As featured on BBCRadio4 now. Have they not heard of the Streisand Effect? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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…

Version 10. A lot. Update from new @WHO Risk Assessment www.who.int/publications.... Tidying up is needed tomorrow.

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):

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...

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.

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.

very important piece

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...

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/...

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.'

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party . Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

"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.

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...

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

🧵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

A week of corruption in Trump's America youtube.com/shorts/zvOkD...

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...

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

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

Artemis photo of Earth from the far side of the moon. Breathtaking. What a precious and beautiful planet we live on

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.

Well, we're not talking about the Epstein files, are we.

No fighting in the war room.

*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.

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...

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...

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/...

"...He's always watching the TV..."

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:

I'm sure it has nothing to do with this. dysonfarming.com

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.

Great post

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...

more in my substack christinapagel.substack.com/p/while-the-...

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

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/...

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/...

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.

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 🧵

This was very much a a team effort led by @profstevegriffin.bsky.social with @helensalisbury.bsky.social and @duncanrobertson.bsky.social

Planetary microbiome structure and generalist-driven gene flow across disparate habitats: Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

The US' Suez. With added crisis.

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…

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.

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)

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

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

"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."