Diane G Newell
@dgebn.bsky.social
Retired UK scientist (interested in microbiology, ecology, food safety, climate change, DEI and education) and horrified by what is currently happening in the world.
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Epstein-Barr Virus #EBV was linked to #MultipleSclerosis - now a plausible cause has been found, misidentification by longterm memory T-cells that pick on the wrong protein, ANO2, instead of the EBV-antigen. Massive inflection towards the elimination of MS!!!
🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
Anoctamin-2-specific T cells link Epstein-Barr virus to multiple sclerosis
Researchers identified anoctamin-2 (ANO2) as a frequent autoimmune target in multiple
sclerosis, with T cell responses against ANO2 occurring in over half of patients.
These ANO2-specific T cells shar...
www.cell.com
January 15, 2026 at 1:41 AM
Epstein-Barr Virus #EBV was linked to #MultipleSclerosis - now a plausible cause has been found, misidentification by longterm memory T-cells that pick on the wrong protein, ANO2, instead of the EBV-antigen. Massive inflection towards the elimination of MS!!!
🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
🧪🧠Cell www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...
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“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍
January 8, 2026 at 8:07 PM
“We cannot withdraw from the fact that over 1 million species of plants and animals face extinction.” 🧪
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍
IPBES remains committed to its mandate to provide the most credible science and evidence about biodiversity to all decision makers and actors. 🌍
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Reposted by Diane G Newell
You know what, shitbird? I have an idea. What about a VACCINE?
There are several in late stages of development.
Will you promote them so we can get “children back into the woods” as you say?
There are several in late stages of development.
Will you promote them so we can get “children back into the woods” as you say?
December 29, 2025 at 11:36 PM
You know what, shitbird? I have an idea. What about a VACCINE?
There are several in late stages of development.
Will you promote them so we can get “children back into the woods” as you say?
There are several in late stages of development.
Will you promote them so we can get “children back into the woods” as you say?
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I believe this meme speaks for most in healthcare, science, public health, global health, research, and anyone wanted a return to precedented times.
December 30, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I believe this meme speaks for most in healthcare, science, public health, global health, research, and anyone wanted a return to precedented times.
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✅ May 2025: Landmark adoption of the #PandemicAgreement.
Countries adopted the first Pandemic Agreement at the 78th World Health Assembly. The agreement fosters international collaboration and commits to ensuring more equitable access to vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics.
Countries adopted the first Pandemic Agreement at the 78th World Health Assembly. The agreement fosters international collaboration and commits to ensuring more equitable access to vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics.
December 25, 2025 at 9:04 AM
✅ May 2025: Landmark adoption of the #PandemicAgreement.
Countries adopted the first Pandemic Agreement at the 78th World Health Assembly. The agreement fosters international collaboration and commits to ensuring more equitable access to vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics.
Countries adopted the first Pandemic Agreement at the 78th World Health Assembly. The agreement fosters international collaboration and commits to ensuring more equitable access to vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics.
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"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
US plan for $1.6m hepatitis B vaccine study in Africa called ‘highly unethical’
Experts decry ‘neocolonialist’ Guinea-Bissau study after Trump administration changed advice for US babies
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 9:27 PM
"Babies in the randomized, controlled trial will or will not receive the vaccine at birth...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
"It is a breach of scientific ethics to withhold an intervention that has been proven safe and effective."
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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It’s official: we’ve been awarded a UKRI Engineering Biology Focal Award to train the next generation of microbial bioengineer PhDs. An exciting collaboration between @officialuom.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Projects will be advertised in February 2026!
www.ukri.org/news/ukri-do...
Projects will be advertised in February 2026!
www.ukri.org/news/ukri-do...
UKRI doctoral training investment set to power UK growth
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) invests in next-generation doctoral training to boost UK innovation and economic growth.
www.ukri.org
December 19, 2025 at 8:26 PM
It’s official: we’ve been awarded a UKRI Engineering Biology Focal Award to train the next generation of microbial bioengineer PhDs. An exciting collaboration between @officialuom.bsky.social @liverpooluni.bsky.social
Projects will be advertised in February 2026!
www.ukri.org/news/ukri-do...
Projects will be advertised in February 2026!
www.ukri.org/news/ukri-do...
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A double dose of good news on the infectious disease front:
There’s not just one but two new drugs coming for gonorrhea, one of the most worrying diseases when it comes to antibiotic resistance.
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
There’s not just one but two new drugs coming for gonorrhea, one of the most worrying diseases when it comes to antibiotic resistance.
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
New antibiotic for gonorrhea could help beat back drug-resistant infections
Two treatments for the sexually transmitted disease are expected to become available soon
www.science.org
December 12, 2025 at 8:44 AM
A double dose of good news on the infectious disease front:
There’s not just one but two new drugs coming for gonorrhea, one of the most worrying diseases when it comes to antibiotic resistance.
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
There’s not just one but two new drugs coming for gonorrhea, one of the most worrying diseases when it comes to antibiotic resistance.
🧪 #IDsky
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Bayer/Monsanto's bogus Roundup research is retracted. In 2017, a lawsuit uncovered internal emails from chemical giant Monsanto that suggested its employees helped ghostwrite an influential paper that claimed to find no evidence the company’s widely used glyphosate herbicide, Roundup, caused cancer.
Journal retracts weed killer study backed by Monsanto, citing ‘serious ethical concerns’
Highly cited paper was used as evidence that the widely used herbicide Roundup is safe
www.science.org
December 7, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Bayer/Monsanto's bogus Roundup research is retracted. In 2017, a lawsuit uncovered internal emails from chemical giant Monsanto that suggested its employees helped ghostwrite an influential paper that claimed to find no evidence the company’s widely used glyphosate herbicide, Roundup, caused cancer.
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A nice story for a change as a wild beaver been discovered in Norfolk.
‘No one knows where it came from’: first wild beaver spotted in Norfolk for 400 years
Cameras capture lone creature collecting materials for its lodge in riverside nature reserve
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2025 at 8:18 AM
A nice story for a change as a wild beaver been discovered in Norfolk.
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This is an excellent summary of the days events and the science supporting infant vaccine for hepatitis b
During chaotic meeting, CDC advisers handpicked by RFK Jr. postpone vote on changing hepatitis B vaccine recommendations
www.cidrap.umn.edu
December 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is an excellent summary of the days events and the science supporting infant vaccine for hepatitis b
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5/ 8️⃣ Train future leaders in political literacy & negotiation
9️⃣ Defend & reinvent multilateralism
Health must be a cornerstone of peace & prosperity—not a casualty of politics.
Read our full paper here: www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10....
9️⃣ Defend & reinvent multilateralism
Health must be a cornerstone of peace & prosperity—not a casualty of politics.
Read our full paper here: www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10....
SSPH+ | An Agenda for Public Health Diplomacy in an Age of Populism
BackgroundPublic health is under pressure from rising populism, disinformation, and weakened global institutions, threatening cooperation, equity, and trust ...
www.ssph-journal.org
December 5, 2025 at 8:59 AM
5/ 8️⃣ Train future leaders in political literacy & negotiation
9️⃣ Defend & reinvent multilateralism
Health must be a cornerstone of peace & prosperity—not a casualty of politics.
Read our full paper here: www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10....
9️⃣ Defend & reinvent multilateralism
Health must be a cornerstone of peace & prosperity—not a casualty of politics.
Read our full paper here: www.ssph-journal.org/articles/10....
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We now have the "persons with lived experience" portion of the meeting. This is new, but it seems to function analogously to public comments. I won't discuss the entire segment.
We are now back. The order of presenters has been changed; we now have a presentation from CMS:
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
The VFC presentation will be after the presentation on people's lived experiences and after there is agreement on voting language.
www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...
The VFC presentation will be after the presentation on people's lived experiences and after there is agreement on voting language.
December 4, 2025 at 8:01 PM
We now have the "persons with lived experience" portion of the meeting. This is new, but it seems to function analogously to public comments. I won't discuss the entire segment.
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After a contentious discussion, the vaccine advisory group pushed the vote to Friday to give members time to study the language of proposed changes longstanding policy on the shots. n.pr/48mr3z7
CDC advisers delay planned vote on hepatitis B vaccine for infants
After a contentious discussion, the vaccine advisory group pushed the vote to Friday to give members time to study the language of proposed changes longstanding policy on the shots.
n.pr
December 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
After a contentious discussion, the vaccine advisory group pushed the vote to Friday to give members time to study the language of proposed changes longstanding policy on the shots. n.pr/48mr3z7
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The ACIP meeting today was a disgrace. What a bunch of nincompoops. Making things up, can't even figure out what they're voting on. It's a clown show. Except it isn't funny. Lives are at stake and the worst people are in charge.
Defend Public Health is speaking out about the ACIP meeting calling it an epidemiological crime scene.
www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...
www.defendpublichealth.org/press-releas...
ACIP Meeting Turns into “Epidemiological Crime Scene” | Defend Public Health
Health experts with Defend Public Health expressed shock at the flood of antivaxxer disinformation that dominated the first day of the December meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practi...
www.defendpublichealth.org
December 4, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The ACIP meeting today was a disgrace. What a bunch of nincompoops. Making things up, can't even figure out what they're voting on. It's a clown show. Except it isn't funny. Lives are at stake and the worst people are in charge.
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I had to take a break after caller Michael Belkin declared that HepB is a disease of “gays, junkies and promiscuous heterosexuals” and Robert Malone THANKED HIM FOR IT.
December 4, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I had to take a break after caller Michael Belkin declared that HepB is a disease of “gays, junkies and promiscuous heterosexuals” and Robert Malone THANKED HIM FOR IT.
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The circus that is ACIP is meeting to review Hepatitis B vaccine policies. My uncle (a non drinker) died of liver cirrhosis.
I will never forget how his belly looked towards end of his life. There is no cure for Hep B infections.
25% of children who develop chronic Hep B infections will die.
🧪
I will never forget how his belly looked towards end of his life. There is no cure for Hep B infections.
25% of children who develop chronic Hep B infections will die.
🧪
Hepatitis B: What parents should know about the virus and the vaccine
For decades, newborns in the U.S. have been given the hepatitis B vaccine. This could change. A CDC vaccine advisory panel may vote to end that routine vaccination. Here's what parents should know.
www.npr.org
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
The circus that is ACIP is meeting to review Hepatitis B vaccine policies. My uncle (a non drinker) died of liver cirrhosis.
I will never forget how his belly looked towards end of his life. There is no cure for Hep B infections.
25% of children who develop chronic Hep B infections will die.
🧪
I will never forget how his belly looked towards end of his life. There is no cure for Hep B infections.
25% of children who develop chronic Hep B infections will die.
🧪
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Former FDA Commissioners on the recent claims by Vinay Prasad...
"We are deeply concerned by sweeping new FDA assertions abt vaccine safety & proposals that wld undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure that vaccines are safe, effective, & available when the public needs them most." 🛟🧪😷medsky
"We are deeply concerned by sweeping new FDA assertions abt vaccine safety & proposals that wld undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure that vaccines are safe, effective, & available when the public needs them most." 🛟🧪😷medsky
A Threat to Evidence-Based Vaccine Policy and Public Health Security at the FDA | NEJM
Twelve former commissioners of the FDA express concern that the agency’s recent moves
will undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure vaccine safety, effectiveness,
and availability.
www.nejm.org
December 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Former FDA Commissioners on the recent claims by Vinay Prasad...
"We are deeply concerned by sweeping new FDA assertions abt vaccine safety & proposals that wld undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure that vaccines are safe, effective, & available when the public needs them most." 🛟🧪😷medsky
"We are deeply concerned by sweeping new FDA assertions abt vaccine safety & proposals that wld undermine a regulatory model designed to ensure that vaccines are safe, effective, & available when the public needs them most." 🛟🧪😷medsky
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Make the wrong decisions for #vaccines & ‘preventable diseases can come roaring back’.
A timely dose of #HBV vaccine at birth is one of our simplest, safest & best anti #cancer strategies.
Universal access matters.
Look at the figure below- a stunning success since roll-out.
