This is extremely chilling - virologists being targeted for what appears to be minor (if any) "offenses". We all know _why_ this is happening, so I'm not going to belabor that point - but I want to provide some context on the technical details. 🧵 www.science.org/content/arti...

Long post and I might add things later. As I mentioned in the beginning, we all know why this is happening and it is tragic - tragic for those targeted, tragic for science as a whole, and tragic because so few scientists are willing and/or able to speak out. Let's change that, because we must.

Hmmm, who to believe. Veteran journalist with 37 years standing at CBS Or Bari Weiss, maga shill and peddler of disinformation. 🤔 www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

When you fuck around by putting conspiracists, quacks and protofascists in charge of science and health, you find out. Unfortunately those that find out the worst are the poor and vulnerable. www.statnews.com/2026/06/03/n...

It’s nearly summer in the UK and that means it is time for the biennial Farage riots whipped up by Herr Nigel and Klein Tommy Zwolfenamen.

Daniel’s argument that Desert Island Discs interviewing a Nazi sympathizer 37 ya means that they should platform someone who spent his formative years idolizing Hitler and abusing Jewish schoolmates, and allies himself with protofascistic leaders around the world, is not as strong as he thinks it is

For US scientists who kept their heads down in the hope that they would be left alone while their public health, vaccine and infection colleagues were abused, lied about, defunded and threatened - this is entirely predictable if you’d listened. For us in the UK, this is what is in store from Reform.

Our NIH-funded research - including as part of CREID - developed, deployed, and established capacity for many of the core tools and countermeasures used during outbreaks. Diagnostics, sequencing, monoclonals and vaccines. As we're facing a new foe with none of those, all that work, defunded. Gone.

While I generally agree with Blair that too much of the Labour Party acts like a student protest group rather than a party of government, obsessed with ideological purity instead of pragmatism and winning, I think at the moment he would do well to STFU. I’m sure @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social agrees

Infamy! Infamy! They’ve all got it in for me…

Why would Putin need to hack Farage when half his part are on the payroll and presumably give him real time updates anyway?

I would seriously consider calling the it The Biden Ballroom if I were an incoming president.

And they are citing work by @briceleborgne.bsky.social !!

Prelim Genetic and epidemiological investigation of the MV Hondius Andes virus outbreak. Where the index case picked it up is unclear, but their itinerary prior to embarkation, long incubation times for hantas, and the distribution of ANDV in rodents suggest that the birdwatching trip is unlikely.

More deaths on Trump’s and Elon’s small-brained heads. no brains, no hearts.

Amazing speed from the teams in Uganda and the DRC - impressive! Three genomes released so far - a few quick takes: 1️⃣ New genomes ~equidistant from 2007 and 2012 outbreaks. 2️⃣ Represents new spillover from reservoir. 3️⃣ Limited diversity, so too early to speculate on timing. Great work ⭐!

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Rapid release of multiplex PCR amplicon scheme for Andes hantavirus whole genome sequencing validated on control material: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @scalene.bsky.social @stevepullan.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social output from HPRU in Public Health Genomics

Transmission biology depends on tissue tropism, shedding dynamics, infectious dose, host adaptation, and epidemiology, not just whether particles can be inhaled.

“Capable of p2p spread” and “readily transmissible respiratory virus” are not synonymous categories in virology.

What is a green friendly floater @mrjamesob.bsky.social and does Fergal Sharkey worry about them in polluting rivers?

Little egret (I think) on the river Misbourne in Amersham old town this morning.

Telegraph obviously burying the lede here to promote dodgy implications for their classist and misogynistic reasons. They got in this information because…er…it appears to have been properly registered. Unlike the £5M from the cryptofascist that Nigel trousered! apple.news/AzCevR-H6Tmm...

This is the new McCarthyism. It’s a right-wing project targeting scientists over conspiratorial bullshit to destroy them and undermine public health as an institution. This administration represents a new low point for modern America.

