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David morrison

@dcmorr.bsky.social
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vaccines please. Striving to drive forward progressive social change. We need diversity, equality and inclusion. Pronoun advocate. “Woke” just isn’t enough.

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Erik Loomis @erikloomis.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This Day in Labor History: September 25, 1891. A battle broke out in Lee County, Arkansas, between members of the Colored Farmers Alliance and others, both black and white, who opposed their organizing for better wages in cotton picking. Two men died and the Alliance was crushed!
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
My quote of the day Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful. Samuel Johnson
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Nature @nature.com · 03/09/2026
Top artificial-intelligence models failed to predict the biological consequences of rewriting a virus's entire DNA code. go.nature.com/4rbHdmN
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Mutating every DNA letter of a genome shows surprising effects — and the limits of AI
Top artificial-intelligence models failed to predict the biological consequences of rewriting a virus's entire DNA code.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 02/09/2026
Trade xkcd.com/3290/
Comic. [Person standing holding hammer above raised knee.] PERSON: Listen up, leg. I’ve been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off! [caption] Tariffs
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Shaun Lintern @shaunlintern.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
🚨 A growing number of children are "sitting ducks" for preventable diseases as uptake for all vaccinations for 1-yr-olds fall again: www.thetimes.com/article/fcdc...
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GPs urged to offer out-of-hours appointments for child jabs
Falling immunisation rates for measles and other diseases have led to calls for family doctors to do more to encourage parents to act
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The Royal Society @royalsociety.org · 27/08/2026
Professor Bonnie Bassler is awarded the Copley Medal for her discovery of the universality of chemical communication in bacteria and for her idea that interfering with this communication could form the basis of novel anti-bacterials. #RSMedals royalsociety.org/medals-and-prizes/…
A woman with dark hair and a light blue shirt smiles at the camera in front of a bright white background.
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I’m always happy when this type of map gets an update. The GDP of US states compared to countries. Australia has the same GDP as Florida. Russia = Texas. What’s the funniest country-state pairing here? Source: buff.ly/lxN6Qax
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Oni Blackstock, MD MHS @oniblackstock.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
"Linking county-level data on the proportion of enslaved people in 1860 with structural inequality indicators from 1990 to 2000 and mortality outcomes from 2010 to 2020, we find that historical slavery is robustly associated with contemporary racial mortality gaps..."
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Historical slavery predicts contemporary disparities in mortality between Black and White Americans | PNAS
We tested whether contemporary Black–White mortality disparities in the United States may be rooted in the historical legacy of slavery and perpetu...
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
@indyfromspace.bsky.social twink bones!!! arf!
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I've been following the ongoing Ebola outbreak in the DRC closely Many of the same challenges, delayed detection, conflict, mistrust, and under-resourced public health systems continue to shape the course of epidemics. bktitanji.substack.com/p/weve-seen-...
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We've Seen This Ebola Story Before, We Cannot Afford to Repeat It
How delayed detection, conflict, funding gaps, and fading global attention allowed the largest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's history to outpace the response
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 10/08/2026
According to an *Economist* editorial, "AI is breaking the British state" by making it too easy to file complaints, demands and appeals, which will "drown the state" with "demands as well-crafted as a first-class lawyer's": archive.is/VTrj9 1/
Boston's brutalist city hall; it is surrounded by warring armies of vintage pulp robots, under a flaming sky.
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Stefan Pöhlmann @snpoehlm.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
British ‘First Fleet’ brought smallpox to Australia—and may have killed millions | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
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British ‘First Fleet’ brought smallpox to Australia—and may have killed millions
Two papers pin the deadly disease’s introduction on British colonists and suggest the continent held far more people than previously believed
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
@mackayim.bsky.social did you see this about Bundabugyo? www.science.org/content/arti...
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EXCLUSIVE: Congo’s Ebola epidemic started at least 4 months before it was detected
A remote mining town gripped by fear saw hundreds of suspected cases before the government declared an outbreak, report says
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
The Democratic Party’s mega-donor class is horrified by the rising tide of progressive populism. Too bad. It's time they recognize the real choice is between democracy and tyranny, between an economy that works for all or one that works for a small sliver at the top.
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Very important phase1/2 trial of a 6-valent group B strep vaccine. The vaccine was both safe and immunogenicity in pregnant and non pregnant persons. Sets the stage for ph3 studies. GBS sepsis is a major cause of neonatal sepsis causing 91,000 newborn deaths/yr. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Maternal 6-valent group B Streptococcus vaccine in non-pregnant and pregnant females: a randomized phase 1/2 trial - Nature Medicine
A phase 1/2 study found maternal hexavalent 6 polysaccharide−protein conjugate group B Streptococcus vaccine (GBS6) to be safe and immunogenic and to have induced antibody responses to vaccine serotyp...
