The anti-woke lot know that air conditioners ARE heat pumps ... right? www.theguardian.com/environment/...

You see a headline like this and instantly know it won’t be a Brit. No idea if the Polish tycoon here is a good chap but it’s fascinating how UK ultra-wealthy have no interest investing in the country. Dyson? Ratcliffe? Various property spivs? www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Irish Times: “Von der Leyen is unlikely to do a walkabout of Cork or visit the English Market. She has become an unpopular figure in Ireland on the back of her continued support for Israel notwithstanding its genocide in Gaza.”

“Together, the accumulated evidence affirms mRNA vaccines as a safe, effective, and adaptable platform with enduring relevance for future infectious disease prevention and public health preparedness, and for the treatment of cancer and autoimmunity” @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Attention problems outpace memory deficits in post-infection cognitive testing. Among patients (avg age 51, 81% female), 56% had below-average attention vs 33% with memory issues — suggesting a distinct neuropsychological profile in Post-COVID. (n=88) #LongCovid

Spare a thought for all those healthcare workers affected by #LongCovid (we know HCPs are disproportionately affected) who still manage to work - everybody struggles at these temperatures, but if you have dysautonomia, you will struggle even more www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

#Marburg in Uganda is confirmed. Uganda formally reported 1 case to #WHO today. A reliable source tells me there are actually 2 confirmed cases. The positive: Uganda is very good at containing outbreaks. The negative: Uganda doesn't like sharing news about them. Link below goes to updated story.

✨Upcoming Event ✨ Join our hybrid event marking 10 years on from the West African Ebola outbreak. Speakers will explore what has been learnt, not learnt and unlearnt since the outbreak and what it means for the current outbreak in #DRC. 🗓️ Full details 👉 bit.ly/4aGTYPd

This week's Med & Science updates 🧬 EVs + miRNAs as Long COVID biomarkers 🧠 7T MRI finds brain signature for COVID smell loss 🫀 AI finds ECG marker for Sudden Cardiac Death ⚠️ OMB rule may affect YOU! Comment by July 13. Full breakdown 👇 drruth.substack.com/p/dr-ruth-report-62926 #medsky #IDsky🛟 😷

Europe's #heatwave linked to 1,300 deaths as Germany hits record 41.7C 🥵 www.bbc.com/news/article...

This week in Science 🧪 🔹 Long COVID T cells & Viral persistence 🔹 Measles: ⬇️Utah, ⬆️VA & ⬆️PA 🔹 Tell OMB: Keep politics out of grant review 🔹 HPV vax at 12–13➡️ No Cervical Cancer deaths at 20–24 🔹 Could EBV protect against Type 1 Diabetes? Dr. Ruth Report 6/21/26 👉 buff.ly/pJwiEyC #medsky #pedsky

"Sterilizing immunity" is not an actual phenomenon. There's no way that you can prove that a vaccine can prevent any cells from being infected. That doesn't mean you can't get herd immunity, though. Listen to the episode for more. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #CovidIsntOver #MedSky #IDSky

🔬🦠 Rapid zoonotic virus detection: The study introduces a one-tube RT-RPA–CRISPR/Cas12a system for detecting Nipah, Hendra, Rift Valley fever, and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever viruses. 🌍📚 🔗https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s44280-026-00126-1 #ZoonoticViruses #CRISPR #VirusDetection

Israel deliberately targeting Gaza children to commit genocide, UN inquiry finds

Ouch! 🦠 Ebola #Bundibugyo not receding, yet.🇨🇩 The disease gains traction in North Kivu province, where the situation is more difficult bc of security and weaker health infrastructure: lower follow-up rate of contacts, higher mortality. 💀 Not good.😰

We often talk about the importance of learning from outbreaks. Are we doing enough to learn from those who have lived through them? A thought-provoking read from @lstmnews.bsky.social on the role of Ebola survivors in preparedness, response and recovery. lstmed.ac.uk/news/ebola-s... #Ebola

In the end, there were just a lot more human rights abuses than I was expecting from the human rights lawyer.

Telling that Trump does not criticise Starmer for UK not joining his Iran war.

This is chilling: "the jurors who found them guilty of criminal damage had no idea their verdict would be treated as a verdict on terrorism" www.theguardian.com/global/comme...

