Definitely worth paying for a flu jab this year, about £15 at pharmacies! www.bbc.com/news/article...

More dodgy deals uncovered in the government’s VIP lane during the peak of the pandemic

#Medsky🧪 #publichealth Why the media talks about “ #immunitydebt” and why it's controversial ? The term accurately describes a population-level epidemiological phenomenon but has been widely misunderstood, misused, and exploited for political purposes.

Friends coming round so excuse for baking

It’s a new immunology 101 to brighten your weekend cos your weekend can’t get started until you have marvelled over monoclonal antibodies. Its a reach I know but still hope you find time to read and enjoy 🧪

It’s a new immunology 101 to brighten your weekend cos your weekend can’t get started until you have marvelled over monoclonal antibodies. Its a reach I know but still hope you find time to read and enjoy 🧪

Really great results in this early phase 1 trial of a nasal vaccine (mucosal vaccine) for avian flu- great to see evidence of strong immune memory and robust antibody response

The early flu season in England continues to build, while the latest Covid wave continues to recede. Latest UKHSA hospital admission data up to 27 Oct.

Important report critiquing how uk has been or not been supporting scaling up science innovations. Notably also scathing about vast costs for visas for researchers too- hope this will be noted and acted upon🧪

We are in the middle of our second of four “baseline” days on our Fluke Street grid. Releasing the mice back on to the grid is always good to watch @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @profjudiallen.bsky.social @sheencr.bsky.social

Important report critiquing how uk has been or not been supporting scaling up science innovations. Notably also scathing about vast costs for visas for researchers too- hope this will be noted and acted upon🧪

Well this sounds familiar as Reform continue to copy Trump’s antics- in this case policies that could enrich the councillors. I do hope that people will pay attention to what Reform are actually doing in the councils they lead and really think about policies before voting come the next election…

Very cool footage showing how remora fish hitch a ride on whales but leave the whales before the whales surface 🌍🧪

Pregnancy became far more dangerous in Texas after the state banned abortion, according to our analysis, which found the sepsis rate for women hospitalized as they miscarried in the 2nd trimester shot up by more than 50%. (Published February)

Lovely to wake to the news that Zohran Mamdani won the New York Mayor election! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

That Covid infection in non-immune people is linked to enhanced risk of cardiovascular disease is known. Whilst reports have shown risks linked to other respiratory infections, A new systematic review adds weight to this showing a range of respiratory infections are risks 🧪🧵#HealthPolicy

I am SO looking forward to reading @matthewcobb.bsky.social latest book on Crick - it sounds fascinating! Crock sounds quite the *cough* character which is not shied from. Do look at this review 🧪

Elon Musk launched grokopedia to rival Wikipedia but like Grok the site is prone to bias as it mops up disinformation from social media and weighs it above actual fact. It also copied a lot of Wikipedia content ….

So pleased to share the peer reviewed first study from our @cruk-ci.bsky.social @mcrcnews.bsky.social Radnet collab led by @nabinapun.bsky.social and Dr Cytlak with Prof Travis and Prof Illidge @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @mcrcellmatrix.bsky.social www.mucosalimmunology.org/article/S193...

Join us on 15 Dec in Manchester, for our annual lecture, this year to be delivered by @profbambra.bsky.social , Professor of Public Health at @newcastleuni.bsky.social , and a Co-Director of @healthequitynorth.bsky.social.

Delighted to announce that we have a PhD project, subject to competition, on targeting and understanding the envelope protein ion channel from SARS2, and extending our understanding to pan-CoV therapeutics... Funded by MRC DiMeN with sophion as partners. www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

As SNAP payments end putting trend of millions of US citizens at rush of malnutrition and starvation here is a reminder that since his presidency started Trump has made a personal profit of more than $1.8bn in less than a year! 🧵

Happy Halloween from my black cat who seemingly used another of his nine lives after an unfortunate reaction to some vet meds

Since their inception 6 years ago, ARCs have: 🔎 carried out over 3,300 research projects 📰 published over 9,000 papers 🤝 collaborated with 627 partner organisations 💰 leveraged about £1 billion in external funding! 👉🏿 Explore a selection of our work: mailchi.mp/nihr/nihr-ar... 💫 #ARCimpacts

Covid in England is definitely on the way down, but Flu is on the way up - and over a month early. My latest substack open.substack.com/pub/christin...

