“The climate emergency kills,” he said on Monday. “And that’s why it’s not enough to address the consequences, which we do; what we have to do is reduce its causes, anticipate its effects, and, consequently, better prepare our country to protect people’s lives.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

‘Climate change kills’: Pedro Sánchez speaks plain truth to Spain’s deniers

PM has long history of speaking out on realities of global heating but political opponents remain unnmoved

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Today’s column is on the quiet shift from a society where one’s economic standing was mainly determined by income, to one where wealth does more of the talking. This changes incentives, status, beliefs in fairness, and imo helps explain why many feel the system is broken www.ft.com/content/6a35...

We’ve moved from income world to wealth world

Passive wealth gains increasingly matter more than earnings for one’s standing in society

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Given the recent COVID-19 origins revival and Fauci witchhunt, just a reminder that I have written a book that answers to the best of our knowledge the question; and dismantles the many disinformation campaigns around the various lab leak narratives. Free access: open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

Lab Leak Fever

The COVID-19 Origin Theory that Sabotaged Science and Society

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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

New in Trends in Cognitive Sciences: misinformation isn't just about false beliefs. Led by Ullrich Ecker & co=authors Emily Spearing & Renee DiResta our piece argues the bigger threat is indirect—the erosion of shared epistemic standards doi.org/10.1016/j.ti... 🧵 1/10

Misinformation as strategy: Epistemic consequences and the undermining of shared truth

Misinformation influences cognition—shaping memory, beliefs, attitudes, reasoning, and decision-making. While intentionally disseminated misinformatio…

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Nearly 4,000 academic posts in social sciences, humanities and the arts have been axed in one year alone. In the 12 months to December 2024, just under 3,000 social sciences, 820 humanities and 240 arts jobs went. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Humanities among degrees being ‘extinguished’ by hard-up universities

Exclusive: Experts fear rise in education ‘cold spots’ and social immobility as 4,000 academic posts lost in one year

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In der Long Covid Community brodelt es. Warum die aktuellen Grabenkämpfe weder dieser komplexen Erkrankung noch den Betroffenen gerecht werden. Mein Artikel in der @woz.ch www.woz.ch/!WXQ6B2MJSGB2

Long Covid: Crashkompetenz ist entscheidend

Pacing oder Brain-Retraining? Die aktuellen Grabenkämpfe um die «richtige» Behandlung von Long Covid werden weder der komplexen Erkrankung noch den Betroffenen gerecht.

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🔴⚠️🌡️🌊The unprecedented #heatwave over #Europe is bringing its effects also to the Mediterranean Sea. In the last few days the #Copernicus Sea Surface Temperature has rapidly increased and the latest anomaly data exceed 8°C ⬇️SST daily anomaly on 27 June 2026 #climateemergency

So I build something fun for my book website. An interactive chronology with 330+ events that influenced the pandemic origin discourse; both scientific papers and disinformation campaigns. Check it out: www.lab-leak-fever.com/interactive-...

Philipp Markolin@philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · last mo.

Ever wonder how the lab leak narrative ended up dominating origin discourse and public imagination despite being false? I plotted most key moments; papers, news articles, viral tweets, political statements on one interactive map. Watch the narrative actually form. 🧵 youtu.be/F2WANnGq6EI

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Meeresforscher Andrew Sweetman macht einen sensationellen Fund. Dafür wird er von Naturschützern bejubelt – und von Bergbaufirmen diffamiert. @eis.bsky.social hat Sweetman besucht.

Das Rätsel um den dunklen Sauer­stoff aus der Tiefsee

Meeresforscher Andrew Sweetman stellte eine These auf, die sein Leben veränderte.

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This is such a moving piece. If your interested in #Ebola — the damage it causes, the trauma families and communities and responders face during and after an outbreak — please read it. www.statnews.com/2026/05/20/e...

I saw Ebola as both doctor and patient. I wish people cared more about the Africans I worked alongside

“As another Ebola outbreak unfolds, we cannot repeat the mistakes of the past,” writes Krutika Kuppalli.

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The contrast between the number of media requests I got when rich people on a cruise were facing a deadly, but contained outbreak versus now that some of the poorest people in the world are facing a deadly and devastating epidemic is just so so stark and it just really annoys the hell out of me.

Here is a brief thread on this preprint from @virusesimmunity.bsky.social's group studying a volunteer cohort of people with self-reported "post-vaccination syndrome", recently covered in the NYT. I think there are a few reasons to be skeptical of the headline takeaways of this preprint.

Important thread. "Science suffers a dramatic disadvantage when it comes to storytelling because it is bound by fact. Evidence is slow. It is also often nuanced, jargoned and hard to explain to non-experts. It demands caveats." We science journalists have to be more creative in how we tell stories.

