@teni.bsky.social don't seem to use their bsky account so I'm posting this over here from their facebook because people should see it: one of the first things our new President Connolly did last week was write the community a letter for TDOR 🏳️‍⚧️ www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=...

Washington state resident dies of new H5N5 form of bird flu

Wicked For Good? I think it would be WICKED GOOD if you would GO TO THE POLLS!

Kennedy Says He Told C.D.C. to Change Website’s Language on Autism and Vaccines www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/u...

Presidents past and present 🇮🇪 President Connolly was joined at the Áras by her predecessors Mary McAleese, Michael D Higgins and Mary Robinson.

Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine

Flu is spiking up unusually early this year. The chart below shows hospital admissions, compared to six recent flu seasons. Other indicators like flu test positivity paint the same picture. From today's @ukhsa.bsky.social surveillance update: www.gov.uk/government/s...

"I'm making billions, and, if it fails, taxpayers will bail me out"

He was a terrible person. Many scientists knew this and still named buildings after him, still invited him to conference dinners. They should be reminded of this now.

Every year we get closer to this happening on the news

So it wasn't fireworks. It was a calculated and deliberate attempt at the mass murder of men, women and children. www.thetimes.com/article/0887...

Justice Minister confirms arson attack on IPAS building in Drogheda last night. "Fireworks were thrown into the building, causing a fire and putting lives at risk. This was a terrifying ordeal for the women and children living there, a number of whom were taken to hospital." (1/2)

Firefighters rescued five people, including three children under ten, from the top floor of an Ipas centre in Drogheda last night after a major fire. Gardaí have preserved the scene while the cause of the blaze is investigated. www.thejournal.ie/fire-ipsa-ce...

The White House plans to bar hospitals that treat transgender children and youth from getting any Medicare and Medicaid payments. The move would affect trans youth who have private insurance, too. n.pr/4qFa1mY

"When Google and Amazon negotiated a major $1.2bn cloud-computing deal in 2021, their customer – the Israeli government – had an unusual demand: agree to use a secret code as part of an arrangement that would become known as the “winking mechanism”." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Monstrous. news.sky.com/story/tens-o...

BREAKING: Catherine Connolly has won the 10th Irish #PresidentialElection by a landslide margin of 63%.

The Taoiseach is not coming to Dublin Castle for the official declaration of Catherine Connolly's victory in the presidential election. Whether intended or not, it's going to look very confrontational for the head of government NOT to be there to congratulate the new head of state

Nice

We knew this would happen. Note how realistic the visuals and voices are. This AI deepfake video of Catherine Connolly ‘withdrawing’ from presidential contest and that Friday’s poll is ‘cancelled’ is live and viral on Facebook tonight. 1000s watching, commenters believing it.

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

Study after study shows that it's remarkably cheap and easy to solve the problems of homelessness and poverty with low-barrier supportive housing and universal basic income, but our own fear that someone, somewhere will get something they didn't "earn" keeps us looking for other (punitive) options.

Really important NYT investigation finds that the ADF has been working with Reform, 'courting the party since at least 2024' and that the British arm 'orchestrated Mr Farage’s appearance in Congress, reaching out to ask if he would like to give evidence on censorship' www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

Gentle reminder…the Special Criminal Court was opposed trenchantly and for compelling reasons by Mary Robinson before she became President; its continued existence has been criticised by the UN Human Rights Committee, UN Special Rapporteurs, the Irish Human Rights & …

It doesn’t get more on the nose that the landlord paying you back 16 years late for the rent he stole with no penalty or interest or even a few bob to compensate you for the trouble and stress. Jim Gavin is a Fianna Fáil man to his core, I can see why Micheál Martin picked him.

A new Nature Medicine study analyzing health records from >100 million people in the US offers compelling evidence that reactivation of varicella-zoster virus (VZV) ,the same virus that causes chickenpox and shingles may contribute to dementia risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Fianna Fáil's candidate Jim Gavin has announced he is withdrawing from the Presidential Election "with immediate effect"

Even if it actually said "Teachta Dála" rather than just the two letters "T.D."! And "Former Leas-Cheann Comhairle of Dáil Éireann" is right there.

Weak and disappointing. "Elon Musk’s contribution to the ‘Unite the Kingdom’ rally is an example of a growing tendency towards the use of the language of violence, and narratives of division and polarisation."

New HIV transmissions can be ended, but political will is needed, according to voluntary organisation HIV Ireland.

It doesn't matter if you're into food and restaurants, this is a must-read on the importance of fact-checking and subject-matter experts (and a mini exposé on how a particular food enterprise in Dublin is capitalising on its absence in Irish media). www.allthefood.ie/single-post/...

The lab github is here: github.com/mol-evol/ so you can get an idea of what we have been working on recently (several projects are private at the moment, so this will be bigger soon) and the job ad is here: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOU184/p...

Blogged about how zstd --long fills the gap between fast and slow-but-high-ratio genome compression methods log.bede.im/2025/09/12/z...

Constraints on chromosome evolution revealed by the 229 chromosome pairs of the Atlas blue butterfly "...it has 227 pairs of autosomes and four sex chromosomes" 😮 www.cell.com/current-biol...

Andrew is definitely putting Paudie in a home after this #TraitorsIRL

Only 10 years ago there was an outpouring of grief for this little boy and refugees were seen, for a while, as human beings. Less than a decade to get to racist mobs try to burn down hotels and racist dog whistles routinely used by a so called Labour Prime Minister. Remember little Alan Kurdi 💔

Obsessed with Diane! #TraitorsIrl

British baby dies from whooping cough as vaccination rates fall

How can entry level workers get experience and move up the ladder when the bottom of the ladder is being cut off due to AI for the sake of cost-cutting? www.wired.com/story/stanfo...

🗓 Pathoplexus turns ONE! 🎂🎉 In the past year we’ve grown from 4 pathogens to a truly global, community-driven platform for transparent, equitable & impactful pathogen sequence sharing. 📰 Read the full update: pathoplexus.org/news/2025-08... 1/10

@alanrice.ie et al. compared variation in expression of dosage-sensitive and nondosage-sensitive genes to investigate whether dosage-sensitive genes evade expression constraints through tissue-specific regulatory variation. 🔗 doi.org/10.1093/gbe/evaf132 #genome #evolution #genexpression

So glad this work is published🥳 Highlight article written by @evopaa.bsky.social: Dosage-Sensitive Genes “Thread the Needle” of Selection doi.org/10.1093/gbe/... Evolution of Dosage-Sensitive Genes by Tissue-Restricted Expression Changes @genomebiolevol.bsky.social academic.oup.com/gbe/article/...

Sex-reversal in birds (genetically male/female but appear female/male) is surprisingly common. Best detail: A genetically male bird called a laughing kookaburra had recently laid an egg. (1/2) By @phiejacobs.bsky.social on @science.org

🦠 New paper led by James Horton (feat. J Cherry & @gretelwaugh.bsky.social) reveals GnT DNA motif can boost T→A mutation rates up to 1000×, & how tweaking nearby bases can fine-tune its potency. General across bacteria + potential in synbio. 📄 academic.oup.com/mbe/advance-ar… 🔗 James’s thread ⬇️

2020-2024: Jay Bhattacharya says mRNA vaccines are inferior to “natural immunity,” encourages everyone to get Covid, and cashes in by implying vaccines are dangerous & don’t work 2025: Jay Bhattacharya says the public doesn’t trust mRNA vaccines because of all the lies he told them

"In the new ... internet, girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month." — @thedextriarchy.bsky.social www.theverge.com/internet-cen...