Tiens donc... Pourtant plein de gens disent que puisqu'on n'a pas trouvé l'exact animal source pour la Covid-19, alors c'est une fuite de labo. (D'ailleurs, certains disent aussi que l'épidémie Ebola de 2013-2016 est due à une fuite de labo, et au Monde, on trouve ça "intéressant").

Yet another top job in the #HHS universe appears to be vacant. Jeffery Taubenberger, who has been acting head of #NIAID, the infectious diseases institute of #NIH, reportedly stepped down ~2 weeks ago. But HHS will not answer questions about his departure. www.statnews.com/2026/05/21/n...

⬇️ Just another example of why it matters to fight conspiracy theories (link at the timestamp of the quote: youtu.be/dpnUUnmDghY?... )

Merci ! C'est tellement choquant de voir des ministres faire des annonces exclusives sur X, alors même que le réseau social de Musk est visé par une information judiciaire

So happy to see my new book "How Plague Got Rats: Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic" published today with @hopkinspress.bsky.social! #histmed #histsci #plague #rats #pandemic www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/... The book is also available Open Access via Project MUSE: muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/oa_mon...

asm.org/press-releas... #covidorigin

Dear journalists, neither Andes virus nor Bundibugyo virus are Hanta- or Ebola-VARIANTS, respectively. They are virus SPECIES. Species differ much more from each other than variants do. Thank you for your attention to this matter

Under the IHR (2005), @drtedros.who.int, the Director General of WHO, having consulted the States Parties where the event is occurring, has determined that the Ebola disease caused by Bundibugyo virus in DRC & Uganda constitutes a public health emergency of international concern bit.ly/3P4ZDac

A general reminder: you don't *have* to use Substack. While I get that it's easy and convenient, realize there are alternatives that (1) give you more control and (2) don't regularly fund and promote neo-Nazis. Continuing to use Substack for your newsletter is a choice. You can make a different one

La communication de Pasteur est plus honnête que celle de la ministre : leur premier point indique qu'il existait déjà plusieurs séquences virales du bateau. Pourquoi le souligner ? ▫️1/2 www.pasteur.fr/fr/espace-pr... #hantavirus

In case people have forgotten about this, in Sep 2023, a(nother??) CIA whistleblower had alleged that bribes had been given for CIA analysts to change their minds. The Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic had published a press release about it. oversight.house.gov/release/test...

So, Rand Paul just held a hearing at the U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, with a CIA "whistleblower" on the "COVID Cover-up". The guy is an antivaxx nutter into "HIV inserts" who had NO information. #covidorigin

FranceInfo : "L'hantavirus ne circule pas en France" Serait-il svp possible d'arrêter d'utiliser ainsi un article défini, qui fait croire qu'il n'y en a qu'un ? C'est une recette idéale pour causer de la panique quand il y aura des gens infectés par d'autres hantavirus en France.

I've deleted my post reacting to the Guardian report that an MV Hondius passenger with hantavirus had been told she was just anxious, because the Guardian has retracted the article:

Without question, this is hysteria. www.ipm.org/news/2026-04...

Our current Acting CDC Director said his entire plan for pandemic preparedness is to fire everyone responsible for it.

France's Ministry of Health just announced that the French "cas contact" tested negative www.lemonde.fr/sante/live/2...

Only information I am reading in the French media right now is that there was a French person on the same flight as a passenger from the cruise ship. The person is a "cas contact": not a confirmed case, but a potential one due to contact history.

In this (very niche) post, I explain how I FOIA'd NIH to demonstrate that NCBI staff did not alter the metadata of a coronavirus sequence dataset. Come the emails, stay for the pangolins? (also works the other way round (-:) #covidorigin

In this (very niche) post, I explain how I FOIA'd NIH to demonstrate that NCBI staff did not alter the metadata of a coronavirus sequence dataset. Come the emails, stay for the pangolins? (also works the other way round (-:) #covidorigin

Je me demande si ça existe pour les SHS ? C'est super bien fait. #WhereToPublish ? A database of for-profit and non-profit scientific journals in biology wheretopublish.github.io

A very long shot: Does anyone here have the original version of Yeltsin's Against the Grain? I'd like to know whether there is a footnote when he writes about Sverdlovsk's anthrax outbreak. (Ken Alibek says there is one, but there isn't in the 1990 Summit Books version, p.75)

lol yes it’s me, China apologist

The lab leak continues to be one of the most worrying cases of mass conspiratorial thinking in America. Zero evidence for it, but the right is frothing at the mouth to imprison anyone even remotely involved with COVID origins research and the center still thinks it's important to ask questions.

