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Professor of Cancer Virology, University of Leeds. Co-Chair, Independent SAGE
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Helen Salisbury
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As featured on BBCRadio4 now. Have they not heard of the Streisand Effect?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/31/meta-legal-action-forces-facebook-whistleblower-to-stay-silent-at-hay-festival
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank
10 days ago
Quick update on what RFKJr has been doing with vaccines this year! RFKjr planned to slash the number of vaccines on the childhood vaccine schedule from 17 to 11 in USA…
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Sweeping cuts are being made to the US childhood vaccine schedule
The USA have made dramatic changes to the childhood vaccine schedule
https://sheenacruickshankimmunology.substack.com/p/sweeping-cuts-are-being-made-to-the
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀
22 days ago
Version 10. A lot. Update from new @WHO Risk Assessment
www.who.int/publications...
. Tidying up is needed tomorrow.
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Kai Kupferschmidt
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There’s a LOT going on as researchers and public health experts race to respond to the Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak in DRC and Uganda before it grows bigger. Some really important questions still open, but also a few answers coming into view🧪 My overview in
@science.org
is here (and thread coming):
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Scientists play catch-up to startling Ebola outbreak
Testing, sequencing, and clinical trial efforts spring to life as Bundibugyo virus spreads
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-play-catch-startling-ebola-outbreak
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Kristian G. Andersen
26 days ago
Update on CDC's hantavirus response - it's worth the read because, well, it's a mess. A few things: 1️⃣ The US doesn't actually have a validated PCR test for Andes virus 2️⃣ "Mildly positive" was due to 2 conflicting tests. That's called "inconclusive" 3️⃣ Poor coordination
www.cdc.gov/media/releas...
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Transcript - Update on CDC's Hantavirus Response
Transcript for Update on CDC's Hantavirus Response
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2026/transcript-update-on-cdcs-hantavirus-response.html
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Alice Roberts
26 days ago
Her comment about the 4 in 5 reveals a fundamental misunderstanding about the economic importance of HE as a sector, partnerships with local industry and the NHS, and that other rather important work of universities alongside teaching - research.
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Alice Roberts
26 days ago
When Sam Freedman
@samfr.bsky.social
shared his article about why universities were in trouble and why they need investment, a Labour MP jumped in to say they weren’t a priority for her. She may be surprised at how many people are employed in universities and how important they are to the economy.
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Prof Christina Pagel
28 days ago
very important piece
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Trish Greenhalgh
28 days ago
Finally, for those who'd like to see a longer version of this piece, see my Substack where
@jvipondmd.bsky.social
joins us for the detail:
trishgreenhalgh.substack.com/p/respirator...
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Respiratory protection and the precautionary principle in the current Andes virus outbreak
An open letter to the World Health Organization on 11th May 2026 by Don Milton, Trisha Greenhalgh, David Fisman, Amanda Kvalsvig, Lidia Morawska, Joe Vipond and Jonathan Samet
https://trishgreenhalgh.substack.com/p/respiratory-protection-and-the-precautionary
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Trish Greenhalgh
28 days ago
OUR NEW BMJ editorial: Andes virus should reset WHO’s default approach to airborne risk. 🧵 1/ For severe pathogens with person-to-person transmission, the starting point should be precautionary airborne protections — not waiting for definitive proof after spread occurs.
www.bmj.com/content/393/...
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https://www.bmj.com/content/393/bmj.s919
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Aris Katzourakis
about 1 month ago
Just reading this on BBC news, and yeah, uh...'It emerged for the first time on Thursday that at least 29 passengers of 12 nationalities left the MV Hondius on 24 April after the first fatality, prompting a scramble to identify and track their movements since then.'
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Ben Phillips
about 1 month ago
Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.
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Kit Yates
about 1 month ago
"Many dermatologists were dismayed when Kennedy abruptly withdrew a proposed FDA rule that would have banned minors from using devices that mimic sunlight — indoor tanning lamps" It's like one step backwards... and then loads more steps backwards.
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RFK Jr. clears path for minors' use of tanning beds, much to the dismay of dermatologists
Indoor tanning is associated with a 75% increase in melanoma risk. A proposed FDA rule intended to protect children is now gone.
https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2026-05-06/rfk-hands-major-win-to-indoor-tanning-industry-to-dermatologists-dismay
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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC
about 1 month ago
The paper that forced global acceptance that COVID‑19 is airborne: 'Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS‑CoV‑2',
@trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social
et al., published in The Lancet (2021). 💪Evidence that conclusively ended airborne denial.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank
about 1 month ago
Peer reviewed studies showing good safety of the covid and shingles vaccines looking at millions of people were suppressed from being public and published because under RFKJr , HHS is pursuing an anti vaccine agenda
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FDA blocked studies finding Covid and shingles vaccines safe, HHS official says
Serious side-effects from vaccines were rare, scientists found in studies funded by US taxpayer money
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/may/05/covid-shingles-vaccines-studies-fda?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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Martin McKee
about 1 month ago
🧵1/ Health is increasingly being discussed in the security arena. COVID‑19 showed that weak health systems can destabilise economies, governments, and societies. Yet global health is slipping down the security agenda. We
@friendseurope.bsky.social
set out the issues
@bmj.com
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Prof Christina Pagel
about 1 month ago
A week of corruption in Trump's America
youtube.com/shorts/zvOkD...