Old people in average nearer death than younger ones. Shock new findings

There is no excuse for this. Polanski knows perfectly well. As there is no excuse for Farage voiding stamp duty or trousering millions from a Thai-based cryptofascist, and Richard Tice dodging business tax. (None of which similarly make the BBC front page though). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hantaviruses are nasty. Cruise ships (or any confined space where lots of people are together for prolonged periods affords an opportunity for even poorly transmitted viruses to spread. And ANDV is known to be one of the more transmissible hantaviruses in humans. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

As a university prof, handwritten exam scripts. No Turnitin problems with them. Plus they can draw diagrams.

World famous naturalist and environmental activist turns 100. Vapid climate-denialist telegraph rent-a-gob can’t help making her tribute about herself.

If only the rest of then world could bring a class action lawsuit against the US.

Note to self. Don’t go bird-watching at the dump.

Fantastic paper from @jollylab.bsky.social at QMUL. HIV-1 env-mediated signaling through CD4 on resting T cells during cell-to-cell transmission primes the cell for infection by remodeling nuclear pores to make viral core nuclear entry more efficient www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“A 32-year-old woman with no history of plastic surgery presented to doctors with distended lips, eyelid discoloration, and severe cheek swelling. Subsequent contact tracing determined the patient had contracted Mar-a-Lago face via a brief exposure to respiratory droplets from Kimberly Guilfoyle.”

And this is news because….we can put an unflattering picture of the ‘scummy working class lefty’ in the Telegraph to scare the readers Meanwhile Nigel Farage is on 40 B&H a day- unfortunately with none of the serious health effects yet manifest. It is true that hatred is the best preservative.

This is fascism from zia useless and reform. Threatening concentration camps? Fascism. Threatening to punish areas that don't vote for them? Fascism. And the response from the mainstream media? Utter silence.

March and April have been pretty good for loud, angry and nihilistic music.

TACO has been replace by NACHOS. Not a chance Hormuz opens soon. #r4today

The term ‘vichy scientist’ is very on point. JayB himself isn’t one - he is a modern day Lysenko and paid up MAGA scientific vandal. But he only gets away with it because too many US scientists and clinicians are looking the other way or collaborating for a quite life - even the National Academy

New war and peace collaborative effort from Jerne Ule, my and Chad Swanson’s groups understanding the roles of the long and short isoforms of ZAP and the ordered molecular events of ZAP targeting and degradation of viral and cellular RNAs. www.cell.com/cell-reports...

Wait till Trump works out that if it wasn’t for French backing, there wouldn’t be a US at all.

Good point. A very well publicized event where all the cabinet would be present. And yet someone checks into the hotel with weapons, and is able to rush a check point, opens fire at secret service and somehow is not killed. Is it any wonder people raise eyebrows? (I’m sure it’s incompetence really)

Congratulations to @theresluethi.bsky.social for her prize in the Science category at the Swiss Press Awards! She won it for her article exploring the (undue) success of COVID lab-leak hypotheses in the media and public sphere Her article: www.tagesanzeiger.ch/covid-warum-... #covidorigin 🧪

Good. Elephants 1, hunter nil. No sympathy, sorry. You go to hunt big game in their territory, thems the rules.

Fantastic paper by Dalan Bailey and Stephen Graham’s labs and colleagues in Kenya. Bat alphaCoVs don’t use any of the previously known receptors, but some in Kenya can use human CEACAM6, a lung expressed adhesion factor, to enter human cells. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The future of biomedical research is to make sure a large percentage of the total research budget around the world is dedicated to showing common treatment x doesn’t cause autism again and again and again……because of liars, grifters and charlatans.

Look at these evil terrorists indoctrinating the youth of America with nursery rhymes. Thankfully MAGA is standing up to people like this in NYC, The Vatican and across the world to usher in an age of peace.

I dread to think what sort of infections would have zoonosed had Roid Rogers here shopped at the Huanan market

TACO say is Wednesday this week. basically Xi Jinping told him that Chinese tankers would run his blockade and what was he going to do about it. They have naval assets in Djibouti and own a fuckload of US debt. Did he want to play chicken.

While obviously wonderful for the individual who has been cured, what are we actually learning here now? In all but one cases of cure the transplantation has been delta32/CCR5 with a bit of GvHD thrown in. If doable great. No detectable X4 virus and this will work. 1/

The tragedy isn't that Trump is insane. The tragedy is that everyone around him is too damn cowardly to stop him. - @Jamiebonkiewicz