Here are the top 5 dogs of the week!

another day,,, you should really start that blog today.

It has apparently got warmer, yet I am more comfortable.

Please sign this petition - now over 9k sigs - to stop the philistinic slashing of Humanities and Social Sciences staff at Exeter. #UCU #UKHE All solidarity with my brilliant friends and colleagues at @exeterucu.bsky.social

✨Upcoming Event ✨ Join our hybrid event marking 10 years on from the West African Ebola outbreak. Speakers will explore what has been learnt, not learnt and unlearnt since the outbreak and what it means for the current outbreak in #DRC. 🗓️ Full details 👉 bit.ly/4aGTYPd

Some say Rodents Of Unusual Size (R.O.U.S.'s) don't exist in the Fire Swamps, but they certainly exist on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. Let's meet the cloudwalkers, the shy tree-dwelling rats of Luzon & adjacent islands in the chain. (📷: St. Louis Zoo)

"Unlike the earlier funding needs estimate of $518 million, given on June 5 as part of a joint plan with the ​World Health Organization, the new figure includes money needed for humanitarian ​relief measures." www.reuters.com/business/hea...

I wonder if "prompt engineering", "vibe coding" etc will start to use standardised vocabulary and syntax...

"The persistence of these misconceptions matters because clinicians and the public alike may expect Ebola to look dramatic from the outset, when in reality its early manifestations often resemble many other common infectious diseases." www.statnews.com/2026/06/26/t...

Real-time epidemic intelligence in a public health emergency: the 2026 Bundibugyo virus outbreak Massive collaboration between multiple international health agencies, the national public health institute, and research groups. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... inrb-umie.github.io/BDBV2026-Epi...

Recruiting a postdoc to join my lab at @lshtm.bsky.social to work in an MRC porgramme grant funded project to dissect the gut colonziation by Klebsiella. In vivo and in vitro models, and new approaches to identify Klebsiella factors involved. jobs.lshtm.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx...

New Comment Can stochastic modelling predict cross-border spread of the Bundibugyo Ebola virus outbreak in Africa? www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

New Research Size of the 2026 Ebola outbreak and risk of cross-border spillover from Bundibugyo virus in Ituri Province, DR Congo, and its implications for preparedness: a recalibrated stochastic modelling study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

I especially love this diagram.

Gonna be honest the SoftBank goose has really made my week. It’s so funny. It’s a perfect monument to the business idiots and what they imagine AI could be for no imaginable reason other than their willingness to be regulated by the wallet inspector. It’s indefensibly stupid.

There’s currently 30% off all shirts in my Redbubble shop right now which is good news as you’ve probably sweated through all of yours and it’s either buy more or do the laundry. www.redbubble.com/people/docha...

I have no idea if this story is real or not but it’s funny either way

"In the event of an extreme heatwave, relax and turn up the air-con. Don’t worry about your electricity bills – more fracking will sort them out. And if fracking makes climate change worse and there are more heatwaves, just turn the air-con up another notch." novaramedia.com/2026/06/25/c...

Many people on BlueSky seem to get super defensive when anyone expresses scepticism about the value of A/C to mitigate climate change driven heatwaves. Why the touchiness?

New research article Dual β-lactam therapy against high-risk #Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates: a dynamic in-vitro infection model study integrating population genomics with quantitative systems pharmacology modelling and simulations www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... #IDSky #ClinMicro #AMR

The St. Louis Zoo has a dedicated penguin elevator for transporting their Formal Chickens™ to behind-the-scenes areas where they can get medical checkups, enrichment activities. Kicking myself for becoming a LAB biologist when I could have been a Penguin Elevator operator. (📷: St. Louis Zoo)

Nom nom nom #sqrlpix

Berries for breakfast with the Squirrel of the Day for June 25, 2026 #sqrlpix

This is so fascinating. There's so much I didn't know. youtu.be/13zQVPW9LjU?...

It's funny how the US right is still discovering that facts don't care about your feelings... theconversation.com/the-military...

"In the midst of an ongoing public health response against BDBV, this study provides supportive, albeit not conclusive, immunogenicity evidence that may be critical in determining the potential utility of the rVSV-EBOV vaccine..." wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...

Would ChatGPT recommend hiring you? It depends on your age and gender according to new research on stereotypes in online text and images and in LLMs go.nature.com/4xSTCPm

"Research shows in the five decades between 1950 and 1999, Europe endured five intense heatwaves. Between 2000 and 2021, there were 18 such heatwaves. Add to that the extreme heatwaves of 2022, 2023 and 2025, and this figure rises to more than 20 severe heatwaves in just 25 years."

This is one of the dumbest and saddest things I've ever seen. We should not think of universities in this way, and if we do that'll destroy everything that is both useful and good about them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Not infrequently, something I publish is met with "but we know this" despite there being a lack of literature to back up that assertion. I just don't know what to say to these people. Feeling something in your water isn't a good basis for policy etc.

Carl Sagan would be proud

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The heatwave hysterics were a daily thing back in '76, they even created a minister for drought. And doubtless the Telegraph, Mail and Express were the most hysterical. Anyone with the means to dig out the headlines of the time???

Trillionaires don't last long it seems www.bloomberg.com/billionaires/

Andy Burnham is already pulling out of events where he knows @zackpolanski.bsky.social is going to show up - our PM-in-waiting is terrified of scrutiny! By @willem-moore.bsky.social

People should read more books...

Out of all the things I've posted on BlueSky, this has created the most irritation. It's funny the things that people find "triggering".

New: the tokenpocalypse is here, companies scrambling to stop spending so much on AI. I got leaked audio from consulting giant Accenture showing AI token spend/'chewing' is not from supercharged engineers. It's non-technical workers converting PDFs to presentations! www.404media.co/the-tokenpoc...

People supporting the use of A/C don't get what Central London is like, in particular. Central London is built like a kiln, so the heat is reflected up at you and retained in your surroundings as well as beaming down from above. Adding A/C would just pump more heat into that environment.

Squirrel of the Day for June 24, 2026 in fighting (?) stance #sqrlpix #elbowsup

WHO presser: - Capacity for Ebola response increased to 500 ETCs and 2k tests/d - remdesivir and mAb trial starting next week, led by consortium - also next week, financial reporting coming, including funds received - ~80 HCWs infected, including someone returned to France

The new, heavily redacted ODNI report from Tulsi Gabbard claiming that Dr. Fauci is to blame for COVID cites—and this is real—a press release from Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vax conspiracy-promoting group founded by Robert Kennedy Jr.

While the government collapses, kids are fainting in classrooms and workers are sweltering. It's time to heatproof Britain: 1⃣ Heatproofing for every home that needs it 2⃣Cooling measures for schools, hospitals and care homes 3⃣ A maximum workplace temperature limit.

Something to read while we wait for Villeneuve's third film: 'It is rare for 42-page Papal Encyclicals to capture the imagination of chronically online Leftists, but this case was special (...) the Pope had, with Magnifica Humanitas, finally declared the ‘Butlerian Jihad.’' (via The Browser)

This spot-on prediction of the future of the reflecting pool was published one month ago.

Hydration break

It might be a good idea if the @metoffice.gov.uk could start labelling heatwaves with the names of prominent politicians rejecting the climate science consensus. First up: Richard Tice.