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Eddie Holmes

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Virus spotter. You're twistin' my melon man.

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(((Bexzex))) @bexzex.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Most of the work wasn’t in the climb itself -- it wasn’t about the terrain, the path, the rocks, or even my body, my legs, or my breathing. The real work was in facing myself and my fears, every step up and back down
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 15/08/2025
Chapter 5 now available for free. This is probably my favorite chapter, certainly the one featuring one of the most remarkable researchers and stories I was able to collect for my book on the origin of SARS-CoV-2. If you read just one chapter of my book, let it be this one You wont be disappointed
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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Thanks to producer @ellahubber.bsky.social for bashing this into shape
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Ian M. Mackay, PhD (he/him) 🦠🤧🧬📑🦟🧀 @mackayim.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
What crap is this? "The Queensland government says it wasn't "confident" a doctor was suitable to be the state's chief health officer" -do they not know the last 2 two Qld CHOs were medical doctors (and so stand-ins)?? The need is in the title guys. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...
abc.net.au
MP calls for transparency over Qld health head appointment
Sources told the ABC an offer for the state's top health job was made and quickly scrapped.
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Not to belabor a "I told you so", but it's been clear for years that the whole "lab leak" discourse has absolutely nothing to do with a potential lab leak and everything to do with a broader anti-science agenda. I really, and truly, hope more scientists will realize this and take corrective action.
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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
People were crossing the English Channel from far off lands back in Anglo Saxon times. And according to this burial style, were accepted into the community. You might think it a British tradition. www.science.org/content/arti...
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Youths buried in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries carried West African DNA
Despite bearing remarkably far-flung genetic origins, a girl and young man were buried just like their peers
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Hensley Lab @scottehensley.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Looks like one of our ‘imprinting’ papers was cited in the HHS data package, despite our conclusion that people receiving an ancestral mRNA vaccine were better at producing antibodies against variants compared to unvaccinated people.
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ABC News Bot (unofficial) @abcnewsbot.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Mop-top potato virus, which does not harm humans, has been found in multiple potatoes on a Tasmanian farm — a first for Australia.
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Virus 'previously exotic to Australia' found in Tasmanian potatoes
Mop-top potato virus, which does not harm humans, has been found in multiple potatoes on a Tasmanian farm — a first for Australia.
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
The Guardian view on RFK Jr’s vaccine cuts: an assault on science from a politician unfit for his office bit.ly/45Azvbf
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The Guardian view on RFK Jr’s vaccine cuts: an assault on science from a politician unfit for his office | Editorial
Editorial: The decision by the US health and human services secretary to remove mRNA research funding is ill-informed and dangerous
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Alex Crits-Christoph @acritschristoph.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
I will never get over how creepy it is how the NIH X account is a full time propaganda machine now
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Greg Folkers @gregfolkers.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya on Steve Bannon's War Room : “As Far As Public Health Goes For Vaccines, The mRNA Platform Is No Longer Viable” bit.ly/3UmknJm
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Dr Bhattacharya “As Far As Public Health Goes For Vaccines, The mRNA Platform Is No Longer Viable”
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Paul Rainey @paulbrainey.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Makes sense that diverse microbial communities can be maintained on a recalcitrant substrate like cellulose, but on glucose, surely not? Surprisingly there is no difference 🤔 The first part is live 👇 but more to come (including answers). www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Diverse microbial communities assemble on both recalcitrant and labile carbon sources
Microbial community assembly is shaped by the nature of available resources, with labile carbon sources such as glucose often expected to support low diversity due to rapid growth and competitive excl...
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Dr Alison Peel @alibat.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
The unwarranted denial of travel visas for 8 respected international bat researchers was a shameful and embarrassing start to the International Bat Research Conference in Cairns. Well done to the ABS and Guardian for highlighting it @ibrc2025.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event
Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry
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Mike Honey @mikehoney.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
You’d think at this moment in history we would be falling over ourselves to show we are welcoming scientists and science. It’s always struck me as one area of the law (here and in most other countries) where you are presumed guilty until you prove yourself innocent.
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Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
You're better than this Australia: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event
Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry
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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
We warned the BBC this look at the state of science under the Trump admin might need last minute adjustments, and sure enough, overnight between drafts 1 & 2 came the RFK mRNA decision. That warrants only a single sentence, we've so much already. But we go in-depth into the ACIP vaccine committee.
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Punk Rock History @punkrockhistory.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
50 years ago The first photograph of the Sex Pistols (Johnny Rotten, Glen Matlock, Steve Jones, and Paul Cook) in the backyard of a pub where they rehearsed in Chiswick, London, in August/September 1975. Photo by John Gray.
