Irked Scientist

Meningeal γδ T cells facilitate bacterial entry into the brain in neonatal meningitis and trigger long-term behavioural sequelae https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.11.07.686929v1

😲 Brave New Worlds is great

How has this not been made into a film? It has everything. Proper edge of your seat moments

Vaccine given during pregnancy could protect babies from an invisible killer Shots target group B streptococcus, a little-known microbe that can cause stillbirths and life-threatening disease in infants

"there is no question that GBS is a leading cause of disease and death in infants up to 3 months old. Worldwide, it sickens about 400,000 babies a year and kills at least 91,000"

A deep dive into group B strep vaccines - #MedSky + #ReproSky + #IDSky.

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As a fellow ADHDer......the panic hasn't remotely kicked in for me to start yet!

Notice that everywhere except Southern Europe, the middle class have proven to be a much more important part of the left's coalition than the working class since the early 2000s. Labour strategists are pining for the early 1980s. Even then working class Brits today are cleaners not miners. 9/n

Thank God I wasnt born in August

The interesting opposite of this is General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord. Post-WW1 titan of the German army. Who Hitler DESPERATELY courted.

von Hammerstein is one of only 3 figures believed to have told Hitler to fuck off to his face. He even thwarted Nazi attempts to politicize his own death. /1 🧵

Not least that any immigrant with a reasonable paying job is a net positive to the economy over their lifetime

And the actual evidence for (high does of) Formaldehyde being a carcinogen is shonky as hell

They're also experts at self promotion.

And biggest by what measure.... Just building footprint? What about actual testing capacity?

I'll take that win. Nervy, chances at both ends

Marriott & Burns both standouts

Onwards and upwards this season I hope

#ReadingFC

Dutch late night TV has its take

mRNA-1273.251 and mRNA-1283.251 vaccines expressing SARS-CoV-2 variant LP.8.1 antigens broadly neutralize contemporary JN.1-lineage viruses https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.09.16.676634v1

I’m a gay bloke too, and India Willoughby is absolutely right to describe anti-trans gay men as “Vichy”.

I doubt any of us in the LGBT+ community would want anything to do with a TERF gay man like John. The degrading way he talks about India makes the reason for that very obvious.

Exactly this. One recurring realisation from my attempts to educate myself about Charlie Kirk is that he would have had no career at all if his supporters’ characterisations of college campuses were even close to accurate.

That's the exact point in the Mortimer & Whitehouse fishing prog. Men do better talking when they focused on something else and sat next to each other instead of opposite

Those confidence intervals in full!

It's just a sports ban.
It's just a bathroom ban.
It's just a healthcare for kids ban.
It's just a military service ban.
It's just a federal jobs ban.
It's just a university housing ban.
It's just a passport & visa ban.
It's just one Constitutional right.
It's just your status as free citizens.

The “problem” with vaccines? They so effective at preventing deaths that they create generations of people that question whether disease was a problem in the first place because they have never experienced the horrors of a world without vaccines.

Farage getting told a few home truths ..

Scummy little man ..

Dude a bacon sarnie lost the left an election and ushered in 15 yrs of austerity and a lurch to right wing politics!

Not if what they're reading are newspapers and social media!

Study: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1917338

It's a day that ends in Y which means it's time to post this again.

A real bastard of a plant.

My wife and her local volunteer chums have been pulling it up all summer. Not making much impact as there are patches they can't get to, and the seeds disperse so widely

From what we notice, they're attracted to it but dont actually properly engage with the flowers

Agree with this, hate having to go to twitter to follow team sheets, game updates & news from the Reading FC posters

From the transgenderUK community on Reddit Explore this post and more from the transgenderUK community

www.reddit.com/r/transgende...

Guess what?
The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions.
Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her?
Read her own account here.

Where 2024 Labour voters are now:

Still Labour: 52% (5m)
Don't know: 13% (1.3m)
Now Lib Dem: 10% (1.0m)
Now Green: 8% (0.8m)
Now Reform UK: 7% (0.7m)
Now Won't Vote: 4% (0.3m)
Now Conservative: 3% (0.3m)
Now SNP/PC: 2% (0.2m)
Now Other: 1% (0.1m)
Dead: 1% (0.1m)