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.
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?
I remember when the notion of a bunch of muppets being in charge was viewed as a bad thing.
November 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I remember when the notion of a bunch of muppets being in charge was viewed as a bad thing.
Time for Rutgers to bring in cognitive decline screening for faculty.
I the week when MAGA conspiracist MTG starts to look sane, Richard Ebright reveals that he thinks a shadowy cabal of US and Chinese scientists released SC2 as a bioweapon as revenge for not getting their grant renewed.
I the week when MAGA conspiracist MTG starts to look sane, Richard Ebright reveals that he thinks a shadowy cabal of US and Chinese scientists released SC2 as a bioweapon as revenge for not getting their grant renewed.
November 20, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Time for Rutgers to bring in cognitive decline screening for faculty.
I the week when MAGA conspiracist MTG starts to look sane, Richard Ebright reveals that he thinks a shadowy cabal of US and Chinese scientists released SC2 as a bioweapon as revenge for not getting their grant renewed.
I the week when MAGA conspiracist MTG starts to look sane, Richard Ebright reveals that he thinks a shadowy cabal of US and Chinese scientists released SC2 as a bioweapon as revenge for not getting their grant renewed.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I guess the lockdown bought enough time form Pam and Kash to use their box of sharpies
I guess the lockdown bought enough time form Pam and Kash to use their box of sharpies
Trump tells Republicans to vote to release Epstein files, in a reversal of his previous stance
The US president has said he backs US lawmakers efforts to release the files, ahead of an expected House vote this week
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 9:13 AM
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
I guess the lockdown bought enough time form Pam and Kash to use their box of sharpies
I guess the lockdown bought enough time form Pam and Kash to use their box of sharpies
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"I don't worship or serve Donald Trump," she wrote in one post. "I worship God, Jesus is my savior, and I serve my district GA14 and the American people."
You can criticize MTG for many, many things, but standing by her principles (a rarity in the GOP) is not one them
"I don't worship or serve Donald Trump," she wrote in one post. "I worship God, Jesus is my savior, and I serve my district GA14 and the American people."
You can criticize MTG for many, many things, but standing by her principles (a rarity in the GOP) is not one them
Trump targets ally Marjorie Taylor Greene ahead of Epstein files vote
The Georgia congresswoman has criticised Trump's foreign policy and handling of Jeffrey Epstein files.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2025 at 5:04 PM
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
"I don't worship or serve Donald Trump," she wrote in one post. "I worship God, Jesus is my savior, and I serve my district GA14 and the American people."
You can criticize MTG for many, many things, but standing by her principles (a rarity in the GOP) is not one them
"I don't worship or serve Donald Trump," she wrote in one post. "I worship God, Jesus is my savior, and I serve my district GA14 and the American people."
You can criticize MTG for many, many things, but standing by her principles (a rarity in the GOP) is not one them
Except one specific person….
November 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Except one specific person….
Epstein Ave?
Windsor End?
Windsor End?
November 11, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Epstein Ave?
Windsor End?
Windsor End?
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😂