Stuart Neil
@tetherin.bsky.social
Virologist, comparative virus/host interactions of HIV, Flu, Ebola and SARS CoV-2
Unashamed fan of loud shouty music. Not left-wing, not right-wing, not too fond of historical or present day fascists.
Unashamed fan of loud shouty music. Not left-wing, not right-wing, not too fond of historical or present day fascists.
Excellent. Fund deeply unethical trials by antivax apologists that will put neonates at risk of HBV transmission. And do it in a developing country and run away.
Nice to see the lesson RFKjr took from Tuskegee is not do it in America
Nice to see the lesson RFKjr took from Tuskegee is not do it in America
December 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Excellent. Fund deeply unethical trials by antivax apologists that will put neonates at risk of HBV transmission. And do it in a developing country and run away.
Nice to see the lesson RFKjr took from Tuskegee is not do it in America
Nice to see the lesson RFKjr took from Tuskegee is not do it in America
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Latest article from Rebecca Youle in Taylor lab at Crick in collaboration with Chad Swanson and my labs on the enzymatic activity of KHNYN, cofactor for ZAP
It is a highly active endoribonuclease with cleavage site preferences and an absolute dependence on manganese
Latest article from Rebecca Youle in Taylor lab at Crick in collaboration with Chad Swanson and my labs on the enzymatic activity of KHNYN, cofactor for ZAP
It is a highly active endoribonuclease with cleavage site preferences and an absolute dependence on manganese
KHNYN is a manganese-dependent endoribonuclease required for ZAP-mediated antiviral restriction
Abstract. Zinc finger antiviral protein (ZAP) is a cytoplasmic protein central to host innate immunity to viral infection. ZAP has no intrinsic catalytic a
academic.oup.com
December 17, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Latest article from Rebecca Youle in Taylor lab at Crick in collaboration with Chad Swanson and my labs on the enzymatic activity of KHNYN, cofactor for ZAP
It is a highly active endoribonuclease with cleavage site preferences and an absolute dependence on manganese
Latest article from Rebecca Youle in Taylor lab at Crick in collaboration with Chad Swanson and my labs on the enzymatic activity of KHNYN, cofactor for ZAP
It is a highly active endoribonuclease with cleavage site preferences and an absolute dependence on manganese
Stop the clocks. An @telegraph.co.uk push notice about a virologist’s opinion on flu that is not calling them a leftist shill or accusing them of making the virus in the lab.
Clearly Sarah Knapton is on holiday…
Clearly Sarah Knapton is on holiday…
December 15, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Stop the clocks. An @telegraph.co.uk push notice about a virologist’s opinion on flu that is not calling them a leftist shill or accusing them of making the virus in the lab.
Clearly Sarah Knapton is on holiday…
Clearly Sarah Knapton is on holiday…
youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
COVID Origins: Debunking the Grift, Pseudoscience, and Politics of the Lab Leak Theory
YouTube video by Professor Dave Explains
youtu.be
December 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
youtu.be/ra0WKNhQZ0U
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
Refreshingly, this pulls zero punches, and lands them squarely on the liars, grifters and frauds responsible for the lab leak hoax and the authoritarian persecution of science and scientists.
Same shit, different subject for Viscount Grift
December 13, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Same shit, different subject for Viscount Grift
“Published” here means he left a comment in the ‘have your say’ box at the bottom of the article, which while moderated for decorum, is not reviewed for scientific merit…which is just as well.
December 8, 2025 at 11:31 PM
“Published” here means he left a comment in the ‘have your say’ box at the bottom of the article, which while moderated for decorum, is not reviewed for scientific merit…which is just as well.
Good time to be in the milkshake business north of the border
December 7, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Good time to be in the milkshake business north of the border
Imagine being so mortified by your behavior at public school (where you racially abused your fellows and called for the gassing of your Jewish colleagues) that to prove there is not a racist bone in your body you spend 30yrs leading a series of far right parties and stir up hatred of immigrants.
December 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Imagine being so mortified by your behavior at public school (where you racially abused your fellows and called for the gassing of your Jewish colleagues) that to prove there is not a racist bone in your body you spend 30yrs leading a series of far right parties and stir up hatred of immigrants.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage went full Trump today. The thing is, that fake news shit works in America but much less so here. He just sounded like a deranged drunk in the pub.
And while most of stuff was dodgy in the 70’s and 80’s, I’m not sure ‘gas the Jews’ was ever ok.
Farage went full Trump today. The thing is, that fake news shit works in America but much less so here. He just sounded like a deranged drunk in the pub.
And while most of stuff was dodgy in the 70’s and 80’s, I’m not sure ‘gas the Jews’ was ever ok.
Farage repeatedly shouts ‘Bernard Manning’ at journalists amid racism allegations
Reform UK leader hit out at the BBC and ITV for what he said were ‘double standards’ but was criticised by the comedian’s family
www.independent.co.uk
December 4, 2025 at 9:15 PM
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Farage went full Trump today. The thing is, that fake news shit works in America but much less so here. He just sounded like a deranged drunk in the pub.
