No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Just in: TikTok's addictive design breaches the Digital Services Act and fails to adequately protect users, the European Commission said in preliminary findings. The app's infinite scroll is at the core of the issue.

I am writing a short piece about Epstein and scientists, but I'm simply unable to say in the space available how disgusted and angry it makes me, or to use the words I'd otherwise be inclined to. And yes, I do start by saying that none of this is a surprise.

A new bill tabled in the New York state legislature would require news organisations to label AI-generated news articles and pictures and require humans review before publication www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-ne...

HHS Is Making an AI Tool to Create Hypotheses About Vaccine Injury Claims. Experts worry RFK Jr’s Health Department will use an internal AI tool to analyze vaccine injury claims in a way that furthers his anti-vaccine agenda. | WIRED www.wired.com/story/hhs-is...

UCB wins favour from the CHMP for Kygevvi, which is set to become the first thymidine kinase 2 deficiency treatment to be approved in Europe www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/270979/... #pharma

Information Commissioner launches formal investigation in X / Grok over use of people's personal data to create sexual images of children without consent. (The government will continue to post through it, no doubt.)

🏭 IMI & IHI projects are helping to make the manufacture of medical products in Europe better, faster & cheaper, boosting #EUCompetitiveness & strengthening #HealthResilience - find out how:👉 lnkd.in/eFczWHw2 #IHITransformingHealth #HealthUnion #MedicinesManufacture #MedicalDevices #MedTech

BONJOUR TOUT LE MONDE www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Btw, my gorgeous cover star is a gynandromorph gypsy moth, female on its left side, male on the right. It was caught in Berlin in July 1864 and pictured by German entomologist Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg in 1877. It makes more than one appearance in my book! #booksky #histsci #sts #queerhistory 🦋🌈📚🗃️

OpenAI-backed firm to use ultrasound to read minds. Does the science stand up? www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Ardena divests Swedish API site to Nanologica, with the facility reverting to its original name Syntagon www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/270955/... #pharma #CDMO

Asking critical questions and trying to create a more just system is *not* the same as trying to destroy a system. If we‘re not allowed discourse, we’re playing in the radical right court…1/2

This is one of my favorite optical illusions, because even when you know specifically HOW IT WORKS, it's still hard to make your brain believe it. The image below is real-world video, but you're being tricked into believing it's an elaborate miniature by the DIORAMA EFFECT. Let's talk about it.

Swedish CDMO Sever Pharma Solutions has appointed Niklas Lindgren as VP of Quality www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/270914/... #pharma #manufacturing

Lilly finalises the last of its 4 new US manufacturing facilities. The $3.5bn Pennsylvania plant will produce devices plus injectable medicines, including its ‘tripe G’ GLP-1, GIP and glucagon hormone receptor agonist for obesity retatrutide. www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/270908/...

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

Kudos to the company that's just sent out 12 emails, all in different languages, for the same press release (and bonus points for it being the slimmest news imaginable)

A trade deals with tariff implications, AMR research, an obesity drug contender, R&D leadership and more feature in the latest issue of our weekly newsletter. www.linkedin.com/pulse/week-e... #pharma #manufacturing

Beyond the Knife is back for 2026! In a not-so-romantic pre-Valentine’s special, our Human Remains Conservator Cat Irving unpacks the fascinating history of syphilis. You can listen wherever you get your podcasts. shows.acast.com/beyond-the-k...

The formal withdrawal of the WHO will have major consequences for both the United States & the WHO itself. First, let’s think about the U.S. The U.S. has shot itself in the foot—it has now made itself much more vulnerable to disaster and devastation when the next epidemic or pandemic hits. A 🧵

What took you, RCP?

Royal colleges leave X because of “harmful content and abusive behaviour” buff.ly/IGBEMXi

This is great. Clearly the cringe is the point: old lady art historian speaking Gen Z fluently is so hilarious it’ll get shared - and that will bring her work to new audiences. Really smart and doing it perfectly is part of that.

I wrote about one of the saddest evenings of my life: seeing Christine Maggiore, who opposed HIV medicines, speak in San Francisco. She was one of the HIV denialists who met President Mbeki at the International AIDS Conference in Durban in 2000; she died of AIDS pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

News alert! A new international study from @hiigberlin.bsky.social, @tuberlin.bsky.social and @oii.ox.ac.uk challenges the “one size fits all” view of AI adoption and identifies four distinct types of early ChatGPT users with different motivations and concerns. Find out more: bit.ly/3LSJOBO 1/3

We are supporting this conference on Charles Ignatius Sancho, the late-18thC Black British polymath. A recent upsurge in scholarly discoveries makes it timely to bring together international scholars and practitioners for the first time in over 25 years! www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/events/briti...

Dr Michael J. Miller joins French microbiology start-up Spore.Bio as VP of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/270708/... #pharma #biotech #microbiology

Worth reading, not least to reward Andrew for his seemingly infinite patience

The names of 72 female scientists will be added to the Eiffel Tower, to accompany those of 72 male scientists that are already engraved there tinyurl.com/e2satnyp 👏👩‍🔬 🧪

The Trump administration has told global vaccine group GAVI to phase out shots containing the preservative thimerosal as a condition of providing the group with funding. Thimerosal was targeted by RFK Jr last summer in US vaccines without a rigorous scientific process TAT: [Attacking Science]

www.bmj.com/content/392/... by Ilona Kickbusch.

DeepMind—Google’s artificial intelligence research laboratory where AlphaFold was developed—has officially released a new machine learning model called AlphaGenome that can predict the function of DNA sequences: cen.acs.org/biological-c... #chemsky 🧪

UK ‘gaining pace’ with early-stage trials for advanced therapies, according to @cgtcatapult.bsky.social research www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/270673/... #pharma #clinicaltrials #CGT

Research into advanced manufacturing supports the automated production of a critical API www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/270630/... #pharma #manufacturing

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

Moderna have announced that they won't run new phase three trials now with massive impacts for new vaccine development- why- its because of RFK Jr and his anti-vaccine campaigns and cancelling mRNA vaccine research which affect the sales the company can then make 🧪🧵 #PublicHealth

Canada, UK and soon the US All losing measles elimination status All failing children www.statnews.com/2025/11/12/c...

All in a year’s work. RFK Jr.’s relentless assault on vaccines has been wildly successful for the anti-vaccine agenda and detrimental to us all. A rundown of what he has managed to accomplish in such a short time should terrify everyone. A 🧵

It takes ages to grow an ecosystem where an adult can be this stupid and still not spend all day cowering under a duvet because they are being told they are idiots every single moment by everyone they meet.

Really interesting thread about AI in higher ed

How cool something is vs. your age by Matt Surelee @mattsurelee

Charted: The big measles surge. www.axios.com/2026/01/22/m...

The good #pharmacogenomic practice guideline is being updated! A concept paper is open for public consultation until 31 March 2026. Key proposed changes: ✔️methodology updates ✔️clearer interpretation ✔️consistent reporting ✔️expanded study design guidance. www.ema.europa.eu/en/good-phar...

Congratulations to @rashmi-priya.bsky.social for being awarded the Women in Cell Biology Early Career Medal from the @bscb-official.bsky.social. Read more about the award and Rashmi’s contributions to developmental cell biology research. ⬇️ www.crick.ac.uk/research/lab...

Piercing crocodile close-up wins ecology photo competition www.newscientist.com/article/2511...

GSK acquires Rapt Therapeutics for $2.2bn, gaining a potential best-in-class antibody for food allergies www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/270554/... #pharma

Fascinating pic from @cip.org. People show surprisingly high levels of trust in AI systems. Low trust in AI companies. Full report here static1.squarespace.com/static/631d0...