 2020. He had the information, deleted it during his analysis, then ignored it.▫️1/8 composite image showing our preprint, Bloom's paper title ("Recovery of Deleted Deep Sequencing Data Sheds More Light on the Early Wuahn SARS-CoV-2 Epidemic"), and with arrows describing findings. Main finding: The “recovered” sequences were not that early: they were collected on 30 January 2020. The information was present in the datasets used by Jesse Bloom, but he deleted it, and never mentioned it.
In June 2021, Jesse Bloom announced in a Twitter thread and in a preprint having recovered sequences from early in the epidemic. His description and the media coverage (including his press release) led people to think that some sequences were from the earliest cases. ▫️2/8 Slide showing screenshots of media articles, with the term "earliest" cases / patients / samples underlined
Yet, via a press conference in July 2021, the Chinese authors, Wang et al., specified that the sequences were not that early: they had been collected on 30 Jan 2020. J Bloom noted it in his article, but presented it as a contradiction. ▫️3/8 screenshot of the video of the press conference, with subtitle "according to our knowledge, the earliest sample time was January 30th"
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May 17
[A very niche thread]

There were live bats in Wuhan, both inside and outside of the Wuhan Institute of Virology, but neither seem relevant to the origin of the pandemic. ▫️1/10🧵 illustration: images of bats
Zeynep has been repeating the odd and false claim that Wuhan's only bats were in labs. There are bats in Wuhan! And if @zeynep had cared to just properly read what she cites (see QT), she'd have realized she was the one making up the claim. ▫️2/

screenshot of iNaturalist in Wuhan, showing bats
As shown in the previous tweet, bats within Wuhan are mostly Myotis and Pipistrellus, unlikely to carry sarbecoviruses. Rhinolophus bats are occasionally found within Wuhan (h/t @mikeydoubled), but also nearby and then with sarbecoviruses ▫️3/ slide with images from two studies, one having sampled Rhinolophus bats in Wuhan, the other nearby
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Apr 20
Proponents of a lab origin of the Covid-19 pandemic often claim that circumstantial evidence is in favor of their hypothesis... while ignoring key circumstantial evidence *against* it.

Some examples in this thread: ▫️1/🧵

1⃣ We now know that SARS-CoV-2 was already spreading in Wuhan in December 2019. Some lab leakers claim that WIV scientists were infected and hospitalized in November 2019. This should have caused alarm. And yet, Shi Zhengli was at a meeting in Singapore in December 2019. ▫️2/ photo of Shi Zhengli and colleagues at a Nipah meeting in Singapore in Dec 2019
Some could argue that they did not know yet that the virus was spreading in Wuhan, as the first cases were detected later in the month.
Early in January 2020, Shi's group at WIV had sequenced SARS-CoV-2, and knew that there were human cases in hospitals in Wuhan. And yet... ▫️3/
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