Excellent. Fund deeply unethical trials by antivax apologists that will put neonates at risk of HBV transmission. And do it in a developing country and run away. Nice to see the lesson RFKjr took from Tuskegee is not do it in America

academic.oup.com/nar/article/... Latest article from Rebecca Youle in Taylor lab at Crick in collaboration with Chad Swanson and my labs on the enzymatic activity of KHNYN, cofactor for ZAP It is a highly active endoribonuclease with cleavage site preferences and an absolute dependence on manganese

Stop the clocks. An @telegraph.co.uk push notice about a virologist’s opinion on flu that is not calling them a leftist shill or accusing them of making the virus in the lab. Clearly Sarah Knapton is on holiday…

youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.

Same shit, different subject for Viscount Grift

“Published” here means he left a comment in the ‘have your say’ box at the bottom of the article, which while moderated for decorum, is not reviewed for scientific merit…which is just as well.

Good time to be in the milkshake business north of the border

Imagine being so mortified by your behavior at public school (where you racially abused your fellows and called for the gassing of your Jewish colleagues) that to prove there is not a racist bone in your body you spend 30yrs leading a series of far right parties and stir up hatred of immigrants.

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli... Farage went full Trump today. The thing is, that fake news shit works in America but much less so here. He just sounded like a deranged drunk in the pub. And while most of stuff was dodgy in the 70’s and 80’s, I’m not sure ‘gas the Jews’ was ever ok.

Jesse Bloom ca 2020-2023, apparently.

This whole thing is based on trying to rubbish phylogenetic evidence and epidemiology that robustly puts the emergence of SARS2 in Wuhan in late Nov/Early Dec at the Huanan Market. If leakers really thought this was wrong, why do they feel the need to invent a sequencing date?

It's just crazy how this entire viral story was because someone made up a sequencing date that wasn't true. And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it! When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....

We had all of the scientific arguments why this data didn't seem to fit right, and wasn't important for origins, but we never really considered the simpler solution that a well regarded white male scientist or two were just making something up!

Puzzled by the discrepancy, I emailed István Csabai, who had discovered the contaminating sequences. He told me that the January 2020 date was actually not something the Chinese scientists had told him, but something inferred from other information... ▫️6/9

🧵 Flo once again dismantling more bullshit from lab leak central. In this case an invented sequencing date of contaminated samples by ‘sleuths’ that Jesse Bloom bought into presumably because it allowed him to disengage his scientific faculties and run to full fat conspiracy theory.

You can literally set you watch by these clowns 6h is the average for the protofascist virologist (look at the rest of his feed) to screenshot. Living rent free indeed.

It is strange that little Tommy Twelvenames wants to believe that Lineker might be up to dodginess, when a good number of his entourage have convictions either for domestic violence or molesting underage girls.

2 grifting lab leaker hacks fighting over the merits of a third who they claim is now part of the cover up and is engaged in bioweapons research All getting a bit Peoples Front of Judea.

Waiting on Gojira in Lille. Venue sold out.

I wonder how thankful anyone with cancer, HIV, whose child has died of measles, or anyone who works in medicine or biomedical science is that your unqualified gifting ass is sitting in Bethesda doing the bidding of the worm-rotted Kennedy scion and antivaxxer-in-chief.

Budget has some of the dumbest measures. Instead of having the guts to bite the bullet of putting up the highest rate of tax, they maintain the freeze on the boundaries which hits the lower earners most.

But racially abusing them in a cuddly supportive way is fine…

"It's not that I've found God," Yaxley-Lennon’s mob encouraging members to go to church to stop UK becoming ‘fully Muslim’ The number of identifying (not necessarily practicing) Muslims stands at 6.5% of the population. ~8x fewer than those identifying as Christian www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... If I were Lisa Nandy I would block this on the grounds generating a monopoly on extreme right wing media and misinformation. And I would block any foreign buyer. And if the Telegraph goes to the wall and everyone is fired, so be it.

Amazing how far down the Mail/Express/Telegraph sites you have to go to find reference to jailing of welsh Reform leader Nathan Gill for shilling for Putin and Russian aggression in Ukraine whilst a MEP. Given their Putin-apologist stance, are we to believe no others in Reform are banking Roubles?

