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Do we actually know who that is though? I thought it was pseudoanonymous. It’s a new twitter account at least.

It is pseudonymous, although the handle iris_IGB suggests she works at IGB, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences.

https://genebiology.ru/

I have to assume that charlatans have long since figured out how to select social media names that insinuate a relationship to a well known organization, when in fact no such relationship exists.

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