James L. Kizziah

Today's @usatoday.com front page
First US death from measles in 10 years
First child to die from measles in 22 years in the US
All of this fully preventable

screenshot of the cover of the article: VANITY FAIR COVID ORIGINS Exclusive: Inside the FBI’s Lab Leak Investigation --- As bird flu spreads, and Team Trump begins dismantling America’s public health apparatus, a former FBI scientist and investigator speaks out about the evidence that led the bureau to suspect that COVID-19 was sparked by an incident at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. BY KATHERINE EBAN FEBRUARY 27, 2025 [b&w image of people with masks]

A Vanity Fair paper on the origin of the pandemic details some of the reasoning behind the FBI's "Moderate confidence" assessment for a lab leak, via a retired FBI senior scientist.

It seems they were not aware of key information that rebuts their story 🤯 ▫️1/8
www.vanityfair.com/news/story/i...

When Nazi Germany invaded Denmark in World War II, the Hungarian chemist George de Hevesy dissolved the gold Nobel Prizes of Max von Laue and James Franck in aqua regia to prevent the Nazis from stealing them. He placed the resulting solution on a shelf in his laboratory at the Niels Bohr Institute. After the war, he returned to find the solution undisturbed and precipitated the gold out of the acid. The Nobel Society then recast the Nobel Prizes using the original gold.

Well, there’s a story.

Yes! I had no idea this was the case until well into undergrad. I believe most institutions require the teaching component, but some (like mine) do not. Stipends will also vary—potentially by a lot—within an institution (i.e. based on the field of research).

May I be included (if there is still room)?

So excited to see the #cryoem community migrating over! I guess I’ll be spending a lot more time around here.