'When solar and wind power are combined with battery storage, they can undercut new gas power, challenging one of the fossil fuel industry’s arguments against renewables: that they cannot provide 24/7 electricity when the sun isn’t shining or the wind isn’t blowing.' www.euronews.com/2026/05/08/r...

“restrictions on pro-Palestinian speech and protest, when justified by invocations of Jewish safety, will backfire and weaken social cohesion and potentially increase antisemitism”. www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ju...

34⁰C yesterday in Frankfurt #ShowYourStripes showyourstripes.info/s/europe/ger...

🇮🇪 The striking exception: Northern Ireland NI is the only constituent country with near-zero or positive GVA gaps Why? The NI Protocol (now Windsor Framework) means NI effectively remains inside much of the EU single market. It's the clearest counterfactual within the UK itself 6/…

Vinay Prasad is an antivaxx fraud

We are Jews calling on world leaders to hold the Israeli gov accountable for the atrocities it has committed in Gaza & to press for a long-term political solution. Read our Four Demands below ⬇️

@acog.org schedule recommends four vaccinations in pregnancy: influenza; #Covid19; tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (Tdap); and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) 🩺 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Boris Groh (Ukrainian Artist, born 1994) "Night Walking", 2017. Ink, Brushes, Paper, Size n.d. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

commisserations to both the accounts affected by this.

Would have preferred a cross-party report but I look forward to reading this 🇮🇪☘️ #SpéirGhorm www.rte.ie/news/ireland...

This should probably be a bigger story www.rawstory.com/donald-trump...

Great to see @virusesimmunity.bsky.social last paper highlighted at natrevimmunol.bsky.social. One of the strongest pieces of evidence yet for autoimmunity in #LongCOVID. Not proof that autoimmunity explains all neurological Long COVID, but it's getting harder to dismiss as one important mechanism.

We'll almost certainly never know the exact number of people killed by Musk spending the weekend "feeding USAID into the wood chipper" Two models both estimate that, 1 year after gutting USAID, its closure led to between 500,000 and 1 million deaths (Brooke Nichols' model, Kenny & Sandefur's model)

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA

The UK JCVI really has some explaining to do We leave children exposed to #COVID without any prior protection - knowing this means more severe infection - but also with no knowledge of what this will mean for their health later on in life, 20,30,40 years on, ignoring the precautionary principle Why?

The most disgusting behaviour I’ve ever witnessed in public spaces was directed at Sadiq Khan by ‘anti-Ulez’ protesters, who of course received way more coverage, much of it friendly, than the scheme’s incredible success ever will.

🎙️ Just published Communicable E55: Bonus episode – Bundibugyo Ebolavirus outbreak Hosted by Angela Huttner and Anne-Grete Märtson with invited guests Daniel Bausch and Martin Grobusch 🌟 Listen on #Communicable: https://share.transistor.fm/s/8750e095

Rally in Belfast @1pm on Saturday. Together Against Hate.

One massive hurdle in fighting Ebola in DRC: Ituri has nowhere near the capacity it needs for safe and dignified burials, just 7 of 98 needed ambulances, for instance. That means higher likelihood of unsafe burials and new infections as well as longer wait and more anger/mistrust in communities.

REMAP-CAP domain on oseltamivir vs no-antiviral for patients admitted at ICU with influenza is stopped due to potential harm! 90d mortality: Oseltamivir=19.4% (62/319) No antiviral=13.7% (17/124) Last word for oseltamvir? What’s the rationale for harm? #IDSky www.remapcap.org/oseltamivir-...

Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors. This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

The thugs of the streets of Belfast tonight should recall Sir Edward Carson’s words in 1921. Just like their great grandfathers, they’re being used, not by the Conservatives this time but by others. Those on the streets will go to jail. Not those encouraging them.

Butantan #dengue vaccine temporarily discontinued in Brazil pending investigation of adverse events 🦟🇧🇷 #Medsky #IDSky

It's pretty gracious of him to show up at all, given that his side lost.

What Reform have successfully done is to make the floor of open racism in England much higher than I have seen it in several years. I don’t know what their peak will be but they have normalised something that I haven’t seen here since the mid-1990s, and that is already dangerous enough.

Honestly, we are complete imbeciles when it comes to EU negotiations.