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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Jun 2021

      I've left out a lot of detail—given the audience and the length, already—and I'll write the geekier/detailed parts eventually as well. But I believe we know a lot, already: enough to realize how we were on the knife-edge for this pandemic, and it tipped over—one way or another.

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Jun 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted James Gleick

      Thank you! Indeed, asking the right questions is often the most important part of the effort.https://twitter.com/JamesGleick/status/1408405792118673412 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      James GleickVerified account @JamesGleick
      If you’ve made up your mind that Covid-19 obviously came from a lab leak, or that Covid-19 couldn’t have come from a lab leak, you’re wrong. @zeynep asks all the right questions and looks at the bigger picture. Do read. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-lab.html …
      4 replies 22 retweets 266 likes
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Jun 2021

      This is as good a time as any, I guess, to declare my own conflict-of-interest. I am, indeed, in the pocket of Big Civet. Big Pangolin also promised grant—but they have been less solid, just promises so far. Big Civet? Cash on delivery. So here you go.😁 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-lab.html …pic.twitter.com/WXXWy32vMm

      8 replies 26 retweets 366 likes
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Jun 2021

      ^If it needs saying, joke! 😁 But come on.pic.twitter.com/mW8FdkPTk8

      6 replies 6 retweets 267 likes
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Jun 2021

      Also, much gratitude again to the research team I work with—the stellar @avizvizenilman and @isaacscher duo. After editing the original piece down from 20K words to this 5500+ word version—still so long for traditional media!—we went through a very detailed fact-checking grind.

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Jun 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ruth

      Absolutely. As the piece tries to detail, the response may well be the most important lever we have. That perspective can help shape our risk/benefit analyses for broader research as well.https://twitter.com/RuthReader/status/1408428895897063433 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      RuthVerified account @RuthReader
      Thorough as always ⁦@zeynep⁩ makes the case for better disease surveillance https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-lab.html?referringSource=articleShare …
      3 replies 13 retweets 150 likes
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Jun 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Declan Butler

      Former Nature reporter who had written many (very useful) articles on biosafety which, he notes correctly, ha taken a backseat to this debate even though it is crucial—it is important no matter may have happened. Yet, such experts are rarely interviewed.https://twitter.com/Declan_M_Butler/status/1408452780772188162 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Declan Butler @Declan_M_Butler
      4/5 Biosafety has taken a backseat in debate. But no matter how SARS-CoV-2 emerged, the debate thows spotlight on need for greater oversight and openness in biosafety and rigorous biosafety culture in research worldwide involving pathogens of pandemic potential.
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Jun 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Katherine Eban

      An apology and explanation: My draft, with full sourcing, was in to my editor before @KatherineEban’s excellent piece covering especially the sleuthing—which wasn’t my focus—at great length was published. (The material had been ignored by US media!). Still, I should’ve linked.https://twitter.com/KatherineEban/status/1408782784378908674 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Katherine Eban @KatherineEban
      Glad to see @nytimes belatedly but appropriately embed a link in @zeynep’s #COVID19 #LabLeak op-ed to my 11,000 word @VanityFair article of 3 weeks ago, which broke many elements of this story: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/06/the-lab-leak-theory-inside-the-fight-to-uncover-covid-19s-origins …. Many wrote to me about the omission, which has been fixed.
      4 replies 31 retweets 180 likes
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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Jun 2021

      I also didn’t write much about the media angle—and how much fairy basic stuff was essentially unreported in traditional western media—with US media lagging more than most. @KatherineEban’s piece was key to breaking through and deserves extra appreciation for that. 🙏

      8 replies 14 retweets 151 likes
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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Jun 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Moya

      I don’t know how many times this would work but here you go… 😁https://twitter.com/rednfiery/status/1409122317326688259 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Moya @rednfiery
      Replying to @Sandwich_Smith @NGrossman81 @zeynep
      Here you go -- it's a "gift" link from my subscription. Let me know if it doesn't work...I haven't used this feature before. https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-lab.html …
      3 replies 4 retweets 42 likes
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Jun 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Moya

