An oil painting of Prof T.H. Thung, a middle-aged man from a Chinese background in Dutch academic dress (black gown and white bow tie and bands) against a plain background. He is looking straight at the viewer with a warm and friendly, if thoughtful, expression.

A fascinating (and beautifully illustrated) article on the history of virus research @w-u-r.bsky.social, and in particular of Thung Tjeng Hiang, the world's first professor of virology
exhibitions.wur.nl/fascinating-...

newsGP - Australia set for world-first cervical cancer elimination Vaccination programs have played a key role, and GPs remain ‘instrumental’ in boosting screening rates to reach the 2035 target.

Australia recorded ZERO cases of cervical cancer in women under 25 for the first time since they started tracking the cancer in the 80s.

This is the power of vaccines.

The HPV vaccine is extremely effective at preventing cancer.

Viruses can be oncogenic. Get your vaccines and protect yourself!

First, the frogs died. Then people got sick. An emerging area of research is uncovering hidden links between nature and human health.

In Central America, scientists found a spike in malaria cases after the fungus arrived. As frogs died, there were fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae; more mosquitoes resulted in a fivefold increase in malaria cases: wapo.st/3LHtdAj (gift). We allow extinctions at our peril. 🌎

It might be worth providing a little more background on what the NIH signature pandemic preparedness programs actually were, because everything in the article is false - e.g., none of the programs had anything to do with "dangerous gain-of-function" research.

A little more below.

Guess the news is officially out! Extremely excited to announce that I will be starting my own laboratory at Institut Pasteur @pasteur.fr this coming spring!

Slight change to my office window view from Tokyo Tower🗼 to the Tour Eiffel. 🇫🇷

Fluke-borne viruses are a risk factor for diseases caused by carcinogenic trematodes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.10....

#holobiont parasite: from descriptive studies towards experimental and clinical tangible evidence that parasites are not alone and that it matters!
Upon virus discovery, we showed an association between fluke-borne virus specific IgG titer and avidity and disease severity.
doi.org/10.1101/2025...

Obama’s warnings about democracy fading increasingly sound directed toward the US | CNN Politics “We’re seeing politicians target civil society, undermine freedom of the press, weaponize the justice system. And no one is being spared. Even countries that thought they were immune from wholesale as...

“A big challenge is that the governments themselves, whether center-right or center-left, were losing touch with people and weren’t delivering on some of the basic hopes and dreams of people, so you get frustrated with government, period”
-yeah, no kidding
edition.cnn.com/2025/10/11/p...

Pasteur-Paris University International doctoral program​ (PPU) OverviewIn 2009, the Institut Pasteur, the world leading biomedical research institute founded by Louis Pasteur in 1887, inaugurated the Pasteur Paris-University (PPU) international doctoral program i...

Interested in joining @pasteur.fr Pathogen Discovery Lab for a PhD ? Check out www.pasteur.fr/en/education.... I am looking for candidates with interests in metagenomics, vector-borne emerging infectious diseases, anthropogenic effects to contribute to @prezode.bsky.social funded AMAZED Project.

Yesterday the president demanded that evidence about Covid vaccines be shown to the public. Today @apoorvanyt.bsky.social & I run through some of the studies made public over the past 4+ years that show that the vaccines work. Gift link: nyti.ms/46k17Tq

This should be the lead story in all major national news outlets. Public health people prefer to stay out of the limelight unless there is no other choice. I can’t overstate how bad things have to be for 9 former CDC directors to band together and pen an op-ed in the NYT warning the entire country.

Link to: https://open.substack.com/pub/rasmussenretorts/p/creid-pro-quo-a-lie-that-will-kill

I wrote a new thing about the conspiracy theory that helped kill the CREID network, and will kill other people as a result.

open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

NIH NIAID funded PICREID picreid.org has been terminated. We will do our very best to finalize on-going work and find ways to pursue this critical international collaborative endeavour for global human health benefice.

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy Is Disease, Starvation and Death

Sorry, but that's not the gift link. This is: www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

HHMI is hiring for 3 new positions!

Individual job details below!👇

#ScienceJobs #AcademicSky
1/4

I would be happy to host a M-C postdoctoral fellow in the Pathogen Discovery Lab. Topics of interest: virus discovery, impact of urbanisation on the virome of arthropods, viruses of trematodes and role in pathogenicity, oncogenicity, Next Generation Sequencing, Bioinformatics and Biostatistics

The NIH budget is on a fast track to disaster An NIH insider explains what Republicans are likely to do next, and what we can do

Import read sorry to say.

