Finally - some action. Michigan Democrat Haley Stevens introduced the Stop RFK’s BS Act, legislation to restore National Institute of Health (NIH) funding and protect scientists from harmful disruptions to their work. It’s just the beginning. 🧪 stevens.house.gov/media/press-...

The Brits have such a way with words. You know. Those things with letter that help you define and say stuff about things.

"He's an idiot"... Yeah I'd extend that assessment to they're a bunch of idiots.... www.nzherald.co.nz/talanoa/hes-...

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Bill Gates is urging Congress to renew America’s commitment to foreign aid, warning that funding cuts risk reversing decades of progress in global health. trib.al/wUnAhlk

It seems the US might be at a turning point with the Republican realization that we might need to be guided more by science than ideological speculation www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I am disgusted by Reform UK's threats to people who have built a life in this country. They are coming for our neighbours. They are coming for our colleagues. They are coming for our friends. We are at a dangerous moment. This hatred cannot be appeased. It must be defeated.

In addition to all the direct negative consequences of the fraudulant claims of Trump, Rfk Jr and Dr. Oz about Tylenol and folic acid, this will also suppress work on trying to find the ACTUAL F*#*!@# CAUSES OF AUTISM

Helen responds to the sad pantomime that was Trump and Robert Kennedy talking about tylenol/panadol diplomaticimmunity.blog/autism-vacci...

We're launching a campaign to end the genocide in Gaza. Sign our petition to call on the Australian government to sanction Israel NOW. Tomorrow we'll be in the Daily Telegraph and the Herald Sun so please: Snap a photo of yourself with the ad and tag us www.jewishcouncil.com.au/2025/09/peti...

Honestly the Coalition are the most inept, useless, graceless, souless bunch of arseholes ever to pass through Australia and NZ.

Here's something I prepared earlier #nzpol theconversation.com/a-damning-st...

Endorse. It is a travesty that the Takahē has not yet been #BirdOfTheYear. They are extremely round and they were thought extinct for nearly 50 years. What more do you need! #ComebackKids . I met these two lovely, round rainbow dinosaurs some years ago in @zealandia.bsky.social

Helen has written an excellent critique of a study referred to by Robert Kennedy (who shouldn't be the health secretary based on his dangerous, unscientific views) diplomaticimmunity.blog/dreadful-stu...

Running is excellent whatever age www.rnz.co.nz/life/wellbei...

Postdoc position (please re-post) A funded postdoctoral position, will open in 2026 to study aspects of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenesis, antigenic variation, genetics, or physiology. If interested in more information, please contact Hank Seifert [email protected] #MicroSky

A point I was making in 2018 was that the NZ far-right fringe was (a) very small in number (b) coordinating with international far right movements in timing and messaging to amplify & exaggerate publicity. I think Tamaki and his followers appearance at the English far right event continues that.

My latest blog, breaking down RFK Jr.’s tin foil hat claims about aluminium in vaccines and autism. Epidemiologists see adjusted hazard ratios. RFK Jr. sees messages from the aluminium mothership🪱🚀 diplomaticimmunity.blog/no-rfk-jr-th...

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

Gall of the week is the little gem caused by the cynipid Neuroterus anthracinus f. agamic on oaks Quercus spp. For some strange reason known as the oyster gall. Photographer unknown.

Measles and polio down in the schoolyard...a clever parody...https://youtu.be/FDiXrd-R68U?feature=shared

How climate change will impact health. David Murdoch PHF Science speaking at the Aotearoa NZ Immunisation Conference

Researchers have made a broad-spectrum antiviral that works against several virus families by blocking N-glycans—long thought of as undruggable targets. cen.acs.org/pharmaceutic... #chemsky 🧪

For more on what’s behind the _apparent_ rise in autism cases, and what causes autism, this recent news feature in Nature is useful: www.nature.com/articles/d41... (You can’t read all of it without a subscription, but what you can read is useful.)

This graph ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/mich...

IMO anyone involved in vaccine uptake research, particularly in NZ (ping @janinepaynter.bsky.social ) should know of the 2023 New Zealand Election Study, dataverse.ada.edu.au/dataset.xhtm... because of the "how many covid doses have you had" as at the 2023 election + values and demographic context

I am contemplating relocation to Queensland. I have an urge to run a health spa for frogs www.nature.com/articles/d41...

And in news- a protest is labeled a political stunt...nah you're shitting me, who'd a thought! Next minute - dropping acid in a test tube will be called science and make headline news

This is wrong. Palestinians belong in Palestine/Israel. This nonsense has got to stop. It's exasperating- so much stupidity from so called leaders

I want this genocide to stop. Children aren't Hamas. Nothing justifies this inhumane hideousness by the Israeli government and their supporters www.massey.ac.nz/about/news/o...

Helen addresses some problematic claims diplomaticimmunity.blog/no-rfk-jr-th...

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Today's quirky joy is a newfound awareness of competitive spreadsheeting www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Disgusted with this direction

It shouldn't need saying but it is unacceptable for the deputy prime minister to be attacking public servants for doing their job. Different agencies providing their expert opinion on Bills is a key step in how issues are identified and sorted before bills become law. www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

Camilla Belich is a great MP, doing important mahi. Was on the picket line with us yesterday at ACC, as was @teanau.bsky.social ✊🏼 Proper, hardworking politicians #nzpol

Look at the conservative, anti climate policies this local election - stopping organics collection (building more tips), stopping climate friendly transport options, and canning denser housing. All to “save money”. It’s climate & economic madness.

I have no idea who Camilla Belich is but every single time I see her in Parliament, I am so impressed, I want to shake her hand. Thanks @nzpom.com for this update. I do believe people like her care and it's heartening to witness #nzpol #kiwi

Fucking hell - how do these people get away with saying such stupid shit- yes but life expectancy increase isn't fucking immoveable it can recede and will do if ecosystems collapse. A historical improvement based on unsustainable growth doesn't negate an existential crisis.

Tricky - the writing is on the wall. Scientists have been saying what needs to be done for quite some time & ignored. Neoliberalism- our current economic model makes it difficult to address the issue meaningfully. The state is us. We do need to get rid of the "everyone for themselves" neolib model.

The world's most famous medical NGO concludes Israel is committing genocide. It joins a consensus of genocide scholars, including in Israel, and NGOs like Amnesty International. No politician or journalist can claim "I did not know at the time!" to evade future justice.

What I also want to know is why proper reporting like this is behind a paywall while the lies these harmful arseholes spread get splashed everywhere. Well, we know why. It’s horrific that the media companies are so complicit in this.

Brilliant response to David Seymour by Dame Anne Salmond newsroom.co.nz/2025/07/09/a...

Contemptuous behaviour towards the public/democracy from Government MPs/Ministers. #NZpol