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So much corruption in just a week - behind the headlines in Trump's America
YouTube video by Professor Christina Pagel
https://youtube.com/shorts/zvOkDvYPhVs?feature=share
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Trish Greenhalgh
about 2 months ago
Honoured to be giving the Centre for Personalised Medicine Annual Lecture on 28th April at 5.30 pm in Oxford's Mathematics Institute: Personalised medicine - A view from primary care. All welcome, free to attend but please book.
cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cpm-an...
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CPM Annual Lecture 2026 - cpm
We are delighted that the 2026 CPM Annual Lecture will be given by Professor Trish Greenhalgh; Personalised Medicine: A Primary Care Perspective. This will take place at the Maths Institute on Tuesday...
https://cpm.ox.ac.uk/event/cpm-annual-lecture-2026/
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Prof Danny Altmann
about 2 months ago
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Transmission dynamics of Oropouche virus in Latin America and the Caribbean - Nature Medicine
The transmission dynamics of the 2023–2024 Oropouche virus (OROV) outbreak in Brazil (Manaus City) revealed a twofold increase in Oropouche seroprevalence in Manaus, and in a separate historical recon...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-026-04221-z
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank
about 2 months ago
I posted the growing prevalence of raw milk just two days ago. Here is a huge issue that underlies why people are opting for such dangerous practices. We need to do more to help people understand disinformation because the social media companies won’t remove disinformation at all
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank
about 2 months ago
Does Trump really think we are that stupid that anyone believes that or his brain so wrong that he believes that himself? Either way it’s highly concerning
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Prof Christina Pagel
2 months ago
Artemis photo of Earth from the far side of the moon. Breathtaking. What a precious and beautiful planet we live on
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Martin McKee
2 months ago
Is now a good time to brush up on the principle of universal jurisdiction? It applies to grave breaches of all 4 Geneva Conventions. While heads of state have immunity (while still in office), those obeying their orders don't.
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Dr Duncan Robertson
2 months ago
Well, we're not talking about the Epstein files, are we.
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Dr Duncan Robertson
2 months ago
No fighting in the war room.
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Dr Duncan Robertson
2 months ago
*If* this is the case, it would be nice if the US Congress could, I don't know, have a long hard think about what has gone on and maybe do something about it.
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Prof Christina Pagel
2 months ago
regardless of what happens tonight, isn't it a shame that the Supreme Court gave Trump absolute immunity to any duties carried out as part of his office...
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Lisa Fazio
2 months ago
Concerned about the possible dismantling of the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Directorate of NSF??
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Find out what's happening and what we can do to protect behavioral science with
@fabbs.org
Friday April 10th at 1:30 ET. Register at
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Massive budget cuts for US science proposed again by Trump administration
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01105-7
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Pleased to have written this with my
@independentsage.bsky.social
friends
@sheencr.bsky.social
,
@duncanrobertson.bsky.social
, and
@helensalisbury.bsky.social
We must reverse the decline in MMR and other vaccines, urgently...
bmj.com/cgi/content/...
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Restoring measles-free status in the UK
Reducing barriers to vaccination and education remain key Losing measles-free status reflects shortcomings in the UK’s approach to public health and healthcare provision.1 Gross geographic and demogr...
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.s617?ijkey=CnVXQ7NYctYaz8v&keytype=ref
2 months ago
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Dr Duncan Robertson
2 months ago
"...He's always watching the TV..."
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Kit Yates
2 months ago
Inaccurate election bar charts are nothing new. But when we challenged a Reform spokesman on the numbers didn’t apologise or plead mathematical incompetence; he openly admitted that the misleading bar chart was a deliberate tactic. Read about it here:
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Counting on Confusion
Graph crimes: Reform spokesperson’s open admission that they are manipulating statistics to boost their visibility.
https://kityates.substack.com/p/counting-on-confusion?r=1cw8pl&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&triedRedirect=true
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Dr Duncan Robertson
2 months ago
I'm sure it has nothing to do with this.
dysonfarming.com
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Dyson Farming
https://dysonfarming.com/
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Otto English
2 months ago
The UK has relied on food imports since at least Napoleonic times. Unfortunately, the Brexiters were so busy obsessing over blue passports and the tax cuts they never stopped to work that one out.
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Prof Christina Pagel
2 months ago
Great post
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Martin McKee
2 months ago
Delighted to see my friend and former colleague
@nschwalbe.bsky.social
profiled in the Lancet. A real champion of public health now running for US Congress. Good luck!