And while most of stuff was dodgy in the 70’s and 80’s, I’m not sure ‘gas the Jews’ was ever ok.
Farage went full Trump today. The thing is, that fake news shit works in America but much less so here. He just sounded like a deranged drunk in the pub.
And while most of stuff was dodgy in the 70’s and 80’s, I’m not sure ‘gas the Jews’ was ever ok.
Reposted by Stuart Neil
Jesse Bloom ca 2020-2023, apparently.
December 3, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Jesse Bloom ca 2020-2023, apparently.
This whole thing is based on trying to rubbish phylogenetic evidence and epidemiology that robustly puts the emergence of SARS2 in Wuhan in late Nov/Early Dec at the Huanan Market.
If leakers really thought this was wrong, why do they feel the need to invent a sequencing date?
If leakers really thought this was wrong, why do they feel the need to invent a sequencing date?
It's just crazy how this entire viral story was because someone made up a sequencing date that wasn't true.
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
December 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM
This whole thing is based on trying to rubbish phylogenetic evidence and epidemiology that robustly puts the emergence of SARS2 in Wuhan in late Nov/Early Dec at the Huanan Market.
If leakers really thought this was wrong, why do they feel the need to invent a sequencing date?
If leakers really thought this was wrong, why do they feel the need to invent a sequencing date?
Reposted by Stuart Neil
It's just crazy how this entire viral story was because someone made up a sequencing date that wasn't true.
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
December 4, 2025 at 3:05 AM
It's just crazy how this entire viral story was because someone made up a sequencing date that wasn't true.
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
And the thing is, they may have almost got away with it!
When something is a (partially) unsolved mystery for years, you risk losing the chance to ever solve it....
Reposted by Stuart Neil
We had all of the scientific arguments why this data didn't seem to fit right, and wasn't important for origins, but we never really considered the simpler solution that a well regarded white male scientist or two were just making something up!
December 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
We had all of the scientific arguments why this data didn't seem to fit right, and wasn't important for origins, but we never really considered the simpler solution that a well regarded white male scientist or two were just making something up!
Reposted by Stuart Neil
Puzzled by the discrepancy, I emailed István Csabai, who had discovered the contaminating sequences. He told me that the January 2020 date was actually not something the Chinese scientists had told him, but something inferred from other information... ▫️6/9
December 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Puzzled by the discrepancy, I emailed István Csabai, who had discovered the contaminating sequences. He told me that the January 2020 date was actually not something the Chinese scientists had told him, but something inferred from other information... ▫️6/9
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Flo once again dismantling more bullshit from lab leak central.
In this case an invented sequencing date of contaminated samples by ‘sleuths’ that Jesse Bloom bought into presumably because it allowed him to disengage his scientific faculties and run to full fat conspiracy theory.
Flo once again dismantling more bullshit from lab leak central.
In this case an invented sequencing date of contaminated samples by ‘sleuths’ that Jesse Bloom bought into presumably because it allowed him to disengage his scientific faculties and run to full fat conspiracy theory.
Are you familiar with the story of the Antarctica sequences?
If not, good for you: you didn't clutter your brain with yet another Covid-origin damp squib, where innocuous data were made to look suspicious by misrepresenting a date.
For the curious, here's the story. ▫️1/9 🧵 #CovidOrigin
If not, good for you: you didn't clutter your brain with yet another Covid-origin damp squib, where innocuous data were made to look suspicious by misrepresenting a date.
For the curious, here's the story. ▫️1/9 🧵 #CovidOrigin
December 3, 2025 at 11:06 PM
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Flo once again dismantling more bullshit from lab leak central.
In this case an invented sequencing date of contaminated samples by ‘sleuths’ that Jesse Bloom bought into presumably because it allowed him to disengage his scientific faculties and run to full fat conspiracy theory.
Flo once again dismantling more bullshit from lab leak central.
In this case an invented sequencing date of contaminated samples by ‘sleuths’ that Jesse Bloom bought into presumably because it allowed him to disengage his scientific faculties and run to full fat conspiracy theory.
You can literally set you watch by these clowns
6h is the average for the protofascist virologist (look at the rest of his feed) to screenshot. Living rent free indeed.
6h is the average for the protofascist virologist (look at the rest of his feed) to screenshot. Living rent free indeed.
December 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
You can literally set you watch by these clowns
6h is the average for the protofascist virologist (look at the rest of his feed) to screenshot. Living rent free indeed.
6h is the average for the protofascist virologist (look at the rest of his feed) to screenshot. Living rent free indeed.
It is strange that little Tommy Twelvenames wants to believe that Lineker might be up to dodginess, when a good number of his entourage have convictions either for domestic violence or molesting underage girls.
