Peter van Heusden (he/him) 🗿

@pvanheus.bsky.social

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#bioinformatics at @SANBI_SA, building bioinformatics workflows for (Pan-)African PH. health & justice! married. @pvanheus@mstdn.science

Two men standing side by side, fists raised, holding a sign saying "I support Palestine Action and oppose the genocide". The one man is wearing a shirt from Healthcare Workers 4 Palestine - South Africa
Mashad Human Rights Observatory strongly condemns, with the heaviest heart and deepest sorrow, the horrific crime perpetrated by the Rapid Support Forces through their terrorist shelling of the mosque in the city of Al-Fashir during prayer, which resulted in the killing of more than 84 civilians, including 11 children and the Director of Mashad Organization in the state, and the injury of dozens with serious wounds. This brutal attack constitutes a blatant violation of all international laws and norms, foremost among them international humanitarian law and international human rights law, and amounts to a fully-fledged war crime under the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The recurrence of these crimes against innocent civilians and the targeting of places of worship and public facilities clearly demonstrates the systematic approach adopted by the Rapid Support Forces in killing Sudanese people and destroying their means of survival, under the watch of the international community, amid a suspicious silence and negligence that rise to the level of indirect complicity and encourage the continued commission of further atrocities. Mashad Observatory affirms that this terrorist crime constitutes a stain on the conscience of humanity and irrefutable evidence of the support extended by certain international and regional powers to these criminal forces in pursuit of their own interests at the expense of innocent blood. Silence over such grave crimes undermines the values of international justice and erodes what remains of trust in the global system to protect human rights and safeguard human dignity. We issue an urgent appeal to the peoples of the world of conscience and to what remains of honorable international and regional institutions to condemn this terrorist act ... [see the rest on their the Mashad Observatory Facebook]
Screenshot of text from recent virological.org post, highlighting acknowledgement of support from US CDC
A photograph of a group of bioinformaticians at the ABPHM conference.
Young baobab tree in green plant pot with green leaf sprouting and vanilla pod lying across the plant pot
Screenshot from Thomas Winterbottom's "An Account of the Native Africans in the Neighbourhood of Sierra Leone", volume 2, page 30, displaying a description of the appearance of swollen lymph nodes in sleeping sickness and citing slave traders as the source of the observation
Picture of rockpools and a partially cloudy sky. Small waves in the distance.
Gloria, a HIV+ activist and member of South Africa's Treatment Action Campaign, wearing a yellow t-shirt with the words HIV Positive on it in front of a protest banner with the words "City of Cape Town, Care Enough To Act". Source: https://undispatch.com/how-colonialism-explains-female-hiv-rates-in-africa/ Trevor Samson WB photo ID TS03-06 World Bank
Children in crowded conditions in Tjideng camp
A suburban home with open windows and expansive lawns
Screenshot of profile of mentju.bsky.social that illustrates their belief in "gain of function" origin of SARS-CoV-2 & support for Donald Trump.
A picture of the Apartheid South African Police flag with the title text "Die S.A. Polisie, merkwaardige, ongewaardeede Gideonsbende" [trans: The S.A. Police, a remarkable. unappreciated team] ("Gideonsbende" is an allusion to the story of Gideon in the bible where a much smaller group fought a large foe)
Cover of Lorraine Code's "What can she know?: Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge". Design is different shades of purple & red, using rectangles to emphasise text
Picture of the River Niger in the distance with trees in the foreground
Mohammed Hamdan Dagalo (aka. Hemedti), leader of Sudan's RSF militia shaking hands with South African President Cyril Ramaphosa
Picture of Prof Abdul Sesay presenting a slide on his genomics & sequencing training partnerships in the West African region
Large crowd with Palestinian flags
"mood octopus" soft toy showing blue and white polka dots and sad expression
Map of Nullarbor Place, a road that is shaped like an I beam with all branches having the same name.
Word cloud with country names: Philippines, Indonesia, Turkey, Qatar, Lesotho, Ethiopia, North Macedonia, South Africa, Korea, Zimbabwe, Ukraine, India, Croatia, Italy, Benin, Switzerland, Belgium, Tunisia, Slovakia, Egypt, Germany, Albania, Pakistan, Angola, Kosovo, Madagascar, Nepal, Malaysia, Kenya and Botswana
Screenshot of BlueSky app showing that a search for #TB yields no results.
Fragment of an 18th century document starting with "Walraven van Heusden", written in Dutch handwriting.