These are funny. For example, the bad hair day (10) & great hair day (11) photos. Direct link to 2025 batch: www.comedywildlifephoto.com/gallery/fina...

Starting to read The Diet Myth by @tim-spector.bsky.social. It's really interesting to try to understand how microbes and fungi can work for your body and secrete the anti-inflammatory compounds that your body needs and boost our immune system and mood. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Resharing this in case it's useful for folks looking for their next Covid booster. Note: the tool below will only locate Novavax boosters near you (US scope)... for mRNA options check Walgreens, CVS, Costco, Walmart, local-pharmacies.

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I support this petition by Dr. @ravenscimaven.bsky.social & hope you will too! #SciComm #ScienceCommunication Here's my message of support 👇

Almost to 200 signatures!! Way to go! Keep signing and sharing. I am doing a lot of groundwork to see this change through. I just need to let the people I am speaking with know that YOU care about this, too!

“The people keeping planes from crashing aren’t getting paid.” That’s not a metaphor—it’s America right now. 13,000 air traffic controllers unpaid. 1,000+ flights canceled. Millions fed up. 🇺🇸✈️ www.latimes.com/california/s... #BlueSky #AirSky #NewsSky #planes

Ok, so this article mentions COVID twice, but only from the perspective of schools were open or closed, yet completely fails to mention/consider that repeat covid infections have been shown to impact brain capacity and function. #CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsStillHere #CleanTheAir #CleanAirForSchools

Reminder to self: When someone shows you who they are, believe them the second time if you can’t bring yourself to believe them the first time. Don’t leave it till the third or fourth of fifth time because then you should definitely be angry with yourself. And you know, life’s too short for that…

849 flight cancellations so far today. #FAFO

One of my colleagues laughed at me today. She saw that I was wearing Christmas socks.

🎯🧵 by SteveB aka @75thunderroad.bsky.social on Twitter: "Why do I keep speaking out about Covid? [...] Let me tell you a story. I was 46 when I first caught Covid. It changed my life and turned our family's world upside down..." Full🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19867...

🚨another🎯post by @ninadealba.bsky.social: "You keep going because the alternative is a betrayal of your own conscience. The community you lost was built on a conditional connection—one that required you to ignore reality for the sake of comfort..." Full tweet: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19866...

A study of nearly 14 million kids in England found COVID infection—not the vaccine—carries the bigger danger: long-lasting risks of clots, heart inflammation, & immune flare-ups. Vaccine-linked issues were rare & short-term. Facts matter. 💉📊 #BlueSky #MedSky #NewsSky #SciSky #IDSky #PedsSky

Une discussion intéressante en France.

Researchers looked at 1.8M Americans. (Only ~13% got the 2024–25 COVID shot) 🔸Protection against infection was ~45% at 4 weeks, ~36% at 10 weeks, and ~17% at 20 weeks 🔸Protection against ER visits was 45% → 43% → 39% 🔸Strongest was against hospitalisation/death: 57% → 50% → 34% archive.li/mxYli

Another 🎯 post by @ninadealba.bsky.social on the media seeming shocked & surprised that Covid infections are harmful... "The real surprise isn't the event; it's our own willful blindness finally catching up with us." Link: threadreaderapp.com/thread/19863...

🚨🧵by @ejustin46.bsky.social on Covid (SARS-CoV-2) and panzoonotic diseases: "they stand out for their ability to spread between multiple animal species and from animals to humans..." and "What MAKES COVID-19 a UNIQUE PANZOONOTIC?" Full 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19865...

✈️ BREAKING: Grounded: The FAA issued a full stop at LaGuardia as the shutdown gutted air traffic control. Nearly 700 flights canceled nationwide. Chaos in the skies — and the wounds are all self-inflicted. 💥 #FAA #Shutdown #LaGuardia www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-... #BlueSky #NewsSky #AirSky

I am flying to Canberra tomorrow for the @saferairproject.bsky.social Conference and am just packing now. What am I missing!? - @sickandtiredaus.bsky.social

Another 🎯🧵 by @drseanmullen.bsky.social on Twitter (didn't see it here yet): "... framing that COVID damages the entire vasculature .. the body’s vast network of blood vessels.. and that this damage is in part or fully mediated long-term by immune dysfunction..." threadreaderapp.com/thread/19862...

Just in case anyone is wondering how accurate this is... (TLDR: yep,🎯) I asked Google "is it correct to say that SARS-CoV-2 is a vasculopathic, neuroinvasive biohazard?" Here's the answer it gave 👇

I have a new way of responding when people ask me why I’m still wearing a mask. “I learned this habit when the C-19 pandemic started. What did you learn from it?”