      Another attempt at a gift link. 😁https://twitter.com/rednfiery/status/1409124414684233735 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Moya @rednfiery
      Replying to @Sandwich_Smith @NGrossman81 @zeynep
      Argh. How about this link instead? I wanna figure out how to make this work! 😁 https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/25/opinion/coronavirus-lab.html?unlocked_article_code=AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACEIPuonUktbfqohkTlUZBibSRdkhrxqAwvPI2rs6j2H_NjWODDJLxaIVH42EsQ_rVJZUWuESjX6dVcMTd_gmXuBzxetSeBZgQAD2-8Ld3c1Uc3lw9IjuDyY8gsOXGL40_2_mY2Llcrxzyff3pR-JMRmcU6fd2HAkIAhisMElIQnsgSpUs_-DRu1l2dB-3eMjAYR6Q1oDZyqIv_ruA3ZuKYnML0GcukRtBbYvCXyElsWc6rkDbAxXFVrFKXt_6m8_495XU8gFZRienIphkAY1-19hHKHVBg&smid=url-share …
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Jun 2021

          As an example of really poor state of claims made in traditional media and high-prestige outlets. On the left, latest from an SF Chronicle editorial on the location of the Wuhan lab. On the right, reality. This shouldn't pass the most elementary fact-check—but it gets repeated.pic.twitter.com/jhwB8l83fX

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Jun 2021

          Chinese scientists, Lancet, Jan 2020: "bat virus but local bats hibernating." Dr. Shi, Nature, Feb 2020: guilty bats in Yunnan, ~1000km away. Repeats later she thinks zoonosis but not in Hubei—let alone Wuhan. Western media 16 months later: The lab was where the viruses were!🙄

          8 replies 26 retweets 142 likes
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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Jun 2021

          Treating us all like we're idiots with really poor arguments isn't helping convince anyone and, if anything, just makespeople who can assess basic facts more suspicious of *everything*, including things that, imo, are genuinely far-fetched like bioweapon scenarios etc.

          12 replies 39 retweets 260 likes
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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Jun 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          A good thread full of key—but often overlooked—points about all this. https://twitter.com/holden/status/1409224657316638721 …

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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Jun 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          I see people are debating me as a science communicator. Hah! On the contrary, if there are errors or if I’m wrong, they are on *me* because everything I publish are my own analyses—of course based on empirical evidence as best I can—not communication of some predigested science.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1409481518205046791 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          Replying to @zeynep @jimiadams and 3 others
          So if there are any claims of errors in my pieces, they would be mine because they’re my analyses, and not due to some communication misunderstanding. Of course, everyone could make errors or be wrong, but my track record speaks for itself and I’m happy for any examination of it!
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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Jun 2021

          I would be thrilled if somebody wanted to actually look at my track record this pandemic. I took a risk because I thought I had a skillset that could contribute. I’m more than comfortable with the output that resulted. I should go make a chronological list. (Never bothered🤷‍♀️).

          14 replies 6 retweets 188 likes
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        8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Jun 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Declan Butler

          This is a great thread full of crucial biosafety articles that had been published Nature, and, as a topic, have been sorely missing from this discussion.https://twitter.com/Declan_M_Butler/status/1408458284827357191 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Declan Butler @Declan_M_Butler
          1/22 Dec 2011 "Fears grow over lab-bred flu" "It is a nightmare scenario: a human pandemic caused by the accidental release of a man-made form of the lethal avian influenza virus H5N1.Yet the risk is all too real." https://www.nature.com/articles/480421a …
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        9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Jun 2021

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jasnah Kholin - 8964 - ACAB -  💉 💉

          Ralph Baric has said you can’t rule things out or prove them just by looking at the genome. And yet people debate the furin cleavage site on Twitter. Meanwhile, biosafety—a basic, structural and forward-looking issue—is elided. (But this is the thread for FCS, if you insist.😁)https://twitter.com/wanderer_jasnah/status/1394247714024660994 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Jasnah Kholin - 8964 - ACAB -  💉 💉 @wanderer_jasnah
          i know i'm a bit late to the party, but to anyone who thinks #SARSCoV2 FCS is engineered, if you were actually engineering in an FCS: 1) you'd use something you've seen before, say RRSRR in HKU1. turns out this particular one *does* show up in some strains of FIPV but it's rare.
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        10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 29 Jun 2021

          This is an amazing piece, featuring quotes from Dr. Ralph Baric—one of world’s foremost scientists on bat coronaviruses, and co-author of Dr. Shi of WIV on that 2015 paper with the chimeric virus. *Really* worth your time. By @rowanjacobsen in @techreview. https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/29/1027290/gain-of-function-risky-bat-virus-engineering-links-america-to-wuhan/ …pic.twitter.com/OSSCrcC8JB

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        1. Ashanka Iddya‏ @aiddya 27 Jun 2021
          Replying to @zeynep

          It's really sad that articles like this of critical importance are behind paywalls 😢. I know you have no control but this business model is terrible for informing people

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