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Philip Ball @philipcball.bsky.social · 1d

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...

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

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 3d

Bruttel is such a crank his is own University disowned him and rubbished his work on their own website. And note to all the right wing nutjobs like the BSNow crew - they never curtailed his free speech. They just posted an expert response saying he was talking shite.

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Viki Male @vikilovesfacs.bsky.social · 4d

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.

FactCheck.org @factcheck.org · 5d

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...

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 5d

You do wonder what this guy does with himself all day. If he’s not screen shotting us to post on X to almost no one, he’s rage commenting about every right-wing and proto-fascist talking point he comes across.

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 7d

Jane Goodall, famous for her study of chimpanzees, has died - Sky News

A hugely important scientist of the last century. RIP Jane Goodall.

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 7d

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 7d

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

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

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 8d

Exactly. Anyone who was paying attention and who subscribes to the maxim ‘when people tell you who they are, believe them’.

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Stuart Neil @tetherin.bsky.social · 9d

I also seem to remember Germany trying out a few of Nigel Farage’s ideas too, and that not ending well either.

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Towers Lab @towerslab.bsky.social · 9d

Delighted to have won a Wellcome Discovery Award for 8 more years of transformative research. We will advance our knowledge of innate immune mechanisms using viruses and chemotherapeutics as tools.

Thanks to everyone who contributed along the way.