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Trump and anti-vaxxer RFKjr are cutting science and health measures just when bird flu is really becoming endemic in America. Not good 🧪 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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Did you see what we did there? 👀

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Timeline cleanse of stunning award winning marine photography 🧪

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Trumps team passed a waiver so food was exempt from USAid cuts but food needs transport and storage which are NOT free- in effect making the food waiver null. Support for disease treatment, water pipes, disease surveillance all cut too by Trump/DOGE activity with devastating impacts

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More attacks on US science by stealth as new research grants still frozen! Grants issued via 2 step process- one to assess science via science board and one a grant review step with a membership of a wider board that get final approval to sign the money of based upon initial recommendation 🧪🧵

submitted 17 hours ago • 6 comments

PLOS has issued a statement on recent US Executive Orders and scientific integrity. We are determined to stand firmly behind our mission, our values and our principles, and against any attempt at censorship or undermining of the core principles of scientific inquiry. plos.io/3D4O8cH

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Our project working on co-creating ways of increasing uptake of cervical screening in Europe has moved over from the other place. Please do follow if you are interested in co-creation, inequalities, stigma, discrimination, etc. Working in Estonia, Romania, Bulgaria, Portugal, France, and Denmark

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I am in the throes of submitting a paper and the journal has captcha software- i hate those things- is it just me? when they say what squares have e.g a bus do you click on the tiny edge bits too and wheels? Or just main bus bits? Thoughts?

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This on-the-fly policy making from the US administration is clearly so poorly thought out and will end up costing lives.

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SCOOP: The National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, arguably the nation's most powerful scientific organization, is bending to political pressure and removing terms like "health equity" from pending reports. Members are not happy. Story by me: www.statnews.com/2025/02/20/n...

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"In an era where political forces seek to distort, suppress, or co-opt scientific knowledge for ideological purposes, the scientific community must recognise that staying silent in the face of these challenges is no longer an option." My latest substack kityates.substack.com/p/uk-and-oth...

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It’s been one month and look at the harm that the Trump team have done to American research. I hope he will roll back some of his decisions but I fear there a lack of pro- research advocacy in his team 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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New research shows that treatment of a rare and often fatal neurodegenerative condition in utero has been a success with the child still symptom free at 2 and a half years. 🧪

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I’ve signed, as an International Fellow of the US Academy of Medicine.

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"Musk is a key figure within a US administration that is attacking science through executive orders that have systematically targeted the scientific community, cut funding, restricted research and silenced scientists" My op-ed in @resprofnews.bsky.social www.researchprofessi...

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The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations that determine access to vaccines in the US. The ACIP meeting scheduled for next week is now delayed. This is how RFK Jr will administratively destroy vaccination programs. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

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Shout out to @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social for calling out the dreadful state of our rivers in UK. Via @goodlawproject.bsky.social goodlawproject.org/update/rober...

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Viruses do not respect borders and crucial that we support efforts to monitor and control mPox - USAid cuts and WHO withdrawal are massively detrimental 🧪

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This is brilliant- donated placenta can be used as a source of amniotic tissue which in turn is excellent for amniotic tissue grafts. In this case it has been used to restore a man”s eye after he was injured in an acid attack 🧪

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A message of hope and action from Bernie Sanders

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Important new research identities a natural bat coronavirus HKU5 that uses the ACE-2 receptor to enter cells & can infect human cells this way. VERY similar mechanism to SarsCoV2 (covid-19) and reinforces research showing origins of Covid 19 likely was NATURAL 🧪

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Did Trump actually have the White House post Long Live the King referring to Trump as he made yet another executive order that cannot necessarily be enacted nor is legal. Is that really what is going on his head?

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Censoring actions continue in Trumpland

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Exciting new paper on pancreatic cancer-1 of the most dangerous cancers as often not detected or symptomatic until it’s advanced. Enzymes called proteases active early in cancer so researchers developed magnetic nanosensors to attract & detect proteases in blood. Starting clinical trials soon! 🧪

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Its worth pausing and looking at Trumps claims about Ukraine with this fact checker- top line every statement he made was FALSE

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I have updated the post about changes in vaccine policy in the States in this post for @independentsage.bsky.social to try and capture some of the rapidly evolving changes! 🧪

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RFK Jr. thinks that a clinical trial should be done for the entire childhood vaccine schedule. Here’s why that will never happen. 1. You can’t do a randomized trial of something that we already know is safe and effective. There would have to be a placebo group that didn’t get vaxxed. Unethical.

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This is a REALLY important thread about the threat to vaccine, vaccine access and vaccine design the new administration is. Do read

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This is going to be another rough week for our colleagues in government & for all of us. Vast cuts of govt scientists hurts everyone’s health. Let’s talk about what this will do to vaccines. This is the process. Here’s how they’re going to undermine it: www.cdc.gov/vaccines/bas...

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"This feels like the early days of the pandemic, except there's less I can do about it", a colleague told me yesterday. Yep. One thing you can do is outreach. My sense is that the majority of the country doesn't yet understand the scale or the stakes of what is happening. We have to tell them:

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The administration seem to think running a government is a game of chicken. It isn't.

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