Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 04/10/2026FYI there is an issue with the way the full text appears on a small screen; the outline is overlaid on the text (and flickers when scrolling) 220
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026Which one do you mean? "Contradictory results" is different, isn't it? www.biorxiv.org/submit-a-man... 020
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 30/09/2026Tu as aussi la version de @liberation.fr, qui fait ça depuis des mois... 120
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 24/09/2026Coucou c'est la Covid ! Comme la France ne dépose pas ses données de séquençage sur des plateformes publiques, et que GISAID interdit désormais les sites de visualisation de ses données, on ne sait plus dire facilement quels variants circulent. cov-spectrum.org/explore/Fran... 192
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026Le texte en anglais a été mis à jour sur @english.lemonde.fr 020
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026FWIW, the European Society for Evolutionary Biology funds workshops on the condition that some output is published in one of its society journals web.archive.org/web/20250916... 141
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026La version française Lien FR : www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art... Lien EN : www.lemonde.fr/en/history/a... 110
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 23/09/2026Hasard des choses, j'ai d'abord cliqué sur un lien vers la version anglaise de l'article dans Le Monde. Je ne sais pas qui est en charge des traductions, mais c'est étonnant de laisser passer ce genre de chose ! @english.lemonde.fr 140
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 21/09/2026Looks like it's an issue regarding how forum post replies are referenced by Altmetric. The article is cited in a 2024 reply to that 2015 post (it's the hyperlink behind "there actually is") christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/43... 110
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 19/09/2026it's been blogged about, but cannot find posts because the @altmetric.com page seems to be down ("file not found") www.altmetric.com/details.php?... There was a discussion about the paper in MBE, apparently academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (and cited refs) 341
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026Andrew Wakefield est un ancien médecin britannique, auteur d'une influente mais frauduleuse étude en 1998, qui liait le vaccin ROR à l'autisme. Il est depuis un actif militant antivax www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... 170
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 17/09/2026La rubrique Sciences du journal Le Monde, tombé dans des théories complotistes autour de la Covid-19, nous a fait cet été du sanewashing d'un comité sénatorial US dirigé par Rand Paul et avec Ron Johnson. Les voici ici invités à la conférence antivax CHD, avec Wakefield archive.ph/AcRbc 2125
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 14/09/2026Je suis surprise qu'il n'y ait pas plus de protestations contre les nouvelles conditions d'éligibilité pour les PRC anr.fr/fileadmin/aa... #HelloESR Je ne sais pas si vous avez beaucoup de jeunes chercheur·es éligibles et disponibles sur vos thématiques autour de vous ; moi non 143
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 07/09/2026In case you don't know, this is also how Lyme was made (The author was featured by BSNow in one of their online discussions) archive.is/0cksm#select... 150
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026Oh... Missing in the NYT description is the fact that Kadlec is the author of an idiosyncratic, weird and, should I specify it, unsupported lab leak scenario for the origin of Covid-19. In his version, SARS-CoV-2 was made by Chinese military during the development of a neurological bioweapon 15725
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026@cenmag.bsky.social and @science.org did mention the retraction though cen.acs.org/education/sc... www.science.org/content/arti... 020
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 04/09/2026I had missed this important detail 👇, and I had not seen it either in the news articles I had read about the latest IgNobel prizes (Nature, LeMonde) www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪 @chrisnsimms.bsky.social 3103
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026and it's over! ▫️15/15 PS: If you have not done it yet, consider turning on Bluesky's automatic thread numbering, it's super useful! You can directly see whether a post is in a thread and how long the thread is Settings > Beta features > Enable beta features 1103
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026"Nobody in the world has done more thinking and action on regulating gain of function research than Tony." From across the pond, I think I just heard some screams from BS Now and their friends ▫️14/ 191
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026And journalists love gotchas His answer here is similar to something he said previously www.nytimes.com/interactive/... ▫️13/ 1113
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026No data on lab leak vs. peer-reviewed papers for natural origin, so leans natural. But still open to the possibility that this changes (like we all are) the European Union is a country now apparently 🇪🇺 ▫️10/ 1130
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026Now... the origin of COVID. The hands represent the two options -- lab vs. zoonosis (I think there are more because there are so many different lab leak scenarios around) ▫️9/ 1120
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026Now on vaccine hesitancy and antivaxx beliefs. Fauci is writing a book on the topic. "we are living in a world of social media" Finds it frightening that so many people now believe that more people died of the vaccine than of COVID, don't accept "critical thinking with data"▫️8/ 1153
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026With the anthrax attacks (initially thought to be linked to Al Qaeda), Cheney & Bush started a biosecurity initiative and asked Fauci -- Fauci recommended also including emerging infectious diseases because "nature is the greatest bioterrorist" ▫️5/ Really good to see the quote in context 3215
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026After talking about drug resistance, then commenting on how the state can be instrumental in speeding up drug and vaccine development, they are moving to 2001 anthrax. Some laughs when Fauci notes that many in the room were very young (or not even born yet) at the time ▫️4/ 1152
