Nicola Low
@nicolamlow.bsky.social
Sexually transmitted infections epidemiologist, but Covid-19 changed everything. Now also emerging infections #mpox #pandemics @BEreadycohort.bsky.social
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4817-8986
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4817-8986
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Fallen die Weltmedien?
And another bites the dust?
The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The BBC World Service will run out of funding in just seven weeks. Its funding arrangement with the Foreign Office finishes at the end of March. There is no plan for what happens next.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Guardian view on the BBC World Service: this is London calling | Editorial
Editorial: With just seven weeks before its funding runs out, the UK’s greatest cultural asset and most trusted international news organisation must be supported
www.theguardian.com
February 19, 2026 at 8:06 AM
Fallen die Weltmedien?
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Womensart supports and posts real art by real artists...
February 19, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Womensart supports and posts real art by real artists...
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This, and it’s so bad. These online “shops” are notoriously bad: certain lots of Rosabella brand moringa powder capsules as the likely source of the outbreak. The capsules are sold on the company's website, Amazon, TikTok Shop, Shein, and eBay.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/salmonella/c....
www.cidrap.umn.edu/salmonella/c....
February 19, 2026 at 7:05 AM
This, and it’s so bad. These online “shops” are notoriously bad: certain lots of Rosabella brand moringa powder capsules as the likely source of the outbreak. The capsules are sold on the company's website, Amazon, TikTok Shop, Shein, and eBay.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/salmonella/c....
www.cidrap.umn.edu/salmonella/c....
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Hazara embroidery from central Afghanistan, on cotton or silk material enlivened by very fine lines of cross or herringbone stitch #WomensArt
February 19, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Hazara embroidery from central Afghanistan, on cotton or silk material enlivened by very fine lines of cross or herringbone stitch #WomensArt
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Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #womensart
February 19, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Octopus Teapot by Japanese ceramic artist Keiko Masumoto #womensart
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The marker shared by @downtownakron.bsky.social below is part of an Akron, Ohio, plaza for Sojourner Truth, who gave her 1851 “Ain’t I Woman” speech there. There’s a plaza for Truth in Battle Creek, MI, where she lived out her final years after coming to join the new Seventh-Day Adventist Church 1/2
February 19, 2026 at 3:28 AM
The marker shared by @downtownakron.bsky.social below is part of an Akron, Ohio, plaza for Sojourner Truth, who gave her 1851 “Ain’t I Woman” speech there. There’s a plaza for Truth in Battle Creek, MI, where she lived out her final years after coming to join the new Seventh-Day Adventist Church 1/2
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I've had such a marvelous trip through Aotearoa New Zealand. Today at the University of Auckland wonderful—seeing Sam, @kecain.bsky.social, @nicholaraihani.bsky.social, @billhanage.bsky.social (visiting from the states), and more.
Thank you to @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social for bringing me here.
Thank you to @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social for bringing me here.
new zealand is far away from everywhere so it's not often we get to host wonderful colleagues like @carlbergstrom.com
Carl opened his Auckland Uni talk very on brand, namely, with an absurdly cool photo he took a few days ago of this native NZ bird (a kea)
Carl opened his Auckland Uni talk very on brand, namely, with an absurdly cool photo he took a few days ago of this native NZ bird (a kea)
February 19, 2026 at 4:08 AM
I've had such a marvelous trip through Aotearoa New Zealand. Today at the University of Auckland wonderful—seeing Sam, @kecain.bsky.social, @nicholaraihani.bsky.social, @billhanage.bsky.social (visiting from the states), and more.
Thank you to @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social for bringing me here.
Thank you to @tepunahamatatini.bsky.social for bringing me here.
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"Die fallen auf jeden KI-Müll rein" – Jugendliche fordern Social-Media-Verbot für Menschen über 40 www.der-postillon.com/2026/02/soci...
"Die fallen auf jeden KI-Müll rein" – Jugendliche fordern Social-Media-Verbot für Menschen über 40
Berlin (dpo) - Gibt es bald ein Social-Media-Verbot für Über-40-Jährige? In einer Pressekonferenz haben genau das Jugendliche heute gefordert. Ihre Fo
www.der-postillon.com
February 18, 2026 at 12:00 PM
"Die fallen auf jeden KI-Müll rein" – Jugendliche fordern Social-Media-Verbot für Menschen über 40 www.der-postillon.com/2026/02/soci...
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Da ist definitiv was dran
"Die fallen auf jeden KI-Müll rein" – Jugendliche fordern Social-Media-Verbot für Menschen über 40 www.der-postillon.com/2026/02/soci...
"Die fallen auf jeden KI-Müll rein" – Jugendliche fordern Social-Media-Verbot für Menschen über 40
Berlin (dpo) - Gibt es bald ein Social-Media-Verbot für Über-40-Jährige? In einer Pressekonferenz haben genau das Jugendliche heute gefordert. Ihre Fo
www.der-postillon.com
February 19, 2026 at 6:49 AM
Da ist definitiv was dran
Yes, apropos dangers of supplements, there is an outbreak of extensively antibiotic-resistant Salmonella in #moringa supplements.
Moringa has absolutely no proven health benefits
but
#AntimicrobialResistance kills more than a million people every year
bsky.app/profile/amym...
Moringa has absolutely no proven health benefits
but
#AntimicrobialResistance kills more than a million people every year
bsky.app/profile/amym...
Unless you have a diagnosed B12 or D insufficiency. Supplements can be dangerous, lead and other toxins.. ugh. Eat your nutrients in the form of foods.
February 19, 2026 at 6:55 AM
Yes, apropos dangers of supplements, there is an outbreak of extensively antibiotic-resistant Salmonella in #moringa supplements.
