My latest update on nextgen Covid vaccines is a whopper, in part thanks to catching up with a new vax tracker: - Trial results for 2 vaxes - 3 new clinical trials - 26 preclinical reports Highlights follow....1/2 Now @plos.org: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/06/a... #Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

My latest update on nextgen Covid vaccines is a whopper, in part thanks to catching up with a new vax tracker: - Trial results for 2 vaxes - 3 new clinical trials - 26 preclinical reports Highlights follow....1/2 Now @plos.org: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/11/06/a... #Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

Oh my! I didn't realize the Australian CDC already has a website: cdc.gov.au 🎉 It's technically the interim CDC, as it's only due in January 2026 (if all goes to plan). www.cdc.gov.au/about/about-...

PubMed had some disruption in adding records this week, apparently recovering on Wednesday with over 9,800 records in one day. But if you have a Plan B for critical searches, maybe start using it... 1/2 Chart data: New daily records 2024/25. Some dip on weekends is normal. bit.ly/42MfAFM #MedLibs

Always worth reading @hildabast.bsky.social This time on a possible @bsky.app to Mastodon migration Network effects Fediverse The Academic addiction to @altmetric.bsky.social Much more thoughtful discussion absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/10/30/a... #AcademicSky

Following the recent ominous Bluesky controversies got me thinking about how a Bluesky exodus would play out. So I dug into the studies of the 2022 Mastodon migration from Twitter: I found 14 studies. Here's my new post @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/10/30/a... #Mastodon #Fediverse

LinkedIn's default permission for using your data for AI kicks in on November 3. Here's where to switch it off on your account: > Settings & Privacy → Data privacy → Data for Generative AI Improvement tuta.com/blog/linkedi...

First rose of the season! 😍 It's a deeply perfumed hybrid tea rose. Bliss! (It's the Elle rose from Meilland.) #BloomScrolling

Well, that's one good thing! PubMed still tracking as usual. New records each day this year during shutdown compared to last year. (Dips for weekends.) Data for chart: bit.ly/42MfAFM Background including data source: hildabastian.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/t...

"I'm NOT cynical." Stella Marrs, Riot Grrl.

Just back from ...um... Hammerbarn, I guess. 🤣 Australia is Bluey's world now, we're just living in it. 💙

Tracking Shutdown Impact and Changes at PubMed There's been some panic about PubMed again, since a notice on the website warned it could be out of date because of the US government shutdown. Shutdown is dreadful, in so many ways. But that notice doesn't mean PubMed has been de-funded, or that it's…

Jasmine bursting out all over, and it is glorious! 😍 #BloomScrolling

Thread of things I'm learning as I read The Discovery of Insulin by Michael Bliss

Early spring in my garden! This, plus an excess of snow peas in my veggie patches. 😍 #BloomScrolling

A big month for progress on mucosal Covid vaccines! - A 35th mucosal vax in clinical trial - Encouraging preclinical results for intranasal self-amplifying mRNA vax from Spain Nextgen Covid vax update @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/09/30/t... ....1/2 #Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

A big month for progress on mucosal Covid vaccines! - A 35th mucosal vax in clinical trial - Encouraging preclinical results for intranasal self-amplifying mRNA vax from Spain Nextgen Covid vax update @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/09/30/t... ....1/2 #Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

Hard to compete with the glorious elegance of tulips in spring, but hoo boy, the fragrance and lasting power of freesias are overtaking them now! 😍 #BloomScrolling

Time spent scritching animals is not deducted from your lifespan

Editing Wikipedia can be as simple as correcting a comma — these little edits all add up and contribute to openly accessible information. Check out this great intro to 'micro-editing' ⬇️

Want to be able to start micro-editing on Wikipedia in a few minutes – and know why you could be very glad you did? Then my new post @plos.org is just what you need! absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/09/21/w... #Wikipedia

Want to be able to start micro-editing on Wikipedia in a few minutes – and know why you could be very glad you did? Then my new post @plos.org is just what you need! absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/09/21/w... #Wikipedia

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

This hits pretty hard, from the chair of the UN commission on Gaza www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

RIP Drummond Rennie, @jama.com dy editor The @retractionwatch.com has a nice set of quotes from him - worth a read retractionwatch.com/2025/09/15/d...

It's the 4th anniversary of the day I lost my son, Adam. 💔 This is him at a rally in 2010, up high, wearing the black. His example stirred my conscience, making me braver and more vocal. It still does.

