Protected and endangered species in the gulf of Mexico are in the line of fire from Trump as he claims national emergency requires USA to drill for oil/gas in the gulf that overrides any care of environment/biodiversity. No oil/gas company has requested such an action. I do hope it will be blocked

Via @emmbadger.bsky.social and Junho Lee and Larry Buchanan. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Scary stuff as RFKJr looks set to enable widespread use of injectable peptides despite a lack of clinical data showing efficacy OR safety. Quite the contrast with his views on letting people use well tested n validated vaccines

No Kings! Just Vaccines!

Incredible footage showing whale cooperation to assist whale birth- whales as midwives

More policy based evidence making as Trump wants weaker limits on toxic chemical so his EPA selects outdated biased industry research to justify changing a law regarding safe exposure to the carcinogen formaldehyde now making it easier for companies to expose people to the carcinogen

🧵The Covid Inquiry’s latest reports have made one thing brutally clear: the first year of the pandemic - and especially the second Covid wave in winter 2020/21 - was devastating. Much of that devastation was avoidable. This 🧵: impact on NHS, impact on bereaved, and avoidable harm. 1/19

I wrote about the findings from the inquiry about the impact of the pandemic on the NHS, and the mistakes of the first year. I hope it makes you angry - it should make us all angry. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

The treasury are for the first time in US history changing the signature on US cash to that of Donald Trump with this sycophantic statement used to announce it (that rather conflicts with current reality for most citizens) ….

I don't think people fully appreciate how apocalyptic things are for US science. I haven't had any new funding since 2024, but I'm still ok since typical grants are for three years. This means next year I will be completely out of funding and will have to fire everyone in the lab. It's not great.

Its really looking bad for the world cup being held in US, not only do they now have draconian policies regarding entry to the country, and with high risks of ICE action but there could be chaos at airports even if the shutdown ends as so many staff have left fed up of not being paid

sad that it took an outbreak to trigger this and tragic that young lives were lost

Really excited to share this opportunity to be part of our new patient panel who will be integral to our @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social research exploring how environmental exposures cause chronic inflammatory diseases like asthma + IBD Please do apply/ share #PatientInvolvement #Exposome

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

some wonderful images here - a real mood lifter other than then one picture- you will understand when you get to it

The peak of the covid pandemic laid bare how decimated the NHS was by years of austerity driven measures challenging how it could manage a crisis of that scale. Good to see this acknowledged in the latest covid inquiry report but will action be taken?

At a time when American taxpayers are struggling to buy groceries, us airport staff are unpaid and oil is soaring in price of course Trump prioritises giving an energy firm 1billion dollars to not continue building wind farms.

If scientists don’t speak up LOUDLY misinformation will. Kennedy appointed 21 new members to the Interagency Autism Coordinating Committee, who have tied the existence of autism to vaccines, despite scientific consensus that has disproved the link. We need this more than ever. 🧪 archive.today/KArjJ

RFKJr and Makaray made strong statements regarding leucovorin as a treatment for autism based on one small study with under 80 people and data analysis that was fraudulent and study was retracted. Now FDA are rolling it back. But the misinformation persists…

This is a great list of techniques for getting real information out of a Google search and avoiding AI slop and paid results. (One thing not included is that if you add "-ai" to a search, you block the AI summary) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Interesting concept of platform illiberalism as demonstrated by Musk’s takeover of twitter but highlighting the growing role of rich men taking over the social media landscape and controlling political discourse. To be fair this already seen in media eg Murdoch…

You can tell so much about someone’s character by what they say when someone dies. Once again Trump shows his true abhorrent colours. Not that they were well hidden to be fair

Excellent must-read from @cidrap.bsky.social showing that policy led evidence making would have been dictating the next ACIP meeting.

A huge thank you to our host partner @manchester.ac.uk! We’d also like to thank our amazing panellists, Prof Rob Ralphs (@robralphs.bsky.social), Prof Sheena Cruickshank (@sheencr.bsky.social), Prof Emeritus Matthew Cobb (@matthewcobb.bsky.social), Alex Clegg, Katherine Roycroft, Michelle Adamson!

Fantastic group of young scientists asking really insightful questions at today @senseaboutsci.bsky.social Voice of Young Scientists- great to be a small part of it!

Excellent must-read from @cidrap.bsky.social showing that policy led evidence making would have been dictating the next ACIP meeting.

NEW: RFK Jr. is spreading doubts about vaccine safety and considering changes that could prompt manufacturers to flee the U.S. market. History has shown how plagues from the past can roar back when trust in shots — or access to them — falters.