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Jennifer Barr @jennbarr.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Excited for the Infectious Diseases in Bats symposium today where I will be presenting our research #ibrc2025
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Henry Gee 亨利·纪 @endofthepier.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Stone tools from Sulawesi at least a million years old may be even more ancient than those found on Flores, suggesting an even earlier presence of hominins on Wallacea www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene - Nature
Early Pleistocene artefacts at Calio suggest that Sulawesi was populated by hominins at around the same time as Flores, if not earlier.
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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Forwards? Or backwards? That is the question.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Horrific. mRNA vaccines have saved millions of lives and could save millions more. “I don’t think I’ve seen a more dangerous decision in public health in my 50 years in the business,” said Mike Osterholm, a UMN expert on infectious diseases & pandemic preparations. www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-va...
huffpost.com
RFK Jr. Cancels $500 Million In Funding For Vaccine Development
The mRNA vaccines are credited with slowing the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.
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Alan McNally @alanmcn1.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face .
ALT: a man with curly hair and glasses is making a funny face .
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Eddie Holmes @eddieholmes.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
"We reviewed the science, listened to the experts, and acted..." Words really don't mean anything anymore, do they? The incompetence is staggering, the political motives, clear as day. www.hhs.gov/press-room/h...
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DermodyLab @dermodylab.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
New JCI paper led by postdoc Mikal Woods Acevedo shows immune cell infiltration—not viral load—drives paralysis in mice infected with enterovirus D68. Points to new targets for AFM treatment. 🔗 doi.org/10.1172/JCI1... #Virology #NeuroImmunity #PostdocSpotlight #AFM
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JCI - Immune cells promote paralytic disease in mice infected with enterovirus D68
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 05/08/2025
How did the false bioweapon myth start? And what do a CCP-suspicious Hong Kong postdoc, an exiled Chinese billionaire and Steve Bannon cook up together in the early days of 2020? Read or listen to Lab Leak Fever, Chapter 2. 🔽 Freely accessible for everybody, anywhere.
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Wendy Orent @wendyorent.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
theconversation.com/the-covid-la... After all this evidence, and now @philippmarkolin.bsky.social's new book, why the HELL is the lab leak "theory" still alive?
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The COVID lab leak theory is dead. Here’s how we know the virus came from a Wuhan market
For the lab leak theory to be true, SARS-CoV-2 must have been present in the Wuhan Institute of Virology before the pandemic started. But there’s not a single piece of data suggesting this.
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Curtis Suttle @virosphere.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Very proud of the work from lab members and collaborators that coincidentally came out today www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... and www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A bacterial and viral pathogen associated with mass mortality in seastars and oysters. @kevinzhong2006.bsky.social @rhizalyssa.bsky.social
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Evolutionarily divergent nidovirus with an exceptionally large genome identified in Pacific oysters undergoing mass mortality | PNAS
Metatranscriptomic data from a mass-mortality event of adult Pacific Oysters, Crassostrea (Magallana) gigas, the most widely cultivated shellfish g...
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Ryan Hisner @ryanhisner.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Reminder that FCS insertions are not rare or unusual & tend to resemble the OG SARS-2 FCS insert—7/9 nucs are G's in this one, consistent w/the normal G-heavy pattern of that dominates SARS-2 insertions. 1 seq uploaded today of this, which is actually in 7 sequences overall from late 2024. 1/3
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Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 03/08/2025
I had no idea either -- thanks so much for this, @jeremymberg.bsky.social. Ebright's UG paper has been used to present him as some kind of genius (links in ALT). That it was a "communicated by" paper whose conclusion was false really changes the story...
Source: https://ncert.nic.in/textbook/pdf/jefp106.pdf
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A year-and-a-half later, during his junior year, Ebright got the idea for his new theory about cell life. It came while he was looking at X-ray photos of the chemical structure of a hormone.
When he saw those photos, Ebright didn't shout, 'Eureka!' or even, T've got it!' But he believed that, along with his findings about insect hormones, the photos gave him the answer to one of biology's puzzles: how the cell can 'read' the blueprint of its DNA. DNA is the substance in the nucleus of a cell that controls heredity. It determines the form and function of the cell. Thus DNA is the blueprint for life.
Ebright and his college room-mate, James R. Wong, worked all that night drawing pictures and constructing plastic models of molecules to show how it could happen. Together they later wrote the paper that explained the theory.
Surprising no one who knew him, Richard Ebright graduated from Harvard with highest honours, second in his class of 1,510. Ebright went on to become a graduate student researcher at Harvard Medical School. There he began doing experiments to test his theory.
If the theory proves correct, it will be a big step towards understanding the processes of life. It might also lead to new ideas for preventing some types of cancer and other diseases. All of this is possible because of Ebright's scientific curiosity. His high school research into the purpose of the spots on a monarch pupa eventually led him to his theory about cell life.Source: Jeremy Andre's book, "Au nom de la science"

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Ce biologiste de l'université Rutgers dans le New
Jersey a pourtant un très bon CV. Avec son colocataire de faculté à Harvard, il avait publié son premier article dans une revue scientifique nationale réputée à seulement 22 ans', sur le code de l'ADN*, le génome, l'information qui permet aux cellules de fonctionner et de se reproduire.

