Dominic Tyer

Since so many people are now on @bsky.app, I am sharing an updated list of global and public health organizations

go.bsky.app/Df5hsLV

Scientists charged too much to immigrate to UK, says Royal Society Combined upfront cost of the five-year Global Talent Visa and the Immigration Health Surcharge stands at £5,941

Another report on how our high visa costs deter top R&D talent
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Keep this one in your pocket for the next few months of people assuring you that LLMs are “already driving scientific discovery”

Tylenol maker fights safety label change Kenvue said there's no proven link between autism and the use of the pain reliever.

Tylenol maker pushes back against safety label change. www.axios.com/2025/10/20/t...

Give the photographer who got this shot an award and a raise

a group of women standing in front of a sign

This #BlackHistoryMonth, we're highlighting Black partners and collaborators making positive change in health and care.

Listen to our podcast with Black Maternity Matters, a groundbreaking collaboration to improve inequalities in maternity services🎧️

https://bit.ly/4otJZ47

UNAids is set to close in 2026 – four years early. Are experts right to be alarmed? The move to shut the agency comes as aid budgets are being slashed, leading to fears that global progress on HIV may be reversed

"The HIV epidemic will go under the surface..Some countries could completely cut their HIV response within 1-2 yrs, we won’t know what is happening, & then in 5 yrs’), we will start to see wider breakouts with HIV detected in [kids], women & medical facilities.”
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Antibiotic resistance is increasing sharply among common hospital infections, per the WHO’s report, which found that 40%+ of antibiotics lost potency against infections between 2018 and 2023, and 1 in 6 bacterial infections were resistant to antibiotic treatments in 2023.

Trade unions demand end to attacks on overseas workforce Employees from ‘international backgrounds, or perceived as ethnically distinct from the majority population, are facing a sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric’

Our healthcare sector is built on the rich diversity of its workforce.

Today we’re calling on the media and some politicians to stop spreading misinformation and anti-migrant rhetoric.

Read our joint statement: www.bma.org.uk/news-and-opi...

Far more authors use AI to write science papers than admit it, publisher reports Finding highlights promise, questions about detectors of AI-generated text

Far more authors use AI to write science papers than admit it, publisher reports | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Map: Governors Public Health Alliance * Guam is also a member of the alliance Updated October 15, 2025 Map: @luckytran • Created with Datawrapper

15 US states and territories have formed a new Public Health Alliance, which will counter the absence of federal leadership by tracking outbreaks, issuing guidance, buying vaccines and more.

Members of the new alliance include CA, CO, CT, DE, GU, HI, IL, MD, MA, NJ, NY, NC, OR, RI, WA.

Novo Nordisk manufacturing facility, and clients, hit by FDA action Regulator classifies former Catalent site as ‘official action indicated’, impacting biotech clients such as Scholar Rock and Regeneron.

Novo Nordisk manufacturing facility, and its biotech clients including Regeneron, hit by FDA action

www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/267113/...

#pharma #manufacturing

AstraZeneca doubles Lokelma production at its Texas facility The pharma company invested $445m to expand its Coppell site.

AstraZeneca doubles Lokelma production at its Texas facility following $445m investment in the site

www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/267152/...

#pharma #manufacturing #texas

Takeda withdraws from clinical cell therapy activities The company will instead focus its attention on advancing candidates for modalities that include biologics and ADCs.

Takeda withdraws from clinical cell therapy activities to focus its attention instead on product candidates in areas such as biologics and ADCs

www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/266415/...

#pharma #takeda

AI adoption in life science labs faces a growing skills barrier Pistoia Alliance survey also found that the greatest benefit for lab digitalisation has shifted from efficiency to innovation.

The benefits from #AI in life science laboratories is shifting from efficiency to innovation, but broader adoption of the technology faces a growing skills barrier

www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/266302/...

#pharma #lifescience #AI

I found these immune cells just finished mitosis but their midbody is still yet to be resolved. How cool? If you zoom in to the midbody, you can see its classical shape just like in the textbooks. I love these little details.