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026After a trip to Uganda, seeing people dying because drugs were not accessible, Fauci felt there was a moral responsibility to help -- he credits George W Bush for understanding it and launching PEPFAR ; laments the current disengagement ▫️3/ 1222
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026Fauci explains that HIV activists got (his) attention by chosing a person to target in the US government and calling him a murderer in the San Francisco Examiner ▫️2/ (my comment: Richard Ebright also tried repeatedly but it did not work the same way) 1193
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 02/09/2026Currently watching (will try to post notes) 🧵 13114
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 27/08/2026FWIW, OpenAlex also recorded a temporary increase in publication volume openalex.org/works?page=1... 010
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026The number of scientific and technical publications with authors from Russia increased a lot from the mid-2010s, compared to other countries -- differently depending on the source, but still. Do you know what happened? source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/scie... ; (not showing China and the US) 121
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026Que s'est-il passé en Russie entre 2015 et 2021 pour avoir eu une telle augmentation du volume de publications ?? www.lemonde.fr/sciences/art... Source d'origine : www.hceres.fr/sites/defaul... (Fig3) 030
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 26/08/2026An early version of a lab leak scenario notes that MBCS in H5N1 are acquired in high density poultry farms, claims that this is the only way they emerge, and links that to serial passage in a lab for SARS-CoV-2 doi.org/10.1002/bies... 010
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026Checking data in the repository around the Wuhan sequences, you could see that they all had "create" dates at regular intervals -- it was just how the database was managed, not evidence of a lie by Chinese scientists. ▫️4/ 130
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 25/08/2026Steven Quay had noticed that early SARS-CoV-2 sequences from Wuhan on the European Nucleotide Archive (ENA) had a "created on" date of 10 Dec 2019, while the corresponding samples were collected on 26 Dec 2019. What happened? ▫️2/ web.archive.org/web/20200420... 130
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 20/08/2026if you did not follow the hyperlink, here's what is behind "claim" 140
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 19/08/2026Important to remind people of the wild conspiracy theory - and accusations - in there: a University of North Carolina (UNC) lab studying ENaCα would have told Ralph Baric (UNC) about it who would have told his collaborators in China. Still incredible to me that someone accepted to have this printed 010
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 18/08/2026It is extraordinary, because this would mean that Relman knows more than the US Intelligence Community, at least given their statement in the latest public report on the origin, in June 2023 ▫️3/ archive.dni.gov/files/ODNI/d... 1211
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026In his recently published book, Quay claims that BANAL-20-52 is fake as well -- but he does not show why nor why a Laotian-French team and Institut Pasteur would want to fake a bat coronavirus genome sequence. Anyway, it's the typical conspiratorial trick: ignoring contradictory information. ▫️6/7 1172
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026In late 2024, Steven Quay revived the HIV claim, stating that the inserts were not found in "pre-pandemic" sarbecoviruses. It's a common leaker trick (Alina Chan would also often use it) to suggest that no post-2020 genome can be trusted because "the Chinese" have manipulated data. ▫️4/7 1142
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026The claim was almost immediately debunked -- some inserts were not actually inserts, and the link to HIV was clearly a coincidence. archive.ph/hCFPA In France, the claim had a second life with Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel Prize winner for the codiscovery of HIV (cf. quoted post in #1) ▫️3/7 1141
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026The HIV claim was first published in late 2020 on @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social; it went viral, and was withdrawn a few days afterwards. The authors claimed that they had identified 4 insertions in the spike of the new coronavirus, and that these insertions matched parts of HIV.▫️2/7 1151
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026Quay was not that prominent during Covid, so people may not realize how abysmally stupid his lab leak scenarios were and how incompetent he is. In late 2024, he revived the claim that SARS-CoV-2 had been designed after HIV -- a claim fully debunked in early 2020 ▫️1/7🧵 zenodo.org/records/1455... 37440
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 09/08/2026Quay claims that they are not zenodo.org/records/1455... 200
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 08/08/2026The disconnect between the WWE cutout and the memorial service on the TV in the background is so distasteful that I really had to double-check, and yes, this is what it is -- here's another angle www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=... 1137
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026Quay's 2026 X posts are still there; check what he found appropriate posting: an AI-generated "infographic" of the DRC Ebola outbreak, with a round coronavirus-like virus, and imaginary country shapes (again, on a par with this administration) source: archive.ph/uXeQh ▫️6/ #covidorigin #quayniaid 1246
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026Add to it some gratuitous cringiness, when he and other leakers harassed an editor because they did not like a paper (ours...), to the point that the editor had to close their social media accounts. "I'll even buy you a wig for your post-debate alopecia." ▫️5/ #covidorigin #quayniaid 2216
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026Quay is a well-rounded person spending too much time on the Internet, so he is also a climate sceptic. ▫️4/ #covidorigin #quayniaid 2287
Flo Débarre @flodebarre.eurosky.social · 05/08/2026Because the Venn diagram of lab leakers and antivaxxers is close to a circle, Quay is antivaxx. It helps to work under RFK Jr., I guess. Here he is, rewritting tweets by accounts that described every sudden death as being caused by a vaccine. ▫️3/ #covidorigin #quayniaid 3298