Google translation: This biologist from Rutgers University in New Jersey has a very good resume. With his Harvard roommate, he published his first article in a renowned national scientific journal at just 22 years old, on the DNA code*, the genome, the information that allows cells to function and reproduce.source: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.307.5714.1397

text: Ebright held his own and also excelled academically, publishing his first paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences while still in college.
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Another email to Bhattacharya about his interview and his continued statements that NIH's gain of function research caused the COVID pandemic and killed millions of people. 1/8
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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Another straightforward take on the science of COVID origins, and the trouble with politicising it.
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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Turns out Richard Ebright too has a track record of publishing crap…who’d have thought it. Just wait and see how much GoF research he does with dangerous pathogens at arms length….
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Roland Pease @peaseroland.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
This thread has rather made my evening
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Jeremy Berg @jeremymberg.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Seeing Richard Ebright's name reminds me of another recent thread... bsky.app/profile/jere... 1/n
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(((Bexzex))) @bexzex.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
A week in and around one of my favorite places on earth
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 01/08/2025
Happy August. Here is a little surprise for everybody: The english version of my book is finally available. You can get it on Amazon. You can also read and listen to it on my blog, where I will release the book as freely accessible serialized novel. 1/ www.protagonist-science.com/p/lab-leak-f...
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Lab Leak Fever
The COVID-19 Origin Theory that Sabotaged Science and Society
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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins hurt our ability to prevent the next pandemic theconversation.com/how-conspira... "...virus very likely emerged through a natural spillover from animals – a 'zoonosis'" Debate "...increasingly been shaped by political agendas & conspiratorial narratives."
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How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic
The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
GREAT editorial—essential reading “most available & accessible published scientific evidence supports a zoonotic origin” Yup, that’s what the science shows Such a superb line: “maintaining neutrality on this issue amounts to performative uncertainty to create the veneer of academic detachment”
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Health Nerd @gidmk.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Among the many issues that this piece highlights is how the conspiracy theories surrounding COVID-19 origins have remained almost entirely focused on a handful of chat logs and email threads from five years ago while the science has been evolving and pointing more and more towards zoonosis.
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Ben Pierce @benfpiercephd.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
It's important to repeat this, as the lab leak nonsense has been a driving force of the attacks on science, the current state of the US, etc. 👇👇
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Theres Luethi @theresluethi.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Excellent article. I like the title. This is the piece that should have been in the New York Times.
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STAT @statnews.com · 30/07/2025
#Breaking: Vinay Prasad, a top official at the Food and Drug Administration, has suddenly departed after a series of controversial decisions about a treatment for boys with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. www.statnews.com/2025/07/29/v...
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Vinay Prasad departs the FDA
A top FDA official is out after less than 3 months on the job.
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Prof Gavin Yamey MD MPH @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Lab leak conspiracy theories are highly damaging “This anti-science agenda, stemming in part from COVID origin conspiracy theories, is being used to help justify deep cuts to funding for biomedical research, public health & global aid. These areas are essential for pandemic preparedness.”
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Kristian G. Andersen @kgandersen.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Our research has been engulfed by an endless torrent of lab leak conspiracy theories about the origin of the pandemic - even as the evidence for zoonosis has only grown stronger. This fuels anti-science agendas and erodes public trust. Now, we respond 👇 theconversation.com/how-conspira...
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How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic
The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.
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Bob Geraghty @vulgeraghty.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Well worth reading, completely agree.
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Russell Brown @publicaddress.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
This is worth reading. The lab leak theory hasn't been ignored or suppressed, it just isn't well-supported by evidence.
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Philipp Markolin @philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 29/07/2025
Look at that. Love to see more of it
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Zach Hensel @zachhensel.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Good to see a few people sticking their necks out today by simply writing what's true.
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Angie Rasmussen @angierasmussen.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The politically weaponized "lab leak" theory is destroying both pandemic preparedness & all of American science. Grateful to @kgandersen.bsky.social, @arambaut.bsky.social, @eddieholmes.bsky.social, & Bob Garry for their courage & commitment to our field. theconversation.com/how-conspira...
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How conspiracy theories about COVID’s origins are hampering our ability to prevent the next pandemic
The COVID pandemic likely began when the virus jumped from animals to humans, and didn’t start in a lab. But false narratives continue to circulate.
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