Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has stated that the 1918 flu pandemic was caused by a lab virus from vaccine research, a defective influenza vaccine. Let’s analyze what a lie this is. First, in 1918, 107 years ago, virology was in its infancy

Excellent news for the end of the year! Our project on past and present bacteria with @jmuurine.bsky.social and great collaborators got funded. We will be looking for a postdoc for 2026-27 with expertise in bacterial genomics and/or molecular dating methods. If interested, DM me. Please share.

Remember: Trump or Russian propagandists might say otherwise, but Putin is not winning, and the Ukrainians are not losing.

Great to share the latest work from our group and collaborators. First CARRIAGE study paper led by @drdaggarwal.bsky.social and the heroic efforts of Katie Bellis and Beth Blane in the lab plus all the team at @cambridge-ceu.bsky.social Huge thanks goes to the 22,000 participants of the study

The abstract deadline for Nordic AMR Conference 2026 has been extended. Also see the list of keynote speakers. More information at www.helsinki.fi/en/conferenc...

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Excited to say we’re hiring 😊. We’re looking for a post-doc in ancient pathogen genomics to join our friendly supportive team in London at @ugiatucl.bsky.social. Start date January 2026. www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

What a week! 🎉 Big thanks to @isba11.bsky.social for hosting an incredible ISBA conference — so well organized and full of great science.

A huge thanks to all the amazing speakers and participants at #SPAAM7 yesterday 🧬🙌 The sessions were full of inspiring talks and great discussions!✨

Yesterday I discovered that ChatGPT's PhD-level expertise didn't extend to bird anatomy. This morning I thought, perhaps I was being too hard on the half-trillion-dollar company. Birds are a little weird, anatomically speaking. Let's try something more familiar. A mammal. Behold.

Gain of Fiction: How COVID Origins Motivated Defunding of U.S. Science @ggronvall.bsky.social explains how in recent weeks, the Trump administration—including NIH Director Bhattacharya—has rationalized the defunding of scientific research by citing COVID-19's lab leak theory.

Did leprosy exist in the Americas before European invasion? Our lab #aDNA study at @institutpasteur.bsky.social supervised by @nrascovan.bsky.social in collab with @avanzich.bsky.social (CSU) finds M.lepromatosis in pre-colonial Ancestors from North and South America www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Describe your work in one gif

#MicroSky #MicrobiomeSky

Here’s the thing about suggesting “cooking classes” as an alternative to insulin for diabetics. It’s ignorant. It’s ableist. It’s eugenicist. We know all of this. It’s also incredibly privileged. It assumes that healthy eating is accessible to everyone & that not doing it is a choice 🧵

Suomen Kauppakamari on erikoisessa asemassa: ei viranomainen, mutta sillä on lakisääteisiä tehtäviä, kuten kauppatodistusten ja alkuperätodistusten myöntäminen. Näihin asioihin tulee myös valtion rahoitusta – eli meidän verorahoja. 💸🤔 1/8

Sture-setä on taas reilu jätkä. Napannut kuvakaappuksen mun face-päivityksestä ja jakanut Twitteriin. Sieltähän sitten kaikki röllit löysi tiensä mun faceen. Jep, oon facessa mun päivitykset on olleet pääosin julkisia. Eipä ole enää. Lähdin Twitteristä, kun halusin eroon noista.

Todella mielenkiintoinen juttu. Ja Onnistuu myös mielestäni hienosti selittämään kestävyyden taloudellisen ulottuvuuden viimeisessä osassa. www.hs.fi/visio/art-20...

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

It's time for MEGA: let's make Europe great again! The Nazis & Operation Paperclip crippled European science & culture. Now the US is conducting its own purge. The EU should invest billions into academia, set up new programmes and research centres. Should have done this before Brexit already.

Are you a professor or assistant professor level researcher in the US or elsewhere outside of Finland? Looking for new opportunities in an inspiring and well-connected research environment? Finland might be just the place for you. Reach out to Finnish universities to explore what’s possible.

To wrap this already long thread up, a reminder: now that Europe has to rearm, we really, really need to remember these lessons of the past. Finland wasn’t the only country to understand that strong defence requires a strong society. But our current crop of politicians seem to have forgotten it.

🦠🧫🖥🧬🧪🔬 Every metagenomic paper without experimental design:

Jo melkein puolet suomalaisista uskoo Yleisradion olevan politisoitunut uutislähde. Kymmenen vuotta disinformaatiota ja oikeistopopulismia on vetänyt Suomea syvälle suohon. Trumpin Amerikan meininki saadaan tännekin, jos oikeisto ei lakkaa uskomasta tyhmään paskapuheeseen.

American war planning usually takes place in highly secure facilities. But the Trump administration planned its strikes on the Houthis using a group chat—and accidentally included The Atlantic’s editor in chief, @jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AmsjsuT6

What is to be done? Support scientific institutions, join scientific societies, support scientific journals that use rigorous peer review, write on bsky/blogs/traditional media, delete your X account, educate people on the risks of AI as an information source, avoid use of AI in scientific writing

In short time the science denial work will all be AI generated, and the volume will increase 10x. Or 100x. And will be preferentially amplified. And it will sound much more convincing, and real, to a lot of folks. And it'd be an absolute complete waste of your time to argue with. And you'd lose.

