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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman.

They noticed that naively adding test tube synthesized mRNA elicited immflamatory responses from immune cells, while mRNA derived from cells did not. They figured out that chemical modifications to mRNAs were responsible for avoiding these immune reactions to the mRNAs.

These results would open the path for development of mRNA-based vaccines, like the vaccines repsonsible for limiting the damage of the COVID-19 pandemic.

https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2023/press-release/

It makes me sad David Attenborough has this world in his later years rather than the one he fought for. But without he how much worse would it be.

To quote Måns Zelmerlöw: "WE are the heroes of our time, but we're dancing with the demons in our minds"

He said like about 9 years ago.

My parents and parents-in-law.

EMS, the scientists who made the vaccines which have prevented millions of deaths from COVID, and the mothers who are making the effort to raise up their kids to be the best people they can be.

Mothers. For raising up kids.

Teachers. It is such a widely known trope that teachers are overworked and underpaid. So many that want to pursue teaching now enter the market, understanding that they will likely need a second job at some point. Although internet kudos do little to actually address the problem, my respect goes to the teachers.

not in any specific order:

SPI, the foundation supporting debian and arch projects.

boeing whistleblowers, and anybody willing to step up against these kinds of corpo shenanigans.

people who wear masks.

stephen colbert, john oliver and their news team

lemmy posters

Paul Hogan

Still Noam Chomsky, David Graeber (rip). Prof Michael Hudson, Prof Danny Dorling, Grace Blakely, Michael Sheen, Mick Lynch, Dianne Abbott, Jeremy Corbyn, Alexi Sayle, Rutger Bergman, Thic Naht Han (rip), Matieu Ricard, bob Marley, , and the countless comrades on the front lines of the fight for equality And protection of the environment

Honourable mentions:

Jolyon Maugham, Aaron Bastani, Marcus rashford, burning spear, Peter Geohagan, Ian hislop, chuck D, killah Mike .

Greta Tintin Thunberg

Bernie Sanders would be my first thought

I was so keen to hear everyone else's that I forgot to put my own! In no particular order:

• Mick Lynch (standing up to the system)
• Yanis Varoufakis (for a new system and for insight into the current one)
• Edward Snowden (for his principles and courage and lifting the lid)
• Satish Kumar (for his wholism and his ability to inspire with hope and goodness)
• Tyson Fury (in his almost mythical resurrection against Deontay Wilder and his retelling of the fight. Someone needs to use it as narration for animated film for children.
• Will edit if more come to mind!

Alexandra Elbakyan (Scihub) has probably done more for scientific progress than anyone alive.