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.
If only there was something we could have done (or not done) that would have helped.
November 10, 2025 at 1:27 PM
If only there was something we could have done (or not done) that would have helped.
Ok, but which way?
The newsroom has been run by tories for a few years.
The BBC regularly platforms climate skeptics and anti science activists on equal parity with experts and data.
Question Time/BBC News gives disproportionate time to Reform and not to parties that have more MPs
Etc etc
The newsroom has been run by tories for a few years.
The BBC regularly platforms climate skeptics and anti science activists on equal parity with experts and data.
Question Time/BBC News gives disproportionate time to Reform and not to parties that have more MPs
Etc etc
November 10, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Ok, but which way?
The newsroom has been run by tories for a few years.
The BBC regularly platforms climate skeptics and anti science activists on equal parity with experts and data.
Question Time/BBC News gives disproportionate time to Reform and not to parties that have more MPs
Etc etc
The newsroom has been run by tories for a few years.
The BBC regularly platforms climate skeptics and anti science activists on equal parity with experts and data.
Question Time/BBC News gives disproportionate time to Reform and not to parties that have more MPs
Etc etc
Yes, the panorama edit was dumb, but it was (1) well after the fact and (2) doesn’t negate the fact that Trump and his cronies explicitly formented a traitorous insurrection against the US Capitol to try and overthrow a democratic election. As determined by congress.
Confected Telegraph fury
Confected Telegraph fury
If you want to sustain your carefully-cultivated fury at the stupid Panorama edit then don’t, whatever you do, read or listen to Trump’s speech in its entirety…
November 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Yes, the panorama edit was dumb, but it was (1) well after the fact and (2) doesn’t negate the fact that Trump and his cronies explicitly formented a traitorous insurrection against the US Capitol to try and overthrow a democratic election. As determined by congress.
Confected Telegraph fury
Confected Telegraph fury
The nerve of this POS trying to associate himself with the commemoration of those who sacrificed their lives for their countries, while he simultaneously represents the twisted ideology that they fought to defeat.
November 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The nerve of this POS trying to associate himself with the commemoration of those who sacrificed their lives for their countries, while he simultaneously represents the twisted ideology that they fought to defeat.
Remembering David Baltimore (1938–2025): Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Has anyone else had a more accomplished career modern biomedical science?
Has anyone else had a more accomplished career modern biomedical science?
Remembering David Baltimore (1938–2025)
David Baltimore, one of modern biology’s most influential scientists, passed away
at his home in Woods Hole, Massachusetts, on September 6, 2025 at the age of 87, leaving
legions of former trainees an...
www.cell.com
November 4, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Remembering David Baltimore (1938–2025): Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Has anyone else had a more accomplished career modern biomedical science?
Has anyone else had a more accomplished career modern biomedical science?
Callers on @mrjamesob.bsky.social all had the same impression as me. The Faragista/Mail headbangers were hoping the train attacker would be Muslim (pref an immigrant). Necessitating the police to say his ethnicity.
The real story is likely to be how poor mental health capacity is for minorities
The real story is likely to be how poor mental health capacity is for minorities
November 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Callers on @mrjamesob.bsky.social all had the same impression as me. The Faragista/Mail headbangers were hoping the train attacker would be Muslim (pref an immigrant). Necessitating the police to say his ethnicity.
The real story is likely to be how poor mental health capacity is for minorities
The real story is likely to be how poor mental health capacity is for minorities
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
@zachhensel.bsky.social has revisited Bruttel et al’s preprint and shows why the analysis of RE sites in SARS2 was deeply flawed. Spoiler: the sites are natural, the pattern explicable by recombination & the authors stacked the deck omitting some seqs and duplicating others.
@zachhensel.bsky.social has revisited Bruttel et al’s preprint and shows why the analysis of RE sites in SARS2 was deeply flawed. Spoiler: the sites are natural, the pattern explicable by recombination & the authors stacked the deck omitting some seqs and duplicating others.