December 1, 2025 at 8:40 PM
It is strange that little Tommy Twelvenames wants to believe that Lineker might be up to dodginess, when a good number of his entourage have convictions either for domestic violence or molesting underage girls.
2 grifting lab leaker hacks fighting over the merits of a third who they claim is now part of the cover up and is engaged in bioweapons research
All getting a bit Peoples Front of Judea.
All getting a bit Peoples Front of Judea.
December 1, 2025 at 12:55 PM
2 grifting lab leaker hacks fighting over the merits of a third who they claim is now part of the cover up and is engaged in bioweapons research
All getting a bit Peoples Front of Judea.
All getting a bit Peoples Front of Judea.
Waiting on Gojira in Lille. Venue sold out.
November 28, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Waiting on Gojira in Lille. Venue sold out.
I wonder how thankful anyone with cancer, HIV, whose child has died of measles, or anyone who works in medicine or biomedical science is that your unqualified gifting ass is sitting in Bethesda doing the bidding of the worm-rotted Kennedy scion and antivaxxer-in-chief.
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 PM
I wonder how thankful anyone with cancer, HIV, whose child has died of measles, or anyone who works in medicine or biomedical science is that your unqualified gifting ass is sitting in Bethesda doing the bidding of the worm-rotted Kennedy scion and antivaxxer-in-chief.
Budget has some of the dumbest measures.
Instead of having the guts to bite the bullet of putting up the highest rate of tax, they maintain the freeze on the boundaries which hits the lower earners most.
Instead of having the guts to bite the bullet of putting up the highest rate of tax, they maintain the freeze on the boundaries which hits the lower earners most.
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Budget has some of the dumbest measures.
Instead of having the guts to bite the bullet of putting up the highest rate of tax, they maintain the freeze on the boundaries which hits the lower earners most.
Instead of having the guts to bite the bullet of putting up the highest rate of tax, they maintain the freeze on the boundaries which hits the lower earners most.
But racially abusing them in a cuddly supportive way is fine…
November 25, 2025 at 6:02 PM
But racially abusing them in a cuddly supportive way is fine…
"It's not that I've found God,"
Yaxley-Lennon’s mob encouraging members to go to church to stop UK becoming ‘fully Muslim’
The number of identifying (not necessarily practicing) Muslims stands at 6.5% of the population. ~8x fewer than those identifying as Christian
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yaxley-Lennon’s mob encouraging members to go to church to stop UK becoming ‘fully Muslim’
The number of identifying (not necessarily practicing) Muslims stands at 6.5% of the population. ~8x fewer than those identifying as Christian
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Why Tommy Robinson supporters are turning to Christianity
The Church of England is grappling with what to do about followers of the far-right figure embracing faith.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:17 AM
"It's not that I've found God,"
Yaxley-Lennon’s mob encouraging members to go to church to stop UK becoming ‘fully Muslim’
The number of identifying (not necessarily practicing) Muslims stands at 6.5% of the population. ~8x fewer than those identifying as Christian
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Yaxley-Lennon’s mob encouraging members to go to church to stop UK becoming ‘fully Muslim’
The number of identifying (not necessarily practicing) Muslims stands at 6.5% of the population. ~8x fewer than those identifying as Christian
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If I were Lisa Nandy I would block this on the grounds generating a monopoly on extreme right wing media and misinformation. And I would block any foreign buyer.
And if the Telegraph goes to the wall and everyone is fired, so be it.
If I were Lisa Nandy I would block this on the grounds generating a monopoly on extreme right wing media and misinformation. And I would block any foreign buyer.
And if the Telegraph goes to the wall and everyone is fired, so be it.
Daily Mail owner agrees to buy Daily Telegraph for £500m
The publisher of the Daily Mail says it is in talks to buy the Daily and Sunday Telegraph for £500m.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 22, 2025 at 12:30 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If I were Lisa Nandy I would block this on the grounds generating a monopoly on extreme right wing media and misinformation. And I would block any foreign buyer.
And if the Telegraph goes to the wall and everyone is fired, so be it.
If I were Lisa Nandy I would block this on the grounds generating a monopoly on extreme right wing media and misinformation. And I would block any foreign buyer.
And if the Telegraph goes to the wall and everyone is fired, so be it.
Amazing how far down the Mail/Express/Telegraph sites you have to go to find reference to jailing of welsh Reform leader Nathan Gill for shilling for Putin and Russian aggression in Ukraine whilst a MEP.
Given their Putin-apologist stance, are we to believe no others in Reform are banking Roubles?
Given their Putin-apologist stance, are we to believe no others in Reform are banking Roubles?
November 21, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Amazing how far down the Mail/Express/Telegraph sites you have to go to find reference to jailing of welsh Reform leader Nathan Gill for shilling for Putin and Russian aggression in Ukraine whilst a MEP.
Given their Putin-apologist stance, are we to believe no others in Reform are banking Roubles?
Given their Putin-apologist stance, are we to believe no others in Reform are banking Roubles?