The BMJ’s former editor in chief, Fiona Godlee, was arrested this weekend alongside over a dozen other healthcare workers at a demonstration outside the Houses of Parliament in London while holding a sign reading, “I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action” www.bmj.com/content/390/...

First tulip! 😍 #BloomScrolling

An Enlightening Study About Conspiracy Theory Culture I found this paper when I was looking for studies on conspiracy literacy [free PDF]. It's from 2024, by Ryan Neville-Shepard and Amy Whiteside. They begin with a summary of the scholarship on the role of mass entertainment in spreading…

My next generation Covid vaccine update this month includes a surprise new phase 1 trial funded by US Project NextGen, & some trial results. Plus 10 new preclinical reports, mostly for mucosal vaccines. Now out @plos.org: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/08/31/m... #Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

My next generation Covid vaccine update this month includes a surprise new phase 1 trial funded by US Project NextGen, & some trial results. Plus 10 new preclinical reports, mostly for mucosal vaccines. Now out @plos.org: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/08/31/m... #Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

With federal workers, equity, & government statistics under attack, my latest post @plos.org is a tribute to a transformative First Nations statistician at the US Census Bureau, Edna Paisano (1948-2014): absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/08/28/e... ...1/3 #WomenInSTEM #Statistics #EpiSky

With federal workers, equity, & government statistics under attack, my latest post @plos.org is a tribute to a transformative First Nations statistician at the US Census Bureau, Edna Paisano (1948-2014): absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/08/28/e... ...1/3 #WomenInSTEM #Statistics #EpiSky

Hellebores! 😍 Almost black in person. The out-of-focus plants behind are snow drops. #BloomScrolling

Join the Nationwide March for Palestine wherever you are on August 24. 📢 Rising Tide will see you there! ✊ And we hope to see you in Newcastle at The People's Blockade of the world's largest coal port this November 27 - Dec 3! 🌊 🌊 🌊

Finally catching up on reading this classic – and from Theodore Porter, it is as good as expected. With a new foreword for this edition... #Statistics #HistSci #EpiSky

When an Old Weak Theory Leads a Field Astray Here's yet another example of influential theory that led a field down the wrong path: "Running Records were pivotal in shaping a view of reading which mistook the behaviours of poor readers for the behaviours of all readers, which in turn led to…

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

⬇️ Yet another great example of influential theory that led a field down the wrong path.... This article starts with a fascinating history of the running records & "cueing-based" models for teaching kids. 😱 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/... #TeacherSky #EduSky

Cottage garden, late winter edition. 😍 #BloomScrolling

Just updated this post to add a second country ending its national subscription to Cochrane: Switzerland www.sams.ch/en/Projects/...

"There are many people who care about the harm this outdated review can do, and won’t let it go – myself included... Not retiring influential out-of-date reviews is a ticking time bomb."

Six months later: What their response on ME/CFS tells us about the Cochrane Collaboration. New post at Absolutely Maybe .... 1/2 absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/07/31/s... #MECFS

My next generation Covid vax update @plos.org includes first clinical trial results for 2 mucosal vaxes: an inhaled vax from Canada & an intranasal one from the US. It looks like several of the Project NextGen-funded trials are going ahead too: absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/07/30/m... #Vaccines

Vinay Prasad, who was named to replace Peter Marks as head of #FDA's biologics division, is out. Extremely short tenure. www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/v...

My rapid response at BMJ is online now. I joined the chorus of protest about an opinion piece claiming people with severe ME/CFS can recover by "reframing their beliefs" &c. People with ME/CFS deserve so much better than that: www.bmj.com/content/389/... #MECFS

Debunking Government Misinformation This is a World Peace Bell. It's a Bonshō – a Japanese temple bell – made of melted donated coins from dozens of countries... hildabastian.wordpress.com/2025/07/17/d...

A big first for nextgen Covid vax! A manufacturer is accelerating a "universal coronavirus vaccine." It's set to be the first pancoronavirus vax going into phase 2 trial – a mucosal form might be developed too. More in my latest Covid vax update @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/06/30/a...

Good read. A new example for the embarrassing phenomen that citations in documents or papers dont always say what they are said to say

I've been diving into evidence on Covid vax in pregnancy & sorting through misinformation, incl the claim Pfizer never reported on its pregnancy trial. I ended up relieved! Check out studies in >1.5 million vaxed pregnant participants in my latest @plos.org absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/06/27/d...