Philipp Markolin@philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · 3mo ago

New deep dive from me into the anti-science movement, it's structure, tactics, and impact on science and society. Some data analysis, unique testimonies, new infographics and also a first attempt at outlining broadly-agreed upon actions how to fight back. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

New deep dive from me into the anti-science movement, it's structure, tactics, and impact on science and society. Some data analysis, unique testimonies, new infographics and also a first attempt at outlining broadly-agreed upon actions how to fight back. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

We need to talk about the anti-science movement

6 lessons scientists under siege learned the hard way, and how we all can fight back

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Dr. David Morens - who is 78 years old and served his country for nearly 50 years - used Gmail, which he shouldn't have done. However, "[he] was stripped and handcuffed [by] a half-dozen federal agents carrying guns and wearing tactical gear [..] and jailed". www.science.org/content/arti...

Guns and bulletproof vests: How federal agents arrested Fauci aide

David Morens, 78, was stripped and handcuffed for email violations

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To be clear about what just happened: The Trump administration sent armed FBI agents to abduct a 78-year-old doctor and former federal public health worker from his home and stripped him because the brainwashed right-wing base, hopped up on a literal conspiracy theory, wants scalps.

How big AG contributes to climate change denial and delay: changingmarkets.org/report/the-n...

The New Merchants of Doubt: How Big Meat and Dairy Avoid Climate Action • Changing Markets

Landmark investigation of 22 meat and dairy companies reveals how the industry mirrors Big Tobacco tactics to distract, delay and derail climate action.

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Congratulations to @theresluethi.bsky.social for her prize in the Science category at the Swiss Press Awards! She won it for her article exploring the (undue) success of COVID lab-leak hypotheses in the media and public sphere Her article: www.tagesanzeiger.ch/covid-warum-... #covidorigin 🧪

Corona geht wieder viral (Swiss Press Science 2026, von Theres Luethi) - Swiss Press Award

In meinem Artikel gehe ich der Frage nach dem Ursprung der Covid-19-Pandemie nach: Ist das Virus aus einem Labor in China entwichen? Oder steht die Herkunft im Zusammenhang mit dem Wildtierhandel? Zie...

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If in London, don't miss the Hurvin Anderson exhibition at Tate Britain.

In March, invited by Jay Bhattacharya, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19. There was a lot to debunk; here is Part II: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/1108 🧪 #covidorigin

Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “Scientific Freedom Lecture” at NIH (Part II)

The first part of this rebuttal can be read here; the third part will be posted later. Ridley’s lecture is available on Youtube; I also generated a transcript, available here. The same disclaimer as i...

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In March, Matt Ridley gave the inaugural "Scientific Freedom Lecture" at NIH, on a lab leak origin of COVID-19. The talk was so full of misrepresentations, omissions, falsehoods and lies that I will need several blog posts to debunk it. Here's Part I: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/995 🧪 #covidorigin

Fact-checking Matt Ridley’s “Scientific Freedom Lecture” at NIH (Part I)

Matt Ridley, global warming skeptic and co-author with Alina Chan of a book promoting a lab origin of SARS-CoV-2, was invited by Jay Bhattacharya, the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NI...

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This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

I recently re-read Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life and now every time a Silicon Valley billionaire opens his mouth, I think about it. So I wrote about it for The Nation: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Anti-Intellectualism of the Silicon Valley Elite

How the self-styled know-it-alls atop the knowledge economy want to dismantle the pursuit of knowledge for its own sake

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Gilead has a drug that could prevent HIV with just 2 injections a year. MSF said "we'll buy it name your price." Gilead said no. Let that sink in. Pharmacological innovation without access for those who need it does not accomplish its potential. www.eatg.org/hiv-news/pre...

[Press release] Médecins Sans Frontières: Gilead refuses to sell groundbreaking HIV prevention drug to MSF

In an open letter, MSF called on Gilead to immediately sell the organization lenacapavir for use in its medical programs worldwide.

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'Moonlit Sea' - Koho, ca. 1930's. #FullMoon #JapaneseArt

Short form content has its drawbacks but @popdetective.bsky.social has been absolutely on fire with YouTube shorts this week. Check them out! youtube.com/shorts/3tbZh...

Telling instead of showing

YouTube video by Pop Culture Detective

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Read @flodebarre.bsky.social's original analysis: pandemonium.hypotheses.org/898. While the original WeChat post is bonkers, it points to unreleased data from the market, including: 1️⃣ Potentially infected animals in "Stall A" - the hot-spot inside the market. 2️⃣ +Serology of vendor from Stall A.

Science Magazine@science.org · 5mo ago

In 2021, amid debate over COVID-19’s origin, a viral WeChat post claimed the virus came to China from Maine on frozen lobsters sold at the Wuhan market. Scientists dismissed it—but a new analysis suggests the bizarre claim might hint at missing data China hasn’t released. https://scim.ag/47yG2F6