Super-excited to share this article I wrote with @worboyslab.bsky.social all about new innovations in a type of monoclonal antibody therapy for cancer. Super quick 🧵🧪 #MonoclonalAntibodies

Super-excited to share this article I wrote with @worboyslab.bsky.social all about new innovations in a type of monoclonal antibody therapy for cancer. Super quick 🧵🧪 #MonoclonalAntibodies

An article @sheencr.bsky.social and I wrote on the exciting promise of 'Masked' T cell engagers is now available at the Conversation. doi.org/10.64628/AB....

Helpful explainer about the current meningitis B outbreak in Kent university, the need for public health investment & why students are more vulnerable - in addition to socialisation making them more likely to catch it are unlikely to have had access to the MenB vaccines as they were not available

#Medsky🧪 #pedsky #IDSky #publichealth @sciam.bsky.social One in three Americans trust childhood vaccine guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics more than the CDC’s recommendations, a new poll finds www.scientificamerican.com/article/amer...

In the Martian he was going to "science the shit out of it" and grew potatoes on Mars using his home-made compost (*cough*) but can people REALLY grow potatoes in Space? this latest research suggests it WILL be possible to grow them on the Moon using special compost mixes! 🧪

Scary that companies can decline a health induced recall and continue selling a contaminated product. Raw milk is such a hazzard. Just don’t.

Really hope the meningitis outbreak will be quickly contained. Its a serious life threatening infection & initial symptoms can be mistaken for other things (such as a severe hangover )which can delay people seeking help.

not only does this court decision reset vaccine decisions Kennedy pushed for but the court documents reveal more about the processes Kennedy et al use including in withdrawing widespread access to the Covid vaccines for pregnant women and children

Important measures to not only block Kennedy’s moves to limit the vaccine schedule for kids. Not only do that but he blocked the ACIP appointments Kennedy made! I assume this will be challenged but good to see stiff opposition to RFKJr’s anti-vaccine efforts

Utterly agree that we need more alerts on water quality to ensure people using the water are safe to do so. That poor child should not have been put in that position- how horrible for him and his family. I can’t imagine how horrifying and frightening their experience was. Glad he finally recovered.

I find this terrifying that Trump regime is threatening to block media from reporting because they are not reporting favourably on the war with Iran. That is what a dictatorship does not a democracy

Thanks to Trump and RFKJr Americans will have worse lung health facing higher pollutant exposure due to weakened emissions standards and if they believe the antivaccine disinformation the administration pushes elect to not take vaccines for flu or covid…

To combat bird flu spread, other countries have authorized poultry vaccines. The U.S. hasn’t, amid political and economic pushback. Without a vaccine, experts say the virus poses an escalating threat: “The minute it transmits to humans, it’s done.” (Published Nov. 2025)

This should be the biggest weather and climate news on your radar today. You can send an email today to say why dismantling NCAR is a bad idea for everyone: [email protected]

CDC reports 11 more pediatric #flu deaths as several key flu indicators fall slightly So far this season, 101 children have died of flu, roughly 85% of whom were unvaccinated. www.cidrap.umn.edu/i...

NEW: Last summer, two women fell ill after receiving peptide injections at RAADFest, an anti-aging event put on by an organization that promises pathways to an “unlimited lifespan.” After an investigation, those suspected of playing a role have been fined.

"In the 3 decades between 1993 and 2024, measles in the U.S. was relatively rare – few 100 cases each year, at most. But suddenly, the disease has become so entrenched in American life that it sometimes fails to make headlines when a new outbreak erupts."

There’s are SO many things wrong with what RFKjr wanted to find in the wildly unethical proposed Guinea-Bissau hepb vaccine trial that would see babies denied access to a life saving vaccine #HealthPolicy 🧵

Breaking news!! literally. There are smart pants that can measure how much you fart!!! researchers realised we have no sense of whether someone is farting excessively cos we don't know what normal fart range is so they made pants that can measure this.... #Fart 🧪🧵

Dr Levi’s research has at best established weak correlations that have mostly had to be retracted on possible vaccine harms and he is an outspoken vaccines critic. That he should have such a prominent place in Kennedy’s ACIP speaks volumes for the anti-vax agenda RFKjr has

RFK Jr has chosen an anti-vaxx activist & conspiracy theorist—who has been advocating for COVID vaccines to be removed from the market & who has no expertise at all in vaccines—to review the safety of COVID vaccines 🤦‍♂️ (And that pony tail alone is disqualifying) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...