If you’ve been following the RFK Jr autism news, then you’ve probably heard that there’s a systematic review “proving” Tylenol causes autism. Here’s my review of that paper👇🏼 open.substack.com/pub/epiellie...

Wow ! Not peer reviewed yet, but sounds amazing.

Is it really *that hard* to say that it is totally morally wrong to say to people who have come here legally, worked, paid taxes, built their lives here, contributed to Britain, that they have to fuck off now, rather than "unfunded".

Please take a look at this @lisasmartmp.bsky.social

In London, hate will never win.

Outbreaks of dengue are killing thousands in South America each year and is getting worse. Brazil hopes to turn the tide with a vaccine and an army of mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria. These lower the odds mosquitoes can transmit the virus to humans. 🧪🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Outbreaks of dengue are killing thousands of people in South America each year and getting worse. Brazil hopes to turn the tide with a home-grown vaccine and an army of mosquitoes infected with Wolbachia bacteria. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Good things happening alert: Field School is running our 5th annual Drag n’ Tag event (drag queens+shark research). We run this event to raise funds for local LGBTQ+ youth org Pridelines. Enjoy these photos and donate to support their work here! donate.misselasmo.org/event/drag-n...

It’s deeply concerning that such huge harm can be done to public health by opportunistic contrarians with no understanding of - how mRNA vaccines work, what T cell exhaustion is, or cancer epidemiology trends - but can spin them all into a word salad to hoodwink the gullible…

Gary Lineker on winning the National TV Award, "It's not lost on me why I might have won this award" "Aside from presenting Match of the Day.." "Also, I think it demonstrates that perhaps it's ok sometimes to use our platform to speak up on behalf of those who have no voice"

Motion 07 Supreme Court ruling – active support for trans and non-binary workers – TUC Congress Motions congress.tuc.org.uk/motion-07-su...

I am here to say vaccines are awesome because guess what Denmark is close to completely eliminating the two most dangerous HPV strains (serotype 16 and 18) and with the cervical cancer.I think that is bloody AMAZING!!!! bit.ly/4pbHxjT

Malhotra has been working with MAHA which with Kennedy is systematically limiting vaccine access in States. Why did reform give him this platform? Might MAHA actions be in their sights for the UK? I really hope that is not the case

I read the headline and was super skeptical…but…. BIOLOGY OF ANTS BE CRAZY

A bizarre dogma has emerged among the anti-mRNA crowd that the only data we have on vaccines is from the original trial papers, rather than the HUGE volume of studies that came out subsequently...

“There is significant concern in the global health community about the misinformation and the reduction in funding that is now available for global vaccine initiatives.” Professor Tom Fletcher spoke to the BBC News Channel today about vaccine-preventable disease outbreaks.

This, from the Quakers, is worth reading. It's a serene, confident, utter rebuke of the hate and fear that's peddled by Sex Matters. The last two pages are smokin'. If you're on the wrong side of the Quakers, you really need to sit down and have a good chat with yourself.

My group at is hiring a PhD student to explore how fungal pathogens that live in the environment will adapt their genomes, acquire new phenotypes, and perhaps even increased infectivity as a result of climate change. Please share! More info and applications at @ jobs.uni-jena.de/vrbup

On the plus side, the figures for the number of people made ill by drinking raw milk are going to go way down.

"Is your air fryer experiencing feelings of doubt?" "Has your electric toothbrush expressed interest in enrolling on an evening course?" "Are your noise-cancelling headphones refusing to acknowledge their violent past?" "4 signs that your cordless vacuum cleaner is questioning its sexuality"

Oh my. Dr. @angierasmussen.bsky.social looks into the BC ostrich story, with devastating effect: Follow the Bird Flu Ostrich Antibody Money open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

'Immigration doesn't bother me but it seems to bother everyone else' – Everyone. This is what happens when the media runs away with Hard Right narratives.

