Search "Leucovorin Autism" on Google Scholar, and the results look shall we say "niche". Disturbing.

here’s the clip of someone saying “you’re an idiot,” as Levi — one of RFK Jr’s handpicked vaccine advisers — suggests other scientists are being overconfident about vaccine safety data

When a manuscript has serious concerns raised about its scientific validity and integrity, it should be carefully examined, particularly when it’s being used to justify anti-vax quackery.

TGIF! I had a wild evening finishing my recap and criticism of this week's chaotic and unbearably stupid ACIP meeting. open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

They are, however, potentially an opportunity to hold publicly to account - but not if there's no solidarity in the press corps.

This is depressing: Quarter of UK university physics departments at risk of closing, survey finds www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Now here is my summary of the ACIP meeting itself. 1. The chair permitted people to present harmful misinformation about vaccines throughout the entire meeting. 2. Retsef Levi and several other members appear to have no understanding of basic public health principles and IMO should be removed.

Wonderful to have physicist Alberto Vecchio back on the programme to talk about black hole merger #GW250124, the clearest yet, and what it says about Hawking's theories. I thought it would be tough, but Alberto makes it a joy. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

"Who knows were science will flourish most highly a hundred years from now? Perhaps in Japan; perhaps in China. We know nothing about these things.” Niels Bohr in 1933 after hearing it suggested that US science would reign supreme in a few years.

And no gene editing

TFW the UK #NHS COVID vaccine policy looks indistinguishable from RFKjr's.

I saw this image yesterday & haven't stopped thinking about it. A healthy lung, the lung of a 14-year-old boy with chronic exposure to air pollution, and a smoker's lung. Report comes out tomorrow, bringing together peer-reviewed research on fossil fuels & health us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Oh no! I didn’t know this. How rubbish.

Keep Science in action on the air. Kill one (or more) of the jokey juvenile science shows instead.

After a call from an acquaintance re 3I/Atlas, realising the world needs more solid reporting like Science in Action, and less youtube boll*X. Sadly it's Science in Action the BBC is cancelling, as unscientific disinfo surges.

“We need VAERS. We need robust vaccine safety monitoring. But we also need leaders who understand the difference between an early warning system and proof of causation.” open.substack.com/pub/theunbia...

Turns out the rise of germ theory was more complicated than the one liners we usually hear about Snow and Koch ... of course. The travails are interesting and relevant.

⚒️ 🧪 The situation in Afghanistan is dire following the M6 earthquake on August 31st. More than 2,200 people have died; reports indicate that 65% of buildings in the region were destroyed. Meanwhile, satellite imaging has begun to reveal both devastation and scientific details about the quake.

One health response to global poultry production In the last 20 years, global poultry farming nearly doubled, from around 17 billion chickens and other poultry birds in 2002 to 28 billion in 2022, a steady increase of about half a billion chickens and other poultry birds per year (FAO 2023). 1/x

Starts soon #EPSC2025

No martian bacterial shit on BBC Science in Action this week. Instead we've stuck to a diet of small-body stories from #EPSC-DPS2025 planetary science in Helsinki this week: first science from Asteroid DonaldJohansen; watching 3IAtlas the wrong side of the Sun; China joins the Apophis 2029 flotilla.

Never is.

FWIW. It's not life. I have it on good authority. It's interesting. But it's not life. #NASA #MARS #PERSEVERENCE

Looking forward to reading this.

Turning its back on an 8 decade deal brokered by Vannevar Bush that helped make the US the dominant nation. A point I also tried to make in my recent BBC radio documentary. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

This sort of modelling is obviously quite uncertain, but overwhelmingly it shows that vaccines have a massive saving in economic terms. The COVID-19 vaccines may have been the best investment that humanity ever made!

More people will see Apophis fly by in 2029, with the naked eye, than saw Armstrong step onto the Moon in 1969, Rick Binzel tells #EPSC2025

Note my quote-skeet of the event. My location was slightly off (there are other small landslides in the valley I found) but the story is still the same….i just don’t understand how the death toll could be more than a couple of dozen at most

Interesting

. @pavementgeology.bsky.social A *rockery* that labels all the imported plants, but none of the local Baltic rocks. ☹️

And here’s confirmation from @WHO: “Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have declared an outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Kasai Province where 28 suspected cases and 15 deaths, including four health workers, have been reported as of 4 September 2025.” #IDsky 🧪

This week's earthquake in Afghanistan leads BBC Science in Action today, with Zakeria @Shnizaii (on the other side) sharing his knowledge of the vulnerabilities in the mountainous region. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Wasps are still collecting wood fibres to expand their nests along #DiggerAlley @rspbminsmere.bsky.social @waspwoman.bsky.social

On The Climate Brink, I write about the DOE report and our response.

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out. Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

Only just saw this - looks super interesting.

But this just came out - www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

"Be proud of your country" they keep saying. And then shame us all like this.

Yes, it was carefully hidden in the New England Journal of Medicine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine (www.nejm.org/doi/pdf/10.1... ) 1/2

I reckon the MetOffice doesn't have a rain gauge where I've added that black dot, but my plants are saying they haven't had 50% of normal rainfall.

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Going to try bottling some of my over abundance of pears.

The Davy Medal 2025 is awarded to Professor Andrew Cooper FRS for creating innovative digital approaches to chemistry that combine first-principles computational chemistry, autonomous robots and artificial intelligence. #RSMedals https://royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/davy-medal/

1984: "Ignorance is Strength"

RFKjr's war on health already taking a toll.

Small worlds networks take on the spread of activism after the storming of Bastille, "the great fear", an epidemiology of rumors with an R0 of 1.5, and education a susceptibility factor. Item 1 in Science in Action today. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w...

Some watery relief ... it's been a long wait.

We are happy to announce that the Royal Society's Copley Medal 2025 is awarded to Professor Sir John Pendry FRS for work on the concept and designs of metamaterials that represent the greatest advance in electromagnetism since Faraday and Maxwell. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-p...

Patterns in the sky