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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Nina Schwalbe: global health advocate running for US Congress
Global health expert and advocate Nina R Schwalbe has spent her career working on multifaceted global health issues, ranging from HIV and tuberculosis prevention to negotiations for a pandemic treaty....
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(26)00613-6/abstract?dgcid=raven_jbs_etoc_email
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Prof Christina Pagel
2 months ago
more in my substack
christinapagel.substack.com/p/while-the-...
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While the world shifts to renewables, Trump is dragging America backwards
As the Strait of Hormuz crisis shows the dangers of fossil-fuel dependence, Trump has spent his second term pushing the US deeper into it
https://christinapagel.substack.com/p/while-the-world-shifts-to-renewables
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Prof Christina Pagel
2 months ago
As the world goes for renewable energy (even if too slowly), the US has gone the other way. Since the start of his second term in Jan 2025, Trump has done all he can to promote fossil fuels and block renewables Tying the US to a fossil fuel future will leave US less powerful & consumers worse off
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Pleased to have written this with my
@independentsage.bsky.social
friends
@sheencr.bsky.social
,
@duncanrobertson.bsky.social
, and
@helensalisbury.bsky.social
We must reverse the decline in MMR and other vaccines, urgently...
bmj.com/cgi/content/...
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Restoring measles-free status in the UK
Reducing barriers to vaccination and education remain key Losing measles-free status reflects shortcomings in the UK’s approach to public health and healthcare provision.1 Gross geographic and demogr...
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/bmj.s617?ijkey=CnVXQ7NYctYaz8v&keytype=ref
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank
2 months ago
To tackle such issues we call for sustainable changes that embed vaccination in a well informed patient population- this must include supporting education to spot misinformation, funding and training more local staff and community networks/champions. Please do read!
www.bmj.com/content/bmj/...
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https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/393/bmj.s617.full.pdf
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank
2 months ago
This coupled with the proliferation of disinformation has worsened vaccine hesitancy + enhanced confusion about the risks of the diseases themselves v the vaccines...if you are not convinced whether a vaccine is needed and its not convenient to get one - then this presents huge barriers for uptake.
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank
2 months ago
Excited to share our editorial in
@bmj.com
- we discuss the need for targeted action to address the fact that the UK has lost its measles-free status. We highlight issues like public health spending cuts, fragmented infrastructure, training cuts that impacted vaccine access
#HealthPolicy
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https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/393/bmj.s617.full.pdf
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank
2 months ago
This was very much a a team effort led by
@profstevegriffin.bsky.social
with
@helensalisbury.bsky.social
and
@duncanrobertson.bsky.social
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Prof Danny Altmann
2 months ago
Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats: Cell
www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats
A planetary-scale analysis of over 85,000 metagenomes establishes a framework for exploring the structure and drivers of global microbial habitats, revealing that generalist species bridge ecological ...
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674%2825%2901500-4
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Dr Duncan Robertson
2 months ago
The US' Suez. With added crisis.
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Alice Roberts
2 months ago
What about the bit where your beautifully researched and detailed paragraphs are just too much and you know it and when you editor says: cut them out, and they scream and lie bleeding on the floor…
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Ian Dunt
2 months ago
I enjoy research and I *love* writing. But the bit in between, where the research has to be turned into material that you use in the writing, is the most godforsaken activity on earth. Like extracting marrow from your bones.
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank
3 months ago
I wrote this last year to mark the day which considered some of the major disparities around vaccine access across the world. I also tried to contextualise my very personal reason for advocating so strongly for vaccines (and no I don't get paid for this at all)
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Vaccines for all?
Inequalities in vaccine access hamper our global health.
https://sheenacruickshankimmunology.substack.com/p/vaccines-for-all
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank
3 months ago
Today is
#CelebrateVaccines
day for the
@britsocimm.bsky.social
so sharing this basic explainer of how vaccines work and the main different types of vaccine
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Fundamental immunology 101: the basics of vaccines
Summarising different vaccine types and pros and cons of each
https://open.substack.com/pub/sheenacruickshankimmunology/p/fundamental-immunology-101-the-basics-72f?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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Dr Jackie Turvey Tait
3 months ago
Thanks
@zackpolanski.bsky.social
! 💚 Yesterday's publication of the Module 3 Report of the Covid Inquiry completely vindicates Green Party policy on: ✅️ clean air standards in healthcare ✅️ Long-Covid as an occupational disease & a workers' & patients' rights issue.
#CleanAir
#WorkersRights
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Kit Yates
3 months ago
"There are signs an outbreak of measles in north London may have stabilised although there could still be more cases, the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has said."
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Enfield measles outbreak could be stabilising, health chief says
Health bosses have been questioned by London politicians amid a measles outbreak in north London.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq571wweg5lo
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