“You still wearing a mask? Bro, it’s 2025.” Me: “You still huffing a vasculopathic, neuroinvasive biohazard?”

🎯🧵 by @ninadealba.bsky.social on CC people reporting being treated as if they're invisible: "What is happening to so many COVID-conscious people has a name: social exclusion. If this is a new feeling for you, it can be incredibly confusing and painful..." Full🎯🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19863...

Sharing this 🎯 post from @barryhunt008.bsky.social over here: "Wow 🤩 Public Health messaging 100 years ago 👏👏👏"

CNN: "A brand new report is out showing layoff announcements hit their highest level for October in over 20 years. It's painting a picture of a job market that is really hurting. US-based employers announced 150,074 job cuts in October, more than any October since 2003."

Hey y'all, I figured that folks on this platform would want to know that Barry aka @barryhunt008.bsky.social had knee surgery today. "Well that's been a long day 4 am to 2 am So far 😊 But all good After a 4h operation I was delivered to lucky PACU Bed #13" Full🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19859...

🎯🧵by @ancirabecky.bsky.social on Twitter earlier today: "What is with these ASD-like symptoms post-covid? Reports of autistic-like symptoms—such as sensory sensitivities, social withdrawal, executive dysfunction (e.g., brain fog, difficulty planning or..." Full🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19859...

Resharing this 🧵 (from Twitter) by Dr. Duncan as a threadreader version to make it easier to read: "We warned. We have been warning in private meetings, public briefings, in PP presentations, backed by science since early 2022 that if Governments don’t employ..." threadreaderapp.com/thread/19861...

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For the few people who mask out of consideration for others, that’s a commendable act of kindness. But please understand everyone’s vulnerable to the long term harms of COVID—even healthy people. So wearing a mask protects you *and* others. If more people understood this, more might mask.

Like our Pulitzer Prize winning friend, Ed Yong, in his words….

Tom Hanks explains to Stephen Colbert why he masks on the subway: "I'm doing a play right now so I cannot get sick... I've had COVID enough in my life, I don't need to do that again. So I'm wearing this for health reasons." Thank you Tom! Masks are still a key part of public health.

The US whooping cough outbreak continues to snowball in Texas, with cases 4x higher than last year. Texas was also the location where the U.S. measles outbreak took hold, and like many states is seeing a rise in vaccine exemptions. But Texans for Vaccine Choice say “fears are overblown”.

"I'm doing a play right now, I cannot get sick... I've had Covid enough in my life. I don't need to do that again." 🎯Tom Hanks, November 2025

In case you were waiting for someplace besides the Decision Desk, here it is!!!!!!

Just called (through gritted teeth).

If you are wondering what to do now that it seems clear the twelfth wave has ended: know it is the time to get your booster shots and to stock up on supplies (test kits and masks) from the pharmacy, that way you will be ready, ready for when the thirteenth wave begins.

From this morning: FCC to ditch last remaining #cybersecurity rules for telecoms, someone punked Cellebrite on a sales call, China’s president jokes about backdoors, a look at Māori AI data safeguards, and why newsletters like this matter more than ever. www.patreon.com/posts/cybers...

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My first science job was as a summer undergraduate intern here working on the International Ultraviolet Explorer satellite.

🎯 question by @ninadealba.bsky.social & replies over on Twitter WRT Covid: "If someone came to you and said, 'I think I've been wrong. Where do I even START?'... what is the one resource, piece of advice, or concept you would point them to first?..." Link to OP on Twitter: x.com/Nina_De_Alba...

This year's most terrifying costume? The mask of the conscious. It triggers society's deepest fear: the outsider who cares too much & refuses to pretend. The real horror is accountability. Have a safe, mindful Halloween. #TriggeredBySafety

Found this interesting 🧵 while searching for something else. "EIGARNIK EFFECT. Instagram, YouTube, and Netflix exploit it to trigger anxiety, depression, and ADHD-like symptoms. [...] A Soviet woman discovered it in a 1920s Berlin café..." Full 🧵 threadreaderapp.com/thread/19400...

🚨post by Hiroshi Yasuda (保田浩志) @Yash25571056 on Twitter about "cognitive issues after COVID" which quotes from a Minnesota-based integrative & functional medicine doctor. Link to article (Nov 2025): mindbodyneurology.com/post-covid-b... OP: x.com/Yash25571056...

Interesting 🧵full of additional readings 👇

The more I think about public education, climate change, science funding, the more I realize that Republican policy is predicated on the illusion that you can harm others in your environment without harming yourself.