Yep

It never was Podcast Jay. Tony Fauci was only in charge of NIAID.

Given that the Telegraph has dispatched chief anti-science conspiracist editor Sarah Knapton to Cape Canaveral, it’s a wonder they aren’t reporting that the new moon mission is being faked like the last ones were.

Great tribute to Robin from the Microbiology Society.

Matt King Cole, champion of the downtrodden Chinese worker. Who knew? Ps Matt, I would rather be a member of the Lanyard Class than the Epstein Class.

I think the next incoming Democrat administration should either tear it down or better, strip out all the gold chintz and rename it the Obama or Biden Ballroom. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

😉 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

But criticism of these fascists is antisemitism, right?

Errrr….fuck off you drunk cretin. You broke it, you own it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Another day, another threat by little Donnie to commit a war crime because he and his intellectually challenged admin and military commanders failed to do any basic contingency planning before spaffing all their missiles up the wall.

This looks grim. But it’s also an interesting test for all the grifters who use the meaningless phrase ‘Judeo-Christian values’ as a euphemism for hatred of Muslims.

Maybe Zia Yusuf should ask himself what it is about Reform UK that attracts people who give Nazi salutes to apply to be their candidates. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Given the amount of arms that have been sold to KSA, perhaps they could do it if they are that fussed.

Jay Bhattacharya is quite clearly an idiot over and above all the other reasons he is manifestly unfit for his office.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/kings-r... Fantastic achievement for Laura in my lab and Jamieson in @vintorraca.bsky.social lab.

“Dr Des Holden, acting chief executive of East Kent Hospitals NHS Trust, said the patient first presented on Wednesday evening. "We recognise there was an opportunity prior to diagnosis to notify UKHSA” Idiot. Hopefully he will be the former acting CEO soon. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Guardians of large cancer genomics databases are restricting access to their data in very unhelpful ways. If we in the structural biology community had done that with our data there would never have been an AlphaFold or Rosetta.

In midst of global unrest and economic threats at least Nigel and Reform are clear sighted enough to focus on the real priorities MGBHA movement gathering pace.

50 years ago today, Star Wars began filming

2026: when the default rational starting point for anyone with the slightest sense of of the real world is to believe the murderous theocratic regime over the US president.

Sobering, important article by @karambales.bsky.social

Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "NIH Scientific Freedom Lecture Series" earlier today and I just wanted to run through some of the main claims he made - you'll be unsurprised to learn that almost all of them are false. Here's his summary slide - let's start there. 🧵👇

Pop quiz. Who said this in 2019?

He was certainly afraid of Vietnam-style combat in Vietnam.

As unsurprising as it is disgusting. These people are evil.

Americans need to realise that when/if Trump and MAGA goes, things won’t back to normal with the RotW. They will be held to account and never trusted again. Countries often get the government they deserve, and just because you didn’t vote for him, doesn’t mean you don’t bear responsibility for him.

This coming from the lunatic who was ready to torch NATO in a tantrum because it would t give him Greenland. Canada, UK and EU should coordinate their position. We will help only when you bring the shooting war to a close…and withdraw your tariffs.

Errr…you broke it, you own it. How much are you going to pay us?

The inaugural invitee to Jay B’s new ‘free speech in science’ flag ship lecture series being forced on NIH is….well would you believe it! Fellow right wing peddler of bullshit Matt Ridley. An HIV and Covid conspiracist, climate change denier and financial genius who inherited a bank and wrecked it.

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

Free speech in Britain is dead say the influencers and right wing tax exile journos like Oakshott in Dubai….. while at the same time being instructed what to say by the Emirati authorities for fear of prosecution.

Given your discussions last week, I can’t imagine you agree with this @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social, can you?

Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead

It is perfectly possible to believe that the Iranian regime is evil and at the same time understand that there was no immediate threat from Iran that necessitated corrupt idiots in the US and Israeli governments to light up the Middle East.

As it’s Friday, what better afternoon job than battering and frying up a Researchfish supper?

MTG still being the reasonable voice of MAGA. What a time to be alive. www.facebook.com/share/r/1CCK...

Today is the 40th anniversary of possibly the greatest American metal album. Some are on a par but none has ever bettered it. youtu.be/K6LA7v1PApU

It is a great sadness to hear of Robin’s passing. He was one of the finest virologists of all time and contributed immeasurably to the field of HIV/retrovirology. He was a key mentor for a vast number of leading virologists and cancer researchers. And great fun! So many of us owe him our careers

It must be electoral fraud. What else would explain Muslims not voting for Reform? (And even if there were a few cases of ‘family voting’ it can’t explain a 4.5K majority for the greens, nor why more than 70% rejected Reform over all)

Inspiring no holds barred call to action by Peter Stahley to take the fight to RFKjr and the MAGA vandals of global AIDS research. #CROI2026

“​We are ill-served if the approach taken here, irredeemably flawed as it is, is taken for truth, and the real culprit for the pandemic, the live wild animal trade, is allowed to continue. “ www.accountabilityjournalism.org/insights/4nd...

I knew it! Rutgers’s own abusive conspiracy loon and Gungan chieftain is part of the Covid origins conspiracy. Of course Jim Haslam is mad, but at this point his theories are no more stupid than those promoted by Alina Chan, Matt Ridley and the DRASTICs…..and the toad Ebright himself.

Exhibit B.

The descent of a fairly competent bacterial geneticist into a misogynistic antivax conspiracist carrying water for the worst excesses of MAGA’s destruction of US science and medicine is truly sad to behold.

Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life @cellcellpress.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Conspiracy theorists often see themselves as critical thinkers, yet they may fall for obvious disinformation when it aligns with their beliefs. It happened last Spring with a claim that the origin of the 2024 Marburg virus disease outbreak in Rwanda was a lab leak. ▫️1/6 🧵

Our latest paper shows that IFITM3 deficiency allows SARS-CoV-2 to adapt more easily to a new host species. Mouse-adapted beta and omicron variants from this work maintained their unique tropisms and pathogenic characteristics allowing exciting comparative studies. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Not sending the brightest to the Senate if they’re the only people to be ‘surprised’ that antivax conspiracist RFKjr lied about his role in antivax conspiracism that led to children’s death in Samoa. Which of course was a dry run for what he’s doing now to the US www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Masterful skewering of the ludicrousness and hypocrisy that MAGA snowflake-ism has achieved over a happy and inoffensive song and dance routine performed in a language that ‘only’ 60-odd million Americans speak. youtu.be/vfpQbv7CmeE?...