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 25/07/2026
This is REALLY good
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
The Iran War is on track to become the deepest oil shock in modern history, with projected losses eclipsing the 1973 embargo, the Iranian Revolution and the Gulf War. Source: buff.ly/lvndd5O
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Important @nejm.org correspondence today. Investigators found that licensed Ebola vaccines generate cross-reactive binding antibody responses against Bundibugyo ebolavirus (BDBV) in humans. www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....
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Patrick - Here for the craic❗️🤷🏼‍♂️😉 @paddyopatrick.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
👇🏼Count Binface out of costume looks the consummate professional political candidate for Clacton Versus a thin skinned, grifting, unhinged, dodgy old man who’d look better with a bin on his head C’mon #Clacton “Farage fooled you once, shame on you; if he fools you twice, there’s no helping you”❗️🤷🏼‍♂️
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
If podcasts are your thing, I chatted with the host of the Naked Scientists Pod this week about the clinical trial underway in the UK. You can listen using the link below. www.thenakedscientists.com/articles/int...
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Ebola vaccine enters clinical trials
Oxford researchers develop the jab in record time
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Trish Greenhalgh @trishgreenhalgh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Come to Oxford for our three-day Summer Academy in August! Exciting programme, heavily subsidised, a taster for postgraduate study: www.phc.ox.ac.uk/events/oxfor...
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Oxford Summer Academy for the Social Science of Health Innovation 2026
Following the success of our inaugural Academy last year, we are delighted to offer our second Translational Health Sciences Summer Academy. Building on the successful MSc in Translational Health Scie...
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Plague Poems @plaguepoems.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
By now, you have probably heard that the culprit in this cyclospora outbreak has been identified as shredded iceberg lettuce, and while we now know which vegetable is to blame, let us not forget that another culprit are those that shredded our cyclospora monitoring.
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Swapping one lithium salt for another produced a 57% wider stability window in a lithium-ion electrolyte. The shift was driven by 3D ion arrangement that text-based models miss. doi.org/hcbp9f
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With machine learning, researchers embrace the atomic-scale complexity of batteries
For grid-scale energy storage and national energy resilience, the U.S. needs better batteries. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) scientists are tackling that challenge in many ways, but one approach is making a significant impact: physics-informed machine learning.
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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I'd go further, not only do they lack consciousness, they lack intelligence. The models are just reflecting back the intelligence embedded in the ingested data. We're looking at a mirror and thinking that there's someone trapped behind the glass. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Once again we are told AI may be conscious – I study consciousness, and I have my doubts | Anil Seth
Despite Anthropic’s claims, Claude is no more likely to achieve sentience than a simulation of a weather system is likely to generate a real hurricane, says Anil Seth, professor of cognitive and compu...
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BK. Titanji @boghuma.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
My latest Perspective is out in PLOS Global Public Health: The Bundibugyo Ebola Virus Emergency and the Erosion of Global Health Security. ( open access) Global health security depends on investing before not, after the next outbreak. journals.plos.org/globalpublic...
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The Bundibugyo Ebola Virus Emergency and the erosion of global health security
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Kai Kupferschmidt @kakape.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
“It’s a really important step,” says Vasee Moorthy, who leads R&D blueprint work at WHO’s Office of the Chief Scientist. “It’s hope for the community.” I wrote about the first ever clinical trial to test drugs against Bundibugyo, that started today. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...
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First-ever treatment trial for Ebola Bundibugyo kicks off in the Congo
Scientists will test an antiviral drug and an antibody cocktail designed to tame the burgeoning outbreak
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Dreadnought Holiday @dreadships.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
The conclusion the French built some of the world's most beautiful ships is a post Hoche fallacy
French ironclad Hoche, with all the usual features of a battleship of the era except some - indeed any - freeboard. It's like somebody has taken the Monopoly battleship and filed off the bottom third, including most of the hull.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Again: how was a guy with no observable political skills and no allies, whom nobody liked or wanted, able to not only seize unquestioned control of the opposition but shitehouse his way to power with no plans for how to govern the country? Is that normal, does that happen in other democracies.
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Keir Starmer's Former Director of Comms
James Lyons criticises his old boss saying that his proudest moment in Downing Street should have been "something he did once inside No 10" and not "walking through the door"
"We had no plan for government."
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Very cool animated #history map of #Europe. One frame for every year starting in 400 BC. The link goes through to YouTube. Be aware the video is 11 minutes long. Utterly fascinating though! Link: buff.ly/2EPAoPc
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
@dankaszeta.bsky.social Frecnh infantry at Waterloo, did you see this?
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Simon Kuestenmacher @simongerman600.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
I loved Moby Dick when I first read it many moons ago. I had forgotten how far the journey described in the book was. Source: buff.ly/5Z2mKIy
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Tom Cox @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
“Brian got some hair gel and now he thinks he’s a f***ing unicorn.”
