Onisillos
@onisillos.bsky.social
Editor-in-Chief of a very good microbial journal. (Illustration by David S. Goodsell, RCSB Protein Data Bank. doi: 10.2210/rcsb_pdb/goodsell-gallery-028)
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
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My new analysis indicates these same inserts are responsible for long
COVID.
Designed into the virus.
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Quote-tweeting:
Dr David Cartland BMedSci MBChB MRCGP (201 v) @CartlandDavic • 11h
"It was the job of a professional [and] it's NOT Natural"
Nobel Prize winner for HIV research, Luc Montagnier (RIP), said someone
"inserted small sequences of HIV" into the original covid Pandemic virus. He died after he presented the findings aired here on a French
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Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 21h agoThis is just bat-shit crazy. www.politico.com/news/2026/08...
It’s time to act. And when we do we won’t just avoid the worst effects of climate breakdown - but we will lower bills permanently, help our communities thrive - and give a grounded sense of hope for generations to come.
Victoria Derbyshire@vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 6h agoZack Polanski has called for fossil fuel producers to be made to finance firefighting helicopters, following a series of recent fires across the country He also called on PM Burnham to stop new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, including the Jackdaw & Rosebank fields off the Scottish coast
The worst part about getting "used to it" is that you don't learn to tolerate the smell, you stop being able to smell it. Then you wonder if you've picked up the smell but can't tell.
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 5h agoSamples—and a certain stink—are accumulating at Quest Diagnostics thanks to the cyclosporiasis outbreak. “You get used to it.” on.wsj.com/4fAqfu0
"Perhaps most importantly, this outbreak must remain in the global conversation. In a world filled with competing humanitarian crises, attention is a finite resource … But epidemics do not disappear simply because the headlines move on." bktitanji.substack.com/p/weve-seen-...
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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"proposed setting up its role in Golden Dome as a ‘subscription service’ in which the government would pay for access to the technology, rather than own the system outright." Hilarious! 😆 zeteo.com/p/americans-...
Americans Live in the 'United States of Oligarchy' With Elon Musk at the Top
Read an exclusive excerpt from journalist Casey Michel's new book exploring how the country's wealthiest are monopolizing U.S. democracy and propping up dictators and autocrats in the process.
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For the past week or so there have been internet instabilities that have made me wonder if we're on the cusp of another major outage.
"The possibility of decisive impact without a single seat won is a useful corrective to the instinct to write off Binface’s Clacton campaign as empty theatre." theconversation.com/count-binfac...
Count Binface: why Britain’s ‘joke’ election candidates deserve to be taken seriously
Satirical candidates are part of a longstanding tradition in British politics.
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None of this is to say that accidents can't happen (although an accident leading to an pandemic of this scale would need so many stars to align), it's just that this isn't what happened in this case.
…a lab would need to overcome to establish an outbreak (let alone the difficulty of successfully modifying a virus in the way necessary), and the epidemiological evidence centring the outbreak on the market.
Conveniently, I've written a couple of editorials on this topic. But they might not fully answer your question. In short, it breaks down to a natural origin being far more probable (this is an understatement), there being many hurdles that a zoonotic virus "escaping" from… bsky.app/profile/onis...
Onisillos@onisillos.bsky.social · 6d agoGiven the overwhelming demand (🤥), here are the editorials I've written on covid origins: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... and www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
"A columnist who uses their platform to demand war is putting whatever influence they possess behind violence that will slaughter little schoolchildren" zeteo.uk/p/our-pro-wa...
Our Pro-War Media Get It Humiliatingly Wrong, Time and Again – While Others Pay the Price
Commentators built consent for calamitous wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Gaza and Iran, and poured scorn on those who opposed the disastrous slaughters. And yet their careers continue to flourish.
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Extreme weather is now the new normal. The Prime Minister must act like this is the emergency it is.
Zack Polanski is to deliver an urgent message to the Prime Minister. Watch on Bold Politics YouTube channel at 11am.
Two fictional (presumably AI) stories in recent X posts, now repeated as a Google summary. No need to tell tall tales about your achievements when the AI ecosystem will now do it for you…
The value of social media is not parroting others’ agendas. You can get that with news outlets, TV, radio, workplaces etc. The true value is allowing us to show up as our true selves & express our genuine takes. If we’re prevented by fear of toxicity or desire to win approval then it’s not worth it.
And here's a second NYU postdoc job ad, where I'm looking for a candidate that is interested in working on the gut-brain axis: apply.interfolio.com/189975 please share 🙏
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Dear microbiome enthusiasts: I'm excited to be moving my lab to New York University this fall (& the NYU Institute for Engineering Health); with joint-appointment @isbscience.org I'm hiring a postdoc @ NYU to look at diet-driven evolution in the gut: apply.interfolio.com/189980 Please share! 🦠🤓
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Culture shock of the day: I saw urinals in China that analyze your pee and give you health advice. I didn't pay to get my result though.
Every now and again I forget that we have a coffee roaster at the end of the street and I panic that I can smell burnt toast. 😮
The reality of birds is a disputed subject, at best.
Matthias Eberl@eberlmat.bsky.social · 3d agoThe spherical shape of Earth is a disputed subject, at best.
It requires expertise to be able to say, “I do not know the answer to that question, and that is becauae thus far scholarly consensus is that we do not have the knowledge needed at this time to answer that question.” Sometimes “I don’t know” is a far more rigorous answer than people might think.
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
I'm also very excited by the new series of Ted Lasso. theconversation.com/ted-lasso-re...
Ted Lasso returns: why its story of kindness owes so much to ‘orphan girl’ fiction
Using orphan girl novels to study Ted Lasso brings certain themes into sharper focus – particularly its concern with fatherhood.
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I was lucky to be invited by @bmj.com to be a Guest Editor for a series on COVID in the US For one paper, I commissioned my brilliant Duke colleague @keishabentley.bsky.social to lead an analysis on "Race, racism, & covid-19 in the US: lessons not learnt" Read it at www.bmj.com/content/384/...
Race, racism, and covid-19 in the US: lessons not learnt
Keisha Bentley-Edwards and colleagues argue that systemic racism and economic inequality are at the root of disparity in covid-19 outcomes and suggest how to distribute resources more equitably. The...
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Trevon Logan@trevondlogan.bsky.social · 2d agoBy late Summer of 2020, COVID was the third leading cause of death for Black people in the USA. It’s like everyone has just forgotten that…
