Ivy Owens

Lyme Disease - VLA15 - Valneva Valneva’s Lyme disease vaccine candidate VLA15 is currently the only active vaccine program in clinical development against Lyme disease.

If we had a functioning CDC/FDA, we'd likely have a Lyme Disease vaccine next year.

VLA15 has had very good phase 2 trial data.

valneva.com/research-dev...

Trump had a bad week in court last week:

1. Broad Tariffs without Congress - illegal
2. Harvard funding freeze - illegal
3. National Guard to LA - illegal
4. Alien Enemies Act - can’t use
5. Cutting $12 billion in funding that Congress already approved - illegal

⚠️Some action against the false flagged shadow fleet is currently unfolding in the Baltic between Denmark and Germany.

✅NIGHT GLORY: DK Frigate Escort

✅WALL: DE Coast Guard Escort

ICYMI from yesterday: more evidence that the UK news media is a racism factory, deliberately training the public to be more bigoted. This is the intended outcome of editorial policy at the behest of media owners and operators for political ends.

And now in 2025, the A303 has almost reached the same terrifying speeds

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"Do geese see God?" is a palindrome.

...but do they???

NHS staff pay compared to other sectors

Note comparison isn't just with other sectors, but other countries (eg compare work conditions & salary in the UK & Ireland)

Does the country's population want to lose its staff, or pay for private (Reform agenda?)

#ResidentDoctorsStrike #FullPayRestoration

Genuinely clueless why we're even still having this debate.

Apparently it's totally unreasonable in the 6th richest world economy to pay people saving our lives £22.67 an hour so we can continue to have a functioning health service.

And yes, it really is THAT simple. #ResidentDoctorsStrike

Group criticizes NIH over suspended funding for TB research

The Treatment Action Group says the 22 TB projects whose funding was suspended by NIH don't involve "gain-of-function" research.

www.cidrap.umn.edu/t...

That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.

Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they? Hello?

The PCR positivity map is out, national positivity edges up another 0.5% to 6.7, and that's matched by other indicators such as hospital admissions.

jamestindall.info/skeuomorphol...

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Spread this to every Harvad alum you can find.

Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey kicking off our webinar tonight, making some excellent points about Harvard's vital economic impact locally, statewide, nationally and internationally.

Angie Murimirwa: From hiding in the bathroom to Time's most influential people list A kid whose parents couldn't afford school fees is now an "icon" on Time magazine's 2025 list — recognizing her work as CEO of Camfed, a charity that gives millions of girls a chance for an education.

A kid whose parents couldn't afford school fees is now an "icon" on Time magazine's 2025 list — recognizing her work as CEO of Camfed, a charity that gives millions of girls a chance for an education.

‘Vaguely Threatening’: Federal Prosecutor Queries Leading Medical Journal The New England Journal of Medicine received a letter suggesting that it was biased and compromised by external pressure. Other journals have also received the letter.

“Our job is to evaluate science and evaluate it in an unbiased fashion,” Dr. Rubin said. “That’s what we do and I think we do it well. The questions seem to suggest that there’s some bias in what we do — that’s where the vaguely threatening part comes in.”

@nejm.org

Governance can’t be automated On the corners of the Holborn viaduct in central London, there are four statues: Commerce, Agriculture, Fine Art, and Science. The figure representing Science looks like she should be in Ancient Greec...

My new piece for @science.org is about safety, technology and how we can't automate governance. A quick thread... 🧵 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The independent Criminal Bar in England & Wales is on its knees, and with it the criminal justice system itself A post by Mary Prior KC, Chair of the Criminal Bar Association and COEUS member, from her weekly message to CBA members of 14/04/2025

substack.com/app-link/pos...

NHS cancer patients denied life-saving drugs due to Brexit costs, report finds Exclusive: Britons found to have ‘lost out’ while rest of Europe benefits from golden age of research and treatments

Brits living with cancer have “lost out” on life-saving drugs and new medical trials due to Brexit, according to a leaked report.

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Keir Starmer pledges centralised service for researchers to mine health data Announcement follows recommendation in UK government-commissioned review last year

Keir Starmer pledges centralised service for researchers to mine health data

Which is fine - indeed welcome- if it was TRULY anonymised not pseudonimised, if they didn’t use USA data-mining firms like Palantir & if the institutions really did have very robust security

www.ft.com/content/a928...

NHS data breach: trusts shared patient details with Facebook without consent Observer investigation reveals Meta Pixel tool passed on private details of web browsing on medical sites

On NHS organisations’ history of sharing patient data with Facebook/ Meta

www.theguardian.com/society/2023...

On Oxford Biobank. Plain scary

And Starmer is all starry eyed over Palantir.

bsky.app/profile/fasc...

This is Ripley. He was nervous about taking the stairs. May have panicked a bit. 12/10

🧵 1/14 The WHO "Best Buys" have been effective but underutilised. Our paper @lancetrh-europe.bsky.social introduces "Quick Buys"—cost-effective interventions that show measurable public health impact within 5 years. w/ David Stuckler, @gauden.bsky.social and other colleagues at WHO EURO

a statue of a hippopotamus with its mouth open and teeth showing . Alt: A hippo being tossed a watermelon, which it crushes in its massive jaws.

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane.

Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

Measles virus targets certain immune cells in the body: What to know about complications The virus targets certain types of immune cells in the body, destroying them in the process.

In case you've forgotten about measles induced immune amnesia
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt... w/ @michaelmina.bsky.social @virusesimmunity.bsky.social

2) Lest anyone think I’m downplaying real issues, I’ve also written this piece on the worrying rise of young people on health-related benefits, highlighting the UK’s particular issue with young adult mental health: www.ft.com/content/1466...

Great report, which I strongly recommend to anyone who read my piece last year that @cjayanetti.bsky.social is referring to.

A couple of things I would emphasise: