If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice
Free speech in Britain is dead say the influencers and right wing tax exile journos like Oakshott in Dubai….. while at the same time being instructed what to say by the Emirati authorities for fear of prosecution.
Given your discussions last week, I can’t imagine you agree with this @alastaircampbell2.bsky.social, can you?
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
Stoic Kristi Noem Bears Firing With Stiff Upper Lip, Chin, Cheeks, Forehead
If they cared so much about the Iranian people they would have done this in Jan.
But this rightwing take that if you oppose Trump and Netanyahu (both of whom hide behind religion when it suits them) then you are somehow in favour of theocratic fascism is one of the stupidest talking points ever
It is perfectly possible to believe that the Iranian regime is evil and at the same time understand that there was no immediate threat from Iran that necessitated corrupt idiots in the US and Israeli governments to light up the Middle East.
As it’s Friday, what better afternoon job than battering and frying up a Researchfish supper?
He loved asking questions like that.
He also had the ‘annoying’ habit of sitting in the front row of talks, appearing to nod off, and yet asking the most insightful questions of the speaker at the end.
1986 was a spoiled for choice year.
MTG still being the reasonable voice of MAGA. What a time to be alive.
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Today is the 40th anniversary of possibly the greatest American metal album. Some are on a par but none has ever bettered it.
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It is a great sadness to hear of Robin’s passing.
He was one of the finest virologists of all time and contributed immeasurably to the field of HIV/retrovirology.
He was a key mentor for a vast number of leading virologists and cancer researchers. And great fun!
So many of us owe him our careers
Bet he’s glad he moved the family to Dubai today…
It must be electoral fraud. What else would explain Muslims not voting for Reform?
(And even if there were a few cases of ‘family voting’ it can’t explain a 4.5K majority for the greens, nor why more than 70% rejected Reform over all)
Inspiring no holds barred call to action by Peter Stahley to take the fight to RFKjr and the MAGA vandals of global AIDS research. #CROI2026
He’s been a watching too much Heated Rivalry?
“We are ill-served if the approach taken here, irredeemably flawed as it is, is taken for truth, and the real culprit for the pandemic, the live wild animal trade, is allowed to continue. “
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I knew it! Rutgers’s own abusive conspiracy loon and Gungan chieftain is part of the Covid origins conspiracy.
Of course Jim Haslam is mad, but at this point his theories are no more stupid than those promoted by Alina Chan, Matt Ridley and the DRASTICs…..and the toad Ebright himself.
The nerve of that MAGA apologist giving a lecture in the name of a journalist kidnapped and murdered while doing his job is breathtaking
Exhibit B.
The descent of a fairly competent bacterial geneticist into a misogynistic antivax conspiracist carrying water for the worst excesses of MAGA’s destruction of US science and medicine is truly sad to behold.
Giant DNA viruses encode a hallmark translation initiation complex of eukaryotic life @cellcellpress.bsky.social
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Interesting to note that both leakers quoted, Bruttel and Massey, have been caught red handed manipulating data for their respective publications
Conspiracy theorists often see themselves as critical thinkers, yet they may fall for obvious disinformation when it aligns with their beliefs.
It happened last Spring with a claim that the origin of the 2024 Marburg virus disease outbreak in Rwanda was a lab leak. ▫️1/6 🧵
Our latest paper shows that IFITM3 deficiency allows SARS-CoV-2 to adapt more easily to a new host species. Mouse-adapted beta and omicron variants from this work maintained their unique tropisms and pathogenic characteristics allowing exciting comparative studies.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Not sending the brightest to the Senate if they’re the only people to be ‘surprised’ that antivax conspiracist RFKjr lied about his role in antivax conspiracism that led to children’s death in Samoa. Which of course was a dry run for what he’s doing now to the US
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Do bunnies have funny-shaped balls?
Masterful skewering of the ludicrousness and hypocrisy that MAGA snowflake-ism has achieved over a happy and inoffensive song and dance routine performed in a language that ‘only’ 60-odd million Americans speak.
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