I remember when the notion of a bunch of muppets being in charge was viewed as a bad thing.

Time for Rutgers to bring in cognitive decline screening for faculty. I the week when MAGA conspiracist MTG starts to look sane, Richard Ebright reveals that he thinks a shadowy cabal of US and Chinese scientists released SC2 as a bioweapon as revenge for not getting their grant renewed.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... I guess the lockdown bought enough time form Pam and Kash to use their box of sharpies

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... "I don't worship or serve Donald Trump," she wrote in one post. "I worship God, Jesus is my savior, and I serve my district GA14 and the American people." You can criticize MTG for many, many things, but standing by her principles (a rarity in the GOP) is not one them

Except one specific person….

Epstein Ave? Windsor End?

If only there was something we could have done (or not done) that would have helped.

Ok, but which way? The newsroom has been run by tories for a few years. The BBC regularly platforms climate skeptics and anti science activists on equal parity with experts and data. Question Time/BBC News gives disproportionate time to Reform and not to parties that have more MPs Etc etc

Yes, the panorama edit was dumb, but it was (1) well after the fact and (2) doesn’t negate the fact that Trump and his cronies explicitly formented a traitorous insurrection against the US Capitol to try and overthrow a democratic election. As determined by congress. Confected Telegraph fury

The nerve of this POS trying to associate himself with the commemoration of those who sacrificed their lives for their countries, while he simultaneously represents the twisted ideology that they fought to defeat.

Remembering David Baltimore (1938–2025): Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex... Has anyone else had a more accomplished career modern biomedical science?

Callers on @mrjamesob.bsky.social all had the same impression as me. The Faragista/Mail headbangers were hoping the train attacker would be Muslim (pref an immigrant). Necessitating the police to say his ethnicity. The real story is likely to be how poor mental health capacity is for minorities

arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833 @zachhensel.bsky.social has revisited Bruttel et al’s preprint and shows why the analysis of RE sites in SARS2 was deeply flawed. Spoiler: the sites are natural, the pattern explicable by recombination & the authors stacked the deck omitting some seqs and duplicating others.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... The swivel-eyed loon has fired the guy who runs the FBI jet fleet because he was embarrassed about headlines he used FBI planes to go visit his girlfriend. He’s probably just found out that he’s only seeing one, and they weren’t twins.

New TACO joint opens in Beijing

SARS CoV-2 mRNA vaccines cause Turbo cancer….immunotherapy Yes, they help stimulate innate immunity in those undergoing checkpoint inhibitor therapy to improve outcome Like to see how grifters like Malhotra, Dalgleish, the BSNow crew and of course JayB/RFK spin this www.nature.com/articles/s41...

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/d... Really good conversation with @philippmarkolin.bsky.social on his book about the the science of COVID’s origin, then lab leak ‘hypothesis’ and its weaponisation by a bunch grifters associated with the MAGA movement and its equivalent in the UK

Yes, Farage is far more of a national socialist.

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... Great interview by @lewisgoodall.com with Neil Kinnock. As an 80’s child I remember that speech. I remember the ridicule that Kinnock was exposed to. But Lewis hit the nail on the head - agree with him or not, he would have been our nicest PM, and the best speaker

Poor Donnie. When you’ve suffered all your life to bring peace to the world and they give to a woman who promote democracy. Woke gone mad😂

When I was reporting in Sudan several years ago, a driver warned me not to tell government officials when I was leaving because the airport is where they stop and detain writers. So, yeah, this is a very bad sign. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Incredibly disturbing. An academic historian whose speciality is fascism faces death threats from MAGA and is blocked from boarding a plane by ‘someone’. Rutgers response: 🤷

2012 Nobel laureate John Gurdon has died. His work was central to both the development of animal cloning and the possibility of reprogramming cells to a different state. A giant of cell and developmental biology. www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...

The relentless Jessica McDonald has spent two weeks and hundreds of emails to fact check claims about the safety of #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy made at the #ACIP meeting. She couldn't have been any quicker. A lie can get around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.