RFK Jr. & HHS: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Here’s last night’s story about the impact RFK Jr. is having on public health, and why the rate of diabetes in China is *not* fifty percent. Can you hear us, Robert? Robert, listen to us: you have to stop acting like half of China has diabetes. It’s wrong, and also very weird! youtu.be/8H34jcpEsFs

DOGE begins to freeze health-care payments for extra review DOGE is putting new curbs on billions of dollars in federal grants, requiring officials to manually review and approve payments that were previously routine.

“All funding is on hold,” an NIH official told colleagues at a meeting on Thursday, according to audio. “The bottom line is no one is getting any money right now. But they don’t know they’re not getting any money because it just says that it’s ‘in transit.’”

Exclusive: Inside the WHO mission to Wuhan An exclusive excerpt from "Lab Leak Fever", the inside story behind the search for the origins of SARS-CoV-2 and the manipulation campaigns around it

What is China really covering up in Wuhan?

I reconstructed the WHO mission with testimony from primary sources, and what I learned might surprise you.

Read:

open.substack.com/pub/protagon...

Coping with Upheaval: Support for Terminated/Defunded Scientists If you're a US scientist feeling demoralized, burned out, or anxious in this unprecedented political moment--you are not alone. (Free event)

For my scientist friends who have been struggling with anxiety, depression, grief and more, two licensed therapists are hosting a 90min pro bono session. It's today (Apr 17), starting in half an hour (9:30am PT) but there will be more sessions in future. www.eventbrite.com/e/coping-wit...

“A republic, if you can keep it” - but can the US keep it? How Trump is dismantling democracy Mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information

My new post mapping out 69 actions that President Trump has taken in the last twelve weeks to undermine democracy, undermine the rule of law, attack enemies, suppress dissent and control information.

Do read and share. Full 🧵 tomorrow hopefully!

christinapagel.substack.com/p/a-republic...

Vaccinations voyages - Paludisme, Zika... L'application Métis vous permet de visualiser sur une carte dynamique les risques sanitaires spécifiques à votre destination de voyage.

Chikungunya, dengue, paludisme... Il existe autant de risques de contamination que de pays à visiter.

Afin de voyager en toute sérénité cet été, nous vous invitons à faire le point dès maintenant sur vos vaccins et à consulter les mesures de prévention existantes :
pasteur-lille.fr/centre-preve...

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New this evening (3/28): Major update in NIH grant termination numbers.

❌ 695 NIH grants now terminated (up from 429)
❌ 232 on HIV/AIDS
❌ 44 on cancer
❌ 28 on Alzheimer's
❌ 123 on Covid*

*And this doesn't count cancelled non-NIH Covid grants.

HUGE THANKS to @noamross.net for pushing the updates!

Mid-Career to Senior Principal Investigator About OICR   OICR is Ontario’s cancer research institute. We bring together people from across the province and around the world to improve the lives of everyone affected by cancer. We take on the big...

We are recruiting a Principal Investigator in Computational Biology at @oicr.on.ca: oicr.bamboohr.com/careers/378. This position is in downtown Toronto, adjacent to the University of Toronto where your university appointment would be. Please contact me if you have any questions!

Assistant/Associate Professor of Public Health Entomology APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS: CURRENT PENN STATE EMPLOYEE (faculty, staff, technical service, or student), please login to Workday to complete the internal application process. Please do not apply here, a...

📣 🪰 We're hiring a new Assistant/Associate Professor of *Public Health Entomology* at Penn State. Research areas are broad, covering pest management, pesticide resistance, epidemiology, and interactions of arthropods with microbial pathogens and symbionts.

psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/PSU_Ac...

Michelle Obama proved prescient. 😳👇

A lot of people who got the measles as children died or suffered lifelong disabilities as a result. The measles vaccine was a godsend to worldwide public health, and it’s an absolute scandal that this lethally ignorant dolt has any power over public health.

Salle du collège de France, organisateurs en train de discuter, public qui passe

Installation de la conférence de presse en cours, derniers réglages, le public arrive... Suivre en direct : youtube.com/live/OlQj3-g... #StandUpForScience #StandUpForScienceFrance