Eddie Holmes

Where was that?

Most of the work wasn’t in the climb itself -- it wasn’t about the terrain, the path, the rocks, or even my body, my legs, or my breathing. The real work was in facing myself and my fears, every step up and back down

Whatever happened to the Mojiang miners story?! BS from start to pathetic finish.

Chapter 5 now available for free.

This is probably my favorite chapter, certainly the one featuring one of the most remarkable researchers and stories I was able to collect for my book on the origin of SARS-CoV-2.

If you read just one chapter of my book, let it be this one
You wont be disappointed

Thanks to producer @ellahubber.bsky.social for bashing this into shape

Pathetic crap. Krispin is stellar.

MP calls for transparency over Qld health head appointment Sources told the ABC an offer for the state's top health job was made and quickly scrapped.

What crap is this?

"The Queensland government says it wasn't "confident" a doctor was suitable to be the state's chief health officer"

-do they not know the last 2 two Qld CHOs were medical doctors (and so stand-ins)?? The need is in the title guys.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-08...

Oh Jeff

Not to belabor a "I told you so", but it's been clear for years that the whole "lab leak" discourse has absolutely nothing to do with a potential lab leak and everything to do with a broader anti-science agenda.

I really, and truly, hope more scientists will realize this and take corrective action.

Youths buried in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries carried West African DNA Despite bearing remarkably far-flung genetic origins, a girl and young man were buried just like their peers

People were crossing the English Channel from far off lands back in Anglo Saxon times. And according to this burial style, were accepted into the community.
You might think it a British tradition.
www.science.org/content/arti...

Looks like one of our ‘imprinting’ papers was cited in the HHS data package, despite our conclusion that people receiving an ancestral mRNA vaccine were better at producing antibodies against variants compared to unvaccinated people.

Virus 'previously exotic to Australia' found in Tasmanian potatoes Mop-top potato virus, which does not harm humans, has been found in multiple potatoes on a Tasmanian farm — a first for Australia.

Mop-top potato virus, which does not harm humans, has been found in multiple potatoes on a Tasmanian farm — a first for Australia.

The Guardian view on RFK Jr’s vaccine cuts: an assault on science from a politician unfit for his office | Editorial Editorial: The decision by the US health and human services secretary to remove mRNA research funding is ill-informed and dangerous

The Guardian view on RFK Jr’s vaccine cuts: an assault on science from a politician unfit for his office

bit.ly/45Azvbf

I will never get over how creepy it is how the NIH X account is a full time propaganda machine now

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NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya on Steve Bannon's War Room : “As Far As Public Health Goes For Vaccines, The mRNA Platform Is No Longer Viable”

bit.ly/3UmknJm

Diverse microbial communities assemble on both recalcitrant and labile carbon sources Microbial community assembly is shaped by the nature of available resources, with labile carbon sources such as glucose often expected to support low diversity due to rapid growth and competitive excl...

Makes sense that diverse microbial communities can be maintained on a recalcitrant substrate like cellulose, but on glucose, surely not? Surprisingly there is no difference 🤔 The first part is live 👇 but more to come (including answers).

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry

The unwarranted denial of travel visas for 8 respected international bat researchers was a shameful and embarrassing start to the International Bat Research Conference in Cairns. Well done to the ABS and Guardian for highlighting it

@ibrc2025.bsky.social

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I will dig into what happened here

Excellent points

You’d think at this moment in history we would be falling over ourselves to show we are welcoming scientists and science.

It’s always struck me as one area of the law (here and in most other countries) where you are presumed guilty until you prove yourself innocent.

Eight bat researchers mostly from Asia and Africa refused entry into Australia to attend global scientific event Organisers say move will damage nation’s scientific standing as government refuses to comment on why group of scientists were refused entry

You're better than this Australia: www.theguardian.com/environment/...

🤣

It’s genius. He can run clinical trials in molluscs.

Let’s just hope that ICTV don’t screw it up by changing phyla designations.

We warned the BBC this look at the state of science under the Trump admin might need last minute adjustments, and sure enough, overnight between drafts 1 & 2 came the RFK mRNA decision. That warrants only a single sentence, we've so much already. But we go in-depth into the ACIP vaccine committee.

50 years ago

The first photograph of the Sex Pistols (Johnny Rotten, Glen Matlock, Steve Jones, and Paul Cook) in the backyard of a pub where they rehearsed in Chiswick, London, in August/September 1975.

Photo by John Gray.

I’m with Mat.

Unfortunately, 3️⃣ (is this a joke?) makes me question 1️⃣ and 2️⃣

Excited for the Infectious Diseases in Bats symposium today where I will be presenting our research #ibrc2025

Hominins on Sulawesi during the Early Pleistocene - Nature Early Pleistocene artefacts at Calio suggest that Sulawesi was populated by hominins at around the same time as Flores, if not earlier.

Stone tools from Sulawesi at least a million years old may be even more ancient than those found on Flores, suggesting an even earlier presence of hominins on Wallacea www.nature.com/articles/s41...