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This is phenomenally important news - for anyone that hasn't been following, lenacapavir is likely to be transformative for HIV infection, with twice yearly injections almost completely preventing people becoming HIV positive. www.who.int/news/item/19...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Great read from @drjenndowd.bsky.social on the claim that “Historically, no one lived past age 35.”, and the importance of child mortality and means..."Every time someone states this “fact,” a demographer loses a piece of their soul." jenndowd.substack.com/p/there-were...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

🧬🌽 Happy Transposon Day! 🌽🧬 Today we celebrate the birthday of Barbara McClintock - scientist extraordinaire and discoverer of jumping genes. Still the only woman to have an unshared Nobel Prize in the biomedical sciences #TransposonDay2025

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Don't get me wrong, exercise is a great thing. But there is sensible scientific reporting and headline writing and then there is this. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 21 days ago • 6 comments

Michael Rosen on the 'island of strangers'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih0W...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

'return hubs' now, after 'island of strangers'? Are we serious? If we wanted those policies we would have voted for the parties that were offering them.

submitted 38 days ago • 2 comments

Sorry but if someone is in the Labour party and is not only speaking up against the 'island of strangers' line but actively defending it, benefit of doubt is instantly removed.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

"UK decision not to suppress covid raises questions about medical and scientific advice" Five years on, analysis by Anthony Costello. www.bmj.com/content/389/...

submitted 41 days ago • 2 comments

No idea who the intended audience and intended political benefit of the PMs speech on immigration this morning was. Can guarantee it will only loose votes, and shift the rhetoric further rightwards. Top tip-get a new political speech script writer.

submitted 41 days ago • 3 comments

It will take many years to come close to recovering from the damage that is being done to scientific innovation and progress globally. Not much time to waste!

submitted 45 days ago • 1 comment

The recency and geographical origins of the bat viruses ancestral to SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2 www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

submitted 46 days ago • 1 comment

Without wanting to downplay Lysenko, but I think, at the very least, he would get a run for his money from what is happening now.

submitted 46 days ago • 0 comments

Who woulda thunk it. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 48 days ago • 2 comments

There is still one day left to apply for our 4 year postdoctoral position here in Vienna...!

submitted 59 days ago • 0 comments

A type of squirrel turns out to be one of the animal reservoirs of Mpox. www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-6...

submitted 75 days ago • 0 comments

Countless examples of lived experience of secondary infections shortly after covid positivity, so very useful to have this effect examined and quantified in this cohort study. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

submitted 81 days ago • 2 comments

I'll try and have a go at a few simple lessons learned, its quite sad these need to be repeated. 1) NPIs work. 2) If they are needed, the sooner they are implemented, the more lives saved, and the shorter they need to be.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

Seeing rather bizarre attempts to reframe the early pandemic narrative apropos five years since lockdowns, and yeah sorry science doesn't work like that. Doesn't matter who is in the white house or heading up the department of health.

submitted 91 days ago • 3 comments

When people in charge suggest we should just let a virus run its course through millions of birds and focus on the survivors, you realize this was exactly the policy espoused by some during the COVID pandemic IN PEOPLE (leaving aside the wisdom of making millions of virus evolution Petri dishes)

submitted 94 days ago • 17 comments

Big genomes doesn't even come close to describing lung fish, honestly. Top quality from @xkcd.com.

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Who could have foreseen.. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 106 days ago • 3 comments

Of course it would be political. As would keeping him in be. There isn't an apolitical decision that can be taken on this either way. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 107 days ago • 4 comments

“Life breaks free, it expands to new territories and crashes through barriers, painfully, maybe even dangerously” www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

submitted 110 days ago • 6 comments

Με προβληματισμό, αν και χωρίς έκπληξη, παρακολουθούμε την προσπάθεια να παρουσιαστούν οι κινητοποιήσεις για την υπόθεση των Τεμπών ως μέρος σχεδίου «πολιτικής εκτροπής και ανωμαλίας».

submitted 121 days ago • 1 comment

A lesson for the conspiracists, Nature is much better at engineering viruses than humans... @ariskatzourakis.bsky.social @angierasmussen.bsky.social www.cell.com/cell/abstrac...

submitted 123 days ago • 0 comments

No. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 127 days ago • 12 comments

Massive respect to the team, and the science produced. Dear headline writers - why. www.independent.co.uk/news/science...

submitted 130 days ago • 4 comments