Moringa has absolutely no proven health benefits
but
#AntimicrobialResistance kills more than a million people every year
bsky.app/profile/amym...
Moringa has absolutely no proven health benefits
but
#AntimicrobialResistance kills more than a million people every year
bsky.app/profile/amym...
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Unless you have a diagnosed B12 or D insufficiency. Supplements can be dangerous, lead and other toxins.. ugh. Eat your nutrients in the form of foods.
February 18, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Unless you have a diagnosed B12 or D insufficiency. Supplements can be dangerous, lead and other toxins.. ugh. Eat your nutrients in the form of foods.
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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya is now also the temporary head of the CDC, a role in which he is expected to continue to do nothing but appear on right-wing podcasts and further cement the complete lack of respect of his colleagues.
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya will take over leadership of CDC temporarily
The transition is the latest in a monthslong series of leadership shake-ups across federal health agencies.
www.nbcnews.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:19 PM
NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya is now also the temporary head of the CDC, a role in which he is expected to continue to do nothing but appear on right-wing podcasts and further cement the complete lack of respect of his colleagues.
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You’ve got to be kidding. This is a terrible, no good idea.
N.I.H. Director Will Temporarily Run C.D.C. in Leadership Shake-Up
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 7:29 PM
You’ve got to be kidding. This is a terrible, no good idea.
Do You Need These Popular Supplements?
www.nytimes.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:25 PM
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Thanks as always to the amazing @benecal.bsky.social
@brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
@miriam2024.bsky.social
Aurora Horstcamp and
Kathylynn Saboda
@brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
@miriam2024.bsky.social
Aurora Horstcamp and
Kathylynn Saboda
February 18, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Thanks as always to the amazing @benecal.bsky.social
@brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
@miriam2024.bsky.social
Aurora Horstcamp and
Kathylynn Saboda
@brucemirken.mas.to.ap.brid.gy
@miriam2024.bsky.social
Aurora Horstcamp and
Kathylynn Saboda
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The FDA has reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine. 🧪 🛟
A good reminder to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/u...
A good reminder to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/u...
U.S. FDA reverses course, will review Moderna's modified flu vaccine application
Moderna said on Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has agreed to review its influenza vaccine application, reversing an earlier decision.
www.cnbc.com
February 18, 2026 at 1:16 PM
The FDA has reversed course and told Moderna it would review its application for a new flu vaccine. 🧪 🛟
A good reminder to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/u...
A good reminder to KEEP THE PRESSURE ON.
www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/u...
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Excellent reporting by @sorenhough.bsky.social & Josh Abbott on the RFK Jr-funded trial that Danish researchers wish to perform enrolling newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau
(I believe the trial would be unethical & am quoted in the new piece below)
(I believe the trial would be unethical & am quoted in the new piece below)
The hepatitis B vaccine trial in Guinea-Bissau has come under yet more fire from experts and international bodies — and its future is more uncertain than ever.
Check the thread below for our latest coverage.
Check the thread below for our latest coverage.
February 18, 2026 at 12:42 PM
Excellent reporting by @sorenhough.bsky.social & Josh Abbott on the RFK Jr-funded trial that Danish researchers wish to perform enrolling newborn babies in Guinea-Bissau
(I believe the trial would be unethical & am quoted in the new piece below)
(I believe the trial would be unethical & am quoted in the new piece below)
🧪 #episky #IDsky This is worth repeating
"Ultimately (in our view), this happens because the currency of scholarship—publication—is becoming increasingly
detached from the notion that publication is meant to add to the sum of human knowledge."
"Ultimately (in our view), this happens because the currency of scholarship—publication—is becoming increasingly
detached from the notion that publication is meant to add to the sum of human knowledge."
Improvements to methods should lead to more robust evidence and more rapid advances in knowledge. In their Perspective, Marcus Munafò & @mendelrandom.bsky.social look at why this hasn't been the case and what can be done about it #AcademicSky 🧪
Is scientific reform an unwinnable arms race?
Methodological improvements should, in theory, mean more robust evidence and inference, and more rapid advances in knowledge. However, these methods are often subsequently used in the pursuit of…
plos.io
February 18, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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Moderna erhält von der Europäischen Kommission die Marktzulassung für den COVID-19-Impfstoff mNEXSPIKE
feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release...
feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release...
February 17, 2026 at 8:43 PM
Moderna erhält von der Europäischen Kommission die Marktzulassung für den COVID-19-Impfstoff mNEXSPIKE
feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release...
feeds.issuerdirect.com/news-release...
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New research article
Efficacy and safety of #lenacapavir, #teropavimab, and #zinlirvimab: week-26 primary outcome results from a multicentre, open-label, randomised, active-controlled, phase 2 study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #ViroSky #HIV #OpenAccess #OA
Efficacy and safety of #lenacapavir, #teropavimab, and #zinlirvimab: week-26 primary outcome results from a multicentre, open-label, randomised, active-controlled, phase 2 study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #ViroSky #HIV #OpenAccess #OA
February 18, 2026 at 9:26 AM
New research article
Efficacy and safety of #lenacapavir, #teropavimab, and #zinlirvimab: week-26 primary outcome results from a multicentre, open-label, randomised, active-controlled, phase 2 study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #ViroSky #HIV #OpenAccess #OA
Efficacy and safety of #lenacapavir, #teropavimab, and #zinlirvimab: week-26 primary outcome results from a multicentre, open-label, randomised, active-controlled, phase 2 study
www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#IDSky #ClinMicro #ViroSky #HIV #OpenAccess #OA