Two Shetland ponies I photographed on Dartmoor, both of whom have extremely fetching hair-dos, but especially Brian, in the foreground, who has made a big effort with his appearance since I last saw him, which I am hoping is on my behalf.
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Thijs Kuiken @thijskuiken.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Now that highly pathogenic avian influenza H5N1 (bird flu) has been detected for the first time in wildlife in Australia, this online lecture from 2024 at the Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute may be of interest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImFD...
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The global expansion of H5N1 highly pathogenic avian influenza - Prof Thijs Kuiken
YouTube video by Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
A truly wild thing about our MAGA/MAHA government is how they go on & on about how evil the government is & how the government lies & how nobody should trust government public health agencies Um, THEY ARE THE GOVERNMENT And trust in these agencies has plummeted under their watch—due to THEM!
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
@mackayim.bsky.social hiya Ian, did you have an interest in Ru tank arsenal? seem to remember a conversation.Jompy has just written a new article
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Kristen @ansibledialectics.bsky.social · 14/06/2026
Phone ban, social media ban & curfew, trans bathroom ban, trans youth healthcare ban, repeated protest ban, arrests of peaceful protestors for Palestine. All this government seems able to do is ban, ban, ban. No positive vision of the future, just kneejerk authoritarian crackdowns.
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Brian Groom @groomb.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Titanic Men Going Home, Belfast, painting by Cupar Pilson, Irish artist.
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Janine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 28/05/2026
It’s a stupidly high bar but I believe this to be Craig Brown’s finest work
A page of parodic mail online headlines by Craig Brown from the current issue of Private Eye. Buy Private Eye it’s only £2.99.
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Science X / Phys.org @sciencex.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
In advanced melanoma, better responses to immune checkpoint inhibitors were more often linked to Faecalibacterium in the gut. Other pathways appeared to align with resistance. doi.org/hb46ss
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Gut bacteria linked to immunotherapy success in melanoma patients
Researchers at The George Washington University, working with Weill Cornell Medicine, have identified specific gut bacteria linked to better responses to cancer immunotherapy in patients with advanced melanoma.
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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Cool paper
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Dr. Céline Gounder @celinegounder.com · 15/05/2026
Congo’s New Ebola Outbreak Has No Vaccine, No Treatment, and Has Already Crossed a Border Bundibugyo ebolavirus confirmed in Congo and Uganda. The world has no approved countermeasures for it. Read & subscribe (for free!) www.celinegounder.com/p/ebola-bund...
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Congo’s New Ebola Outbreak Has No Vaccine, No Treatment, and Has Already Crossed a Border
Bundibugyo ebolavirus confirmed in Congo and Uganda. The world has no approved countermeasures for it.
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Dutch News @dutchnewsnl.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
In the first inventory of its kind, the Wageningen researchers counted some 9,000 mounds, three times as many as previously thought.
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NL is littered with ancient dwelling mounds, research shows - DutchNews.nl
Terpen, or the ancient man-made dwelling mounds the Dutch built to protect their farmland and homes from flooding, were much more common in the Netherlands than previously thought, a new study by…
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Philip Obaji Jr. @philipobaji.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Told Austrian TV how Russian fighters in Africa have committed atrocities while propping up juntas & how they’re weaponizing the continent as a launchpad for disinformation ops flooding Europe with lies to sow chaos and division. Africa is paying in blood. Europe in instability
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lauren @lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 14/05/2026
my favorite genre of international dialogue
Iranian President Sayyid Mohammad Khatami assuming on CNN that most Americans have read Alexis de Tocqueville
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
@gregggonsalves.bsky.social hi gregg, did you see this? from doctor daoud www.instagram.com/reel/DYGktxe...
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 10/05/2026
Crows going nuts, dive-bombing the top of a pine. First 6 then 12 then 24. A gigantic red-tailed hawk emerged, crows swarming, pulling wing feathers and tail. Hawk dropped a large rabbit with a loud thud on the neighbors roof. Now the crows are celebrating like they just won the World Series.
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Delthia Ricks @dricks.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Cancer cells can insidiously trick immune system cells into becoming their allies by reprogramming immune defenders into aiding the deadly activities of the cancer. New research. By Delthia Ricks medicalxpress.com/news/2026-04...
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Turning immune cells into tumor allies: A cancer cell protein can reprogram frontline defenders
Cancer cells can disarm the immune system not just by hiding from it, but by actively reprogramming nearby immune cells into a suppressed state. This previously unrecognized molecular interaction, dis...
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
Something shocking and out of the ordinary is happening in the UK. While in most comparable countries, healthy life expectancy is rising, here it is plunging steeply. Q. So what marks us out? A. 47 years of extreme neoliberalism, culminating in austerity. www.health.org.uk/reports-and-...
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Onisillos @onisillos.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Makes me think of this: bsky.app/profile/onis...
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