On the distributions of restriction sites in human and pangolin sarbecoviruses
Since early 2020, several theories have suggested that a distribution of restriction endonuclease recognition sites in the SARS-CoV-2 genome indicates a synthetic origin. The most influential of these...
arxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 2:47 PM
arxiv.org/abs/2510.23833
@zachhensel.bsky.social has revisited Bruttel et al’s preprint and shows why the analysis of RE sites in SARS2 was deeply flawed. Spoiler: the sites are natural, the pattern explicable by recombination & the authors stacked the deck omitting some seqs and duplicating others.
@zachhensel.bsky.social has revisited Bruttel et al’s preprint and shows why the analysis of RE sites in SARS2 was deeply flawed. Spoiler: the sites are natural, the pattern explicable by recombination & the authors stacked the deck omitting some seqs and duplicating others.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The swivel-eyed loon has fired the guy who runs the FBI jet fleet because he was embarrassed about headlines he used FBI planes to go visit his girlfriend.
He’s probably just found out that he’s only seeing one, and they weren’t twins.
The swivel-eyed loon has fired the guy who runs the FBI jet fleet because he was embarrassed about headlines he used FBI planes to go visit his girlfriend.
He’s probably just found out that he’s only seeing one, and they weren’t twins.
FBI fires top official amid Kash Patel’s outrage over reports of agency jet use
Patel reportedly became furious after revelation he flew to visit girlfriend and agency fired official who oversees fleet
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:29 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The swivel-eyed loon has fired the guy who runs the FBI jet fleet because he was embarrassed about headlines he used FBI planes to go visit his girlfriend.
He’s probably just found out that he’s only seeing one, and they weren’t twins.
The swivel-eyed loon has fired the guy who runs the FBI jet fleet because he was embarrassed about headlines he used FBI planes to go visit his girlfriend.
He’s probably just found out that he’s only seeing one, and they weren’t twins.
New TACO joint opens in Beijing
October 30, 2025 at 6:04 AM
New TACO joint opens in Beijing
SARS CoV-2 mRNA vaccines cause Turbo cancer….immunotherapy
Yes, they help stimulate innate immunity in those undergoing checkpoint inhibitor therapy to improve outcome
Like to see how grifters like Malhotra, Dalgleish, the BSNow crew and of course JayB/RFK spin this
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Yes, they help stimulate innate immunity in those undergoing checkpoint inhibitor therapy to improve outcome
Like to see how grifters like Malhotra, Dalgleish, the BSNow crew and of course JayB/RFK spin this
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccines sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint blockade - Nature
mRNA vaccines targeting SARS-CoV-2 also sensitize tumours to immune checkpoint inhibitors.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 6:49 AM
SARS CoV-2 mRNA vaccines cause Turbo cancer….immunotherapy
Yes, they help stimulate innate immunity in those undergoing checkpoint inhibitor therapy to improve outcome
Like to see how grifters like Malhotra, Dalgleish, the BSNow crew and of course JayB/RFK spin this
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Yes, they help stimulate innate immunity in those undergoing checkpoint inhibitor therapy to improve outcome
Like to see how grifters like Malhotra, Dalgleish, the BSNow crew and of course JayB/RFK spin this
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Really good conversation with @philippmarkolin.bsky.social on his book about the the science of COVID’s origin, then lab leak ‘hypothesis’ and its weaponisation by a bunch grifters associated with the MAGA movement and its equivalent in the UK
Really good conversation with @philippmarkolin.bsky.social on his book about the the science of COVID’s origin, then lab leak ‘hypothesis’ and its weaponisation by a bunch grifters associated with the MAGA movement and its equivalent in the UK
Lab Leak Fever with Philipp Markolin
Podcast Episode · Decoding the Gurus · 18/10/2025 · 1h 14m
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October 20, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Really good conversation with @philippmarkolin.bsky.social on his book about the the science of COVID’s origin, then lab leak ‘hypothesis’ and its weaponisation by a bunch grifters associated with the MAGA movement and its equivalent in the UK
Really good conversation with @philippmarkolin.bsky.social on his book about the the science of COVID’s origin, then lab leak ‘hypothesis’ and its weaponisation by a bunch grifters associated with the MAGA movement and its equivalent in the UK
Yes, Farage is far more of a national socialist.
