Stevie Ped

A powerful anti-rights movement is growing in the UK A powerful anti-rights movement is growing in the UK, threatening to roll back our hard-won freedoms and rewrite the rules on whose rights, bodies and lives deserve protection. But - we refuse to be d...

Our analysis maps a web of 65 anti-rights groups operating across the UK, including anti-abortion organisations, groups promoting so-called "conversion therapy" & UK branches of powerful US organisations.

Read the analysis here 👇🏾 www.amnesty.org.uk/anti-rights

Petition: Stop "gender critical beliefs" being protected under the Equality Act We think removing the protection of the Equality Act for "gender critical beliefs" could better protect trans, non-binary and gender diverse people. It could support organisations to properly protect ...

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Wrote about how the UK's online age verification requirements are already proving to be a disaster (as UK regulators were clearly warned it would be) and how unhelpful the UK's response to this mess has been, including their tech minister saying anyone who complains supports predators.

An important thing to remember about modern politics is that doing something utterly reprehensible, then failing to listen and doubling down is known as "toughing it out" and "standing firm." Amongst the political elite, this is one of the most admirable qualities. They're playing to their audience.

The West is dawdling along by waving a two-state solution around seemingly to allow Mr Netanyahu & Israel to implement a one state solution within the next 48 hours as a fait accompli.

Korean scientists say they developed oral drug against COVID-19 - UPI.com A group of scientists has confirmed the efficacy of a new oral anti-viral treatment, called CP-COV03 or Xafty, against COVID-19 after a clinical trial.

Korean scientists say they developed oral drug against COVID-19.

"A group of scientists, primarily from South Korean universities, has confirmed the efficacy of an oral anti-viral treatment, called CP-COV03 or Xafty, against COVID-19 after a clinical trial."

www.upi.com/Health_News/...

🧵NEW: This is an unprecedented intervention.

Almost every single living, former head of the IDF, Mossad (Israeli foreign intelligence), Shin Bet (domestic intelligence) & Police Commissioner urges an end to Israel’s war in Gaza.

“This is an extremist government. It has taken us all hostage.”

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It’s the sheer number that angers me. 🤬

This flawed preprint claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccination causes transcriptomic dysregulation and cancer.
But all it does is showing that sick people differ in gene expression from healthy ones. Duh.
My critical review at Science Integrity Digest here:

scienceintegritydigest.com/2025/07/25/p...

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990 World Athletics says its genetic test for women ensures ‘the integrity of women’s sport’ – but science does not support this overly simplistic idea.

World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990

By, Professor Andrew Sinclair, Murdoch Children's Research Institute.

theconversation.com/world-athlet...

The efficacy and accuracy of ribosomal RNA depletion methods. #RibosomalRNAdepletion #rRNA #MethodBenchmarking #RNAseq #NGS #Genomics @biorxiv-bioinfo.bsky.social
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

For the overwhelming majority of people who practice it, sports is not about competition. It's about social belonging. Once you understand that, the reason why transphobes want to ban trans women from it even outside of competition and even in disciplines like darts is pretty obvious.

Senator McKIM (Tasmania—Australian Greens Whip) (13:34): I'm proud to have been named the Australian Greens LGBTIQA+ spokesperson. I take on this role at a time of great challenge for the community. To quote Alastair Lawrie, a hugely respected advocate: There has been a disturbing rise in anti-LGBTIQ prejudice, including hate speech as well as threats of intimidation and violence … Alastair notes: The Commonwealth Government has been missing in action on anti-LGBTIQ extremism. One example of that is its failure to appoint a LGBTIQA+ human rights commissioner. While Labor speaks a lot about support for social cohesion and has rightly spent tens of millions of dollars on the safety of faith communities in Australia, it has been silent on extremist attacks on LGBTIQA+ events and has failed to invest the same kind of money in protecting the safety of LGBTIQA+ people. It has also failed to keep its promise to prohibit discrimination against LGBTIQA+ people by faith based schools and services, a decision that sends the message that mistreating LGBTIQA+ Australians is okay. After marriage equality, LGBTIQA+ Australians and their allies had the legitimate hope that things would get better. They have not. In my new role, I will work to restore that hope. Tasmania was the last state to decriminalise homosexuality, but it now has some of the best LGBTIQA+ laws and policies in the world. We face the challenge of anti-LGBTIQA+ discrimination head on, and Tasmania is a far better place for having done so. I'm going to bring that Tasmanian spirit to my new role and will work to finally end discrimination against queer folks and right some of the egregious wrongs of the past.

Thanks to new Greens LGBTIQA+ spokesperson, Senator Nick McKim, for this recent quote in Commonwealth Parliament (from Hansard 24 July 2025).

The Commonwealth Government really has been missing in action when it comes to rising anti-LGBTIQ+ extremism in this country. #auslaw #auspol 1/2

New Instats livestreaming seminar: Single-Cell Analysis with Bioconductor

#ComputationalBiology #Bioinformatics #Biomedicine #Biostatistics #Biology #DataScience #Genomics #HighPerformanceComputing #MolecularBiology #Statistics #R #RStudio #Research #ResearchTraining #Instats

Just pointing out that there are more people marching in the #MarchForHumanity across Australia than there are members of the Labor and Liberal parties

We need just 10 more names to reach 40,000.
If you haven’t already done so, please sign.
If you have, please repost, and tell your friends and family.

Julian Assange & Craig Foster help carry banner & march on the Sydney Harbour Bridge. Thank you to them both. Thank you to all who marched, who called for peace & an end to the genocide. The world is watching. #FreePalestine

YouTube video by The Sunday Shot The Internet's Wild West - August 3 - Lizzie O'Shea and Cam Wilson.

The #SundayShot is up! Two of the country's leading experts on the byzantine online world @cameronwilson.bsky.social & @drwaus.bsky.social's Lizzie O'Shea join us to talk through the Under 16 ban, the murky world of conspiracy theories & more.

Watch, like, subscribe!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LHH...

Thread of bioinformatics rock stars.

1) Dexter Holland

Over at the Victorian Labor State Conference, this and an urgency resolution calling for an inquiry into Aukus just passed overwhelmingly. Seems like it could be a big deal.

Important UK Trans: Given the number of ppl escaping to the Republic of Ireland, our LGBTQ orgs have stepped up a gear to support people. The main LGBTQ charity is LGBT Ireland. If you call them, they can give you advice on moving to Ireland:

Elizabeth Spiers with the crystal ball, from three months ago...

Maybe it just looks like a stick?

Amazing!!!

useR! Conference useR! is an annual nonprofit conference organized by R community volunteers and supported by the R Foundation. Attendees include R developers and users who are data scientists, business intelligence s...

Today is the @user-conf.bsky.social 2025 virtual conference 🙌

The talks are being posted one at a time on YouTube, starting last night at midnight ET going through midnight tonight:
www.youtube.com/@useRConfere...

mRNA vaccines for HIV trigger strong immune response in people Results from early-stage trial show that 80% of participants who received one of two HIV vaccine candidates produced antibodies against viral proteins.

Two vaccine candidates using mRNA technology elicit a potent immune response against HIV

go.nature.com/4ov7WZI

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The top anti-rights extremists are well aware of this, but since the facts don't support their position, they lie.

We all pay the price.

Pluslife users!
Have you ever had/seen a positive (all channels up very quickly) and the machine saying positive then an hour later a clear negative plus a negative rapid test?

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze federal funds.

Then the harassment began.

Pizzas sent to his home in the name of Judge Esther Salas’s murdered son, Daniel.

Six credible threats to his life.

More than 400 “vile” calls to his chambers—including this voicemail: