The expensive purchase of insurance against the actions of mad kings that Carney was talking about. Plus social-media-fried brains?

This is essentially blackmail and could endanger vaccine supply for many countries that need thiomersal in vaccines to keep them stable when they lack infrastructure to keep vaccines cool in transport and storage 🧵

"If more people understood more about how fascinating, beautiful, terrifying, and dangerous viruses are, maybe they would understand why it’s so important to keep studying them and learning how to stop them from spreading and causing disease." @angierasmussen.bsky.social

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

NEW| Reporting on the Minneapolis ICE shooting, BBC News is soaked to the skin but still not sure if it's raining... brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/reporting-...

This comedy sketch is 12 years old but resonates more than ever now Trump has unleashed his own SS on US streets. Now Farage calling for his own version should chill everyone in the UK. Vote NO TO REFORM youtube.com/watch?v=SMMw...

Am beyond furious at the BBC bothsiding the latest murder on American streets. There isn't a "war of words" or "finger pointing". Watch the fxxxing videos. One side is fxxxing lying. This is shameful

End of Days stuff - Daily Mail outperforms BBC at accurate reporting of a far-right attack.

New Cryptic (North Carolina) derived from a 2020, pre-B.1.1 lineage, meaning from an infection that has lasted nearly six years. It has one of the classic patterns of Cryptic reversions to Bat-CoV/SARS-1 spike residues: Q498Y-N501T. Eager to see the rest of the genome.

I can’t quite convey how frightening it is that people who think it’s fine to let people catch deadly diseases like polio rather than have a vaccine are in charge of US vaccine policies

-laughs nervously in Ukrainian- So er, I don't want to be alarmist my Canadian friends but it's not a GREAT sign when the superpower next door starts talking about how the people of a resource rich region of yours yearn for the freedom to join them and suggesting referendums...

🚨NEW BLOGPOST🚨 Fast answers, overconfidence and the superficial appearance of rigour. Airport bookstores are the perfect place for those who chase fresh ideas without doing the legwork. Unfortunately, much of our policy is shaped by the same impulse. www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/airport-bo...

Trump, Vance, and Kushner have been making speeches that contain odd phrases: 'you don't turn the Titanic around overnight', 'catastrophic success' etc. Remember it's propaganda. And they have AI to make us respond how they want. Not everything that seems stupid is stupid. bsky.app/profile/dunc...

For some reason my wife can't quite explain, she's been leaving €50 notes around on the bedroom floor... and the robot vacuum cleaner has sucked them all up. Should I be concerned?

Not so fun fact: Tear gas isn’t a “gas” If it’s not a gas, then what is it? Answer: it’s an aerosol. And this distinction matters. Let’s discuss 🧵

Seems to be the most dramatic breakthrough in preventing/slowing dementia & alzheimer's ever. But it's a vaccine, so it doesn't get headlines. Wish you could get the shingles vaccine before age 50. You don't have to be 50 to get shingles—I can attest as I had it last summer (not recommended).

Europeans after managing to prevent the collapse of NATO for another 1-2 weeks… #Europe #Rutte

"It is something of a paradox that, for all this govt.’s talk of closer alignment with the single market, it is doing a better job than its predecessors of delivering divergence from EU rules." @jreland.bsky.social reflects on UK-EU regulatory divergence under Labour ukandeu.ac.uk/labour-burni...

Trump: "NATO has treated the United States very badly. We've never asked for anything. We've never got anything." Tell that to the families of 850 soldiers from 19 non-US NATO countries who died fighting to defend the United States in Afghanistan - the only occasion Article 5 was ever triggered.

He keeps referring to Greenland as Iceland. His dementia is on full display. Just look at him slumped over the podium . Time for people to get up and leave the clown show.

NEW: NEW: Standards commissioner finds Nigel Farage committed seventeen breaches of MPs code of conduct. He failed to declare £333,000 in outside interests (more than 3x MPs annual salary)…

Macron’s allies say it plainly: Brexit is why Starmer is weak with Trump. Inside the EU, you have leverage, a market of 460m and a trade bazooka. Outside it, you urge calm while others decide. Brexit left Britain weak and Trump knows it. archive.ph/2026.01.20-1...

These hypocrites really make me sick. The UK increased massive trade barriers with all its direct neighbours with their sovereign Brexit, and now they come up with this blah blah. And use it as an excuse not to work with the rest of their own continent to stop the mad dictator.

#Brexiteers got it very wrong, and they still do.

It is even worse than it looks

The Shingles vaccine is linked to slowing biological aging and reducing inflammation academic.oup.com/biomedgeront...

In any other context, requiring a high-productivity sector to offshore the production of its highest value-added exports would be seen as the economic illiteracy it so obviously is... www.ft.com/content/a23c...

I don't think the mad king wants Greenland for the rare earths, and if he does, it's worse than most people think. Rare earths are not uncommon, they are easy to find. But separating them from other stuff in the ore is expensive and an environmental nightmare. This is from the wikipedia article

"l no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

"I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace"

Yes. I finally saw an aurora. With the naked eye it was just a hint of green in the sky.

Farage’s prediction aged well…

A real “tell your parents” paper (since everyone on Bsky is canonically 38). Review of 21 studies of ppl over 50: • Shingles vax associated w/47% lower risk of Alzheimer’s, 24% lower risk of any dementia • Pneumonia vax had 36% lower risk of Alzheimer's • Tdap had 33% lower risk of any dementia

Honestly all Denmark needs to do is to withdraw all Ozempic exports to the US and Americans will finally revolt

Bluesky going to work over on Twitter

A few updates on the deeply unethical study to probe "non-specific" effects of the birth dose HepB vaccine in Guinea-Bissau by Danish investigators. 1️⃣ The study was canceled as per AfricaCDC - HHS disputes this. 2️⃣ Full protocol was leaked and it's bad. Quick 🧵 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

✨Africa CDC shuts down RFK's attempt to conduct a Tuskegee-like vaccine trial on children in Guinea-Bissau. The study exploited “the scarcity of a proven beneficial vaccine in a context where that vaccine is needed,” said Boghuma Titanji. @melodyschreiber.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

My “blatant cronyism” assessment has not changed. This study evidently did not undergo anything resembling a review at CDC. It’s ethically reprehensible to expose babies to a lethal disease to address a scientifically useless question that will be politically weaponized against vaccination.

The main outcome of this farcically horrible trial is death or hospitalization with any infection over *42 days*. That’s not even a little bit close to time Hep B takes to do anything. They will expose hundreds of newborn babies to Hep B for a trial that is all but guaranteed to be null. Evil.

Death rates were below their pre-pandemic level for all groups except for men aged 45-64 whose death rates remained concerningly above pre-pandemic levels for the sixth consecutive year.

The CMI has released its analysis of 2025 mortality in England & Wales. Death rates for 2025 were nearly 2% lower than 2024, the previous record low. Death rates improved (i.e. fell) for both sexes and in all age groups between 2024 and 2025.

Tonight's vintage food from the back of the cupboard - popcorn with expiry date 6 May 2016. Better eat it before the 10 year anniversary arrives...

Just a reminder that you are not a bat and that regular exposure to airborn viruses in crowded indoor spaces is a very recent thing for humans. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

I’m a great believer in redistribution but I deeply resent paying through the nose to subsidise the prejudices of the worst people in our society

Call me naive, but I thought the whole point of NATO was that if Russia or China invaded Danish territory, the other NATO members like the US are supposed to defend it as if it were their own territory. Whether it's legally US territory or not shouldn't matter. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The immigration doom loop in full swing. Chasing the xenophobes is a doomed strategy both economically *and* politically. (1/3) archive.ph/pyVLg

Yesterday I posted my last ever Tweet and called on the Government to do the same. Read more below on why I think it’s time to leave the cesspit formerly known as Twitter. www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...

Don't say 'I told you so' Stuart, it's unedifying. 'Superflu' looking very much like normal flu. Worst flu season since... last year.