@gavi.org
#MedSky 🧪
A timely dose of #HBV vaccine at birth is one of our simplest, safest & best anti #cancer strategies.
Universal access matters.
Look at the figure below- a stunning success since roll-out.
@gavi.org
#MedSky 🧪
A great overview on what to expect from the CDC vaccine meeting tomorrow and Friday. Pay special attention to the playbook at the end — every single one of those tactics is likely to be used and is easily recognizable if you know what to look for. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/what-to-ex...
What to expect from this week's U.S. vaccine meeting
Hep B, routine vaccination schedule, and a firehose of falsehoods
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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If timely birth dose #HBV #vaccine is restricted, there will be a predictable surge in new chronic infections.
There are *no* documented harms of this vaccine dose in early life.
In contrast, chronic viral #hepatitis leads to *over a million deaths a year worldwide*.
#vaccineswork
#MedSky 🧪💉
There are *no* documented harms of this vaccine dose in early life.
In contrast, chronic viral #hepatitis leads to *over a million deaths a year worldwide*.
#vaccineswork
#MedSky 🧪💉
December 4, 2025 at 9:01 AM
If timely birth dose #HBV #vaccine is restricted, there will be a predictable surge in new chronic infections.
There are *no* documented harms of this vaccine dose in early life.
In contrast, chronic viral #hepatitis leads to *over a million deaths a year worldwide*.
#vaccineswork
#MedSky 🧪💉
There are *no* documented harms of this vaccine dose in early life.
In contrast, chronic viral #hepatitis leads to *over a million deaths a year worldwide*.
#vaccineswork
#MedSky 🧪💉
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It’s a crucial moment to say this again, loudly:
#vaccines cause adults.
Let’s keep causing adults.
🧪 #HBV #NoHep #vaccineswork #MedSky #HepSky #IDSky #PublicHealth @who.int
@gavi.org @altcdc.altgov.info @worldhepalliance.bsky.social
#vaccines cause adults.
Let’s keep causing adults.
🧪 #HBV #NoHep #vaccineswork #MedSky #HepSky #IDSky #PublicHealth @who.int
@gavi.org @altcdc.altgov.info @worldhepalliance.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 9:14 AM
It’s a crucial moment to say this again, loudly:
#vaccines cause adults.
Let’s keep causing adults.
🧪 #HBV #NoHep #vaccineswork #MedSky #HepSky #IDSky #PublicHealth @who.int
@gavi.org @altcdc.altgov.info @worldhepalliance.bsky.social
#vaccines cause adults.
Let’s keep causing adults.
🧪 #HBV #NoHep #vaccineswork #MedSky #HepSky #IDSky #PublicHealth @who.int
@gavi.org @altcdc.altgov.info @worldhepalliance.bsky.social
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You know things are bad when a dozen former FDA commissioners, from as far as 1990, pen a word criticizing Vinay Prasad’s memo on Covid vaccines.
The decision to change vaccine policy was based on VAERS, an unreliable source of data.
🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/f...
The decision to change vaccine policy was based on VAERS, an unreliable source of data.
🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/f...
A dozen former FDA commissioners decry Prasad memo on vaccine regulation
Changes to the ways in which the FDA plans to regulate vaccines represent a threat to effective vaccines and public health, 12 former commissioners say.
www.statnews.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:54 PM
You know things are bad when a dozen former FDA commissioners, from as far as 1990, pen a word criticizing Vinay Prasad’s memo on Covid vaccines.
The decision to change vaccine policy was based on VAERS, an unreliable source of data.
🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/f...
The decision to change vaccine policy was based on VAERS, an unreliable source of data.
🧪 www.statnews.com/2025/12/03/f...
Reposted by Diane G Newell
Vaccines work 🧪
A great overview on what to expect from the CDC vaccine meeting tomorrow and Friday. Pay special attention to the playbook at the end — every single one of those tactics is likely to be used and is easily recognizable if you know what to look for. yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/what-to-ex...
What to expect from this week's U.S. vaccine meeting
Hep B, routine vaccination schedule, and a firehose of falsehoods
yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Vaccines work 🧪