October 14, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Yes, Farage is far more of a national socialist.
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Great interview by @lewisgoodall.com with Neil Kinnock. As an 80’s child I remember that speech. I remember the ridicule that Kinnock was exposed to. But Lewis hit the nail on the head - agree with him or not, he would have been our nicest PM, and the best speaker
Great interview by @lewisgoodall.com with Neil Kinnock. As an 80’s child I remember that speech. I remember the ridicule that Kinnock was exposed to. But Lewis hit the nail on the head - agree with him or not, he would have been our nicest PM, and the best speaker
Neil Kinnock on the speech that changed the Labour Party
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 10/10/2025 · 56m
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October 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Great interview by @lewisgoodall.com with Neil Kinnock. As an 80’s child I remember that speech. I remember the ridicule that Kinnock was exposed to. But Lewis hit the nail on the head - agree with him or not, he would have been our nicest PM, and the best speaker
Great interview by @lewisgoodall.com with Neil Kinnock. As an 80’s child I remember that speech. I remember the ridicule that Kinnock was exposed to. But Lewis hit the nail on the head - agree with him or not, he would have been our nicest PM, and the best speaker
Poor Donnie. When you’ve suffered all your life to bring peace to the world and they give to a woman who promote democracy. Woke gone mad😂
October 10, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Poor Donnie. When you’ve suffered all your life to bring peace to the world and they give to a woman who promote democracy. Woke gone mad😂
Reposted by Stuart Neil
When I was reporting in Sudan several years ago, a driver warned me not to tell government officials when I was leaving because the airport is where they stop and detain writers.
So, yeah, this is a very bad sign. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So, yeah, this is a very bad sign. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport
Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
When I was reporting in Sudan several years ago, a driver warned me not to tell government officials when I was leaving because the airport is where they stop and detain writers.
So, yeah, this is a very bad sign. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
So, yeah, this is a very bad sign. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Incredibly disturbing. An academic historian whose speciality is fascism faces death threats from MAGA and is blocked from boarding a plane by ‘someone’.
Rutgers response: 🤷
Incredibly disturbing. An academic historian whose speciality is fascism faces death threats from MAGA and is blocked from boarding a plane by ‘someone’.
Rutgers response: 🤷
US anti-fascism expert blocked from flying to Spain at airport
Rutgers University professor who published book on antifa was informed at boarding gate that his trip was cancelled
www.theguardian.com
October 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Incredibly disturbing. An academic historian whose speciality is fascism faces death threats from MAGA and is blocked from boarding a plane by ‘someone’.
Rutgers response: 🤷
Incredibly disturbing. An academic historian whose speciality is fascism faces death threats from MAGA and is blocked from boarding a plane by ‘someone’.
Rutgers response: 🤷
Reposted by Stuart Neil
2012 Nobel laureate John Gurdon has died. His work was central to both the development of animal cloning and the possibility of reprogramming cells to a different state. A giant of cell and developmental biology.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS (1933-2025) | Magdalene College
Magdalene College is deeply saddened to announce the death of Professor Sir John Gurdon FRS, who served as Master of the College from 1995 to 2002.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk
October 7, 2025 at 3:51 PM
2012 Nobel laureate John Gurdon has died. His work was central to both the development of animal cloning and the possibility of reprogramming cells to a different state. A giant of cell and developmental biology.
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
www.magd.cam.ac.uk/news/profess...