While she completed medical school, she never finished residency, and is likely to face tough questions from senators about her qualifications and views on vaccines. n.pr/4oPHYiZ

“Science is never settled” sounds reasonable—but it’s often a rhetorical trick to undermine consensus on issues like vaccines or climate change. Science evolves, but some things are overwhelmingly supported by evidence. My latest for Live Science www.livescience.com/... 1/10

Farage: epic grifter

Up North with views of orkney. The lighthouse is the most northerly lighthouse on the UK mainland.

The ‘wellness’ industry is worth billions but unlike medicines lacks regulation for quality, efficacy or safety. MAHA leads are extremely well off by promoting their products over validated medicines or safe foods like raw milk…

The Trump Action Tracker has an update! Main change is to break down the five authoritarian domains into ten - this allows for easier understanding of why actions have been logged and more tools for searching / filtering the now 1621 actions. www.trumpactiontracker.info? 1/2

A very quick summary of the evidence based review of the new ACIP by the prior members of ACIP reveals stark failings in transparency, consistent practice and science integrity. 🧪#HealthPolicy

A very quick summary of the evidence based review of the new ACIP by the prior members of ACIP reveals stark failings in transparency, consistent practice and science integrity. 🧪#HealthPolicy

Halloween prep beginning- watching The Shining again this weekend. What are you go to Halloween horrors?

WTAF - Trump is using a back route to claim 230 million dollars of money he says is owed from legal fees over the various pre-2025 investigations? Can this be legal?

Such an honour to be nominated and recognised for our work in Ardwick to try and help residents to avoid pollution by creating a green walking route that avoids some of the polluted hot spots there

Time line cleanse

Great to work with budding young scientists as they designed experiments to investigate air pollution! @exposomeimmunology.bsky.social @lydiabeckeriii.bsky.social @fbmh-uom.bsky.social

A great afternoon celebrating the award of our MRC CoRE in person. We heard about projects spanning our discovery pipeline, from ExWAS and mechanistic barrier immunology, to potential therapeutic angles for IBD and machine learning for diagnostics. #exposome #immunology

Climate change is enabling vectors like mosquitos and ticks to emerge and even thrive in places they once couldn’t have existed - this is a huge threat for infection spread eg dengue that could have worse impacts in infection-naive individuals that are more susceptible 🧪

Climate change is enabling vectors like mosquitos and ticks to emerge and even thrive in places they once couldn’t have existed - this is a huge threat for infection spread eg dengue that could have worse impacts in infection-naive individuals that are more susceptible 🧪

Boris Johnson says at the inquiry "it was slow to dawn on government generally about the full horror of of Covid." Why? Why was it so slow to dawn on the government what could happen? That slowness cost lives and livelihoods at a grand scale.

It’s not just The termination of USAID that threatens to create an increase in malaria cases but countries such as UK and Germany also reducing their aid budgets too will contribute. We have to work with African countries to avoid this from happening

How safe are UK research institutions from politicisation? @chrischirp.bsky.social & have have written a new blog for LSE on our report blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsoci...

Timeline change of beautiful fungi that i spotted on recent dog walks

Two very cool papers showing the amazing ways insects have evolved strategies to protect against infection! 🧪🧵

Two very cool papers showing the amazing ways insects have evolved strategies to protect against infection! 🧪🧵

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

Fabulous

Trump administration are putting pro industry lobbyists with a track record in lobbying against limits in charge of chemical safety including . setting limits and regulations for chemicals including asbestos, lead, pfas.