Climate change deniers used grok to generate a fake paper that they promptly published in a fake journal. It'll have >1 million views on X in under 24 hours. It's not just an example of bad things on X. There are a lot of those. But it also shows that sci comm there is meaningless and futile

One week left to apply for this BBSRC funded PhD position in the Duncan lab, cosupervised by @thecopperdoctor.bsky.social and @ruamicro.bsky.social www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Mitenkäs teidän lauantai on lähtenyt käyntiin? Mä lähetin Ylelle oikaisupyynnön. Syy on kuvakaappauksen ensimmäinen sana. Ihanaa että YLE esittää dokumentin aiheesta mitä itsekin tutkin, mutta voitaisko me vuonna 2025 vähän miettiä sanavalintojamme. Linkki Areenaan: areena.yle.fi/1-70375143?u...

Almost 8 years after starting this project finally happy to share the main research from my PhD! Couldn't have done it without the amazing help from @ainsley-beaton.bsky.social! We untangled a fascinating new redox sensor with the most extraordinary growth phenotype (I'm biased) in Streptomyces!

WIRED (joka poisti tänään osan maksumuureistaan palvellakseen kansaa) selvittää tässä jutussa, kuinka DOGE:n esittämät prosessit olivat jo olemassa, ja kuinka DOGE on itse asiassa vain liitovaltion aineistojen varastamista. #media #yhteiskunta #politiikka

Pet peeve: I hate how often ppl claim “all the researchers will just move to Europe/Canada!” You vastly under-estimate how little money there is there vs the USA- and unless that changes ASAP this loss is just going to decimate global science, full stop. 🧪🔭

This is crazy shit. Here is early work on a very promising mRNA vaccine against pancreatic cancer. Is cancer treatment anti-American now? 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Jos "maksujen lopullisuus" -periaate murrenetaan, modernilta laki- ja talousjärjestelmältä putoaa pohja pois. Ja juuri tätä periaatetta Musk, DOGE ja Trump ovat vakavasti koetelleet. @nathantankus.bsky.social avaa asiaa Rolling Stonen artikkelissaan. #talous #yhteiskunta

Beshear: Between Trump and Musk. I'm not sure which one is Thelma and which one is Louise, but our economy is that car and they are driving it off the cliff.

Drunk on power and ketamine. This is Musk and the foreign minister of Poland. This is what I mean about Musk as the "over-mighty subject". His power is too great for anyone else to be fully free.

I don’t think it’s widely appreciated yet just how much COVID disinformation is an assault on democracy. COVID conspiracy theories were the best recruitment tool for the far right in decades. They’ve left us damaged—undermined faith in our governing institutions, science, and modern medicine.

To all of those whose science will be targeted, attacked, and cut: remember that they are doing so because an oligarchical elite and fascist class are threatened by it. There is no greater sign that your work is terribly, terribly important. ❤️

Tämä on todella vakava uutinen. Yhdysvallat tuottaa oletettavasti tätä tiedustelutietoa joka tapauksessa itselleen. Sen panttaaminen on kiristystä ja Ukrainan itsetarkoituksellista heikentämistä. yle.fi/a/74-20147648

“Trump and Vance have revealed to Americans and to America’s allies their alignment with Russia, and their animosity toward Ukraine in general and its president in particular,” writes @davidfrum.bsky.social. “The truth is ugly, but it’s necessary to face it.” theatln.tc/OBWzC38t

Donald Trump is Putin’s puppet. He demonstrated that in televised living color in our Oval Office today by disgracefully attacking a democratic leader suffering a murderous invasion by the Russian thug. What a stain on America. Slava Ukraini.

We are #hiring a #phd student in #microbiome #bioinformatics at #DTU. Are you a great coder and want to work with me in Copenhagen, Denmark for 3 years addressing antimicrobial resistance? Position is fully funded by Novo Nordisk Foundation. Apply by March 12th.

When you do #Metagenomics and #Metaproteomics with mice fed a standard diet with Casein make sure to account for the large amount of dead L. lactis that comes with the diet analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Science (and science policy, and conservation) friends, I need your help! We are collecting *specific, clear* examples of harms caused by the Trump administration's attacks on science, to be included in an open letter. Can be links to news stories/social media posts. 🧪🦑🌎 #SciComm #SciPol

Hei @uusijuttu.fi, ehkä te voisitte uutisoida tästä kun muusta mediasta ei oikein löydy suomeksi. USA:ssa on joidenkin arvioiden mukaan irtisanottu yli 300 000 viranhaltijaa/tutkijaa. Heidän hommia on olleet mm. valvonta ja tutkiminen liittyen terveyteen ja turvallisuuteen apnews.com/article/doge...

Pharma CEOS Speaking Up, Damn It | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/blog...

#Trump on Putinin sätkynukke, hän on noussut presidentiksi Venäjän levittämän disinformaation avulla. Aikaisemmin jaoin saman tiedon sisältävän podcast-jakson, tässä artikkeli: suomenkuvalehti.fi/paajutut/keh... Hei suomalaiset poliitikot: olisko syytä tunnustaa tämä.