“Twitter sucks now and all the cool kids are moving to Bluesky:” Our new survey shows that scientists no longer find Twitter professionally useful or pleasant My colleague Dr. Julia Wester and I have a new paper out in the journal Integrative and Comparative Biology reporting on the results of a survey distributed to over 800 scientists, science educator…

ICYMI, here is the press release for my study with @drjuliawester.bsky.social - we surveyed over 800 scientists who use social media. They overwhelmingly agree that Twitter is no longer useful or pleasant, and that for all professional online scientist goals, Bluesky is superior.
🧪 #SciComm 🌍

Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis B In a landmark public health achievement, WHO has validated the Maldives for eliminating mother-to-child transmission (EMTCT) of hepatitis B, while maintaining its earlier validation (in 2019) for EMTCT of HIV and syphilis. This makes the Maldives the first country in the world to achieve ‘triple elimination’.

Awesome public health news:
Maldives becomes the first country to achieve ‘triple elimination’ of
1. mother-to-child transmission of HIV,
2. Syphilis and
3. Hepatitis B
www.who.int/news/item/13...

How do you fight the far right (in #globalhealth)? @profsophieharman.bsky.social
1) Don’t punch down (tell the public their concerns are stupid)
2) Don’t self-censor 😶
3) Get our own house in order (don’t exploit women’s stories, unpaid health and care work, and ignore harassment)

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

After a long pause, I've just done another England Covid & NHS update as we head into the autumn/winter season.

TLDR: we're in a significant Covid wave now, the NHS is stretched, get boosted if you're eligible.

christinapagel.substack.com/p/england-is...

International fellowships to explore AI’s impact on science New £4 million programme funds early career researchers in the UK, US and Canada to investigate how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming science.

We're pleased to be funding early career researchers to explore how AI is transforming science.

The UK Metascience Unit has announced a cohort of 29 researchers that will receive funding through the AI Metascience Fellowship Programme.

Read more: www.ukri.org/news/interna...

We're calling for digital skills to be a core competency for all healthcare professionals in our new report, which highlights the urgent need for digital and AI literacy in pharmacy education and practice.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/46SCEnv

Materials Chemistry: Metal-Organic Frameworks Go Commercial Porous materials used for gas storage and catalysis can now be made on a ton scale, but producers still seek opportunities for large-scale use

The 2025 #NobelPrize laureates in chemistry have created MOFs, which are useful for storing and purifying gases, separating hydrocarbons, capturing carbon dioxide from exhaust gas streams, mediating catalytic reactions, and soaking up uranium from seawater cen.acs.org/articles/91/... #chemsky 🧪

CDMO Wheeler Bio appoints Jay Benson as chief operating officer He joins the Oklahoma company with over two decades of experience in pharma operations, supply chain and manufacturing.

Oklahoma-based CDMO Wheeler Bio has appointed Jay Benson as its new chief operating officer

www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/266826/...

#pharma #manufacturing #CDMO

Boehringer's Jascayd becomes first new IPF treatment in US for a decade FDA approval for the idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis drug supported by the pharma company’s FIBRONEER phase III clinical trials.

Boehringer Ingelheim’s Jascayd wins FDA approval, becoming first new IPF treatment in the US for a decade

www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/266937/...

#pharma

Peter Marks, FDA vaccine regulator ousted by RFK Jr., joins Eli Lilly Peter Marks, the former top vaccine regulator at the FDA, has joined Eli Lilly — a move likely to rile up critics of the revolving door between FDA and industry

NEW: Peter Marks, former top vaccine regulator ousted by RFK Jr. , is joining Eli Lilly.
www.statnews.com/2025/10/07/p...

In 1988 a computer mouse came with a 200-page manual with details like the custom drivers needed to make the device work with your specific hardware

Biology tech transfer is not quite that efficient yet, but I’m hopeful we are entering the 200-page-manual era of biology

After being with the journal since its very inception, the time has come for me to step back from Microbial Genomics. This is a wonderful opportunity to have a leadership role in one of the leading journals for microbial genomics research

microbiologysociety.org/news/society...

Manufacturing roundup: Symbiosis, BioGrad, Abzena, Eschbach and more This update includes sterile manufacturing, bio-manufacturing, cell line development and radiopharmaceuticals.

Sterile manufacturing, bio-manufacturing, cell line development and radiopharmaceuticals feature in this pharma manufacturing roundup of news from Symbiosis, BioGrad, Abzena, Eschbach and XenoStart

www.europeanpharmaceuticalreview.com/news/266440/...

#pharma #manufacturing #CDMO