Why not enjoy a road trip through southern France? From the new Private Eye, in shops now.

Good grief, how can someone so unqualified even be considered for NIAID director?

Flo Débarre@flodebarre.eurosky.social · 14h ago

Steven Quay, in line to be NIAID director, is not just any lab leaker. He is of the type of leakers who still talk about "HIV inserts". He has deleted his tweets from 2021-2025, so here are some screenshots to give you an idea of who Quay is: ▫️1/🧵 #covidorigin #quayniaid

Everyone here has felt the effects.

John Gibbons 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@thinkorswim.bsky.social · 3d ago

There’s “off the charts” and there’s France’s absolutely bonkers June & July 2026 temperatures (see black line below). Bad things are happening. Fast.

Zach found this recording recently, and it's a crucial piece of evidence that thoroughly refutes a theory put forward by Alina Chan, DRASTIC, and even, according to what we read in Vanity Fair, the FBI. Check his thread! #covidorigin

Zach Hensel@zachhensel.bsky.social · 5d ago

It's a public webinar that Zhengli Shi delivered on March 9, 2020, before a global pandemic had been declared. In this clip from the talk, Shi delineates 4 sarbecovirus lineages. The 8 samples in "Lineage 4" are the ones in the figure most closely related to SARS-CoV-2.

Activists briefly interrupted the opening ceremony of the 26th annual International AIDS Conference to protest the lack of access in Latin America to lenacapavir, a new long-lasting drug that prevents HIV infection. Learn more: https://scim.ag/4vZ2kJF

We are excited to share two preprints reporting a mosquito-specific receptor for chikungunya virus and other alphaviruses! 🤩 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6... @harvardmicro.bsky.social @harvardvirology.bsky.social @hhmi-science.bsky.social

I will be following Anthony Fauci's hearing today, and I will post comments in this thread with the hashtag #faucihearing. Feel free to mute it! ▫️1/🧵 www.hsgac.senate.gov

Boosting!🧫🔬

George O'Toole (he/him/his)@geiselbiofilm.bsky.social · last mo.

Pls share: U of Washington has an opening for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor. This position is expected to specialize in molecular virology or bacteriology. Here is a link: microbiology.washington.edu/index.php/ne...

I am sick of some media uncritically repeating Rand Paul's misrepresentation of Fauci's journal about the Huanan market. In late Jan 2020, it was a common commentary that the market may not be the origin of the outbreak, b/c of a Lancet paper on early cases ▫️1/6 www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/u...

Under a Binface government, anyone who doesn’t accept human-made climate change as fact will be sent back to school, from Year 1 right the way to A Levels, to see if anything goes in the second time round. #VoteBinface

Un document historique exceptionnel sur la pandémie de Covid-19 a été mis en ligne hier soir par le sénateur US libertarien et complotiste Rand Paul : plus de 1000 pages du journal personnel d'Antony Fauci. ▫️1/6 www.paul.senate.gov/wp-content/u... #covidrorigin

When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.

1/ We are thrilled to share our first @cellcellpress.bsky.social paper with the ATLAS team studying the role of antibodies, emphasizing autoantibodies in cancer (authors.elsevier.com/a/1nUSAL7PXy...).

NYT: 1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds by Apoorva Mandavilli @apoorvanyt.bsky.social nyti.ms/4wTighg

1,700 H.I.V. Treatment Sites Closed After Trump Aid Cuts, a Study Finds

New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.

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A little throwback to the 2014 Ebola disease case accumulation comparison thread. This is based on the data I use ot curate for a @tableaupublic.bsky.social data viz back then. Related dashboard link: public.tableau.com/views/EbolaW...

Career opportunity at the Institut Pasteur in Paris, France They are looking for an experienced researcher with a strong background in synthetic chemistry, medicinal chemistry, chemical biology, and who can take a leadership role in chemistry applied to the life sciences and health

Ariane Briegel@arianebriegel.bsky.social · 3w ago

research.pasteur.fr/en/call/mid-...

During the green deal, the farm lobby killed the attempt to reduce farmers dependence on nitrogen fertiliser. Now the EU just spent 540 milion €, in one go, on extra fertiliser subsidies. This is money taken from taxpayers and handed to Russian and Gulf regimes.

has anyone else ever run into that annoying glitch when trying to copy two-column text from a PDF? the twisted history of "vegetative electron microsccopy" is nicely dissected in the below 🧵 by @jamesbicycle.bsky.social

Dr James on a bicycle, psychologist, cycologist 🇨🇦@jamesbicycle.bsky.social · 2w ago

“vegetative electron microscopy” "The term has now appeared in at least 22 different papers" "the nonsense term may now be permanently embedded in AI knowledge bases" 1/2 www.zmescience.com/science/news...

