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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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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
@dieworkwear.bsky.social have you a secret super agent persona?
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
insist on easter eggs as well!
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
hugs
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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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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
people still believe that old style injections into the abdomen are used. I was at school in Zim, one of the kids father was bitten, shot and buried the dog, no jabs , died of rabies.
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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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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Do you have an opinion about the causative agent of the" sweating sickness" England c1500?
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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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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
great article. There is a further case study from Japan in case you ever revisit the topic. They stopped using MMR for a few years because of trouble with the mumps component, went to single vaccines. Cue an explosion of measles
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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...
science.org
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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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
80 year growth phase!
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
wonderful and haunting
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Melody Schreiber @melodyschreiber.com · 25/07/2026
This is REALLY good
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
get two. you might want to celebrate something else before the big event
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
champagne in the fridge
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
technically a ravioli
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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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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
its nice for a sane view instead f the commentators "its the fastest growing ebola outbreak!" crew. Its one of the worst for data thats for sure. slowly getting there. thanks
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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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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
this is such a Leopards Eating People Faces story
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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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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
too soon, its only been 400 years
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
link might be broken
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
i wonder what happens to CO2 levels in those units. must get quite high
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
one of my friends is an honorary consultant engineer to the CoE. She loves going to the meetings
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David morrison @dcmorr.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
does this mean that you are getting fiber broadband now?
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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.
Times Radio @ TimesRadio
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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
that phone is really patronising
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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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