Reposted by Stuart Neil
The relentless Jessica McDonald has spent two weeks and hundreds of emails to fact check claims about the safety of #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy made at the #ACIP meeting.
She couldn't have been any quicker.
A lie can get around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.
She couldn't have been any quicker.
A lie can get around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.
A substantial body of evidence supports the safety of the COVID-19 vaccines during pregnancy, contrary to the suggestions of some members of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee. HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently reconstituted the committee.
www.factcheck.org/2025/10/vacc...
www.factcheck.org/2025/10/vacc...
October 4, 2025 at 11:44 PM
The relentless Jessica McDonald has spent two weeks and hundreds of emails to fact check claims about the safety of #CovidVaccination in #pregnancy made at the #ACIP meeting.
She couldn't have been any quicker.
A lie can get around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.
She couldn't have been any quicker.
A lie can get around the world before the truth can get its shoes on.
I get a little irked by headlines like this. Yes she was a leading ‘animal rights campaigner’ (conservationist really),
But first and foremost Jane Goodall was a scientist whose years of careful study of Chimp behavior revealed amazing understanding both of them and insight into our own evolution
But first and foremost Jane Goodall was a scientist whose years of careful study of Chimp behavior revealed amazing understanding both of them and insight into our own evolution
October 2, 2025 at 7:25 AM
I get a little irked by headlines like this. Yes she was a leading ‘animal rights campaigner’ (conservationist really),
But first and foremost Jane Goodall was a scientist whose years of careful study of Chimp behavior revealed amazing understanding both of them and insight into our own evolution
But first and foremost Jane Goodall was a scientist whose years of careful study of Chimp behavior revealed amazing understanding both of them and insight into our own evolution
Jane Goodall, famous for her study of chimpanzees, has died - Sky News
A hugely important scientist of the last century. RIP Jane Goodall.
A hugely important scientist of the last century. RIP Jane Goodall.
October 1, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Jane Goodall, famous for her study of chimpanzees, has died - Sky News
A hugely important scientist of the last century. RIP Jane Goodall.
A hugely important scientist of the last century. RIP Jane Goodall.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’m sure he can round up a bunch of boys from Tommy Robinson’s crew to fill in.
Just to be extra careful, he could dress them all in brown shirts so he knows who they are.
I’m sure he can round up a bunch of boys from Tommy Robinson’s crew to fill in.
Just to be extra careful, he could dress them all in brown shirts so he knows who they are.
Nigel Farage's security has been cut, Reform UK claims
Reform's policy chief says parliamentary authorities downgraded Farage's security two weeks ago.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I’m sure he can round up a bunch of boys from Tommy Robinson’s crew to fill in.
Just to be extra careful, he could dress them all in brown shirts so he knows who they are.
I’m sure he can round up a bunch of boys from Tommy Robinson’s crew to fill in.
Just to be extra careful, he could dress them all in brown shirts so he knows who they are.
www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
Excellent and pithy rebuttal to Norway’s own Jonny-come-lately lab leak conspiracist who had developed a self-promotion cottage industry
Excellent and pithy rebuttal to Norway’s own Jonny-come-lately lab leak conspiracist who had developed a self-promotion cottage industry
La oss vende tilbake til bevisene for koronapandemiens opprinnelse
Jakten på pandemiens opprinnelse er for viktig til å bli avsporet av uvitenskapelige insinuasjoner.
www.aftenposten.no
October 1, 2025 at 9:32 AM
www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...
Excellent and pithy rebuttal to Norway’s own Jonny-come-lately lab leak conspiracist who had developed a self-promotion cottage industry
Excellent and pithy rebuttal to Norway’s own Jonny-come-lately lab leak conspiracist who had developed a self-promotion cottage industry
I also seem to remember Germany trying out a few of Nigel Farage’s ideas too, and that not ending well either.
September 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
I also seem to remember Germany trying out a few of Nigel Farage’s ideas too, and that not ending well either.