Lancet: Ending HIV: a reality check bit.ly/4vRGVTj

New genomic data suggest the ongoing #Bundibugyo virus outbreak arose from a single zoonotic spillover, with the outbreak lineage likely emerging weeks before detection—underscoring the critical role of genomic surveillance for early outbreak detection and response. virological.org/t/genomic-ep...

Genomic epidemiology of the ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

Genomic epidemiology of the ongoing 2026 Bundibugyo Virus Disease outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo Institut National de Recherche Biomédicale (INRB), Kinshasa – DRC and partners Conte...

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Evaluation of a proposed link between the SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site and mouse-adapted MERS-coronavirus MA30 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Evaluation of a proposed link between the SARS-CoV-2 furin cleavage site and mouse-adapted MERS-coronavirus MA30 | PNAS

The origin of the polybasic furin cleavage site (FCS) of SARS-CoV-2 remains a central question in debates on the emergence of COVID-19. One hypothe...

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The World Health Organization has launched a clinical trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo to evaluate two potential Ebola treatments as the Bundibugyo outbreak continues to affect hundreds of patients. #Ebola #WHO #PublicHealth #ClinicalTrials #Congo

WHO Launches Clinical Trial of Two Ebola Treatments as Congo’s Bundibugyo Outbreak Grows

The World Health Organization (WHO) has launched a clinical trial in the Democratic Republic of Congo to evaluate two potential

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Meet SpudCell, a synthetic cell made from lifeless ingredients that feeds, grows, divides, and experiences selection. If it doesn't have all the hallmarks of life, it has a lot! Here's my story. Gift link: nyti.ms/4vCbTih

DRC Ebola: Nia-Nia Ebola treatment centre burned down, 2 dead, confirmed and suspected patients flee into the community: actualite.cd/index.php/20...

Ebola : deux morts dont un policier dans l'attaque d'un centre de traitement à Nia-Nia (Ituri), des patients en fuite

La riposte contre la maladie à virus Ebola a subi un nouveau revers en Ituri après l'attaque du Centre de traitement Ebola (CTE) de Bafwabongo, dans la zone de santé de Nia-Nia (territoire de Mambasa)...

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Hybrid extrachromosomal DNA in HPV-driven cancers journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

Hybrid extrachromosomal DNA in HPV-driven cancers | Journal of Virology

Circular, extrachromosomal DNA (ecDNA) has emerged as a hallmark of human cancers (1). These cancer-associated ecDNAs have been studied in parallel with another class of circular DNA elements—oncogenic viral episomes. Recent studies have revealed an unexpected convergence between these two fields, revealing hybrid viral-human ecDNA structures in HPV-associated cancers (2–6). We discuss how these viral-human chimeric structures blur traditional boundaries between virology and cancer biology, and how a mechanistic understanding of this convergence could inform the development of new therapies for hybrid ecDNA-positive malignancies. As the field remains nascent, we also delineate key open questions surrounding hybrid ecDNA biogenesis, maintenance, and evolutionary significance that must be addressed to fully realize this therapeutic potential.

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Nice article from The Scientist about the antibody "problem". www.the-scientist.com/altered-anti... @reeserichardson.bsky.social @sholtodavid.bsky.social @jwoodgett.bsky.social @mbonini.bsky.social @bwjones.bsky.social

Altered Antibody Validation Data on Vendor Sites Alarms Researchers | The Scientist

After several examples of undisclosed alterations in reagent suppliers’ antibody catalogues surfaced, researchers call for transparency to rebuild trust.

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Out Now! Identification of chemical features for improved outer membrane permeation in mycobacteria using machine learning #MicroSky

Identification of chemical features for improved outer membrane permeation in mycobacteria using machine learning

Nature Microbiology, Published online: 30 June 2026; doi:10.1038/s41564-026-02412-5Screening 1,572 compounds for mycomembrane permeation plus cheminformatic and machine learning analyses reveals features associated with improved permeation in the pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis and model organism M. smegmatis.

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My last day on call for the lab freezers, cold rooms and so on, I JUST got home, then I got a call to tell me there was an alarm. False, as it turned out. Anyway, I got back home again in time for Japan-Brazil. Ganbatte Nihon!

Have you ever seen this iconic image of the Ebola virus, from the first known outbreak in DRC in 1976? An electron microscopic image, it was captured by #CDC 's Fred Murphy, a virological giant and a very kind interviewee. He died yesterday. He will be missed, but his scientific legacy lives on.

Exhausting few days with temp >40C in Nantes, made especially tough today since a) I am on freezer duty this week, and alarms keep going off b) had to bike to the science campus and back because of re-sit exams.