Hey Bsky, I’m Luís, a 🇵🇹 disease ecologist in Vancouver 🇨🇦 I study the drama between hosts 🪱🦟 and parasites 🦠 - who wins, who loses, and which cards get played - and why it matters for evolution & health. Always up for collabs, chats & making science fairer ✨ Say hi 👉 luis-m-silva.com #AcademicSky

Every now and then I ask this. Does anyone remember the name of a 1970s British children’s book (for 8-12yo) in which a girl lives in a house surrounded by Bronze Age barrows? Think like Alan Garner, but not him. Almost definitely a Puffin book.

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

Not even one attempt to challenge the lie that asylum seekers are by definition a threat to women - those views are simply beamed out without context or challenge.

This is the best product listing copy I’ve ever read

This is such a preventable tragedy. Diphtheria used to kill thousands of children each year in the UK, but vaccination was introduced in the 1940s and the disease was wiped out by the 1960s. With the will and the money we could do that everywhere.

Dear Bluesky, some good news to brighten your day! We are recruiting for the Director of the Centre for Population and Disease Genomics!! I would be grateful if you could share across your networks! uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/uqcareers/jo...

Love this

Hey #microbiome folks :) What’s the current best approach to quantify absolute abundance of fungi in a sample? qPCR of a certain gene (not ITS due to variable/high copy number)? Spike-in before extraction with a known alien-fungus cell count? Thank you!

We have a small number of vacancies on Warwick Life Sciences BSc courses via clearing, for applicants with A*-A grades. We offer awesome UG life sciences teaching! Students can get in touch via our clearing hotline on +44 (0)2476 533 544 warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/life...

Oropouche virus is a lesser-known tropical infection that’s been spreading across Central and South America in recent years. It's carried by midges, although not those found in the UK or wider Europe. Full details in our travel health news story: www.gov.uk/government/n...

I could not be more excited to have received this wonderful opportunity.

To all post-docs: The Genome Biology dept ‪@embl.org has an Independent faculty position. Fantastic place to set up your lab –great package: core funding, fantastic Ph.D. students, cutting edge core facilities & great colleagues. Closing date Sept 19th embl.wd103.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/EMBL/j...

OK, so I’m a public health professor who wrote a book about youth football safety and who teaches about vaccines and misinformation… Actually, I’m just speechless.

a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel

Letter of the day (in the Times)

WHO officially validated Kenya for eliminating human African trypanosomiasis (HAT) as a public health threat—making it the 10th country to reach this major milestone. Read more: bit.ly/45r3KkK

I realize broad science-literacy problems cannot generally be solved just by shoving more facts at people but I really wish more people understood that the entire purpose and mechanism of a vaccine is to educate your OWN immune system, making it about the most "natural" medical intervention possible

“In the heart of Illinois, while researching wildlife disease, I made a discovery that stunned me: More than half of the raccoons I sampled were infected with Trypanosoma cruzi, the parasite that causes Chagas’ disease… It’s here, in the United States, spreading silently in wildlife.”

So we have this database for wildlife disease surveillance, and we made a data standard, and an R and Python package to help you clean your data, and two years in we just still cannot get first adopters, so here’s my new bit: I will personally Venmo you $20 of my personal money to share a dataset

A drug that makes human blood lethal to mosquitoes also acts as a potent contact insecticide absorbed through the feet, providing a promising new approach to combating insecticide resistance. Read more: lstm.ac/47pHgTM Read the full paper: lstm.ac/4ooTRwH

Received this in the post today. My friend James Bacon has written what I feel is quite an important book. limitbreakcomics.com/comics/irish...

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

RFKJr’s gradual elimination of vaccines in USA is continuing and gathering pace as 22 federal contracts for mRNA-based vaccines being terminated including late stage research for bird flu vaccine #ImmunoSky 🧪🧵

This is very good. This is a man writing about being a man in the way Caitlin Moran writes about being a woman, and I mean that as great compliment.

This is brilliant The largest language model anyone could ever need - with apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan stroppyeditor.wordpress.com/2025/07/29/t...