The PNAS paper on pancreatic cancer treatment that was all over the news a few months ago is retracted "due to an undisclosed relevant competing interest" www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

At a research meeting today it turned out that everyone pronounces ORCID differently. Which do you think is correct? 1️⃣ "Orchid" 2️⃣ "Ork ID" 3️⃣ "Or Sid" 4️⃣ Something else 📊 Show results

Congratulations to @theresluethi.bsky.social for her prize in the Science category at the Swiss Press Awards! She won it for her article exploring the (undue) success of COVID lab-leak hypotheses in the media and public sphere Her article: www.tagesanzeiger.ch/covid-warum-... #covidorigin 🧪

"These aid cuts meant those groups were totally caught off guard and exposed them in a way that they had never been prepared for. It was worse than if they had never partnered with the US in the first place."

Radical Transparency!

heu... non ?? Science est le journal de AAAS, American Association for the Advancement of Science. L'académie des sciences publie PNAS.

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My first session on the last day of #ESCMIDGlobal2026 is Bird flu is no longer just for birds: from strategic planning to public health readiness. The first speaker is Ben Cowling with What drives pandemic risk? Virus, population and policy influencing influenza H1N1 spread

Ah, les belles promesses de la LP(P)R...

Here is finally the third, and last, part of my rebuttal of Matt Ridley's inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH on a lab leak origin of COVID-19. pandemonium.hypotheses.org/1260 #covidorigin 🧪

When you wake up and Bluesky is down. Timely advice from @effinbirds.com.

From our perspective, a few examples of what this looks like: 1️⃣ One NIH U01 program canceled - "unsafe for Americans" (CREID). 2️⃣ One CDC U01 program, budget cut ~80%. 3️⃣ One NIH U19 program, NOA delayed by four months - work stopped. 4️⃣ No U-funding opportunities to apply for for over a 1 year.

In March, invited by Jay Bhattacharya, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19. There was a lot to debunk; here is Part II: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/1108 🧪 #covidorigin

A gentle reminder that even if your concerns are extremely well-founded, it's good to try and verify things before sharing them.

In March, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19. The talk was so full of misrepresentations, omissions, falsehoods and lies that I will need several blog posts to debunk it. Here's Part I: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/995 🧪 #covidorigin

Every story has a quote left on the cutting room floor. For this one, it's this: Me: The U.S. has sequenced 1000 measles genomes from our outbreak. Virologist @eddieholmes.bsky.social: "This is 2026! There shouldn't be 1000 measles genomes. That's disastrous." kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Are you going to #SMBE2026 Copenhagen by train, or are you hesitating? Let's share experiences and give ideas to those who think to fly from Western or Central Europe with the hashtag #NoFlySMBE. If you're coming from 🇨🇭, there are night trains from Zürich or Basel to Hamburg. ✅🚆 ❌✈️

I keep being impressed by the quality of @gregfolkers.bsky.social's monitoring of scientific articles, preprints, and news articles on infectious diseases -- One of the best accounts to follow to stay up-to-date!

The deluge of disruptive news from around the globe is making it hard for researchers to focus on their day-to-day work go.nature.com/4s5bGSc

This is one reason why the answer to “Can’t you just…?” is often “No”. Meanwhile, the humans necessary in these loops are why preprint costs are $10^1/paper not cents as often assumed 2/n

Watch Director Bhattacharya's performance at CPAC really got to me. I chose to share some of my observations with him. Hold on... 1/11

Le documentaire complotiste diffusé hier soir par @publicsenat.fr sur l'origine de la pandémie de Covid n'est pas nouveau : il était sorti l'an dernier sur France5. J'avais écrit un débunk, toujours d'actualité ⬇️... #covidorigin

New handle :)

Hi all. I am very excited that after 6 years I finally got my phylogenetic comparative methods book and online exercises online. Feel free to use and share. The book is here: nhcooper123.github.io/pcm-primer/. Note that it is not finished, we had to abandon it before the sunk costs fallacy broke us