Diane G Newell

Please for the love of all things holy, don’t drink RAW MILK!

Just stop people! PLEASE we beg you all to stop drinking the raw milk.

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Iguanas Drop From Florida's Trees as Record Cold Blasts Southern US Iguanas stunned by cold temperatures dropped from trees in usually balmy Florida on Sunday as icy conditions blasted southern US states, dumping nearly a half-meter of snow in some areas and whipping…

Iguanas Drop From Florida's Trees as Record Cold Blasts Southern US. Via @sciencealert #Conservation #WildLife #Zoology #Nature #Florida #meteorology ☁️ #Snowmageddon #SnowStorm #BombCyclone ☃️

There is a new measles outbreak at one of the migrant detention centers.

This has the potential to be very serious. Somehow I don’t have a lot of faith in the “ICE Health Services Corps”.

US committee is reconsidering all vaccine recommendations Move is dramatic departure for advisory group under Kirk Milhoan, who says he doesn’t like the term ‘established science’

Kirk Malhoan acting chair for US ACIP that make recommendations for vaccines is saying he wants to reconsider all US vaccines recommendations. 🧪🧵 #HealthPolicy

The language Milhoan uses is shocking and his statements unethical when he talks about the opportunity to study what happens when measles rips through the country

The more I read this the cloudier it becomes.

Saying the budget will not be reduced is fine. But in the absence of any vague idea of how the budget will be used the statement is meaningless

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

The Dept of Energy (DoE) overhauled a set of nuclear safety directives and shared them with the companies it regulates, without making the new rules available to the public. The changes affect various aspects of reactor operations, including saf...

TAT: [Attacking Science | Controlling Information]

By end of Feb @bsky.app will be the 2nd largest social media source for research sharing in our database

- Google+ managed 945,000 mentions of research during its life
- Facebook pages (not people's profiles) have shared papers 6.6m times
- Reddit = 600k

Bluesky is currently at 6m and climbing

Exclusive: US conditions funding to global vaccine group on dropping mercury-based preservative from shots The Trump administration has told global vaccine group Gavi to phase out shots containing the preservative thimerosal as a condition of providing the group with funding, a U.S. official and a Gavi spo...

Trump now says that funds for Gavi, the global vaccine alliance, will be conditional on vaccines not containing thimerosal.

Thimerosal is a preservative for which there is no credible evidence of harm.

RFK Jr. is a liar and a charlatan.

Ht: @benecal.bsky.social for the heads up.

Please share. 💔

Horrified & heartbroken by the latest ICE murder in Minneapolis.

Alex Pretti was an intensive care nurse & beloved son.

Americans, please know how many millions of us here in the UK are sickened by Trump and his fascist thugs, and stand in solidarity with all of you resisting them 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

Nature security assessment on global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security This strategic assessment explores how global biodiversity loss and the collapse of critical ecosystems could affect the UK’s resilience, security and prosperity.

An across-government technical assessment published today recognises that "nature is the foundation of national security" and that "every critical ecosystem is on a pathway to collapse". A rational response to this would be to get very serious about nature recovery.
www.gov.uk/government/p...

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...

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...

19m minus 1. Let's hope others follow m.

“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. 🌍

YouTube video by MS NOW 'It doesn’t work that way': Ex-CDC official on RFK Jr.’s Denmark vaccine idea

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Quote from RFK Jr’s Twitter feed that says Secretary Ke... @Secke.... 2n5... Lyme disease has made it hazardous to go into the woods, and the MAHA movement is trying to get children to be active. To get them to go outside, to get them to experience nature, not only because that's going to benefit them physically, but also the spiritual connection that we get to God, to our own health and well-being, to the serenity that we have access to only when we're in nature.

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?

I believe this meme speaks for most in healthcare, science, public health, global health, research, and anyone wanted a return to precedented times.

✅ 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.

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

"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...

MAHA Wins

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.

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!
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New antibiotic for gonorrhea could help beat back drug-resistant infections Two treatments for the sexually transmitted disease are expected to become available soon

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

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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

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.

‘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

A nice story for a change as a wild beaver been discovered in Norfolk.

During chaotic meeting, CDC advisers handpicked by RFK Jr. postpone vote on changing hepatitis B vaccine recommendations

This is an excellent summary of the days events and the science supporting infant vaccine for hepatitis b

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 ...

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Health must be a cornerstone of peace & prosperity—not a casualty of politics.
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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.