www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... Imagine if this drone tech fail happened during drone-assisted warfare- or maybe it does?

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. (Published May 2025)

If Pope wants to warn the world about AI, he shouldn’t cosy up with Anthropic

Commencement speakers who bring up the sweeping changes that artificial intelligence is driving are facing boos from the Class of 2026. n.pr/4tNKQ1E

Canadian academics, I am coming your way for a conference in Vancouver in October - let me know if you’d like to catch up!

Remember the doctor helping him, GBD author Martin Kulldorff, made $$$ trying to sue HPV vaccine.

www.smh.com.au/sport/motors... A ‘sinus cold’ apparently killed this man

Have you seen what the Library of Babel are up to? If you're in education and not already involved, definitely worth having a look - they're doing some solid resistance work

Many people with MCS and Long COVID experience similar challenges — including healthcare dismissal. Check out the latest episode from The Chemical Sensitivity Podcast with Deborah Lupton, PhD. Listen now: www.chemicalsensitivitypodcast.org/1970633/epis...

We're exploring what people with MCS and Long COVID often share. Healthcare invalidation. Abandonment from family and friends. Social isolation. Check out the Chemical Sensitivity Podcast. You'll hear Aaron Goodman in conversation with Deborah Lupton, PhD.

New article out - what do Australians think and feel about the environmental impacts of #GenAI? #sociology #environment #communication #DataCentres www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Having now read the book excerpt in Wired, it's clear that the bullshit is layered pretty thick with this one. It's also clear that Gen Z aren't the problem; it's the people of my generation serving up this stuff.

Hands up if you are a university lecturer being told by your leadership that you must teach your students how to use genAI - but you really don’t want to, as you know they useless and harmful

"The proliferation of references to fake articles threatens to undermine the legitimacy of institutional research across the board" -- by Miles Klee www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 1/🧵

By tern: If you don't agree that covid infections can weaken your ability to fight infections, you are a science denialist. You are denying fact. You are denying reality. Covid infections can weaken your immune system. This is simple fact. This is established science. x.com/1goodtern/st...

"It’s a bizarro world when demanding killing stops makes you the racist." — Nasser Mashni, APAN President

Aren’t you all glad you listened to the TV doctors and infected your kids with every virus going as much as humanly possible?

Get your vaccines and boosters, people. We don’t want these deadly diseases of old coming back

The president’s mental health is a global crisis.

OUR NEW BMJ editorial: Andes virus should reset WHO’s default approach to airborne risk. 🧵 1/ For severe pathogens with person-to-person transmission, the starting point should be precautionary airborne protections — not waiting for definitive proof after spread occurs. www.bmj.com/content/393/...

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

When we say medical misogyny kills people, this is the shit we mean.

Hantavirus dashboard: www.arcgis.com/apps/dashboa... #Hantavirus

Hantavirus Definitely Probably Not A Serious Threat Maybe

IMO one of the biggest challenges with hantavirus right now is the fact that the wholly unqualified individual currently in charge of HHS rose to undeserved prominence by repeatedly promoting the idea that individual rights are more important than protecting the public’s health.

Nothing says “restoring trust in public health” more than having a right-wing economist who has never practiced medicine in charge of the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control. You can really tell he has literally never treated a single patient or a single infectious disease.

“Hantavirus outbreak shows we haven’t learned the lesson of SARS-1 or COVID-19” healthydebate.ca/2026/05/topi... @jvipondmd.bsky.social @dickzoutman.bsky.social @kashprime.bsky.social

"US citizens tests mildly positive for hantavirus"

NEGLIGENCE

Hantavirus: 12 Radboud hospital workers to quarantine due to slack safety measures. nltimes.nl/2026/05/11/h...

New open access article looks at how the critical humanities literature on GenAI can contribute depth to #sociology. Referencing the great work of people like Julia Velkova @melhogan.bsky.social @zgtcooper.bsky.social Patrick Brodie and more compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Latest in my handcrafted AI critical collaging series

It’s alarming that someone completely unqualified is in charge of the U.S.'s leading health & research agencies (CDC and NIH). His strategy for handling outbreaks is to dismiss experienced staff, take no action and allow infections to spread. We will never forget his approach to the #COVID pandemic.

I totally agree with Prof Lupton's long list of reasons to reject generative AI. It's morally corrupt, unsustainable, dangerous, biased, and suffocates intellectual rigour. All to make a handful of obscenely wealthy men even richer.

I'm still waiting for "We got a lot of things very wrong about COVID, and we understand that this has badly damaged trust. We have learned important lessons and are doing things differently now. For example, this time we're implementing the precautionary principle and taking airborne precautions."

Why doesn’t WHO just default to airborne precautions? An N95 is so much better than a baggy blue at blocking transmission. But, no, they (and we) learned nothing from COVID.

Public health messaging we need to hear: "We acknowledge that we were wrong about COVID not being airborne. We've learned from that. We no longer assume the same with new outbreaks and we employ the precautionary principle until we have clear evidence that airborne mitigations are not required."

If you are a scholar who wants to contribute to your discipline & improve the world, you defo must not use LLMs to check your spelling. We had tools for that. How to write? Practice, writing workshops, check with colleagues. Prof. Lupton summarises it perfectly here 🙏🏼 bsky.app/profile/dalu...

The problem with asking people nicely to self isolate if they get sick… even if the disease only transmits after symptoms is… Some of them won’t. And for HCIDs, it irresponsible to just let a few through. 30% plus death rate? Not good.

"Should I start masking again because of #hantavirus?" It's been a wise preventive behavior to mask the past 6 years. The U.S. has twice annual COVlD waves. We've dipped into a "lull" after the 12th wave this winter, but we're still at 180,000 estimated new daily infections.

I made a map showing the approximate path of the MV Hondius – the centre of a hantavirus outbreak. I’ve added the travel paths of contacts, estimated in some cases. 🧵

This is a longer exposure than the flight attendant who turned out to have much briefer contact than I thought. Both cases interesting to follow.

When I asked, my friend, the historian of medicine for her thoughts on a potential hantavirus pandemic she thought for a moment and then replied: you know it's not every president who gets the chance to catastrophically fuck up two pandemics.

It would be good if the experience of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic had resulted in an updated procedure for communicating about outbreaks. Brief thoughts on what still happens vs. what would be better for rebuilding trust in public health. 🧵

I just saw this post yesterday from sociologist @dalupton.bsky.social and it's the perfect response to anyone who claims they "didn't know." simplysociology.wordpress.com/2026/05/08/w...

If all the news about the hantavirus outbreak has you searching for something you can do: wear a mask; and if this passes and it turns out you don’t need it to protect yourself from a hantavirus pandemic, it will still protect you from the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.