This is such a cool illustration of how the Mercator map distorts the size of Greenland, which looks as big as the whole continent of Africa on that map but is actually the size of Mexico.

Heart Failure Deaths Have Accelerated in US Since Covid Pandemic "The Covid pandemic didn’t just kill people directly. It appears to have accelerated a long-brewing reversal in US heart failure deaths, with mortality climbing faster since 2020 after years of decline, new research shows."

Senator Cassidy betrayed his oath as a physician when he voted to confirm RFK Jr. He knew he was an anti-vaxx, anti-science grifter who would dismantle public health. He voted for him for political clout. Trump turned on him anyways. The damage done to public health could take decades to undo.

The inescapable view that on both the UK and USA, Charles de Gaulle was absolutely right.

I get that X has reach, but at some point organisations do need to decide when enough has been enough and if Grokgate isn’t enough, I do wonder whet needs to happen for them to think oh, this site is a bit too grim for us

How sad is this? The CDC closed its FOIA office, so this story could only be published because a Danish journalist provided Rolling Stone with the documents, after obtaining them through a freedom of information request to the University of Southern Denmark www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

As per usual @nytimes.com there is no “standoff” - there’s American aggression, imperialism, threats of invasion, or whatever you want to call it along those lines. But a “standoff” it’s not. If someone is robbed, you don’t call it a “standoff” between the robber and victim. You call it “robbery”.

Guatemala: Measles outbreak in Santiago Atitlán, Sololá department open.substack.com/pub/outbreak...

It's great to see #AfricaCDC take a lead on this. This study - in its currently unethical form - cannot continue www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The full protocol of the study in Guinea Bissau provides no reassurance. If anything is spells out just how insanely unethical the planned study is. The PI who wrote the protocol tried to defend the indefensible by writing to me directly. I responded publicly. Read 👇 substack.com/@bktitanji/n...

‘Sinners’ is the highest-rated horror film of 2025 on Letterboxd.🌄 Read our review here: screenrant.com/sinners-movi...

In this episode Dr Luke Yates chats with Prof Terry Quinn about getting started in research—top tips on training, funding, support, and more for aspiring consultant researchers. Listen: podcasts.rcpe.ac.uk/show/consult...

“Vaccines are victims of their own success, because people don’t understand what these diseases are. They don’t get to see them, and so they’re not afraid of them.” www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

@rcpsglasgow.bsky.social ?

By @krutikakuppalli.bsky.social, whom you should follow: www.statnews.com/2026/01/12/m...

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

The UK media is overstating the benefits of prostate specific antigen tests, which can result in risk without benefit. Men need fair information about screening for prostate cancer, writes @mgtmccartney.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/391/...

It’s a great site. And especially fun to watch during surges.

I think this still gets overlooked. It wasn’t just the tidal wave of racist filth, it was the deliberate puncturing of the life preservers.

Lady took his prize

UNICEF has prioritized children’s protection and essential needs amid many challenges - and we will continue to do so. What children in Gaza really need is long-lasting peace and the opportunity to rebuild their futures with dignity and protection.

A gangster state at home, a rogue state abroad: and entirely because Congress and the Supreme Court have abdicated their proper constitutional roles.

It means absolutely nothing to anyone concerned right now but here's what the United Nations says about kidnapping Heads of State. legal.un.org/ilc/texts/in...

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

Why do we have red lines for the EU relationship?

At the heart of the effort to breed millions of mosquitoes, aiming to fight mosquito-borne illnesses in Brazil, is Luciano Moreira He is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025 go.nature.com/48WX1kx

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

And the reasons for that are not hard to find - Starmer’s unpopularity among left-liberals is the logical, arguably even intended consequence of 18 months of comms and policy which alienates and angers left-liberals while winning over no one on right. This is the cake his team have baked themselves.

Brianne (@bioprofbarker.bsky.social) shares the immunology word she learned was a major “no no” while in undergrad working in an immunology lab —and how times have changed. Watch Immune episode 99: A Nobel for immune tolerance

So, are they Lamarckian now?

Should the U.S. model its vaccine policy on Denmark's? Experts say we're nothing alike www.npr.org/2025/12/26/n...

Y’all might not appreciate it, but it took him 87 moves and 14 hours to get here

Catch up on Part I of our Review of 2025, with James O'Brien. Part II is out first thing tomorrow. xx

When the News talks about a super or new #flu they're trying to keep it simple. But that loses the bigger picture. Every season we have 3 (it used to be 4) different flu viruses circulating at once. The so-called 'seasonal' flu viruses - not bird, seal or swine flu, they're human adapted. Let's..

✅ January 2025: Record-breaking clinical trial of a vaccine! When Sudan virus disease emerged in Uganda in January 2025, WHO launched a clinical trial for a new candidate vaccine within four days - the fastest ever during an outbreak. Read our year-end story: 🔗 bit.ly/49wdcpl

Chicago: 1st dog rabies case reported in decades open.substack.com/pub/outbreak...

The President personally designing battleships because he wants them to look badass is not doing much to challenge the "everyone is 12 now" theory of American governance.

Remember the 1920s when nobody was left-handed

Just want to find someone who knows me as well as the Irish husbands who, after 50+ years of marriage, still burst into shops at 5pm every Christmas Eve, wild panic in their eyes, yelling that they need "SOMETHING FOR A WOMAN"

“Republicans’ very worst fears look to be happening: the Department of Justice has been accused of hiding evidence, while the Department of State is openly declaring war on the First Amendment – only it’s their guy in charge as it’s happening. Awkward.” inews.co.uk/opinion/trum...

Not enough young men are getting vaccinated against HPV, and it's undermining the elimination of cervical cancer. If more boys receive the vaccine it will save numerous lives from HPV-associated cancers, including cervical, anal, penile & oral cancers. www.sciencealert.com/vaccinating-...

Labour not understanding the basics again... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Safety and immunogenicity of a Nipah virus vaccine (HeV-sG-V) in adults: a single-centre, randomised, observer-blind, placebo-controlled, phase 1 study www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

It's really confusing for me that there is a group of people who think that Danish studies on vaccine safety are not generalizable to the US because, supposedly, Danish people's biology is completely different, but also want us to adopt the Danish vaccination schedule designed for Danes' needs.

FINALLY.

The statistical concerns with the Bandim Health Project's work are very much real, but beyond that, that their claims about the harms of certain vaccines (e.g., DTP, the whole-cell pertussis vaccines) are not reproducible when others look: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

I was interviewed for @theguardian.com by the wonderful @melodyschreiber.com, one of the finest health reporters in the world, about what I called a “neocolonialist” study planned by Danish researchers in Guinea-Bissau, funded by RFK Jr. So many red flags 🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/h... Switching to the Danish vaccine schedule in 🇺🇸 would be insanity. (1) The US, unlike Denmark, does not have universal healthcare, and (2) the Danish vaccine schedule is very poor (e.g., no chickenpox & rota vax. I vividly remember having those as a kid in 🇩🇰. Just 👎).

Looks about right